Gillian Wearing

Gillian Wearing
CBE, RA
Gillian Wearing, in the IVAM, València, 2015.
Born (1963-12-10) 10 December 1963 (age 60)
Birmingham, England
NationalityBritish
EducationGoldsmiths
Known forConceptual art, installation art
MovementYoung British Artists
AwardsTurner Prize

Gillian Wearing CBE, RA (born 10 December 1963) is an English conceptual artist, one of the Young British Artists, and winner of the 1997 Turner Prize. In 2007 Wearing was elected as lifetime member of the Royal Academy of Arts in London.[1] Her statue of the suffragist Millicent Fawcett, popularly known as "Hanging out the washing", stands in London's Parliament Square.[2]

From 5 November 2021 to 4 April 2022, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York City showed Gillian Wearing: Wearing Masks, the first retrospective of Wearing's work in North America.[3][4]

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  3. ^ Woodward, Richard B. (19 January 2022). "'Gillian Wearing: Wearing Masks' Review: Turning a New Eye on the 'I'". Wall Street Journal. ISSN 0099-9660. Retrieved 13 February 2022.
  4. ^ Heinrich, Will (18 November 2021). "Gillian Wearing Is Spilling Your Secrets". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 13 February 2022.