Gillian Wearing
(1963)
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 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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Public appearances and private thoughts in early 1990s London, explored through participatory color street portraits of strangers holding self-written statements.
Books
Gillian Wearing Signs That Say What You Want Them to Say and Not Signs That Say What Someone Else Wants You to Say 1992-1993
- Interim Art, 1997
Gillian Wearing
- Whitechapel Gallery, 2012