Gary Hume England, b. 1962
Biography
Photography: John Marchant. Courtesy of Sprüth Magers, Berlin-London.
Born in Tenterden, England, in 1962, Gary Hume lives and works between London and New York.
Hume studied at Goldsmiths College in London. He represented Great Britain at the 1999 Venice Biennale and at the 1996 São Paulo Biennial, the year he was nominated for the Turner Prize.
Hume is identified with the Young British Artists (YBAs), known for a simplified, reductive aesthetic that plays on the boundary between abstraction and representation. His work reflects an interest in pop art while also presenting stylistic markers and chromatic nuances not usually associated with the movement.
His solo exhibitions include those held at Matthew Marks Gallery, New York; Whitechapel Art Gallery, London; Kestnergesellschaft, Hanover; Kunsthaus Bregenz; Modern Art Oxford; Tate Britain, London; the Aspen Art Museum; Sprüth Magers, Berlin; White Cube, London; and the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, among others.
His works are included in the collections of the Saatchi Collection, London; the Art Institute of Chicago; the Arts Council of Great Britain; Astrup Fearnley Museet, Oslo; the British Council; the DESTE Foundation for Contemporary Art, Athens; the Paine Webber Art Collection, New York; and Tate Gallery, London.
Works
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Gary HumeVirginia, 2009Paint on paper / Pintura sobre papel243 x 149.5 cm
95 5/8 x 58 7/8 in
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