DARREN ALMOND

Darren Almond was the youngest artist included in the YBA group show titled Sensation in 1997, and has won his recognition in the international art world since. He was nominated for the 2005 Turner Prize as a finalist with If I Had You, a video installation about his synesthetic memories of his grandmother. Almond has participated in many international art biennials including the Berlin Biennale (2001), Venice Biennale (2003), Busan Biennale (2004), Tate Triennial (2009), and so on. He has held more than seventy solo exhibitions at numerous world renowned art institutions around the world including Mudam Luxemburg (Luxemburg, 2017), Scai the Bathhouse (Tokyo, 2016), White Cube (London and Hong Kong), K21 (Dusseldorf, 2005), De Appel (Amsterdam, 2001), to name a few. Almond is currently participating in the Crossrail Art Progamme, funded by Great Britain’s largest metropolitan railroad corporation, along with artists including Yayoi Kusama and Douglas Gordon.