Gillian Wearing

Gillian Wearing OBE RA ( born December 10, 1963 in Birmingham) is a British contemporary artist, concept art, photo art and video art works in the fields. It is one of the Young British Artists.

Life

Wearing studied art at the Chelsea School of Art in Chelsea, London from 1985 to 1987 and at Goldsmiths College in 1987 until 1990.

1997 she was awarded the Turner Prize. On 11 December 2007 she was elected a full member of the Royal Academy of Arts ( RA) in London and in 2011 the Order of Merit Order of the British Empire ( OBE) awarded for their services to the arts.

She is in a relationship with the artist Michael Landy.

Exhibitions (selection)

  • 2003: Inaugural Exhibition, Regen Projects, Los Angeles
  • 2004: About Face, Hayward Gallery, London
  • 2005: Family Pictures - Fotografia e contemporanea video dalla Collezione del Guggenheim Museum, Galleria Gottardo, Switzerland
  • 2006: Eye on Europe: Prints, Books and Multiples/1960 to Now, Museum of Modern Art, New York
  • 2007: Held Together with Water, Museum of Applied Arts (Vienna ), Vienna
  • 2008: History in the Making: A Retrospective of the Turner Prize, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo

Catalogs

  • Gillian Wearing. On the occasion of the exhibition Gillian Wearing, 28 March-17 June 2012 Whitechapel Gallery. September 8, 2012 - January 6, 2013, art collection of North Rhine -Westphalia. March 1 to June 9, 2013, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, Bavarian Staatsgemälsesammlungen. König, Cologne 2012, ISBN 978-3-86335-156-4.
Fine-art photography Serpentine Galleries Museum of Contemporary Art (Chicago) Tate Modern Integrated Authority File
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