Glenn Brown (artist)

Glenn Brown
Brown in 2022
Born
Glenn Emerson Keith Brown

(1966-02-13) February 13, 1966 (age 58)
Hexham, Northumberland
EducationNorwich School of Art, Bath College of Higher Education, Goldsmiths College
Known forPainting Drawing Sculpture
StyleAppropriation (art)
MovementYoung British Artists
AwardsCBE
Websitewww.glenn-brown.co.uk

Glenn Brown CBE (born 1966 in Hexham, Northumberland) is a British contemporary artist known for the use of appropriation in his paintings. Starting with reproductions from other artists' works, Glenn Brown transforms the appropriated image by changing its colour, position, orientation, height and width relationship, mood and/or size. Despite these changes, he has occasionally been accused of plagiarism.

He has had a number of solo exhibitions: at the Serpentine Gallery in London in 2004,[1] at the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna in 2008,[2] at Tate Liverpool in 2009[3] (later shown at the Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo in Turin),[4] at the Ludwig Múzeum in Budapest in 2010,[5] at the Fondation Vincent Van Gogh in Arles, in Provence, in 2016 [6] and at the Landesmuseum and Sprengel Museum in Hanover in 2023. [7][8]

Brown currently resides and works in London and Suffolk, England. He was nominated for the Turner Prize in 2000. However, his exhibition at Tate Britain for the Turner Prize sparked some controversy, as one of his paintings was found to be closely based on the science-fiction illustration "Double Star" created by the artist Tony Roberts in 1973.[9]

He was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2019 Birthday Honours for services to art.[10]

Brown opened his own museum in October 2022 named The Brown Collection in Marylebone, London.[11]

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  2. ^ "Glenn Brown". www.khm.at. Archived from the original on 8 March 2024. Retrieved 8 March 2024.
  3. ^ "Glenn Brown Survey at Tate Liverpool". Archived from the original on 2 August 2011. Retrieved 22 March 2012.
  4. ^ "Glenn Brown at Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo". Archived from the original on 4 September 2012.
  5. ^ "Glenn Brown at Ludwig Múzeum".
  6. ^ "Glenn Brown at Fondation Vincent Van Gogh". Archived from the original on 27 September 2020. Retrieved 14 June 2019.
  7. ^ "The Real Thing part 2 (retrospective), Landesmuseum, Hanover, Germany, 2023". Glenn Brown. Archived from the original on 13 January 2024. Retrieved 13 January 2024.
  8. ^ "The Real Thing part 1 (retrospective), Sprengel Museum, Hanover, Germany, 2023". Glenn Brown. Archived from the original on 13 January 2024. Retrieved 13 January 2024.
  9. ^ "Copycat row hits Turner Prize". BBC. 28 November 2000. Archived from the original on 31 July 2017. Retrieved 26 July 2017.
  10. ^ "No. 62666". The London Gazette (Supplement). 8 June 2019. p. B8.
  11. ^ Januszczak, Waldemar (25 January 2024). "Rembrandt as you've never seen before". ISSN 0140-0460. Archived from the original on 25 January 2024. Retrieved 25 January 2024.