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Born: 12 November, 1965
Elected: 9 December, 2008
Category of Membership: Painter
Tacita Dean, Majesty, 2006. Gouache on fibre based photograph mounted on paper, 300 x 420 cm Courtesy the artist , Frith Street Gallery, London and Marian Goodman Gallery New York and Paris
Tacita Dean graduated from Falmouth School of Art in 1988; studied at the Supreme School of Fine Art, Athens and took her Masters at the Slade School of Fine Art 1990 – 1992.
She trained as a painter, but is best known as a filmmaker. Her poignant narratives, which fuse fiction and reality, are imbued with elliptical allusions. Her abiding themes are the sea and architectural relics.
She was awarded the 2006 Hugo Boss Prize, the DAAD Fellowship, and in 1998 was short-listed for the Turner Prize. She was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 2013.
Read an interview with Tacita Dean in RA Magazine Winter 2009
Recent Solo Exhibitions
2013 Arcadia University Art Gallery, Philadelphia, US
Marian Goodman Gallery, New York
2012-2013 Unilever Series, Tate Modern, London
2012 New Museum, New York
Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, Florida
2011 MUMOK, Vienna
Niels Borch Jensen Galerie, Berlin
2010 Common Guild, Glasgow
Craneway Event, Frith Street Gallery, London
2009 Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne, Australia
Sprengel Museum, Hanover
Museum of Contemporary Art, Montreal
2008 In My Manor, Villa Oppenheim Galerie für Gegenwartskunst, Berlin
Amadeus, Marian Goodman, Paris
DIA, Beacon
2007 Wandermüde, Frith Street Gallery
Hugh Lane Gallery, Dublin
Tacita Dean, Guggenheim Museum, New York
Tacita Dean: Film works, Miami Art Central
2006 Analogue: Films, Photographs, Drawings 1991-2006, Schaulager, Basel
Human Treasure, Center for Contemporary Art, Kitakyushu, Japan
Tacita Dean, the National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design, Oslo
2005 Berlin Works, Tate St Ives
Presentation Sisters and the Presentation Windows, Cork 2005
An Aside, selected by Tacita Dean National Touring Exhibitions, Hayward Gallery
2004 Boots, Royal Institute of British Architects, London
Tacita Dean, Frith Street Gallery, London
Tacita Dean, De Pont, Tilburg, Netherlands
Gellért, Presentatoin House Gallery, Vancouver
Blind Pan, Niels Borch Jensen, Berlin
2003 Tacita Dean ARC, Museè d’Art Moderne de la ville de Paris
Tacita Dean, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York
Sun Works, Ludwig Forum für Internationale kunst, Aachen
2002 12.10.02 – 21.12.02, Kunstverein für die Rheinlands und Westfalen, Düsseldorf
The Russian Ending, Peter Blum, New York
2001 Tacita Dean, Museu de Art Contemporanea de Serralves, Porto
Recent Film and Other Works, Tate Britain, London
FLOH, Frith Street Gallery, London
Tacita Dean, Marian Goodman, Paris
Directions, Hirshhorn Museum, Washington
Tacita Dean DAAD Gallery, Berlin
Fernsehturm, Niels Borch Jensen, Berlin
Under/Above, Melbourne International Biennial, Melbourne
2000 Tacita Dean, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York
Tacita Dean, Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Basel
Gellért, Sala Montcada de la Fundació “la Caixa”, Barcelona
Banewl, Matrix Program, Berkeley Art Museum, University of California
