Tacita Dean is a British European artist living and working in Berlin and Los Angeles. She has been the recipient of numerous prizes including the Cherry Kearton Medal and Award, Royal Geographical Society, United Kingdom in 2019; the Kurt Schwitters Prize in 2009, the Hugo Boss Prize at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, in 2006, and the Sixth Benesse Prize at the 51st Venice Biennale in 2005. Her recent solo exhibitions include the Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, Ohio in 2025; The Menil Collection, Houston in 2024; the Bourse de Commerce, Pinault Collection, Paris and Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney in 2023 and MUDAM, Luxembourg and The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles in 2022. In 2018, a trilogy of solo exhibitions was held at the National Portrait Gallery, the National Gallery and the Royal Academy of Arts in London. In 2021, Dean designed the sets and costumes for the ballet The Dante Project, a collaborative production with the Royal Ballet’s resident choreographer Wayne McGregor and conductor-composer Thomas Adés. In 2011, Dean’s work FILM, shown in the Turbine Hall at Tate Modern, marked the beginning of a campaign to preserve photochemical film.
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Statement from the jury:
The jury praises Tacita Dean for her remarkable contribution to contemporary printmaking and for an established artistic practice that continues to evolve through bold experimentation. While widely known for her work in film, Dean brings cinematic sensibilities into print with a natural and unforced ease, producing large-scale works that are both technically accomplished and profoundly poetic. Working across lithography, offset, gravure, monoprinting, and silkscreen, Dean demonstrates a fearless commitment to pushing the boundaries of the medium. The jury notes her rare ability to make complexity cohere, transforming technical ambition into images of elegance, resonance, and emotional depth.
