Tracey Karima Emin RA (born 3 July 1963 in Croydon) is an
English artist. She is part of the group known as Britartists or YBAs (Young
British Artists).
In 1997 her work Everyone I Have Ever Slept With 1963–1995,
a tent appliquéd with names, was shown at Charles Saatchi's Sensation
exhibition held at the Royal Academy in London. The same year, she gained
considerable media exposure when she appeared drunk and swearing on a live
Channel 4 TV discussion.
In 1999 she was a Turner Prize nominee and exhibited My Bed
— an installation, consisting of her own unmade dirty bed with used condoms and
blood-stained underwear.
In 2004 her tent artwork was destroyed in the Momart
warehouse fire. In March 2007 Emin was chosen to join the Royal Academy of Arts
in London as a Royal Academician. She represented Britain at the 2007 Venice
Biennale. Her first major retrospective 20 Years was held in Edinburgh 2008,
and toured Europe until 2009.
In May 2011 Emin's largest major solo exhibition in a public
space was held at Hayward Gallery, London titled Love Is What You Want.
In April 2011 Tracey opened the Turner Contemporary art
gallery in Margate with Jools Holland and between May and September 2012 she is
holding her first exhibition there, entitled "She Lay Down Deep Beneath
The Sea".
Emin is a panelist and speaker: she has lectured at the
Victoria and Albert Museum in London, the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee,
Switzerland the Art Gallery of New South Wales in Sydney (2010),[4] the Royal
Academy of Arts (2008), and the Tate Britain in London (2005) about the links
between creativity and autobiography, and the role of subjectivity and personal
histories in constructing art. Emin's art takes many different forms of
expression including needlework and sculpture, drawing, video and installation,
photography and painting.
In December 2011 she was appointed Professor of Drawing at
the Royal Academy; along with Fiona Rae, she is one of the first two female
professors since the Academy was founded in 1768.
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