Abstract:
Cecily Brown (b. 1969, London) is one of the most celebrated artists working in painting today.
Using a palette ranging from bright hues to deep blacks, her works obscure singular readings as
their compositions break down into restless, anfractuous, and elusive activity. Recent notable
one-person exhibitions include Cecily Brown: Temptations, Torments, Trials and Tribulations,
Museo Novecento, Florence (2023); Cecily Brown: Death and The Maid, Metropolitan Museum
of Art, New York (2023); Cecily Brown, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich (2022); The Triumph of
Death, Museo e Real Bosco di Capodimonte, Naples (2022); Cecily Brown, at Blenheim Palace,
UK (2020–2021); Where, When, How Often and with Whom at the Louisiana Museum of
Modern Art, Humlebæk, Denmark (2018); If Paradise Were Half as Nice, Instituto Tomie Ohtake,
São Paulo (2018); and Rehearsal, at The Drawing Center, New York (2016). Her work is
included in public collections such as the Guggenheim Museum, the Whitney Museum of
American Art, the National Gallery, Washington D.C., and the Brooklyn Museum, New York; the
National Gallery of Norway, Oslo; the Tate Gallery, London; and Glenstone Museum, Potomac.