格里．休姆1962年出生於英國肯特郡，曾就讀利物浦理工學院及倫敦金匠學院，1996年入選「特納獎」決賽，同年參加聖保羅雙年展；翌年獲「哲爾伍德繪畫獎」；1999年代表英國在威尼斯雙年展英國館舉行個展。現於倫敦及紐約州北部生活及工作。
休姆的作品以採用普通光漆，平塗出鮮豔色塊見稱。1990年代初期，休姆藉著繪畫醫院大門的簡略形象，創作了系列作品《門》，因而嶄露頭角。其後更將創作題材進一步擴展至肖像、裸體和花園等。休姆揀選時裝模特兒凱蒂．莫絲肖像為作品主題，反映了他對流行文化的興趣。1999年休姆在威尼斯雙年展中展出系列作品《水繪畫》，以交織重叠的線條勾勒出各式裸體形象。2006年，他的展覽「岩畫」在倫敦白立方畫廊舉行，當中展出的作品以不同種類的石塊如雲石和鉛等，拼貼在畫面上並純以手工雕刻。
休姆作品富有平面設計特色，適合於版畫製作，尤其絲網版畫。所以除繪畫外，休姆也創作了不少網印作品，包括十幅以無光鋁片製作的系列作品《姊妹團隊》 (2009) 。
其主要個展包括「庭園工作」(馬太．麥克斯畫廊，紐約，2009)；「古銅色的美國」(白立方畫廊，倫敦，2007)；凱斯特納畫廊，漢諾威，2004；布雷根茨藝術博物館，奧地利，2004；愛爾蘭現代藝術館，都柏林，2003；凱夏基金會，巴塞羅那，2000；白教堂畫廊，倫敦，1999；蘇格蘭國家現代美術館，愛丁堡，1999。主要聯展包括「靈性藝術：UBS藝術藏品」(森美術館，東京，2008)；「餘震：當代英國藝術1990-2006」(北京首都博物館，廣州廣東美術館，2006-7)；「感覺：薩奇英國青年藝術家藏品」展(倫敦、柏林、紐約，1997-9)；「閃耀！倫敦新藝術」(明尼阿坡里斯，休斯頓，1995-6)。1988年，休姆與馬特．科里索及莎拉．盧卡斯等年青藝術家共同參予展覽「凝」(1988)。
Gary Hume was born in Kent in 1962 and studied at Liverpool Polytechnic and Goldsmiths College in London. In 1996 he was shortlisted for the Turner Prize and his work was shown at the Bienal de São Paulo. He was awarded the Jerwood Prize for Painting the following year and in 1999 represented Britain with a solo exhibition in the British Pavilion at the Venice Biennale. Hume lives and works in London and upstate New York, USA.
Hume is best known for his paintings of bright, flat colour combinations, which he produces using household gloss paint. He came to prominence in the early 1990s with a series of works known as Door paintings, simplified images of hospital doors in highly reflective gloss paint. He then expanded his subject matter to include other motifs such as the portrait, the nude, and the garden. In Hume’s portraits in particular, we see his interests in popular culture by his choice of subjects such as fashion model Kate Moss. For the 1999 Venice Biennale he produced a series of large scale overlapping line drawings of nudes entitled Water Paintings. More recently, for his exhibition Cave Paintings at White Cube in London in 2006, Hume incorporated lead as well as different types of stone such as marble into his work, carving them by hand and presenting them together as collages.
The graphic quality of Hume’s work lends itself to printmaking, in particular screenprints. Hume has produced a number of screenprints alongside his paintings, including the series The Sister Troop (2009), a group of ten prints on brushed aluminium.
Selected solo exhibitions include Yard Work, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York, 2009; American Tan, White Cube, London, 2007; Kestnergesellschaft, Hannover, Kunsthaus Bregenz, Austria, 2004; Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, 2003; Fundação la Caixa, Barcelona, 2000; Whitechapel Art Gallery, London and Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, 1999. Selected group exhibitions include Art Is For The Spirit: From the UBS Art Collection, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, 2008; Aftershock: Contemporary British Art 1990-2006, Capital Museum, Beijing and Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou 2006-7; Sensation: Young British Artists from the Saatchi Collection, London, Berlin and subsequently New York, 1997-9; and Brilliant! New Art from London at Minneapolis, and Houston, 1995-6. Hume was also one of the young artists to exhibit in the seminal exhibition Freeze in 1988 along with other artists such as Mat Collishaw and Sarah Lucas.