Gillian Wearing’s first retrospective in the North America – at the Guggenheim in New York (5 November–4 April 2022) – includes more than 100 works. Spanning from the British artist’s earliest Polaroids from the 1990s to recent self-portraits (including paintings and drawings completed during lockdown), the exhibition explores how Wearing has continually probed at the nature of identity in a world where the boundaries between public and private personas have become increasingly blurred. Find out more from the Guggenheim’s website.
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Dancing in Peckham (video still; 1994), Gillian Wearing. © Gillian Wearing
Self-Portrait as My Brother Richard Wearing, (2003), Gillian Wearing. © Gillian Wearing
Me as O’Keeffe (2018), Gillian Wearing. © Gillian Wearing
Untitled (lockdown portrait) (2020), Gillian Wearing. © Gillian Wearing