Gillian Wearing
Throughout the past two decades, Gillian Wearing’s films, photographs and sculptures have investigated public personas and private lives. Since the beginning of her career, the artist has drawn from techniques of theater, reality television and fly-on-the-wall documentary-making to construct narratives that explore personal fantasies and confessions, individual traumas, cultural histories, and the role of the media. Anonymity through elaborate masks, costumes and role-play has remained a critical part of Wearing’s practice and influential investigation of the ways in which individuals present themselves to others when the self is temporarily concealed.
Born in 1963 in Birmingham, Wearing present lives and works in London. She received a bachelor of technology degree in art & design from London’s Chelsea School of Art in 1987 and a BFA from Goldsmiths' College, University of London in 1990. An important member of the Young British Artists, Wearing was awarded the Turner Prize in 1997.
In 2012, Whitechapel Art Gallery in London presented a major retrospective of the artist’s work, which traveled to K20 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen in Düsseldorf, and to Pinakothek der Moderne’s Museum Brandhorst in Munich in 2013. Wearing's permanent sculpture A Real Birmingham Family opened in 2014 in Centenary Square outside the new Library of Birmingham, UK.
Other important solo presentations include Gillian Wearing at the Pinakothek der Moderne in the Museum Brandhorst in Munich, Germany, Self Made at the 54th BFI London Film Festival (2010), Confessions: Portraits, Videos at Musée Rodin in Paris (2009), Living Proof at ACCA, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art in Melbourne (2006), Snapshot at Bloomberg Space in London (2005), Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma in Helsinki, Finland (2004), and Mass Observation, which opened at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago in 2002 and traveled to the Institute of Contemporary Art at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia and to Musée d'Art Contemporain de Montréal in Canada in 2003.
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THE RETURN OF THE REAL
Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York July 14 - August 28, 2020 -
Songs in the Dark
Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York January 11 - February 20, 2020 -
Gillian Wearing: Rock ‘n’ Roll 70
Moody Center for the Arts, Rice University June 1 - August 31, 2019 -
GILLIAN WEARING: LIFE
CINCINNATI ART MUSEUM October 5 - December 30, 2018 -
Gillian Wearing - Family Stories
SMK, Denmark October 3 - January 7, 2018 -
GILLIAN WEARING: MILLICENT FAWCETT STATUE
PARLIAMENT SQUARE, LONDON April 24, 2018 - January 1, 2050 -
Gillian Wearing & Claude Cahun: Behind the Mask, Another Mask
National Portrait Gallery, London March 9 - May 29, 2017 -
GILLIAN WEARING: MY POLAROID YEARS
ADAA, PARK AVENUE ARMORY, NEW YORK March 2 - 6, 2016 -
Between the Lines
Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York January 9 - February 8, 2014 -
GILLIAN WEARING
KUNSTSAMMLUNG NORDRHEIN-WESTFALEN, K20 GRABBEPLATZ, DÜSSELDORF, GERMANY September 8, 2012 - January 6, 2013 -
GILLIAN WEARING
WHITECHAPEL GALLERY, LONDON March 28 - June 17, 2012 -
Gillian Wearing: People
Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York May 5 - June 24, 2011
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Gillian Wearing
1999 Softcover, 160 pages pages
Publisher: Phaidon
Dimensions: 290 x 250 mm Read more -
Gillian Wearing: Serpentine Gallery
Lisa G. Corin, 2000 Softcover, pages
Publisher: Serpentine Gallery, UK
ISBN: 1870814428 Read more -
Gillian Wearing: Unspoken
Dirk Snauwaert, 2001 Read more -
Gillian Wearing: Sous Influence
Les Musée De La Ville De Paris / Les Amis De Musée D’Art Moderne De La Ville De Paris Laurence Bosse, Jean-Christophe Royoux, Angeline Scherf, and Jean-Charles Massera., 2001 Hardcover, 76 pages pages
Publisher: Editions Des Musées De La Ville De Paris
ISBN: 2 87900 567 1
Dimensions: 20,5 x 26 cm Read more -
Gillian Wearing: A Trilogy
Daina Augaitis, Mark Beasley, Russell Ferguson, Marina Roy, 2002 Softcover, 31 pages pages
Publisher: Vancouver Art Gallery
Dimensions: 8.5 x 10 inches Read more -
Gillian Wearing: Mass Observation
Gillian Wearing, Dominic Molon, Barry Schwabsky, 2002 Hardcover, 120 pages pages
Publisher: MCA Chicago and Merrell, London Read more -
Gillian Wearing: Living Proof
Kay Campbell, Juliana Engberg, 2005 Read more -
Gillian Wearing: Family History
Paul Morley, Steven Bode, Gillian Wearing, Stuart Comer., 2007 Hardback, 80 pages pages
Publisher: Ikon, London Read more -
Gillian Wearing
Daniel F. Herrmann, Doris Krystof, Bernhart Schwenk and David Deamer , 2012 Softcover, 232 pages pages
Publisher: Ridinghouse, UK
Dimensions: 32 × 23 cm Read more -
Gillian Wearing
2015 Softcover, 110 pages pages
Publisher: IVAM Institut Valencia d'Art Modern, Valencia
ISBN: 8448260511
Dimensions: 28 cm Read more -
Gillian Wearing and Claude Cahun: Behind the mask, another mask
Sarah Howgate and Dawn Ade, 2017 Hardcover, 208pp pages
Publisher: National Portrait Gallery, London
Dimensions: 250 x 210mm Read more -
Gillian Wearing: Family Stories
Mikkel Bogh, Jacob Fabricius, Marianne Torp, 2017 hardcover, 96 pages pages
Publisher: Hatje Cantz
Dimensions: 29.70 x 21.00 cm Read more