Gillian Wearing (b. 1963, Birmingham, England) currently lives and works in London. She was recently commissioned by the mayor of London to create a statue of suffragist leader Millicent Fawcett in Parliament Square, which was unveiled in April 2018. Wearing won the Turner Prize in 1997 and was awarded an OBE in 2011 and a CBE in 2019 for contribution to the arts.
Solo exhibitions include, Gillian Wearing: Rock ‘n’ Roll 70, Central Gallery, Moody Center for The Arts, Rice University, Houston, TX (2019); Life: Gillian Wearing, Cincinnati Art Museum, OH (2018); Behind the mask, another mask: Gillian Wearing and Claude Cahun, National Portrait Gallery, London;Family Stories, The National Gallery of Denmark, Copenhagen (2017); Sandra and Gerald Fineberg Art Wall, ICA Boston, MA (2016); Instituto Valenciano de Arte Moderno, Valencia, Spain (2015); A Real Birmingham Family, Centenary Square, Library of Birmingham, England (2014); We Are Here, The New Art Gallery Walsall, England (2014); Whitechapel Gallery, London (2012, traveled to K20, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Dusseldorf, Germany, and Pinakothek der Moderne, Museum Brandhorst, Munich); A Real Birmingham Family, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, England (2011); Confessions: Portraits, vidéos, Musée Rodin, Paris (2009); Living Proof, ACCA, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne (2006). Wearing is represented by Maureen Paley, London; Tanya Bonakdar, New York and Regen Projects, Los Angeles.
(as of 2021)
