Quinn, Marc (1964 - )

Marc Quinn was born in London in 1964. He graduated from Cambridge University in 1986 and had his first solo show in 1988 at the Jay Jopling/Otis Gallery, London. He was selected for the Sydney Biennial in 1992 and was represented in Young British Artists II at the Saatchi Gallery in 1993. In June 2001 Quinn won the Royal Academy’s £25,000 Charles Wollaston prize for the most distinguished work in the summer exhibition. The National Portrait Gallery recently commissioned Quinn to produce a portrait of Sir John Sulston (former director of the Sanger Centre and a leading contributor to the Human Genome Project). Quinn took a sample of Sulston’s DNA to make the portrait which is an exact representation of its subject.