Cecily Brown

British · b. 1969

Contemporary Art

British painter who draws on Rubens, Hogarth, and de Kooning to produce densely layered canvases where figuration and abstraction compete, dissolve, and reassert themselves. Her work charges painterly pleasure with violence and eroticism, establishing her as one of the most significant painters working today.

On now and coming soon exhibitions

Cecily Brown: Picture Making

Until Sep 6

Cecily Brown's first major UK institutional solo in 20 years at Serpentine South

"And she is magnificent — not merely critically, but commercially. Brown is among the most expensive living female painters in the world, her canvases commanding prices that would make lesser talents weep. The market, for once, is not wrong."

— The Standard