Emin at Lighthouse Gala auction in aid of Terrence Higgins Trust, 2007
Born
Tracey Karima Emin
(1963-07-03) 3 July 1963 (age 60)
Croydon, England
Education
Medway College of Design (1980–82)
Maidstone College of Art (1983–86) (BA Printmaking)
Royal College of Art (1987–89) (MA Painting)
Birkbeck University of London
Notable work
Everyone I Have Ever Slept With 1963–1995 (1995)
My Bed (1998)
Style
Readymade
Installation art
Movement
Young British Artists
Tracey Emin's voice
from the BBC programme Front Row, 22 April 2013[1]
Website
traceyeminfoundation.com
Tracey Karima EminCBE RA (/ˈɛmɪn/; born 3 July 1963)[2][3] is an English artist known for autobiographical and confessional artwork. She produces work in a variety of media including drawing, painting, sculpture, film, photography, neon text and sewn appliqué.[4] Once the "enfant terrible" of the Young British Artists in the 1980s, Tracey Emin is now a Royal Academician.[5]
In 1997, her work Everyone I Have Ever Slept With 1963–1995, a tent appliquéd with the names of everyone the artist had ever slept with, was shown at Charles Saatchi's Sensation exhibition held at the Royal Academy in London.[6] In the same year, she gained considerable media exposure when she swore repeatedly when drunk on a live British TV discussion programme called The Death of Painting.[7]
In 1999, Emin had her first solo exhibition in the United States at Lehmann Maupin Gallery, entitled Every Part of Me's Bleeding. Later that year, she was a Turner Prize nominee and exhibited My Bed – a readymade installation, consisting of her own unmade dirty bed, in which she had spent several weeks drinking, smoking, eating, sleeping and having sexual intercourse while undergoing a period of severe emotional flux. The artwork featured used condoms and blood-stained underwear.[8]
Emin is also a panellist and speaker: she has lectured at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London,[9] the Art Gallery of New South Wales in Sydney (2010),[10] the Royal Academy of Arts (2008),[11] and the Tate Britain in London (2005)[12] about the links between creativity and autobiography, and the role of subjectivity and personal histories in constructing art. In December 2011, she was appointed Professor of Drawing at the Royal Academy; with Fiona Rae, she is one of the first two female professors since the Academy was founded in 1768.[13][14] Emin lived in Spitalfields, East London[15][16][17]
before returning to Margate where she funds the TKE Studios with workspace for aspiring artists.[18][19][20]
^(22 April 2013). Cultural exchange with Tracey Emin. Front Row (BBC Radio 4). Retrieved 15 April 2020.
^Januszczak, Waldemar. "Tracey Emin on life after cancer: 'I desire to be part of this world'". The Times. ISSN 0140-0460. Retrieved 5 January 2022.
^(n.d.). Tracey Emin. The Perfect Place to Grow, (2001). Tate website. Retrieved 15 April 2020.
^Ltd, Hymns Ancient & Modern (1 December 2006). ThirdWay. Hymns Ancient & Modern Ltd.
^Geneviève, Roberts. "Tracey Emin is made Royal Academician". Retrieved 10 May 2016.
^(12 September 1997). Sensation at the Royal Academy of Arts, London (press release mentioning Emin). artdesigncafe. Retrieved 15 April 2020.
^(18 March 2005). Tracey Emin – Artist. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (website). Retrieved 15 April 2020.
^Jones, Jonathan. (16 September 2016). Tracey Emin makes her own crumpled bed and lies in it, on Merseyside. The Guardian. Retrieved 15 April 2020.
^Victoria and Albert Museum. "Tracey Emin. Evening Talks". Victoria and Albert Museum. Archived from the original on 28 May 2010. Retrieved 25 November 2010.
^Art Gallery of New South Wales (6 November 2010). "Tracey Emin in conversation". Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia. Archived from the original on 22 May 2020. Retrieved 25 November 2010.
^Royal Academy of Arts. "Tracey Emin RA in Conversation with Matthew Collings". Geological Society Lecture Theatre, Piccadilly. Archived from the original on 12 September 2010. Retrieved 25 November 2010.
^Tate Britain (27 January 2005). "Art, Memory and Autobiography: Tracey Emin, Christopher Bollas and Gillian Slovo". Tate Britain. Retrieved 25 November 2010.
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(14 December 2011). Tracey Emin to become Professor of Drawing at RA. BBC News. Retrieved 26 April 2020.
^(14 December 2011). Tracey Emin appointed as RA's Professor of Drawing. Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 26 April 2020.
^"Crossrail Bill petition" (PDF). House of Commons. 2006–2007.
^"Stop 5: Christ Church & Fournier Street". worldwrite.org.uk.
^"Hugo Glendinning, photographer". SpitalfieldsLife.com. 1 March 2010.
^Sherwood, Harriet; Arts, Harriet Sherwood (22 September 2022). "Tracey Emin to auction work to fund Margate studios for emerging artists". The Guardian.
^Khomami, Nadia; Arts, Nadia Khomami (6 January 2022). "Tracey Emin to launch 'revolutionary' art school in Margate". The Guardian.
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