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Wearing, Gillian
1963 Birmingham, lives in London (UK).

venue: museo San Telmo

Gillian Wearing investigates social behaviour in order to lay bare the darker sides of inconsistencies supporting the crux of human drives. Through seemingly banal documentation strategies, Wearing allows individuals to act and behave as themselves while masquerading as others. In Tedi, she focuses on an Albanian child who extols the virtues of the heroic monuments located in the capital of Tirana in patriotic and emphatic language. Shot in a home video format, the work capitalizes on the rhetoric-laden verse of a child who takes his job very seriously. We sense the tension in the child’s forceful attempt to correctly deliver his script that refers us back to a time when propaganda often went unquestioned.

curriculum:

Education

B.A. (Hons.) in Fine Art, Goldsmiths College, University of London, 1990.

B.TECH in Art & Design, Chelsea School of Art, 1987.

Selected individual exhibitions

Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, 2004.

Album. Gorney Bravin+Lee,

New York (USA), 2003.

Album. Maureen Paley Interim Art, London, 2003.

Mass Observation. Touring exhibition: Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; ICA Philapelphia (USA); Musée dArt Contemporain, Montreal, 2003.

Trilogy. Art Gallery, Vancouver (Canada), 2002.

Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea, Santiago (Spain), 2001.

Unspoken. Kunstverein, Munich (Germany), 2001.

Sous Influence. Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville, Paris, 2001.

La Caixa, Madrid, 2001.

Bluecoat Gallery, Liverpool (UK), 2001.

Regen Projects, Los Angeles (USA), 2000.

Serpentine Gallery. London, 2000.

Gorney Bravin+Lee. New York (USA), 2000.

Galerie Anne de Villepoix. Paris, 1999.

Gallery Koyanagi, Tokyo, 1998.

Centre d’Art Contemporain, Geneva (Switzerland), 1998.

Jay Gorney Modern Art, New York (USA), 1997.

Wiener Secession, Vienna, 1997.

Kunsthaus Zurich (Switzerland), 1997.

Emi Fontana, Milan (Italy), 1997.

Le Consortium, Dijon (France), 1996.

Western Security. Hayward Gallery, London, 1995.

Maureen Paley Interim Art, London, 1994.

Selected group exhibitions

Social Creatures: How Body Becomes Art. Sprengel Museum, Hannover (Germany), 2004.

Revolving Doors. Fundación Telefónica, Madrid, 2004.

Strange Days. Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (USA), 2003.

Synopsis III. Fiction and Reality. National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens, 2003.

Happiness: a Survival Guide for Art & Life. Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, 2003.

Outlook, International Art Exhibition 2003. Athens, 2003.

Inaugural Exhibition. Regen Projects, Los Angeles (USA), 2003.

Face Off. Kettles Yard, Cambridge (UK), 2002.

Die Wohltat der Kunst: Post\Feministische Positionen der 90er Jahre aus der Sammlung Goetz. Staatliche Kunsthalle, Baden (Germany), 2002.

Coming of Age. The New Art Gallery, Walsall (Germany), 2002.

To Whom it May Concern. California College of Arts and Crafts, San Francisco (USA), 2002.

I Promise its Political. Museum Ludwig, Cologne (Germany), 2002.

Remix: Contemporary Art and Pop. Tate, Liverpool (UK), 2002.

Bienal de São Paulo. Sao Paulo (Brazil), 2002.

The Video Show. Central Museum, Utrecht (The Netherlands), 2002.

Acquisitions 2001. Part 1: Photographs, Video Installations, Video. National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens, 2002.

Inner State of Health: The Person in the Mirror of Contemporary Art. Kunstmuseum, Liechtenstein (Germany), 2001;

Biennial of Contemporary Art Lyon (France), 2001.

Milano Europa 2001. La Triennale, Milan (Italy), 2001.

Confidence pour Confidence. Casino Luxembourg, 2001.

Video Evidence. Southampton City Art Gallery, Southampton (UK), 2001.

Film Festival Rotterdam. Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam (The Netherlands), 2001.

Telling Tales: Narrative Impulses in Recent Art. Tate, Liverpool (UK), 2001.

ABBILD Recent Portraiture and Depiction. Landemuseum Joanneum, Graz (Austria), 2001.

No World Without You, Reflections of Identity in New British Art. Herzliya Museum of Art, Tel Aviv (Israel), 2001.

W. Centre d’Art Mobile, Besançon (France), 2001.

Birningham Ikon Gallery, Birmingham (UK), 2001.

Century City. Tate Modern,
London, 2001.

Intelligence: New British Art 2000. Tate Britain, London, 2000.

Puerile 69. The Living Art Museum, Reykjavík, 2000.

Tate Modern Collection. Tate Modern, London; Autowerke, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg (Germany); Contemporary Art Center, Cincinnati (USA), 2000.

Biennial of Sydney. Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, 2000.

Docudrama. Bury St. Edmunds Art Gallery, Bury St. Edmunds (UK), 2000.

Tate Britain Collection. Tate Gallery, London, 2000.

Let’s Entertain. Walker Art Center, Minneapolis (USA), 2000.

Quotidiana. Castello di Rivoli, Turin (Italy), 2000.

Makeshift. ArtPace, San Antonio (USA), 2000.

Rewind to the Future. Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn (Germany); Neue Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin, 1999.

People. Le Spot, Contemporary Art Centre, Le Havre (UK), 1999.

Hundstage. Gesellschaft für Aktuelle Kunst, Bremen (Germany), 1999.

Ex-Change. La Criee-Centre dArt Contemporain, Rennes (France), 1999.

The Viewing Room. Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City (USA), 1999.

This Other World of Ours. TV Gallery, Moscow, 1999.

Common People. Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo per l’Arte, Turin (Italy), 1999.

Sweetie: Female Identity in British Video. The British School at Rome (Italy), 1999.

Searchlight: Consciousness at the Millennium. The California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland (USA), 1999.

Private Room/Public Space. Almeers Centrum Hedendaagse Kunst, Al Almere (The Netherlands), 1999.

Rattling the Frame: The Photographic Space 1974-1999. SF Camerawork, San Francisco (USA), 1999.

6th International Istanbul Biennial, 1999.

Garden of Eros. Centre Cultural Tecla Sala, Barcelona (Spain), 1999.

La Sphere de L’Intime. Le Printemps de Cahors, Saint-Cloud (France), 1998.

Real/Life: New British Art. Touring exhibition in Japan: Prefectural Museum of Fine Arts, Tochigi; City Art Museum, Fukuoka; Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima; Museum of Cont-emporary Art, Tokyo, 1998.

Musée du Rochechouart, Rochechouart (France), 1998.

Videorama. Depot, Kunst und Diskussion, Vienna, 1998.

White Noise. Kunsthalle, Berne, 1998

ENGLISH ROSE in Japan, The Ginza Artspace, Tokyo, 1998.

The Turner Prize 1997. Tate Gallery, London, 1997.

Sensation, Saatchi Collection. Royal Academy of Art, London, 1997.

In Visible Light: Photography and Classification in Art, Science and the Everyday. Museum of Modern Art, Oxford (UK), 1997.

Pandaemonium; London Festival of Moving Images, ICA, London, 1996.

I.D. Van Abbe Museum, Eindhoven (The Netherlands), 1996.

Life/Live. ARC/ Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville, Paris, 1996.

Full House.Young British Art. Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg (Germany), 1996.

Playpen & Corpus Delirium. Kunsthalle Zurich, (Switzerland), 1996.

A/Drift: Scenes from the Penetrable Culture. Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, New York (USA), 1996.

The Fifth New York Video Festival. The Film Society of Lincoln Center, New York (USA), 1996.

NOW:HERE. Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek (Denmark), 1996.

Traffic. CAPC Musée Contemporain, Bordeaux (France), 1996.

X/Y. Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, 1995.

Campo. Biennale di Venezia, Venice (Italy), 1995.

Brilliant! New Art from London. Walker Art Center, Minneapolis (USA), 1995.

Aperto 95. Nouveau Musée, Institut dArt Contemporain, Villeurbanne (France) 1995.

Hotel Mama (Aperto 95), Kunstraum, Vienna, 1995.

Make Believe. Royal College of Art, London, 1995.

Le Shuttle. Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, 1994.

Uncertain Identity. Galerie Analix B & L Polla, Geneva (Switzerland), 1994.

Okay Behaviour. 303 Gallery, New York (USA), 1993.

Clove 1. The Clove Building, London, 1991.

Empty Gestures. Diorama Art Centre, London, 1991.
 
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