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:
2013
Darren Almond: Hemispheres and Continents, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York
2012
Darren Almond: Good Night, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
All Things Pass, Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin
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
Landscape with Path, The High Line, New York
2010
Sometimes Still, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York
Fullmoon@Eifel, Galerie Max Hetzler, Weidingen, Germany
The Principle of Moments, White Cube, London
2009
Darren Almond, Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin
2008
Moons of the Iapetus Ocean, White Cube, London
2007
Night and Fog, Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin
Darren Almond: In the Between, Musée d'Art Contemporain de Montréal
Darren Almond, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York
2006
Day Return, Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany
2005
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
11 miles.......from safety, White Cube, London
Darren Almond, Herzliya Museum of Art, Israel
2002
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
2000
Darren Almond, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York
1999
Darren Almond, Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin
Darren Almond, The Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago
1997
Darren Almond (Institute of Contemporary Arts/Toshiba Art & Innovation Commission), Institute of Contemporary Arts, London
Darren Almond, Jay Jopling/White Cube, London
1991
Darren Almond, Crawford Art College, Cork, Ireland
Selected Group Exhibitions:
2013
Artist File 2013: The NACT Annual Show of Contemporary Art, The National Art Center, Tokyo
Landmark: The Fields of Photography, Somerset House, London
2012
Static Movement: Film Installations of Darren Almond, David Claerbout and Anri Sala, Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany
Number Three: From Home to the Factory. Works from the Centre National des Arts Plastiques, France, Virreina Centre de la Imatge, Barcelona
Darren Almond, Katharina Fritsch, Martin Honert, Gary Hume, Paul Sietsema, Rebecca Warren, Terry Winters, Matthew Marks Gallery, Los Angeles
The Great South, 1st Montevideo Biennial, Uruguay
2011
The Wilderness, Miami Art Museum
Printed by Master Printers, Center for Contemporary Printmaking, Norwalk, CT
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, Elgiz Museum of Contemporary Art, Istanbul, Turkey
Beyond the Crisis, 6th Biennale da Curitiba, Curitiba, Brazil
O’Clock, Triennale Design Museum, Milan
2010
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
Let’s Dance, MAC/VAL, Vitry-sûr-Seine, Paris
Kupferstichkabinett: Between Thought and Action, White Cube, London
2009
Altermodern: Tate Triennial 2009, Tate Britain, London
Accrochage, Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin
2008
Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary. Collection as Aleph, Kunsthaus Graz, Austria
The Cinema Effect: Illusion, Reality, and the Moving Image-Part I: Dreams, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.
War and Art – Terror and Simulacrum of Beauty II, Galerie Aube, Kyoto University of Art and Design
Night: A Time Between, Royal West of England Academy, Bristol, England
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
2007
Five Works in Bronze: Darren Almond, Robert Gober, Ellsworth Kelly, William de Kooning, Rebecca Warren, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York
Shoot the Family, Canzani Center Gallery, Columbus College of Art & Design, Columbus, OH
Ensemble, curated by Christian Marclay, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia
Her(his)tory, Museum of Cycladic Art, Athens
2 Moscow, Biennale of Contemporary Art, Moscow
Closed Circuit: Video and New Media, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
2006
Full House – Faces of a Collection, Kunsthalle Mannheim, Germany
Time 2 Kill, Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin
Shoot the Family, Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, MI; Traveled to the Knoxville Museum of Art, Knoxville, TN; Western Gallery, Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA; 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
Getting Emotional, Institute of Contemporary Art, 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
L'Automne Festival, Paris
Busan Biennale, Busan Metropolitan Art Museum, Busan, South Korea
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
Imagination. Perception in Art, Kunsthaus Graz, Austria
Outlook, Athens
Melodrama, Museo De Arte Contemporánea De Vigo, Vigo, Spain
Skulptur Biennale Münsterland, Stadtmuseum Beckum, Germany
Sculpture, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York
Venice Biennale
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, New York
Video Zone, The 1st International Video-Art Biennial in Israel, Tel Aviv
Contextualize, Kunstverein Hamburg
The Rowan Collection: Contemporary British and Irish Art, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin
In the Freud Museum, Freud Museum, London
2001
10th Anniversary Exhibition, 100 drawings and Photographs, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York
Casino 2001, SMAK and Bijlokenmuseum, Ghent, Belgium
Berlin Biennale
Tracking, Kent and Vicki Logan Gallery, California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, CA
2000
British Short Film festival, UCI Cinema, London
Apocalypse: Beauty and Horror in Contemporary Art, Royal Academy of Arts, London
Out There, White Cube², London
Making Time: Considering Time as a Material in Contemporary Video and Film, Palm Beach Institute of Contemporary Art, Palm Beach, FL
1999
Chronos & Kairos, Museum Fridericianum, Kassel
Seeing Time, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
1998
Art Crash, Århus Kunstmuseum, Aarhaus, Denmark
1997
Delta, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de 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 Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
1996
Art & Innovation Prize, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London
A Small Shifting Sphere of Serious Culture, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London
Awards:
1996
Art & Innovation Prize, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London