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Born: 10 December 1963, Birmingham, UK
Elected: 11 December 2007
Category of Membership: Painter
Gillian Wearing studied at Chelsea College of Art 1985–87 and Goldsmiths College 1987–90. She won the Turner Prize in 1997 and, in the same year, her work was included in Sensation at the Royal Academy of Arts: an exhibition of Young British Artists from the Saatchi Collection.
Her work, initially inspired by fly on the wall documentaries such as Michael Apted’s Up Series, is characterised by an engagement with the lives of others and her own family history; she uses photography, video and a range of devices to reveal personal details.
Read an interview with Gillian Wearing in RA Magazine Spring 2012
Recent Solo Exhibitions
2012 Whitechapel Gallery, London
2011 Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York
2006 Maureen Paley, London
2002 Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
2001 Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris
2001 "la Caixa", Madrid
2000 Serpentine Gallery, London
1998 Centre d'Art Contemporain, Geneva
1996 Le Consortium, Dijon
Recent exhibitions
2008 History in the Making: A Retrospective of the Turner Prize, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo
2007 Held together with Water, MAK, Vienna
2006 Eye on Europe: Prints, Books and Multiples/1960 to Now, the Museum of Modern Art, New York
2005 Family Pictures – Fotografia contemporanea e Video dalla Collezione del Guggenheim Museum, Galleria Gottardo, Switzerland
2004 About Face, Hayward Gallery, London
2003 Inaugural Exhibition, Regen Projects, Los Angeles
2001 Century City, Tate Modern, London
