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Born: 9 May 1962, Kent, UK
Elected RA: 24 May 2001
Category of Membership: Painter
Gary Hume RA, Hermaphrodite Polar Bear Gary Hume graduated from Goldsmith’s College, London in 1988. His first group exhibitions were held that year at Karsten Schubert Ltd, London and in 'Freeze: Part II', at Surrey Docks, London.
Following his first solo show at Karsten Schubert Ltd, London (1989) he rapidly established an international reputation, exhibiting in numerous significant group exhibitions throughout the 1990s. He was shortlisted for the Turner Prize in 1996 and was winner of the Jerwood Painting Prize in 1997.
Read an interview with Gary Hume in RA Magazine Winter 2011
Read an interview with Gary Hume in RA Magazine Autumn 2007
Recent solo exhibitions
2012 Wolverhampton Art Gallery, Wolverhampton
Jerwood Gallery, Hastings
Sprueth Magers, Berlin
Pinchuk Art Centre, Kiev
Leeds Art Gallery, Leeds
White Cube Gallery, London
Aberdeen Art Gallery
2010 Spruth Magers, Berlin
New Art Centre, Roche Court, Salisbury
2009 Matthew Marks, New York
2008 Modern Art Oxford
2004 Kunsthaus Bregenz, Austria
2002 White Cube 2, London
2001 Matthew Marks Gallery, New York
2000 Fondació 'la Caixa', Barcelona
Cultugest, UMA Casa de Munda, Lisbon
1999 Whitechapel Art Gallery, London
Dean Gallery, National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh,
British Pavilion, XLVIII Venice Biennale of Art, Venice
1998 LEA Gallery, London
Sadler’s Wells Theatre, London
Hayward Gallery, London
Matthew Marks Gallery, New York
1997 Matthew Marks Gallery, New York
1996 Bonnefantenmuseum, Maastricht
XXIII Bienal de Sao Paulo, Brazil
Galleria il Ponte, Rome
(solo exhibition under the auspices of Artisti britannica a Roma)
Galerie Gebauer and Thumm, Berlin
1995 Jay Jopling / White Cube, London
Kunsthaller, Bern; Institute of Contemporary Art, London;
Spacex
Habitat, Kings Road, London
1994 Matthew Marks Gallery, New York
1993 Galerie Tanja Grünert, Cologne
Exhibited one new painting Madonna & Child,
Sarah Lucas’s bedsit, Holloway Road, London
1992 Daniel Weinburg Gallery, Santa Monica
Matthew Marks Gallery, New York
1991 Galerie Tanja Grünert, Köln
Karsten Schubert Ltd, London
1989 Karsten Schubert Ltd, London
Public collections
Art Institute of Chicago, USA
Arts Council of Great Britain
Astrup Fearnley Moderne Kunst, Olso, Norway
Bonnefanten Museum, Maastricht
British Council
DESTE Foundation for Contemporary Art, Athens
Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg
Saatchi Collection, London
Tate Gallery, London
Paine Webber Art Collection, New York
Contact details for further information
Email membershipoffice@royalacademy.org.uk
