Biography
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. Her statue of the suffragist Millicent Fawcett, popularly known as "Hanging out the washing", stands in London's Parliament Square.
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.
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Known ForDirecting
GenderFemale
Birthday1963-12-10 (60 years old)
Birth PlaceBirmingham, United Kingdom
SpouseMichael Landy
CitizenshipsUnited Kingdom
ResidencesBirmingham, United Kingdom
AwardsOfficer of the Order of the British Empire, Turner Prize, Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, Commander of the Order of the British Empire
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