About
Marc Newson approaches design as an experimental exercise in extreme structure and advanced technologies, combined with a highly tactile and exacting exploration of materials, processes, and skills. As an industrial designer, his reach is broad and diverse, from concept jets and cars to watches, footwear, luggage, and aircraft interiors. Since the outset of his career, he has also produced beautifully crafted, limited-edition furniture, including the now-iconic Lockheed Lounge (1986). In a world where the distinctions between art and design are becoming increasingly blurred, Newson is a trailblazer, having pursued parallel activities in exclusive and mass production for more than twenty years.
Newson was born in 1963 in Sydney. He graduated in 1984 from Sydney College of the Arts. Newson’s work has been exhibited in numerous group exhibitions, including 150 Years of International Design, Vitra Design Museum, Berlin (1993); Sièges en Vedette, Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Lausanne, Switzerland (1994); 13 After Memphis, Museum für Kunsthandwerk, Frankfurt, Germany (1995); Blend Collection, Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris (1996, traveled to Design Museum, London); Marc Newson, Jasper Morrison and Michael Young: Design, Reykjavík Art Museum—Kjarvalsstadir (1999); Aluminum by Design: Jewelry to Jets, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh (2001); Design Museums of the World, Neues Museum, Berlin (2003); The Incredible Elastic Chairs of Samuel Gragg, Winterthur Museum, Garden, and Library, Delaware (2004); Big Bang: Destruction et création dans l’art du XXe siècle, Centre Pompidou, Paris (2005); Collection of the Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo (2006); Out of Hand: Materializing the Postdigital, Museum of Arts and Design, New York (2013); and Make Yourself Comfortable, Chatsworth House, England (2015). Recent solo shows include Bucky: De la chimie au design, Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, Paris (1995); Design Works, Powerhouse Museum, Sydney (2001); Kelvin 40, Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, Paris (2004); Groninger Museum, Groningen, Netherlands (2004); Design Museum, London (2004); and At Home, Philadelphia Museum of Art (2013).
Newson lives and works in London.
Exhibitions
Marc Newson
May 23–July 27, 2019
Hong Kong
Marc Newson
January 17–February 20, 2019
West 21st Street, New York
Marc Newson
Transport
September 14–October 16, 2010
West 21st Street, New York
Marc Newson
March 4–April 19, 2008
Davies Street, London
Marc Newson
January 25–March 3, 2007
West 24th Street, New York
In Conversation
Marc Newson & Derek Blasberg
Marc Newson tells Derek Blasberg about his newest creations, explaining the backstory of these ornate works.
Behind the Art
Marc Newson
In this video, Marc Newson provides an overview of his latest exhibition. He details the various technical processes behind his new designs, including works in cloisonné, surfboards, swords, and large-scale glass chairs.
Now available
Gagosian Quarterly Spring 2019
The Spring 2019 issue of Gagosian Quarterly is now available, featuring Red Pot with Lute Player #2 by Jonas Wood on its cover.
Fairs, Events & Announcements
Auction
(RED) Auction
Live auction: Wednesday, December 5, 2018
Online auction: November 12–December 7, 2018
Exhibition: December 1–7, 2018
Moore Building, Miami
Gagosian is pleased to announce the third (RED) Auction to support the fight against AIDS, organized in partnership with (RED) and Sotheby’s.
Bono, the driving force behind (RED), invited artist Theaster Gates and architect Sir David Adjaye to cocurate a selection of contemporary art and design that will be auctioned by Sotheby’s on December 5, 2018, during Art Basel in Miami Beach and Design Miami/ 2018. Gagosian will present a preview exhibition of the works at the famed Moore Building in Miami, which will open on World AIDS Day, December 1.
Artists donating works include Ai Weiwei, Christo, Rachel Feinstein, Teresita Fernández, Frank Gehry, Jennifer Guidi, Sir Jony Ive and Marc Newson, Jeff Koons, Guillermo Kuitca, Marilyn Minter, Wangechi Mutu, Jenny Saville, and Sean Scully; Adjaye and Gates will also contribute unique pieces.
Proceeds from this year’s auction will support community-based programs in Africa through the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, while also providing assistance to fight HIV through community-strengthening programs in Chicago with Theaster Gates’s Rebuild Foundation. For additional information, please contact Lidia Andich at redauction@gagosian.com.
View the auction catalogue (PDF)
Theaster Gates, Bono, and David Adjaye. Photo: Rankin
Art Fair
FOG Design+Art
January 17–20, 2019, booth 309
Fort Mason Festival Pavilion, San Francisco
fogfair.com
Gagosian is pleased to participate in FOG Design+Art 2019, with modern and contemporary artworks by Joe Bradley, Edmund de Waal, Helen Frankenthaler, Katharina Grosse, Mark Grotjahn, Damien Hirst, Marc Newson, Giuseppe Penone, Nancy Rubins, Ed Ruscha, Richard Serra, Adriana Varejão, Mary Weatherford, Rachel Whiteread, Jonas Wood, Richard Wright, and others.
To receive a PDF with detailed information on the works, please contact the gallery at inquire@gagosian.com. To attend the fair, purchase tickets at fogfair.com. To preview our booth, go to artsy.net.
Download the full press release
Adriana Varejão, Pearl Song, 2018 © Adriana Varejão
Art Fair
Seattle Art Fair
August 2–5, 2018, booth A09
CenturyLink Field Event Center, Seattle
www.seattleartfair.com
Gagosian is pleased to present Out of This World: Artists Explore Space, a booth curated by Larry Gagosian for the 2018 Seattle Art Fair. The presentation gathers works that reveal artistic and scientific explorations of the cosmos. Featured artists include Richard Avedon, Andisheh Avini, Chris Burden, Alexander Calder, Vija Celmins, Ellen Gallagher, Andreas Gursky, Damien Hirst, Neil Jenney, Mike Kelley, Yves Klein, Vera Lutter, Brice Marden, Marc Newson, Nam June Paik, Thomas Ruff, Ed Ruscha, Tom Sachs, Taryn Simon, Yves Tanguy, and Andy Warhol, among others.
To receive a PDF with detailed information on the works, please contact the gallery at inquire@gagosian.com. To attend the fair, purchase tickets at seattleartfair.com.
Ed Ruscha, Even Though He’s Light Years Away, His Heart Belongs to Me, 1963 © Ed Ruscha
Museum Exhibitions
Closed
Tubology
Our Lives in Tubes
April 21–December 30, 2018
FRAC Grand Large—Hauts-de-France, Dunkirk, France
www.fracnpdc.fr
Tubology: Our Lives in Tubes offers a totally new reading of the FRAC Grand Large collection from the 1960s up to the present day, and speculates about the prerequisites for rendering art and design relevant to a society mutating at high speed. Work by Marc Newson and Taryn Simon is included.
Taryn Simon, Research Marijuana Crop Grow Room, National Center for Natural Products Research, Oxford, Mississippi, 2007 © Taryn Simon
Press
Marc Newson’s Latest Masterworks Blend Ancient Crafts with Modern Forms by Paul Keskeys
Architectural Digest
January 18, 2019
Online
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The Hot Seat: Designer Marc Newson Is Celebrated With a Gagosian Gallery Show by Lilah Ramzi
Vogue
January 18, 2019
Online
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Marc Newson on design, reviving crafts and his solo show at Gagosian New York by Carly Ayres
Wallpaper
January 17, 2019
Online
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