Tacita Dean was born in Canterbury, England, in 1965. She life and work in Berlin, Germany.
She studied in a Falmouth School of Art in England, in a Supreme School of Art of Athens, and Slade School of Art in London. In 1998 she was nominated in a for a turner Prize and she was awarded a DAAD scholarship for Berlin, In 2000. She has received the following prizes: The Aachen Art Prize in 2002; Foundation Sndretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, Italy in 2004; the sixth Prize of Benesse at the 51st Venice Biennale in 2005; and the prize Hugo boss in the museum Solomon R. Guggenheim, in New York in 2006. She only participated in a Biennale of Venice in 2003 and 2005.
Here two last solo works:
- In 2009; Australian Center for contemporary Art, Melbourne, Australia. Still life, foundation Nicola Trussardi, Milan, Italy.
- In 2008; In My Manor, Villa Oppenheim Gallery for Gegenwartskunst, Berlin.
Here two last groups works:
- In 2009; The Quick and the Dead, Walker Art Center, in Minneapolis and Georges Pompidou Center, Paris, France.
- In 2008; The Cinema Effect: Illusion, Reality and the moving image. The Hirshhorn museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington D.C.
