Mark Fairnington
The Box Room, 2014
This Dene, 2018
Orangutan, 2008
Feathered, 2014
Person, 2012
Morpho Menelaus Plant, 2009
Jason (grey), 2014
Lee (green), 2013
| 1957 | Born in Gateshead, GB |
| 1979-81 | St. Martin's School of Art, London, GB |
| 1987-89 | Goldsmith's College, London, GB |
| 1986 | Greater London Arts, Individual Artists Award |
| 1989 | British Council, Exhibition Award |
| 1993 | Arthur Anderson Figurative Painting Award |
| London Arts Board, Individual Artists Award | |
| 1995 | British Council, Exhibition Award |
| 1996 | Serpentine Gallery, Residency in the Jubilee Centre Gym, GB |
| 1997-98 | Imperial War Museum, GB |
| 1999 | The Sargant Fellowship, British School at Rome, GB |
| 1999-2002 | Oxford University Museum of Natural History, GB |
| 2001 | Sciart consortium, Research Award |
| 2003 | London Arts, Individual Artists Award |
| AHRB, Research Leave Award | |
| 2003-05 | Natural History Museum, GB |
| Mark Fairnington lives and works in London, GB |
| 2023 | Wild World, Galerie Peter Zimmermann, Mannheim |
| 2018 | Unheimliche Pastorale, Galerie Peter Zimmermann, Mannheim |
| BorzoGallery, Amsterdam, NL | |
| Cherryburn, Cherryburn Cottage, Northumberlang, GB | |
| 2017 | The Worm In The Bud, Handel Street Projects, London, GB |
| 2015 | A London Assembly, Delahunty, London, GB |
| 2014 | of People, Galerie Peter Zimmermann, Mannheim |
| 2012 | Unnatural History, Mannheimer Kunstverein, Mannheim |
| Unnatural History, Galerie Peter Zimmermann, Mannheim | |
| 2011 | Flora, Oliver Sears Gallery, Dublin, IE |
| 2010 | Bull Market, Bury St Edmunds Art Gallery, Suffolk, GB |
| 2009 | Private Collection, Galerie Peter Zimmermann, Mannheim |
| 2008 | Galerie Peter Zimmermann, Mannheim |
| 2007 | Dynasty, Art Agents, Hamburg |
| 2006 | FRED [London] Ltd., London, GB |
| 2005 | Medieval Modern, London, GB |
| 2004 | Galerie Peter Zimmermann, Mannheim |
| Wunderkammer I + II, Kunsthalle Mannheim | |
| Artlab, Imperial College, London, GB | |
| 2003 | Mobile Home Gallery, London, GB |
| 2002 | Dead or Alive, Oxford University Museum of Natural History, GB |
| Dead or Alive, Harewood House, Leeds, GB | |
| 2001 | Staying Alive, Mobile Home Gallery, London, GB |
| 2000 | paintings, Galerie Axel Thieme, Darmstadt |
| Mantidae, Oxford University Museum, GB | |
| Ace Gallery, Los Angeles, USA | |
| 1999 | Peepshow, Mobile Home, London, GB |
| 1998 | Gallerie Axel Thieme, Darmstadt |
| Heavier than Air, Imperial War Museum, London, GB | |
| 1997 | Flirt, Todd Gallery, London, GB |
| 2023 | Arcadia for all? Contemporary British Landscape Painting, Attenborough Arts Center, Leicester, GB | |
| Reimag(in)ing the Victorians, Djanogly Gallery, Lakeside Arts, Nottingham, GB | ||
| London Calling 2.0, Galerie Peter Zimmermann, Mannheim | ||
| 2018 | Summertime, Galerie Peter Zimmermann, Mannheim | |
| Accrochage, Galerie Peter Zimmermann, Mannheim | ||
| 2017 | Accrochage, Galerie Peter Zimmermann, Mannheim | |
| Drawing Biennial 2017, The Drawing Room, London, GB | ||
| 40 Jahre Galerie, Jubiläumsausstellung / Teil 1, walter storms galerie, München | ||
| Konkrete Anliegen - Sammlung Teufel, Kunstmuseum Stuttgart | ||
| 20 Jahre Hölderlinstrasse 55 – Teil 2, Edith Wahlandt Galerie, Stuttgart | ||
| 2016 | Sommerausstellung, Galerie Peter Zimmermann, Mannheim | |
| The Abject Object, Centre for Drawing - Wimbledon College of Art, London, GB | ||
| 2015 | Accrochage, Galerie Peter Zimmermann, Mannheim | |
| Drawing Biennial 2015, The Drawing Room, London, GB | ||
| Blow Up - Painting, Photography and Reality, Parafin, London, GB | ||
| 2014 | Accrochage, Galerie Peter Zimmermann, Mannheim | |
| (detail), Usher Gallery, Lincoln, GB | ||
| (detail), Transition Gallery, London, GB | ||
| BP Portrait Award 2014, National Portrait Gallery (NPG), London, GB | ||
| 2013 | The Nature of the Beast, New Art Gallery Walsall, GB | |
| Drawing Biennial 2013, The Drawing Room, London, GB | ||
| SO Fine Art Editions, Dublin, IE | ||
| 2010 | miscellaneous, Galerie Peter Zimmermann, Mannheim | |
| Blood Tears Faith Doubt, Courtauld Gallery, The Courtauld Institute of Art, London, GB | ||
| Profusion, Calke Abbey, Derby, GB | ||
| 2009 | The Artist's Studio, Compton Verney, Warwickshire, GB | |
| A Duck for Mr Darwin, Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, GB | ||
| 40 Artists - 80 Drawings, The Drawing Gallery, London, GB | ||
| 2008 | Accrochage, Galerie Peter Zimmermann, Mannheim | |
| Darwin's Canopy, The Natural History Museum, London, GB | ||
| War and Medicine, Wellcome Trust touring to The Museum of Hygiene, Deutsches Hygiene-Museum, Dresden | ||
| La Farfalla E La Formica, Galleria Il Chiostro Arte Contemporanea, Saronno, IT | ||
| EXPORT/IMPORT, Leipzig Baumwollspinnerei | ||
| Bloody Beautiful ( Part #2 ), RONMANDOS, Amsterdam, NL | ||
| Farmer's Market, Handel Street Projects, London, GB | ||
| 2007 | Birdwatching, Kunstenaarsvereniging De Vishal, Haarlem, GB | |
| London Assembly, Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts, Brüssel, BE | ||
| Bloody Beautiful (Part #1), RONMANDOS, Rotterdam, NL | ||
| Bloedmooi, Historisch Museum Rotterdam, NL | ||
| The Jerwood Drawing Prize, Jerwood Space, London, GB | ||
| TRADITIONAL BUT NEW, Galerie Binz & Krämer, Köln | ||
| Accrochage, Galerie Peter Zimmermann, Mannheim | ||
| Salon Nouveau, Kerstin Engholm Galerie, Wien, AT | ||
| 2006 | Royal Academy Summer Show, London, GB | |
| Accrochage, Galerie Peter Zimmermann, Mannheim | ||
| 2005 | Blumenstück - Künstlers Glück, Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen | |
| Infallible In Search of the Real George Eliot, Hatton Gallery, Newcastle, GB | ||
| 2004 | John Moores 23, Walker art Gallery, Liverpool, GB | |
| Accrochage, Galerie Peter Zimmermann, Mannheim | ||
| Fabulous Beasts, The Natuaral History Museum, London, GB | ||
| Transmission Portfolio, Domo Baal Gallery, London, GB | ||
| 2003 | The Human Zoo, Hatton Gallery, Newcastle, GB | |
| Infallible In Search of the Real George Eliot, APT Gallery, London, GB | ||
| Mead Gallery, Warwick Arts Centre, GB | ||
| Chockerfuckingblocked, Jeffrey Charles Gallery, London, GB | ||
| Comme Ça, Pippy Houldsworth, London, GB | ||
| "Back to the Roots" - Bilder und Skulpturen, Galerie Axel Thieme GmbH, Darmstadt | ||
| 2002 | Like gold dust, Angel Row Gallery, Nottingham, GB | |
| Alessandra Bonomo Gallery, Rom, IT | ||
| History Revision, Plymouth Arts Centre, GB | ||
| No One Begins a Lunatic, Jeffrey Charles Gallery, London, GB | ||
| Intimacy, Russel-Cotes Museum, Bournemouth, GB | ||
| 2001 | Intimacy, Oriel Mostyn Gallery, Wales, GB | |
| Bittersweet, Danielle Arnaud Gallery, London, GB | ||
| Foil, The Gallery, Falmouth College of Arts and The Herbert Read Gallery, Canterbury, GB | ||
| 2000 | Foil, Gallery Westland Place, London, GB | |
| Green Green Grass, Mobile Home Gallery, London, GB | ||
| British School at Rome, Rom, IT | ||
| The Wreck of Hope, The Nunnery Gallery, London, GB | ||
| 1999 | paintings and photographs, Galerie Axel Thieme GmbH, Darmstadt | |