JEREMY DELLER
b. 1966, United KingdomJeremy Deller (b.1966, London; lives and works in London) studied Art History at the Courtauld Institute and at Sussex University. Deller won the Turner Prize in 2004 for his work ‘Memory Bucket’, and represented Britain in the 55th Venice Biennale in 2013. He has been producing projects over the past three decades which have influenced the conventional map of contemporary art.
Deller has exhibited extensively worldwide with selected solo exhibitions including: Skulptur Projekte Münster (2017); The Infinitely Variable Ideal of the Popular, CA2M, Madrid (2015), touring to MUAC, Mexico City, Fundación Proa, Buenos Aires and Azkuna Zentroa, Bilbao (2016); English Magic, British Pavilion, 55th Venice Biennale, Venice (2013), touring to William Morris Gallery, London, Bristol Museum and Art Gallery, Bristol and Turner Contemporary, Margate (2014–2015); Joy in People, Hayward Gallery, London (2012), touring to the Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania and the Contemporary Art Museum St Louis; It Is What It Is: Conversations About Iraq, New Museum, New York (2009), touring to Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, and Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; Procession, Cornerhouse, Manchester (2009); Kunstverein, Munich (2005); Folk Archive with Alan Kane Palais de Tokyo, Paris and Barbican Art Gallery, London (2004); After the Goldrush, Wattis Institute, San Francisco (2002); and Unconvention, Centre for Visual Arts, Cardiff (1999).
Text courtesy The Modern Institute.
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