1985
BA History of Art, University of Cambridge

1964
Born in London

Solo Exhibitions
2019
'Under the Skin', The Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing
'History & Chaos', The Goss Michael Foundation, Dallas

2017
' Drawn from Life', Sir John Soane's Museum, London
'Thames River Water', Ivorypress, Madrid

2016
'Frozen Wave (The Conservation of Mass)', Museum of Islamic Art, Qatar

2015
'Frozen Waves, Broken Sublimes', Somerset House, London
‘The Toxic Sublime', White Cube, London
‘History Painting’, BOX, Berlin

2014
‘Violence and Serenity’, Centro de Arte Contemporáneo (CAC), Málaga
‘The Sleep of Reason (Aklın Uykusu)’, ARTER Space for Art, Istanbul

2013
‘Held by Desire’, White Cube, Hong Kong
‘Marc Quinn’, Fondazione Giorgio Cini, San Giorgio, Venice
‘Chelsea Flower Show’, London
‘All the Time in the World’, Mary Boone Gallery, New York
‘Planet’, Gardens by the Bay, Singapore (permanent installation)

2012
London, 2012 Paralympics, centre sculpture in the Opening Ceremony, “Breath”
‘Marc Quinn: All of Nature Flows Through Us’, Museum of Modern Art Aalborg, Denmark
'Brave New World', Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg
‘Big Wheel Keeps on Turning (Марк Куинн «Большое колесо продолжает вращаться»)’, Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow
'The Littoral Zone', Musée Océanographique de Monaco, Monaco

Group Exhibitions
2018
'Like Life: Sculpture, Color, and the Body (1300-Now)', Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
'The Classical Now', The Arcade at Bush House, London
'You are Faust: Goethe's Drama in the Arts', Kunsthalle Munchen, Munich
'Leonard Cohen: A Crack in Everything', Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, Montreal

2017
'Hyper Real', National Gallery Australia, Canberra
'Christian Dior, Couturier du Rêve', Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris
'Winckelmann. Modern Antiquity', The Klassik Stiftung, Weimar
'Where we are and where we have been', Kallos Gallery, London

2016
'Identity Revisited', The Warehouse, Dallas
'Daydreaming With Stanley Kubrick', Somerset House, London
'The World Meets Here', Custot Gallery, Dubai
'The Literati Within', S/2 Gallery, New York

2015
'The Würth Collection in Berlin, Museum Würth and Berliner Festspiele
'Face of Britain', National Portrait Gallery, London
'Beyond Limits 2015', Chatsworth House, Derbyshire, UK

2014
‘Art Everywhere’, 30,000 public sites across the UK
‘Open Air’, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Yorkshire
‘Bad Thoughts’, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
‘Selected Works from the YAGEO Foundation Collection’, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
‘Leaping the Fence’, Hestercombe House, UK
‘East Wing Biennial Exhibition’, Courtauld Institute, London

2013
‘Beyond Limits, 2013’, Chatsworth House, Derbyshire, UK
‘Louise Vuitton Timeless Muses’, Tokyo Station Hotel, Japan

2012
'FIAC 2012', Jardin des Tuilleries, Paris
'Fourth Plinth: Contemporary Monument', Institute of Contemporary Art, London
‘Marc Quinn & Darren Almond’ Patricia Low Contemporary, St Moritz