Tacita Dean

b. 1965

Tacita Dean CBE, RA is a British visual artist who works primarily in film. She was a nominee for the Turner Prize in 1998, won the Hugo Boss Prize in 2006, and was elected to the Royal Academy of Arts in 2008. She currently lives and works between Berlin and Los Angeles.

Dean’s work carries a sense of history, time, and place, light quality, and the essence of film itself. The focus of her work is the truth of the moment, the film as a medium, and the sensibilities of the individual.

Solo exhibitions were recently held in 2024 at the Menil Collection, Houston; in 2023 at the Bourse de Commerce, Pinault Collection, Paris; in 2022 at MUDAM, Luxembourg, The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles; in 2021 at Kunstmuseum Basel; in 2020 at EMMA – Espoo Museum of Modern Art, Espoo; in 2019 at the NY Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen and at the Serralves Museum, Porto; in 2018 at the Kunsthaus Bregenz, The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, as well as The Royal Academy of Arts, London, as part of a trilogy of exhibitions held in conjunction with the city’s National Gallery and National Portrait Gallery.