Dumas, Marlene

Dumas is an internationally acclaimed artist. She was ranked 81st at the end of 2005 on the all time greatest artists listings. Her painting “The teacher(Sub A)” was sold for R 21 mil.($1.8 mil.) in 2005. This amount is the highest for a living female artist ever.

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Marlene Dumas

Born: Cape Town, South Africa, in 1953
B.A. Fine Art, University of Cape Town, 1972--1975
Ateliers '63, Haarlem, Netherlands, 1976--1978
Lives and works in Amsterdam, Netherlands


SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2007 'Broken White', MOT, Tokyo; MIMOCA, Marugame, Japan
2006 'Man Kind', Galerie Paul Andriesse, Amsterdam
2005 'Female', Kunsthalle Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland; Nordic Watercolour Museum Skärhamn,
Sweden; Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, Baden-Baden
'Selected Works', Zwirner and Wirth, New York
2004 'The Second Coming', Frith Street Gallery, London
'Con Vista al Celestiale' (with Marijke van Warmerdam), Montevergini,
Syracuse, Italy
'Hin und Weiter', BAWAG Foundation, Vienna
2003 'Marlene Dumas: Time and Again', The Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois
'Marlene Dumas: Wet Dreams', Städtische Galerie Ravensburg
'Suspect', Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, Venice
2002 'Name No Names', De Pont Stichting voor Hedendaagse Kunst, Tilburg; New Museum of
Contemporary Art, New York
'Time and Again', Galerie Zeno X, Antwerp
2001 'Nom de Personne', Musée National d'Art Moderne, Centre Pompidou, Paris
'All is Fair in Love and War', Jack Tilton/Anna Kustera Gallery, New York
'One Hundred Models and Endless Rejects', Institute of Contemporary Art,
Boston
2000 'MD', Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst, Antwerp; Camden Arts Centre,
London; Henie-Onstad Art Centre, Høvikodden, Oslo
'strippinggirls' (with Anton Corbijn), Theaterinstituut, Amsterdam;
S.M.A.K., Ghent
1999 'M D: Light', Frith Street Gallery, London
1998 'Miss World', Galerie Paul Andriesse, Amsterdam
'Fantasma', Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Centro d'Art Moderna, Lisbon
1997 'Wolkenkieker', Produzentengalerie, Hamburg
1996 'Marlene Dumas', Tate Gallery, London
'Pin-up', Museum het Toreke, Tienen, Belgium
'Youth and Other Demons', Gallery Koyanagy, Tokyo
1995/96 'Models', Salzburger Kunstverein; Portikus, Frankfurt am Main; NGBK, Berlin
1995 'The Particularity of Being Human: Francis Bacon/Marlene Dumas', Malm¨o;
Konsthall, Sweden; Castello di Rivoli, Turin
1994 'Chlorosis', Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin
'Not from Here', Jack Tilton Gallery, New York
'Manneransichten', Kunst-Station Sankt Peter, Cologne,
1993 'Give the People What They Want', Galerie Zeno X, Antwerp
'Marlene Dumas', Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn; ICA, London
1992 'Miss Interpreted', Stedelijk van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven; Institute of
Contemporary Art, Philadelphia
Selected Group Exhibitions: 2007 'The Painting of Modern Life', Hayward Gallery, London
2006 'Afrika Remix', Mori Art Museum, Tokyo
'Essential Painting', The National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan
2005 'The Experience of Art', Biennale di Venezia, Venice
'The Triumph of Painting: 20th Anniversary Exhibition of the Saatchi Collection',
The Saatchi Collection, London
'Drawing from the Modern, 1975–2005' MoMA, New York
2004 'Afrika Remix', Zeitgenössische Kunst eines Kontinents, Museum Kunst Palast,
Düsseldorf
'In Bed: Images from a Vital Stage', Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Tokyo
2003 'Happiness', Mori Art Museum, Roppongi Hills, Tokyo
'(In Search of) The Perfect Lover', Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, Germany; MDD,
Deinze, Belgium
2002 'Loud and Clear', video production Ryuichi Sakamoto, Marlene Dumas, Erik Kessels,
Stedelijk Bureau Amsterdam, Amsterdam
2001 'Painting at the Edge of the World', Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota
2000 'Shanghai Biennial', Shanghai Art Museum, China
'Mixing Memory and Desire', Neues Kunstmuseum, Luzern
1999 'Trouble Spot Painting', Muhka, Antwerp
1998 'Examining Pictures', Whitechapel Art Gallery, London; Museum of
Contemporary Art, Chicago
'Regarding Beauty', Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington DC
1998 'Eight People from Europe', The Museum of Modern Art, Gunma, Japan
'Szenenwechsel XIII', Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt am Main
'Examining Pictures, Exhibiting Paintings', Whitechapel Art Gallery, London; Museum of
Contemporary Art, Chicago
1996 'Floating Images of Women in Art History', Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Art, Japan
1996 'Distemper: Dissonant Themes in the Art of the 1990s', Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture
Garden, Washington DC
1995 'Africus: Johannesburg Biennial', Johannesburg, South Africa
'XLVI Biennale di Venezia', Dutch Pavilion, Venice, Italy
'Ripple across the Water', Watari Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo
'Carnegie International', The Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh
1994 'Du concept a l'image', Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris
1993 'Der zerbrochene Spiegel', Messepalast und Kunsthalle, Vienna, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg
1992 'Documenta IX', Kassel


Selected Bibliography:

The following list includes monographic publications and magazine articles only. Exhibition catalogues are not included in this list.

2006 Steve McQueen, 'Steve McQueen | Caresses (The Finger and the Eye: A Conversation
between Steve McQueen and Marlene Dumas)', Cat. MIMOCA, Marugame, Japan
2005 Ernst van Alphen, Art in Mind: How Contemporary Images Shape Thought, Chicago:
University of Chicago Press
Carol Kino, 'And then her number came up', New York Times, 27 March 2005
Massimo Gioni, 'Marlene Dumas, ton visage demain: your face tomorrow',
Artpress, November 2005
'The power 100', ArtReview, November 2005
2004 Robert Enright, 'The fearless body', Border Crossings, no. 91, 2004
Dumas, Marlene, 'The right to be silent ( a conversation on elitism and accessibility)',
Frieze, January/February 2004
2003 Emma Dexter, 'Painting fear', Modern Painters, Autumn 2003
2002 Valerie Breuvart (ed.), Vitamin P: New Perspectives in Painting, New York: Phaidon Press
2001 Simona Vendrame, 'Marlene Dumas', Tema Celesta Contemporary Art, November/
December 2001
Wendy Steiner, The Trouble with Beauty, New York: Random House
1999 Dominic van den Boogerd, Barbara Bloom and Mariuccia Casadio, Marlene Dumas,
London: Phaidon Press
Adrian Searle, 'I'm a dirty woman. That's why I paint', The Guardian (London),
30 March 1999
1998 Marlene Dumas, Sweet Nothings: Notes and Texts, edited by Mariska van den
Berg, Amsterdam: Uitgeverij de Balie
Gavin Jantjes, A Fruitful Incoherence: Dialogues with Artists on Internationalism, London:
Institute of International Visual Arts
1997 Jonathan Turner, 'Sometimes clever, sometimes smutty', Artnews 96, no. 1, January 1997
1994 Barry Schwabsky, 'Marlene Dumas', Artforum 33, no. 2, October 1994
Dan Cameron, 'Marlene Dumas', Frieze, November/December 1994
1993 Ulrich Loock, Ingrid Schaffner, Anna Tilroe and Marina Warner, Parkett, no.38