Marc Quinn Art
British, b. 1964
Contemporary artist Marc Quinn was born in London in 1964 and is known as one of the founding figures of the 1990s British contemporary art movement, alongside artist Damien Hirst. His work includes sculpture, installation and painting and explores “what it is to be human in the world today” through subjects that include the body, genetics, identity, environment, and the media. Quinn graduated from Cambridge University in 1984 and had his first solo show in 1988 at the Jay Jopling/Otis Gallery in London. Quinn was selected for the Sydney Biennale in 1992, and was represented in Young British Artists II at the Saatchi Gallery in 1993, and Time Machine at the British Museum in 1994. He participated in Thinking Print at the Museum of Modern Art, New York in 1996 and Sensation at the Royal Academy, London in 1997. He had a solo show at the South London Gallery, Camberwell, London in 1998. Self (1991, Saatchi Collection, London) is a self-portrait head made from his own frozen blood, and was first exhibited in 1991 at the Jay Jopling/Grob Gallery and then at the Saatchi Gallery in 1992. At the Tate Gallery in 1995, Quinn showed Emotional Detox: The Seven Deadly Sins, a group of seven lead casts of parts of his body which were made using the lost wax method. Quinn prefers to use his body as a primary source because it is free from the associations of implied relationships: 'the self is what one knows best and least at the same time ... casting the body gives one an opportunity to "see" the self' (conversation with Sean Rainbird, Tate Gallery, 1995). to
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Artist: Marc Quinn
White Orchid
By Marc Quinn
Located in London, GB
Pigment print on 300gsm Somerset Photo paper
Signed by the artist and numbered in pencil, on recto
25.9 x 25.9 cm
Edition 39 of 150
Category
2010s Contemporary Marc Quinn Art
Materials
Photographic Paper, Pigment
Untitled 05
By Marc Quinn
Located in Boston, MA
Artist: Quinn, Marc
Title: Untitled 05
Series: Eye of History
Date: 2013
Medium: Color Etching on 350gsm paper
Unframed Dimensions: 35.9375" x 35.5625"
Signature: Signed by...
Category
2010s Young British Artists (YBA) Marc Quinn Art
Materials
Etching
Pink Herbarium
By Marc Quinn
Located in London, GB
Marc Quinn
Pink Herbarium, 2024
Hand-pulled 4-Layer Screen Print on Mohawk Superfine 352gsm paper
Embossed, signed and numbered on the front
60 x 45 cm
Edition of 45
Marc Quinn is a...
Category
2010s Contemporary Marc Quinn Art
Materials
Screen
18K Solid Gold Orchid Sculpture Artist Ring YBA Marc Quinn Artwork Wearable Art
By Marc Quinn
Located in Surfside, FL
Marc Quinn
18k Large Gold Orchid Ring
Measurements: Ring size 7, ring top is 38mm x 37mm
Hallmarked: MQ PE 750
Weight: 26 grams
Quinn has used orchids repeatedly and thematically in his sculptures and these unique pieces are inspired by the artist's ongoing 'Flower sculptures' series. Like their inspiration, these works are described by Quinn as the most magical transformation of reality into art - rendered intimately for personal wear.
Artist Marc Quinn known for his voluptuous hyper-real, super-bright flower and that famous golden statue of Kate Moss doing yoga has made a very limited edition of these yellow gold rings. He has made white bronze sculptures as well as white gold jewelry for Selfridges in London. Quinn has used orchids repeatedly as a motif in his work. Major artists such as Pablo Picasso, Alexander Calder, Salvador Dalí, Lucio Fontana and Roy Lichtenstein and Claude and Xavier Lalanne have sall made artists Art Jewelry. These unique pieces are inspired by the artist's ongoing 'Flower sculptures' series. These have been included in the Dine Venet collection as well as in the Louisa Guinness gallery collection. (She has commissioned works by Anish Kapoor, Claude Lalanne, Marc Quinn and Ron Arad). Quinn first came to public attention in the early 1990s through his affiliation with the Young British Artists (YBAs). Among his earliest and best-known works is Self (1991), a cast of his head made from ten pints of Quinn’s frozen blood, an amount equal to the volume in his body. In a 2013 interview, the artist said that the YBA movement had been about “bringing real life into art.” In both Self and Spiral of the Galaxy, Quinn’s urge is holistic and metaphysical, a desire to translate the substance of life into image. Young British Artists, or YBAs—also referred to as Brit artists and Britart—is a loose group of visual artists who first began to exhibit together in London in 1988. Many of the YBA artists graduated from the BA Fine Art course at Goldsmiths, in the late 1980s, whereas some from the group had trained at Royal College of Art.
Leading artists of the group include Damien Hirst and Tracey Emin.
The core of the YBA group graduated from the Goldsmiths BA Fine Art degree course in the classes of 1987–90. Liam Gillick, Fiona Rae, Steve Park and Sarah Lucas, were graduates in the class of 1987. Ian Davenport, Michael Landy, Gary Hume, Anya Gallaccio, Lala Meredith-Vula, Henry Bond, Angela Bulloch, were graduates in the class of 1988; Damien Hirst, Angus Fairhurst, Mat Collishaw, Simon Patterson, and Abigail Lane, were graduates from the class of 1989; whilst Gillian Wearing, and Sam Taylor-Wood, were graduates from the class of 1990, and Jason Martin was graduated with the class of 1993. During the years 1987–1990, the teaching staff on the Goldsmiths BA Fine Art included Jon Thompson, Richard Wentworth, Michael Craig-Martin, Ian Jeffrey, Helen Chadwick, Mark Wallinger, Judith Cowan and Glen Baxter...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Marc Quinn Art
Materials
Gold
Untitled
By Marc Quinn
Located in Boston, MA
Artist: Quinn, Marc
Title: Untitled
Series: Stardust Series
Date: 2012
Medium: Mixed Media archival pigment print with paint
Unframed Dimensions: 7.874" x 15.354"
Framed Dimen...
Category
2010s Contemporary Marc Quinn Art
Materials
Mixed Media
Green Herbarium
By Marc Quinn
Located in London, GB
Marc Quinn
Green Herbarium, 2024
Hand-pulled 4-Layer Screen Print on Mohawk Superfine 352gsm paper
Embossed, signed and numbered on the front
60 x 45 cm
Edition of 45
Marc Quinn is ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Marc Quinn Art
Materials
Screen
At the Far Edges of the Universe III
By Marc Quinn
Located in Boston, MA
Artist: Quinn, Marc
Title: At the Far Edges of the Universe III
Series: At the Far Edges of the Universe
Date: 2010
Medium: pigment graphic prints
Unframed Dimensions: 27...
Category
2010s Contemporary Marc Quinn Art
Materials
ABS, Pigment
Archival Screen Print with Silver Leaf, 'Raw Earth' Iris, 2023
By Marc Quinn
Located in New York, NY
'Raw Earth' Iris with Silver Leaf is a silkscreen print on paper created in 2023 by Marc Quinn. This signed print is an exclusive Edition of 50, signed by the Artist on front, numbe...
Category
2010s Contemporary Marc Quinn Art
Materials
Screen
Archival Screen Print with Silver Leaf, 'Raw Earth', 2023
By Marc Quinn
Located in New York, NY
'Raw Earth' Iris with Silver Leaf is a silkscreen print on paper created in 2023 by Marc Quinn. This signed print is an exclusive edition of only 50 in existence. The custom framed d...
Category
2010s Contemporary Marc Quinn Art
Materials
Silver
Untitled 03
By Marc Quinn
Located in Boston, MA
Artist: Quinn, Marc
Title: Untitled 03
Series: Eye of History
Date: 2013
Medium: Color Etching on 350gsm paper
Unframed Dimensions: 35.9375" x 35.5625"
Framed Dimensions: 4...
Category
2010s Young British Artists (YBA) Marc Quinn Art
Materials
Etching
Untitled (Print with Paint 186)
By Marc Quinn
Located in Boston, MA
Artist: Quinn, Marc
Title: Untitled (Print with Paint 186)
Series: Small Inverse Flowers
Date: 2012
Medium: Unique Mixed Media, Color Pigment, with Oil and Acrylic Paint, Metal...
Category
2010s Contemporary Marc Quinn Art
Materials
Mixed Media
New Geography
By Marc Quinn
Located in London, GB
Archival pigment print with screenprinting and diamond dust
Sheet size: 85 x 85 cm
Edition of 50
hand-signed and numbered by the artist
Marc Quinn is a Brit...
Category
2010s Contemporary Marc Quinn Art
Materials
Archival Pigment, Screen
Untitled 07
By Marc Quinn
Located in Boston, MA
Artist: Quinn, Marc
Title: Untitled 07
Series: Eye of History
Date: 2013
Medium: Color Etching on 350gsm paper
Unframed Dimensions: 35.9375" x 35.5625"
Framed Dimensions: 4...
Category
2010s Young British Artists (YBA) Marc Quinn Art
Materials
Etching
Untitled 08
By Marc Quinn
Located in Boston, MA
Artist: Quinn, Marc
Title: Untitled 08
Series: Eye of History
Date: 2013
Medium: Colour Etching on 350gsm paper
Unframed Dimensions: 35.9375" x 35.5625"
Framed Dimensions: 4...
Category
2010s Young British Artists (YBA) Marc Quinn Art
Materials
Etching
Kate Moss on Gold
By Marc Quinn
Located in Boston, MA
Artist: Quinn, Marc
Title: Kate Moss on Gold
Date: 2012
Medium: Screenprint, hand finished in gold leaf overglaze
Unframed Dimensions: 27.5" x 21.25"
Framed Dimensions: 35" x ...
Category
2010s Marc Quinn Art
Materials
Screen
Untitled 03
By Marc Quinn
Located in Boston, MA
Artist: Quinn, Marc
Title: Untitled 03
Series: Eye of History
Date: 2013
Medium: Colour Etching on 350gsm paper
Unframed Dimensions: 35.9375" x 35.5625"
Framed Dimensions: ...
Category
2010s Young British Artists (YBA) Marc Quinn Art
Materials
Etching
At the Far Edges of the Universe IV
By Marc Quinn
Located in Boston, MA
Artist: Quinn, Marc
Title: At the Far Edges of the Universe IV
Series: At the Far Edges of the Universe
Date: 2010
Medium: pigment graphic prints
Unframed Dimensions: 27....
Category
2010s Contemporary Marc Quinn Art
Materials
Pigment
'Ice Age' Iris Archival Screen Print with Diamond Dust, 2023
By Marc Quinn
Located in New York, NY
'Ice Age' Iris' with Diamond Dust is a silkscreen print on paper created in 2023 by Marc Quinn. This signed print is an Edition of 50. Signed by the Artist in pencil on front and num...
Category
2010s Contemporary Marc Quinn Art
Materials
Screen
Portraits of Landscapes (Portfolio of 8) by Marc Quinn
By Marc Quinn
Located in Zug, CH
Marc Quinn
Portraits of Landscapes (Portfolio of 8)
2007
Pigment Print
100 × 75 cm
(39.4 × 29.5 in)
Signed and numbered
Edition of 59
In excellent condition
PLEASE NOTE: Edition num...
Category
Early 2000s Marc Quinn Art
Materials
Pigment
Untitled
By Marc Quinn
Located in Boston, MA
Artist: Quinn, Marc
Title: Untitled
Series: Stardust Series
Date: 2012
Medium: Mixed Media archival pigment print with paint and metallic dust
Unframed Dimensions: 8.070...
Category
2010s Contemporary Marc Quinn Art
Materials
Mixed Media
Untitled
By Marc Quinn
Located in Boston, MA
Artist: Quinn, Marc
Title: Untitled
Series: Stardust Series
Date: 2012
Medium: Mixed Media archival pigment print with paint and metallic dust
Unframed Dimensions: 8.267" x 1...
Category
2010s Contemporary Marc Quinn Art
Materials
Mixed Media
Portraits of Landscapes VIII
By Marc Quinn
Located in Boston, MA
Artist: Quinn, Marc
Title: Portraits of Landscapes VIII
Series: Portraits of Landscapes
Date: 2008
Medium: pigment prints
Unframed Dimensions: 39 3/8" x 29.5"
Framed Dimension...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Marc Quinn Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
Stealth Kate
By Marc Quinn
Located in Boston, MA
Artist: Quinn, Marc
Title: Stealth Kate
Date: 2013
Medium: Digital Print with silkscreen glaze and diamond dust on 330gsm Somerset Satin Paper
Unframed Dimensions: 36.50" ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Marc Quinn Art
Materials
Mixed Media, Digital
Untitled
By Marc Quinn
Located in Boston, MA
Artist: Quinn, Marc
Title: Untitled
Series: Stardust Series
Date: 2012
Medium: Mixed Media archival pigment print with paint and metallic dust
Unframed Dimensions: 8.267" x 1...
Category
2010s Contemporary Marc Quinn Art
Materials
Mixed Media
Untitled
By Marc Quinn
Located in Boston, MA
Artist: Quinn, Marc
Title: Untitled
Series: Stardust Series
Date: 2012
Medium: Mixed Media archival pigment print with paint and metallic dust
Unframed Dimensions: 8.070" x 1...
Category
2010s Contemporary Marc Quinn Art
Materials
Mixed Media
At the Far Edges of the Universe VI
By Marc Quinn
Located in Boston, MA
Artist: Quinn, Marc
Title: At the Far Edges of the Universe VI
Series: At the Far Edges of the Universe
Date: 2010
Medium: Pigment Prints
Unframed Dimensions: 27.25" x 41...
Category
2010s Contemporary Marc Quinn Art
Materials
Pigment
Kate Moss on Silver
By Marc Quinn
Located in Boston, MA
Artist: Quinn, Marc
Title: Kate Moss on Silver
Date: 2012
Medium: Screenprint, hand finished in silver leaf overglaze
Unframed Dimensions: 27.5" x 21.250"
Framed Dimension...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Marc Quinn Art
Materials
Screen
Winter Garden (Portfolio of 8) by Marc Quinn
By Marc Quinn
Located in Zug, CH
Marc Quinn
Winter Garden (Portfolio of 8)
2004
Pigment Print
83.6 × 124 cm
(32.9 × 48.8 in)
Signed, numbered, and dated
Edition of 59
In excellent condition
PLEASE NOTE: Edition num...
Category
Early 2000s Marc Quinn Art
Materials
Pigment
At the Far Edges of the Universe V
By Marc Quinn
Located in Boston, MA
Artist: Quinn, Marc
Title: At the Far Edges of the Universe V
Series: At the Far Edges of the Universe
Date: 2010
Medium: Pigment Prints
Unframed Dimensions: 27.25" x 41"...
Category
2010s Contemporary Marc Quinn Art
Materials
Pigment
Untitled 08
By Marc Quinn
Located in Boston, MA
Artist: Quinn, Marc
Title: Untitled 08
Series: Eye of History
Date: 2013
Medium: Color Etching on 350gsm paper
Unframed Dimensions: 35.9375" x 35.5625"
Signature: Signed by...
Category
2010s Young British Artists (YBA) Marc Quinn Art
Materials
Etching
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- Why does Marc Quinn use blood?1 Answer1stDibs ExpertMarch 22, 2022Marc Quinn uses blood in some of his artwork because he considers it to be part of the fundamental essence of life. By incorporating it into his sculptures, installations and paintings, he seeks to infuse life into his art. Find a selection of Marc Quinn art on 1stDibs.
- Where is Marc Quinn from?1 Answer1stDibs ExpertApril 5, 2022Marc Quinn is from London, UK. He was born there on January 8, 1964. The British contemporary artist grew up in Paris, France, but returned to England as an adult. On 1stDibs, you can find a selection of Marc Quinn art.