Sarah Lucas was born on 1962 and is an English artist.
18 Facts About Sarah Lucas
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Sarah Lucas is part of the generation of Young British Artists who emerged in 1988.
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Sarah Lucas left school at 16, returning to study art at The Working Men's College, London College of Printing, and Goldsmiths College, graduating with a degree in Fine Art in 1987.
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In 1990, Sarah Lucas co-organized the East Country Yard Show with Henry Bond, in which she exhibited.
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Sarah Lucas is known for her 'Artist as Subject' approach where she produced a series of self-portraits, such as Human Toilet Revisited, 1998, a colour photograph in which she sits on a toilet smoking a cigarette.
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Sarah Lucas had her first solo exhibition in 1992 at City Racing, an artist run gallery in south London, and her first solo show in New York at the Barbara Gladstone Gallery in 1995.
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In 2003, Sarah Lucas participated in the 50th International Biennale of Art in Venice, Outlook: Contemporary Art in Athens, and In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida, a three-person exhibition for Tate Britain with Angus Fairhurst and Damien Hirst in 2004.
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In 2012 Sarah Lucas curated Free, an exhibition at the Southbank Centre by the Koestler Trust.
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In 2015 Sarah Lucas represented Britain at the 56th Venice Biennale with SCREAM DADDIO.
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Sarah Lucas was interviewed by close friend Don Brown during the installation of the exhibition.
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Sarah Lucas frequently employs a critical humor in her work in order to question conventions and highlighting the absurdity of the everyday.
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Feminist reviews often describe Sarah Lucas as attempting to add female artists into the canon of art history through her analytical work that predominantly discusses the female body and voyeurism.
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Sarah Lucas frequently appropriates masculine constructions to confront and dissect their nature.
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Sarah Lucas's pieces represent a fantastical world and playfully employs unrealistic ideals to unearth obscene paradoxes created by those very constructions.
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Sarah Lucas's works are both literal and conceptual evidence of Lucas searching for meaning.
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Sarah Lucas appears to never be satisfied with her outcome and scours every imaginable medium for an outlet that is fitting.
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Sarah Lucas's practice is then not compulsive ramblings or automatic depictions, but a conscious yearning for a personal sense of happiness.
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Sarah Lucas is represented by Sadie Coles HQ, London, Barbara Gladstone, New York, and Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin.