Gillian Wearing
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Gillian Wearing CBE, RA (born 10 December 1963) is an English conceptual artist, one of the Young British Artists, and winner of the 1997 Turner Prize. In 2007 Wearing was elected as lifetime member of the Royal Academy of Arts in London.[1] Her statue of the suffragist Millicent Fawcett, popularly known as "Hanging out the washing", stands in London's Parliament Square.[2]
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Born | (1963-12-10) 10 December 1963 (age 60) Birmingham, England |
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Nationality | British |
Education | Goldsmiths |
Known for | Conceptual art, installation art |
Movement | Young British Artists |
Awards | Turner Prize |
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From 5 November 2021 to 4 April 2022, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York City showed Gillian Wearing: Wearing Masks, the first retrospective of Wearing's work in North America.[3][4]