Tracey Karima Emin RA (born 3 July 1963 in Croydon) is an English artist and part of the group known as Britartists or YBAs (Young British Artists).
In 1997, her work Everyone I Have Ever Slept With 1963–1995, a tent appliquéd with names, was shown at Charles Saatchi’s Sensation exhibition held at the Royal Academy in London. The same year, she gained considerable media exposure, when she appeared drunk and swearing on a live Channel 4 TV discussion. In 1999, she was a Turner Prize nominee and exhibited My Bed — an installation, consisting of her own unmade dirty bed with used condoms and blood-stained underwear. There has been an ongoing dispute with former boyfriend, artist Billy Childish, particularly over the Stuckism movement, founded in 1999 and named after an insult by her.
In 2004, her tent artwork was destroyed in the Momart warehouse fire. In March 2007, Emin was chosen to join the Royal Academy of Arts in London as a Royal Academician. She represented Britain at the 2007 Venice Biennale. Her first major retrospective 20 Years was held in Edinburgh 2008, and toured Europe until 2009.
Tracey opened the Turner Contemporary art Gallery in Margate with Jools Holland in April 2011.She has been a major supporter of the project from it’s inception and it haas been suggested she will exhibit here in the future.
Tracey Emin is a panelist and speaker, she has lectured internationally at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland,[3] the Art Gallery of New South Wales in Sydney (2010),[4] the Royal Academy of Arts (2008),[5] or the Tate Britain in London (2005)about the links between creativity and autobiography, and the role of subjectivity and personal histories in constructing art. Emin’s art takes many different forms of expression including needlework and sculpture, drawing, video and installation, photography and painting.
