DINOS CHAPMAN
Rendered in a hand reminiscent of the Old Masters, Dinos Chapman forages an iconography traditionally associated with the naive and the playful - dinosaurs, flowers, birdies, bees, bunnies, & wide-eyed children peppered with the occasional skull, limned in glitter, or, a candy-colored noose -- to create a potent quiver of drawings, watercolors, glitter works and canvases that mine the gothic crevasses and corners of the human psyche.
Biography
Dinos Chapman
1962 Born London
1981 Ravensbourne College of Art (BA)
1990 Royal College of Art (MA)
Currently lives and works in Los Angeles
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2023 Dinos Chapman : Believe. Taka Ishi Gallery, Maebashi, Japan.
2022 Dinos Chapman: Just The End Of The World. Ratio 3 Gallery, San Francisco, USA
2021 Dinos Chapman: Blood Shit + Fluff. Onetrickpony Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
2019
Jake And Dinos Chapman: The Rainbow Of Human Kindness ,HERO ,Amsterdam, Netherlands
2018
Jake & Dinos Chapman: ARoS Focus - Intermezzo ,ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum ,Århus, Denmark
2017
Jake & Dinos Chapman: The Disasters of Everyday Life ,Blain Southern, London ,Mayfair, London, UK
CASS Presents: Jake and Dinos Chapman ,Cass Sculpture Foundation ,Chichester, UK
Jake & Dinos Chapman: In the Realm of the Senseless ,ARTER ,Beyoglu, Istanbul, Turkey
2016
2015
Group Exhibition ,Kunsthallen Brandts ,Odense, Denmark
2014
Jake & Dinos Chapman: Come, Hell or High Water ,David Risley Gallery ,Copenhagen, Denmark
Jake & Dinos Chapman: My Giant Colouring Book ,Neue Nationalgalerie ,Mitte, Berlin, Germany
Jake & Dinos Chapman: Come and See ,PHI Foundation for Contemporary Art ,Montreal, Quebec, Canada
2013
Jake and Dinos Chapman: Come and See ,Serpentine South Gallery ,Kensington, London, UK
Jake & Dinos Chapman: The Blind Leading the Blind ,Galerie Rudolfinum ,Prague, Czech Republic
Jake And Dinos Chapman: The Sleep Of Reason ,SongEun ArtSpace ,Gangnam-gu, Seoul, South Korea
Chapman Brothers: Exquisite Corpse ,Hastings Contemporary ,Hastings, UK
2012
Jake and Dinos Chapman: The End of Fun ,State Hermitage Museum ,St. Petersburg, Russia
2011
Jake & Dinos Chapman: Jake or Dinos Chapman ,White Cube, London (Hoxton Square) ,London, UK
2010
Jake and Dinos Chapman: Children's Commission ,Whitechapel Art Gallery ,London, UK
Jake & Dinos Chapman ,Project B Contemporary Art ,Milan, Italy
2009
Jake and Dinos Chapman ,Cheltenham Art Gallery & Museum ,Cheltenham, UK
2008
Jake & Dinos Chapman ,L & M Arts, New York ,Upper East Side, New York, USA
Selected Group Exhibitions
2023 Dinos Chapman Focus Group 4: Von Ammon Gallery, Washington, USA
2023
Bearing Witness? Violence and Trauma on Paper ,Fitzwilliam Museum ,Cambridge, UK
2022
Material Impression: Artists & Paper ,Larsen Warner ,Stockholm, Sweden
The Horror Show! ,Somerset House ,London, UK
Art On Paper Since 1960: The Hamish Parker Collection ,The British Museum ,Bloomsbury, London, UK
Tu es Métamorphose III ,Galerie Pact ,Paris, France
2021
ONLINE: Group Exhibition ,Zimmer Stewart Gallery ,Arundel, UK
Glasstress. Window to the Future ,State Hermitage Museum ,St. Petersburg, Russia
Right Here Right Now ,Saatchi Gallery ,London, UK
Before the Cockerel Crows ,Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo ,Turin, Italy
Arcimboldo Face to Face ,Centre Pompidou Metz ,Metz, France
The Human Touch: Making Art, Leaving Traces ,Fitzwilliam Museum ,Cambridge, UK
Show Me What Plutocracy Looks Like ,Centrespace Gallery ,Bristol, UK
The Help Portfolio ,Jealous Gallery, North ,London, UK
2020
Help Portfolio Show ,Jealous Gallery, East ,Shoreditch, London, UK
Secret 7": Planar 1/1 ,NOW Gallery ,London, UK
On Everyone’s Lips. From Pieter Bruegel to Cindy Sherman ,Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg ,Wolfsburg, Germany
Inspiration: Contemporary Art & Classics ,Ateneum Art Museum ,Helsinki, Finland
Inspiration - Iconic Works ,Nationalmuseum Sweden ,Stockholm, Sweden
2019
Beyond ,me Collectors Room Berlin / Olbricht Foundation ,Berlin, Germany
Closer ,HERO ,Amsterdam, Netherlands
The Gifts of Tony Podesta ,American University Museum ,Washington D.C., District Of Columbia, USA
HETEROTOPIA ,HERO ,Amsterdam, Netherlands
In the Shadow of Forward Motion ,Zabludowicz Collection, London ,London, UK
Closer ,HERO ,Amsterdam, Netherlands
2018
Stage of Being ,Museum Voorlinden ,Wassenaar, Netherlands
Through The Looking Glass ,The Cob Gallery ,London, UK
Salm Modern #1: Dimensions of Dialogue ,National Gallery Prague, Salm Palace ,Prague, Czech Republic
Sets Addict ,Filter Fine Art ,Sydney, Australia
Sanguine: Luc Tuymans on Baroque ,Fondazione Prada, Milan ,Milan, Italy
Natalie Dray: Kierkegaardashian ,Blain Southern, London ,Mayfair, London, UK
Doodle & Disegno ,Blain Southern, Berlin ,Kreuzberg, Berlin, Germany
Debout! Exhibition of the Pinault Collection ,Musee des Beaux-Arts, Rennes ,Rennes, France
Talisman in the Age of Difference ,Stephen Friedman Gallery ,Mayfair, London, UK
FaceValue2 ,Jealous Gallery, East ,Shoreditch, London, UK
2017
ISelf Collection: The End of Love ,Whitechapel Art Gallery ,London, UK
Original Print Showcase ,Zimmer Stewart Gallery ,Arundel, UK
2016
Theatre De L'absurde (Final episode) ,Galerie Gabriel Rolt ,Amsterdam, Netherlands
On War: The Richard Harris Collection ,C.G. Boerner, New York ,Chelsea, New York, USA
ProjectB10 ,Project B Contemporary Art ,Milan, Italy
Thèâtre De L'absurde (Prequel) ,Galerie Gabriel Rolt ,Amsterdam, Netherlands
Artistic Differences ,Institute of Contemporary Arts, London ,St. James's, London, UK
Summer Exhibition 2016 ,Royal Academy of Arts ,Mayfair, London, UK
Böse Clowns: Reloaded ,Kunstpalais Erlangen ,Erlangen, Germany
The Nature of Particles ,Magasin III Stockholm ,Stockholm, Sweden
2015
Group Exhibition: Like A Prayer ,Magasin III Stockholm ,Stockholm, Sweden
PEOPLE IN THE CITY ,National Centre for Contemporary Arts, Moscow ,Moscow, Russia
De arrogantie van de jeugd ,Galerie Gabriel Rolt ,Amsterdam, Netherlands
2014
Disturbing Innocence ,The FLAG Art Foundation ,Chelsea, New York, USA
Silent Partners: Artist & Mannequin from Function to Fetish ,Fitzwilliam Museum ,Cambridge, UK
Bloomberg New Contemporaries ,World Museum Liverpool ,Liverpool, UK
Various Artists - 30 Years of Torch ,Torch Gallery ,Amsterdam, Netherlands
Crime in Art ,MOCAK, Museum of Contemporary Art in Krakow ,Krakow, Poland
Focus on Original Prints ,Zimmer Stewart Gallery ,Arundel, UK
2013
Art under Attack: Histories of British Iconoclasm ,Tate Britain ,Millbank, London, UK
Five British Artists ,Tomio Koyama Gallery, Roppongi ,Minato-ku, Tokyo, Japan
Doug Fishbone and Friends: Adventureland Golf ,Arnolfini ,Bristol, UK
Jake & Dinos Chapman: The Sum of all Evil ,White Cube, Hong Kong ,Central, Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Capita Selecta Groninger Museum ,The Groninger Museum ,Groningen, Netherlands
Love Meal ,Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo ,Turin, Italy
DEEP FEELINGS. From antiquity to now ,Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo ,Turin, Italy
2012
Plus Art Projects at The Mayor's Parlour ,Plus Art Projects ,London, UK
Beyond Reality: British Painting Today ,Galerie Rudolfinum ,Prague, Czech Republic
Fairy Tales, Monsters and the Genetic Imagination ,The Glenbow Museum ,Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Son et Lumière, et sagesse profonde ,21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art ,Kanazawa, Japan
The Art of Chess ,Saatchi Gallery ,London, UK
Cheer Up! It's not the end of the world... ,Edinburgh Printmakers ,Edinburgh, UK
Fairy Tales, Monsters, and the Genetic Imagination ,Winnipeg Art Gallery ,Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Printed Matter ,Eleven Fine Art ,London, UK
International Art Series ,Art Gallery of South Australia ,Adelaide, Australia
2011
20 Years of Dazed & Confused Magazine ,Somerset House ,London, UK
Rewriting Worlds: Dada Moscow ,Artplay ,Moscow, Russia
Zwei Sammler - Thomas Olbricht and Harald Falckenberg ,Deichtorhallen Hamburg ,Hamburg, Germany
Wolfe von Lenkiewicz: Victory Over the Sum ,All Visual Arts ,London, UK
Collateral Damage: Scenes from a War ,Minneapolis Institute of Art ,Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
2010
Afterlife ,Fitzwilliam Museum ,Cambridge, UK
Cream ,Kiasma, Museum of Contemporary Art ,Helsinki, Finland
Modern Master Works ,Scream London ,Fitzrovia, London, UK
Kupferstichkabinett: Between Thought and Action ,White Cube, London (Hoxton Square) ,London, UK
Straw Dogs ,Spring Projects ,London, UK
The Art of Chess ,Project B Contemporary Art ,Milan, Italy
Diabolique / Diabolic ,Galerie de l'UQAM, Université du Québec ,Montreal, Quebec, Canada
2009
Visual Dialogues: Disasters of War ,Manchester Art Gallery ,Manchester, UK
The Dark Science of Five Continents ,Gallery BMB ,Mumbai, India
The Dark Science of Five Continents ,Gallery BMB ,Mumbai, India
2008
Fear ,Allsopp Contemporary ,London, UK
Whole Lotta Love ,CFA, Contemporary Fine Arts (Mitte) ,Mitte, Berlin, Germany
Solo Exhibitions
2023 Believe. Taka Ishi Gallery, Maebashi, Japan.
2022 Just The End Of The World Again. Ratio 3, San Francisco.
2021 Blood Shit + Fluff. Onetrickpony Gallery, Los Angeles.
2009
My Giant Colouring Book, Touring to Bed Arts, Petersfield, Queens Hall, Hexham and Burton Art
Gallery, Bideford
2008
My Giant Colouring Book, Touring to DLI Museum & Durham Art Gallery, Durham, The Galleryat Ormeau Baths, Belfast, Qube Gallery, Oswestry, Cambellworks, London, Pontardawe Art Centre,
Pontardawe and Artsdepot, London
Jake and Dinos Chapman: Little Death Machines, L&M Arts, New York
If Hitler Had Been a Hippy How Happy Would We Be, White Cube Mason’s Yard, London
Jake and Dinos Chapman: Memento Moronika, Kestnergesellschaft, Hanover
2007
Two Legs Bad, Four Legs Good, Paradise Row, London
When Humans Walked the Earth, Tate Britain, London
Your Mind Is A Nightmare That Has Been Eating You: Now Eat Your Mind,
Triumph Gallery, Moscow
Jake and Dinos Chapman, Hastings Museum and Art Gallery, Hastings
2006
Bad Art for Bad People, Tate Liverpool, Liverpool
2005
Like a dog returns to its vomit, White Cube, London
Explaining Christians to Dinosaurs, Kunsthaus Bregenz, Bregenz
2004
The New and Improved Andrex Works, Thomas Olbricht Collection, Essen
Insult to Injury, Kunst Sammlungen der Veste, Coburg
The Marriage of Reason and Squalor, CAC Malaga, Malaga / Dunkers Kulturhus, Sweden
2003
Jake & Dinos Chapman, The Saatchi Gallery, London The Rape Of Creativity, Modern Art Oxford
Jake & Dinos Chapman, Museum Kunst Palast, Düsseldorf
2002
Works from the Chapman Family Collection, White Cube, London
Jake and Dinos Chapman, Groninger Museum, Groninger
2001
Jackie & Denise Chapwoman. New Work, Modern Art, London
2000
Jake & Dinos Chapman, Kunst Werke, Berlin
Jake & Dinos Chapman. GCSE Art Exam, The Art Ginza Space, Tokyo
1999
Jake & Dinos Chapman, Fig.1, London
Disasters of War, Jay Jopling/White Cube, London
1998
Dinos & Jake Chapman, Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris
1997
Six Feet Under, Gagosian Gallery, New York
1996
Solo Exhibition, P-House, Tokyo
Zero Principle, Giò Marconi, Milan
Chapmanworld, Institute of Contemporary Art, London / Grazer Kunstverein, Graz
1995
Solo Exhibition, Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, New York
Zygotic acceleration, biogenetic, de-sublimated libidinal model (enlarged x 1000), Victoria Miro Gallery,
London
Bring Me the Head of Franco Toselli!, Ridinghouse Editions, London
Five Easy Pissers, Andréhn-Schiptjenko Gallery, Stockholm
1994
Great Deeds Against the Dead, Victoria Miro Gallery, London
Mummy & Daddy, Galeria Franco Toselli, Milan
1993
The Disasters of War, Victoria Miro Gallery, London
1992
We Are Artists, Hales Gallery, London; Bluecoat Gallery, Liverpool
Group Exhibitions
2023
Focus Group 4, Von Ammon Co. Gallery, Washington
2008
Occupied Space 2008: Art For Palestine, The Mosaic Rooms, A. M. Qattan Foundation, London
Frieze Art Fair, Regents Park, London
Laughing in a Foreign Language, The Hayward Gallery, London
You dig the tunnel –I’ll hide the soil, White Cube Hoxton Square and Shoreditch Town Hall, London
Ad Absurdum. Energies of the absurd from modernity to contemporary art, Marta Herford, Herford
Les Caprices de Goya, Palais des Beaux Arts de Lille, Lille
Whole Lotta Love, CFA, Berlin
ICA 60th Anniversary Auction 7 Exhibition, ICA, London
Yours, Mine, Ours, University of Essex Gallery, Colchester
Lucifer’s Greatest Works of Art, FRED, Leipzig
ICA 60th Anniversary Auction 7 Exhibition, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London
‘Traces du Sacré Spuren des Geistigen’, Haus der Kunst, Munich
In Drawing, Purdy Hicks Gallery, London
2007
Summer Exhibition 2007, Annenberg Courtyard, Royal Academy of Arts, London Into Me/ Out of Me, MACRO Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Rome
'Meet the Artists: Jake, Paul, George and Dinos’, Deitch Projects, New York
Aftershock: Contemporary British Art 1990-2006, Capital Museum, Beijing
Jake & Dinos Chapman and John Currin – etchings from the Collection of Magasin 3 Stockholm Konsthall,
Magasin 3 Stockholm Konsthall, Stockholm
Unholy Truths at Initial Access New Art from the Frank Cohen Collection, Wolverhampton
PLAY, Bearspace, Deptford, London
2006
Surprise Surprise, Institute of Contemporary Art, London
Eretica, Museum Sant’Anna, Palermo
People, Museo D’Arte Contemporanea Donna Regina Napoli, Naples
Scarecrow, The Evangelos Averrof-Tositsas Foundation, Athens
Summer Exhibition 2006, Royal Academy of Arts, London
INFINITE PAINTING: Contemporary Painting and Global Realism, Villa Manin Centro D’Arte
Contemporanea, Passariano
Little Private Governments, University of Essex, Essex
ARS 06, Museum of Contemporary Art KIASMA, Helsinki
2005
The Artist With Two Brains, Saint Pauls Church, New Art Birmingham
The Wonderful Fund On Tour, Le Musee de Marrakech, Morocco
Family Affairs-Brothers and Sisters in Art, Haus der Kunst, Munich; Palais des Beaux Arts, Brussels
Baroque and Neo Baroque, Domus Atrium, Salamanca
Video II: Allegory, NRW-Furum Kultur und Wirtschaft, Dusseldorf
Vertigos, Printemps de Septembre, Toulouse
When Humour Becomes Painful, Migros Museum, Zurich
Summer Exhibition 2005, Royal Academy, London
London Calling. Y[oung] B[ritish] A[rtists] Criss-Crossed, Galleri Kaare Berntsen, Oslo
Bidibidobidiboo. La Collezione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Palazzo Re Rebaudengo, Piazza del Municipio,
Guarene d’Alba, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin
Body: New Art from the UK, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver
Child’s Play, Rohkunstbau, Berlin
Glasgow International Festival of Contemporary Visual Art, Glasgow Print Studio, Glasgow
Mixed-up Childhood. An Exhibition for Grown-ups, Auckland Art Gallery, Auckland
Critic’s Choice, FACT, Liverpool
2004
The Christmas Exhibition 2004, Edinburgh Printmakers, Edinburgh
Paper Democracy. Contemporary Art in Editions on Paper, Edifício Cultura Inglesa, São Paulo
The Charged Image, Collection of Douglas Cramer, Joseloff Gallery, Conneticut
Deliver Us From Evil, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York
After Images, Neues Museum Weserburg, Bremen
At War, CCCB, Barcelona
Lonely Planet, Art Tower Mito, Ibaraki
Mike Kelley: The Uncanny, Tate Liverpool, Liverpool
Gewalt, Loushy Art & Editions, Tel Aviv
2003
The Turner Prize, Tate Britain, London
Reception 1, Reception, London
FRESH: Contemporary British Artists in Print, Edinburgh Printmakers, Edinburgh
Independence, South London Gallery, London
Did you hear about that frog who wanted to be a prince?, Egg, London
The Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London
Mars. Art and War, Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz
Coollustre, Collection Lambert en Avignon
Fran el Greco till Dali, Nationalmuseum, Sweden
2002
Rapture: Art’s Seduction by Fashion Since 1970, Barbican Gallery, London
Art Crazy Nation Show, Milton Keynes Gallery, Milton Keynes
2001
Utopien heute?, Kunstverein Ludwigshafen e.V., Ludwigshafen, Germany
Francisco Goya and Jake and Dinos Chapman: The Disasters of War, Musée desBeaux-Arts de Montréal,
Québec
Die Sammlung Olbricht Teil 2. Without Hesitation, Gesellschaft für Aktuelle Kunst & Neues Museum
Weserburg, Bremen
Eine Barocke Party, Kunsthalle Wien
Paper Assets: Collecting Prints and Drawings 1996-2001, The British Museum, London
Under the Skin. Biological Transformations in Contemporary Art, Stiftung Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum,
Duisburg
Under the Skin. Biological Transformations in Contemporary Art, Stiftung Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum,
Duisburg
2000
To Infinity and Beyond: Editions for the Year 2000, Brooke Alexander Gallery, New York
Drawings and Photographs, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York (An Exhibition to Benefit the Foundation
for Contemporary Performance Arts, Inc.)
Disasters of War. Francisco de Goya, Henry Darger and Jake and Dinos Chapman, P.S.1 Contemporary
Art Centre, New York
Jake & Dinos Chapman and Francisco Goya y Lucientes, The Power Plant, Toronto
Apocalypse: Beauty and horror in contemporary art, Royal Academy of Arts, London
ManMoMa. A Thick Bloke Kicking a Dog to Death, The International 3 Summer Fête, Fairfield,
Manchester
The Pölstar Art Programme, Leicester Square, London
Ant Noises II, Saatchi Gallery, London
Gut aufgelegt, Griffelkunst, Hamburg
Sex and the British, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg / Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris
Nervous Kingdom, Bluecoat Gallery, Liverpool
Out There, White Cube², London
Christian Gether, Stine Høholt, Mennesket, Arken Museum for Moderne Kunst 2000Man-Body in Man-
Art from 1950 to 2000, Arken Museum for Moderne Kunst , Skovvej, Denmark
Drawn From Life, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York
1999
The Anagrammatical Body. The Body and Its Photographic Condition, Kunsthaus Muerzzuschlag,
Mürzzuschlag, Austria; ZKM/Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe
Sensation, Young British Artists, Brooklyn Museum, New York
UK Maximum Diversity, Atelierhaus der Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Wien
Heaven:An Exhibition that will break your heart, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf; Tate Gallery,
Liverpool
1998
Close Echoes. Public Body & Artificial Space, City Gallery, Prague and Kunsthalle Krems, Austria
Wounds: between democracy and redemtion in contemporary art, Moderna Museet, Stockholm
1997
Body, The Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Minor Sensation, Victoria Miro Gallery, London
Sensation. Young British Artists from the Saatchi Collection, Royal Academy of Arts, London; Hamburger
Bahnhof, Berlin (1998); Brooklyn Museum, New York (1999-2000)
Future, Present, Past, Venice Biennale, Corderie dell’Arsenale, Venice (curated by Germano Celant)
Gothic, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston
Campo 6: The Spiral Village, Bonnefanten Museum, Maastricht
Full House, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg
1996
Young British Artists, Roslyn Oxley Gallery, Sydney (curated by Glen Scott Wright)
Florence Biennale, Florence (curated by Germano Celant)
Life/Live, ARC, Paris (curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist); Centro Cultural de Belem, Lisbon
Some Drawings from London, Kate Bernard, London
Campo 6: The Spiral Village, Galleria Civica d’Arte Contemporaneo, Turin (commissioned and curated by
Francesco Bonami)
Nach Weimar, KunstSammlungen zu Weimer, Germany (curated by Klaus Biesenbach
Little Boy Peep, Riding House Editions, London
The Cauldron, Dean Clough, Halifax (curated by Maureen Paley)
1995
Brilliant! New Art from London, Walker Art Centre, Minneapolis; Museum of Contemporary Art,
Houston, Texas
General Release: Young British Artists, Venice Biennale, Scuola di San Pasquale, Venice
London-Nu, Copenhagen, Kunstforeningen, Copenhagen
The Institute of Cultural Anxiety: Works from the Collection, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London
(curated by Jeremy Miller)
1994
Liar, Hoxton Square, London (curated by Gregor Miur)
Rien à Signaler, Galerie Ananlix, Geneva
Five British Artists, Andréhn Schiptjenko, Stockholm
Great Deeds Against the Dead, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York
Watt, Witte de With & Kunsthal, Rotterdam, Holland (curated by Chris Dercon)
Matter & Fact, Katherine Hamnett Building, London (curated by Neil Miller)