Born in 1971
Lives and works in London
Education
1993
BAFA Winchester School of Art, UK
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2010
“Darren Almond,” PKM Trinity Gallery, Seoul
“Sometimes Still,” Matthew Marks Gallery, New York
Max Hetzler Gallery, Effiel, Germany
2009
“Darren Almond,” sommercontemporaryart, Tel Aviv, Israel
“Darren Almond,” Galerie Xippas, Athens
“Sometime still,” Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin
2008
“Darren Almond,” David Patton Gallery, Los Angeles
“Darren Almond,” SCAI The Bathhouse, Tokyo
“Darren Almond: In The Between,” Eye of Gyre, Omotesando, Japan
“Substitute,” Galleri K, Oslo, Norway
“Moons of the Iapetus Ocean,” White Cube, London
“Fire Under Snow: Darren Almond,” Parasol unit foundation for contemporary art, London
2007
“Darren Almond,” Alfonso Artiaco, Napels, Italy
“Night + Fog,” Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin
“In The Between,” Musée d’art contemporain, Montreal
“Day Return,” Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Poland
“Darren Almond,” Matthew Marks Gallery, New York
“Darren Almond,” SITE Santa Fe, Santa Fe, New Mexico
2006
“Day Return,” Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany
“Take Me Home,” DA2 – Domus Artium 2002, Salamanca, Spain
2005
“Darren Almond,” Alfonso Artiaco, Naples, Italy
“Only Sound needs Echo and Dreads its Lack,” Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris
“Darren Almond,” Matthew Marks Gallery, New York
“Isolation,” K21 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf, Germany
2004
“Live Sentence,” Lentos Kunstmuseum Linz, Linz, Austria
“If I Had You,” Galerie Max Hetzler, St. Johannes Evangelist Church, Berlin
2003
“If I Had You,” Fondazione Nicola Trussardi, Palazzo della Ragiona, Milano
“Darren Almond,” Galleri K, Oslo, Norway
“11 Miles.....from Safety,” White Cube, London
“Nightvision,” Sommer Contemporary Art, Tel-Aviv, Israel
“Darren Almond,” Herzliya Museum of Art, Herzliya, Israel
“A,” Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin
2002
“A,” National Theatre, Fourth Wall, South Bank, commissioned by Public
Art Development Trust, London
2001
“Night as Day,” Tate Britain, London
“Coming Up For Air,” Matthew Marks Gallery, New York
“Darren Almond,” Kunsthalle Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland
“Darren Almond,” De Appel Foundation Centre for Contemporary Art, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
“Darren Almond,” Galerie Max Hetzler, E-Werk, Abspannwerk Buchhändlerhof, Berlin
2000
“Transport Medium,” Matthew Marks Gallery, New York
“Geisterbahn,” The Approach, London
“Traction,” Chisenhale Gallery, London
1999
“Darren Almond,” Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin
“Darren Almond,” The Renaissance Society, University of Chicago, Chicago
1997
“Darren Almond,” Institute of Contemporary Arts, commissioned by the ICA and
Toshiba Art & Innovation, London
“Darren Almond,” Jay Jopling / White Cube, London
1995
“KN 120,” Great Western Studios, London
1991
“Darren Almond,” Crawford Art College, Cork, Ireland
Selected Group Exhibitions
2010
“Climax Redux,” BAC Geneva
2009
“Edition Copenhagen - Retrospective 1959 - 2009,” Den frie udstilling, Copenhagen, Denmark
“Los tiempos de un - Centro de Arte y Naturaleza” - Fundación Beulas, Huesca, Spain
“Altermodern: Tate Triennial 2009,” Tate Britain, London
“Just with your eyes I will see,” FRAC, Auvergne, France
2008
“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, Beijing
“a.b.c. (art berlin contemporary),” Alter Postbahnhof, Berlin
“unspeakable: The Artist as Witness to the Holocaust,” Imperial War Museum, London
“The Full Width of the Ice. On Crossing the Arctic and the Alps from 1860 until Today,” Albertina, Vienna, Austria
“Implant,” The Horticultural Society of New York Exhibition for UBS Art Gallery, New York
“Du Jardin au Cosmos,” Espace de l’Art Concret, Mouans-Sartoux, France
“YouPrison: Reflections on the Limitation of Freedom and Space,” Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, Italy
“Climax,” LOOP ’08 video art festival, Barcelona
“God & Goods: Spirituality and Mass Confusion,” Villa Manin Centro d’Arte Contemporanea, Codroipo (Udine), Italy
“Night: A Time Between,” Royal West of England Academy, Bristol, UK
“Thyssen–Bornemisza Art Contemporary Collection as Aleph,” Kunsthaus Graz, Austria
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
The Cinema Effect: Illusion, Reality, and the Moving Image Part I: Dreams, Hirschhorn War and Art – Terror and Simulacrum of Beauty II, Galerie Aube, Kyoto University of Art and Design, Kyoto
2007
“Acceleration,” CAN/Karting, Neuchâtel, Switzerland
“Ensemble,” Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia
“Her(his)story,” Museum of Cycladic Art, Athens, grease
“Numerica,” Palazzo delle Papesse Centro Arte Contemporanea, Siena, Italy
“Shoot the Family,” Canzani Center Gallery, Columbus College of Art & Design, Ohio
“Titled/Untitled: The Rubell and Devonshire Family Collections,” Lismore Castle, Ireland
“L’oeil écran ou la nouvelle image,” Casino Luxembourg ¬Forum d’Art Contemporain, uxembourg
“Light,” Winchester Cathedral, Winchester, UK
“Full House – Faces of a Collection,” Kunsthalle Mannheim, Mannheim, Germany
“Going Staying: Movement, Body, Place in Contemporary Art,” Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn, Germany
“2nd Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art,” Former Lenin Museum, Moscow
“Closed Circuit: Video and New Media,” Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
2006
“Work, Rest and Play,” Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle, UK
“Between a Rock and a Hard Place,” Kenny Schachter Rove, London
“Darren Almond and Janice Kerbel: The Impossible Landscape,” Horticultural Society of New York, New York
“Carbonic Anhydride,” Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin
“Geisterbahn (1999),” Kino Arsenal, Berlin
“Shoot the Family,” Cranbrook Art Museum, Michigan; travelled to Knoxville Museum of Art, Tennessee; and Western Gallery, Western Washington University, Bellingham, Washington, D.C.
“Daren Almond/Albert Oehlen: Time 2 Kill,” Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin
“Caspar David Friedrich,” Museum Folkwang, Essen; and Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany
“The Black Show,” David Patton, Los Angeles
“37th Art Basel: Unlimited,” Basel, Switzerland
2005
“Turner Prize 2005,” Tate Britain, London
“En Attente,” Casino Luxembourg ¬Forum d’Art Contemporain, Luxembourg
“20:Twenty: A Timeline of Cornerhouse Exhibitions 1985–2005,” Cornerhouse, Manchester
“World Without End,” Australian Centre for the Moving Image, Melbourne, Australia
“Land Marks,” Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris
“Sequences,” Q Arts Gallery, Derby, UK
“Bidibidobidiboo,” La Collezione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Palazzo Re Rebaudengo, iazza del Municipio, Guarene d'Alba, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, Italy
“Darren Almond / Albert Oehlen: Time 2 Kill,” Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin
“The Mind is a Horse Part II,” Bloomberg Space, London
“Getting Emotional,” Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston
“Works on Paper,” Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin
“Universal Experience: Art, Life, and the Tourist's Eye,” Hayward Gallery, London; and useum of Contemporary Art Chicago
2004
“Sequences,” Peterborough Digital Art, Peterborough, UK
“Geisterbahn (1999),” 33rd Festival d’Automne, Passage du Désir – BETC, Paris
“ein-leuchten,” Museum der Moderne, Salzburg, Austria
“Eclipse: Towards the Edge of the Visible,” White Cube, London
“Witness,” Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia
“Die Neue Kunsthalle III: materiell – immateriell,” Kunsthalle Mannheim, Mannheim,Germany
“Biennial of Pontevedra,” Pazo da Cultura, Facultade de Belas Artes / Escola de Restauración, Instituto Valie-Incián, Pontevedra, Italy
“After Images: Kunst als Soziales Gedächnis,” Neues Museum Weserburg, Bremen, Germany
“Busan Biennale 2004,” Busan Metropolitan City Hall and Art Museum, Busan, Korea
“Open Secrets: Something Old, Something New, Redefining the Boundaries of the Art Collection,” Imperial War Museum, London
“Other Times: British Contemporary Art,” City Art Gallery, Prague, Czech
2003
“Heißkalt: Aktuelle Malerei aus der Sammlung Scharpff,” Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Stuttgart; and Kunsthalle Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
“Video Time,” Green on Red Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
“The Spirit of White,” Fondation Beyeler, Basel
“Imagination: Perception in Art,” Kunsthaus Graz am 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
“Dreams and Conflicts: The Dictatorship of the Viewer,” 50th Biennale di Venezia, Venice
“Edén,” La Colección Jumex, Antiguo Colegio de San Ildefonso, Mexico City, Mexico
“Witness,” The Curve, Barbican Art Gallery, London
“Breathing the Water,” Galerie Hauser & Wirth & Presenhuber, Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland
“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
“In Light: Video Projections by Eight Contemporary Artists,” Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada
2002
“Video Acts – Single Channel Video Works from the Collections of Pamela and Richard Kramlich and the New Art Trust,” Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, UK; and P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, New York
“Melodrama,” Artim, Centre Museo Vasco de Arte Contemporáneo, Vitoria-Gasteiz; travelled
to Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Vigo, Vigo; and Centro José Guerrero / Palacio de los Condes de Gabia, Granada, Spain
“Happy Outsiders from London and Scotland,” Pro Arte Institute, St. Petersburg, Russia; travelled to Katowice City Gallery, Poland; and 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, Germany
“The Rowan Collection: Contemporary British & Irish Art,” Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland
“In the Freud Museum,” Freud Museum, London
“At Speed,” with Sarah Morris, Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin
2001
“Tenth Anniversary Exhibition, 100 Drawings and Photographs,” Matthew Marks Gallery, New York
“Open Plan P3 – The Marathon,” Alphadelta Gallery, Artio Gallery, Athens, Grease
“Presentness is Grace – Experiencing the Suspended Moment,” Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol; and Spacex Gallery, Exeter, UK
“Casino 2001,” Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst and Bijlokenmuseum, Ghent, Belgium
“Nature in Photography,” Galerie Nachst St. Stephan, Vienna, Austria
“Berlin Biennale,” Berlin
“Tracking,” Kent and Vicki Logan Gallery, California Collage of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, California
“Unreal Time Video,” Fine Art Center, Korean Culture & Arts Foundation, Seoul
“Deliberate Living,” Greene Naftali Gallery, New York
2000
“British Short Film Festival,” UCI Cinema, Leicester Square, London
“Geographies (Darren Almond, Graham Gussin, Anri Sala),” Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris
“Apocalypse: Beauty and Horror in Contemporary Art,” Royal Academy of the Arts, London
“Darren Almond,” Mark Hosking, Kerstin Engholm Galerie, Vienna, Austria
“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, Florida
“Diary,” Cornerhouse, Manchester, UK
1999
“Sleeping Waters,” Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris
“Chronos and Kairos,” Museum Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany
“Seeing Time,” San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco
“So Far Away, So Close, Encore...Bruxelles,” Espace Méridien, Brussels, Belgium
“Concrete Ashtray,” Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York
“Common People,” Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaundengo, Turin, Italy
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
“Art Crash,” Århus Kunstmuseum, Århus, Denmark
“Ray Rapp,” Tz’Art & Co., New York
1997
“A Print Portfolio from London, (Ridinghouse/Booth Clibborn Editions),” Atle Gerhardsen, Oslo, Norway
“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; and Hamburger Bahnhof, Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin
1996
“Art & Innovation Prize, (winner),” Institute of Contemporary Art, London
“Something Else,” Exmouth Market, London
“A Small Shifting Sphere of Serious Culture,” Institute of Contemporary Arts, London
1993
Winchester Gallery, Winchester, UK
1992
Southampton Quays, Southampton, UK