darren almond
Born in 1971, in Wigan, Great-Britain
Currently lives and works in London, Great-Britain
Education
1993
Winchester School of Art (BAFA)
Solo Exhibitions
2010
Darren Almond, Galerie Max Hetzler, Weidingen / Eifel, Germany. July 31 & August 1st.
Darren Almond Sometimes Still, Matthew Marks gallery, New York, USA.
2009
Xippas Gallery, Athens Greece
Sometimestill, Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin, Germany
2008
Darren Almond: Nail to Nail, David Patton Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
Darren Almond, SCAI The Bathhouse, Tokyo, Japan
Substitute, Galleri K, Oslo, Norway
Moons of the Iapetus Ocean, White Cube, London, Great-Britain
Fire Under Snow: Parasol unit foundation for contemporary art, London, Great-Britain
2007
Darren Almond, Alfonso Artiaco, Naples, Italy
Night + Fog, Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin, Germany
In The Between, Musée d’art contemporain, Montreal, Canada
Day Return, Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Poland
Darren Almond, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York, USA
Darren Almond, SITE Santa Fe, Santa Fe, USA
2006
Take Me Home, DA2 – Domus Artium 2002, Salamanca, Spain
Day Return, Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany
2005
Darren Almond, Alfonso Artiaco, Naples, Italy
Darren Almond, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York, USA
Only Sound needs Echo and Dreads its Lack, Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris, France
Isolation, K21 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf, Germany
2004
If I Had You, Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin, Germany
Live Sentence, Lentos Kunstmuseum Linz, Linz, Austria
2003
11 Miles.....from Safety, White Cube, London, Great-Britain
Darren Almond, Galleri K, Oslo, Norway
Darren Almond Nightvision, Sommercontemporaryart, Tel-Aviv, Israel
If I Had You, Fondazione Nicola Trussardi, Palazzo della Ragiona, Milan, Italy
A, Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin, Germany
2002
At Speed, Darren Almond and Sarah Morris, Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin , Germany
2001
Darren Almond: Night as Day, Tate Britain, London, Great-Britain
Coming up for air, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York, USA
Darren Almond, Kunsthalle Zürich, Zürich Darren Almond, De Appel Foundation Centre for Contemporary Art, Amsterdam Darren Almond, Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin Darren Almond, Galerie Max Hetzler, E-Werk, Abspannwerk Buchhändlerhof, Berlin, Germany
2000
Transport Medium, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York Geisterbahn, USA
The Approach, London Traction, Chisenhale Gallery, London, Great-Britain
1999
Darren Almond, Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin, Germany
Darren Almond, The Renaissance Society, Chicago, USA
1997
Darren Almond, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, Great-Britaiin
Group Exhibitions (Selection)
2009
Just With Your Eyes I Will See, Fonds D’Art Moderne et Contemporain, France
Altermodern: Tate Triennial 2009, Tate Britain, London, Great-Britaiin
2008
Infinite Ice Traversing the Arctic and the Alps from 1860 to the Present, Albertina, Vienna Summer in the City 2008, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, USA
Ego Documents. The Autobiographical in Contemporary Art, Kunstmuseum Bern, Switzerland
Moving Horizons: The UBS Art Collection 1960s to the present day, National Art Museum of China, China
unspeakable: The Artist as Witness to the Holocaust, Imperial War Museum London, Great-Britaiin
Collection as Aleph, Thyssen–Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Kunsthaus Graz, Austria
Night: A Time Between, Sharples, Winterstoke, Stancomb Wills, Methuen and Milner Galleries, Royal West of England Academy, Great-Britaiin
Art is for the Spirit: Works from the UBS Art Collection, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
Climax, LOOP’08, International Festival and Fair for Video Art, Barcelona, Spain
The Cinema Effect: Illusion, Reality, and the Moving Image, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, USA
The Cinema Effect: War and Art – Terror and Simulacrum of Beauty II, Kyoto University of Art and Design, Kyoto, Japan
God & Goods: Spirituality and Mass Confusion, Villa Manin, Codroipo, Italy
Implant, The Horticultural Society of New York Exhibition for UBS Art Gallery, New York, USA
You Prison: Reflections on the Limitation of Freedom and Space, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, Italy
2007
Acceleration, CAN/Karting, Neuchâtel, Switzerland
Summer Show, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, USA
Her(his)tory, Museum of Cycladic Art, Athens, Greece
Ensemble, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, USA
Numerica, Palazzo delle Papesse Centro Arte Contemporanea, Siena, Italy
Closed Circuit: Video and New Media, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA
2nd Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, Former Lenin Museum, Moscow, Russia
2006
Daren Almond/Albert Oehlen: Time 2 Kill, Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin, Germany
Work, Rest and Play, Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle, Great-Britain
Between a Rock and a Hard Place, Kenny Schachter Rove, London, Great-Britain
Full House – Geschichte einer Sammlung (Faces of a Collection), Kunsthalle Mannheim, Mannheim, Germany
Darren Almond and Janice Kerbel: The Impossible Landscape, Horticultural Society of New York, New York, USA
Carbonic Anhydride, Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin, Germany
Geisterbahn (1999), Kino Arsenal, Berlin, Germany
Shoot the Family, Cranbrook Art Museum, Michigan; Knoxville Museum of Art, Tennessee; Western Gallery, Western Washington University, Bellingham, Washington, USA
Caspar David Friedrich, Museum Folkwang, Essen; Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany
The Black Show, David Patton, Los Angeles, USA
37th Art Basel: Unlimited, Basel, Switzerland
2005
Turner Prize 2005, Tate Britain, London, Great-Britain
Universal Experience. Art, Life and the Tourists Eye, Hayward Gallery, London, Great-Britain
20: Twenty: A Timeline of Cornerhouse Exhibitions 1985–2005, Cornerhouse, Manchester, Great-Britain
World Without End, Australian Centre for the Moving Image, Melbourne, Australia
Land Marks, Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris, France
Sequences, Q Arts Gallery, Derby, Great-Britain
Bidibidobidiboo, Palazzo Re Rebaudengo, Piazza del Municipio, Guarene d’Alba. Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin. Cavallerizza Chiablese e Salone delle Guardie, Turin, Italy
Darren Almond / Albert Oehlen: Time 2 Kill, Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin, Germany
The Mind is a Horse Part II, Bloomberg Space, London, Great-Britain
Getting Emotional, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, USA
Works on Paper, Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin, Germany
2004
Sequences, Peterborough Digital Art, Peterborough, Great-Britain
ein-leuchten, Museum der Moderne, Salzburg, Austria
Eclipse: Towards the Edge of the Visible, White Cube, London, Great-Britain
Witness, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia
Die Neue Kunsthalle III: materiell – immateriell, Kunsthalle Mannheim, Mannheim, Germany
Geisterbahn (1999), 33rd Festival d’Automne, Passage du Désir – BETC, Paris, France
Biennial of Pontevedra, Pazo da Cultura, Instituto Valie-Incián, Pontevedra, Spain
After Images: Kunst als Soziales Gedächnis, Neues Museum Weserburg, Bremen, Germany
Busan Biennale, Busan City Hall, Busan, South Korea
Open Secrets: Something Old, Something New, Redefining the Boundaries of the Art Collection, Imperial War Museum, London, Great-Britain
Other Times: British Contemporary Art, City Art Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic
2003
Heißkalt: Aktuelle Malerei aus der Sammlung Scharpff, Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Stuttgart; Kunsthalle Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
Video Time, Green on Red Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
The Spirit of White, Fondation Beyeler, Basel, Switzerland
Imagination: Perception in Art, Kunsthaus Graz Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz, Austria
Outlook: International Art Exhibition Technopolis, Benaki Museum, Factory, Athens, Greece
Game Over, Grimm / Rosenfeld, Munich, Germany
3rd Skulptur Biennale Münsterland, Stadtmuseum, Beckum, Germany
Hot Summer in the City, Sean Kelly Gallery, New York , USA
Dreams and Conflicts: The Dictatorship of the Viewer, 50th Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy
Interludes, La Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy
Eden, La Coleccion Jumex, Antiguo Colegio de San Ildefonso, Mexico City, Mexico
Witness, The Curve, Barbican Art Gallery, London, Great-Britain
Breathing the Water, Galerie Hauser & Wirth & Presenhuber, Zürich, Switzlerland
The Guest, Schwebebahn, Hertzliya Museum, Tel-Aviv, Israel
Sculpture: Darren Almond, Peter Fischli, David Weiss, Katharina Fritsch, Robert Gober, Donald Judd, Ellsworth Kelly, Ugo Rondinone, Tony Smith, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York, USA
In Light: Video Projections by Eight Contemporary Artists, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada
2002
Melodrama, Artim, Centre Museo Vasco de Arte Contemporáneo, Vitoria-Gasteiz; Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Vigo, Vigo; Centro José Guerrero / Palacio de los Condes de Gabia, Granada, Spain
Happy Outsiders from London and Scotland, Pro Arte Institute, St. Petersburg, Russia; Katowice City Gallery, Poland; Zacheta Gallery, Warsaw, Poland
Video Zone – The First International Video-Art Biennial in Israel, Center for Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv, Israel
The Hate U Give Little Infants Fucks Everyone, SMART Project Space, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Contextualize, Kunstverein Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
The Rowan Collection: Contemporary British & Irish Art, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland
In the Freud Museum, Freud Museum, London, Great-Britain
Presentness is Grace – Experiencing the Suspended Moment, Spacex Gallery, Exeter, Great-Britain
At Speed, with Sarah Morris, Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin, Germany
2001
Tenth Anniversary Exhibition, 100 Drawings and Photographs, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York, USA
Open Plan P3 – The Marathon, Alphadelta Gallery, Artio Gallery, Athens, Greece
Presentness is Grace – Experiencing the Suspended Moment, Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol; Spacex Gallery, Exeter, Great-Britain
Casino 2001, Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst and Bijlokenmuseum, Ghent, Belgium
Nature in Photography, Galerie Nachst St. Stephan, Vienna, Austria
Berlin Biennale, Berlin, Germany
Tracking, Kent and Vicki Logan Gallery, California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, California, USA
Unreal Time Video, Fine Art Center, Korean Culture & Arts Foundation, Seoul, Korea
Deliberate Living, Greene Naftali Gallery, New York, USA
2000
Out There, White Cube 2, London, Great-Britain
British Short Film Festival, UCI Cinema, Leicester Square, London, Great-Britain
Geographies (Darren Almond, Graham Gussin, Anri Sala), Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris, France
Apocalypse: Beauty and Horror in Contemporary Art, Royal Academy of the Arts, London, Great-Britain
Darren Almond, Mark Hosking, Kerstin Engholm Galerie, Vienna, Austria
Making Time: Considering Time as a Material in Contemporary Video and Film, Palm Beach Institute of Contemporary Art, Florida, USA
Diary, Cornerhouse, Manchester, Great-Britain