Emma Dexter
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Career
Dexter wrote her M.Phil thesis at the Courtauld Institute of Art, London, on The Relationship between Painting and Sculpture in 17th Century Spain. During her appointment as assistant curator of fine art at Stoke-on-Trent's City Museum and Art Gallery from 1985 to 1987 she curated ‘Palaces of Culture’ in 1987, an exhibition of specially commissioned work on the theme of the notion of the museum including Langlands and BellLanglands and Bell
Langlands & Bell, are two fine artists who work collaboratively as a duo; the two, Ben Langlands and Nikki Bell , began collaborating in 1978, while studying Fine Art at Middlesex Polytechnic in North London, from 1977 to 1980.-Artistic practice and career:Their artistic practice ranges from...
, Mark Wallinger
Mark Wallinger
Mark Wallinger is a British artist, best known for his sculpture for the empty fourth plinth in Trafalgar Square, Ecce Homo , and State Britain , a recreation at Tate Britain of Brian Haw's protest display outside parliament. He won the Turner Prize in 2007...
and Lubaina Himid. From 1987 until 1990 she was Director of the Chisenhale Gallery in London where she commissioned Rachel Whiteread
Rachel Whiteread
Rachel Whiteread, CBE is an English artist, best known for her sculptures, which typically take the form of casts. She won the annual Turner Prize in 1993—the first woman to win the prize....
's first major piece, ‘Ghost’ – in which Whiteread cast the interior of an entire room and curated a solo exhibition by Donald Rodney.
Dexter was Deputy Director of Exhibitions at London's Institute of Contemporary Arts
Institute of Contemporary Arts
The Institute of Contemporary Arts is an artistic and cultural centre on The Mall in London, just off Trafalgar Square. It is located within Nash House, part of Carlton House Terrace, near the Duke of York Steps and Admiralty Arch...
(ICA) and Director of Exhibitions from 1992–1999. In 1992 she co-curated ‘True Stories’ with Iwona Blazwick
Iwona Blazwick
Iwona Blazwick OBE is director of the Whitechapel Art Gallery in London.-Life and career:Iwona Blazwick was brought up by her architect parents in Blackheath, South East London...
and in 1993 co-curated with Kate Bush
Kate Bush
Kate Bush is an English singer-songwriter, musician and record producer. Her eclectic musical style and idiosyncratic vocal style have made her one of the United Kingdom's most successful solo female performers of the past 30 years.In 1978, at the age of 19, Bush topped the UK Singles Chart...
the post-feminist themed exhibition ‘Bad Girls’. In 1997 Dexter and Bush curated ‘Belladonna’, an exploration of the residual traces of gothic and romantic culture in contemporary art practice. She curated a drawing show ‘Surfacing’ in 1998, which introduced Richard Wright
Richard Wright (artist)
Richard Wright is a British artist and musician.Wright was born in London. His family moved to Scotland when he was young. He attended Edinburgh College of Art from 1978 to 1982 and studied at Glasgow School of Art between 1993 and 1995 studying for a Master of Fine Art...
, Mark Titchner
Mark Titchner
Mark Titchner is an English artist and a nominee for the 2006 Turner Prize. He lives and works in London.-Biography and career:Mark Titchner was born in Luton. He graduated from Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, London, in 1995....
, Silke Schatz
Silke Schatz
Silke Schatz is an artist based in Cologne.Schatz attended Hochschule für Bildende Künste Braunschweig from 1987–95....
, Paul Noble
Paul Noble
Paul Noble is a British artist, born in 1963 in the village of Dilston, Northumberland. He studied at Humberside College of Higher Education and Sunderland Polytechnic , before moving to London in 1987. He was one of the five founder members of the co-operative who formed the City Racing gallery...
, David Shrigley
David Shrigley
-Life and career:Shrigley was born in Macclesfield on 17 September 1968, the younger of two children born to Rita and Joseph Shrigley. Shrigley grew up in Oadby, Leicestershire, England...
amongst others.
Dexter was also responsible for programming and curating solo exhibitions by British and international artists, many of which were the first to introduce the following artists to Britain: Mark Wallinger (1991), Bethan Huws
Bethan Huws
Bethan Huws is a Welsh artist who won the B.A.C.A. Europe 2006 award given by the Bonnefantenmuseum in Maastricht.She has exhibited at the Venice Biennale.Bethan Huws is represented in Paris by Yvon Lambert Gallery.-Further reading:...
(1991), Marlene Dumas
Marlene Dumas
Marlene Dumas is a South African born artist and painter who lives and works in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Stressing both the physical reality of the human body and its psychological value, Dumas tends...
(1993), Steven Pippin
Steven Pippin
Steven Pippin is an English artist. Pippin works with converted or improvised photographic equipment and kinetic sculptures....
(1993), Fiona Rae
Fiona Rae
Fiona Rae is a British artist. Her work is firmly identified with the Young British Artists who rose to prominence in the 1990s....
(1993), Charles Ray
Charles Ray (artist)
Charles Ray is a Los Angeles-based sculptor. He is known for his strange and enigmatic sculptures that draw the viewer’s perceptual judgments into question in jarring and unexpected ways...
(1994), Luc Tuymans
Luc Tuymans
Luc Tuymans is a contemporary artist who lives and works in Antwerp, Belgium. Tuymans is considered one of the most influential painters working today. His signature figurative paintings transform mediated film, television, and print sources into examinations of history and memory.-Life:Tuymans...
(1995), Gary Hume
Gary Hume
Gary Stewart Hume is an English artist. His work is strongly identified with the YBA artists who came to prominence in the early-1990s. In 1996, Hume was nominated for the Turner Prize, but lost out to Douglas Gordon. Hume was elected a Royal Academician in 2001.-Life and work:Hume was born in...
(1995), Irene and Christine Hohenbuchler (1995), John Currin
John Currin
John Currin is an American painter. He is best known for satirical figurative paintings which deal with provocative sexual and social themes in a technically skillful manner. His work shows a wide range of influences, including sources as diverse as the Renaissance, popular culture magazines, and...
(1995), Jake and Dinos Chapman
Jake and Dinos Chapman
Iakovos "Jake" Chapman and Konstantinos "Dinos" Chapman are English visual artists, often known as the Chapman Brothers, who work together as a collaborative sibling duo...
(1996), Sarah Sze
Sarah Sze
Sarah Sze is a contemporary artist who lives and works in New York City. Sze uses ordinary objects to create sculptures and site-specific installations.-Early life:Sze graduated Summa Cum Laude from Yale University in 1991...
(1998), TJ Wilcox (1998), Steve McQueen
Steve McQueen
Terrence Steven "Steve" McQueen was an American movie actor. He was nicknamed "The King of Cool." His "anti-hero" persona, which he developed at the height of the Vietnam counterculture, made him one of the top box-office draws of the 1960s and 1970s. McQueen received an Academy Award nomination...
(1998), Thomas Scheibitz
Thomas Scheibitz
Thomas Scheibitz is a German painter and sculptor. Together with Tino Sehgal he created the German pavilion on the 51st Venice Biennale in 2005. He lives and works in Berlin.-External links:...
(1999), and Urs Fischer
Urs Fischer
Urs Fischer is a Swiss contemporary artist living in New York.Fischer’s installations and sculptures have been exhibited in some group exhibitions and biennales worldwide, including Manifesta 3 and the Venice Biennale -External links:* * * *...
(2000).
Emma was a Senior Curator at Tate Modern
Tate Modern
Tate Modern is a modern art gallery located in London, England. It is Britain's national gallery of international modern art and forms part of the Tate group . It is the most-visited modern art gallery in the world, with around 4.7 million visitors per year...
from 2000–2007 where she curated numerous exhibitions, including the Tate Modern's first ever photography exhibition ‘Cruel and Tender’ (2003) with Thomas Weski. Other major exhibitions included: ‘Pierre Huyghe
Pierre Huyghe
Pierre Huyghe is a French artist who works in a variety of media from film and video to public interventions. He won the Hugo Boss Prize from the Guggenheim Museum in 2002.-Biography:...
: Celebration Park’ (2006); ‘Frida Kahlo
Frida Kahlo
Frida Kahlo de Rivera was a Mexican painter, born in Coyoacán, and perhaps best known for her self-portraits....
’ (2005); ‘Bruce Nauman
Bruce Nauman
Bruce Nauman is a contemporary American artist. His practice spans a broad range of media including sculpture, photography, neon, video, drawing, printmaking, and performance. Nauman lives in Galisteo, New Mexico....
Turbine Hall Commission’ (2004); and ‘Luc Tuymans’ (2004). Dexter was also the curator of the London section of ‘Century City’, (2000) Tate Modern's inaugural thematic exhibition and was a member of Tate Modern's Displays Delivery Team, contributing to the re-hang of the Collection launched officially in May 2006. Before leaving Tate Modern, Dexter curated a series of thematic group exhibitions in the L2 Gallery at the museum: ‘Pin-Up’ (2004), which reviewed international contemporary drawing and collage works; ‘Rings of Saturn’ (2006); ‘Media Burn’ (2007), exploring the relationship between art, politics and fashion; and ‘The Artist's Dining Room’, (2007).
Dexter joined Timothy Taylor Gallery as Director of Exhibitions in 2007., While working on the gallery programme in general she has curated group shows such as ‘Ballet Mécanique’ (November 2007 – January 2008) and ‘Ventriloquist’ (February–March 2009).,,
In 2009 she curated ‘Living Together’ with Xabier Arakistain, commissioned for Centro Cultural Montehermoso, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain, which featured Marcus Coates, Nicole Eisenman, Claire Fontaine, Delaine Le Bas
Delaine Le Bas
Delaine Le Bas is a British Artist from a Romany background and wife of artist Damian Le Bas.Delaine Le Bas has shown her art extensively both in the UK and internationally, including at the International Festival of Singular Art, Roquevaire, France; the American Visionary Art Museum in Baltimore,...
, Josephine Meckseper
Josephine Meckseper
Josephine Meckseper is a German artist based in New York.Meckseper studied at Berlin University of the Arts in Berlin from 1986–1990, and completed her MFA at the California Institute of the Arts in 1992....
, Ma-Thu Perret and Artur Zmijewski
Artur Zmijewski (movie maker)
Artur Żmijewski is a Polish visual artist, filmmaker and photographer. During the years of 1990-1995 he studied at Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts. He is an author of short video movies and photography exhibitions, which were shown all over the world...
.
Select Exhibitions
Commissions:- ‘Living Together’ (2009) Centro Cultural Montehermoso, Spain including Marcus Coates, Nicole Eisenman, Claire Fontaine, Delaine Le Bas, Josephine Meckseper, Ma-Thu Perret and Artur Zmijewski
Timothy Taylor Gallery:
- ‘Ventriloquist’ (2009) including Monika Baer, Daniel Baker, Steve Bishop, Marcel DuchampMarcel DuchampMarcel Duchamp was a French artist whose work is most often associated with the Dadaist and Surrealist movements. Considered by some to be one of the most important artists of the 20th century, Duchamp's output influenced the development of post-World War I Western art...
, Armen Eloyan, Charlie Hammond, Volker Hueller, Jasper JohnsJasper JohnsJasper Johns, Jr. is an American contemporary artist who works primarily in painting and printmaking.-Life:Born in Augusta, Georgia, Jasper Johns spent his early life in Allendale, South Carolina with his paternal grandparents after his parents' marriage failed...
, Pil and Galia Kollectiv, Daniel Pasteiner, Mark Pearson, Mai-Thu Perret, Francis PicabiaFrancis PicabiaFrancis Picabia was a French painter, poet, and typographist, associated with both the Dada and Surrealist art movements.- Early life :...
, Pablo PicassoPablo PicassoPablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Ruiz y Picasso known as Pablo Ruiz Picasso was a Spanish expatriate painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, and stage designer, one of the greatest and most influential artists of the...
, Fiona Rae, Robert RauschenbergRobert RauschenbergRobert Rauschenberg was an American artist who came to prominence in the 1950s transition from Abstract Expressionism to Pop Art. Rauschenberg is well-known for his "Combines" of the 1950s, in which non-traditional materials and objects were employed in innovative combinations...
, Colin SelfColin SelfColin Self is a British Pop Artist, whose work has addressed the theme of Cold War politics.As a student at the Slade School of Fine Art from 1961 to 1963 Colin Self received encouragement for his drawings and collages from the artists David Hockney and Peter Blake...
, Alan Stanners, Walter Swennen, Wawrzyniec Tokarski, Jens Ullrich and others - ‘Ballet Mécanique’ (2007–2008) including Jan Albers, Markus AmmMarkus AmmMarkus Amm is an artist based in London.He has shown work internationally in exhibitions including Finding Neverland at Patricia Low Contemporary in Gstaad, Alles in einer Nacht at Tanya Bonakdar in New York, The Addiction at Gagosian Gallery in Berlin and New Party at The Breeder Projects in Athens...
, Michael BauerMichael Bauer (artist)Michael Bauer is an artist based in Cologne.Bauer has shown his paintings in many group exhibitions including “Das Kabinet” at Galerie Hammelehle und Ahrens , Cologne, “Superschloss” at Stadtische Galerie , Wolfsburg and “Brotherslasher” . He represented by Marc Foxx in Los Angeles and Hotel in...
, Hansjörg Dobliar, Melissa Gordon, Fernand LégerFernand LégerJoseph Fernand Henri Léger was a French painter, sculptor, and filmmaker. In his early works he created a personal form of Cubism which he gradually modified into a more figurative, populist style...
, Sadie Murdoch, Mai-Thu Perret, Mathilde Rosier, Oskar SchlemmerOskar SchlemmerOskar Schlemmer was a German painter, sculptor, designer and choreographer associated with the Bauhaus school. In 1923 he was hired as Master of Form at the Bauhaus theatre workshop, after working some time at the workshop of sculpture...
, Dirk Stewen, Emily Wardill, Thomas ZippThomas ZippThomas Zipp is an artist based in Berlin.Zipp studied at the Städelschule, Frankfurt and the Slade School, London from 1992-1998....
and others
Tate Modern Minor Exhibitions (L2 Gallery):
- ‘The Artist's Dining Room’ (2007) including Anselm ReyleAnselm ReyleAnselm Reyle is an artist based in Berlin. He is known for his often large-scale abstract paintings and found-object sculptures.-Biography:...
, Manfred Kuttner & Thomas ScheibitzThomas ScheibitzThomas Scheibitz is a German painter and sculptor. Together with Tino Sehgal he created the German pavilion on the 51st Venice Biennale in 2005. He lives and works in Berlin.-External links:... - ‘Media Burn’ (2007) including Martha RoslerMartha RoslerMartha Rosler is an American artist. She was born in Brooklyn, New York, where she now lives. She graduated from Brooklyn College and the University of California, San Diego . Rosler works in video, photo-text, installation, and performance, as well as writing about art and culture...
, Peter KennardPeter KennardPeter Kennard is a London born and based photomontage artist and senior tutor in photography at the Royal College of Art. Seeking to reflect his involvement in the anti-Vietnam War movement, he turned from painting to photomontage to better address his political views...
, Josephine MeckseperJosephine MeckseperJosephine Meckseper is a German artist based in New York.Meckseper studied at Berlin University of the Arts in Berlin from 1986–1990, and completed her MFA at the California Institute of the Arts in 1992....
, Wynne GreenwoodWynne GreenwoodWynne Greenwood is a lesbian feminist performance artist who works in various media such as installation art, photography, filmmaking and music.Wynne currently works out of Seattle, Washington...
, K8 HardyK8 HardyK8 Hardy is a Brooklyn based artist working mainly in video and performance. She is represented by Reena Spaulings Fine Art. Hardy is one of the founding editors of LTTR, a radical genderqueer, lesbian-feminist art collective and journal...
, Sharon Hayes, Antfarm, & Jens Ullrich - ‘Rings of Saturn’ (2006) including Steve Claydon, Thomas HelbigThomas HelbigThomas Helbig is an artist based in Berlin.Helbig attended the Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Munich and Goldsmiths, University of London, from 1989-1996....
, Nathalie DjurbergNathalie DjurbergNathalie Djurberg is a Swedish video artist who lives and works in Berlin.- Life and work :Djurberg is best known for producing claymation short films that are faux-naïve, but graphically violent and erotic...
, Dorota Jurczak, David NoonanDavid Noonan (artist)David Noonan is an Australian printmaker who lives and works in London. Noonan was born in Ballarat, Victoria, Australia. He received his BFA in 1989 from Ballarat University College and his MFA in 1992 from Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne.David Noonan is an Australian artist who lives...
, Thomas Zipp, David Wojnarowicz & Saul Fletcher - ‘Pin-up’ (2004, L2 Gallery) including drawings and collage of Sebastiaan BremerSebastiaan BremerSebastiaan Bremer is a Dutch artist who lives and works in New York City.Bremer turns photographs, found or snapped, of himself and his family into trippy, dusty memories that reveal the subconscious and the real world in one blink of an eye...
, Matt BryansMatt BryansMatt Bryans , is an artist based in London. Bryans has exhibited at the Tate Modern in the exhibition Untitled , with Amie Dicke, Godfried Donkor, Dr Lakra, Wangechi Mutu, Jockum Nordstrum, Stephen Shearer and Nicole Wermers. He erases colour photographs from magazines, leaving behind smudged and...
, Amie DickeAmie DickeAmie Dicke is an artist based in Amsterdam.She completed her degree in Fine Art from the Willem de Kooning Academy of Fine Arts in Rotterdam....
, Godfried DonkorGodfried DonkorGodfried Donkor is a Ghanaian artist, living and working in London. He is known primarily for his work in collage, and has been described as similar to Keith Piper and Isaac Julien in his output. Some of his pieces depict boxers, such as Jack Johnson and Mohammad Ali...
, Dr LakraDr LakraDr Lakra is an artist and tattooist based in Oaxaca, Mexico. Apart from tattooing, his art involves embellishing found images and objects—for instance, dolls, old medical illustrations, and pictures in 1950s Mexican magazines—with macabre or tattoo-style designs.He has shown work internationally...
, Wangechi MutuWangechi MutuWangechi Mutu is an artist and sculptor who lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.-Early life:Originally from the Kenyan Kikuyu tribe, she was educated in Nairobi at Loreto Convent Msongari and later studied at the United World College of the Atlantic, Wales...
, Jockum NordströmJockum NordstromJockum Nordström is a Swedish artist, best known for his vivid collages, but also for his drawings, paintings and work as an illustrator.-Biography:Jockum Nordström was born December 19, 1963 in Sweden in a family with two brothers and one sister...
, Steven ShearerSteven ShearerSteven Shearer is a contemporary artist based in Vancouver, British Columbia. He has exhibited internationally, including the Tate Modern in London, The New Museum, the Barbara Gladstone Gallery in New York, the Galerie Eva Presenhuber in Zurich, and the Renaissance Society in Chicago...
& Nicole Wermers
Tate Modern Major Exhibitions:
- ‘Pierre Huyghe: Celebration Park’ (2006)
- ‘Frida Kahlo’ (2005)
- ‘Bruce Nauman Turbine Hall Commission’ (2004)
- ‘Luc Tuymans’ (2004)
- ‘Cruel and Tender’ (2003) including Walker EvansWalker EvansWalker Evans was an American photographer best known for his work for the Farm Security Administration documenting the effects of the Great Depression. Much of Evans's work from the FSA period uses the large-format, 8x10-inch camera...
, August SanderAugust SanderAugust Sander was a German portrait and documentary photographer. Sander's first book Face of our Time was published in 1929...
, Bernd and Hilla BecherBernd and Hilla BecherBernard "Bernd" Becher , and Hilla Becher, née Wobeser , were German artists working as a collaborative duo. They are best known for their extensive series of photographic images, or typologies, of industrial buildings and structures.- Biography :Bernd Becher was born in Siegen...
, Martin ParrMartin ParrMartin Parr is a British documentary photographer, photojournalist and photobook collector. He is known for his photographic projects that take a critical look at aspects of modern life, in particular provincial and suburban life in England...
, Andreas GurskyAndreas GurskyAndreas Gursky is a German visual artist known for his enormous architecture and landscape color photographs, often employing a high point of view...
, Diane ArbusDiane ArbusDiane Arbus March 14, 1923 – July 26, 1971) was an American photographer and writer noted for black-and-white square photographs of "deviant and marginal people or of people whose normality seems ugly or surreal." A friend said that Arbus said that she was "afraid.....
& Rineke DijkstraRineke DijkstraRineke Dijkstra is a female Dutch photographer.-Life and work:Dijkstra concentrates on single portraits, and usually works in series, looking at groups such as adolescents, clubbers, and soldiers. Her subjects are often shown standing, facing the camera, against a minimal background... - ‘Century City’ (2000) including Madhuri DixitMadhuri DixitMadhuri Dixit is an Indian film actress who has appeared in Hindi films. Throughout the late 1980s and 1990s, she established herself as one of Hindi cinema's leading actresses and most accomplished dancers. She appeared in numerous commercially successful films and was recognised for several of...
, Rem KoolhaasRem KoolhaasRemment Lucas Koolhaas is a Dutch architect, architectural theorist, urbanist and "Professor in Practice of Architecture and Urban Design" at the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University, USA. Koolhaas studied at the Netherlands Film and Television Academy in Amsterdam, at the Architectural...
, and MF Husain
ICA:
- ‘Urs Fischer’ (2000)
- ‘Crash!’ (1999) with special commissions by Mark LeckeyMark LeckeyMark Leckey is a British artist, working with collage art, music and video. His found art and found footage pieces span several videos, most notably Fiorucci Made Me Hardcore and Industrial Lights and Magic , for which he won the 2008 Turner Prize.-Life:Leckey was born in Birkenhead, near...
and InventoryInventory (artists)Inventory are a collective of British artists, writers and art theorists, founded in 1996.Some of their pieces see them engage in performance art in public spaces.... - ‘The Golden Age’ (1999) including Neo RauchNeo RauchNeo Rauch is a German artist whose paintings mine the intersection of his personal history with the politics of industrial alienation. His work reflects the influence of socialist realism, and owes a debt to Surrealists Giorgio de Chirico and René Magritte, although Rauch hesitates to align...
and others - ‘Thomas Scheibitz’ (1999)
- ‘Surfacing’ (1998) including Richard Wright, Mark Titchener, Silke Schatz, Paul Noble, David Shrigley and others
- ‘Steve McQueen’ (1998)
- ‘Sarah Sze’ (1998)
- ‘TJ Wilcox’ (1998)
- ‘Belladonna’ (1997) including Jean-Frederic Schnyder, Chris OfiliChris OfiliChris Ofili is a Turner Prize winning British painter best known for artworks referencing aspects of his Nigerian heritage, particularly his incorporation of elephant dung. He was one of the Young British Artists, and is now based in Trinidad.-Early life:Ofilli was born in Manchester. He had a...
, Paul ThekPaul ThekPaul Thek was an American painter and, later, sculptor and installation artist. Born in Brooklyn, he studied locally, at the Art Students League and the Pratt Institute. In 1951 he entered the Cooper Union....
and others. - ‘Jake and Dinos Chapman’ (1996)
- ‘John Currin’ (1995)
- ‘Superstition / Luc Tuymans’ (1995)
- ‘Irene and Christine Hohenbuchler’ (1995)
- ‘Gary Hume’ (1995)
- ‘Mise en Scene’ (1994) including Tacita DeanTacita DeanTacita Dean is an English visual artist who works primarily in film. She is one of the Young British Artists, and was a nominee for the Turner Prize in 1998.-Life and work:...
, Claude CahunClaude CahunClaude Cahun was a French artist, photographer and writer. Her work was both political and personal, and often played with the concepts of gender and sexuality.-Early life:...
and Virginia Nimarkoh - ‘Charles Ray’ (1994)
- ‘Bad Girls’ (1993) including Nicole Eisenman, Nan GoldinNan GoldinNancy "Nan" Goldin is an American photographer.-Life and work:Goldin was born in Washington, D.C., and grew up in the Boston, Massachusetts suburb of Lexington, to middle class Jewish parents whose ideas, moderately liberal and progressive, were put to the test when on April 12, 1965 their eldest...
, Helen ChadwickHelen ChadwickHelen Chadwick was a British conceptual artist.-Life and work:Chadwick studied at Croydon College of Art, The Faculty of Arts and Architecture Brighton Polytechnic and then at the Chelsea School of Art....
, Dorothy CrossDorothy CrossDorothy Cross is an artist born in Cork, Ireland. Working with diverse media, which includes sculpture, photography, video and installation she represented Ireland at the 1993 Venice Biennale...
and Sue WilliamsSue WilliamsSue Williams was an American actress and Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Month for April 1965. Her centerfold was photographed by Ed DeLong and William V. Figge.-Early life and career:... - ‘Marlene Dumas’ (1993)
- ‘Steven Pippin’ (1993)
- ‘Fiona Rae’ (1993)
- ‘True Stories’ (1992) including Mark DionMark DionMark Dion is an American fine artist best known for his use of scientific presentations in his installations. Dion has exhibited his art works internationally including at the Tate Gallery, Museum of Modern Art, and the PBS series art:21...
, Karen KilimnikKaren KilimnikKaren Kilimnik is an American painter and installation artist.-Life and work:Karen Kilimnik trained at Temple University, Philadelphia.Her installations reflected a young viewpoint of pop culture...
, Raymond PettibonRaymond PettibonRaymond Pettibon is an American artist who currently lives and works in Venice Beach, California.-Early life:...
, Renée GreenRenee GreenRenée Green is an artist, writer, and filmmaker. Her pluralistic practice spans a broad range of media including sculpture, architecture, photography, prints, video, film, websites, and sound, which normally converge in highly layered and complex installations...
, Jim ShawJim Shaw (artist)Jim Shaw is a contemporary American artist, born in Midland, MI, and who now lives and works in Los Angeles. He received his B.F.A. from University of Michigan at Ann Arbor in 1974 and his M.F.A. from the California Institute of the Arts, in 1978. Lives and works in Los Angeles, CA He is married to...
, Larry Johnson and Jack PiersonJack PiersonJack Pierson is a photographer and an artist. He studied at the Massachusetts College of Art in Boston. Pierson has made a name for himself with a body of work that includes photographs, collages, word sculptures, installations, drawings and artists books...
. - ‘Mark Wallinger’ (1991)
- ‘Bethan Huws’ (1991)
Juries
- 2008 Spectrum International Prize for Photography, Lower Saxony, Germany
- 2006 Deutsche Börse Photography Prize, London
- 2002–2005 Present Future Section of Turin's Artissima Fair
- 2000 Founding jury member and chair of Beck's Futures Awards ICA London
Publications
- Dexter, Emma. ‘Visual Arts.’ Chapter in Thames & Hudson. 60.:Innovators shaping our future. Thames and Hudson, London, 2009. ISBN 0-500-51492-5.
- Dexter, Emma. Vitamin D: New Perspectives in Drawing. Phaidon Press, London, 2005. ISBN 0-7148-4545-0.
- Dexter, Emma & Barson, Tanya. Frida Kahlo. Tate Publishing, London, 2005. ISBN 1854375657.
- Dexter, Emma; Auping, Michael; & Borthwick, Ben. Bruce Nauman: Raw Materials. Tate Publishing, London, 2004. ISBN 1-85437-559-8.
- Dexter, Emma; Fuenmayor, Jesus; Heynen, Julian. Luc Tuymans. Tate Publishing, London, 2004. ISBN 1-85437-503-2.
- Dexter, Emma & Weski, Thomas. Cruel and Tender: Photography and the Real. Tate Publishing, London, 2003. ISBN 1-85437-516-4.
- Dexter, Emma. Low Sweetie. Parker, Gisela, trans. Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, 1999. ISBN 1-900300-21-4.
- Dexter, Emma. Steve McQueen. Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, 1999. ISBN 1-900300-17-6.
- Dexter, Emma; Hunt, Ian, et al. T.J. Wilcox. Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, 1998. ISBN 1-900300-16-8.
- Dexter, Emma & Rae, Fiona. Fiona Rae. John Good Gallery, New York, 1994. ASIN: B0006QTICY.