John Berggruen Gallery
Darren Almond
Biography
DARREN ALMOND1971 Born in Wigan, England
Education
1993 Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton, Southampton, England
Selected solo exhibitions
2005 Isolation, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York, New York; traveled to
Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Dusseldorf, Germany
2004 Darren Almond: Live Sentence, Lentos Kunstmuseum Linz, Linz, Austria
2003 If I Had You, Fondazione Nicola Trussardi, Milan, Italy
Darren Almond: Mine, A, Galleri K, Oslo, Norway
Darren Almond: Full Moon, Sommer Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv, Israel
11 miles??from Safety, Jay Jopling/White Cube, London, England
2002 A, (commissioned by Public Art Development Trust), National Theatre,
London, England
At Speed, Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin, Germany
2001 Coming Up For Air, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York, New York; Kunsthalle, Zurich, Switzerland (catalogue)
Darren Almond: Night as Day, Tate Britain, London, England (catalogue)
De Appel Foundation, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin, Germany
2000 Darren Almond: Mean Time, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York; traveled to the Approach, London, England
Darren Almond: Traction, Chisenhale Gallery, London, England
1999 Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin, Germany
The Renaissance Society, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
1997 Institute of Contemporary Arts, (commissioned by Toshiba Art & Innovation Commission), London, England
Jay Jopling/White Cube, London, England
1995 KN120, Great Western Studios, London, England
1991 Crawford Art College, Cork, Ireland
Selected group exhibitions
2007 New Dimensions, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, California
2005 Universal Experience: Art, Life and the Tourist's Eye, MCA Chicago, Chicago, Illinois; traveled to the Hayward Gallery, London, England; MART, Rovereto, Italy
2004 Eclipse: Towards the edge of the visible, White Cube, London, England
2003 Video Acts: Single Channel Video Works from the Collections of Pamela and Richard Kramlich and the New Art Trust, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York, New York
Sculpture: Darren Almond, Peter Fischli David Weiss, Katharina Fritsch, Robert Gober, Donald Judd, Ellsworth Kelly, Ugo Rondinone, Tony Smith, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York, New York
Hot Summer in the City, Sean Kelly Gallery, New York, New York
In Light: Video Projections by Eight Artists, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada
Breathing the Water, Galerie Hauser& Wirth & Presenhuber, Zurich, Switzerland
Witness, Barbican Art Gallery, The Curve Gallery, London, England
Melodrama, MARCO, Vigo, Spain
Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
2002 Fourth Wall, Public Art Development Trust Film Commission, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, England; traveled to Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Yorkshire, England
Melodrama, Artium, Centro-Museo Vasco de Arte Contemporaneo, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain; Traveled to Centro Jose Guerrero, Granada, Spain*
Happy Outsiders from London and Scotland, Zacheta Gallery, Warsaw, Poland; traveled to Katowice, Poland
Put in Context, Kunstverein, Hamburg, Germany
Presentness is Grace ? Experiencing the Suspended Moment, Spacex Gallery, Exeter, England
In the Freud Museum, Freud Museum, London, England
2001 Kunstsammlung im Standehaus, Dusseldorf, Germany
Casino 2001, SMAK and Bijlokenmuseum, Ghent, Belgium*
Tracking, Logan Galleries, CCAC, San Francisco, California
Making Time, Armand Hammer Museum, University of California, Los Angeles, California
Deliberate Living, Greene Naftali Gallery, New York, New York
Nature in Photography, Galerie Nachst St. Stephan, Vienna, Austria
Tenth Anniversary Exhibition, 100 Drawings and Photographs, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York, New York*
2000 Geographies (Darren Almond, Graham Gussin, Anri Sala), Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris, France
Making Time: Considering Time as a Material in Contemporary Video and Film, Palm Beach Institute of Contemporary Art, Florida
Apocalypse: Beauty and Horror in Contemporary Art, Royal Academy of Arts, London, England*
Diary, Cornerhouse, Manchester, England
Out There, White Cube 2, London, England
Inverse Perspectives, Edsvik, Sollentuna, Sweden
1999 Sleeping Waters, Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris, France
Chronos & Kairos, Museum Fridericianum Kassel, Germany
Seeing Time, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California
So Far Away, So Close, Encore?, Bruxelles Espace Meridien, Brussels, Belgium
Concrete Ashtray, Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York, New York
Common People, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaundengo, Turin, Italy
1998 UK Maximum Diversity, Galerie Krinzinger, Benger Fabrik Bregenz, Austria
View Four, Mary Boone Gallery, New York, New York
Hidden Desires and Images, Art Dynamics, Tayayo Lida, Tokyo, Japan
Ray Rapp, Tz?Art & Co., New York, New York
Art Crash, Arhus Kunstmuseum, Denmark
1997 A Print Portfolio from London (Ridinghouse/Booth Clibborn Editions), Atle Gerhardsen, Oslo, Norway
Delta, Mus?e d?Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France
Hospital, Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin, Germany
Sensation. Young British Artists from the Saatchi Collection, Royal Academy of Arts, London, England; traveled to Hamburger Bahnhof, Museum f?r Gegenwart, Berlin, Germany; Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, New York*
1996 Art & Innovation Prize, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, England (first-place recipient)
Something Else, Exmouth Market, London, England
A Small Shifting Sphere of Serious Culture, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, England
1993 Group Exhibition, Winchester Gallery, Winchester, England
1992 Group Exhibition, Southampton Quays, Southampton, England
Awards
1996 Toshiba Art and Innovations Prize
Artist Works
Fullmoon@Oregon
2008
c-print, mounted onto aluminium
70 7/8 x 70 7/8 inches
Edition of 3
Panchen Lama
2008
17 5/16 x 65 3/8 x 1/2 inches
cast aluminum and paint
Sakura Chart #0.01
2006
image transfer and paint on hand-made graph paper
32 x 31 5/8 inches
Fullmoon@Ribblehead
2004
c-print
49 3/4 x 49 3/4 inches
Edition of 5
Sakura Chart #0.09
2006
image transfer and paint on hand-made graph paper
32 x 31 5/8 inches
John Berggruen Gallery | Artist | Darren Almond
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