Tacita Dean RA (b. 1965)
Tacita Dean graduated from Falmouth School of Art in 1988; studied at the Supreme School of Fine Art, Athens and took her Masters at the Slade School of Fine Art 1990 – 1992.
She trained as a painter, but is best known as a filmmaker. Her poignant narratives, which fuse fiction and reality, are imbued with elliptical allusions. Her abiding themes are the sea and architectural relics.
She was awarded the 2006 Hugo Boss Prize, the DAAD Fellowship, and in 1998 was short-listed for the Turner Prize. In 2011-12, her piece FILM was featured in the Turbine Hall at Tate Modern as part of the Unilever series. She was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 2013.
Profile
Born: 1965 in Canterbury, England, United Kingdom
Nationality: British
Elected RA: 9 December 2008
Gender: Female
Preferred media: Film making, Photography, and Painting
Works by Tacita Dean in the RA Collection
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Selected CV
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Recent solo exhibitions
2018 Tacita Dean: PORTRAIT, National Portrait Gallery, London
Tacita Dean: STILL LIFE, National Gallery, London
2017 Tacita Dean: LA Exuberance, Frith Street Gallery, London
2016 Tacita Dean, Museo Tamayo, Mexico City
Tacita Dean, Espace Louis Vuitton, Munich
2014 Print Projects, Statens Museum For Kunst, Copenhagen
2013 JG, Arcadia University Art Gallery, Philadelphia
Tacita Dean, Frith Street Gallery, London
The Measure of Things, Instituto Moreira Salles, Rio de Janeiro
De Mar en Mar, Fundation Botin, Santander
Tacita Dean, The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia
2012 Five Americans, New Museum, New York
Tacita Dean, Norton Museum of Art, Florida
2011 Film, Tate Modern, London
Line of Fate, MUMOK, Vienna
2010 Common Guild, Glasgow
Craneway Event, Frith Street Gallery, London
2009 Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne, Australia
Sprengel Museum, Hanover
Museum of Contemporary Art, Montreal
2008 In My Manor, Villa Oppenheim Galerie für Gegenwartskunst, Berlin
Amadeus, Marian Goodman, Paris
DIA, Beacon
2007 Wandermüde, Frith Street Gallery
Hugh Lane Gallery, Dublin
Tacita Dean, Guggenheim Museum, New York
Tacita Dean: Film works, Miami Art Central
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Associated books
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Associated archives
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Tacita Dean Landscape
2018
Item RAA/PRE/5/2/570
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Notice of the election of new Academicians, Michael Landy, Spencer de Grey and Tacita Dean
21 Apr 2010
Item RAA/PRE/2/1/556
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Notice of the election of new Academicians, Michael Landy, Spencer de Grey and Tacita Dean
21 Apr 2009
Item RAA/PRE/2/1/536
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The New RA, press launch, branded folder and Tacita Dean, Landscape
14 May 2018
File RAA/PRE/2/2/213