DARREN ALMOND

Born: Wigan, England, 1971

Education: Winchester School of Art, Winchester, England, B.F.A. 1993

Currently lives and works in London.


Selected One-Person Exhibitions:

2012
Darren Almond: Sometimes Still, Site Festival, Stroud, England
Darren Almond: Fullmoon and Night+Fog, Domaine de Chaumont-sur-Loire, Chaumont-sur-Loire, France

2011
...between here and the surface of the moon, FRAC Auvergne, Clermont Ferrand, France
...between here and the surface of the moon. Temps 2, FRAC Haute-Normandie, Sotteville-lès-Rouen, France
Darren Almond: Nocturne, Villa Merkel, Esslingen am Neckar, Germany
Darren Almond, L'Abbaye de la Chaise Dieu, Chaise Dieu
Landscape with Path, The High Line, New York

2010
Sometimes Still, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York
Darren Almond, PKM Trinity Gallery, Seoul
Fullmoon@Eifel, Galerie Max Hetzler, Weidingen, Germany
As It Is, Alfonso Artiaco, Naples
The Principle of Moments, White Cube, London

2009
Darren Almond, Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin
Darren Almond, Sommer Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv

2008
Darren Almond: Fire Under the Snow, Parasol Unit Foundation for Contemporary Art, London
Moons of the Iapetus Ocean, White Cube, London
Darren Almond, Galleri K, Oslo
Darren Almond, SCAI The Bathhouse, Tokyo
Darren Almond, David Patton Gallery, Los Angeles

2007
Darren Almond, Galleria Alfonso Artiaco, Naples
Day Return, Centre for Contemporary Art, Ujazowski Castle, Warsaw
Night and Fog, Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin
Darren Almond: In the Between, Musée d'Art Contemporain de Montréal, Montreal
Darren Almond, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York
Darren Almond, SITE Santa Fe, Santa Fe, N.Mex.

2006
Day Return, Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany

2005
Darren Almond, Alfonso Artiaco, Naples
Only Sound needs Echo and Dread its lack, Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris
Darren Almond, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York
Darren Almond, K21 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf
Isolation, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf

2004
Darren Almond: Live Sentence, Lentos Museum of Modern Art, Linz, Austria
If I Had You, Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin

2003
If I Had You, Fondazione Nicola Trussardi, Milan
Darren Almond, Galleri K, Oslo
11 miles.......from safety, White Cube, London
Darren Almond: Full Moon, Sommer Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv
Darren Almond, Herzliya Museum of Art, Herzliya, Israel

2002
A; Fourth Wall, commissioned by Public Art Development Trust, National Theatre, London
At Speed, Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin

2001
Darren Almond: Night as Day, Tate Britain, London
Coming up for air, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York
Darren Almond, Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin
Darren Almond, Kunsthalle Zürich. Traveled to de Appel Arts Centre, Amsterdam

2000
Darren Almond, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York
Darren Almond, The Approach, London
Darren Almond. Traction, Chisenhale Gallery, London

1999
Darren Almond, Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin
Darren Almond, The Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago, Chicago

1997
Darren Almond (Institute of Contemporary Art/Toshiba Art & Innovation Commission), Institute of Contemporary Arts, London
Darren Almond, Jay Jopling/White Cube, London

1995
KN120, Great Western Studios, London

1991
Darren Almond, Crawford Art College, Cork, Ireland


Selected Group Exhibitions:

2012
The Flash of Nature, Salone degli Incanti, Trieste, Italy
Static Movement: Film Installations of Darren Almond, David Claerbout and Anri Sala, Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany

2011
8 1/2: A selection of works from the exhibitions organized by the Fondazione Nicola Trussardi, Stazione Leopolda, Florence
Things Are Queer: Highlights of UniCredit Art Collection, Marta Herford, Herford, Germany
The Wilderness, Miami Art Museum, Miami, Fla.
Printed by Master Printers, Center for Contemporary Printmaking, Norwalk, Conn.
Recent Acquisitions: Prints and Photographs, New York Public Library
Left Behind: Selected Gifts from the Heather and Tony Podesta Collection, The Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C.
Elgiz 10 Istanbul, Museum of Contemporary Art, Istanbul
Snap, Aldeburgh Festival, Suffolk, England
Beyond the Crisis, 6th Biennale da Curitiba, Curitiba, Brazil
Mysticism, Helmhaus, Zürich
SUGAR WATER, Centre Culturel Valery-Larbaud, Vichy, France
O'Clock, Triennale Design Museum, Milan
L'Etoffe du Temps, L'Institut Culturel Bernard Magrez, Bordeaux, France

2010
Climax Redux, BAC Geneva
Captured While Vanishing: Video Art in Museum Folkwang, Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany
Between Here and There: Passages in Contemporary Photography, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Nature, Galerie Gerhardsen Gemer, Berlin
Let’s Dance, MAC/VAL, Vitry-sûr-Seine, Paris
Kupferstichkabinett: Between Thought and Action, White Cube, London
10 Years: Carolina Nitsch Editions, 2000-2010, Carolina Nitsch, New York

2009
Just With Your Eyes I Will See, Fonds D'Art Moderne et Contemporain, Espace Boris Vian, Montluçon, France
Altermodern: Tate Triennial 2009, Tate Britain, London
Edition Copenhagen - Retrospective 1959 - 2009, Den frie udstilling, Copenhagen
Los tiempos de un, Centro de Arte y Naturaleza, Fundación Beulas, Huesca, Spain

2008
Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary. Collection as Aleph, Kunsthaus Graz, Graz, Austria
The Cinema Effect: Illusion, Reality, and the Moving Image-Part I: Dreams, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.
Implant, The UBS Art Gallery, The Horticultural Society of New York
War and Art – Terror and Simulacrum of Beauty II, Galerie Aube, Kyoto University of Art and Design, Kyoto
Night: A Time Between, Royal West of England Academy, Bristol, England
God & Goods: Spirituality and Mass Confusion, Villa Manin Centro d'Arte Contemporanea, Passariano, Italy
Climax, LOOP '08 video art festival, Barcelona
YouPrison: Reflections on the Limitation of Freedom and Space, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin
Du Jardin au Cosmos, Espace de l'Art Concret, Mouans-Sartoux, France
The Full Width of the Ice. On Crossing the Arctic and the Alps from 1860 until Today, Albertina, Vienna
Unspeakable: The Artist as Witness to the Holocaust, Imperial War Museum London
a.b.c. (art berlin contemporary), Alter Postbahnhof, Berlin
Moving Horizons: The UBS Art Collection 1960s to the present day, National Art Museum of China, Beijing
Ego Documents: The Autobiographical in Contemporary Art, Kunstmuseum Bern, Bern, Switzerland

2007
Five Works in Bronze: Darren Almond, Robert Gober, Ellsworth Kelly, William de Kooning, Rebecca Warren, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York
New Dimensions, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco
Shoot the Family, Canzani Center Gallery, Columbus College of Art & Design, Columbus, Ohio
Ensemble, curated by Christian Marclay, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia
Her(his)tory, Museum of Cycladic Art, Athens
Light, Winchester Cathedral, Winchester, England
Titled/Untitled: The Rubell and Devonshire Family Collections, Lismore Castle, Lismore, Ireland
2 Moscow, Biennale of Contemporary Art, Moscow
Closed Circuit: Video and New Media, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

2006
Work, Rest and Play, Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle, England
Between a Rock and a Hard Place, Kenny Schachter, London
Full House – Faces of a Collection, Kunsthalle Mannheim, Mannheim, Germany
The Impossible Landscape, The Horticultural Society of New York
Time 2 Kill, Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin
Shoot the Family, Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, Mich.; Traveled to the Knoxville Museum of Art, Tenn.; Western Gallery, Western Washington University, Bellingham, Wash.; and the David and Sandra Bakalar Gallery, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston
Casper David Friedrich, Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany. Traveled to the Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg

2005
Turner Prize 2005, Tate Britain, London
Universal Experience. Art, Life and the Tourist's Eye, Hayward Gallery, London
En Attente, Casino Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Bidibidobidiboo, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin
The Mind is a Horse Part II, Bloomberg Space, London
Getting Emotional, Institute of Contemporary Arts, Boston
Works on Paper, Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin
Universal Experience: Art, Life, and the Tourist's Eye, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
World Without End, Australian Centre for the Moving Image, Melbourne

2004
Sequences, Peterborough Digital Arts, Peterborough, England. Traveled to the Q Arts Gallery, Derby, England; Lighthouse, Poole, England; and Sir John Cass Department of Art, Media & Design, London Metropolitan University
L'Automne Festival, Paris
Busan Biennale, Busan Metropolitan Art Museum, Busan
Einleuchten, Museum der Moderne, Salzburg
Eclipse: Towards the Edge of the Visible, White Cube, London
Biennale of Pontevedra, Pazo da Cultura, Facultade de Belas Artes/Escola de Restauración, Instituto Valie-Incián, Pontevedra, Spain
After Images, Neues Museum Weserburg, Bremen, Germany
Open Secrets. Something Old, Something New: Redefining The Boundaries of The Art Collection, Imperial War Musem, London
Other Times: British Contemporary Art, City Art Gallery, Prague

2003
Video Time, Green on Red Gallery, Dublin
Imagination. Perception in Art, Kunsthaus Graz, Graz, Austria
Outlook, Athens
Melodrama, Museo De Arte Contemporánea De Vigo, Vigo, Spain
The Breathing Water, Galerie Hauser & Wirth & Presenhuber, Zürich
Game Over, Grimm/Rosenfeld, Munich
Skulptur Biennale Münsterland, Stadtmuseum Beckum, Beckum, Germany
Sculpture, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York
Hot Summer In The City, Sean Kelly Gallery, New York
Venice Biennale
Witness, The Curve, Barbican Art Gallery, London
Edén: La Colección Jumex, Antiguo Colegio de San Ildefonso, Mexico City

2002
Video Acts: Single Channel Works from the Collections of Pamela and Richard Kramlich and New Art Trust, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, N.Y.
Melodrama, ARTIUM, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain. Traveled to Palacio de los Condes de Gabia, Centro José Guerrero, Granada, Spain, and Museo De Arte Contemporánea De Vigo, Vigo, Spain
Video Zone, The 1st International Video-Art Biennial in Israel, Tel Aviv
The Hate U Give Little Infants Fucks Everyone, Smart Project Space, Amsterdam
Contextualize, Kunstverein Hamburg
The Rowan Collection: Contemporary British and Irish Art, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin
Presentness is Grace – Experiencing the Suspended Moment, Spacex Gallery, Exeter, England
In the Freud Museum, Freud Museum, London

2001
10th Anniversary Exhibition, 100 drawings and Photographs, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York
Open Plan P3 – The Marathon, Alphadelta Gallery, Artio Gallery, Athens
Casino 2001, SMAK and Bijlokenmuseum, Ghent, Belgium
Nature in Photography, Galerie Nachst St Stephan, Vienna
Berlin Biennale
Tracking, Kent and Vicki Logan Gallery, California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, Calif.
Unreal Time Video, Fine Art Center, The Korean Culture & Arts Foundation, Seoul
Deliberate Living, Greene Naftali Gallery, New York

2000
British Short Film festival, UCI Cinema, London
Geographies (Darren Almond, Graham Gussin, Anri Sala), Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris
Apocalypse: Beauty and Horror in Contemporary Art, Royal Academy of Arts, London
Darren Almond. Mark Hosking, Kerstin Engholm Galerie, Vienna
Inverse Perspectives, Edsvik, Sollentuna, Sweden
Out There, White Cube², London
Making Time: Considering Time as a Material in Contemporary Video and Film, Palm Beach Institute of Contemporary Art, Lake Worth, Fla.
Diary, Cornerhouse, Manchester

1999
Sleeping Waters, Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris
Chronos & Kairos, Museum Fridericianum, Kassel
Seeing Time, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
So Far Away, So Close, Encore...Bruxelles, Espace Méridien, Brussells
Concrete Ashtray, Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York
Common People, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaundengo, Turin

1998
UK Maximum Diversity, Galerie Krinzinger, Benger Fabrik Bregenz, Bregenz, Austria
View Four, Mary Boone Gallery, New York
Hidden Desires And Images, Art Dynamics, Tayayo Lida, Tokyo
Ray Rapp, Tz'Art & Co., New York
Art Crash, Århus Kunstmuseum, Århus, Denmark

1997
A Print Portfolio from London, (Ridinghouse/Booth Clibborn Editions), Atle Gerhardsen, Oslo
Delta, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris
Hospital, Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin
Sensation: Young British Artists from the Saatchi Collection, Royal Academy of Arts, London. Traveled to Hamburger Bahnhof, Hamburg; Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin; and the Whitney Museum, New York

1996
Art & Innovation Prize, Institute of Contemporary Art, London
Something Else, Exmouth Market, London
A Small Shifting Sphere of Serious Culture, Institute of Contemporary Art, London

1993
Group Exhibition, Winchester Gallery, Winchester, England

1992
Group Exhibition, Southampton Quays, Southampton, England


Awards:

1996
Art & Innovation Prize, Institute of Contemporary Art, London