BIOGRAPHY

Tacita Dean (b.1965)

Tacita Dean was born in 1965 in Canterbury, England. She studied at Falmouth School of Art, graduating in 1988. She studied in Athens for a year on a Greek government scholarship, before gaining a postgraduate degree from The Slade School of Fine Art, London, in 1992. The following year she won the 'Barclay's Young Artists' prize and exhibited at the Serpentine Gallery. Dean held her first solo exhibition 'The Martyrdom of St Agatha and Other Stories', at Galerija Skuc, Maribor, Slovenia. Since then she has had many solo exhibitions, including: Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam (1997); ICA, Philadelphia, with US tour (1998); Museum fur Gegenwartskunst, Basel (2000), MACBA, Barcelona (2001); Tate St Ives (2005).

Tacita Dean was nominated for the 1998 Turner Prize. She has undertaken special commissions for London's Millennium Dome, the Sadler's Wells Theatre, and for Cork, Ireland, as part of that city's European City of Culture celebrations. She has also completed residencies at the Sundance Institute, the Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, USA, and the Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst, Berlin

Her work is held in Private collections and Public Institutions internationally including the collection of the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Tate, London and the British Council

Deans works The Roaring Forties: Seven Boards in Seven Days 1997, and Disappearance at Sea 1996, relating to this work is currently featured in the Material Gestures wing, at Tate Modern, London