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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 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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