Tacita Dean

Born in Canterbury, England in 1965. Tacita Dean studied in the painting departments at Falmouth School of Art in Cornwall and the Slade School of Fine Art in London. Known internationally for her work in 16mm film, drawing, photography and printmaking, among other media, Dean has been awarded numerous prestigious prizes, including the Hugo Boss Prize (2006) and the Kurt Schwitters Prize (2009), and was a 1998 nominee for Great Britain's Turner Prize. Her work has been the subject of dozens of solo museum exhibitions worldwide, including the Kunstmuseum, Basel; Serralves Museum, Porto, Portugal; National Gallery, London; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; Albright Knox Gallery, Buffalo; the Tate Modern, London; and Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, NY. Her work is included in dozens of major museum collections, including the Museum of Modern Art, NY; Art Institute of Chicago; Israel Museum, Jerusalem; and Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, among many others.