Ged Quinn

Education

1993-1994
Rijksakademie Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

1988-1990
Kunstakademie Dusseldorf, Dusseldorf, Germany

1985-1987
Slade School of Fine Art, London, England

1982-1985
Ruskin School of Drawing, Oxford, England

Solo Exhibitions (selected)

2019
Ged Quinn, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, UK

2017
Rose, Cherry, Iron Rust, Flamingo, Pearl Lam Galleries, Hong Kong

2014
Ged Quinn, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, England

2013
Ged Quinn, New Art Gallery Walsall, West Midlands, UK (catalogue)

2012
The Endless Renaissance - Six Solo Artists Projects, Bass Museum, Miami, Florida, USA
FOCUS: Ged Quinn, Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Texas, USA

2011
Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, England

2010
Somebody's Coming That Hates Us, Wilkinson Gallery, London, England

2007
My Great Unhappiness Gives me a Right to your Benevolence, Wilkinson Gallery, London, England (catalogue)

2005
Wilkinson Gallery, London, England
The Heavenly Machine, Spike Island, Bristol, England

2004
Utopia Dystopia, Tate St.Ives, UK, (catalogue)

1999
New Paintings, Marlene Eleini, London, England

1994
Oxide Cinema, video media installation, Rijksakademie, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Two-Person Exhibitions (Selected)

2018
Richard Patterson | Ged Quinn, Galleria Mucciaccia, Rome, Italy (catalogue)

2014
Cake and Lemon Eaters. Viktor Pivovarov and Ged Quinn, Galerie Rudolfinum, Prague; Gallery of Fine Arts in Ostrava, Czech Republic (touring)

Group Exhibitions (selected)

2022
Hospital Rooms and Torbay Hospital, MAKE Southwest, Bovey Tracey, England

2021
Stephen Friedman Gallery at The London House of Modernity, London, England (catalogue) 

2020
25 Years, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, England

2019
Living Ruins, Worcester Art Gallery and Museum, Worcester, England

2018
Land, City and Sea: British Masters from the David Ross Collection, The Collection Museum, Lincoln, England
Heads Roll: An Exhibition Curated by Paul Morrison, Graves Gallery, Yorkshire, England

2017
Synthetic landscapes: Reviewing the ideal landscape, Meadow Arts and Shrewsbury Museum and Art Gallery, Weston Park, Shifnal, England

2015
CLASSICICITY: Ancient art, contemporary objects, Breese Little, London, England
Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, England

2014
Somos Libres II, Pinacoteca Giovanni e Marella Agnelli, Turin, Italy

2013
Landscape 2000, Osnabrück Cultural History Museum and Felix Nussbaum Haus, Osnabrück, Germany
Looking at the View, Tate Britain, London, England
The Future's Not What It Used To Be, Newlyn Art Gallery, Penzance, England
Disaster/The End of Days, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, France

2012
Beyond Reality: British Painting Today, Galerie Rudolfinum, Prague, Czech Republic
Everywhere and nowhere, Reydan Weiss Collection, Oberstdorf, Germany

2010
The Witching Hour, Waterhall, Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery, England (catalogue)
Chambres a part IV: Mascarade, A proposition by Laurence Dreyfus, Paris, France
Restore us and Regain: Ged Quinn, Tommy Grace, Tony Swain, Mackintosh Museum, The Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow, Scotland
Lust For Life & Dance of Death, Olbricht Collection, Kunsthalle Krems, Austria (catalogue)
Newspeak: British Art Now, Saatchi Gallery, London, England, (catalogue)

2009
Newspeak: British Art Now, State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg, Russia (catalogue)
Kunskog, Five Hundred Dollars, London, England
Kings, Gods and Mortals, Hamish Morrison Galerie, Berlin, Germany

2008
John Moores 25, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, UK
Made Up, Liverpool Biennale 2008, Tate Liverpool, UK (catalogue)
Jekyll Island, Galerie Charlotte Moser, Geneva, Switzerland
Doktors Traum, Olbricht Collection - New Aspects, Neues Museum Weserburg, Bremen, Germany
Monochrome: Drawing & Prints, Rabley Drawing Centre, Wiltshire, England

2007
Stranger than Paradise, Galerie Charlotte Moser, Geneva, Switzerland
Rockers Island, Olbricht Collection, Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany (catalogue)
Salon Nouveau, Engelholm Engelholm Gallery, Vienna, Austria

2006
Collezionami, 2nd Biennale of Southern Italy, Bari, Puglia, Italy

2005
The Real Ideal, Millennium Galleries, Sheffield, England
Wonderings..., Waugh & Thistleton, London, England
ShowCASe, City Art Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland
MOSTYN 2005, Oriel Mostyn, LLandudno, Wales

2000
Brooks Quinn Voss, Newlyn Art Gallery, Cornwall, England

1999
Show, Elizabeth Dee Gallery, New York, USA
IWPC 10, Museum of Recent History, Ljubliania, Slovenia

1997
Performance, Video installation with Oliver Herring, Camden Arts Centre, London, England

1995
Language of the Wall, Museum of Contemporary Art, Ljubliana, Slovenia

Publications (selected)

2021
The Anomie Review of Contemporary British Painting 2’, Matt Price, Anomie Publishing
New World – The Power of Dreams, Iwaki City Art Museum, Japan

2020
25 Years, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, England 

2015
20 Years, essays by Stephen Friedman and Sarah Thornton, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, England

2014
Cake and Lemon Eaters. Viktor Pivovarov & Ged Quinn, Galerie Rudolfinum, Prague

2013
Ged Quinn, New Art Gallery Walsall, West Midlands, England

2012
Ged Quinn: FOCUS, Fort Worth Museum of Art, Fort Worth, Texas, USA 

2011
Ged Quinn, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, England (catalogue)

2010
Lust For Life & Dance of Death, Olbricht Collection, Kunsthalle Krems, Krems, Austria
Newspeak: British Art Now, The Saatchi Gallery, London, England

2009
Newspeak: British Art Now, The State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg, Russia

2007
My Great Unhappiness Gives me a Right to your Benevolence, Wilkinson Gallery, London, England

Awards/Bursaries

1995
British Council bursary for Slovenia

1993
NUFFIC bursary for Rijksakademie, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

1988
DAAD Scholarship

1987
Boise Fellowship

Public Collections

Tate, London, England
British Museum, London, England
Saatchi Collection, London, England
Victoria & Albert Museum, London, England
Olbricht Collection, Essen, Germany
FLAG Art Foundation, New York, USA
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Texas, USA
Tel Aviv Art Museum, Israel