Rebecca Warren
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sculptor, and a nominee for the 2006 Turner Prize
2006 Turner Prize
This article is about the 2006 Turner Prize for British contemporary art.There were four nominees for the prize and the winner was Tomma Abts.The nominees in alphabetical order were:...
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Rebecca Warren was born in Pinhoe. She studied Fine Art at Goldsmiths' College, University of London
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receiving a BA (Hons) (1989–92) before taking her MA in Fine Art at the Chelsea College of Art, London (1992–93). She then took on an artist-in-residence place at the Ruskin School, Oxford University, Oxford (1993–1994). Until 1997 a large part of Warren's output was produced as a collaboration with artist Fergal Stapleton
Fergal Stapleton
Fergal Stapleton is a contemporary artist living and working in London.Stapleton studied at Middlesex Polytechnic and graduated from the MA Programme at Goldsmiths College, London in 1993...
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She was nominated for the Turner Prize for her sculptural installations in solo shows at Matthew Marks Gallery
Matthew Marks Gallery
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, New York, and Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Cologne, as well as her work in the Tate Triennial 2006. A representative of the Tate Gallery
Tate Gallery
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wrote, "Her works combine a wide range of sources with a strong formal awareness, injecting conventional materials with a sensual physicality to create something wholly new.".
In 2009 the Serpentine Gallery exhibited the first major solo survey of her work. In 2010, The Renaissance Society, in collaboration with the Art Institute of Chicago, presented Warren's first solo exhibition in an American museum.
She currently lives and works in London where she is represented by Maureen Paley
Maureen Paley
Maureen Paley is the American owner of a contemporary art gallery in Bethnal Green, London, where she lives. It was founded in 1984, called Interim Art during the 1990s, and renamed Maureen Paley in 2004. She exhibited Young British Artists at an early stage...
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