Glenn Brown

Who is Glenn Brown?

Glenn Brown is a British artist. He is known for the use of art historical references in his paintings. Starting with reproductions from other artist’s works, Glenn Brown transforms the appropriated image by changing its colour, position and size. His grotesque figures appear to be painted with thick impasto, but are actually executed through the application of thin, swirling brushstrokes which create the illusion of almost photographically flat surfaces.

His work has been the subject of numerous solo exhibitions including Domaine de Kerguéhennec, Centre d’Art Contemporain, France; Serpentine Gallery, London; Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna; Tate Liverpool, England, which travelled to the Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin and Ludwig Múzeum, Budapest; and numerous group exhibitions including The Saatchi Gallery; Centre Georges Pompidou; Venice Biennale, Italian Pavilion,; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Gwangju Biennale, Korea, Kunsthalle, Vienna, Galerie Rudolfinum, Prague, and Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao. His work is represented by Gagosian Gallery in New York and London, Patrick Painter Gallery in Los Angeles and Galerie Max Hetzler in Berlin.