Gillian Wearing

Gillian Wearing was born 1963 in Birmingham and currently lives and works in London. She was recently commissioned by the Mayor of London to create a statue of Suffragist leader Millicent Fawcett in Parliament Square, which was unveiled in April 2018. Wearing won the Turner Prize in 1997 and was awarded an OBE in 2011 and a CBE in 2019 for contribution to the arts. A survey exhibition of Gillian Wearing’s works will be held at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA in November 2021

Recent solo exhibitions include, Gillian Wearing: Rock ‘n’ Roll 70, Central Gallery, Moody Center for The Arts, Rice University, Houston, Texas, 2019; Life: Gillian Wearing, Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA, 2018; Behind the mask, another mask: Gillian Wearing and Claude Cahun, National Portrait Gallery, London, UK, Family Stories, The National Gallery of Denmark, Copenhagen, 2017; Sandra and Gerald Fineberg Art Wall, ICA Boston, 2016; Instituto Valenciano de Arte Moderno, Valencia, Spain 2015; A Real Birmingham Family, Centenary Square, Library of Birmingham. Birmingham, UK and We Are Here, The New Art Gallery Walsall, Walsall, UK, 2014; Whitechapel Gallery, London, toured to K20, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Dusseldorf and Pinakothek der Moderne, Museum Brandhorst, Munich, 2012; A Real Birmingham Family, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, 2011; Confessions: Portraits, vidéos, Musée Rodin, Paris, 2009; Living Proof, ACCA, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne, 2006.

Gillian Wearing is represented by Maureen Paley, London; Tanya Bonakdar, New York and Regen Projects, Los Angeles.

Image courtesy Maureen Paley London