Gary Hume is known for figurative and abstract paintings on aluminum panels, which often feature startling color combinations made with paints purchased premixed from a hardware store. Born 1962, he attended Goldsmith's College in London.
He represented Britain at the Venice Biennale in 1999 and the Bienal de São Paulo in 1996, the same year he was nominated for the Turner Prize. His work was the subject of a one-person exhibition at Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, in 1999, and in 2001 he was elected to the Royal Academy.
Monographic shows of Hume's work were organized at the Kestnergesellschaft, Hannover, and the Kunsthaus Bregenz, Austria, in 2004, and Modern Art Oxford mounted a survey show of his Door paintings in 2008. In 2013, Tate Britain presented a focused survey spanning Hume’s career. Since 2017 he has opened exhibitions of new work in London, New York, Berlin, Los Angeles and Seoul. In March 2020 a exhibition of Destroyed School Paintings at Museum Dhondt Dhaenens in Ghent, Belgium.
Hume is represented by Matthew Marks Gallery in the US and Sprüth Magers across Europe. He lives and works in London and Accord, New York.