Born in 1969, London.
Lives and works in New York.

Education

1989-1993   
BA in Fine Arts, Slade School of Art, London.

1987-1989   
Drawing and Printmaking classes, Morley College, London.

1985-1987   
B-TEC Diploma in Art and Design, Epsom School of Art, Surrey, England.

Solo Exhibitions
2011       
Cecily Brown, Kukje Gallery, Seoul.

2010       
Based On A True Story, GEM; traveled to Museum of Contemporary Art, The Hague,
Netherlands; Kestner Gesellschaft, Hannover, Germany
Cecily Brown, Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin.

2009       
Cecily Brown, Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Germany.

2008       
Cecily Brown, Gagosian Gallery, New York.

2006       
Cecily Brown, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA.
Cecily Brown: New Paintings, Gagosian Gallery, London.
Cecily Brown (curated by Jeff Fleming), Des Moines Art Center, IA.

2005       
Cecily Brown: Paintings, Kunsthalle Mannheim, Germany.
Cecily Brown: Paintings (curated by Suzanne Cotter), Modern Art Oxford, England.
Cecily Brown: Recent Paintings, Gagosian Gallery, New York (Chelsea).

2004       
Cecily Brown, Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin.
Cecily Brown, Museo Reina Sofía, Madrid.
Cecily Brown, Galerie Lisa Ruyter, Vienna

2003       
Cecily Brown, Museo d’Arte Contemporanea Roma, Rome.
Cecily Brown, Gagosian Gallery, Beverly Hills.

2002       
Directions—Cecily Brown, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington,D.C.
Cecily Brown, Gagosian Gallery, New York.

2001       
Days of Heaven, Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin.

2000       
Cecily Brown , Gagosian Gallery, New York (SoHo).

1999       
Serenade, Victoria Miro Gallery, London.
The Skin Game, Gagosian Gallery, Beverly Hills.

1998       
High Society, Deitch Projects, New York.

1997       
Spectacle, Deitch Projects, New York (Storefront Gallery).

1995       
Cecily Brown, Eagle Gallery, London.

Selected Group Exhibitions
2011       
A Painting Show, Harris Lieberman Gallery, New York
White Columns 2011 Benefit Exhibition + Auction, New York

2010       
Re-Dressing, Bortolami Gallery, New York

2009       
Bad Habits, Albright Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York.

2007       
Honky Dory, Gary Tatintsian Gallery, Moscow.

2006       
Heroines (curated by Dodie Kazanjian), The Arnold and Marie Schwartz Gallery Met
at the Metropolitan Opera, New York (through 2007).
Survivor (organized by David Rimanelli), Bortolami Dayan, New York.
The Garden Party, Deitch Projects, New York.

2005       
Getting Emotional, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA.
90-Day Loans: From the Broad Art Foundation and the Ovitz Family Collection,
Nelson Fine Arts Center, Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe.
Works on Paper, Gagosian Gallery, Beverly Hills.
Contemporary Erotic Drawing, The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield,CT.

2004       
Whitney Biennial 2004, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.
A Collector’s Vision, Museum der Modern Salzberg, Austria.
Direct Painting, Kunsthalle Mannheim, Germany.
Drawings, Gagosian Gallery, London (Heddon Street).

2003       
Gyroscope, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C. (through 2004).
Under Pressure: Prints from Two Palms Press, Cooper Union, New York.

2001       
Szenenwechsel XIX, Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt am Main.

2000      
OO Drawings 2000, Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York.
Emotional Rescue: The Contemporary Art Project Collection, Center on
Contemporary Art, Seattle, WA.
The Figure: Another Side of Modernism, Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art at
Snug Harbor Cultural Center, New York.
Greater New York: New Art in New York Now, P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, Long
Island City, NY.

1999      
At Century’s End: The John P. Morrissey Collection of 90’s Art, The Museum of
Contemporary Art, Lake Worth, FL.
Pleasure Dome, Jessica Fredericks Gallery, New York.
Four Letter Heaven, David Zwirner Video Library, New York.
Vertical Painting, P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, NY (1999-present).

1998      
More Fake, More Real, Yet Even Closer: Drawings by Some Younger Painters, Castle
Gallery, The College of New Rochelle, NY.

1997      
Cecily Rose Brown, Bonnie Collura and Anna Gaskell, Janice Guy Gallery, New York.

1996      
Taking Stock (curated by Kenny Schacter), New York.

1994      
The Fete Worse Than Death, Laurent Delaye, London.

1990      
Contemporary View, National Competition for British Art Students, Royal College of Art, London.
 

Films
1995      
Four Letter Heaven, a short animated film- Premiered at Telluride Film Festival.
Traveled to: Ann Arbor Film Festival, MI; Seattle Film Festival, WA;
Pandemonium Festival of the Moving Image, Institute for Contemporary
Art, London; Stuttgart Filmfest, Germany; Big Muddy Film Festival,
Carbondale, IL; Black Maria Film Festival, Jersey City, NJ; and others in
Europe and the US.

Public Collections
Albright Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY.
Des Moines Art Center, IA.
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York.
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.
Museum der Moderne Salzburg
Museo di Sintra, Portugal.
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles.
Museum of Fine Art, Boston, MA.
The Broad Art Foundation, Santa Monica, CA.
The Rubell Family Collection, Miami.
The Saatchi Gallery, London.
Sammlung Essl
The Tate Gallery, London.
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.

Honors and Awards
1995     
“Four Letter Heaven,” a short animated film- Awards at Ann Arbor, MI; the Big
Muddy Film Festival, Carbondale, IL; and the Black Maria Film Festival,Jersey City, NJ.

1990     
“Contemporary View,” National Competition for British Art Students, sponsored by Christie’s. Winner of First Prize.