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GILLIAN WEARING
BIOGRAPHY
Born 1963 Birmingham, United Kingdom.
Currently lives and works in London.
Education: Goldsmiths' College, University of London, B.A. (Hons.) Fine Art, 1987-90
Chelsea School of Art, B.TECH Art & Design, 1985-87
Solo Exhibitions:
2007 "Gillian Wearing: Family Monument," special project curated by Fabio
Cavallucci and Cristina Natalicchio, Galleria Civica de Arte
Contemporanea di Trento, Trento, Italy, March 24 – June 10, 2007
2006 "Gillian Wearing: Family History," Maureen Paley, London, United Kingo
2005 "Gillian Wearing: Snapshot," Bloomberg SPACE, London, England, October
8 – November 12, 2005
2004 "Family Portraits," De Hallen, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, April 3 –
June 20, 2004
"Album," Regen Projects, Los Angeles, CA, March 27 – April 24, 2004
Kiasma/Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki
2003 "Album," Interim Art, London, England, October 11-November 23, 2003
"Album," Gorney Bravin + Lee, New York, NY, November 22, 2003-January
10, 2004
2002 "Mass Observation," Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, October 19, 2002 -January 19, 2003; Musée d'Art Contemporain de Montréal, Montréal, Canada, February 26-April 20, 2003; University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, September 4 – December 14, 2003
"Gillian Wearing: a trilogy," Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC, Canada, July 13 - October 27
2001 "I Love You," Sammlung Goetz, Munchen,Germany, June 2 – August 4
"Broad Street," Museu do Chiado, Lisbon, May 22 – September 30
"Sous Influence," ARC, Paris, March 10-May 6, 2001
2000 "Gillian Wearing," Regen Projects, Los Angeles, CA, December 9, 1999 –
January 20, 2001
"Drunk," Contemporary Art Center, Cincinnati, November 11 – December 3
Serpentine Gallery, London, England, September 16 – October 29; "la Caixa",
Madrid, Spain, February 9 - April 1; Centro Galego de Arte
Comtemporanea, July 17 - October 7, 2001, cat.
Gorney Bravin+Lee, New York, NY, April 22 – May 20
1999 Galerie Anne de Villepoix, Paris
Drunk, De Vleeshal, Middelburg, The Netherlands
Maureen Paley Interim Art, London, England, October – November 21
1998 Gallery Koyanagi, Tokyo, Japan, September – October 31
Centre d'Art Contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland
1997 Galerie Drantmann, Brussels, Belgium
Jay Gorney Modern Art, New York, New York, September 26 – October 25
Wiener Secession, Vienna, Austria
10 - 16, Chisenhale Gallery, London
Kunsthaus Zürich, Switzerland
Emi Fontana, Milan, Italy
1996/7 Maureen Paley Interim Art, London, England, December 1, 1996 – January
25
1996 Wish You Were Here (Video Evenings at De Appel), Amsterdam
Le Consortium, Dijon, France
Gillian Wearing, City Projects - Prague, Part II,
The British Council, Prague
Valentina Moncada, Rome (British Council)
Maureen Paley Interim Art, London
1995 Western Security, Hayward Gallery, London
1994 Maureen Paley Interim Art, London
1993 City Racing, London
Group Exhibitions:
2008 "TARANTULA," The Fondazione Nicola Trussardi in collaboration with MIA –
Milano in Alto, Piazza del Duomo, Milan, Italy, June 30, 2008 – July 27,
2008
"Martian Museum of Terrestrial Art," Barbicon Art Gallery, London, UK, March
6 – May 18, 2008
2007 "Mask," James Cohan Gallery, New York, NY, December 13, 2007 – January 26,
2008
"First Person," University Art Museum, UC Santa Barbara, CA, October 17, 2007
– May 11, 2008
"Shoot the Family," Columbus College of Art & Design, Canzani Center
Gallery, Columbus, OH, September 13 – November 7, 2007
"Talking Pictures," K 21 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf,
Germany, August 18 – November 4, 2007
"Passion Complex: Selected Works from the Albright-Knox At Gallery," 21st
Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan, August 1 –
November 11, 2007
"Held Together with Water," Art from the Sammlung Verbund, Vienna,
Austria, May 9 – September 16, 2007
2006 "Masquerade: Role-Playing in Self-Portraiture—Photographs from the Audrey
and Sydney Irmas Collection," Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los
Angeles, CA, October 12 – January 7, 2007
"The Monty Hall Problem," curated by Slater Bradley, Blum & Poe, Los
Angeles, CA, July 1 – August 19, 2006
"Of Mice and Men," 4th Berlin Biennial for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany,
March 25 – June 5, 2006
"Local Stories," Modern Art Oxford, Oxford, England, March 7 – April 30, 2006
"Family Pictures," Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY, February 9 – April 16,
2007
"Shoot the Family," curated by Independent Curators International, Cranbrook
Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, MI, February 4 – April 2, 2006; travels to
Knoxville Museum of Art, Knoxville, TN, June 23 – September 3, 2006;
travels to Western Gallery, Western Washington University,
Bellingham, Washington, October 2 – December 1, 2006; cat.
2005 "Family Pictures: Contemporary Photography and Video from the Collection
of the Guggenheim Museum," organized by Jennifer Blessing,
Galleria Gottardo, Lugano, Switzerland, September 28 – December
23, 2005; cat.
"Person of the Crowd," organized by David Little, Contemporary M useum,
Baltimore, MD, October 21, 2005 – January 14, 2006
Rencontres D'arles Festival, Arles, France, July – September 2005
"Body: New Art from the UK," Vancouver Art Gallery, Canada, May –
September 2005
"Emotional Realism," Khyber Centre for the Arts, Halifax, Canada,
May – June 2005
"Bidibidobidiboo," curated by Francesco Bonami, Sandretto Re
Rebaudengo Collection, Turin, Italy, May 31 – October 2, 2005
"Getting Emotional," Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA, May 19 –
September 4, 2005
2004 "Monument to Now," Deste-Nea Ionia Exhibition Space, curated by Dan
Cameron, Alison M. Gingeras, Massimiliano Gioni, Nancy Spector,
and Jeffrey Deitch, Athens, Greece, June 22 – December 31, 2004
"Revolving Doors," Fundación Telefónica, Madrid
"Social Creatures: How body becomes art," Sprengel Museum Hannover\
"Faces in the Crowd: Picturing Modern Life from Manet to Today,"
Whitechapel, London, UK, December 3 – March 6, 2005
2003 "Inaugural Exhibition," Regen Projects. Los Angeles, February 25 –
March 8, 2003
"Strange Days," Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
"Synopsis III - Fiction and Reality," National Museum of Contemporary
Art, Athens
"Micropolitics I. Art and Everyday Life: 2001 – 1989," Espai d'Art
Contemporani de Castelló, January 10 – March 30, 2003
"The Ends of History," The collection of the IAC FRAC, Rhones-Alpes, in
ten locations in Chambéry, organized by Institut d'Art
Contemporain Villeurbanne, November 7, 2003- February 9, 2004
"Happiness: a survival guide for art & life," Mori Art Museum, Tokyo
2002 "Touch: Relational Art from the 1990's to Now," curated by Nicolas Bourriaud, San Francisco Art Institute Walter and McBean Galleries, October 18 – December 14
"Die Wohltat der kunst: Post\Feministische Positionen der 90er Jahre aus der Sammlung Goetz," Staatliche Kunsthalle, Baden-Baden
"Coming of Age," The New Art Gallery, Walsall
"To Whom it May Concern," California College of Arts and Crafts,
San Francisco
"I Promise it's Political," Museum Ludwig, Cologne
"Remix: Contemporary Art and Pop," Tate Liverpool
"Bienal de São Paulo," Sao Paulo, Brazil
"The Video Show," Centraal Museum, Utrecht
"Acquisitions 2001 – Part 1: Photographs, Video Installations, Video," National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens
2001 "Revolving Doors," curated by: Montse Badia, apexart curatorial program, New York, November 14- December 22
"Die Wohltat Der Kunst - Post/Feministische Positionen der 90er Jahre aus der Sammlung Goetz," Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, September 14 - November 10
"Let's Entertain," Co-produced by the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis and the Centre Georges Pompidou, Musee national d'art moderne, Paris; travels to Miami Art Museum, Miami, FL, September 13 - November 18, cat.
"Sous influence," Musee d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, March 10 - May 6
"Film Festival Rotterdam," Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen Rotterdam,
Rotterdam, The Netherlands
"Century City," Tate Modern, London
"Telling Tales: Narrative Impulses in Recent Art," Tate Liverpool
2000 "Scopophilia: Pleasure in Looking," The Contemporary Arts Center,
Cincinnati, Ohio
"Autowerke," Deichtorhallen, Hamburg
"Intelligence: New British Art 2000, "Tate Britain, London
"Puerile '69," The Living Art Museum, Reykjavík
"Tate Modern Collection," Tate Modern, London
docudrama, Bury St. Edmunds Art Gallery, Bury St. Edmunds
Tate Britain Collection, Tate Gallery, London
Let's Entertain, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis and touring
Quotidiana, Castello di Rivoli, Turin
Makeshift, ArtPace, San Antonio, Texas
1999 Rewind to the Future, Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn
and Neue Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin
People, Le Spot, contemporary art centre, Le Harve
Hundstage, Gesellschaft für Aktuelle Kunst, Bremen
Ex-Change, La Criee-Centre d'Art Contemporain, Rennes
The Viewing Room, Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City
This Other World of Ours, TV Gallery, Moscow
Rattling the Frame: The Photographic Space 1974-1999,
SF Camerawork, San Francisco
La Coscienza Luccicante, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome
6th International Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul, Turkey
Garden of Eros, Centre Cultural Tecla Sala, Barcelona
Common People, Fondazione Sandretto re Rebaudengo per l'Arte, Turin
Sweetie: Female Identity in British Video, The British School at Rome
Searchlight: Consciousness at the Millennium, The California College
of Arts and Crafts, Oakland
Private Room / Public Space, Almeers Centrum Hedendaagse Kunst,
Al Almere, The Netherlands
1998 La Concienza Luccicante, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome
In Visible Light, Moderna Museet, Stockholm
Fast Forward Body Check, Kunstverein, Hamburg
Sensation - Young British Artists from the Saatchi Collection,
Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin
Contemporary British Art, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea
Galerija Dante Marino Cettina, Umag, Croatia
UK Maximum Diversity, Galerie Krinzinger, Bregenz
and Künste Wein, Vienna, Austria
A Collection in the Making, The Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin
Internationale Foto Triennale/Photography as Concept,
Galerien der Stadt Esslingen, Esslingen, Germany
Made in London, Musea de Electricidade, Lisbon
La Sphere de L'Intime, Le Printemps de Cahors, Saint-Cloud, France
Real/Life: New British Art, Japanese Museum Tour, Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Arts, Fukuoka City Art Museum, Hiroshima Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo Museum of Contemporary Art
Musée du Rochechouart, (with Valerie Jouve and Rineke Dijkstra), Rochechouart, France
Videorama, Depot, Kunst und Diskussion, Vienna, Austria
White Noise, Kunsthalle Berne, Switzerland
ENGLISH ROSE in Japan (with Tracey Emin & Georgina Starr),
The Ginza Artspace, Tokyo, Japan
1997 The Turner Prize 1997, Tate Gallery, London
Private Face - Urban Space, co-organised by the Hellenic Art Galleries Association & The Rethymnon Centre for Contemporary Art,
Athens & Rethymnon, Greece
Tales from the City, Stills Gallery, Edinburgh
Sensation, Saatchi Collection, Royal Academy of Art, London
Pictura Britannica: Art from Britain, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia, travelling to Adelaide, Australia and
Wellington, New Zealand,
Projects, The Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin
Package Holiday - New British Art in the Ophiuchus Collection
The Hydra Workshop, Hydra, Greece
Splash, AAC Galerie Weimar, Germany
I.D., Nouveau Musee, Villeurbanne, France
Gillian Wearing/Barbara Visser, Bloom Gallery, Amsterdam, Holland
Galerie Anne de Villepoix, Paris
S.L. Simpson Gallery, Toronto, Canada
In Visible Light: Photography and Classification in Art, Science and the Everyday, Museum of Modern Art, Oxford
1996 I.D., Van Abbe Museum, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
Life / Live, co - curated by Laurence Bosse & Hans-Ulrich Obrist,
ARC (Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris), France
Full House -Young British Art, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Germany
Playpen & Corpus Delirium, Kunsthalle Zürich, Switzerland
a/drift: Scenes From the Penetrable Culture, curated by Joshua Decter,
Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, New York
The Aggression of Beauty, Galerie Arndt & Partner, Berlin
Electronic Undercurrents - Art & Video in Europe, The Royal Museum of Fine Arts, Copenhagen
Private View, Contemporary Art in the Bowes Museum, Barnard Castle, County Durham, co - curated by Penelope Curtis and Veit Görner,
organised by the Henry Moore Institute
The Fifth New York Video Festival,
The Film Society of Lincoln Center, New York
Toyama Now '96, curated by Iwona Blazwick,
The Museum of Modern Art, Toyama, Japan
The Cauldron, Henry Moore Institute, Leeds
NowHere, (Incandescent, curator Laura Cottingham),
Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark
Auto-reverse 2, Centre National D'Art Contemporain Grenoble, France
Traffic, CAPC Musée Contemporain Bordeaux, France
Imagined Communities, Oldham Art Gallery; John Hansard Gallery,
Southampton; Firstsite, Colchester; Walsall Museum & Art Gallery; Royal Festival Hall, London; Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow
Pandaemonium; London Festival of Moving Images, I.C.A, London
1995 X/Y, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
Campo, Venice Biennale, curated by Francesco Bonami
Sage, Galerie Michel Rien, Tours, France
It's not a picture, Galleria Emi Fontana, Milan
Brilliant! New Art from London, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
Brill: Works on Paper by Brilliant Artists,
Montgomerie Glasgoe Fine Art, Minneapolis
British Art Show 4, touring Great Britain
Mysterium Alltag, Kampnagel, Hamburg,
(with Jane & Louise Wilson, Tacita Dean, Tracey Emin)
Aperto '95, Nouveau Musée, Institut d'Art Contemporain,
Villeurbanne, France
Hotel Mama (Aperto '95), Kunstraum, Wein, Austria
Make Believe, Royal College of Art, London
Mobius Strip, Basilico Fine Arts, New York
Hello! Andréhn - Schiptjenko, Stockholm
Gone, Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, (with Bas Jan Ader,
Sam Durant, Rainer Ganahl)
1994 Le Shuttle, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin
3.016.026, Theoretical Events, Naples
Uncertain Identity, Galerie Analix B & L Polla, Geneva
Fuori Fase, Via Farini, Milan
Domestic Violence, curated by Alison Jacques, Gio Marconi's House, Milan
R.A.S, curated by Gianni Romano, Galerie Analix B & L. Polla, Geneva
Not Self-Portrait, Karsten Schubert, London
1993 BT Young Contemporaries; Cornerhouse, Manchester, Orchard Gallery, Derry, The Maplin Art Gallery, Sheffield, City Museum and Art
Gallery, Stoke-on-Trent, Centre for Contemporary Art, Glasgow
Okay Behaviour, 303 Gallery, New York
Mandy Loves Declan 100%, Mark Boote Gallery, New York
2 into 1, Centre 181 Gallery, London
Vox Pop, Laure Genillard Gallery, London
1992 Instruction, Marconi Gallery, Milan
British Art Group Show, Le Musee des Beaux Arts dans Le Havre, France
1991 Piece Talks, Diorama Art Centre, London
Clove 1, The Clove Building, London
Empty Gestures, Diorama Art Centre, London
Projects
1998 "South Bank Show," London Weekend Television
1996 Guest editor, Documents sur L'art
1994 "Rooseum Video Programme," Rooseum Center for Contemporary Art,
SwedenHolly Street Estate Art Project, London
Awards
1997 Turner Prize 1997
2000 BT Young Contemporaries
Public Collections
ARC, Paris
Arts Council of Great Britain, London
The British Council, London
Contemporary Art Society, London
The Government Art Collection, London
The Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle
Institut d'Art Contemporain Collection FRAC Rhône-Alpes
Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin
Kunsthaus Zürich, Switzerland
Leeds City Art Gallery, Leeds
Saatchi Gallery, London
Southampton City Art Gallery, Southampton
South London Gallery, London
Simmons & Simmons, London
Tate Britain, London
