EDUCATION
1987-90
Goldsmiths' College, University of London, B.A. (Hons.) Fine Art
1985-87
Chelsea School of Art, London B.TECH Art & Design
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
(C) denotes that a catalogue was published in conjunction with the exhibition.
Upcoming
Behind the mask, another mask: Gillian Wearing and Claude Cahun, National Portrait Gallery, London, UK
The National Gallery of Denmark, Copenhagen
2016
Sandra and Gerald Fineberg Art Wall, ICA Boston, USA
2015
Instituto Valenciano de Arte Moderno, IVAM, Valencia, Spain (C)
2014
everyone, Regen Projects, Los Angeles, USA
Rose Video 05, The Rose Art Museum of Brandeis University, Waltham, USA
We Are Here, Maureen Paley, London, UK
A Real Birmingham Family, Centenary Square, Library of Birmingham. Birmingham, UK
We Are Here, The New Art Gallery Walsall, Walsall, UK
2013
Museum Brandhorst, Munich, Germany
PEOPLE: Selected Parkett Artists' Editions from 1984-2013, Parkett Space, Zurich, Switzerland
The Apartment, Vancouver, Canada
2012
Whitechapel Gallery, London, touring to K20, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Dusseldorf and Pinakothek der Moderne, Museum Brandhorst, Munich, Germany (C).
A Real Birmingham Family, Central Library, Birmingham and HomeSense, The Fort Shopping Park, Birmingham, UK
2011
People, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York, UK
A Real Birmingham Family, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, UK
2009
Confessions: Portraits, vidéos, Musée Rodin, Paris, UK
2008
Regen Projects, Los Angeles.
2007
Family Monument, Galleria Civica di Arte Contemporanea, Trento.
Elsewhere?, Galleria Emi Fontana, Milan.
2006
Living Proof, ACCA, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne, (C).
Family History, in conjunction with the Film and Video Umbrella, touring exhibition: The Forbury Hotel Apartments, Reading; Ikon, Birmingham.
Family History, Maureen Paley, London, (C).
2005
Snapshot, Bloomberg Space, London.
Outreach Award, Rencontres d'Arles Festival, Arles, France, (C).
2004
Frans Hals Museum, Haarlem, The Netherlands.
Album, Regen Projects, Los Angeles.
Kiasma/Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki.
2003
Album, Gorney Bravin+Lee, New York.
Album, Maureen Paley Interim Art, London.
Mass Observation, ICA Philadelphia.
Mass Observation, Musée d'Art Contemporain de Montréal.
2002
Mass Observation, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, (C).
A Trilogy, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, (C).
Kunsthaus Glarus, Glarus, Switzerland.
2001
Angel Row Gallery, Nottingham.
Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea, Santiago, Spain.
Unspoken, Kunstverein München, Munich, (C).
Museo do Chiado, Lisbon.
Sous Influence, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris.
la Caixa, Madrid.
Bluecoat Gallery, Liverpool.
2000
Regen Projects, Los Angeles.
Serpentine Gallery, London, Curated by Lisa G. Corrin, (C).
Gorney Bravin+Lee, New York.
1999
A Woman Called Theresa, Ophiuchus Collection, The Hydra Workshop, Hydra, Greece.
Galerie Anne de Villepoix, Paris.
Drunk, De Vleeshal, Middelburg, The Netherlands.
Maureen Paley Interim Art, London.
1998
Spacex Gallery, Exeter, UK.
Gallery Koyanagi, Tokyo, Japan.
Centre d'Art Contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland.
1997
Galerie Drantmann, Brussels, Belgium.
Jay Gorney Modern Art, New York.
Wiener Secession, Vienna, Austria, (C).
10 - 16, Chisenhale Gallery, London.
Kunsthaus Zürich, Switzerland.
Emi Fontana, Milan, Italy.
1996
Wish You Were Here (Video Evenings at De Appel), Amsterdam.
Le Consortium, Dijon, France.
Gillian Wearing, City Projects - Prague, Part II, The British Council, Prague, (C).
Valentina Moncada, Rome (British Council), Italy
Maureen Paley Interim Art, London, UK
1995
Western Security, Hayward Gallery, London, UK
1994
Maureen Paley Interim Art, London, UK
1993
City Racing, London, UK
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
(C) denotes that a catalogue was published in conjunction with the exhibition.
2017
Fifteen People Present Their Favorite Book (After Kosuth), CAC Bukovje/Landskrona, Landskrona, Sweden
In Sense of Place: Student Select, Highlanes Municipal Art Gallery, Drogheda, County Louth, Ireland
Person of the Crowd: The Contemporary Art of Flanerie, The Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia, USA
What I Loved: Selected Works from the '90s, Regen Projects, Los Angeles, California, USA
Krakow Photomonth, Kraków, Poland
The Inner Skin, Art and Shame, MARTa Herford, Herford, Germany
2016
Thicker than Water. Concepts of the Family in Contemporary Art, kunstpalais, Erlangen, Germany (C)
Thicker than Water. Concepts of the Family in Contemporary Art, Villa Merkel, Esslingen am Neckar, Germany (C)
VIVRE !!, Musée de l'histoire de l'immigration, Paris, France
Found, The Foundling Museum, London, UK
Behold the Man, Museum de Fundatie, Paleis aan de Blijmarkt, Zwolle, The Netherlands
The Lives of Others: Portraits from the Photography Collection, Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, IL, USA
Versus - La Sfida Dell'artista Al Suo Modello In Un Secolo Di Fotografia E Disegno, Galleria Civica di Modena, Modena Italy
Staged! Spectacle and Role Play in Contemporary Art, Sammlung Goetz Collection, Kunsthalle Munich, Munich, Germany
Prospect 2016, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego - MCASD La Jolla, CA USA
Ich, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt/Main Germany (C)
Invisible Adversaries : Marieluise Hessel Collection, Hessel Museum of Art & Center for Curatorial Studies Galleries at Bard College, Annandale-on Hudson, NY USA (C)
Video oediV, Campbelltown Arts Centre C-A-C, Australia
Me. New forms of Self-Portraiture, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, Germany
Portrait De L'artiste En Alter, FRAC - Haute-Normandie, Sotteville-lès-Rouen, France
Robert Mapplethorpe: The Perfect Medium, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, USA
On How to Become a Real Person, Museum fur Neue Kunst, Freiburg, Germany
2015
Tate Liverpool, UK
Vanità /Vanitas, Museo Ettore Fico, Turin, Italy
Contemporary Photography from North West Europe. Chapter I, Fondazione Fotografie Modena, Modena, Italy
The Great Mother, Fondazione Nicola Trussardi, Milan, Italy (C)
Work, Rest and Play: British Photography from the 1960s to Today, Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai, China
Ãlbum de FamÃlia, Centro Municipal de Arte Hélio Oiticica, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
A Taste of Things to Come, Ocean Studios, Plymouth, UK
14th East End Film Festival, Barbican, London, UK
Station to Station, a Project by Doug Aitken, Barbican, London, UK
Perfect Likeness: Photography and Composition, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Fire and forget, On violence, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin
Eye to Eye: Looking Beyond Likeness, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, New York, USA
Zabludowicz Collection: 20 Years of Collecting: Between Discovery and Invention, Zabludowicz Collection, London
Partial Presence, Zabludowicz Collection, London, UK
Self, Turner Contemporary, Margate, UK
2014
Body Doubles, MCA Chicago, Chicago, USA
The Vincent Award 2014, Gemeentemuseum Den Haag, The Hague, Netherlands
About Town, Video Art in Southside, Hurst Street Car Park, Birmingham, UK
Urban Psychosis, The Holden Gallery, Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester, UK
The Bigger Picture: Work from the 1990's, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York, USA
(Mis)Understanding Photography Works and Manifestos, Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany
Nouvelle Génération, Frac Nord-Pas de Calais, Dunkerque, France
A Secret Affair: Selections From The Fuhrman Family Collection, The Contemporary Austin, Austin, TX, USA
40 Years of Women Artists, The New Art Gallery Walsall
Love, Wilhelm-Hack-Museum, Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Germany.
2013
You Are Here, Worcester Art Museum, Worcester MA, USA.
93 Exhibition, CGAC Centro Galego de Art Contemparenea, Santiago de Compostela, Spain.
Karel's Choice - Looking back at contemporary Art, De Hallen, Haarlem, Netherlands
Alien & Familiar, Galerie im Taxipalais, Innsbruck, Austria.
Assembly: A Survey of Recent Artists' Film and Video in Britain 2008-2013, Tate Britain, London, UK.
British British Polish Polish: Art From Europe's edges in the Long '90s and Today, CSW Ujadowski Castle, Warsaw, Poland.
Salon der Angst, Kunsthalle Wein, Vienna, Austria.
Requiem for a Bank, HMKV, Dortmund, Germany.
Bellwether Series, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio.
Centre for Contemporary Art Ujadowski Castle, Warsaw, Poland.
Someone Else, Villa Romana, Florence, Italy.
WHAT TO THINK, WHAT TO DESIRE, WHAT TO DO, Fundació "la Caixa", Barcelona, Spain.
NYC 1993: Experimental jet set, trash and no star, New Museum, New York, USA.
Ensemble, Backlit Gallery, Nottingham, UK.
Homelands, British Council touring exhibition, New Delhi, touring to Kolkata, Mumbai and Bangalore, India
Lovin' it Symbol and Contradiction, Bromer Art Collection, Kaltenherberg, Roggwil, Switzerland.
More Love: Art, Politics and Sharing Since 1990s, Ackland Art Museum at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA, (C).
Performing Film, Coreana Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea.
Still, Solent Showcase Gallery, Southampton Solent University, Southampton.
Fremd & Eigen, Galerie im Taxispalais, Innsbruck, Austria
John Bock, Keren Cytter, Paul Pfeiffer, Gillian Wearing, and Akram Zaatari, Regen Projects, Los Angeles, USA
The System of Objects, Deste Foundation, Athens, Greece
Lost Boys: The Territories of Youth, Lewis Glucksman Gallery, Cork, Ireland
Brilliant Disguise: Masks and Other Transformations, CAC - Contemporary Arts Center New Orleans, New Orleans, USA
Besser scheitern - Film + Video - Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany
Wild New Territories, Simon Fraser University Art Gallery, Burnaby, Canada
2012
Beyond the family album, La Caixa Collection, Spain.
Matters of Fact, Hessel Museum of Art, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York
Self-portraits, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark
The Long Now, The Galleries at Moore College of Art & Design, Philadelphia, USA.
About Face, Pier 24 photography, San Francisco, USA.
Here in Your Space: Christian Jankowski, Gillian Wearing, Guy Ben-Ner, Grand Central Art Center, California State University, Fullerton, USA.
Encounter: The Royal Academy in Asia, Institute of Contemporary Arts Singapore, Singapore, Asia.
Family Matters: The Family in British Art, Millennium Galleries, Sheffield, Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle.
Made In Britain: Contemporary Art from the British Council Collection 1980 2010, Benaki Museum, Athens, Greece.
9th Shanghai Biennale, Shanghai, China, (C)
Rxy, Galleria della Molinella, Faenza, Italy
The Story of the Government Art Collection, Whitechapel Gallery, London, touring to Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, and Ulster Museum, Belfast.
Sounds Like Silence, HMKV: Hartware MedienKunstVerein, Dortmund, Germany.
2011
Hints of the outside world, SOMA Contemporary, Waterford City, Ireland.
Let the Healing Begin, IMA Institute of Modern Art at the Judith Wright Centre of Contemporary Art, Brisbane.
Moving Portraits, De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill-on-sea, East Sussex.
Family Matters: The Family in British Art, Norwich Castle Museum & Art Gallery; Millennium Galleries, Sheffield; Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle; Tate Britain, London (touring through 2012).
Robert Mapplethorpe: Night Work: Curated by Scissor Sisters, Alison Jacques Gallery, London.
Role Models - Role Playing, Museum der Moderne Salzburg, Salzburg.
The Dwelling Life of Man, Fundació Foto Colectania, Barcelona, Spain.
2010
Auto-Kino, TemporKunsthalle Berlin, Germany, (C).
CUE; Artists' Videos, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada.
The Future Demands Your Participation: Contemporary Art from the British Council Collection, Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai.
Haunted: Contemporary Photography / Video / Performance, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York.
Kurt, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, USA.
Lemaitre collection, Museo de Arte de Lima (MALI), Lima, Peru.
Niet Normaal, Beurs van Berlage, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
The Original Copy: Photography of Sculpture, 1839 to Today, Museum of Modern Art, New York.
Party!, The New Art Gallery Walsall, Walsall, UK.
Skin Fruit: Dakis Joannou Collection, (curated by Jeff Koons), New Museum, New York.
Weatherspoon Art Museum, University of North Carolina, North Carolina.
Rewind: Selected Works from the MCA Collection, 1970's to 1990's, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago.
The Talent Show, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, USA.
2009
Be sure to attend very carefully to what I have to say to you, Fri Art, Centre d'art
British Subjects: Identity & Self-Fashioning 1965-2009, Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, NY.
Contemporary Outlook: Seeing Songs, Museum of Fine Art, Boston.
contemporain Kunsthalle, Centre for contemporary art, Fribourg, France.
Once upon a timeArtists & Storytelling, Somerset House, London.
The Reach of Realism, Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami, USA.
Through The Lens: Photography from the Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami, Miami, USA, (C).
2008
History in the Making: A Retrospective of the Turner Prize, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo.
EXISTENCIAS, MUSAC, León, Spain.
Irish Museum of Modern Art Obras Fundamentales, Sala Kubo-Kutxa, San Sebastian.
La Collection d'art d'agnes b, JRP Ringier, Zürich.
Martian Museum of Terrestrial Art, Barbican Art Gallery, London, (C).
Print the Legend: Contemporary Art and the Western, The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh.
Tarantula, Fondazione Nicola Trussardi, Milan, Italy.
You are my mirror 1: Je t'aime, moi non plus, Frac Lorraine, Metz, France
Worlds on video, Centro di Cultura Contemporanea Palazzo Strozzi, Firenze, Italy.
2007
Breaking step/Uraskoraku, Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade, (C).
Held Together with Water, MAK, Vienna, (C).
Passion Complex, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan, (C).
Role Exchange, Sean Kelly, New York.
Talking Pictures: Theatricality in Contemporary Film and Video Works, K21, Düsseldorf.
The Turner Prize: A Retrospective, Tate Britain, London.
Global Feminisms: New Directions in Contemporary Art, Brooklyn Museum, New York, (C).
ELSEWHERE?, Galleria Emi Fontana, Milan.
2006
Eye On Europe: Prints, Books and Multiples / 1960 to Now, The Museum of Modern Art, New York.
Aftershock, Contemporary British Art 1990 2006, Guangdong Museum of Art,
Guangzhou, China & Capital Museum, Beijing, China.
Before the Camera: Remaking Reality and the Make-believe, Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, Florida.
Local Stories, Modern Art Oxford, Oxford, (C).
Live Screen, Lilian Baylis Theatre at Saddlers Wells, London.
Of Mice and Men, Fourth Berlin Biennial for Contemporary Art, Berlin, (C).
Making History Art and Documentary in Britain from 1929 to Now, Tate Liverpool, 2006, (C).
Mouvement: Des Deux Cés du Rhin, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, (C).
People, Museo D'Arte Contemporanea Donnaregina, Naples.
Portrait of Artists, Luring Augustine.
Me, Myself and I, Contemporary Art Center of Virginia.
Shoot the Family, touring exhibition: Cranbrook Art Museum, and others.
The Monty Hall Problem, Blum & Poe, Los Angeles.
A Short History of Performance part IV, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, (C).
Raconte-moi/ Tell me, Casino Luxembourg, Luxembourg.
2005
The Kyber Arts Center, Nova Scotia.
The Gesture, A visual library in progress, Macedonian Museum of contemporary Art, Thessaloniki, Greece, and Quarter, Centro Produzione Arte, Florence, 2005, (C).
New Work/New Acquisitions, MOMA The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Sculpture in the park, Durham Art Gallery & DLI Museum, England.
Body: New art from the UK, Vancouver art gallery (2005), The Ottawa art gallery (2006), Oakville galleries (2006), Edmonton art gallery (2006), (C).
Irreducible: Contemporary Short Form Video, CCAC Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, & The Bronx Museum of the Art, New York, (C).
25. Twenty-five years of the Deutsche Bank Collection, Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin, (C).
raconte-moi, Musee national des beaux-arts du Quebec, Canada, (C).
Family Pictures Fotografia contemporanea e Video dalla Collezione del Guggenheim Museum, Galleria Gottardo, Switzerland, (C).
2004
Faces in the crowd Picturing modern life from Manet to today, The Whitechapel art gallery, London, UK.
With all due intent, European Biennial of contemporary art, Spain, (C).
Inaugural Show: MoMA reopening, Museum of Modern Art, New York
Social Creatures: How body becomes art, Sprengel Museum Hannover, (C).
ART NEWS: contemporary artists working with newspaper, Three Colts Gallery, London.
Revolving Doors, Fundación Telefónica, Madrid, (C).
About Face, Hayward Gallery, London.
Busan Biennale 2004, Seoul.
Manifesta, San Sebastian.
2003
A bigger s[lash British art from Tate 1960 2003, Pavihao lucas Nogueira Garcez Oca Parque ibirapuera, Sao Paul & Instituto Tomie Ohtake. (C)
Contemporary British Art from the Paragon Collection, Hakodate Museum of Art, Hokkkaido, Japan. (C)
Fast Foreward, Sammlung Goetz, (C)
Strange Days, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago.
Synopsis III - Fiction and Reality,
National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens
Happiness: a survival guide for art & life, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo
Outlook, International Art Exhibition 2003, Athens. (C)
Inaugural Exhibition, Regen Projects, Los Angeles
2002
Face Off, Kettle's Yard, Cambridge and touring
Die Wohltat der Kunst: PostFeministische Positionen der 90er Jahre aus der Sammlung Goetz, Staatliche Kunsthalle, Baden-Baden. (C)
Coming of Age, The New Art Gallery, Walsall
To Whom it May Concern, California College of Arts and Crafts, San Francisco
Just Love me/Die Wohltat der Kunst, Fries Museum Leeuwarden (2004), Bergen Museum of art (2003), Samnlung Goetz (2003), Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden (2002). (C)
I promise it's political, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, (C).
Remix: Contemporary Art and Pop, Tate Liverpool. (C).
Bienal de SPaulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil.
The Video Show, Centraal Museum, Utrecht.
Acquisitions 2001 Part 1: Photographs, Video Installations, Video, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens
2001
Telling Tales: Narrative Impulses in Recent Art, Tate Liverpool
ABBILD recent portraiture and depiction, Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz
No World Without You, Reflections of Identity in New British Art, Herzliya Museum of Art, Tel Aviv. (C)
W, Centre d'Art Mobile, Besançon, France
Birmingham, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham
Inner State of Health: The Person in the Mirror of Contemporary Art, Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein
Biennale de Lyon art contemporain 2001, Lyon
Milano Europa 2001, Palazzo dellaTriannale, Milan
Confidence pour confidence, Casino Luxembourg, Luxembourg (C)
Video Evidence, Southampton City Art Gallery, Southampton
Film Festival Rotterdam, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Century City, Tate Modern, London
2000
Autowerke, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg. (C)
Intelligence: New British Art 2000, Tate Britain, London. (C)
Puerile '69, The Living Art Museum, ReykjavÃk
Tate Modern Collection, Tate Modern, London
Contemporary Art Center, Cincinnati
Sydney Biennale, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
docudrama, Bury St. Edmunds Art Gallery, Bury St. Edmunds
Tate Britain Collection, Tate Gallery, London
Let's Entertain, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis and touring. (C)
Quotidiana, Castello di Rivoli, Turin
Makeshift, ArtPace, San Antonio, Texas
1999
Rewind to the Future, Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn and Neue Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin
People, Le Spot, contemporary art centre, Le Harve Hundstage, Gesellschaft für Aktuelle Kunst, Bremen
Ex-Change, La Criee-Centre d'Art Contemporain, Rennes
The Viewing Room, Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City
This Other World of Ours, TV Gallery, Moscow
Rattling the Frame: The Photographic Space 1974-1999, SF Camerawork, San Francisco
La Coscienza Luccicante, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome
6th International Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul, Turkey, (C).
Garden of Eros, Centre Cultural Tecla Sala, Barcelona
Common People, Fondazione Sandretto re Rebaudengo per l'Arte, Turin
Sweetie: Female Identity in British Video, The British School at Rome
Searchlight: Consciousness at the Millennium, The California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland. (C)
Private Room / Public Space, Almeers Centrum Hedendaagse Kunst, Al Almere, The Netherlands
1998
La Concienza Luccicante, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome
In Visible Light, Moderna Museet, Stockholm
Fast Forward Body Check, Kunstverein, Hamburg
Sensation - Young British Artists from the Saatchi Collection, Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin
Contemporary British Art, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea
Galerija Dante Marino Cettina, Umag, Croatia
UK Maximum Diversity, Galerie Krinzinger, Bregenz and Künste Wein, Vienna, Austria
A Collection in the Making, The Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin
Internationale Foto Triennale/Photography as Concept, Galerien der Stadt Esslingen, Esslingen, Germany
Made in London, Musea de Electricidade, Lisbon. (C)
La Sphere de L'Intime, Le Printemps de Cahors, Saint-Cloud, France. (C)
Real/Life: New British Art, Japanese Museum Tour, Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Arts, Fukuoka City Art Museum, Hiroshima Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo Museum of Contemporary Art
Musée du Rochechouart, (with Valerie Jouve and Rineke Dijkstra), Rochechouart, France
Videorama, Depot, Kunst und Diskussion, Vienna, Austria
White Noise, Kunsthalle Berne, Switzerland. (C)
ENGLISH ROSE in Japan (with Tracey Emin & Georgina Starr), The Ginza Artspace, Tokyo, Japan
1997
a/drift, The Centre for curatorial Studies. (C)
The Turner Prize 1997, Tate Gallery, London. (C)
Private Face - Urban Space, co-organised by the Hellenic Art Galleries Association & The Rethymnon Centre for Contemporary Art, Athens & Rethymnon, Greece. (C)
Strange days British contemporary photography, Claudia gian ferrari arte contemporanea, Milan, Italy. (C)
Tales from the City, Stills Gallery, Edinburgh
Sensation, Saatchi Collection, Royal Academy of Art, London. (C)
Pictura Britannica: Art from Britain, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia, travelling to Adelaide, Australia and Wellington, New Zealand,
Projects, The Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin
Package Holiday - New British Art in the Ophiuchus Collection
The Hydra Workshop, Hydra, Greece
Splash, AAC Galerie Weimar, Germany
I.D., Nouveau Musee, Villeurbanne, France
Gillian Wearing/Barbara Visser, Bloom Gallery, Amsterdam, Holland
Galerie Anne de Villepoix, Paris
S.L. Simpson Gallery, Toronto, Canada
In Visible Light: Photography and Classification in Art, Science and the Everyday, Museum of Modern Art, Oxford. (C)
1996
I.D., Van Abbe Museum, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
Life / Live, co - curated by Laurence Bosse & Hans-Ulrich Obrist, ARC (Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris), France. (C)
Full House -Young British Art, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Germany
Playpen & Corpus Delirium, Kunsthalle Zürich, Switzerland. (C)
a/drift: Scenes From the Penetrable Culture, curated by Joshua Decter, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, New York
The Aggression of Beauty, Galerie Arndt & Partner, Berlin. (C)
Electronic Undercurrents - Art & Video in Europe, The Royal Museum of Fine Arts, Copenhagen
Private View, Contemporary Art in the Bowes Museum, Barnard Castle, County Durham, co - curated by Penelope Curtis and Veit G, organised by the Henry Moore Institute
The Fifth New York Video Festival, The Film Society of Lincoln Center, New York
Toyama Now '96, curated by Iwona Blazwick, The Museum of Modern Art, Toyama, Japan
The Cauldron, Henry Moore Institute, Leeds (C)
NowHere, (Incandescent, curator Laura Cottingham), Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark
Auto-reverse 2, Centre National D'Art Contemporain Grenoble, France
Traffic, CAPC Musée Contemporain Bordeaux, France
Imagined Communities, Oldham Art Gallery; John Hansard Gallery, Southampton; Firstsite, Colchester; Walsall Museum & Art Gallery; Royal Festival Hall, London; Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow. (C)
Pandaemonium; London Festival of Moving Images, I.C.A, London
1995
The British Art Show, National Touring Exhibitions. (C)
X/Y, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
Campo, Venice Biennale, curated by Francesco Bonami
Sage, Galerie Michel Rien, Tours, France
It's not a picture, Galleria Emi Fontana, Milan
Brilliant! New Art from London, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
Brill: Works on Paper by Brilliant Artists,
Montgomerie Glasgoe Fine Art, Minneapolis
British Art Show 4, touring
Mysterium Alltag, Kampnagel, Hamburg, (with Jane & Louise Wilson, Tacita Dean, Tracey Emin)
Aperto '95, Nouveau Musée, Institut d'Art Contemporain, Villeurbanne, France
Hotel Mama (Aperto '95), Kunstraum, Wein, Austria
Make Believe, Royal College of Art, London. (C)
Mobius Strip, Basilico Fine Arts, New York
Hello! Andréhn - Schiptjenko, Stockholm
Gone, Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, (with Bas Jan Ader, Sam Durant, Rainer Ganahl)
1994
Le Shuttle, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin
3.016.026, Theoretical Events, Naples
Uncertain Identity, Galerie Analix B & L Polla, Geneva
Fuori Fase, Via Farini, Milan
Domestic Violence, curated by Alison Jacques, Gio Marconi's House, Milan
R.A.S, curated by Gianni Romano, Galerie Analix B & L. Polla, Geneva
Not Self-Portrait, Karsten Schubert, London
1993
BT Young Contemporaries; Cornerhouse, Manchester, Orchard Gallery, Derry, The Maplin Art Gallery, Sheffield, City Museum and Art Gallery, Stoke-on-Trent, Centre for Contemporary Art, Glasgow
Okay Behaviour, 303 Gallery, New York
Mandy Loves Declan 100%, Mark Boote Gallery, New York
2 into 1, Centre 181 Gallery, London
Vox Pop, Laure Genillard Gallery, London
1992
Instruction, Marconi Gallery, Milan
British Art Group Show, Le Musee des Beaux Arts dans Le Havre, France
1991
Piece Talks, Diorama Art Centre, London
Clove 1, The Clove Building, London
Empty Gestures, Diorama Art Centre, London
SOLO PUBLICATIONS
2015
Gillian Wearing, Instituto Valenciano de Arte Moderno, Spain
2012
Gillian Wearing?, Whitechapel Gallery and Ridinghouse, London
2007
Family History, Film and Video Umbrella, Maureen Paley, London, in association with Artists in the City, Reading and Ikon Gallery, Birmingham
2006
Living Proof, ACCA, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne
2002
Mass Observation, MCA, Chicago
Trilogy, ?Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver
2001
Broad Street, Instituto Português de Museus - Museu do Chiado, Lisbon
Gillian Wearing 'Sous influence', Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris
Gillian Wearing, Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea (CGAC) and Fundación "la Caixa," Barcelona, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
spoken, ?München Kunstverein
2000
Gillian Wearing, Serpentine Gallery, London
1999
Gillian Wearing (Contemporary Artists Series), Phaidon Press, London
A Woman Called Theresa, The Hydra Workshop, Hydra
1997
Signs that say what you want them to say and not Signs that say what someone else wants you to say, Maureen Paley Interim Art, London
Gillian Wearing?, Wiener Secession, Vienna
1996
City Projects Prague?, The British Council, London
PROJECTS
1998
South Bank Show, London Weekend Television
1996
Guest editor, Documents sur L'art
1994
Rooseum Video Programme, Rooseum Center for Contemporary Art, Sweden
Holly Street Estate Art Project, London
AWARDS
(C) denotes that a catalogue was published in conjunction with the exhibition.
2015
Honorary Fellow, University of the Arts London
2014
Nominated for The Human Rights Art Award
Nominated for The Vincent Award
2011
OBE for contribution to the arts
2007
Royal Academician
Grazia o2 X Award for Art
2002
British Television Advertising Award, Public Service: Gold
1998
For 2 into 1, Oberhausen Short Film Festival
Prize of the Ministry of Employment, Social Affairs and Urban Development, Culture and Sport
1997
Turner Prize 1997 (C)
1993
BT Young Contemporaries