Lucy Gunning was born on 1 June 1964 and is an English filmmaker, installation artist, sculptor, video artist and lecturer in fine art at the Chelsea College of Arts.
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Lucy Gunning graduated from the West Surrey College of Art and Design with a diploma in foundation studies in 1984.
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Lucy Gunning was named the recipient of the 1987 Granada Foundation Prize, the Falmouth School of Art Sculpture Award and was part of the Whitworth New Contemporaries.
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Lucy Gunning later moved to London, where she created a series of video works, and attended Goldsmiths' College between 1992 and 1994.
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Lucy Gunning left Goldsmiths' with a Master of Fine Arts degree.
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In 2001, Lucy Gunning did a six-month residency period at the British School at Rome through the Rome Scholarship.
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Lucy Gunning subsequently had a three-month residency period as artist-in-residence at Spike Island, Bristol in 2003, where she created two site-specific films.
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Lucy Gunning won the Paul Hamlyn Foundation Award for Visual Arts in the same year, and was resident at Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, Canada.
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Lucy Gunning created the multi-faceted work The Archive, The Event and its Architecture inspired by her experience of being Wordsworth Trust's artist-in-residence and the intervention RePhil with the Philbrook Museum of Art collection in 2007.
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From 2012 to 2014, Lucy Gunning was resident at the Kenneth Armitage Foundation.
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Lucy Gunning has undertaken solo and group exhibitions of her work around the world throughout her career, and resides and works in West London.
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Lucy Gunning's works are held in the public collections of Arts Council England, the Centre Pompidou, the Contemporary Art Society, the Hayward Gallery, the Museum of Modern Art, Toyama and the Tate.