(b. 1965, Canterbury, England. Lives and works in Berlin,)
Tacita Dean studied art at the Falmouth School of Art in England, the Supreme School of Fine Art in Athens, and the Slade School of Fine Art in London. In 1998 she was nominated for a Turner Prize and was awarded a DAAD scholarship for Berlin, Germany, in 2000. She has received the following prizes: Aachen Art Prize (2002); Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, Italy (2004); the Sixth Benesse Prize at the 51st Venice Biennale (2005) the Hugo Boss Prize at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York (2006) and the Kurt Schwitters Prize (2009). Dean has also participated in the Venice Biennale in 2003 and 2005 and Documenta 13 (2012). Her work has been shown internationally at such institutions as the Schaulager, Basel (2006), New Museum, New York (2008), Tate Modern, London (2011), the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Spain (2010), and the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC (2001).
RECENT SOLO SHOWS
2013
Tacita Dean: Fatigues, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York
Tacita Dean: Merce Cunningham performs STILLNESS…(six performances, six films), 2008, The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia
JG a film project by Tacita Dean, Arcadia University Art Gallery, Glenside, Pennsylvania
2012
Tacita Dean: Five Americans, New Museum, New York
Tacita Dean, Norton Museum, West Palm Beach, Florida
2011
The Unilever Series: Tacita Dean, Tate Modern, London (-2012)
Tacita Dean – The Line of Fate, Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig – MUMOK, Vienna
Craneway Event Screening, IDANS Istanbul International Contemporary Dance and Performance Festival, Istanbul, Turkey; Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
Merce Cunningham performs STILLNESS… (six performances, six films), Academie der Kunste, Berlin, Germany
2010
The Friar's Doodle, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia/Abadia de Santo Domingo de Silos, Spain
Craneway Event, Galerie Marian Goodman, Paris
2009
Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne, Australia
Still Life, Fondazione Nicola Trussardi, Milan, Italy
2008
In My Manor, Villa Oppenheim Galerie für Gegenwartskunst, Berlin, Germany
Merce Cunningham performs STILLNESS (in three movements) to John Cage's composition 4'33" with Trevor Carlson, New York City, 28 April 2007 (six performances; six films), Dia Beacon, Beacon, New York
2007
Tacita Dean, Hugo Boss Prize Exhibition, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, New York
The Hugh Lane Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
RECENT GROUP SHOWS
2013
Looking at the View, Tate Britain, London, United Kingdom
Besser scheitern, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany
L’image Papillon, MUDAM – Musee d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, Luxembourg
Paisaje. Revision de un genero (Landscape. A revision of a genre,) Museo del Palacio de Bellas Artes, Mexico City, Mexico
Ulysse(s) L’autre mer, Fonds Regional d’Art Contemporain Bretagne, Rennes, France
Il Palazzo Enciclopedico (The Encyclopedic Palace), 55th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
Tacita Dean Workshop, Foundation Botin, Santander, Spain
2012
First Act, Museo Tamayo, Mexico City
Motion Capture: Drawing and the Moving Image - Lewis Glucksman Gallery, Cork
Gravity and Disgrace Ep. 2 - CGAC - Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea, Santiago de Compostela
Malerei in Fotografie - Strategien der Aneignung - Städel Museum, Frankfurt/Main
Documenta (13) - Documenta, Kassel
2011
ATLAS. How to Carry the World on One’s Back?, Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, Germany
Neue Realitäten. Von Warhol bis Havekost: Fotografie im Medium der Druckgrafik, Kupferstichkabinett, Berlin, Germany
BLOCKBUSTER: Cinema for Exhibitions, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Monterrey, Mexico
Staging the Archive, MACE – Museu de Arte Contemporanea de Elvas, Portugal
The Art of Deceleration, Motion and Rest in Modern Art, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Germany; Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany
The Cinema Effect: Illusion, Reality and the Moving Image, La Caixa, Barcelona
Ostalgia, New Museum, New York, NY
Drawing 2011 – Biennial Fundraiser, The Drawing Room, London
The Smithson Effect, Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City, UT
Project Europa: Imagining the (Im)Possible, Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery - Columbia University, New York City, NY
Dance with Camera, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art - SMoCA, Scottsdale, AZ
2010
The Cinema Effect: Illusion, Reality and the Moving Image, The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.
Festival d’Automne, Paris, France
elles@centrepompidou, artistes femmes dans les collections du Centre Pompidou, Centre Georges Pompidou, Musée National d’Art Moderne, Paris, France
Production Site: The Artist’s Studio Inside–Out, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois | 6 February – 30 May 2010
En presence, Centre Européen d’Actions Artistiques Contemporaines, Strasbourg, Germany
Haunted: Contemporary Photography/Video/Performance, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
Les Promesses du passé, Centre Pompidou – Musée National d’Art Moderne, Paris, France
PhotoEspaña Festival, Teatro Fernán Gómez Arts Center, Madrid, Spain, MAN / Museo D’Arte Della Provincia Di Nuoro, Sardinia, Italy, La Regenta Arts Centre, Las Palmas de Gran Canarias, Spain
2009
The Quick and the Dead, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
elles@centrepompidou, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
2008
The Cinema Effect: Illusion, Reality and the Moving Image, The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.
Porzadki Urojone – so ist es und Andres, Muzeum Sztuki, Lodz, Poland
2007
Il Tempo del Postino Group Show, Co-Curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist and Philippe Parreno, Manchester International Festival, Opera House Manchester, England