Rebecca Warren
(Born 1965)
Rebecca Warren (b.1965) received her MFA from Chelsea College of Art and Design in 1992. Immediately following, Warren was an artist-in-residence at the Ruskin School at Oxford University. Warren came to prominence in the early 1990s with her large, raw clay sculptures of extravagantly proportioned female forms. Since then she has established herself making sculptures, assemblages, and constructions in a wide variety of materials including clay, bronze, steel, and neon. With a preference for ambiguity of form and meaning she has said of her work that "it comes from a strange nowhere, then gradually something comes out into the light. There are impulses, half-seen shapes, things that might have stuck with you from decades ago, as well as more recently. It's all stuff in the world going through you as a filter…"
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2019
Souls, Maureen Paley - Morena di Luna, Hove, United Kingdom
2018
Galerie Max Hetzler, Paris
Musée National Eugéne Delacroix, Paris
2017
Matthew Marks, Los Angeles, CA
Sculptures, Foundation Vincent Van Gogh Arles, France
All That Heaven Allows, Tate St Ives, United Kingdom; Le Consortium, Dijon, France
2016
The Main Feeling, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas
2014
Why Do Birds Suddenly Appear?, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York
Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin, Germany
2013
The Living, Kunstverein München e.V., Münich, Germany
2012
Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin
Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, Ghent, Belgium
2010
Art Institute of Chicago and The Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago
2009
Feelings, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York
2007
Large Concretised Monument to the Twentieth Century, Chiswick Business Park, London, United Kingdom (Permanent installation)
Come Helga, This Is No Place For Us, Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin, Germany
Matthew Marks Gallery, New York
2005
Zoo Story: An exhibition of animals in art--for the young and young at heart, Fisher Landau Center for Art, New York
Pas de Deux, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York
2004
Dark Passage, Kunsthalle Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland
2003
Donald Young Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
The Boiler Room, The Saatchi Gallery, London, United Kingdom
SHE, Maureen Paley, London, United Kingdom
2002
Fleischvater, Modern Art, London, United Kingdom
2000
The Agony and the Ecstasy, Maureen Paley, London, United Kingdom
1995
Manliness without ostentation.., the Agency, London, United Kingdom
1993
I Have Every Vice in the World, Dolphin Gallery, Oxford, United Kingdom
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2022
Sculpture, Skarstedt, Paris
2019
Objects of Wonder: British Sculpture 1950s to Present, Palais Populaire, Berlin
The Hepworth Wakefield Garden, The Hepworth Wakefield, United Kingdom
Wakefield: A Contemporary Collection, The Hepworth Wakefield, United Kingdom
Objects of Wonder: From Pedestal to Interaction, ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum, Denmark
Installations from 25 Years of the Falckenberg Collection, Deichtorhallen Hamburg
2018
Anna Fasshauer Michail Pirgelis Rebecca Warren, Kunstverein Reutilgen, Germany
Virginia Woolf: An Exhibition Inspired by her Writings, Tate St Ives, UK; Pallant House Gallery, Chichester, UK; Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK
ISelf Collection: Bumped Bodies, Whitechapel Gallery, London
Profound Identities: Beauty and Subjugation from the Good-Michael Collection, Goss-Michael Foundation, Dallas
A Time Capsule: Works Made by Woman for Parkett, 1984–2017, Parkett Space, Zurich, Switzerland
Knock Knock: Humour in Contemporary Art, South London Gallery, London, UK
Death is Irrelevent: Selections from the Marc and Livia Straus Collection, 1975–2018, Hudson Valley MOCA, Peekskill, NY
Elisabeth Frink: Humans and Other Animals, Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, Norwich, UK
2017
Disobedient Bodies: J.W. Anderson Curates The Hepworth Wakefield, The Hepworth Wakefield, UK
The Gap Between the Fridge and the Cooker, The Modern Institute, Glasgow, Scotland
Night in the Museum, Arts Council Collection Curated by Ryan Gander, Attenborough Arts Centre, Leicester, UK
2016
Night in the Museum, Arts Council Collection, Longside Gallery, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, London
Unfinished: Thoughts Left Visible, Metropolitan Museum of Art at The Met Breuer, New York
2015
Sculpture: Muñoz, Schütte, Trockel, and Warren, Skarstedt, New York
10 Sculptures, Matthew Marks Gallery, Los Angeles, California
Summer Exhibition 2015, Royal Academy of Arts, London, United Kingdom
Plasters: Casts and Copies, The Hepworth Wakefield, Wakefield, United Kingdom
ArtZuid, International Sculpture Route, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
La Peregrina, curated by Jenny Saville for ‘Rubens and His Legacy’, Royal Academy, London, United Kingdom
2014
She, List Art Center, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island
Cast From Life, Skarstedt, New York
Summer Group Exhibition, Matthew Marks, Los Angeles, California
Then and Now, Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin, Germany
The Human Factor, Hayward Gallery, London, United Kingdom
Albert Oehlen Talking about Painting, Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany
Cool Place - Sammlung Scharpff, Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany
Love Story - The Anne & Wolfgang Titze Collection, 21er Haus and the Winter Palace, Vienna, Austria
In der Wohnung, curated by Fredi Fischli, Albert Oehlen and Niels Olsen, Gerbert Foundation, Rapperswil, Switzerland
Somewhat Abstract, Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham, United Kingdom
Summer Exhibition 2014, Royal Academy of Arts, London, United Kingdom
2013
Riotous Baroque: From Cattelan to Zurbarán, Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao, Spain
2012
Darren Almond, Katharina Fritsch, Martin Honert, Gary Hume, Paul Sietsema, Rebecca Warren, Terry Winters, Matthew Marks Gallery, Los Angeles, California
The Space Between, Tate Britain, London, , United Kingdom
2011
Modern British Sculpture, Royal Academy of Arts, London, United Kingdom
Lustwarande ’11-RAW. 4th Edition International Sculpture Exhibition, Park De Oude Warande, Tilburg, The Netherlands
ILLUMInations, 54th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
The Collectors Show, Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
2010
Statuesque, Public Art Fund at City Hall Park, New York. Traveled to Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas, Texas
The Future Demands Your Participation: Contemporary Art from the British Council Collection, Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai, China
Grand National: Art from Britain, Vestfossen Kunstlaboratorium, Vestfossen, Norway
2009
Accrochage, Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin, Germany
Classified, Tate Britain, London, United Kingdom
2008
The Vincent Award 2008, Stedelijk Museum CS, Amsterdam, The Netherland
Origins, Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Peekskill, New York
2007
Five Works in Bronze: Darren Almond, Robert Gober, Ellsworth Kelly, William de
Kooning, Rebecca Warren, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York
Unmonumental: The Object in the 21st Century, New Museum, New York
The Third Mind, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France
2006
Turner Prize Exhibition, Tate Britain, London, United Kingdom
Tate Triennial 2006: New British Art, Tate Britain, London, United Kingdom
2005
The British Art Show 6, Hayward Gallery, London, United Kingdom
2004
Strange, I’ve seen that face before, Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow, Scotland
Sculpture, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria
2003
Rachel Harrison, Hirsch Perlman, Dieter Roth, Jack Smith, Rebecca Warren, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York
Still Life, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Santiago, Chile. Traveled to Museo Alejandro Otero, Caracas, Venezuela; Centro Cultural, Buenos Aires, Argentina; Parque de España, Rosario, Argentina; and Biblioteca Luis Angel Arango, Bogotá, Colombia
2002
The Galleries Show Royal Academy of Arts, London, United Kingdom (catalogue)
Summer Exhibition 2002, Royal Academy of Arts, London, United Kingdom (catalogue)
1998
BANK, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, United Kingdom
1997
Material Culture; Sculpture from the 80s and 90s, Hayward Gallery, London, United Kingdom (catalogue)
1996
Berlin Art Fair, Berlin, Germany
NIS Project at world PC Expo, Tokyo, Japan
On Camp/Off Base: Pimple Life, Tokyo Big Sight Exhibition Centre, Tokyo, Japan (catalogue)
Disneyland After Dark: La Ronde, Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany (catalogue)
1995
The Meaning of Life..., Art Node Foundation, Stockholm, Sweden
The Meaning of Life.., parts 1 & 2, CCA, Glasgow, Scotland
Disneyland After Dark: La Ronde, Konstmuseum, Uppsala, Sweden (catalogue)
Stockholm Art Fair, Sweden
AWARDS
2008 Vincent Award nominee, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2006 Turner Prize nominee, Tate Britain, London, United Kingdom
1998 Artists Production Awards, London Arts Board
1997 Artists First-time Publication Award, Arts Council of England
1994 Artists Production Awards (with Fergal Stapleton), London Arts Board
1994 Contemporaries, The Mall Gallery, London, United Kingdom