Marc Quinn was born on 8 January 1964 and is a British contemporary visual artist whose work includes sculpture, installation, and painting.
28 Facts About Marc Quinn
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Marc Quinn's work has used materials that vary widely, from blood, bread and flowers, to marble and stainless steel.
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Marc Quinn has been the subject of solo exhibitions at Sir John Soane's Museum, the Tate Gallery, National Portrait Gallery, Fondation Beyeler, Fondazione Prada, and South London Gallery.
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Marc Quinn is internationally celebrated and was awarded the commission for the first edition of the Fourth Plinth in Trafalgar Square in 2004, for which he exhibited Alison Lapper Pregnant.
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Marc Quinn was born in London on 8 January 1964 to a FRENCH mother and a British father.
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Marc Quinn spent his early years in Paris, where his father was a physicist working at the BIPM.
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Marc Quinn recalls an early fascination with the scientific instruments in his father's laboratory, in particular atomic clocks.
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Marc Quinn attended Millfield, and studied history and history of art at Robinson College, Cambridge.
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In 1995, Marc Quinn was given a solo exhibition at Tate Britain where new sculptures were shown as part of the Art Now series.
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In 2004 Marc Quinn was awarded the first ever commission for the Fourth Plinth in London's Trafalgar Square, for which he produced a marble sculpture of pregnant disabled artist, Alison Lapper.
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In 2012, Marc Quinn was commissioned to produce a monumental work for the opening ceremony of the Paralympic Games at the London Olympics 2012, for which he produced Breath, a monumental sculpture of Alison Lapper held up by air.
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In 2013, Marc Quinn presented a solo exhibition curated by Germano Celant during the 55th Venice Biennale for art, at Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Venice in a show of more than 50 works.
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In 2017, Marc Quinn staged a major exhibition at the Sir John Soane's Museum in London.
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Marc Quinn experimented with organic and degradable materials including bread, blood, lead, flowers and DNA producing sculpture and installation, including Bread Sculptures, Self, Emotional Detox, Garden, and DNA Portrait of John Sulston.
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In 1995 Marc Quinn produced Emotional Detox, a series of seven sculptures made of lead and cast from the artist's own body, were created at this time.
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In 2000, Marc Quinn was given a solo exhibition at the Fondazione Prada, Milan, which included his most ambitious works, involving organic matter.
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Marc Quinn has made a series of marble sculptures of people either born with limbs missing or who have had them amputated.
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Since 2006, Marc Quinn has made numerous studies of the supermodel Kate Moss.
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In 2009 Marc Quinn began his "History Paintings" series which has continued to evolve.
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In May 2010, Marc Quinn revealed a series of new sculptures at London's White Cube gallery including The Ecstatic Autogenesis of Pamela based on film actress Pamela Anderson and Chelsea Charms based on pornography model Chelsea Charms.
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Marc Quinn's models have included "Catman" Dennis Avner and transgender people such as Thomas Beatie, Buck Angel, and Allanah Starr.
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In 2015 Marc Quinn opened an exhibition of new work at White Cube Bermondsey, entitled The Toxic Sublime.
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In 2017, Marc Quinn was given a solo exhibition at Sir John Soane's Museum in London.
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Marc Quinn has participated in a number of charity auctions since 2010.
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Marc Quinn's work was auctioned for the UK's homelessness charity, Crisis, in collaboration with Vogue at Christie's in 2010.
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Marc Quinn donated work to the charity auction for Peace One Day at Bonhams, curated by Jake Chapman, in 2014 and 2015.
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In 2013 Marc Quinn was commissioned to make a work for RHS Chelsea Flower Show, marking the first time an artist collaborated with the flower show in its 100-year history.
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Work by Marc Quinn was auctioned at the Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation annual St Tropez Gala in 2016, supporting environmental protection.