Gillian Wearing

Mask Masked
fabric mask, wax sculpture, steel rod and wooden plinth
56 x 14 x 10 cm
22 x 5 1/2 x 3 7/8 inches
plinth: 92 x 38 x 28 cm
36 1/4 x 15 x 11 inches
2020

Lockdown
exhibition view: Maureen Paley, London
2020

Untitled (lockdown portrait)
oil on board
30 x 30 cm
2020

Untitled (lockdown portrait)
oil on board
30.5 x 40.5 cm
2020

Untitled (lockdown portrait)
oil on board
40.5 x 30.5 cm
2020

Lockdown Portrait 1
framed watercolour on paper
30.3 x 22.8 cm
framed: 39.5 x 31.5 x 2.6 cm
2020

Me as Meret Oppenheim
framed bromide print
160.8 x 123.8 cm
2019

Me as Eva Hesse
framed c-type print
152.4 x 114.5 cm
2019

Me as Mona Lisa
framed c-type print
63.3 x 50.6 x 3.7 cm
2020

Me as Madame and Monsieur Duchamp
bromide prints in articulated frame
94 x 61 cm (each)
2018

Me as O'Keefe
framed bromide print
152.4 x 114.5 cm
2018

Me as Dürer
framed c-type print
152.4 x 114.5 cm
2018

Wearing Gillian
Gillian Wearing in collaboration with Wieden + Kennedy
HD film for projection with sound
5 minutes
2018

Statue of Millicent Fawcett
Parliament Square, London
2018

Commissioned by the Mayor of London with 14-18 NOW, Firstsite and Iniva to commemorate the centenary of the Representation of the People Act 1918, through the Government’s national
centenary fund.

Photo: GLA/Caroline Teo

exhibition view:
Gillian Wearing & Claude Cahun: Behind the mask another mask, National Portrait Gallery, London, UK
2017

exhibition view:
Gillian Wearing & Claude Cahun: Behind the mask another mask, National Portrait Gallery, London, UK
2017

exhibition view:
Gillian Wearing & Claude Cahun: Behind the mask another mask, National Portrait Gallery, London, UK
2017

A Real Danish Family
exhibition view:
Family Stories, National Gallery of Denmark, Copenhagen
2017

A Real Danish Family
exhibition view:
Family Stories, National Gallery of Denmark, Copenhagen
2017

exhibition view:
Family Stories, National Gallery of Denmark, Copenhagen
2017

Rock ‘n’ Roll 70
framed c-type prints
131 x 192 cm
2015

text:
Me at 50, 2014
Age progressed to 70, 2015
Me at 70, 2034

exhibition view:
Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK
2012

Me as Arbus
framed bromide print
156 x 133 cm
2008

Me as Warhol in Drag with Scar
framed bromide print
156 x 133 cm
2010

Me as Cahun Holding a Mask of My Face
framed bromide print
157.3 x 129 cm
2012

Me As Mapplethorpe
(based upon the Robert Mapplethorpe work: Self Portrait, 1988. © Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation)
framed bromide print
150 x 122 cm
2009

Self Portrait at 17 Years Old
framed c-type print
115.5 x 92 cm
2003

Self Portrait as my Father Brian Wearing
framed bromide print
164 x 130.5 cm
2003

Self Portrait as my Mother Jean Gregory
framed bromide print
135 x 116 cm
2003

Self Portrait as my Brother Richard Wearing
framed digital c-type print
191 x 130.5 cm
2003

Self Portrait of Me Now in Mask
framed c-type print
124 x 98 cm
2011

Me As Mask
wax sculpture and wooden plinth
56 x 14 x 10 cm
2013

Album
exhibition view:
Maureen Paley, London
2003

Me as an Artist in 1984
framed c-type print
130 x 160.5 cm
2014

exhibition view:
Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK
2012

exhibition view:
Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK
2012

Bully
video for projection with sound
7 minutes 55 seconds
2010

Snapshot
7 DVDs on framed wall mounted plasma screens with single audio track
7 minute 30 second loop
2005

exhibition view:
Bloomberg SPACE, London, UK
2005

Signs that say what you want them to say and not Signs that say what someone else wants you to say (I'M DESPERATE)
c-type prints mounted on aluminium
44.5 x 29.7 cm
1992 – 3

Signs that say what you want them to say and not Signs that say what someone else wants you to say (EVERYTHING IS CONNECTED IN LIFE THE POINT IS TO KNOW IT AND TO UNDERSTAND IT.)
c-type prints mounted on aluminium
44.5 x 29.7 cm
1992 – 3

Signs that say what you want them to say and not Signs that say what someone else wants you to say (WORK TOWARDS WORLD PEACE)
c-type prints mounted on aluminium
44.5 x 29.7 cm
1992 – 3

Family History
exhibition view:
Maureen Paley, London
2006

Drunk
DVD three screen projection
23 minutes
1999

installation view:
Berlin Biennale
2006

2 into 1
colour video for monitor with sound
4 minutes, 30 seconds
1997

60 Minutes Silence
colour video for projection with sound
60 minutes
1996

Sacha And Mum
black and white video for projection with sound
4 minutes 30 seconds
1996

Confess All On Video. Don’t Worry, You Will Be In Disguise. Intrigued? Call Gillian…
colour video for monitor with sound
30 minutes
1994