Marian Goodman Gallery is proud to announce that Tacita Dean is one of the artists and architects from across the United States who has been elected as a National Academician in the Class of 2025 by the National Academy of Design.

A special exhibition featuring the work of the 2025 National Academicians is anticipated for Fall 2026 at the National Academy’s gallery in New York. Details will be announced in the coming months on nationalacademy.org.

Dean lives and works in Berlin and Los Angeles. She has been the recipient of numerous prizes including the Kurt Schwitters Prize in 2009, the Hugo Boss Prize at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, in 2006, and the Sixth Benesse Prize at the 51st Venice Biennale in 2005. Survey exhibitions include the Columbus Museum of Art, currently on view; the Menil Collection, Houston in 2024; the Bourse de Commerce - Pinault Collection, Paris and Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney in 2023 and MUDAM, Luxembourg in 2022. In 2018, a trilogy of solo exhibitions was held at the National Portrait Gallery, the National Gallery and the Royal Academy of Arts in London. Dean was invited to design the sets and costumes for the Royal Ballet’s The Dante Project with choreographer Wayne McGregor and conductor-composer Thomas Adès, which premiered at the Royal Opera House in London in October 2021. She was Artist in Residence at the Getty Research Institute, 2014-2015 and at Villa I Tatti, The Harvard Center for Italian Renaissance Studies in Florence, in spring 2025. In 2011 Dean’s work FILM – a part of the Unilever Series of Tate Modern and shown in the Turbine Hall – marked the beginning of a campaign to preserve photochemical film.