Gillian Wearing
Gillian Wearing CBE RA (born December 10, 1963 in Birmingham ) is a British contemporary artist who works in the fields of conceptual art , photographic art and video art . She 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 from 1987 to 1990.
In 1997 she was awarded the Turner Prize . On December 11, 2007, she was elected a full member of the Royal Academy of Arts (RA) in London and in 2011 was awarded the Order of the British Empire (OBE) for her services to the arts. In 2019 he was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE).
She is in a relationship with the artist Michael Landy .
Exhibitions (selection)
- Solo exhibitions
- 1996: Le Consortium , Dijon
- 1998: Center d'art contemporain Genève , Geneva
- 2000: Serpentine Gallery , London
- 2001: Musée d'art moderne de la Ville de Paris , Paris
- 2001: la Caixa , Madrid
- 2002: Museum of Contemporary Art , Chicago
- 2002: Kunsthaus Glarus , Trilogy , Switzerland
- 2006: Maureen Paley , London
- 2011: Tanya Bonakdar Gallery , New York
- 2012: Whitechapel Art Gallery , London
- 2013: Museum Brandhorst , Munich
- Group exhibitions
- 2001: Century City , Tate Gallery of Modern Art , London
- 2003: Inaugural Exhibition , Regen Projects, Los Angeles
- 2004: About Face , Hayward Gallery , London
- 2005: Family Pictures - Fotografia contemporanea e 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 Gillian Wearing exhibition, March 28 - June 17, 2012, Whitechapel Gallery. September 8, 2012 - January 6, 2013, North Rhine-Westphalia Art Collection. March 1 - June 9, 2013, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen. König, Cologne 2012, ISBN 978-3-86335-156-4 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Gillian Wearing in the catalog of the German National Library
- http://www.br.de/radio/bayern2/sendung/kulturwelt/gillian-wearing-museum-brandhorst-muenchen-100.html ( Memento from May 5, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
- Gillian Wearing on kunstaspekte.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Gillian Wearing OBE . Retrieved October 25, 2013.
- ↑ a b c d Royal Academy of Arts: Gillian Wearing RA . Retrieved October 25, 2013.
- ^ Gillian Wearing - Turner Prize winner 1997 . Retrieved October 25, 2013.
- ↑ The London Gazette Saturday 11 June 2011 Supplement No. 1 B13 (PDF). Retrieved August 11, 2017.
- ↑ Museum page on the exhibition , accessed on August 11, 2017.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Wearing, Gillian |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British artist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 10, 1963 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Birmingham |