Sarah Lucas (b. 1962, London) studied at the Working Men’s College (1982—1983), London College of Printing (1983—1984), and Goldsmith’s College (1984—1987). Major exhibitions include MoMA New York, 1993; Museum Boymans-van Beunigen, Rotterdam, 1996; Portikus, Frankfurt, 1996; the Freud Museum, London, 2000; Tecla Sala, Barcelona, 2000; and In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida (with Angus Fairhurst and Damien Hirst) at Tate Britain, 2004. A retrospective took place in 2005 at Kunsthalle Zürich, Kunstverein Hamburg and Tate Liverpool. Recent international residencies and exhibitions include LUCAS BOSCH GELATIN, Kunsthalle Krems, Austria and NUZ: Spirit of Ewe, Two Rooms, Auckland, New Zealand, both 2011; Museo Diego Rivera Anahuacalli, Mexico City, 2012; and Ordinary Things, Henry Moore Institute, Leeds, 2012. In 2013 she had a major retrospective at the Whitechapel Gallery, 2013, which was followed by surveys of her work at Secession in Vienna, 2013–2014, and at Tramway in Glasgow, 2014. In 2015 she represented Britain at the Venice Biennale, with the exhibition I SCREAM DADDIO.


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