Gillian Wearing RA
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.
Solo shows include:
Maureen Paley, London (2006)
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (2002)
Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris (2001)
"la Caixa", Madrid (2001)
Serpentine Gallery, London (2000)
Centre d'Art Contemporain, Geneva (1998)
Le Consortium, Dijon(1996)
Other recent exhibitions include:
History in the Making: A Retrospective of the Turner Prize, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo (2008)
Held together with Water, MAK, Vienna (2007)
Eye on Europe: Prints, Books and Multiples/1960 to Now, the Museum of Modern Art, New York (2006)
Family Pictures – Fotografia contemporanea e Video dalla Collezione del Guggenheim Museum, Galleria Gottardo, Switzerland (2005)
About Face, Hayward Gallery, London (2004)
Inaugural Exhibition, Regen Projects, Los Angeles (2003)
Century City, Tate Modern, London (2001)
