Gary Hume
Gary Hume
Artist
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English artist Gary Hume (b.1962) graduated from Goldsmith’s College, London, in 1988. He was part of Damien Hirst's 1988 Freeze exhibition now considered to be the launch of the Young British Artists.
Departing from his ‘door paintings’ Hume started making small-scale gloss paintings on aluminium, using images from the media, celebrities and animals. His bright palette and 2-D surfaces describe simplified forms often describing pop culture and childhood idioms.
Solo exhibitions include Cave Paintings, White Cube, London, 2006; Baby Birds and Things That Are Left Behind, Galleries Lorcan O’ Neill, Rome, 2008, Door Paintings, Modern Art, Oxford, 2008, Gary Hume: New Work, the New Art Centre, Roche Court, Salisbury, 2010 and and Bird in a Fish Tank, Sprüth Magers gallery in Berlin, 2010 while group exhibitions include Aftershock: Contemporary British Art 1990-2006, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China, 2006; Demons, Yarns and Tales: Tapestries by Contemporary Artists, The Dairy, London, UK, 2008, and Art Is For The Spirit: From the UBS Art Collection, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan, 2008.
He is married to artist Georgie Hopton. The couple divide their time between London and a small farm in the Catskills in upstate New York where they spend summers tending the vegetable garden and making maple syrup.
Gary Hume: The Big Interview