Darren Almond

Fascinated by the notion of time and its representation, Almond’s diverse body of work incorporates film, drawing, installation, sculpture and photography. His subjects are as diverse as clocks, train plates, bus shelters. They reveal feelings about the passage of time, themes of personal and historical memory, movement and space. For his Fullmoon series, Almond travels around the world to find new angles and the photographs he brings back contain deep references to the painting, without ever referring to it directly. He takes his photographs at night: the only source of light is the full moon. The landscape becomes visible by using extended exposure of time and turns a dark night into a light day, often appearing ghostly.

Artworks

*Fullmoon Quatrain 2*

Darren Almond
C-print (mounted onto aluminium)
126 x 126 cm
2005

*Fullmoon@Tochigi*

Darren Almond
C-print (face mounted on glass)
128 x 259 cm
2010

*Night + Fog (Siberia) (3)*

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Bromide print
126 x 156 cm
2007

*Night + Fog (Monchegorsk) (8)*

Darren Almond
Bromide print
126 x 156 cm
2007

*To Leave A light impression*

Darren Almond
Bronze and paint
61,5 x 86 cm
2011

*Between Somewhere III*

Darren Almond
Aquacryl on aluminium
60 x 75 cm
2018

*Somewhere Between IV*

Darren Almond
Aquacryl on aluminium
50 x 40 cm
2018

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Memoria del Sublime, il paesaggio nel secolo XXI

23 March 2019 – 4 August 2019 23.03.2019 – 04.08.2019

Memoria del Sublime, il paesaggio nel secolo XXI, Museo Villa dei Cedri, Bellinzona (CH)

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Apollo’s Muse: The Moon in the Age of Photography

3 July 2019 – 22 September 2019 03.07.2019 – 22.09.2019

Metropolitan Museum, New York (US)

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Slow Painting

24 January 2020 – 28 March 2020 24.01.2020 – 28.03.2020

The Levinsky Gallery, Plymouth (UK)

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NOW | Katie Paterson, Darren Almond, Shona Macnaughton, Lucy Raven

29 October 2019 – 31 May 2020 29.10.2019 – 31.05.2020

Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh (UK)

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Biography

Born in 1971, Wigan, UK.

Lives and works in London, UK.

EDUCATION

1993

Winchester School of Art (BAFA), UK.

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2018

The Swerve / The Light of Time, Galerie Xippas, Geneva (CH)
The light Between Us, Museo Pignatelli, Naples (IT)

2017

Darren Almond, MUDAM (LU)

2016

…beyond reach but within reason, Galerie Max Hetzler, Paris (FR)
Schatten und Licht Altana Kulturstiftung, Museum Sinclair-Haus, Bad Homburg (DE)
Darren Almond: New Work, New Art Center, Salisbury (UK)
Time and Being, White Cube, Hong Kong (CHN)
Within The Shadow of The Sun, the Scai the Bathhouse, Tokyo (JP)

2015

Darren Almond, Galerie Dirimart, Istanbul, Turkey.Present From, Christie’s Mayfair, London (UK)
Fullmoons, Galleri K, Oslo (NO)
Spazio 22, Milan (IT)
Amalfi Sketchbook, Kunsthaus Graz, Graz (AU)
Works on paper, Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin (DE)

2014

Darren Almond: In the Shadow of Words, Bloomberg SPACE, London (UK)
Work, work, work, Galleri Bo Bjerggaard, Copenhagen (DK)
To Leave a Light Impression, White Cube, London (UK)
As Details, Galleria Alfonso Artiaco, Napoli (IT)
Darren Almond, Matthew Marks Gallery, North Orange Grove, Los Angeles, California (USA)

2013-14

Xippas Art Contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland.Second Thoughts, Art Tower Mito, Mito, Japan.

2013

Darren Almond. Atmos, Sala Alcalá 31, Madrid (ES)
Darren Almond : Hemispheres and Continents, Matthew Marks gallery, New York (USA)

2012

All Things Pass, Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin (DE)
To Leave a Light Impression, Patricia Low Contemporary, Gstaad (CH)
Sometimes Still, The Site Festival, Stroud, UK.

2011

Galerie Xippas Arte Contemporaneo, Montevideo (UY)
Nocturne, Villa Merkel, Esslingen am Neckar (DE)
…between here and the surface of the moon, times 2, Frac Haute-Normandie, Rouen (FR)
….between here and the surface of the moon, FRAC Auvergne, Clermont Ferrand (FR)

2010

As It Is, Galleria Alfonso Artiaco, Naples (IT)
The Principle of Moments, White Cube, Londres, UK.Fullmoon@Eifel, Galerie Max Hetzler, Weidingen (DE)
Sometimes Still, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York, United States.Darren Almond, PKM Trinity Gallery, Seoul (KR)

2009

The Principle of Moments, White Cube, Mason’s Yard, London, UK. Galerie Max Hetzler, Weidingen / Eifel (DE)
Sometimes Still, Matthew Marks gallery, New York, United States.Sometimestill, Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin (DE)
Xippas Gallery, Athènes (GR)
Sommer Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv, Israël. Darren Almond, Xippas Galerie, Paris (FR)

2008

Nail to Nail, David Patton Gallery, Los Angeles, United States. SCAI The Bathhouse, Tokyo (JP)
Substitute, Galleri K, Oslo (NO)
Moons of the Iapetus Ocean, White Cube, London (UK)
Fire Under Snow: Parasol unit foundation for contemporary art, London (UK)

2007

Galleria Alfonso Artiaco, Naples (IT)
Night + Fog, Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin (DE)
In The Between, Musée d’art contemporain, Montreal (CA)
Day Return, Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Varsovie (PL)
Matthew Marks Gallery, New York (USA)
SITE Santa Fe, Santa Fe (USA)

2006

Take Me Home, DA2 – Domus Artium 2002, Salamanca (ES)
Day Return, Museum Folkwang, Essen (DE)
Darren Almond/Albert Oehlen: Time 2 Kill, Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin (DE)

2005

Galleria Alfonso Artiaco, Naples (IT)
Matthew Marks Gallery, New York (USA)
Only Sound needs Echo and Dreads its Lack, Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris (FR)
Isolation, K21 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf (DE)

2004

If I Had You, Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin (DE)
Live Sentence, Lentos Kunstmuseum Linz (AU)

2003

11 Miles…..from Safety, White Cube, Londres (UK)
Darren Almond, Galleri K, Oslo (NO)
Nightvision, Sommer Contemporary Art, Tel-Aviv (IL)
If I Had You, Fondazione Nicola Trussardi, Palazzo della Ragiona, Milan, Italy.A, Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin (DE)

2002

At Speed, Darren Almond and Sarah Morris, Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin (DE)

2001

Darren Almond: Night as Day, Tate Britain, Londres (UK)
Coming up for air, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York (USA)
Kunsthalle Zürich, Zürich (CH)
De Appel Foundation Centre for Contemporary Art, Amsterdam (NL)
Galerie Max Hetzler, E-Werk, Abspannwerk Buchhändlerhof, Berlin (DE)

2000

Transport Medium, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York (USA)
Geisterbahn, The Approach, Londres (UK)
Traction, Chisenhale Gallery, Londres (UK)

1999

Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin (DE)
Darren Almond, The Renaissance Society, Chicago, United States.

1997

Darren Almond, Institute of Contemporary Arts, Londres (UK)
Darren Almond, White Cube, Londres, UK. 1995 KN120, Great Western Studios, Londres (UK)

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2017-18

Vision of Nature, Kunst Haus Wien, Vienna (AU)

2017

Botanica, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, USA
Man in the Mirror, Vanhaerents Art Collection, Brussels, Belgium
Tidalectics, TBA21 Augarden, Vienna, Austria
Time as Landscape : Inquiries of Art and Science, The Cornell Fine Arts Museum, Witer Park, USAThe Garden – The End of Times, The Beginning of Times, ARoS Triennial, Aarhus, Danemark
The End of the World, Centro per l’Arte Contemporaneo Luigi Pecci, Italia
Landscape: Urban & Rural, Crown Point Press Gallery, San Francisco, California, USA
Dialéctica, Galerie Xippas, Punta del Este, Uruguay

2016

Random X, Xippas Arte Contemporaneo, Punta del Este, Uruguay
Fire under Snow, Louisiane, Copenhague, Danemark
Dall’oggi ad domani. 24 ore nell’Arte Contemporanea, Museo d’Arte Contemporanea di Roma, ItalySublime, Centre Pompidou, Metz, France
Dream States : Contemporary Photographs and Video, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA
Le rêve, Musée Cantini, Marseille, France
Le fine del Mondo, Centro Pecci, Italy
The poetics of Place : Contemporary Photographs from the Met Collection, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New-York, USA
Horizons, Vistamare Benedetta Spalletti, Pescara,Italy
The Natural Order Of Things, La Coleccion Jumex, Santa Maria Tulpeltac, Mexico City, Mexico

2015

Boolean Expressions, Lewis Gluckmans Gallery, University College Cork, Ireland
No Man Nature, Palazzo Da Mosto, Reggio Emilia, Italy
Eppur si muove : Art and Technology, a Shared Sphere, Musée d’art moderne Grand-Duc Jean, Luxembourg-ville, Luxembourg
Landscape in Motion, Kunsthaus Graz, Austria
Photographings Monet’s Gardens : Five Contemporary Views, Impressionisms Museum, Giverny, FranceRights of Nature, Nottingham Contemporary, United Kingdom
Harmony and Transition: Reflecting Chinese Landscapes, Marta Herford, Herford, Germany

2014

Inhabiting the World, Busan Biennial, museum of Busan, Korea
1+1=1 : When Collections Collide : The MAC at the MMFA, Montréal museum of Fine Arts, CanadaHalftone : Through the Grid, Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin, Germany
Man in the mirror, Vanhaerents Art Collection, Brussels, Belgium
Playtime, Lenbachhaus, Munich, Germany
Cool Place, Sammiung Sharpff, Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, Germany
Nature Study, Crown Point Press Gallery, San Francisco, California, USA
Lone Tree, Marlborough Contemporary New York, Chelsea, New-York, USA
Winter Group Show, Crown Point Press Gallery, San Francisco, California, USA

2013

Arctic, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, Denmark
Remember Everything, Max Hetzler gallery, Berlin, Germany
Artist File 2013 : The NACT Annual Show of Contemporary Art, The National Art Center, Tokyo, Japan
On Nature, Sean Kelly gallery, New York, USA
Diacussion, envoy enterprises, New York, USA
Landscapes, A Palazzo Gallery, Brescia, Italy
Theatrical Gestures, Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art, Herzliya, Israel
The future’s not what it used to be, The Exchange, Penzance ; then Newlyn Art Gallery, Newlyn, UKLandmark : The Fields of Photography, Somerset House, London, UK
A Discourse on Plants, RH Gallery, Tribeca, New-York, USA

2012-13

Good Night, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
Crown Point Press at 50, Young Museum, San Francisco, California, USA

2012

The Island/A Game of Life, Manarat Al Saadiyat Galerie, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emires
Static Movement. Film Installations of Darren Almond, David Claerbout and Anri Sala, Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany
Matthew Marks Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
Hangar à bananes, Ile de Nantes, France
Darren Almond, Marc Quinn, Patricia Low Contemporary, St. Moritz, Switzerland 2011 Printed by Master Printers, Center for Contemporary Printmaking, Norwalk, USA
Look, Xippas Art Contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland
Snap, Aldeburgh Festival, Suffolk, UK
The Wilderness, Miami Art Museum, Miami, USA
8 1/2 thirteen artists celebrating the 100th anniversary of Trussardi, Fondazione Nicola Trussardi, Florence, Italy
Things are Queer, Marta Herford, Herford, Germany 2010 Nature, Galerie Gerhardsen Gemer, Berlin, Germany.
Let’s Dance, MAC/VAL, Vitry-sûr- Seine, Paris, France.
Kupferstichkabinett: Between Thought and Action, White Cube, London, UK.
Climax Redux, BAC Geneva, Switzerland.
Between Here and There: Dislocation and Displacement in Contemporary Photography, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Upper East Side, New-York, USA
Captured while Vanishing: Video Art in Museum Folkwang, Museum Folkwang Essen, Essen, Germany

2009

Just With Your Eyes I Will See, Fonds D’Art Moderne et Contemporain, France. Altermodern: Tate Triennial 2009, Tate Britain, London, UK.
Edition Copenhagen – Retrospective 1959 – 2009, Den frie udstilling, Copenhagen, Denmark.
Los tiempos de un, Centro de Arte y Naturaleza, Fundación Beulas, Huesca, Spain.

2008

Infinite Ice Traversing the Arctic and the Alps from 1860 to the Present, Albertina, Vienna Summer in
The City 2008, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA, United States.
Ego Documents. The Autobiographical in Contemporary Art, Kunstmuseum Bern, Switzerland.
Moving Horizons: The UBS Art Collection 1960s to the present day, National Art Museum of China, China.
Unspeakable: The Artist as Witness to the Holocaust, Imperial War Museum London, UK.
Collection as Aleph, Thyssen–Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Kunsthaus Graz, Austria.
Night: A Time Between, Sharples, Winterstoke, Stancomb Wills, Methuen and Milner Galleries,
Royal West of England Academy, UK.
Art is for the Spirit: Works from the UBS Art Collection, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan.
Climax, LOOP’08, International Festival and Fair for Video Art, Barcelona, Spain.
The Cinema Effect: Illusion, Reality, and the Moving Image, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., United States.
The Cinema Effect: War and Art – Terror and Simulacrum of Beauty II, Kyoto University of Art and Design, Kyoto, Japan.
God & Goods: Spirituality and Mass Confusion, Villa Manin, Codroipo, Italy.
Implant, The Horticultural Society of New York Exhibition for UBS Art Gallery, New York, United States.
You Prison: Reflections on the Limitation of Freedom, and Space, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Torino, Italy.

2007

Acceleration, CAN/Karting, Neuchâtel, Switzerland.
Summer Show, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, United States.
Her(his)tory, Museum of Cycladic Art, Athens, Greece.
Numerica, Palazzo delle Papesse Centro Arte Contemporanea, Siena, Italy.
Ensemble, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphie, United States.
Closed Circuit: Video and New Media, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, United States.
2nd Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, Former Lenin Museum, Moscou, Russia.

2006

Daren Almond/Albert Oehlen: Time 2 Kill, Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin, Germany.
Work, Rest and Play, Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle, UK.
Between a Rock and a Hard Place, Kenny Schachter Rove, London, UK.
Full House – Geschichte einer Sammlung (Faces of a Collection), Kunsthalle Mannheim, Mannheim, Germany.
Darren Almond and Janice Kerbel: The Impossible Landscape, Horticultural Society of New York, New York, United States.
Carbonic Anhydride, Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin, Germany.
Geisterbahn (1999), Kino Arsenal, Berlin, Germany.
Shoot the Family, Cranbrook Art Museum, Michigan; Knoxville Museum of Art, Tennessee, United States.
Western Gallery, Western Washington University, Bellingham, Washington, United States.Caspar David Friedrich, Museum Folkwang, Essen; Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany.
The Black Show, David Patton, Los Angeles, United States.
37th Art Basel: Unlimited, Basel, Switzerland. 2005 Turner Prize 2005, Tate Britain, London, UK.
Universal Experience. Art, Life and the Tourists Eye, Hayward Gallery, London, UK.
20: Twenty: A Timeline of Cornerhouse Exhibitions 1985–2005, Cornerhouse, Manchester, UK.
Video Zone – The First International Video-Art Biennial in Israël, Center for Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv, Israël.
The Hate U Give Little Infants Fucks Everyone, SMART Project Space, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Contextualize, Kunstverein Hamburg, Hambourg, Allemagne.
The Rowan Collection: Contemporary British & Irish Art, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland.In the Freud Museum, Freud Museum, London, UK.
Presentness is Grace – Experiencing the Suspended Moment, Spacex Gallery, Exeter, UK.
At Speed, with Sarah Morris, Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin, Germany.

2001

Tenth Anniversary Exhibition, 100 Drawings and Photographs, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York, United States.
Open Plan P3 – The Marathon, Alphadelta Gallery, Artio Gallery, Athens, Greece.Presentness is Grace – Experiencing the Suspended Moment, Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol, UK.Casino 2001, Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst and Bijlokenmuseum, Gand, Belgium.Nature in Photography, Galerie Nachst St. Stephan, Vienna, Austria.
Berlin Biennale, Berlin, Germany.
Tracking, Kent and Vicki Logan Gallery, California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, California, United States.
Unreal Time Video, Fine Art Center, Korean Culture & Arts Foundation, Seoul, South Korea.Deliberate Living, Greene Naftali Gallery, New York, United States.

2000

Out There, White Cube 2, London, UK.
British Short Film Festival, UCI Cinema, Leicester Square, London, UK.
Geographies (Darren Almond, Graham Gussin, Anri Sala), Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris, France.Apocalypse: Beauty and Horror in Contemporary Art, Royal Academy of the
Arts, London, UK.Darren Almond, Mark Hosking, Kerstin Engholm Galerie, Vienna, Austria.
Making Time: Considering Time as a Material in Contemporary Video and Film, Palm Beach Institute of Contemporary Art, Florida, United States.
Diary, Cornerhouse, Manchester, UK.

1999

Seeing Time, San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, United States.Sleeping Waters, Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris, France.
Chronos and Kairos, Museum Fridericianum, Cassel, Germany.
So Far Away, So Close, Encore…Bruxelles, Espace Méridien, Bruxelles, Belgium.Concrete Ashtray, Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York, United States.
Common People, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaundengo, Turin, Italy. 1998 View Four, Mary Boone Gallery, New York, United States.
Hidden Desires And Images, Art Dynamics, Tayayo Lida, Tokyo, Japan.
Art Crash, Århus Kunstmuseum, Århus, Denmark.

1997

A Print Portfolio from Londres, (Ridinghouse/Booth Clibborn Editions), Atle Gerhardsen, Oslo, Norway
Delta, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, France.
Hospital, Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin, Germany.
Sensation: Young British Artists from the Saatchi Collection, Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK. Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin, Germany.

1996

Art & Innovation Prize [winner], Institute of Contemporary Art, London, UK.
Something Else, Exmouth Market, London, UK.
A Small Shifting Sphere of Serious Culture, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, UK.

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

Daimler Chrysler Contemporary, Berlin, Germany
DZ BANK Kunstsammlung, Frankfurt, Germany
Elgiz Museum of Contemporary Art, Istanbul, Turkey Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, Italy T-B A21 Collection, Vienna, Austria
Government Art Collection, London, UK
Imperial War Museum, London, UK
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, United States
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, United States
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, United States The UBS Art Collection, Miami, United States
Kramlich Collection, San Francisco, United States
La Coleccion Jumex, Estado de Mexico, Mexico
Tate Gallery, London, UK
Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Vienna, Austria FRAC Auvergne, France
Fonds National d’Art Contemporain, France
FRAC Haute Normandie, France
Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany
Israël Museum, Israël
MoMA, New York, United States
Musée d’Art Contemporain de Montréal, Canada
Villa Merkel, Esslingen, Germany
CNAP, France
Paine Webber Art Collection, New York, United States Queensland Art Collection, Australia
Foundation Beyeler, Riehen / Basel, Switzerland

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Darren Almond

Memoria del Sublime, il paesaggio nel secolo XXI

23 March 2019 – 4 August 2019 23.03.2019 – 04.08.2019

Memoria del Sublime, il paesaggio nel secolo XXI, Museo Villa dei Cedri, Bellinzona (CH)

Darren Almond

Apollo’s Muse: The Moon in the Age of Photography

3 July 2019 – 22 September 2019 03.07.2019 – 22.09.2019

Metropolitan Museum, New York (US)

Darren Almond

Slow Painting

24 January 2020 – 28 March 2020 24.01.2020 – 28.03.2020

The Levinsky Gallery, Plymouth (UK)

Darren Almond

NOW | Katie Paterson, Darren Almond, Shona Macnaughton, Lucy Raven

29 October 2019 – 31 May 2020 29.10.2019 – 31.05.2020

Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh (UK)

Artists

Biography

EDUCATION

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS