Tracey Emin

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Tracey Emin

British artist

Also known as: Tracey Karima Emin

Written by Kathleen Kuiper

Fact-checked by The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica

Last Updated: Dec 2, 2024 • Article History

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In full:: Tracey Karima Emin

Born:: July 3, 1963, Croyden, Greater London, England (age 61)

Notable Works:: “Everyone I Have Ever Slept With 1963–1995”; “My Bed”

On the Web:: CiteSeerX - Tracey Emin: Life Made Art, Art Made from Life (Dec. 02, 2024)

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Tracey Emin (born July 3, 1963, Croyden, Greater London, England) is a British artist noted for using a wide range of media—including drawing, video, and installation art, as well as sculpture and painting—and her own life as the subject of her art. Her works are confessional, provocative, and transgressive, often portraying sexual acts and reproductive organs. Critics are seldom lukewarm in their response to her. Like Damien Hirst and Sarah Lucas, she is considered one of the YBAs (Young British Artists; also known as the BritArtists) who came to prominence in the 1990s. Emin and her twin brother, Paul, were ...(100 of 629 words)

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