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Tracey Emin Biography
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Born in London, England
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Bachelor of Fine Art, Maidstone College of Art, Maidstone, Kent, England
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1989 |
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MA, Royal College of Art, London, England
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1997 |
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International Award for Video Art
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The Jury Prize Cairo Biennale Award, Cairo, Egypt
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2007 |
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Honorary Doctorate, Royal College of Art, London, UK
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2007 |
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Doctor of Letters, University of Kent, Kent, UK
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2007 |
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Doctor of Philosophy, London Metropolitan University, London, UK
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Lives and works in London, England
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| Selected Exhibitions |
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2008
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Summer Exhibition 2008, Royal Academy of Arts, London, England
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2008
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You Dig The Tunnel, I’ll Hide The Soil, White Cube Hoxton Square and Shoreditch Town Hall, London, England
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2008
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Fourth Plinth, National Gallery, London, England
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2008
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Love, Touring show: National Gallery, London, Tyne & Wear Museums and Bristol’s Museums, Galleries & Archives
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2008
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Tracey Emin: 20 Years, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, Scottland (solo)
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2007
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Tracey Emin: Borrowed Light, British Pavillion, Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy (solo)
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2007
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True Romance, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria
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2007
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Summer Exhibition 2007, Royal Academy of Arts, London, England
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2007
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The Naked Portrait, Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh, Scottland
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2007
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Lights, Camera Action: Artists' Films for the Cinema, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
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2007
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Mima Collection: Selected Works, Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art, Middlesbrough, United Kingdom
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2006
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More Flow, Galleria Lorcan O’Neill, Rome, Italy (solo)
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2006
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The Other Side #2 – Radical Pursuits: Delights in the subversive and sublime, Tony Shalfrazi Gallery, New York
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2006
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Aftershock: Contemporary British Art 1990-2006, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou; Capital Museum, Beijing
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2006
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Touch My Shadows, Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Poland
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2006
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In the darkest hour there may be light: Works from Damien Hirst’s murder me collection, Serpentine Gallery, London
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2006
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I’m Sorry, Pilar Parra & Romero Galeria de Arte, Madrid, Spain
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2006
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Hot/Cold – Summer Loving, Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, Poland
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2006
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Motion on Paper, Ben Brown Fine Arts, London, England
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2006
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Summer Exhibition 2006, Royal Academy, London, England
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2006
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Youth of Today, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, Germany
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2006
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The Devil of the Fireplace, Claudia Gian-Ferrari, La Triennale di Milano, Milan, Italy
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2006
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Drawing Inspiration, Abbot Hall Art Gallery, Kendal, United Kingdom
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2006
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For All Audiences, Sala Rekalde, Bilbao, Spain
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2006
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You’ll Never Know. Drawing and Random Interference, Harris Museum and Art Gallery, Preston; Glynn Vivian Gallery, Swansea; The Lowry, Salford; New Art Gallery, Walsall; Tullie Mouse Museum and Art Gallery, Carlisle
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2006
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LOVE!, Ferragamo Gallery, New York, NY
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2005
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I Can Feel Your Smile, Lehmann Maupin, New York, NY (solo)
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2005
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When I Think About Sex…, White Cube, London, England (solo)
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2005
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IMAGINE A WORLD…, Bargehouse, London, England
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2005
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Revelation. Reflecting British Art in the Arts Council Collection, Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle and The Lowry, Manchester
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2005
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Death Mask by Tracey Emin, National Portrait Gallery, London, England
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2005
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Sketch in Motion: A Group Exhibition of Artists’ Animation, Sketch, London, England
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2005
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Looking at Words. The Formal Presence of Text in Modern and Contemporary Works on Paper, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York
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2005
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The Wonderful Fund On Tour, Le Musée de Marrakech, Marrakech, Morocco
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2005
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God Is Bored Of Us II, FMCG, London, England
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2005
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Super!: First Triennial for Contemporary Art, Fashion and Design, Z33, Hasselt, Belgium
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2005
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Video II: Allegory, NRW-Furum Kultur und Wirtschaft, Dusseldorf, Germany
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2005
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Realit;)t. 30 Videoarbeiten aus der Sammlung Goetz in München. Von Olaf Breuning bis Sam Taylor-Wood, Seedamm Kulturzentrum, Pfaffikon, Switzerland
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2005
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Enchante Chãteau, MAMCO, Geneva, Switzerland
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2005
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Munch Revisited, Henie Onstad Kunstcenter, Oslo, Norway
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2005
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On Love, Museum Het Domein, Sittard, Netherlands
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2005
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'Bock mit Inhalt' - Summer Exhibition, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
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2005
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Summer Exhibition 2005, Royal Academy of Arts, London, England
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2005
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London Calling. Y[oung] B[ritish] A[rtists] Criss-Crossed, Galleri Kaare Berntsen, Oslo, Norway
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2005
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Body: New Art from the UK, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
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2005
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Kiss the Frog! The Art of Transformation, National Museum of Art, Oslo, Norway
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2005
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Identity and Nomadism, Palazzo delle Papesse, Siena, Italy
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2005
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25. Twenty-five Years of the Deutsche Bank Collection, Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin, Germany
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2005
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Vivisección, Dibujo Contemporáneo, Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, Mexico City, Mexico
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2005
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Mé-tissages, MIAT, Museum voor Industriële Archeologie en Textiel, Ghent, Belgium
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2005
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Women’s Film Festival, ICA, London, England
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2005
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Top Spot, Berlin Film Festival, Berlin, Germany
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2005
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Critic’s Choice, FACT, Liverpool, United Kingdom
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2004
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The Christmas Exhibition 2004, Edinburgh Printmakers, Edinburgh, Scotland
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2004
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Fonetography, AOP Gallery, London, England
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2004
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1st International Biennial of Contemporary Art of Sevilla, Monastry of the Cartuja of Sanat Maria de las Cuevas, Seville
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2004
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Printers Inc.: Recent British Prints, Manchester Art Gallery, Manchester; Brewhouse Theatre; Arts Centre, Taunton and Park Gallery, Falkirk, United Kingdom
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2004
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Seven Sins, Museo d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Bolzano, Italy
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2004
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Einleuchten, Museum der Moderne, Salzburg, Austria
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2004
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Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London, England
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2004
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The Other Flower Show, Victoria & Albert Museum, London, England
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2004
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Stranger Than Fiction, Leeds Art Gallery, Leeds; Tulie House, Carlisle; Ferens Art Gallery, Hull; Nottingham Castle, Nottingham; Brighton Museum and Art Gallery, Brighton, United Kingdom
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2004
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La Collection d’Art Contemporain d’Agnes B, Les Abattoirs, Toulouse, France
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2004
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Tracey Istanbulda, Platform Garanti Contemporary Art Center, Istanbul, Turkey (solo)
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2004
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Tracey Emin, BP British Art Displays, Tate Britain, London, England (solo)
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2004
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I’ll Meet You In Heaven, Galleria Lorcan O’Neill, Rome, Italy (solo)
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2004
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Can’t See Past My Own Eyes, Sketch, London, England (solo)
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2004
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Fear, War And The Scream, Roslyn Oxley, Sydney and City Gallery, Wellington (solo)
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2004
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Tracey Emin and David Hockney Drawings, Museo de Bellas Artes, Santiago, Chile
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2004
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Tracey Emin, Gillian Wearing and Dick Matena, Frans Hals Museum, Haarlem, Netherlands
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2004
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See It…Read It, Draíocht, Dublin, Ireland
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2004
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Secrets of the ‘90s, Museum voor Moderne Kunst Arnhem, Arnhem, Netherlands
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2004
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Social Strategies. Redefining Social Realism, Schick Art Gallery, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY
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2003
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Menphis, Counter Gallery, London, England (solo)
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2003
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Tracey Emin, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia (solo)
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2003
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Social Strategies. Redefining Social Realism, The Richard E. Peeler Art Center, DePauw University, Greencastle (Indiana); University Art Museum, University of California, Santa Barbara; University Galleries, Illinois State University,Normal (Illinois); Schick Art Gallery, Skidmore College, New York, The Newcomb Art Gallery, Tulane University, New Orleans and University Art Museum, Santa Barbara
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2003
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Tracey Emin, Luigi Ontani, Kiki Smith, Cerith Wyn Evans,Galleria Lorcan O’Neill, Rome, Italy
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2003
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Flexible 4: Identities, Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester; Nederlands Textielmuseum, Tilburg, Kunsthalle Brandts Klaedefabrik, Odense and Landesgalerie Linz am Oberösterreichischen Landesmusem, Linz
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2003
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Happiness: A Survival Guide for Art and Life, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
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2003
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Fast Forward – Media Art, ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany
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2003
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FRESH: Contemporary British Artists in Print, Edinburgh Printmakers, Edinburgh, Scotland
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2003
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Just Love Me; Post-Feministic Art of the 1990s, Bergen Art Museum, Bergen, Norway
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2003
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A Bigger Splash: British Art from Tate 1960–2003, OCA & ITO, São Paulo, Brazil
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2003
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Game Over, Grimm Rosenfeld, Munich, Germany
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2003
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Independence, South London Gallery, London, England
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2003
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The Happy Couple, Cartwright Hall Art Gallery, Bradford, West Yorkshire
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2003
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Il racconto del filo, Museo di Arte Moderna, Trento, Italy
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2003
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Europe Exists, Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki, Greece
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2003
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Let’s See the Nature in You, Pepperton Gallery, London, England
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2003
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Tactics of the Ego, Stiftung Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum, Duisburg, Germany
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2003
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Micro/Macro, The Budapest Kunsthalle, Budapest, Hungary
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2003
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Words from the Arts Council Collection, The Harris Museum and Art Gallery, Preston, United Kingdom
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2003
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The Map Is Not The Territory III, James Hockey Gallery, Farnham and The Surrey Institute of Art & Design, Franham
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2003
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En Route, De Hallen, Haarlem, Netherlands
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2002
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This is Another Place, Modern Art Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom (solo)
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2002
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Ten Years. Tracey Emin, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands (solo)
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2002
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I Think it’s in my head, Lehmann Maupin, New York, NY (solo)
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2002
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Tracey Emin Showreel, The Genesis Cinema, London, England (solo)
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2002
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Tracey Emin, Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany (solo)
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2002
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Face Off, Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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2002
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Rapture: Art’s Seduction by Fashion Since 1970, Barbican Art Gallery, London, England
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2002
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The Ink Jetty, Neon Gallery, London, England
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2002
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Shine, St Pancras Chambers, London, England
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2002
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The Glory of God: New Religious Art, St. Peter’s Church, Liverpool, United Kingdom
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2002
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Disturb, 1st Public School of Hydra, Hydra
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2002
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Die Wohltat der Kunst: Post\Feministische Positionen der neunziger Jahre aus der Sammlung Goetz, Staatliche Kunsthalle, Baden-Baden
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2002
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Fusion Cuisine, Deste Foundation, Centre for Contemporary Art, Athens, Greece
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2002
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Public Affairs. Von Beuys bis Zittel: Das Offentliche in der Kunst, Kunsthaus, Zurich, Switzerland
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2002
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New Religious Art 1992–2002, Henry Peacock Gallery, London, England
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2002
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Landscape, Saatchi Gallery, London, England
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2002
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The Rowan Collection. Contemporary British & Irish Art, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland
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2001
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Tracey Emin You forgot to kiss my soul, White Cube, London, England (solo)
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2001
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Trans Sexual Express, Centro de Arte de Santa Monica, Barcelona; Palacio Municipal de Exposiciones, Corunna and Mucsarnok, Budapest, Hungary
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2001
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For the Love of Dog, Pump House Gallery, London, England
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2001
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Printers Inc., The Gallery, Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire
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2001
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Read-Only Memory, Mead Gallery, Warwick Arts Centre, University of Warwick, Coventry, United Kingdom
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2001
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Televisions, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria
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2001
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Video Project Space, Anthony Wilkinson Gallery, London, England
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2001
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In Formation, Percy Miller Gallery, London, England
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2001
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For the love of dog, Pump House Gallery, London, England
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2001
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At Sea, Tate Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom
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2001
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Tattoo Show, Modern Art Inc., London, England
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2001
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Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London, England
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2001
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Freestyle. Werke Aus der Sammlung Boros, Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen, Germany
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2001
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Century City, Tate Modern, London, England
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2001
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Insider Trading: Profit Without Honour, Mandeville Hotel, London, England
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2001
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London Nomad, Beit Zeinab Khatoun, a seminar on Contemporary Curatorial Practice at the American University Cairo Biennale, Cairo, Egypt
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2001
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Peter Blake: About Collage, Tate Gallery, London, England
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2001
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Nurture and Desire, Hayward Gallery, London, England
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2001
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Sex and the British: Slap & Tickle – A perspective on the sexual content of British Art since the 1960s, Gallerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg and Gallerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, France
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2001
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Gut Aufgelegt, Kunsthaus, Hamburg, Germany
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2001
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Drawings, Sommer Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv, Israel
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2001
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Drawings, Taché-Lévy Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
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2001
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Potent Present. Selections from the Vicki and Kent Logan Collection, Logan Galleries, California College of Arts and Crafts, San Francisco, CA
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2001
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ManMoMa. A Thick Bloke Kicking a Dog to Death, The International 3 Summer Fête, Fairfield, Manchester
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2001
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From Face to Face. Mimics – Gestures – Emotions, Städtisches Museum Leverkusen Schloß Morsbroich, Leverkusen
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2001
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Out There, White Cube, London, England
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2001
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Art in Sacred Spaces, St. Mary’s Church
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2001
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The British Art Show 5, The Scottish National gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh (National Touring Exhibitions)
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2001
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Diary, Cornerhouse, Manchester, United Kingdom
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2000
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Love is a Strange Thing, Fig.1, London, England (solo)
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2000
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What Do You Know About Love, Galerie Gebauer, Berlin, Germany (solo)
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1999
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Tracey Emin Every Part of Me’s Bleeding, Lehmann Maupin, New York, NY (solo)
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1998
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Sobasex (My Cunt is Wet with Fear), Sagacho Exhibition Space, Tokyo, Japan (solo)
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1998
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Cunt Vernacular, Galerie Gebauer, Berlin, Germany (solo)
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1998
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I Need Art Like I Need God, Gesellschaft für Aktuelle Kunst, Bremen, Germany (solo)
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1998
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Tracey Emin, Galerie Philippe Rizzo, Paris, France (solo)
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1997
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Solo Exhibition, Moo Gallery, Helsinki, Finland (solo)
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1997
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I Need Art Like I Need God, South London Gallery, London, England (solo)
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1997
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Istanbul Biennial, Pera Palace Hotel, Istanbul, Turkey (solo)
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1996
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It’s not me that’s crying, it’s my soul, Galerie Mot & Van den Boogaard, Brussels, Belgium (solo)
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1996
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Exorcism of the Last Painting I Ever Made, Galleri Andreas Brändström, Stockholm, Sweden (solo)
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1996
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Solo Exhibition, Habitat, London, England (solo)
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1995
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Tracey Emin Museum, 221 Waterloo Road, London SE1 (closed 1998) (solo)
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1994
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Art Cologne, Sponsored Artist, Jay Jopling/White Cube, Cologne, Germany (solo)
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1994
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Exploration of the Soul – Journey Across America, Readings at the following locations: Rena Bransten, San Francisco; Regen Projects, Los Angeles; Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego; David Klein Gallery, Detroit; Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh; Sandra Gering Gallery, New York and White Columns, New York (solo)
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1993
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My Major Retrospective, Jay Jopling/White Cube, London, England (solo)
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1993
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From Army to Armani, Analix Gallery, Geneva, Switzerland (with Sarah Lucas)
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1993
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The Shop, 103 Bethnal Green Road, London, England (with Sarah Lucas)
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