Tracey Emin Biography 1963 Born in London 1986 Maidstone College of Art (Bachelor of Fine Art) 1989 Royal College of Art (MA) Lives and works in London Awards Honorary Doctorate Royal College of Art, 2007 Doctor of Letters, University of Kent, 2007 Doctor of Philosophy, London Metropolitan University, 2007 The Jury Prize Cairo Biennale Award, Cairo, 2001 International Award for Video Art, 1997 Selected Exhibitions 2008 Summer Exhibition 2008, Royal Academy of Arts, London 2008 You Dig The Tunnel, I’ll Hide The Soil, White Cube Hoxton Square and Shoreditch Town Hall, London. 2008 Fourth Plinth, National Gallery, London 2008 Love, Touring show: National Gallery, London, Tyne & Wear Museums and Bristol’s Museums, Galleries & Archives 2008 Tracey Emin: 20 Years, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh (solo) 2007 Tracey Emin: Borrowed Light, British Pavillion, Venice Biennale (solo) 2007 True Romance, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna 2007 Summer Exhibition 2007, Royal Academy of Arts, London 2007 The Naked Portrait, Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh 2007 Lights, Camera Action: Artists' Films for the Cinema, Whitney Museum of American Art, Whitney 2007 Mima Collection: Selected Works, Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art, Middlesbrough 2006 More Flow, Galleria Lorcan O’Neill, Rome (solo) 2006 The Other Side #2 – Radical Pursuits: Delights in the subversive and sublime, Tony Shalfrazi Gallery, New York 2006 Aftershock: Contemporary British Art 1990-2006, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou; Capital Museum, Beijing 2006 Touch My Shadows, Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw 2006 In the darkest hour there may be light: Works from Damien Hirst’s murder me collection, Serpentine Gallery, London 2006 I’m Sorry, Pilar Parra & Romero Galeria de Arte, Madrid 2006 Hot/Cold – Summer Loving, Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw 2006 Motion on Paper, Ben Brown Fine Arts, London 2006 Summer Exhibition 2006, Royal Academy, London 2006 Youth of Today, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt 2006 The Devil of the Fireplace, Claudia Gian-Ferrari, La Triennale di Milano 2006 Drawing Inspiration, Abbot Hall Art Gallery, Kendal 2006 For All Audiences, Sala Rekalde, Bilbao 2006 You’ll Never Know. Drawing and Random Interference, Harris Museum and Art Gallery, Preston; Glynn Vivian Gallery, Swansea; The Lowry, Salford; New Art Gallery, Walsall; Tullie Mouse Museum and Art Gallery, Carlisle 2006 LOVE!, Ferragamo Gallery, New York 2005 I Can Feel Your Smile, Lehmann Maupin, New York (solo) 2005 When I Think About Sex…, White Cube, London (solo) 2005 IMAGINE A WORLD…, Bargehouse, London 2005 Revelation. Reflecting British Art in the Arts Council Collection, Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle and The Lowry, Manchester 2005 Death Mask by Tracey Emin, National Portrait Gallery, London 2005 Sketch in Motion: A Group Exhibition of Artists’ Animation, Sketch, London 2005 Looking at Words. The Formal Presence of Text in Modern and Contemporary Works on Paper, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York 2005 The Wonderful Fund On Tour, Le Musée de Marrakech, Marrakech 2005 God Is Bored Of Us II, FMCG, London 2005 Super!: First Triennial for Contemporary Art, Fashion and Design, Z33, Hasselt 2005 Video II: Allegory, NRW-Furum Kultur und Wirtschaft, Dusseldorf 2005 Realit;)t. 30 Videoarbeiten aus der Sammlung Goetz in München. Von Olaf Breuning bis Sam Taylor-Wood, Seedamm Kulturzentrum, Pfaffikon 2005 Enchante Ch?teau, MAMCO, Geneva 2005 Munch Revisited, Henie Onstad Kunstcenter, Oslo 2005 On Love, Museum Het Domein, Sittard 2005 'Bock mit Inhalt' - Summer Exhibition, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam 2005 Summer Exhibition 2005, Royal Academy of Arts, London 2005 London Calling. Y[oung] B[ritish] A[rtists] Criss-Crossed, Galleri Kaare Berntsen, Oslo 2005 Body: New Art from the UK, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver 2005 Kiss the Frog! The Art of Transformation, National Museum of Art, Oslo 2005 Identity and Nomadism, Palazzo delle Papesse, Siena 2005 25. Twenty-five Years of the Deutsche Bank Collection, Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin 2005 Vivisección, Dibujo Contemporáneo, Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, Mexico City 2005 Mé-tissages, MIAT, Museum voor Industri?le Archeologie en Textiel, Ghent 2005 Women’s Film Festival, ICA, London 2005 Top Spot, Berlin Film Festival, Berlin 2005 Critic’s Choice, FACT, Liverpool 2004 The Christmas Exhibition 2004, Edinburgh Printmakers, Edinburgh 2004 Fonetography, AOP Gallery, London 2004 1st International Biennial of Contemporary Art of Sevilla, Monastry of the Cartuja of Sanat Maria de las Cuevas, Seville 2004 Printers Inc.: Recent British Prints, Manchester Art Gallery, Manchester; Brewhouse Theatre; Arts Centre, Taunton and Park Gallery, Falkirk 2004 Seven Sins, Museo d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Bolzano 2004 Einleuchten, Museum der Moderne, Salzburg 2004 Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London 2004 The Other Flower Show, Victoria & Albert Museum, London 2004 Stranger Than Fiction, Leeds Art Gallery, Leeds; Tulie House, Carlisle; Ferens Art Gallery, Hull; Nottingham Castle, Nottingham; Brighton Museum and Art Gallery, Brighton 2004 La Collection d’Art Contemporain d’Agnes B, Les Abattoirs, Toulouse 2004 Tracey Istanbulda, Platform Garanti Contemporary Art Center, Istanbul (solo) 2004 Tracey Emin, BP British Art Displays, Tate Britain, London (solo) 2004 I’ll Meet You In Heaven, Galleria Lorcan O’Neill, Rome (solo) 2004 Can’t See Past My Own Eyes, Sketch, London (solo) 2004 Fear, War And The Scream, Roslyn Oxley, Sydney and City Gallery, Wellington (solo) 2004 Tracey Emin and David Hockney Drawings, Museo de Bellas Artes, Santiago 2004 Tracey Emin, Gillian Wearing and Dick Matena, Frans Hals Museum, Haarlem 2004 See It…Read It, Draíocht, Dublin 2004 Secrets of the ‘90s, Museum voor Moderne Kunst Arnhem, Arnhem 2004 Social Strategies. Redefining Social Realism, Schick Art Gallery, Skidmore College, New York 2003 Menphis, Counter Gallery, London (solo) 2003 Tracey Emin, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney (solo) 2003 Social Strategies. Redefining Social Realism, The Richard E. Peeler Art Center, DePauw University, Greencastle (Indiana); University Art Museum, University of California, Santa Barbara; University Galleries, Illinois State University,Normal (Illinois); Schick Art Gallery, Skidmore College, New York, The Newcomb Art Gallery, Tulane University, New Orleans and University Art Museum, Santa Barbara 2003 Tracey Emin, Luigi Ontani, Kiki Smith, Cerith Wyn Evans,Galleria Lorcan O’Neill, Rome 2003 Flexible 4: Identities, Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester; Nederlands Textielmuseum, Tilburg, Kunsthalle Brandts Klaedefabrik, Odense and Landesgalerie Linz am Ober?sterreichischen Landesmusem, Linz 2003 Happiness: A Survival Guide for Art and Life, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo 2003 Fast Forward – Media Art, ZKM, Karlsruhe 2003 FRESH: Contemporary British Artists in Print, Edinburgh Printmakers, Edinburgh 2003 Just Love Me; Post-Feministic Art of the 1990s, Bergen Art Museum, Bergen 2003 A Bigger Splash: British Art from Tate 1960–2003, OCA & ITO, S?o Paulo 2003 Game Over, Grimm Rosenfeld, Munich 2003 Independence, South London Gallery, London 2003 The Happy Couple, Cartwright Hall Art Gallery, Bradford 2003 Il racconto del filo, Museo di Arte Moderna, Trento 2003 Europe Exists, Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki 2003 Let’s See the Nature in You, Pepperton Gallery, London 2003 Tactics of the Ego, Stiftung Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum, Duisburg 2003 Micro/Macro, The Budapest Kunsthalle, Budapest 2003 Words from the Arts Council Collection, The Harris Museum and Art Gallery, Preston 2003 The Map Is Not The Territory III, James Hockey Gallery, Farnham and The Surrey Institute of Art & Design, Franham 2003 En Route, De Hallen, Haarlem 2002 This is Another Place, Modern Art Oxford, Oxford (solo) 2002 Ten Years. Tracey Emin, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (solo) 2002 I Think it’s in my head, Lehmann Maupin, New York (solo) 2002 Tracey Emin Showreel, The Genesis Cinema, London (solo) 2002 Tracey Emin, Haus der Kunst, Munich (solo) 2002 Face Off, Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge 2002 Rapture: Art’s Seduction by Fashion Since 1970, Barbican Art Gallery, London 2002 The Ink Jetty, Neon Gallery, London 2002 Shine, St Pancras Chambers, London 2002 The Glory of God: New Religious Art, St. Peter’s Church, Liverpool 2002 Disturb, 1st Public School of Hydra, Hydra 2002 Die Wohltat der Kunst: PostFeministische Positionen der neunziger Jahre aus der Sammlung Goetz, Staatliche Kunsthalle, Baden-Baden 2002 Fusion Cuisine, Deste Foundation, Centre for Contemporary Art, Athens 2002 Public Affairs. Von Beuys bis Zittel: Das Offentliche in der Kunst, Kunsthaus, Zurich 2002 New Religious Art 1992–2002, Henry Peacock Gallery, London 2002 Landscape, Saatchi Gallery, London 2002 The Rowan Collection. Contemporary British & Irish Art, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin 2001 Tracey Emin You forgot to kiss my soul, White Cube, London (solo) 2001 Trans Sexual Express, Centro de Arte de Santa Monica, Barcelona; Palacio Municipal de Exposiciones, Corunna and Mucsarnok, Budapest 2001 For the Love of Dog, Pump House Gallery, London 2001 Printers Inc., The Gallery, Stratford-upon-Avon 2001 Read-Only Memory, Mead Gallery, Warwick Arts Centre, University of Warwick, Coventry 2001 Televisions, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna 2001 Video Project Space, Anthony Wilkinson Gallery, London 2001 In Formation, Percy Miller Gallery, London 2001 For the love of dog, Pump House Gallery, London 2001 At Sea, Tate Liverpool, Liverpool 2001 Tattoo Show, Modern Art Inc., London 2001 Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London 2001 Freestyle. Werke Aus der Sammlung Boros, Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen 2001 Century City, Tate Modern, London 2001 Insider Trading: Profit Without Honour, Mandeville Hotel, London 2001 London Nomad, Beit Zeinab Khatoun, a seminar on Contemporary Curatorial Practice at the American University Cairo Biennale, Cairo 2001 Peter Blake: About Collage, Tate Gallery, London 2001 Nurture and Desire, Hayward Gallery, London 2001 Sex and the British: Slap & Tickle – A perspective on the sexual content of British Art since the 1960s, Gallerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg and Gallerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris 2001 Gut Aufgelegt, Kunsthaus, Hamburg 2001 Drawings, Sommer Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv 2001 Drawings, Taché-Lévy Gallery, Brussels 2001 Potent Present. Selections from the Vicki and Kent Logan Collection, Logan Galleries, California College of Arts and Crafts, San Francisco 2001 ManMoMa. A Thick Bloke Kicking a Dog to Death, The International 3 Summer Fête, Fairfield, Manchester 2001 From Face to Face. Mimics – Gestures – Emotions, St?dtisches Museum Leverkusen Schlo? Morsbroich, Leverkusen 2001 Out There, White Cube, London 2001 Art in Sacred Spaces, St. Mary’s Church 2001 The British Art Show 5, The Scottish National gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh (National Touring Exhibitions) 2001 Diary, Cornerhouse, Manchester 2000 Love is a Strange Thing, Fig.1, London (solo) 2000 What Do You Know About Love, Galerie Gebauer, Berlin (solo) 1999 Tracey Emin Every Part of Me’s Bleeding, Lehmann Maupin, New York (solo) 1998 Sobasex (My Cunt is Wet with Fear), Sagacho Exhibition Space, Tokyo (solo) 1998 Cunt Vernacular, Galerie Gebauer, Berlin (solo) 1998 I Need Art Like I Need God, Gesellschaft für Aktuelle Kunst, Bremen (solo) 1998 Tracey Emin, Galerie Philippe Rizzo, Paris (solo) 1997 Solo Exhibition, Moo Gallery, Helsinki (solo) 1997 I Need Art Like I Need God, South London Gallery, London (solo) 1997 Istanbul Biennial, Pera Palace Hotel, Turkey (solo) 1996 It’s not me that’s crying, it’s my soul, Galerie Mot & Van den Boogaard, Brussels (solo) 1996 Exorcism of the Last Painting I Ever Made, Galleri Andreas Br?ndstr?m, Stockholm (solo) 1996 Solo Exhibition, Habitat, London (solo) 1995 Tracey Emin Museum, 221 Waterloo Road, London SE1 (closed 1998) (solo) 1994 Art Cologne, Sponsored Artist, Jay Jopling/White Cube, Cologne (solo) 1994 Exploration of the Soul – Journey Across America, Readings at the following locations: Rena Bransten, San Francisco; Regen Projects, Los Angeles; Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego; David Klein Gallery, Detroit; Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh; Sandra Gering Gallery, New York and White Columns, New York (solo) 1993 My Major Retrospective, Jay Jopling/White Cube, London (solo) 1993 From Army to Armani, Analix Gallery, Geneva (with Sarah Lucas) 1993 The Shop, 103 Bethnal Green Road, London (with Sarah Lucas)