Tracey Emin

Artist, Visual Artist

1963 –

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Who is Tracey Emin?

Tracey Emin, CBE, RA is an English artist. She is part of the group known as Britartists or YBAs.

In 1997 her work Everyone I Have Ever Slept With 1963–1995, a tent appliquéd with names, was shown at Charles Saatchi's Sensation exhibition held at the Royal Academy in London. The same year, she gained considerable media exposure when she appeared drunk and swearing on a live Channel 4 TV discussion.

In 1999, Emin had her first solo exhibition in the United States at Lehmann Maupin Gallery, entitled "Every Part of Me's Bleeding". Later that year, she was a Turner Prize nominee and exhibited My Bed — an installation, consisting of her own unmade dirty bed with used condoms and blood-stained underwear.

In 2004 her tent artwork was destroyed in the Momart warehouse fire. In March 2007 Emin was chosen to join the Royal Academy of Arts in London as a Royal Academician. She represented Britain at the 2007 Venice Biennale. Her first major retrospective 20 Years was held in Edinburgh 2008, and toured Europe until 2009.

In May 2011 Emin's largest major solo exhibition in a public space was held at Hayward Gallery, London titled Love Is What You Want.

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Born
Jul 3, 1963
Croydon
Also known as
  • Tracey Karima Emin
Siblings
Ethnicity
  • British Cypriots
Nationality
  • England
  • United Kingdom
Profession
Education
  • Birkbeck, University of London
  • Royal College of Art
  • Kent Institute of Art & Design
Lived in
  • Margate
  • Croydon

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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