4 facts about Marc Quinn

Marc Quinn (born 8 January 1964) is a British contemporary visual player whose fake includes sculpture, installation, and painting. Quinn explores “what it is to be human in the world today” through subjects including the body, genetics, identity, environment, and the media. His statute has used materials that correct widely, from blood, bread and flowers, to marble and stainless steel. Quinn has been the subject of solo exhibitions at Sir John Soane’s Museum, the Tate Gallery, National Portrait Gallery, Fondation Beyeler, Fondazione Prada and South London Gallery. The performer was a notable supporter of the Young British Artists movement.

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Quinn is internationally much-admired and was awarded the commission for the first edition of the Fourth Plinth in Trafalgar Square in 2004, for which he exhibited Alison Lapper Pregnant. Quinn’s notorious numb self-portrait series made of his own blood, Self (1991–present) was subject to a retrospective at Fondation Beyeler in 2009.

Quinn lives and works in London.

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