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Born in 1964 in England, Marc Quinn is a contemporary British artist.

Graduated in 1985 in History and Art History from the University of Cambridge, he later became an artist. He was the first artist to be represented by the Jay Jopling gallery in the 90s. His first exhibition took place in this same gallery in 1991. In 2004, he obtained the Prix du Fourth plinth of Trafalgar Square.

In 2012, he was selected to make a monumental sculpture for the Paralympic Games, he will realize for the occasion “Breath", a sculpture representing Alison Lapper (1965), a British artist. On the occasion of the 55th Venice Biennale, in 2013 he produced a solo exhibition at the Giorgio Cini Foundation.

Since 19990, Quinn has been known for her experimental art. Passionate about science, he produced “self" in 1991, a work representing his own face. This work was made with the artist's own frozen blood, which illustrates his scientific experiments and his artistic approach.

He works on any type of medium and practices many techniques such as painting, sculpture or installations. Quinn explores what human being is for him in our world today. Through all of his works, he studies and illustrates the relationships between man and everything that surrounds him, nature, individuals, man's relationship with his own body and even the media. With his works, he represents social history. His approach is at the same time social, scientific and artistic.

In 2001, he produced “DNA portrait of Sir John Sulston", a work featuring a colony of bacteria. He also produces the works "Evolution" (2005), "Planet" (2008), or even "Breath" (2012). These are less scientific and illustrate man's relationship with his body and the world around him. Quinn is developing a series called "Chaos Paintings" which illustrates her own vision of world creation and the Big Bang theory. He also produced the “Anthropocene" series, a series of paintings representing eclipses.

Quinn uses and experiments with organic and biodegradable materials in her works. For example, he uses garbage bags (“The Raft Paintings", 2017), animal meat (“Flesh Paintings", 2011) or even bacteria, DNA and human bones (“To be or not to be », 2008). The artist thus mixes a reflection on the approach to the human body with scientific experiments.

Quinn regularly holds exhibitions. In 2019, he produced the “History and Chaos" exhibition at the Goss Michael Foundation located in Dallas. In addition, the same year he produced the “Under the skin" exhibition, which took place in Beijing at the Central Academy of Fine Arts of China.


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Born in 1964 in England, Marc Quinn is a contemporary British artist.

Graduated in 1985 in History and Art History from the University of Cambridge, he later became an artist. He was the first artist to be represented by the Jay Jopling gallery in the 90s. His first exhibition took place in this same gallery in 1991. In 2004, he obtained the Prix du Fourth plinth of Trafalgar Square.

In 2012, he was selected to make a monumental sculpture for the Paralympic Games, he will realize for the occasion “Breath", a sculpture representing Alison Lapper (1965), a British artist. On the occasion of the 55th Venice Biennale, in 2013 he produced a solo exhibition at the Giorgio Cini Foundation.

Since 19990, Quinn has been known for her experimental art. Passionate about science, he produced “self" in 1991, a work representing his own face. This work was made with the artist's own frozen blood, which illustrates his scientific experiments and his artistic approach.

He works on any type of medium and practices many techniques such as painting, sculpture or installations. Quinn explores what human being is for him in our world today. Through all of his works, he studies and illustrates the relationships between man and everything that surrounds him, nature, individuals, man's relationship with his own body and even the media. With his works, he represents social history. His approach is at the same time social, scientific and artistic.

In 2001, he produced “DNA portrait of Sir John Sulston", a work featuring a colony of bacteria. He also produces the works "Evolution" (2005), "Planet" (2008), or even "Breath" (2012). These are less scientific and illustrate man's relationship with his body and the world around him. Quinn is developing a series called "Chaos Paintings" which illustrates her own vision of world creation and the Big Bang theory. He also produced the “Anthropocene" series, a series of paintings representing eclipses.

Quinn uses and experiments with organic and biodegradable materials in her works. For example, he uses garbage bags (“The Raft Paintings", 2017), animal meat (“Flesh Paintings", 2011) or even bacteria, DNA and human bones (“To be or not to be », 2008). The artist thus mixes a reflection on the approach to the human body with scientific experiments.

Quinn regularly holds exhibitions. In 2019, he produced the “History and Chaos" exhibition at the Goss Michael Foundation located in Dallas. In addition, the same year he produced the “Under the skin" exhibition, which took place in Beijing at the Central Academy of Fine Arts of China.

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When was Marc Quinn born?

The year of birth of the artist is: 1964