Cecily Brown was born in London in 1969 and currently lives and works in New York. She studied at the Slade School in London and received her BA in 1993. Brown had her first solo exhibition in New York at Deitch Projects in 1997 and a second in 1998. 

Cecily Brown has been represented by Gagosian Gallery since 1999 and had exhibitions in New York in 2000, 2002, 2005 and 2008, and in London in 2006 and 2011. Brown is represented by Contemporary Fine Art in Berlin and had solo shows there in 2001, 2004 and 2010.

Solo Museum Exhibitions:
The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC (2002); MACRO, Rome, Italy (2003); Museo Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain (2004); Kunsthalle Mannheim, Germany (2005); Modern Art Oxford, England (2005); Des Moines Art Center, Iowa (2006); Museum of Fine Art, Boston, Massachusetts (2006); Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, Germany (2008); Kestner Gesellschaft, Hannover, Germany (2010); GEM, Museum of Contemporary Art, The Hague (2010); Essl Museum, Klosterneuburg/Vienna, Austria.

Selected Group Exhibitions:
The Saatchi Collection, London; The Museum of Contemporary Art, Lake Worth, Florida (1999); Greater New York, P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, New York (2000); Museum fur Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt am Main (2001); Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York (2001); Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, Washington (2002); Cooper Union, New York, New York (2003); Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC (2003); Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2004); Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, Maine (2004); The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, Connecticut (2005); White Columns, New York, New York (2005); Deitch Projects, New York, New York (2006);  The National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan (2006); Gary Tatintsian Gallery, Moscow, Russia (2007); Letterkenny Arts Centre, Letterkenny, Ireland (2007); Dorsky Gallery Curatorial Programs, New York, New York (2007); Parasol-Unit, London (2009); Rollo Contemporary, London, England (2010); Royal Academy, London, England (2010)