Gary Stewart Hume was born on 9 May 1962 and is an English artist.
12 Facts About Gary Hume
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Gary Hume's work was included in both Freeze, an exhibition organised by Damien Hirst in 1988, and East Country Yard, a warehouse exhibition organised by Henry Bond and Sarah Lucas in 1990.
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Gary Hume has become known for depicting everyday subjects using high-gloss industrial paints.
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At first, Gary Hume used mainly bright colours, but later pieces have used more muted tones.
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Around 2005, Gary Hume revisited his Door pictures, this time anthropomorphising the doors, arranging them into pairs of lovers and giving them the titles The Couple and The Argument.
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Besides his London studio, Gary Hume maintains a second studio in a converted barn on the grounds of a former chicken farm in New York's Catskill Mountains region.
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Liberty Grip is a 2008 sculpture in bronze by Gary Hume, modelled in three discrete sections using the arm of a mannequin as a template, and exhibited at White Cube gallery in Bermondsey, London in 2013.
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Gary Hume represented Great Britain at the 1999 Venice Biennale, where he showed his Water series, a number of superimposed line drawings of women.
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Gary Hume's work was the subject of a one-person exhibition at Whitechapel Gallery, London, in 1999.
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Later monographic shows of Gary Hume's work were organised at the Kestnergesellschaft, Hannover, and the Kunsthaus Bregenz, Austria, in 2004, and Modern Art Oxford mounted a survey show of his Door paintings in 2008.
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In 1996, Gary Hume was nominated for the Turner Prize, but lost out to Douglas Gordon.
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Gary Hume was later awarded Great Britain's 1997 Jerwood Painting Prize.