|
|
| art of emin biography cv gallery
f.auerbach |
Biography:
Tracey Emin was born in London in 1963 and grew up in Margate. She studied fine art at Maidstone College of Art, graduating in 1986, and then went on to the Royal College of Art in London. In 1993 with the artist Sarah Lucas she opened The Shop in the East End of London, selling work by both of them. Her first solo exhibition was the following year at White Cube Gallery, London. Believing it would be her last as well as first show, she titled it My Major Retrospective. From 1995-8 she ran her personal gallery in Waterloo Road, the Tracey Emin Museum. Since 1995 she has participated extensively in group exhibitions world wide and has had numerous solo exhibitions including I Need Art Like I Need God at the South London Gallery in 1997, and most recently Sobasex at the Sagacho Exhibition Space, Tokyo, and Every Part of Me's Bleeding at Lehmann Maupin Gallery, New York.
Tracey Emin's is a confessional art, manifested in a rich variety of media and unprecedented in its frankness and the unsparing nature of her self examination. Her work is frequently highly confrontational, but is redeemed by its honesty, good humour, self-awareness, poetry and ultimate innocence. Although she deals relentlessly with the minutiae of her own life she touches largely on issues that are common to all, not least sexuality, mortality, and the creation of meaning in life. She shares with prominent artists of the past a preoccupation with what it is to be an artist.
Her work takes the form of mixed media constructions, installations, paintings, drawings, written texts, embroidery collage, live performance, neon signs and photographs. In 1995 she made Everyone I Have Ever Slept With 1963-1995 a work that almost at once became an icon of contemporary British art. Often misunderstood, it is a small tent embroidered on the inside with the names of everyone Emin had literally slept with, including her twin brother in the womb, parents and comatose friends, as well as lovers. Exploration of the Soul 1994, was the first of Emin's published texts, a poetic but frequently harrowing account of her sexual history. In 1996, she made the first of a series of neon pieces described by the critic Neal Brown as 'molten authography [in] pure candyfloss coloured light'. One of the most admired aspects of Emin's practice has always been her drawing, her spare nervous line and her anguished, erotic imagery both having echoes of Egon Schiele and Edvard Munch, two of the artists she most admires.
Tracey Emin lives and works in London
In The Art of Tracey Emin, distinguished critics from Britain and the United States address her achievement in depth for the first time, tracing Emin's influences from Egon Schiele to Judy Chicago and establishing her place in a larger tradition of postmodern and feminist art. Adopting a variety of critical approaches, contributors explore the full range of Emin's work, from photography and monoprints to installation art and videos, showing that, however raw and personal it may seem to be, it actually represents a carefully meditated response to vital issues in contemporary culture and society. 50 illustrations.
CV 1963 Born, London
1986 Maidstone College of Art (Bachelor of Fine Art)
1989 Royal College of Art
Solo 2003 Menphis, Counter Gallery, London
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Australia
2002 This is Another Place, Modern Art Oxford
Ten Years. Tracey Emin, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam 2001 Tracey Emin. You forgot to kiss my soul, White Cube², London
2000 Love is a Strange Thing, Fig.1, London 1999 Tracey Emin Every Part of Me's Bleeding, Lehmann Maupin, New York
1998 Sobasex (My Cunt is Wet with Fear), Sagacho Exhibition Space, Tokyo Pandaemonium, London Electronic Arts Gallery, London 1997 Solo Exhibition, Moo Gallery, Helsinki 1996 It's not me that's crying, it's my soul, Galerie Mot & Van den Boogaard, Brussels 1995 Tracey Emin Museum, 221 Waterloo Road, London SE1 (closed 1998)
1994 My Major Retrospective, White Cube, London
Exploration of the Soul - Journey Across America, Readings at the following locations: Rena Bransten, San Francisco; Regen Projects, Los Angeles; Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego; David Klein Gallery, Detroit; Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh; Sandra Gering Gallery, New York; White Columns, New York
Art Cologne, Sponsored Artist, White Cube, Cologne
1993 The Shop, 103 Bethnal Green Road, London (with Sarah Lucas)
Group
2003 Galleria Lorcan O'Neill, Rome
Social Strategies. Redefining Social Realism, DePauw University, Greencastle
Flexible 4: Identities, Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester
Fast Forward - Media Art, ZKM, Karlsruhe
FRESH: Conteporary British Artists in Print, Edinburgh Printmakers, Edinburgh
Game Over, Grimm Rosenfeld, Munich
Just Love Me: Post-Feministic Art of the 1990s, Bergen Art Museum, Bergen
Independence, South London Gallery, London
The Happy Couple, Cartwright Hall Art Gallery, Bradford
II Racconto del Filo, Museo di Arte Moderna, Trento
Europe Exists, Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki
Let's See the Nature in You, Pepperton Gallery, London
Tactics of the Ego, Stiftung wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum, Duisburg
Social Strategies, Redefining Social Realism, University Art Museum, University of California, Santa Barbara
micro / macro, The Budapest Kunsthalle, Budapest
Words from the Arts Council Collection, The Harris Museum and Art Gallery, Preston
2002 Public Affairs. Von Beuys bis Zittel: Das Offentliche in der Kunst, Kunsthaus Zurich
Die Wohltat der Kunst: Post\Feministische Positionen der neunziger Jahre aus der Sammlung Goetz, Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden
Face Off, Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge
Rapture: Art's Seduction by Fashion Since 1970, Barbican Gallery, London
The Glory of God: New Religiuos Art. St. Peter’s Church, Liverpool
Disturb. 1st Public School of Hydra, Hydra, Greece
Fusion Cuisine. Deste Foundation, Centre for Contemporary Art, Athens, Greece
Landscape, Saatchi Gallery, London
In the Freud Museum, Freud Museum, London
2001 Read-Only Memory, Mead Gallery, Warwick Arts Centre, University of Warwick, Coventry
In Formation, Percy Miller Gallery, London
Insider Trading: profit without honour, Mandeville Hotel, London
Televisions, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna
Video Project Space, Anthony Wilkinson Gallery, London
For the love of dog, Pump House Gallery, London
At Sea, Tate Liverpool, Liverpool
Tattoo Show, Modern Art, London
Freestyle. Werke Aus der Sammlung Boros, Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen
Summer Exhibition 2001, Royal Academy of Arts, London
Century City, Tate Modern, London
2000 Drawings, Sommer Contemporary Art, Tel-Aviv
Sex and the British: Slap & Tickle - A perspective on the sexual content of British Art since the 1960s, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg; Galerie Thadaeus Ropac, Paris
Gut Aufgelegt, Kunsthaus, Hamburg
Drawings, Taché-Levy Gallery, Brussels
Potent Present. Selections from the Vicki and Kent Logan Collection, Logan Galleries, California College of Arts and Crafts, San Francisco
ManMoMa. A Thick Bloke Kicking a Dog to Death, The International 3 Summer Fête, Fairfield, Manchester
From Face to Face. Mimics-Gestures-Emotions, Stästisches Museum Leverkusen, Germany
Art in Sacred Spaces, St. Mary's Church, Islington, London
The British Art Show 5, The Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh (National Touring Exhibitions)
Diary, Cornerhouse, Manchester
1999 Hundstage, Gesellschaft für Aktuelle Kunst, Bremen
Imagen em Movimento. Moving Image, Chiva
[S]ynergies Art, São Paulo
Art Lovers, The Liverpool Biennial of Contemporary Art, Compton House, Liverpool
Sensation, Young British Artists, Brooklyn Museum, New York
Now It's My Turn to Scream. Works by Contemporary British Artists from the Logan Collection, Haines Gallery, San Francisco
Self Evident, Vaknin Schwartz, Atlanta
Temple of Diana, The Blue Gallery, London (Curated by Neal Brown)
Sweetie, The British School at Rome, Rome
Video Festival, Riccione TTV, Palazzo del Turismo, Riccione, Italy
1998 10 SupaStore Supastars, SupaStore at Tomato, London
Made in London. An exhibition of works by London based artists made in the 1990s, Museu de Electricidade, Lisboa
UK Maximum Diversity, Galerie Krinzinger, Benger Fabrik Bregenz, Bregenz, Austria
The Colony Room 50th Anniversary Art Exhibition, A22 Projects, London
Hidden Desires And Images, Art Dynamics, Tayayo Lida, Tokyo
Emotion. Young British and American Art from the Goetz Collection, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg
Personal Effects, Spacex Gallery, Exeter; Angel Row Gallery, Nottingham
Dream Catchers, Montreal Biennial, Canada
Loose Threads, Serpentine Gallery, London
Life is a Bitch, De Appel, Amsterdam
La Biennale de Montreal, Centre International D'Art Contemporain de Montreal, Montreal, Quebec
Sam Taylor-Wood, Tracey Emin, Gillian Wearing, Marc Quinn, Galerija Dante Marino Cettina, Croatia
Live and Let Die Apex Art C.P., New York
Beach Life, Upper Street, London (one day event)
Real Life, Galleria S.A.L.E.S., Rome
The Human Factor, Achenbach Kunsthandel, Düsseldorf
English Rose in Japan, Ginza Art Museum Shisedo, Tokyo
Art from the UK : Angela Bulloch, Willie Doherty, Tracey Emin, Sarah Lucas, Sam Taylor-Wood, Sammlung Goetz, Munich
1997 Ca-Ca Poo-Poo, Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne
History. Image-based work in Britain in the late 20th Century, The Ferens Art Gallery, Kingston Upon Hull (and UK tour)
Craft, Richard Salmon, London
Real Art for Real Women. Oil of Ulay, ICA, London
Absolute Secret, Royal College of Art, London
Private Face. Urban Space, Old Gasworks, Athens; Rethymnon Centre for Contemporary Art
Kunst..Arbeit, 1st Presentation of the Bnks Collection, Südwest LB, Stuttgart
Tales from the City, Stills Gallery, Edinburgh
Sensation, Royal Academy of Arts, London; Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, 1998-99
between the devil and the deep (blue) sea, MUU Gallery, Helsinki
Package Holiday, Hydra Workshops, Hydra, Greece
Time Out, Kunsthalle Nurnberg, Germany
Summer Love, Fotouhi Cramer Gallery, New York
Urban Legends, Baden Baden, Germany
Dissolution, Laurent Delaye Gallery, London
Such is Life, (Video programme), Serpentine Gallery Bookshop, London; Palais des Beaux Arts, Brussels
Hyperenmsiac Fabulations, The Power Plant,Toronto (with Georgina Starr & Jane and Louise Wilson)
Slight, Norwich Gallery, Norwich; Collective Gallery, Edinburgh
1996 Full House, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg
Life / Live, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris; Centro de Exposições do Centro Cultural de Belém, Lisbon (curated by Hans-Ulrich Obrist)
The Aggression of Beauty, Galerie Arndt & Partner, Berlin
Yerself is Steam, 85 Charlotte St. , London
A Grapefruit in the World Park, Transmission Gallery, Glasgow (with Ono, Dean and Heilmann)
Other Men's Flowers, Aurel Scheibler, Köln; The British School at Rome, Rome
Faustrecht der Freiheit (Volkmann Collection), Kunstsammlung Gera, Berlin; Neues Museum Weserburg, Bremen
Co-operators, Southampton City Art Gallery, Southampton (with Sarah Lucas)
1995 Brilliant : New Art from London, Walker Art Centre, Minneapolis; Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston
Brill : Works on Paper by Brilliant Artists, Montgomery Glasgow Fine Art, Minneapolis
Minky Manky, South London Gallery, London; Arnolfini, Bristol (curated by Carl Freedman)
Art for Aids, Gallerie Nicoli Walner, Copenhagen
I Confess, Nikolaj Contemporary Art Centre, Copenhagen
Whistling Women, Chelsea Room, Royal Festival Hall, London (organised by Sarah Kent)
The Friendly Village, Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design, Milwaukee
Other Men's Flowers, IceBox, Athens
1994 Gramercy Park Hotel, Art Fair, New York
Other Men's Flowers, Joshua Compston/London Portfolio, London
1993 Hotel Carlton Palace Chambre 763, Hotel Carlton Palace, Paris (curated by Hans-Ulrich Obrist)
1992 The Phone Box, Various venues, London and Liverpool
frank auerbach |
francis bacon |
Wares: 
Books:
 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
© 2004 by the appropriate owners of the included material |
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
Tracey Emin Archives. lenin@netcomuk.co.uk. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
