22 Facts About Tacita Dean

Tacita Charlotte Dean CBE, RA was born on 1965 and is a British European visual artist who works primarily in film.

Tacita Dean 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.

Tacita Dean's mother is named Jenefer and her father was Joseph Dean, a lawyer who studied classics at Merton College, Oxford.

Tacita Dean has a sister named Antigone and a brother, the architect Ptolemy Dean.

Tacita Dean's grandfather was Basil Dean, the founder of Ealing Studios.

From 1990 to 1992, Dean studied for a master's degree at the Slade School of Fine Art.

In 1995, Tacita Dean was included in General Release: Young British Artists held at the XLVI Venice Biennale.

Tacita Dean is one of the "key names", along with Jake and Dinos Chapman, Gary Hume, Sam Taylor-Wood, Fiona Banner and Douglas Gordon, of the Young British Artists.

Tacita Dean is best known for her work in 16 mm film, although she utilises a variety of media including drawing, photography and sound.

Tacita Dean has published several pieces of her own writing, which she refers to as 'asides,' which complement her visual work.

Tacita Dean has made a number of films and blackboard drawings relating to the Crowhurst story, exploiting the metaphorical richness of such motifs as the ocean, lighthouses and shipwrecks.

In 1997, Tacita Dean made an audio work based on her futile effort to find the submerged artwork Spiral Jetty by Robert Smithson in the Great Salt Lake of Utah.

In 2000, Tacita Dean was awarded a one-year German Academic Exchange Service scholarship to Berlin, where she moved that year with her partner, artist Mathew Hale.

Tacita Dean devoted attention to the architecture and cultural history of Germany, making films of such iconic structure as the Palast der Republik.

In 2001 Tacita Dean published Floh, a book in two parts that used found photographs from the flea markets of Europe and America.

In 2005, Tacita Dean began work on a series of found postcards of trees, which she transformed by painting out all the background detail with white gouache.

Tacita Dean has undertaken commissions for London's former Millennium Dome, the Sadler's Wells Theatre, and for Cork, Ireland, as part of that city's European City of Culture celebrations.

Tacita Dean has completed residencies at the Sundance Institute, the Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, US, and the Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst, Berlin.

In 2011, Tacita Dean was the 12th artist commissioned by the Unilever Series to create a unique artwork for the Turbine Hall of the Tate Modern.

Tacita Dean has since been awarded the Aachen Art Prize, Hugo Boss Prize, and the Kurt Schwitters Prize, among others.

Tacita Dean was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire in the 2013 New Year Honours for services to British art overseas.

Tacita Dean was the recipient of the 2019 TenTen artist commission, and the 2019 Cherry Kearton Medal and Award.