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Gillian Wearing CBE

born 1963

Self Portrait 2000
© Gillian Wearing, courtesy Maureen Paley/ Interim Art, London
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Biography

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. Her statue of the suffragist Millicent Fawcett, popularly known as "Hanging out the washing", stands in London's Parliament Square.

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.

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  • Self Portrait

    Gillian Wearing CBE
    2000
  • The Garden

    Gillian Wearing CBE
    1997
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  • Theresa and Ben

    Gillian Wearing CBE
    1998
  • Theresa and Seamus

    Gillian Wearing CBE
    1998
  • Theresa and Chris

    Gillian Wearing CBE
    1998
  • Theresa and George

    Gillian Wearing CBE
    1998
  • Theresa and Mick

    Gillian Wearing CBE
    1998
  • Theresa and Ali

    Gillian Wearing CBE
    1998
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  • The Garden

    Gillian Wearing CBE
    1997
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