Tacita Dean trained as a painter and now works in a variety of media. She is best known for her compelling 16mm films, in which the specific qualities associated with film-making are of central importance. Dean's films are haunted by architectural relics which seem to embody outmoded or bankrupt beliefs, but at their time of execution promised much. In their formal qualities, her films reference other art forms, painting especially. Dean also works with video, sound, drawings and objects. Her work occupies a place between fact and fiction. It is pervaded by a sense of elusiveness, a search for something that exists as much in the imagination as anywhere else.
Tacita Dean recently had a solo exhibition at Dublin's Hugh Lane Gallery, she won the Hugo Boss award earlier this year. The largest exhibition of her work was staged at Schaulager in 2006. Other notable exhibitions include Museum of Art, Design and Architecture Oslo, Tate Britain and Musee d'art modern de la ville de Paris. Dean's work has been included in many group exhibitions both in Britain and abroad. A major monograph on the artist has recently been published by Phaidon. Tacita Dean was nominated for the Turner Prize in 1998.
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BIOGRAPHY
1965
Born in Canterbury
1985 - 1988
Falmouth School of Art
1989 - 1990
Greek Government scholarship to the Supreme School of Fine Art, Athens
1990 - 1992
The Slade School of Fine Art
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PROJECTS 2005
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2007 Frith Street Gallery
Wandermüde, Frith Street Gallery, London
Hugh Lane Gallery, Dublin
Tacita Dean, Guggenheim Museum, New York
Tacita Dean: Film Works, Miami Art Central
* Analogue: Films, Photographs, Drawings 1991-2006, Schaulager, Basel
* Human Treasure, Center for Contemporary Art, Kitakyushu, Japan
Tacita Dean, The National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design, Oslo
* Berlin Works, Tate, St Ives
Presentation Sisters and the Presentation Windows, Cork 2005
* An Aside, selected by Tacita Dean, National Touring Exhibitions, Hayward Gallery: Camden Arts Centre, London; The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, The Glynn Vivian
Art Gallery, Swansea
Museum of Modern Art Ljubljana, Ljubljana
* Baobab, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Torino
Boots, Royal Institute of British Architects, London
Tacita Dean, Frith Street Gallery, London
De Pont Foundation, Tilberg, Netherlands
Presentation House Gallery, Vancouver
Sun Works, Ludwig Forum, AAchen
Marian Goodman Gallery, New York
* ARC, Musee d'Art Modern de la ville de Paris
MuseuSerralves, Portugal
'The Russian Ending', Peter Blum, New York
Kunstverein fuer die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Duesseldorf
* Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona
* Tacita Dean, Tate Britain, London
Melbourne International Biennial, Melbourne
* FLOH, Frith Street Gallery, London
Marian Goodman, Paris
DAAD Galerie and Niels Borch Jensen, Berlin
Marian Goodman Gallery, New York
* Museum for Gegenwartskunst, Basel
* Sala Montcada de la Fundacić "la Caixa", Barcelona
Art Gallery of York University, Toronto
Banewl, Matrix Program, Berkeley Art Museum, University of California
Galerie Gebauer, Berlin
Statements, Frith Street Gallery
Art Basel '98 De Pont Foundation, Tilburg, Holland
* Tacita Dean, ICA Philadelphia (touring exhibition)
* Tacita Dean, Madison Art Center, Wisconsin
Tacita Dean, Sadler1s Wells, London
Marian Goodman Gallery, Paris
Tacita Dean, Cranbrook Museum
The Sea, with a Ship; afterwards an Island, Dundee Contemporary Arts, Scotland
Banewl, Newlyn Art Gallery, Penzance, Cornwall
Millennium Sculpture Project, London
* Tacita Dean, Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam
The Drawing Room, The Drawing Center, New York
Tacita Dean, Frith Street Gallery, London
Clear Sky,Upper Air, Frith Street Gallery, London
Galerie 'La Box', Ecole Nationale de Beaux Arts, Bourges, France
* Foley Artist, ART NOW Room, Tate Gallery, London
The Martyrdom of St Agatha and Other Stories, Galerija Skuc, Ljubljana & Umetnostna
Galerija, Maribor, Slovenia
'Marking Time', York Art Gallery
'Sea Pieces: From Max Beckmann to Gerhard Richard Richter', Hamburger Kunshalle, Germany
Salzberg Festival, Germany
'Scenes and Sequences', Aargauer Kunsthaus, Germany
'Waterlog', Castle Museum, Norwich (touring to Lincoln)
'On History', Foundation Santander, Madrid
'Resonance', Frith Street Gallery, London
27th Sao Paulo Biennial, Brazil
15th Biennale of Sydney, Australia
'C'era una volta un re. La Fiaba cocntemporanea', ARCOS, Museo d'Arte Contemporanea
Sannio
'Ideal City/Invisible Cities', Poland
'Mapping the Studio', Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
'Femme d'Europe', Saint Tropez, France
Spool, Consortium Gallery, Amsterdam
'Passaggi a Sud Est', Padiglione d'Arte Contemporanea, Milan
'Constructing New Berlin', Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, Arizona
'Of Mice and Men', 4th Berlin Biennial for Contemporary Art, Berlin
'Print Run: An exhibition of Prints', Frith Street Gallery, London
Body: New Art from the UK, British Council touring exhibition
Some Trees, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden
'Universal Experience: Art, Life and the Tourist's Eye', Hayward Gallery, London
'Here Comes the Sun', Magasin 3, Stockholm
'Truth universally acknowledged', Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Victoria, Australia
51st Venice Biennale, The Experience of Art
'New Acquisitions', Museum of Modern Art, New York
'Soul', Museum Voor Moderne Kunst, Oostende, The Netherlands
'Elements of Nature', National Gallery of Canada
'Bidibidobidiboo', Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, Italy
'Daumenkino:The Flip Book Show', Kunsthalle Dusseldorf
'Very Early Pictures', Luckman Gallery, California State University, Los Angeles, Arcadia University Art Gallery, Glenside, Pennsylvania
'Universal Experience: Art, Life and the Tourist's Eye', MCA, Chicago, Illinois
'Documentary Creations', Kunst Museum Lucerne, Lucerne
'Some Trees', Neuer Aachener Kunstverein, Aachen
'Unearthed: Nottingham's Medieval Alabasters', Nottingham Museum, Nottingham
'Time Clash', Museu Serralves, Museu de Art Contemporanea , Porto
'Rear View Mirror', Kettle's Yard, Cambridge
Niels Borch Jensen, Berlin (with Thomas Demand and Carsten Holler)
Summer Show, Frith Street Gallery, London
Aligned, Frith Street Gallery, London Press release
'Arte Povera', Museet for Samtidskunst, Oslo, Giovanni Anselmo, Pier Paolo Calzolari, Jannis Kounellis, Mimmo Paladino, Guiseppe Penone, Michelangelo Pistoletto and Gilberto Zorio. Mario Merz, Tacita Dean
'Landscape 2', Towner Art Gallery, Eastbourne
'Fictions', La Caixa, Barcelona (with Peter Friedl, Harun Farocki, Kutlug Ataman Zinele Sedira and others)
'Other Times', British Contemporary Art, City Gallery, Prague
'Likeness: Portraits of artists by other Artists', CCA Wattis Institute, San Fransisco
'Fade In: New Film and Video', Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston
'La Fabrique du Sensible', Musee Departemental D'art Contemporain de Rochechouart, France
'Memory and Landscape', La Casa Encendida, Madrid, Spain
'Remind...', Kunsthaus Bregenz, Bregenz, Germany
'Bonobos', Niels Borch Jensen Galerie und Verlag, Berlin, Germany
'Frequencies', Frith Street Gallery, London:
Press release
* 'The Greatest Show on Earth', Metropole Gallery, Folkestone
* 'Liquid Sea', Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
'Eden: La Coleccion Jumex', Mexico City
'This was Tomorrow', New Art Centre, Salisbury
* 'The Moderns', Castello di Rivoli Museo d'Arte Contemporanea, Turin
50th Venice Biennale, Stazione Utopia and Ritardi e Rivoluzioni
Necessary Journeys, Temple Bar Galleries and Studios, Dublin, Ireland.
Portfolios, Fabian & Claude Walter Galerie, Zurich
'At Sea', Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, Norwich
'Extreme Connoisseurship', Fogg Art Museum, Harvard, Boston
'Le Botanique', Centre Culturel de la Communaute francaise Wallonie-Bruxelles
'Preis der Nationalgalerie fur Junge Kunst', Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin
'Subreel', Galleries Contemporaines de MusZes de Marseillles
'MARS Art and War', Neue Galerie, Graz
* 'Gap', Museum am Ostwall, Dortmund , Germany
'Art & Industry Biennial 2002', Centre of Contemporary Art , Christchurch, New Zealand (curated by Juliana Engberg)
* 'Arte all1arte VII', San Gimignano, curated by Emanuela De Cecco & Vicente Todol
'Biella Print Triennale', Museo del Territorio, Biella, Italy
Summer Exhibition, Frith Street Gallery
Arcadia, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
Humid, Spike Island, Bristol (and tour)
* Nothing: Exploring Invisibilities, Northern Gallery of Contemporary Art,
Sunderland
Take Two/Reprise, Ottawa
Art Gallery Double Vision, Galerie fZ˙r zeitgenoessische Kunst, Leipzig
My Friends, Kunstforening, Tromse, Norway Venice Film Festival, Venice
Directions, Hirschhorn Museum, Washington
Yokohama International Triennale of Contemporary Art In Ruins, The Holburne
Museum of Art, Bath
A Pause for Breath, Frith Street Gallery, London
* Landscape, ACC Gallery, Weimar, Germany and touring
* The Sea and the Sky, Beaver College Art Gallery, Philadelphia and RHA, Dublin
* L1ombra della ragione, Galleria d1Arte Moderna Bologna
On the Edge of the Western World Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco
Von Edgar Degas bis Gerhard Richter: Werke auf Papier aus der Sammlung des
Kunstmuseums Winterthur, Switzerland
* Amateur/Liebhaber, Kunstmuseum, Kunsthallen & Hasselblad, Gothenberg, Sweden
* Mixing Memory and Desire, neues Kunstmuseum Luzern
* Artifice, Deste Foundation , Athens, Greece
Another Place, Tramway, Glasgow
* New British Art 2000: Intelligence, Tate Gallery, London
* Somewhere near Vada Project Art Centre, Dublin
* media-city seoul 2000, Seoul Metropolitan Museum
* Vision and Reality, Louisiana Museum of Art, Denmark
New Media Projects, Orchard Gallery, Derry, Northern Ireland
1264-1999 Une Lzogende a Suivre, Le Credac, Ivry, France
Appliance of Science, Frith Street Gallery, London
Hot Air, Granship, Shizuoka Convention and Arts Center, Japan
Marian Goodman Gallery, Paris
Geschichten des Augenblicks (Moments in Time), Kunstbau, Lenbachhaus, Munich
New Visions of the Sea, National Maritime Museum, London
Residency at the Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Ohio
Fourth Wall, Public Art Development Trust at the Royal National Theatre, London
0 TO 60 IN 10 YEARS, Frith Street Gallery, London
Laboratorium, Antwerpen Open, Antwerp
Un monde rzoel, Fondation Cartier, Paris
Tacita Dean, Lee Ranaldo, Robert Smithson, Dia Center for the arts, New York
* Voiceover: Sound and Vision in Recent Art, National Touring Exhibition;
Arnolfini, Bristol; Hatton Gallery, Newcastle; Castle Museum, Nottingham
* 'Wounds: Between Democracy and Redemption in Contemporary Art', Moderna Museet,
Sweden
Video / Projection / Film, Frith Street Gallery, London
La Terre est
Ronde - Nouvelle narration, Musse de Rochechouart, France
La Mer n'est pas
la Terre, FRAC Bretagne, France
Breaking Ground, Marian Goodman Gallery, New
York
Felsenvilla, Baden, Austria
* The Turner Prize, Tate Gallery, London
International Film Festival, Rotterdam
Challenge of Materials, Science Museum, London
Videos Speaking of Sofas, Atheneum, Dijon, France
* Flexible, Museum for Gegenwartskunst, Zurich
The frame of time -Openmuseum, Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst, Limburg
Scriptwriters Lab, Sundance Institute, Utah
* At One Remove Henry Moore Institute, Leeds
20:20, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York
Social Space (curated by Dan Graham), Marian Goodman Gallery, Paris
New Found Landscape, Kerlin Gallery, Dublin
CCATV, Centre for Contemporary Art, Glasgow
Art Node Foundation, Stockholm
State of mind, Centrum Beeldende Kunst, Rotterdam
Swinging the Lead, International Festival of the Sea, Bristol
Tacita Dean & Stephen Wilks, Galerie Paul Andriesse, Amsterdam
Found Footage, Klemens Gasser & Tanja Grunert, Cologne
Mysterium Alltag, Hammoniale der Frauen, Kampnagel, Hamburg, Germany
Kine[kunst]'95, Casino Knokke, Belgium Video Forum,
Art Basel 95, Switzerland
Whistling Women, curated by Sarah Kent, Royal Festival Hall, London
Videos and Films by Artists, Ateliers d'Artistes de la ville de Marseille,
France
* British Art Show 4 , Manchester, Edinburgh & Cardiff Cubitt Gallery, London
Watt, Witte de With, Rotterdam
* Mise en Scene, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London
* Barclays Young Artist Award, Serpentine Gallery, London
Peripheral States, curated by Sarah Kent, Benjamin Rhodes Gallery, London
* BT New Contemporaries, Newlyn Orion, Penzance; Cornerhouse, Manchester;
Orpheus Gallery, Belfast; Angel Row & The Bonnington, Nottingham; ICA, London
* denotes catalogue
Hugo Boss Prize, Guggenheim Museum, New York
The Sixth Bennesse Prize, Biennale di Venezia
Regione Piemonte Art Prize
Aachnerkunstlerpreis, Aachen
DAAD Scholarship,
Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst, Berlin
Artist in Residence, Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Ohio
Turner Prize nomination, Tate Gallery, London
Scriptwriter's Lab, Sundance Institute, Sundance, Utah
Barclay's Young Artist Award, London
An Aside, selected by Tacita Dean, National Touring Exhibition from the Hayward Gallery, United Kingdom
Millennium Sculpture Project,
The Millennium Dome, London, United Kingdom
Sadler's Wells Theatre, London, United Kingdom (site-specific project)
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