Born in 1971 in Wigan, England
Lives and works in London

EDUCATION

1996
Lauréat, Art & Innovation Prize, ICA

1990-1993
Diploma from the Winchester School of Art

PERSONAL EXHIBITIONS

2007
Day Return, Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw
Night + Fog, Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin
Darren Almond, Matthew Marks, New York
Darren Almond, SITE Santa Fe, Santa Fe

2006
Darren Almond – Day return, Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany
If I had you, Domus Artium 2002, Salamanca, Spain


2005
Darren Almond, Alfonso Artiaco, Naples, Italy
Only Sound needs echo and dread its lack, Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris, France
Darren Almond, Matthew Marks Gallery, NY
Darren Almond, K21 Kunstsammlung, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany

2004
Live Sentence, Lentos Kunstmuseum, Linz, Austria
Passage du Désir-BETC, Festival d’Automne, Paris, France

2003
If I Had You, Fondazione Nicola Trussardi-Palazzo della Ragione, Milan, Italy
Darren Almond, Galleri K, Oslo
11 miles.......from safety, White Cube, London
Nightvision, Sommercontemporaryart, Tel-Aviv
Darren Almond, Herzliya Museum of Art, Herzliya

2002
A Live Performance, Darren Almond & Lyle Perkins, commissioned by Public Art Development Trust, Royal National Theatre, London, U.K.
A; Fourth Wall, PADT, South Bank, London
At Speed, Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin

2001
Night as Day, Tate Modern, London, U.K.
Air for up coming, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York, USA
Darren Almond, De Appel, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Daren Almond, Kerstin engholm galerie, Vienna, Austria
Darren Almond, Kunsthalle Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

2000
Darren Almond, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York, USA
Traction, Chisendale Gallery, London, U.K.
Darren Almond, The Approach, London, U.K.

1999
Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin, Germany
The Renaissance Society , Chicago, USA

1997
Institute of Contemporary Art, London, U.K.
Jay Jopling / White Cube, London, U.K.

1995
KN 120, Great Western Studios, London, U.K.

1991
Crawford Art College, Cork, Irland

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2007
Acceleration, CAN/Karting, Neuchâtel, Switzerland
Her(his)tory, Museum of Cycladic Art, Athens
Numerica, Palazzo delle Papesse Centro Arte Contemporanea, Siena
L’oeil écran ou la nouvelle image, Casino Luxembourg – Forum d’Art Contemporain, Luxembourg
Light, Winchester Cathedral, Winchester
Going Staying: Movement, Body, Place in Contemporary Art, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn
2nd Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, Former Lenin Museum, Moscow
Closed Circuit: Video and New Media, Metropolitan Museum, New York

2006
Darren Almond, Albert Oehlen, Time 2 Kill, Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin, Germany
Work, Rest and Play, Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle
Between a Rock and a Hard Place, Kenny Schachter, London
Full House – Faces of a Collection, Kunsthalle Mannheim, Mannheim
The Impossible Landscape, The Horticultural Society of New York, New York
Shoot the Family, Cranbrook Art Museum, Michigan; Knoxville Museum of Art, Tennessee; Western Gallery, Washington

2005
Universal Experience : Art, Life & the Tourist's eye, MCA Chicago, Chicago, USA; Hayward Gallery, London
Bidibidobidiboo, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Torino, Italy
En Attente, Casino du Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Turner Prize 2005, Tate Britain, London
The Mind is a Horse Part II, Bloomberg Space, London
Getting Emotional, Institute of Contemporary Arts, Boston
Works on Paper, Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin

2004
Printemps de Septembre, Toulouse, France
Sequences, Peterborough Digital Arts, Peterborough
L’Automne Festival, Paris
Busan Biennale, Busan Metropolitan Art Museum, Busan
Einleuchten, Museum der Moderne, Salzburg
Eclipse: Towards the Edge of the Visible, White Cube, London
Biennale of Pontevedra, Pazo da Cultura, Facultade de Belas Artes/Escola de Restauración , Instituto Valie-Incián, Pontevedra
After Images, Neues Museum Weserburg, Bremen
Busan Biennale, Busan City Hall, Busan
Open Secrets. Something Old, Something New: Redefining The Boundaries of The Art Collection, Imperial War Musem, London
Other Times. British Contemporary Art, City Art Gallery, Prague

2003
Witness. Contemporary artists document our time, Barbican Art Center, London, U.K.; The Curve Gallery, London; MCA, Sydney
Breathing the Water, Galerie Hauser & Wirth & Presenhuber, Zürich, Switzerland
Edén, La Coleccion Jumex, Antiguo Colegio de San Ildefonso, Mexico D.F, Mexico
Video Time, Green on Red Gallery, Dublin
Imagination. Perception in Art, Kunsthaus Graz
Outlook, Athens
Melodrama, MARCO, Vigo
Game Over, Grimm/Rosenfeld, Munich
Skulptur Biennale Münsterland, Stadtmuseum Beckum
Sculpture, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York
Hot Summer In The City, Sean Kelly Gallery, New York
La Biennale di Venezia, Venice

2002
Painted, Printed and produced in Great Britain, Grant Selwyn Fine Art, New York, USA
Sarah Morris / Darren Almond, Berlin, Germany
Video Acts, P.S.1 / Krammlich Collection, New York
Melodrama, Centro José Guerrero / Palacio de los Condes de Gabia, Granada
Video – Zone, The 1st International video-art biennial in Israel, Tel Aviv
The Hate U Give Little Infants Fucks Everyone, Smart Project Space, Amsterdam
Contextualize, Kunstverein Hamburg
The Rowan Collection. Contemporary British & Irish Art, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin
Presentness is Grace – Experiencing the Suspended Moment, Spacex Gallery, Exeter
In the Freud Museum, Freud Museum, London

2001
Presentness is grace, Arnolfini Gallery Limited, Bristol, U.K.
Unreal Time Video, Fine art center of Korean Culture & Arts Foundation, Seoul, Korea
Deliberate Living, Greene Naftali Gallery, New York, USA
Berlin Biennale 1, Berlin, Germany
Solos for video, Kunstsammlung im Ständehaus, Düsseldorf, Germany
10th Anniversary Exhibition, 100 drawings and Photographs, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York
Open Plan P3 – The Marathon, Alphadelta Gallery, Artio Gallery, Athens
Casino 2001, SMAK and Bijlokenmuseum, Ghent
Nature in Photography, Galerie Nachst St Stephan, Vienna
Tracking, Kent & Vicki Logan Gallery, California Collage of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, California

2000
Géographies, Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris, France
British Short Film festival, UCI Cinema, Leicester Square, London
Apocalypse: Beauty and horror in contemporary art, Royal Academy of Arts, London
Darren Almond, Mark Hosking, Kerstin Engholm Galerie, Vienna
Inverse Perspectives, Edsvik, Sollentuna, Sweden
Out There, White Cube, London
Making Time: Considering Time as a Material in Contemporary Video & Film, Palm Beach Institute of Contemporary Art, Florida
Diary, Cornerhouse, Manchester, UK

1999
Chronos & Kairos, Museum Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany
Sleeping Waters, Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris, France
So Far Away, So Close, Encore…Bruxelles, Espace Méridian, Belgium
Concrete Ashtray, Galerie Friedrich Petzel, New York, USA
Common People, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo Per L’Arte, Turin, Italy
Seeing Time, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco

1998
UK Maximum Diversity, Galerie Krinzinger, Bregenz, Austria
View Four, Galerie Mary Boone, New York, USA
Hidden Desires And Images, Art Dynamics, Tayayo Lida, Tokyo, Japan
Ray Rapp, Tz’Art & Co., New York, USA
Art Crash, Arthus Kunstmuseum, Denmark

1997
A Print Portfolio From London, (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 Artists from the Saatchi Collection, Royal Academy of Arts, London, U.K. ; Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, Germany
Hamburger Bahnhof, Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin; Whitney Museum, New York

1996
Art & Innovation Prize, Institute of Contemporary Art, London, U.K.
Something Else, Exmouth Market, London, U.K.
A Small Shifting Sphere of Serious Culture, Institute of Contemporary Art, London, U.K.

1993
Winchester Gallery, Winchester, U.K.

1992
Southampton Quays, Southampton, U.K.

FILMS

1999
"This Is Modern Art", (presented by Matthew Collins), Oxford Television Company, Production, Channel 4, june-july