Sarah Lucas is considered one of the world’s most influential British artists. She explores the human body and its cultural meanings with a mix of humor and critique. Using photography, sculpture, and installation, her work challenges gender roles and social conventions.
In her work, she appropriates masculine symbols, challenging the patriarchal gaze. Her first Bunnies were created as early as 1997 and have since become increasingly timeless. The latest anthropomorphic figures, crafted from stuffed pantyhose and posed reclining on chairs, continue Lucas’ distinctive visual language with a touch of surrealism. Using highly gendered found objects like high heels and nylon stockings, Lucas pushes the concept of female objectification to its extreme, only to subvert it through ungainly, exaggerated postures. Evoking the reclining female nude, these thin figures with globular breasts sprawl their elongated limbs comically in all directions, appearing simultaneously aggressive and fragile, confident yet vulnerable, and caught in an awkward moment. While her earlier Bunnies featured plain flesh tones, the new generation boasts brightly colored socks and stylish shoes. Her bronze sculptures, cast from soft nylon sculptures, mirror the plush forms and textures of their fabric counterparts.
In 2015, she exhibited at the British Pavilion at the Venice Biennale and was the subject of a major retrospective, AU NATUREL, at The New Museum in New York in 2018. The survey exhibition HAPPY GAS was presented at Tate Britain in London from 2023 to 2024, followed by Sense of Human at the Kunsthalle Mannheim in 2024.
Born 1962 in London, UK
Lives and works in UK
Selected solo exhibitions
2024
Sense of Human, Kunsthalle Mannheim, Mannheim, Germany
BUNNY RABBIT, Contemporary Fine Arts, Basel, Switzerland
2023
Sarah Lucas. Happy Gas, Tate Britain, London, UK
2021
SEX LIFE, The Perimeter, London, UK
Project 1, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Australia
Dream Fourteen, Paul Strolper, London, UK
2020
NOT NOW DARLING, Le Consortium, Dijon, France
Hurricane Doris, Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin, Germany
HONEY PIE, Sadie Coles HQ, Kingly Street, London, England
HONEY PIE, Gladstone 64, Gladstone Gallery, New York NY, USA
2019
Red Brick Art Museum, Beijing, China
Supersensible, Works 1991-2012, Jason Haam, Seoul, South Korea
Au Naturel, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles CA, USA (touring)
2018
Au Naturel, New Museum, New York NY, USA (touring)
Dame Zero, kurimanzutto, Mexico City, Mexico
Familias Felices, Salón Silicón, Mexico City, Mexico
2017
Sarah Lucas: Good Muse, Legion of Honor, San Francisco, CA, USA
FUNQROC, Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin, Germany
POWER IN WOMAN, Humber Street Gallery, Hull, UK
2016
INNAMEMORABILIAMUMBUM, La Fondazione Nicola Trussardi (curated by Massimiliano Gioni and Vincenzo de Bellis) Milan, Italy
Father Time, Sadie Coles HQ, London, UK
POWER IN WOMAN, Sir John Soane’s Museum, London, UK
2015
I SCREAM DADDIO, British Pavilion, Venice Biennale 2015, Venice, Italy
Sarah Lucas, Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, UK
2014
Tittipussidad, Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin, Germany
Furniture, Sadie Coles HQ (off-site), Milan, Italy
NUD NOB, Gladstone Gallery, New York, USA
Sarah Lucas, Tramway, Glasgow, UK
2013
NOB + Gelatin, Secession, Vienna, Austria
SITUATION Absolute Beach Man Rubble, Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK
FURNITURE, Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin, Germany
SITUATION ROMANS, Sadie Coles, London, UK
2012
SITUATION CLASSIC PERVERY, Sadie Coles, London, UK
SITUATION FRANZ WEST, Sadie Coles, London, UK
Sarah Lucas, Home Alone Gallery, New York, USA
SITUATION WHITE HOLE, Sadie Coles, London, UK (with Rohan Wealleans)
Ordinary Things, Henry Moore Institute, Leeds, UK
SITUATION ROSE BUSH, Sadie Coles, London, UK
NUDS, Anahuacalli de Diego Rivera (Kurimanzutto off-site), Mexico City, Mexico
SITUATION MAKE LOVE, Sadie Coles, London, UK
SITUATION MISS JUMBO SAVALOY, Sadie Coles, London, UK
2011
LUCAS-BOSCH-GELATIN, Kunsthalle Krems, Austria
NUZ: Spirit of Ewe, Two Rooms, Auckland, New Zealand, Dunedin Public Art Gallery, Dunedin, New Zealand
2010
Penetralia, Gladstone Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
NUDS CYCLADIC, Museum of Cycladic Art, Athens, Greece
Perceval, Snape Maltings, Suffolk, UK
2009
NUDS, 13 Dover Street, London, UK
2008
Goss-Michael Foundation, Dallas, TX, USA
Penetralia, Sadie Coles HY, London, UK
Perceval, Waddesdon Manor, Buckinghamshire, UK
Perceval, Doris C Freedman Plaza, Central Park, New York, USA
2006
Venitas, Der Hallen, Frans Hals Museum, Haarlem, Netherlands
2005
GOD IS DAD, Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York, USA
Sarah Lucas, Kunsthalle Zürich, Switzerland; Kunstverein Hamburg, Germany; Tate, Liverpool, UK
2004
In-A-Gadda-Da-Vidda (with Angus Fairhurts and Damien Hirst), Tate Britain, London, UK
2003
Temple of Bacchus (with Colin Lowe and Roddy Thomson), Milton Keynes Gallery, Milton Keynes, UK
2002
Sarah Lucas room installation at Tate Modern, Tate Modern, London, UK
Charlie George, Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin, Germany
2001
CAKE, Sarah Lucas at Counter Editions, London, UK
2000
The Fag Show, Sadie Coles HQ, London, UK
Sarah Lucas – Beyond the Pleasure Principle, the Freud Museum, London, UK
Sarah Lucas: Self Portraits and More Sex, Tecla Sala, Barcelona, Spain
Sarah Lucas, Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo
1999
Beautiness, Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin, Germany
1998
Odd-bod Photography (with Angus Fairhurst), Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne, Germany; Sadie Coles HQ, London, UK
The Old in Out, Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York, USA
1997
The Law, (organized by Sadie Coles), St Johns Lofts, London, UK
Bunny Gets Snookered, Sadie Coles HQ, London, UK
Car Park, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany
1996
Sarah Lucas, Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, Rotterdam, Netherlands
Sarah Lucas, Portikus, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Is Suicide Genetic?, Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin, Germany
1995
Supersensible, Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York, USA
1994
Got a Salmon on (Prawn), Anthony d’Offay Gallery, London, UK
Where’s My Moss, White Cube, London, UK
1993
The Shop (with Tracey Emin), 103 Bethnal Green Road, London, UK
From Army to Armani (with Tracey Emin), Galerie Analix, Geneva, Switzerland
1992
Penis Nailed to a Board, City Racing, London, UK
The Whole Joke, Kingly Street, London, UK
Selected group exhibitions
2025
Kunstkammer, Lismore Castle Art, Waterford, Ireland
Through Their Eyes: Selections from the Sandretto Re Rebaudengo Collection, Manetti Shrem Museum, Davis, California, USA
2024
Immortal Apples Eternal Eggs, Hastings Contemporary, Hastings, UK
Digital Diaries, Julia Stoschek Collection, Düsseldorf, Germany
Bodies, Ping Pong Ginoteria, Hong Kong
A Change of Scenery, Neues Museum Nürnberg, Nuremberg, Germany
Dominion, Newport Street Gallery, London, UK
SHINE ON, Sadie Coles HQ, Davies Street, London, UK
2023
Deep inside my head, NGA National Gallery of Australia, Parkes, Australia
The Echo of Picasso, Museo Picasso, Malaga, Spain
Vicolo della Penitenza 11/A, MACRO Museum of Contemporary Art of Rome, Rome, Italy
Extreme Tension, Art between Politics and Society, Collection of the Nationalgaleries 1945 – 2000, The Nat,ional Gallery of Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Encounters: Works from the TBA21 Collection, Thyssen-Bornemisza National Museum, Madrid, Spain
Reaching for the Stars. From Maurizio Cattelan to Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, Palazzo Strozzi, Foundation, Florence, Italy
BIG WOMEN, curated by Sarah Lucas, Firstsite, Colchester, UK
CANNED HEAT, Contemporary Fine Arts Gallery, Berlin, Germany
Butterfly! ARKEN’s collection, Arken Museum of Modern Art, Ishøj, Denmark
2022
Sweet Lust, White Cube, Paris, France
Futura. Measuring Time, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany
REPEATER, Sadie Coles HQ, London, UK
Women and Change, Arken Museum of Modern Art, Ishøj, Denmark
Sculpture at Firstsite, Firstsite, Colhester, UK
Penitence Alley, 1989-1991, Higher Pictures Generation, Brooklyn, USA
Obscura Luz (Obscure Light), Sao Paulo, Brazil
Sin, York Art Gallery, York, UK
Breaking the Mould: Sculpture by Women since 1945, The New Art Gallery Walsall, UK
Future Bodies from a Recent Past – Sculpture, Technology, and the Body since the 1950s, Museum Brandhorst, Munich, Germany
2021
New Time: Art and Feminisms in the 21st Century, Catriona Jeffries, Vancouver, Canada
I. Between Image and Reinvention, Galerie Stihl Waiblingen, Waiblingen, Germany
The Point of Sculpture, Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona, Spain
Dream Fourteen – Julian Simmons and Sarah Lucas, Paul Stolper, London, England
POP GOES THE PASTORAL, The Old Theatre, Framlingham, England
Flat Work, Solid Haus, Suffolk, England
Balls, OFF Gallery, London, England
Breaking the Mould: Sculpture by Women since 1945, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Wakefield, England (touring)
ANTS AND GRASSHOPPERS: reflections on the anxious object, FTHo Flat Time House, London, England
Landscape Portrait: Now and Then, Hestercombe Gallery, Taunton, England
Art of Sport, Copenhagen Contemporary, Copenhagen, Denmark
John Dewey, Who? New Presentation of the Collection of Contemporary Art, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany
2020
Michael Clark: Cosmic Dancer, Art Gallery, Barbican Centre, London, England
SENORA!, an exhibition curated by Sarah Lucas and Kris Lemsalu, Galerie Meyer Kainer, Vienna
Der Goldene Reiter, Contemporary Fine Arts Galerie, Berlin
Der erschöpfte Mann (The exhausted man), Swiss National Museum, Landesmuseum Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
New Images of Man, Blum & Poe, Los Angeles CA, USA
For a Dreamer of Houses, DMA Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas TX, USA
2019
Feast for the Eyes: The Story of Food in Photography, The Photographers Gallery, London
Art & Porn, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen (touring)
Gossamer, Carl Freedman Gallery, Margate, England
Reason Gives No Answers: Selected Works from the Collection, Newport Street Gallery, London
Maskulinitäten (On masculinity), Kunstverein, Bonn, Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne and Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Dusseldorf, Germany
New Order, Sprüth Magers, London
Criminal Ornamentation: Yinka Shonibare MBE curates the Art Council Collection, Southampton Art Gallery, Southampton, England, UK (touring)
Dry Land, Gladstone Gallery, Gladstone 64, New York, USAAlan Kane: 4 Bed Detached Home of Metal, The New Art Gallery Walsall, Walsall, UK
Collective Exhibition for a Single Body – The Private Score – Vienna 2019, Kontakt Collection, Vienna, Austria
Perception by Collaborative Collections, Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki, Greek Macedonia, Greece (touring)
Delirious, Lustwarande – Platform for Contemporary Sculpture, Tilburg, The Netherlands
Art & Porn, ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum, Aarhus, Denmark (touring)
Straying from the line, Schinkel Pavillon, Berlin
Criminal Ornamentation: Yinka Shonibare MBE curates the Art Council Collection, Longside Gallery, Arts Council Collection, Wakefield, England, UK (touring)
Perception by Collaborative Collections, Museum of Modern Art of Republika Srpska, Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina (touring)
People, Jeffrey Deitch, Los Angeles, USA
Women in Photography: A History of British Trailblazers, The Lightbox, Woking, UK
Criminal Ornamentation: Yinka Shonibare MBE curates the Art Council Collection, Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Exeter, UK (touring)
Perception by Collaborative Collections, Kosova National Art Gallery, Pristina (touring)
2018
A Woman Looking at Men Looking at Women, Muzeum Susch, Susch, Switzerland
THE MATRIX, Spazio Maiocchi, Milan, Italy
Adam McEwen Selects:Exhibition and Sale to Benefit the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, Gladstone Gallery, New York, USA
The Quick and the Dead: Hambling – Horsley – Lucas – Simmons – Teller, Jerwood Gallery, Hastings, UK
Perception by Collaborative Collections, Gallery of Matica srpska, Novi Sad, Serbia (touring until 2019)
Egon Schiele. Die Jubiläumsschau (The Jubilee Show) – RELOADED, Leopold Museum, Vienna, Austria
KNOCK KNOCK. Humour in Contemporary Art, South London Gallery, London, UK
Criminal Ornamentation: Yinka Shonibare MBE curates the Art Council Collection, Attenborough Arts Centre, University of Leicester, Leicester, UK (touring until 2019)
In My Shoes, Attenborough Arts Centre, University of Leicester, Leicester, UK
Sculpture in the City 2018, Cullum Street, London, UK
Perception by Collaborative Collections, Narodni muzej Crne Gore, Cetinje, Montenegro (touring)
Par amour du jeu, Magasins généraux, Paris, France
A TIME CAPSULE: Works Made by Women for Parkett. 1984 – 2017, Parkett Exhibition Space, Zurich, Switzerland
Nudes, Sadie Coles HQ, London, UK
Self Collection: Bumped Bodies, Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK
Five Plus Five: Sculptures from China and Great Britain in Hainan, Haiku the Sun and Moon Plaza, Hainan, China
In My Shoes, Longside Gallery, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Yorkshire, England, UK
Walking on the Fade Out Lines, Rockbund Art Museum, Shanghai, China
Like Life: Sculpture, Color, and the Body (1300–Now), The Met Breuer, New York, USA
2017
Dreamers Awake, White Cube, London, UK
EuroVisions: Contemporary Art from the Goldberg Collection, NAS Gallery, Sydney, Australia (touring exhibition in Australia to 2019)
Acting Out, Adam Art Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand
Room, Mead Gallery, Warwick Arts Centre, Coventry, UK
Midtown, Lever House, New York, USA
If on Trondheim’s Night a Traveler…, Trondheim Kunstmuseum, Norway
THE INNER SKIN, Marta Herford, Herford, Germany
Disobedient Bodies: J.W. Anderson at the Hepworth Wakefield, The Hepworth Wakefield, UK
Versus Rodin: Bodies across Space and Time, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia
No Place Like Home, Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
Room, Sadie Coles HQ, London, UK
2016
Flesh, York Art Gallery, York, UK
Le Retour Des Ténèbres, Musée Rath, Geneva, Switzerland
New Past: Contemporary Art from Britain, Art Gallery of Uzbekistan, Tashkent
Nude: Art from the Tate Collection, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Facing the World: Self Portraits from Rembrandt to Ai Wei Wei, The Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh, UK
The Public Body, Artspace, Sydney, Australia
On Empathy, Bridget Donahue, New York, USA
Invisible Adversaries: The Marieluise Hessel Collection, Center for Curatorial Studies, Hessel Museum of Art, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, USA
The Female Gaze, Part Two: Women Look at Men, Cheim & Read, New York, USA
Sculpture in the City, London Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK
Daydreaming with Stanley Kubrick, Somerset House, London, UK
Autoportraits: from Rembrandt to the Selfie, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon, Lyon, France
Double Act: Art and Comedy, Bluecoat, Liverpool, UK
ME, Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
THE PAGAD, Massimo De Carlo, Milan, Italy
Performing for the Camera, Tate Modern, London, UK
2015
NIRVANA – wundersame Formen der Lust, Winterthur, Switzerland
The Funnies, MOT International, Brussels, Belgium
NO MAN’S LAND: Women Artists from the Rubell Family Collection, Rubell Family Collection/Contemporary Arts Foundation, Miami, FL, USA
Sculpture on the Move 1946–2016, Kunstmuseum Basel and Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Basel, Switzerland
Flirting with Strangers, 21er Haus, Vienna
Avatar und Atavismus: Outside der Avantgarde, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany
Going Public: International Art Collectors in Sheffield, Museum Sheffield, Sheffield, UK
Colección Jumex, In Girum Imus Nocte et Consumimur Igni, Museo Jumex, Mexico City, Mexico
The Great Mother, Fondazione Nicola Trussardi, Milan, Italy
Beyond Limits: The Landscape of British Sculpture 1950 – 2015, Chatsworth House, Derbyshire, UK
Arts & Foods. Rituals since 1851, Triennale in Milan, Milan, Italy
Shifting Subjects, Abbey Walk Gallery, North East Lincolnshire, UK
Going Public: International Art Collectors in Sheffield, Sheffield Cathedral, Sheffield, UK (from the Sandretto Re Rebaudengo Collection)
THEM, Schinkel Pavillon, Berlin, Germany
The Great Mother, Fondazione Nicola Trussardi, Milan, Italy (curated by Massimiliano Gioni)
TERRAPOLIS, NEON and the Whitechapel Gallery, French School at Athens, Athens, Greece
Love For Three Oranges, Gladstone Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
Zabludowicz Collection: 20 Years, Zabludowicz Collection, London, UK
Self: Image and Identity, Turner Contemporary, Margate, UK
Private Utopia: Contemporary Works from the British Council Collection, Dunedin Public Art Gallery, Dunedin, New Zealand
The Noing Uv It, Bergen Kunsthall, Bergen, Norway
La Peregrina, Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK
Sense (Un)Certainty: A Private Collection, Kunsthaus Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Sleepless – The bed in history and contemporary art, 21er Haus, Österreichische Galerie Beledere, Vienna, Austria
2014
UNE HISTOIRE (art archi design, des années 80 à nos jours) / A HISTORY (art architecture design, from the 80s to now), Mnam Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
Crucible 2, Gloucester Cathedral, Chalford, UK
Shit and Die – One Torino, Palazzo Cavour, Turin, Italy
Disturbing Innocence, FLAG Art Foundation, New York, USA
The Bad Shepherd: The Brueghel Dynasty in Conversation with Contemporary Art, Christie’s Mayfair, London, UK
A Very Short History of Contemporary Sculpture, curated by Francesco Bonami, Phillips, London, UK
Nirvana, mudac, Lausanne, Switzerland
Private Utopia: Contemporary Works from the British Council Collection, Tokyo Station Gallery, Tokyo; Itami City Museum of Art / The Museum of Arts & Crafts, Itami, Japan; The Museum of Art, Kochi, Japan; Okayama Prefectural Museum of Art, Okayama, Japan
La Gioia, Maison Particulière, Brussels, Belgium
Danjuma Collection: One Man’s Trash (is Another Man’s Treasure), 33 Fitzroy Square, London, UK
Corpus, Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, Poland
Le musée d’une nuit (script for leaving traces), Fondation Hippocrène, Paris, France
Benglis 73 / 74, Neon Parc, Melbourne, Australia
Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, UK
Today’s Specials, Pace London, London, UK
Urs Fischer curated show, Sadie Coles HQ, London, UK
Stanze/Rooms: Works from the Sandretto Re Rebaudengo Collection, Me Collectors Room Berlin, Olbricht Foundation, Berlin, Germany
Body & Void: Echoes of Moore in Contemporary Art, The Henry Moore Foundation, Perry Green, Hertfordshire, UK
The Anne and Wolfgang Titze Collection, Winter Palace and 21er Haus, Vienna, Austria
Private Utopia: Contemporary Works from the British Council Collection, Tokyo Station Gallery, Tokyo; Itami City Museum of Art, Itami, Japan and Kochi Museum of Art, Kochi, Japan
Front Row, Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin, Germany
2013
1:1 Sets for Erwin Olaf & Bekleidung, Het Nieuwe Instituut, Rotterdam, Netherlands
do it, Socrates Sculpture Park, New York, USA (touring exhibition through to December 2018)
Regarding Warhol: Sixty Artists, Fifty Years, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA
BRITISH BRITISH POLISH POLISH: Art from Europe’s Edges in the Long ’90s and Today, Centre of Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Zamek, Warsaw
Lightness of Being, The Public Art Fund at City Hall Park, New York, USA
Somos Libres, MATE, Lima
Mad, Bad and Sad: Women and the Mind Doctors, Freud Museum, London, UK
Art, Club Culture, Fashion, ICA off-Site, Old Selfridges Hotel, London, UK
Mostly West: Franz West and Artist Collaborations, Inverleith House, Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, UK
SNAP: Art at the Aldeburgh Festival, Snape Maltings, Snape, UK
Il Palazzo Enciclopedico (The Encyclopedic Palace), 55th International Art Exhibition, Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
FLESH REALITY, Point Zero, London, UK
Dreams of Reason: Highlights of the Sandretto Re Rebaudengo Collection, Centre of Contemporary Art, Torun, Poland
Manchester International Festival, Manchester, UK
In the Heart of the Country, Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw, Poland
2013 Carnegie International, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, USA
The Weak Sex—How Art Pictures the New Male, Kunstmuseum Bern, Switzerland
Looking at the View, Tate Britain, London, UK
Group Exhibition Curated by Clarissa Dalrymple, Xavier Hufkens, Brussels, Belgium
NYC 1993: Experimental, Jet, Set Trash and No Star, New Museum, New York, USA
2012
Gnadenlos: Künstlerinnen und das Komische, Kunsthalle Vogelman, Heilbronn, Germany
Death to Death and other Small Tales: Masterpieces from the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art and the D. Daskalopoulos Collection, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, UK
Sex and Design, Triennale di Milano, Design Museum, Milan, Italy
Freedom Not Genius, Works from Damien Hirst’s collection, Pinacoteca Giovanni e Marella Agnelli, Turin, Italy
The Far and The Near, Tate St Ives, UK
Sculptural Matter, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art (ACCA), Melbourne, Australia
Free: Art by offenders, secure patients and detainees, curated by Sarah Lucas, Royal Festival Hall, Southbank Centre, London, UK
Pothole, Salon 94, New York, USA
Disagreeable Object, Sculpture Center, Long Island City, USA
Self-Portrait, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Denmark
Buy My Bananas, Kate Werble Gallery, New York, USA
Portrait of the Artist As…, Courtauld Gallery, London, UK
INPUT #4: Second Skin, VPL / Vara Art, New York, USA
Print/Out, Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
Beautiful Penis, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France
The Spirit Level, Gladstone Gallery, New York, USA
Art Exchange, Museum of Modern Art, Baku, Azerbaijan
Selling Sex, SHOWstudio, London, UK
Made In Britain, Benaki Museum, Athens, Greece
Simon Fujiwara: Since 1982, Tate St Ives, UK
2011
Diferencia y Acuerdo, ESPACIO MÍNIMO, Madrid, Spain
Home Alone, curated by Sarah Aibel, Sender Collection, Miami, FL, USA
Neon + Vinyl, Plus Art Projects, Londonewcastle Project Space, London, UK
Nothing in the World but Youth, Turner Contemporary, Margate, UK
Mindful, Imperial War Museum & Old Vic Tunnels, London, UK
Camulodunum, Firstsite, Colchester, UK
Snap: Art at the Aldeburgh Festival, Snape Maltings, Snape, UK
Forcemeat, Wallspace Gallery, New York, USA
Women Make Sculpture, Pangolin London, London, UK
The Luminous Interval D.Daskalopoulos Collection, Museo Guggenheim Bilbao, Spain
Destello, Foundacion/Coleccion Jumex, Mexico City, Mexico
THE LAST FIRST DECADE, Ellipse Foundation, Alcoitão, Portugal
X, Gio Marconi, Milan, Italy
L’art de Menjar / Eating Art, La Pedrera, Caixa Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain
Dwelling, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, USA
The Luxury of Dirt, Galerie Bob van Orsouw, Zürich, Switzerland
Modern British Sculpture, Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK
The Life of the Mind, The New Art Gallery, Walsall, UK
Le Paris Bar à Paris, Suzanne Tarasiève Galerie, Paris, France
2010
How Soon Now, Rubell Family Collection, Miami, USA
Plus Ultra: Works from the Sandretto Re Rebaudengo Collection, Museo D’Arte Contemporanea, Rome, Italy
Cosa fa la mia anima mentre sto lavorando?, Civica Galleria d’Arte Moderna, Gallarate, Italy
Face Au Mur. Papiers Peints Contemporains / Covering the wall. Contemporary wallpapers, Musée de design es d`arts appliques contemporains (MUDAC), Lausanne, Switzerland
Highlights from the Collection, Goss Michael Foundation, Dallas, USA
CREAM – Damien Hirst & Contemporaries, Kiasma, Helsinki, Finland
The Last Newspaper, New Museum, New York, USA
Happy End, Kunsthalle Göppingen, Göppingen, Germany
Young British Art, Johyun Gallery, Busan, South Korea
British Art Show 7: In the Days of the Comet, Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham Castle and New Art Exchange, Nottingham, UK
FRESH HELL: Carte Blanche à Adam McEwen, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France
Crucible, Gloucester Cathedral, Gloucester, UK
The Concrete Show, Galleria Franco Noero, Turin, Italy
The New Décor, Hayward Gallery, London, touring to Garage: Center for Contemporary Culture, Moscow, Russia
Super Farmers’ Market, Handel Street Projects, London, UK
Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK
The Surreal House, Barbican Art Gallery, London, UK
Rude Britannia: British Comic Art, Tate Britain, London, UK
D. Daskalopoulos Collection, Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK
Sexuality and Transcendence, Pinchuck Art Foundation, Kiev, Ukraine
Art, Galerie Haas & Fuchs, Berlin, Germany
KNOCK KNOCK: Who’s There? That Joke Isn’t Funny Anymore, Armand Bartos Fine Art, New York, USA
Pop Life, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany; Pop Life, National Gallery of Canada, Ontario
Walls are Talking, Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester
2009
Pop Life: Art in a Material World, Tate Modern, London, UK
Past Present: Where the modern and the historic meet, Nunnington Hall, York, UK
British Subjects: Identity and Self-Fashioning 1967-2009, Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase College, Purchase, NY, USA
Precarious Form, Galerie Meyer Kainer, Vienna, Austria
Boule to Braid, Lisson Gallery, London, UK
Andrea Rosen Gallery Summer Show, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York, USA
Passports. In Viaggio Con l’Arte, Padiglione D’Arte Contemporanea, Milan, Italy
The Female Gaze: Women Look At Women, Cheim & Read, New York, USA
Gone to Earth, Isis Gallery, London, UK
V22 PRESENTS: The Sculpture Show, Oysters Ain’t, The Almond Building, The Biscuit Factory, Bermondsey, London, UK
Contemporary Eye: Material Matters, Pallant House Gallery, Chichester, UK
Yes or No and/or Yes and No, Western Bridge, Seattle, USA
The Kaleidoscopic Eye: Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Mori Art Museum, Japan
Subversive Spaces: Surrealism and Contemporary Art, The Whitworth Art Gallery, The University of Manchester; Compton Verney, Warwickshire; The Sainsbury Centre for the Visual Arts, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK
2008
listen darling… the world is yours, Ellipse Foundation Contemporary Art Collection, Art Centre, Cascais, Portugal
Excerpt, Selections from the Jeanne Greenberg Rohatyn Collection, The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, USA
On Shifting Ground In New York (Lecture), Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, USA
Cult of the Artist: “I can’t just slice off an ear every day”, Hamburger Bahnhof Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin
Held Together with Water, Istanbul Museum of Modern Art, Turkey
DARKSIDE, Photographic Desire and Sexuality Photographed, Fotomuseum Winterthur, Zürich, Switzerland
Female Trouble, Die Kamera als Spiegel und Bühne weiblicher Inszenierungen, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, Germany
The Hamsterwheel, Malmö Konsthall, Malmö, Sweden
Devastation and Depreciation, Gavin Brown Enterprise, New York, USA
Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary. Collection as Aleph, Kunsthaus, Graz, Austria
Female Trouble, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, Germany
Films, Sadie Coles HQ, London, UK
GOD & GOODS: Spirituality and Mass Confusion, Villa Manin Centre for Contemporary Art, Codroipo, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Italy
(Auction) RED, Gagosian Gallery, New York, USA
Blasted Allegories, Works from the Ringier Collection, Kunstmuseum Luzern, Lucerne, Switzerland
2007
Unmonumental: The Object in the 21st Century, New Museum, New York, USA
The Third Mind: Carte Blanche to Ugo Rondinone, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France
The Naked Portrait, 1900-2007, Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh, UK
Hamster Wheel, Venice Biennale, Venice, Traveling to Printemps de Septembre, Toulouse, France and Centre d’Art Santa Monica, Barcelona, Spain
Held Together With Water: Art from the Sammlung Verbund, MAK, Vienna, Austria
Aftershock: Contemporary British Art 1990-2006, Guangdong Museum of Art, Beijing, China
Back to Hackney, Hackney Arts Club, London, UK
Global Feminisms, Brooklyn Museum, New York NY, Traveling to Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley, USA
FRANZ WEST Soufflé, eine Massenausstellung, Kunstraum Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria
2006
In the Darkest Hour there May be Light: Works from Damien Hirst’s Murderme Collection, Serpentine Gallery, London, UK
This is Not For You: Sculptural Discourses, Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Vienna
All Hawaii Entrées/Lunar Reggae, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, UK
The Wonderful Fund: Art for the New Millennium 2000 – 2005, Pallant House Gallery, Chichester, UK
How to Improve the World, Hayward Gallery, London, UK
Printemps de Septembre à Toulouse, Toulouse, France
Prints, Sadie Coles HQ, London, UK
Body Soul Face: The Position of Women from the 16th-21st Century, Leopold Museum, Vienna, Austria
Art Car Boot Fair, The Old Truman Brewery, London, UK
Il diavolo del focolare: The Devil of Hearth and Home, La Triennale di Milano, Milan, Italy
Dada’s Boys, The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, UK
Contemporary British Art for China, China Art Gallery, Beijing, China; Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China; Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai; The Three Gorges Museum, Chongqing, China
2005
Empreinte Moi, Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin, Paris, France
BritPrint, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia
The Prop makers, MOT, London, UK
The Wonderful Fund Collection, Arts in Marrakech Festival, Marrakech, Morocco
GOD IS BORED OF US II, FMCG, London, UK
Rundlederwelten, Martin Gropius-Bau, Berlin, Germany
Light Art from Artificial Light, ZKM Museum, Karlsruhe, Germany
Drunk vs. Stoned 2, Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, New York, USA
Y[oung] B[ritish] A[rtists] Criss-Crossed, Galleri Kaare Bernsten, Oslo, Norway
Julia Bornefeld Jimmie Durham Michael Kienzer Martin Kippenberger Sarah Lucas
Franz West Erwin Wurm Sculpture, Galerie Elisabeth & Klaus Thoman, Innsbruck, Austria
Body: New Art from the UK, Vancouver Art Gallery, Canada; Ottawa Art Gallery, Ottawa, Canada; Oakville Art Galleries, Oakville, Canada; Edmonton Art Gallery, Edmonton, Canada; Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Nova Scotia, Canada
Critics Choice, FACT, Liverpool, UK
2004
Works from the Boros collection (Werke aus der Sammlung Boros), Museum für Neue Kunst, Karlsruhe, Germany; ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany
Central Station: La collection Harald Falckenberg, la maison rouge, Paris, France
Part I – LAT – Living: De Leegte (the Emptiness), Odapark, Venray, Netherlands
Gifted, The Arts Gallery, University of the Arts London, London, UK
Drunk vs. Stoned, General Store in association with Gavin Brown’s enterprise, New York, USA
Esprit/Spirit, Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Paris, France
Atomkrieg, Kunsthaus Dresden, Germany
Man, Rubble, London, UK
57th Aldeburgh Festival, Contemporary British Sculpture at Snape (Angus Fairhurst, Damien Hirst, Sarah Lucas), Snape, UK
Skulptur: Prekärer Realismus zwischen Melancholie und Komik / Sculpture
Precarious Realism between the Melancholy and the Comical, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria
Central Station, collection Harald Falckenberg, La Maison Rouge – Foundation Antoine de Galbert, Paris, France
From Above, Georg Kargl, Vienna, Austria
2003
Love Me. Post-Feminist Art of the 1990’s from the Goetz Collection, Bergen Art
Museum, Bergen, Norway; Fries Museum, Leeuwarden, Netherlands
Narcissus: New Visions of Self Representation, Crac Alsace, Altkirch, France
Viereeuwen roken in de kunst: Tabak en taboe – van Jan Steen tot Pablo Picasso, Kunsthal Rotterdam, Rotterdam, Netherlands
Fourth Plinth Project, (Trafalgar Square), National Gallery, London, UK
Cruel Fat, MOT, London, UK
The Dead Bird Show, Whitechapel Project Space, London, UK
Franz West and Friends, Austrian Cultural Institute, London, UK
Plunder, Dundee Contemporary Art, Dundee, UK
Breathing the Water, Galerie Hauser & Wirth & Presenhuber, Zurich, Switzerland
Sogni e Conflitti: La dittatura dello spettatore, 50. Esposizione Internazionale d’Arte della Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy
Outlook: International Art Exhibition, Athens, Greece
Bad Behaviour from the Arts Council Collection, Longside Gallery, Yorkshire, UK; Sculpture Park, Wakefield, UK; Aberystwyth Arts Centre, Aberrystwyth, Wales; Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea, Wales; The Hatton Gallery, University of Newcastle, Newcastle, UK; Tullie House, Carlisle, UK
Flesh for Fantasy, Officina Giovani/Palazzo delle Papesse, Siena, Italy
A Bigger Splash: Uma Seleção de Arte Britânica da Coleção da Tate 1960-2003 / A Bigger Splash: A Selection of British Art from Tate Collection 1960-2003, Pavilhão Lucas Nogueria Garcez – Oca Parque Ibirapuera, São Paulo and Instituto Tomie Ohtake, São Paulo, Brazil
BIDA 2003 – Bienal Internacional del Deporte en el Arte, Salamanca, Spain
Contemporary British Art Exhibition, Mucsarnok Kunsthalle, Budapest, Hungary
2002
Face Off: A Portrait of the Artist, Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge, England, Touring to
Towner Art Gallery, Eastbourne, UK
Location: UK, Gimpel Fils, London, UK
COPY, Roth Horowitz, New York, USA
Art Crazy Nation Show, Milton Keynes Gallery, Milton Keynes, UK
Comer o no Comer/To Eat or Not to Eat, Centro De Arte Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain
Campy Vampy Tacky, La Criée Centre d’Art Contemporain, Rennes, France
Second Skin, Henry Moore Institute, Leeds, UK
Common Days: Contemporary British Photography, American Federation Of Arts, New York, USA
The Rowan Collection – Contemporary British and Irish Art, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, UK
New – Recent Acquisitions of Contemporary British Art, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, UK
PoT: The Liverpool Biennial of Contemporary Art – The Independent, Liverpool, UK, Travelling to Galeria Fortes Vilaca, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Archivio Pons Artxiboa, Koldo Mitxelena Kulturunea, Donostia – San Sebastían, Spain
Rapture: Art’s Seduction by Fashion since 1970, Barbican Centre Art Galleries, London, UK
2001
Neon, Inaugural Exhibition, Neon Gallery, London, UK
The Colony Room Club – 2001 A Space Oddity, A22 Projects, London, UK
Close Encounters of the Art Kind, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK
The Surreal Woman: Femaleness and the Uncanny in Surrealism, Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany
No World Without You – Reflections of Identity in New British Art, Herzliya Museum of Art, Herzlia, Israel
Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK
Field Day – Sculpture from Britain, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taiwan, China
Ohne Zögern – Without Hesitation: Views of the Olbricht Collection, Neues Museum Weserburg, Bremen, Germany
Freestyle: Werke aus der Sammlung Boros, Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen, Germany
Breaking the Mould: 20th Century British Sculpture from Tate, Norwich Castle Museum and Art Gallery, Norwich, UK
Public Offerings, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, USA
Century City: Art and Culture in the Modern Metropolis, Tate Modern, London, UK
City Racing 1988-1998: a Partial Account, I.C.A., London, UK
Uniform: Order and Disorder, Stazione Leopolda, Florence, Italy
Chairs, Castello di Udine, Udine, Italy
Die unheimliche Frau, Weiblichkeit im Surrealismus, Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Germany
2000
Quotidiana: the Continuity of the Everyday, Castello di Rivoli, Turin, Italy
Zona F, Espai d’Art Contemporain de Castello, Valencia, Spain
DRIVE power, progress, desire, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, New Zealand
Psycho, Anne Faggianato Fine Art, London, UK
Human Being and Gender: 2000 Kwangju Biennale, Kwangju, Korea
Sex and the British, Galerie Thaddeus Ropac, Salzburg and Galerie Thaddeus Ropac, Paris
The British Art Show 5, Hayward Touring Exhibitions, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Royal Botanic Gardens et al, Edinburgh; Southampton Art Gallery, John Hansard Gallery and Millais Gallery, Southampton, UK; National Museum of Wales, Cardiff, Wales, Centre for Visual Arts and Chapter Arts, Cardiff, Wales; Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery and Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, UK
About Collage, Tate Liverpool, Liverpool, UK
The Anagrammatical Body, ZKM Centre for Media Art and Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany
Puerile 69: Angus Fairhurst, Michael Landy, Sarah Lucas, Gillian Wearing, The Living Art Museum, Reykjavik
Hoxton HQ, Sadie Coles HQ at Hoxton House, London, UK
Intelligence: New British Art 2000, Tate Britain, London, UK
Body Beautiful, Galerie Jennifer Flay, Paris, France
Death Race 2000, Thread Waxing Space, New York, USA
Hypermental, Kunsthaus, Zurich, Switzerland
The Oldest Possible Memory, Sammlung Hauser und Wirth, St Gallen, Switzerland
1999
Gallery Swap, Sadie Coles HQ at Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin, Germany
This is Modern Art, Three billboards by Sarah Lucas, Gavin Turk and Martin Creed, commissioned by Channel 4 for the television series at sites across London in June, London
Art Lovers, Liverpool Biennial, Liverpool, UK
Me Myself I, Contemporary Self Images, Haags Historisch Museum, The Hague, Netherlands
The Anagrammatical Body, Neu Galerie am Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz, Austria; touring to ZKM Centre for Media Art and Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany
Sensation: Young British Artists in the Saatchi Collection, Brooklyn Museum, New York, USA
1998
Artists from the UK II, Sammlung Goetz, Munich, Germany
Die Rache der Veronika: Fotosammlung Lambert, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, Germany
Real Life: New British Art, Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Arts, Tochigi, Japan; Fukuoka City Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan; Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan; Tokyo Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo; Ashiya City Museum of Art and History, Ashiya, Japan
Photography As Concept – 4 Internationale Foto-Triennale Esslingen, Galerien der Stadt Esslingen Villa Merkel, Esslingen, Germany
Hungry Ghosts, Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
New Art From Britain, Innsbruck Kunstraum, Innsbruck, Austria
Maximum Diversity, Galerie Krinzinger in den Benger Fabrik, Bregenz and Academy of Arts, Vienna, Austria
Contemporary British Art, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, Südkorea
Sensation: Young British Artists in the Saatchi Collection, Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, Germany
Emotion: Young British and American Art from the Goetz Collection, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, Germany
Maximum Diversity, Atelierhaus der Akademie der Bildenden Kunste, Vienna, Austria
No Sex Please We’re British, Curated by Dazed and Confused, Shisedo Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1997
Material Culture, Hayward Gallery, London, UK
Assuming Positions, ICA, London, UK
Peripheral Visionary, De Fabrik, Eindhoven, Netherlands
Treasure Island, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian – Centro de Arte Moderna, Lisbon, Portugal
Package Holiday – Works from the Ophiuchus Collection, Hydra Workshop, Hydra, Greece
Strange Days, Claudia Gian Ferrari Arte Contemporanea, Milan, Italy
Sensation: Young British Artists in the Saatchi Collection, Royal Academy of Art, London, UK
Work in progress and or finished, Ubermain, Los Angeles, USA
1996
Co-operators, Southampton City Art Gallery and Huddersfield Art Gallery, UK
From Figure to Object: a Century of Sculptors’ Drawings, Frith Street Gallery and Karsten Schubert Gallery, London, UK
Live/Life, ARC Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris; Belem Museum, Lisbon, Portugal
Full House, Wolfsburg Kunstmuseum, Wolfsburg, Germany
Masculin/Feminine, Musée National d’Art Moderne, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
1995
Minky Manky, South London Gallery, London, UK
Corpus Delicti: London in the 1990s, Kunstforeningen, Copenhagen, Denmark
ARS 95, Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland
Brilliant! New Art From London, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis MI and Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, USA
1994
Watt, Witte de With and Kunsthal, Rotterdam, Netherlands
Football Karaoke, Portikus, Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany
Not Self Portrait, Karsten Schubert Gallery, London, UK
1993
Sarah Lucas and Steven Pippin, Project Room, Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
Young British Artists II, Saatchi Collection, London, UK
Monika Spruth, Cologne, Germany
1992
Karsten Schubert Gallery, London, UK
Lea Andrews, Keith Coventry, Anya Gallaccio, Damien Hirst, Gary Hume, Abigail Lane, Sarah Lucas, Steven Pippin, Marc Quinn, Marcus Taylor, Rachel Whiteread, Stein Gladstone and Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York, USA
1990
East Country Yard Show, Surrey Docks, London, UK
1988
Freeze, PLA Building, London, UK
1986
Showroom, London, UK
