Cecily Brown was born in 1969 in London, where she received a BA from the Slade School of Fine Art. She currently lives and works in New York. Brown’s work has been exhibited internationally in solo and group exhibitions at Gagosian Gallery, Deitch Projects, Contemporary Fine Arts – Berlin, the Whitney Museum of American Art, Modern Art Oxford, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Kunsthalle Mannheim and the Des Moines Art Center. The artist’s work is in several public collections including the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, the Rubell Family Collection, the Tate Gallery and the Whitney Museum of American Art.