Tracey Emin — Artist Biographical Backgrounds

Tracey Emin is a British artist who makes a variety of work about love, relationships, and everyday life in mediums like film, neon, painting, sculptures, large installations and found objects, often with a focus on her personal emotions.

BIOGRAPHY:

• Born in Surrey, England in 1963
• Earned an MA in painting at the Royal College of Art in 1989
• Joined the Young British Artists movement in the 1990s and began exhibiting with them soon after
• Famously nominated for the Turner • Prize ni 1999 for her work My Bed
• Represented Britain at the 2007 Venice Biennale
• Made Royal Academician at London’s Royal Academy of the Arts in 2007
• Known for tackling sexuality and taboo aspects of femininity, earning her a moniker as the “bad girl of British art” from British tabloids
• Often uses aspects of her private life for public art, including illness, romantic relationships, and family history
• Showcased her work in 2021 in a joint exhibition with expressionist painter Edvard
  Munch, one of Emin’s favorite artists

“I’ve always been a very creative person; and at 15, I left school and moved to London.  Art is a vocation for me, not a career, not a job… You wouldn’t say to a nun, how did you get into God?”

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