Gillian Wearing | Artist | Royal Academy of Arts

Gillian Wearing RA (b. 1963)

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. In 2018 a bronze statue by Wearing, commemorating the life of the suffragist Millicent Fawcett, was erected in Parliament Square, London.

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Royal Academician

Painter

Born: 1963 in Birmingham, England, United Kingdom

Nationality: British

Elected RA: 11 December 2007

Gender: Female

Preferred media: Photography, Film making, and Sculpture

Works by Gillian Wearing in the RA Collection

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Gillian Wearing RA

Me as a Ghost, 2015

Works associated with Gillian Wearing in the RA Collection

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James Hunkin

Gillian Wearing R.A., August 2009

Selected CV
- Recent solo exhibitions
  
  2018 Life: Gillian Wearing, Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, Ohio
  2017 Gillian Wearing, The National Gallery of Denmark, Copenhagen
  Behind the mask, another mask: Gilliam Wearing and Claude Cahun, National Portrait Gallery, London
  Gillian Wearing -Family Stories, Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen
  2015 Gillian Wearing, Instituto Valenciano de Arte Moderno, Valencia
  2014 Rose Video 5, Rose Video Gallery, The Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachussets
  Gillian Wearing: everyone, Regen Projects, Los Angeles, California
  We the Memories / looking back, The New Art Gallery Walsall
  We Are Here, Maureen Paley, London
  2013 Gillian Wearing, Pinakothek der Moderne in the Museum Brandhorst, Munich
  2012 Gillian Wearing, Whitechapel Gallery, London; traveling to K20 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf
- Awards
  
  2014 Vincent Award, Gemeentemuseum/GEM, The Hague, Netherlands
  Liberty Human Rights Awards 2014 for A Real Birmingham Family
  2007 Grazia o2 X Award for Art
  2002 British Television Advertising Award, Public Service: Gold
  1998 For 2 into 1, Oberhausen Short Film Festival
  Prize of the Ministry of Employment, Social Affairs and Urban Development, Culture and Sport
  1997 Turner Prize 1997
  1993 BT Young Contemporaries
- Selected collections
  
  Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York
  Arts Council of England, London
  The British Council, London
  Contemporary Art Society, London
  The George Eastman House, Rochester, NY
  The Government Art Collection, London
  The Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle
  Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC
  Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
  Institut d‘Art Contemporain Collection FRAC Rhône-Alpes
  Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin
  Kunsthaus Zürich, Switzerland
  Leeds City Art Gallery, Leeds
  Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
  Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
  Saatchi Gallery, London
  Southampton City Art Gallery, Southampton
  South London Gallery, London
  Tate Britain, London
  Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota