| 1969 | geboren / born in London, Great Britain |
| 1989-93 | BA in Fine Arts (First Class Honors), Slade School of Art, London, Great Britain |
| 1992 | New York Studio School, New York, USA |
| 1987-89 | Drawing and Printmaking classes, Morley College, London, Great Britain |
| 1985-87 | B-TEC Diploma in Art and Design, Epsom School of Art, Surrey, Great Britain |
ausgewählte Einzelausstellungen / selected solo exhibitions
| 2013 | „Cecily Brown“, Gagosian Gallery, New York, USA |
| 2012 | „Cecily Brown”, Essl Museum, Klosterneuburg / Vienna, Austria |
| 2011 | „Cecily Brown“, Gagosian Gallery, London, Great Britain |
| 2010 | „Based On A True Story“, GEM, Museum of Contemporary Art, Den Haag, Netherlands |
| | „Based On A True Story“, Kestner Gesellschaft, Hannover, Germany |
| | “Cecily Brown”, Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin, Germany |
| 2009 | “Cecily Brown”, Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany |
| 2008 | „Cecily Brown”, Gagosian Gallery, New York, USA |
| 2006 | „Cecily Brown“, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, USA |
| | Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, USA |
| | „New Paintings”, Gagosian Gallery, London, Great Britain |
| 2005 | „Cecily Brown“, Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, Great Britain |
| | „Cecily Brown“, Kunsthalle, Mannheim, Germany |
| | Gagosian Gallery, New York, USA |
| 2004 | Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin, Germany |
| | Espacio 1, Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain |
| | Galerie Lisa Ruyter, Vienna, Austria |
| 2003 | „Cecily Brown“, Gagosian Gallery, Beverly Hills, USA |
| | „Cecily Brown“, MACRO, Rome, Italy |
| 2002 | „Cecily Brown“, Gagosian Gallery, New York, USA |
| | „Cecily Brown“, Gagosian Gallery, Beverly Hills, USA |
| | „Cecily Brown“, Hirshhorn Museum, Washington D.C., USA |
| 2001 | „Days of Heaven“, Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin, Germany |
| 2000 | „Cecily Brown“, Gagosian Gallery, New York, USA |
| | Deitch Projects, New York, USA |
| 1999 | „Serenade“, Victoria Miro Gallery, London, Great Britain |
| | „The Skin Game“, Gagosian Gallery, Beverly Hills, USA |
| 1998 | „High Society“, Deitch Projects, New York, USA |
| 1997 | "Spectacle", Deitch Projects, (Storefront Gallery), New York, USA |
| 1995 | Eagle Gallery, London, Great Britain |
ausgewählte Gruppenausstellungen / selected group exhibitions
| 2011 | "Figures in a Landscape", Gagosian Gallery, Hong Kong, China |
| | “Collection Platform 1: Circulation”, Pinchuk Art Centre, Kiev, Ukraine |
| 2010 | “Exquisite Corpse Drawings”, Klemens Gasser & Tanja Grunert, New York, USA |
| 2009 | „Visible Invisible: Against the Security of the Real”, Parasol Unit, London, Great Britain |
| 2008 | „Insight?”, Gagosian Gallery, Moskau, Russia |
| 2007 | Putting Pictures on Paper”, Georgia Scherman Projects, Toronto, Canada |
| | „Beneath the Underdog”, Gagosian Gallery, New York, USA |
| | „Painting in the Noughties", Earagail Arts Festival, Letterkenny, Irelande |
| | „Extremes & In-betweens", Dorsky Gallery, Long Island City, USA |
| 2006 | „Survivor“, Bortolami Dayan, New York, USA |
| | „Once upon a Time in the West”, Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin, Germany |
| | „The Triumph of Painting 5”, Saatchi Gallery, London, Great Britain |
| | „Full House“, Kunsthalle, Mannheim, Germany |
| | „The Triumph of Painting”, Leeds City Art Gallery, Leeds, Great Britain |
| 2005 | „The Early Show”, White Columns, New York, USA |
| | „Cecily Brown: Paintings”, Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, Great Britain |
| | „The Triumph of Painting. Part II“, The Saatchi Gallery, London, Great Britain |
| 2004 | „Whitney Biennial 2004“, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA |
| | „Gyroscope“, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C., USA |
| | „Under Pressure: Prints from Two Palms Press“, Cooper Union, New York, USA |
| 2001 | „Szenenwechsel XIX“, Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt am Main, Germany |
| 2000 | „Emotional Rescue: The Contemporary Art Project Collection“, Center on Contemporary Art, Seattle, USA |
| | „The Figure: Another Side of Modernism“, Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art at Snug Harbor Cultural Center, New York, USA |
| | „Greater New York: New Art in New York Now“, P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, USA |
| 1999 | „At Century’s End: The John P. Morrissey Collection of 90’s Art“, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Lake Worth, USA |
| | „Facts & Fictions: La nuova pittura internazionale tra immaginario e realtà: New York“, Galleria in Arco, Turin, Italy |
| | „Pleasure Dome“, Jessica Fredericks Gallery, New York, USA; Janice Guy Gallery, New York, USA |
| | „Four Letter Heaven“ David Zwirner Video Library, New York, USA |
| | „Vertical Painting“, P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, USA |
| 1997 | Janice Guy Gallery, New York, USA |
| 1996 | „Taking Stock“, curated by Kenny Schacter, New York, USA |
| 1994 | „The Fete Worse Than Death“, Laurent Delaye, London, Great Britain |
| | „Contemporary View 1990“, National Competition for British Art Students, sponsored by Christie´s. Winner of First Prize |
| 1995 | „Four Letter Heaven“, a short animated film- Premiered at Telluride Film Festival, Telluride, USA and traveled to Ann Arbor Film Festival, Ann Arbor, USA; Seattle Film Festival, Seattle, USA; „Pandemonium“, Festival of the Moving image, London; Stuttgart Filmfest, Stuttgart, DE, and others in U.S and Europe. Awards at Ann Arbor, the Big Muddy Film Festival and the Black Maria Film Festival |