Artists
Artists
Tacita Dean
TACITA DEAN
(British European)
 
Born:
1965, Canterbury, England
 
Education:
 
1985-1988Falmouth School of Art, Falmouth, England
1989-1990Greek Government Scholarship to the Supreme School
of Fine Art, Athens, Greece
1990-1992MFA Painting, The Slade School of Fine Art, London, England
 
Awards:
Doctor Honoris Causa, Ecole des Beaux Arts de Paris, 2013
Kurt Schwitters Prize, 2009
Hugo Boss Prize, 2006
The Sixth Benesse Prize, Benesse Art Site Naoshima, The 51st International Art Exhibition of the Venice Biennale, 2005
Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, Italy, 2004
Preis der nationalgalerie fur junge Kunst, Hamburger Bahnhof, (nomination) Berlin, Germany, 2002
Aachen Art Prize, Aachen, Germany, 2002
DAAD Scholarship, Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst, Berlin, Germany, 2000-2001
Artist in Residence, Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Ohio, 1999
The Turner Prize (nomination), Tate Gallery, London, England, 1998
Scriptwriter’s Lab, Sundance Institute, Sundance, Utah, 1997
Barclay’s Young Artist Award, London, England, 1994
New Contemporaries award winner, London, 1994
 
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
 
2016
Espace Louis Vuitton, Munich, Germany 
Museo Tamayo, Mexico City, Mexico
Tacita Dean: LA Exuberance, Frith Street Gallery, London, United Kingdom
Tacita Dean: …my English breath in foreign clouds, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York
 
2015
JG, TIFF Bell Light Box, Toronto, Canada 
Event for a Stage, 52nd Theatertreffen, Berlin and BFI London Film Festival
 
2014
Tacita Dean: The Friar’s Doodle, Albright-Knox Gallery, New York
Tacita Dean- Print Projects, Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen, Denmark
JG, Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City, Utah
JG, Film Forum, New York
JG, Galerie Marian Goodman, Paris
Craneway Event, Fondazione Antonio Ratti, Como, Italy
 
2013
Tacita Dean: The Studio of Giorgio Morandi, Museo d’Arte Moderna di Bologna
JG, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
Tacita Dean, Frith Street Gallery, London, United Kingdom 
Tacita Dean: The Measure of Things, Instituto Moreira Salles, Rio de Janeiro
Tacita Dean, De Mar en Mar, Botin Foundation, Santander, Spain
FILM, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne
Tacita Dean: Fatigues, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York
Tacita Dean: Merce Cunningham performs STILLNESS…(six performances, six films), 2008, The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia 
JG a film project by Tacita Dean, Arcadia University Art Gallery, Glenside, Pennsylvania 
 
2012
Tacita Dean: Five Americans, New Museum, New York
Tacita Dean, Norton Museum, West Palm Beach, Florida
 
2011
The Unilever Series: Tacita Dean, Tate Modern, London (-2012)
Tacita Dean – The Line of Fate, Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig – MUMOK, Vienna
Craneway Event Screening, IDANS Istanbul International Contemporary Dance and Performance Festival, Istanbul, Turkey; Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
Merce Cunningham performs STILLNESS… (six performances, six films), Academie der Kunste, Berlin, Germany
Edwin Parker, Toronto International Film Festival, Toronto
 
2010
Craneway Event, Frith Street Gallery, London
The Friar's Doodle, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia/Abadia de Santo Domingo de Silos, Spain
Craneway Event, Galerie Marian Goodman, Paris
 
2009
Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne, Australia
Tacita Dean, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York
Still Life, Fondazione Nicola Trussardi, Milan, Italy
Tacita Dean: Presentation Sisters, Edinburgh International Festival, Edinburgh, Scotland
Tacita Dean: Merce Cunningham performs STILLNESS, Musée d’Art Contemporain de Montreal, Montreal, Quebec
 
2008
In My Manor, Villa Oppenheim Galerie für Gegenwartskunst, Berlin, Germany
Amadeus, Galerie Marian Goodman, Paris, France
Merce Cunningham performs STILLNESS (in three movements) to John Cage's composition 4'33" with Trevor Carlson, New York City, 28 April 2007 (six performances; six films), Dia Beacon, Beacon, New York
 
2007
Wandermüde, Frith Street Gallery, London
Tacita Dean, Hugo Boss Prize Exhibition, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, New York
The Hugh Lane Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
Human Treasure, Galerie Marian Goodman, Paris, France
Tacita Dean: Film Works, Miami Art Central, Miami, Florida
 
2006
Tacita Dean: Analogue : Films, Photographs, Drawings 1991-2006, Schaulager, Munchenstein/Basel, Switzerland
National Gallery of Contemporary Art, Oslo, Norway
 
2005
Presentation Sisters and the Presentation Windows, The South Presentation Convent Sports Hall, Cork, Ireland, Commissioned for the Cork City of Culture
 
2004
Tacita Dean, Frith Street Gallery, London
Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, Italy
Tacita Dean, Mala Galeria, Museum of Modern Art Ljubljana, Ljubljana Slovenia
Royal Institute of British Architects, London
Tacita Dean, De Pont Foundation, Tilburg, The Netherlands
Gellért, Presentation House Gallery, Vancouver
 
2003
Tacita Dean, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York
Tacita Dean, ARC Musee d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France
Kunstpreis 2002: Tacita Dean, Ludwig Forum, Aachen, Germany
Section Cinéma, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nantes, Nantes, France
 
2002
12.10.02 – 21.12.02, Kunstverein fur Rheinlande und Westfalen, Dusseldorf, Germany
 
2001
FLOH, Frith Street Gallery, London
Tacita Dean, Fundação de Serralves, Porto, Portugal
Tacita Dean, Recent films and other works, Tate Britain, London, England
Tacita Dean, Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
Directions:  Tacita Dean, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC
Tacita Dean, Marian Goodman Gallery, Paris, France
Tacita Dean, DAAD Gallery, Berlin
Under/Above, Melbourne International Biennial, Melbourne, Australia
 
2000
Tacita Dean, Art Gallery of York University, Toronto, Ontario
Tacita Dean, Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Basel, Switzerland
Tacita Dean, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, New York
Tacita Dean/Matrix 189, Banewl, University of California Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, California
Wandering Images, La Caixa, Sala Moncada, Barcelona, Spain
 
1999
The Sea, With a Ship; Afterwards an Island, Sadler’s Wells, London Madison Art Center, Madison, Wisconsin
Tacita Dean, Marian Goodman Gallery, Paris, France
The Sea, With a Ship; Afterwards an Island, Dundee Contemporary Arts, Scotland
Banewl, Newlyn Art Gallery, Penzance, Cornwall, England
Friday/Saturday, North Meadows Project, Millennium Dome, London
 
1998
Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania,
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Cranbrook Museum, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan
De Pont Foundation, Tilburg, The Netherlands
 
1997
Tacita Dean, Frith Street Gallery, London
Missing Narratives, Witte de With, Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
The Roaring Forties: Seven Boards in Seven Days, The Drawing Room, The Drawing Center, New York, New York 
 
1996
Foley Artist, Art Now Project Room, Tate Gallery, London, England
 
1995
Tacita Dean, Frith Street Gallery, London
A Bag of Air, Galerie ‘La Box,’ École Nationale des Beaux-Arts, Bourges, France
 
1994
The Martyrdom of St. Agatha and Other Stories, Galerija Skuc, Ljubljana, Slovenia; Umetnostna Galerija, Maribor, Slovenia
 
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
 
2017
Leonard Cohen: Une brèche en toute chose / A Crack in Everything. Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal, Montreal, Canada
Time as Landscape: Inquiries in Art and Science. Cornell Fine Arts Museum at Rollins College, Winter Park, Florida
Melancholia: A Sebald Variation. Somerset House, London, United Kingdom
I Can't Tell You Because I Can't Tell You. 601 Artspace, New York, New York
Propositions on Revolution (Slogans for a Future). Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois
Now Wakes the Sea: Contemporary Art and the Ocean. Lewis Glucksman Gallery, University College Cork, Ireland
Art at the Turn of the Century. Centro Botín, Santander, Spain
Bestandsaufnahme VI - Revolver. Städtische Galerie Wolfsburg, Germany
Design & Cinema, Musée d’Art Moderne et Contemporain, Saint-Etienne
First ARoS Triennial: THE GARDEN – End of Times; Beginning of Times. Aarhus, Denmark
Gray Matters, Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Ohio
O Olhar do Artista: Obras da Coleção de Serralves, (Artists’ Choice: Works from the Serralves Collection), Galeria do Torreão Nascente da Cordoaria Nacional, Lisbon, Portugal
The last beautiful pleasure. 1301PE Gallery, Los Angeles
Offshore: Artists Explore the Sea, Ferens Art Gallery and Hull Maritime Museum, England
Utopia/Dystopia. MAAT, Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology, Lison, Portugal
GIORGIO MORANDI AND TACITA DEAN: Simple like my whole life, Centro Internazionale d’Arte e di Cultura di Palazzo Te, Mantova, Italy 
Versus Rodin: bodies across space and time, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide 
ELBPHILHARMONIE REVISITED. Hall for Contemporary Art at Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Germany
Merce Cunningham: Common Time, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Britain in the World. Yale Center for British Art, New England, Connecticut
Cinéma mon amour: Kino in der Kunst. Aargauer Kunsthaus, Aarau, Switzerland
 
 
2016
A Slow Succession with Many Interruptions, SFMoMA Collection, San Francisco 
65 Works Selected by James Welling: Exhibition and Sale to Benefit the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, David Zwirner, New York
The Others, Konig Galerie, Berlin, Germany
L.A. Exuberance: New Gifts by Artists, Los Angeles County Museum of Art
ARE WE HUMAN? THE DESIGN OF THE SPECIES: 2 seconds, 2 days, 2 years, 200 years, 200,000 years. 3rd Istanbul Design Biennial, Turkey
Taipei Biennial 2016, Gestures and Archives of the Present, Genealogies of the Futur, Taiwan
Celluloid. EYE Amsterdam, The Netherlands
The Sun Placed in the Abyss. Columbus Museum of Art, Ohio
TEMPEST. Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart, Tasmania
FOUND. The Foundling Museum, London, United Kingdom
Welcome to my life, Shanghai Himalayas Museum, China 
Hole in the Sea. Württembergischer Kunstverein, Germany
Accrochage, Pinault Collection at Punta della Dogana, Venice, Italy
Double Take, The Drawing Room, London, United Kingdom
Reset Modernity! ZKM/Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe, Germany
L’Image Volée, Fondazione Prada, Milan
The Marzona Collection, Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin, 
Germany
Illumination, Louisiana Museum of Art, Humlebaek, Denmark
JG, Permanent collection. Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, France
Sublime. Les tremblements du monde, Centre Pompidou Metz, France
Légendes, FRAC Franche Comté, France
Fertile Lands, Fondation d’Entreprise Ricard, Paris, France
Setting Out, Apexart, New York, NY 
Mead Gallery, Coventry
Material Issue. KMAC, Louisville, Kentucky 
Gellert Hotel des Arts, Toulon, France
 
2015
Into Great Silence, CAAC, Seville, Spain
The Problem of God, K21/Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Dusseldorf, Germany
Saltwater: a Theory of Thought Forms, 14th Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul, Turkey
Riddle of the Burial Grounds, Project Arts Center, Dublin, Ireland
J’aime les Panoramas, Musée Rath, Geneva, Switzerland
With a Clear Mind: You Can Move with the Truth, Lumber Room, Portland
Collecting for tomorrow. New works at Museion, Museion - the Museum of modern and contemporary art, Bolzano, Italy 
Screening of The Green Ray, Kodak, and JG at Ann Arbor Film Festival
Landscape in Motion: Cinematic Visions of an Uncertain Tomorrow, Kunsthaus Graz, Graz, Austria
TUTTTOVERO LA NOSTRA CITTA’ LA NOSTRA ARTE TORINO 2015, Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea and GAM Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Turin, Italy
FOMO, Organized by Sextant et Plus, Friche Belle de Mai, Marseille, France
La Compagnie, Marseille, France
Sound and Vision: Conversations and screenings, Paris Photo LA, Sherry Lansing Theatre, Los Angeles
Barbican Center, London, United Kingdom
Landskrona Foto Festival, Landskrona Museum, Sweden
Casa dei Tre Oci, Venezia, Italy
Steiricher Herbst, Graz, Austria
Expedition Land Art. Amersfoort in C/Kunsthal KAdE
Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art, Porto, Portugal
Elective Affinities, Julião Sarmento, collector, Museu da Eletricidade and Fundação Carmona e Costa, Lisbon, Portugal
Centre National de la Danse, Paris, France
Kino der Kunst, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, Germany
Printed Matters, Gesso Art Gallery, Vienna, Austria
Nel Mezzo del Mezzo: Arte Contemporanea nel Mediterraneo. Museo Riso, Albergo delle Povere, Palazzo Sant’Elia, Cappella dell’Incoronazione, Palazzo delle Aquille, Palermo, Sicily, Italy
Another Minimalism, Art After California Light and Space. Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh
Sguardo di Donna. Casa dei Tre Oci, Venice, Italy
Allegory of the Cave Painting, Cinema Zuid, Antwerp, Belgium
Drawing | The Bottom Line, S.M.A.K. Museum of Contemporary Art, Ghent, Belgium
Future Present: Emanuel Hoffmann Foundation, Contemporary Art from Classic Modernism to the Present Day.  Schaulager – Laurenz Foundation, Basel, Switzerland
 
2014
The Eye on Time: Works from Adrastus Collection, Museo de Arte de Sonora, Sonora, Mexico
Ship to Shore: Art and the Lure of the Sea, John Hansard Gallery, Highfield, Southampton, United Kingdom
Rain Lust, Tate Britain, London, United Kingdom
You Imagine What You Desire, 19th Biennale of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
The Dying of the Light: Film as Medium and Metaphor, Massachusetts Museum of 
Contemporary Art, North Adams, Massachusetts
Berlin Biennale 8, Berlin, Germany 
On the Road/En el camino, curated by Gloria Moure, exhibition installed throughout historic buildings of Santiago de Compostela, Spain
A Paradise Built in Hell, Kunstverein Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
What is to Come has Already Arrived, Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo, Sevilla, Spain
Histories: Works from The Serralves Collection, Museu Serralves, Porto, Portugal
As High as the Eye Can See, Fundacao Eugénio de Almeida, Évora, Portugal
The Sea - Salut D’Honneur Jan Hoet, Mu.Zee, Oostende
Photography: International, Daimler Art Collection, Stuttgart, Germany
 
2013
Looking at the View, Tate Britain, London, United Kingdom 
Besser scheitern, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany 
L’image Papillon, MUDAM – Musee d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, Luxembourg 
Paisaje. Revision de un genero (Landscape. A revision of a genre), Museo del Palacio de Bellas Artes, Mexico City, Mexico 
Ulysse(s) L’autre mer, Fonds Regional d’Art Contemporain Bretagne, Rennes, France 
Il Palazzo Enciclopedico (The Encyclopedic Palace), 55th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
Tacita Dean Workshop, Foundation Botin, Santander, Spain
Mirages d'Orient, grenades et figures de barbarie/ Chassé-croisé en Méditerranée, La Collection Lambert en Avignon, France
Unattained Landscape, Center for Contemporary Art, CCA Kitakyushu, Japan
El Arte del Presente - Colección Helga de Alvear - Mecenazgo al Servicio del Arte, CentroCentro Cibeles de Cultura y Ciudadanía, Madrid
Last Year at Marienbad redux, Bureau for Open Culture at Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, New York
The Way of the Shovel: Art as Archaeology, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois
Connecting-Unfolding, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, South Korea
The Eye on Time: Works from Adrastus Collection, Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, Mexico City, Mexico
 
2012
First Act, Museo Tamayo, Mexico City
Motion Capture: Drawing and the Moving Image, Lewis Glucksman Gallery, Cork
Gravity and Disgrace Ep. 2, CGAC Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea, Santiago de Compostela
Malerei in Fotografie - Strategien der Aneignung, Städel Museum, Frankfurt/Main
Documenta (13), Documenta, Kassel
Time out of Mind, Irish Museum of Modern Art, IMMA, Dublin
In the Spirit of Walser, Donald Young Gallery, Chicago, IL
Klang und Stille – Sammlung Goetz im Haus der Kunst, Haus der Kunst München, Munich
The Artists’ Postcard Show, Spike Island, Bristol (England)
Lugares en pérdida, Centro Huarte de Arte Contemporáneo, Huarte
fotoGRAFISK, Fotografisk Center, Copenhagen
Beyond Memory, Museum on the Seam, Jerusalem
Unfinished Journeys, The Museum of Contemporary Art Oslo, Oslo
Tacita Dean, William Kentridge..., Galerie Marian Goodman, Paris
Revolution vs. Revolution, Beirut Art Center, Beirut
Mirages d'Orient, grenades et figures de barbarie/ Chassé-croisé en Méditerranée, La Collection Lambert, Avignon, France (through 2013)
 
2011
ATLAS. How to Carry the World on One’s Back?, Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, Germany
Neue Realitäten. Von Warhol bis Havekost: Fotografie im Medium der Druckgrafik, Kupferstichkabinett, Berlin, Germany
BLOCKBUSTER: Cinema for Exhibitions, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Monterrey, Mexico
Staging the Archive, MACE – Museu de Arte Contemporanea de Elvas, Portugal
The Art of Deceleration, Motion and Rest in Modern Art, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Germany; Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany
The Cinema Effect: Illusion, Reality and the Moving Image, La Caixa, Barcelona 
Ostalgia, New Museum, New York, NY 
Drawing 2011 – Biennial Fundraiser, The Drawing Room, London 
The Smithson Effect, Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City, UT
Project Europa: Imagining the (Im)Possible, Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery - Columbia University, New York City, NY
Dance with Camera, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art - SMoCA, Scottsdale, AZ
Twombly and Poussin: Arcadian Painters (Screening of Edwin Parker), Dulwich Picture Gallery, London
 
2010
The Cinema Effect: Illusion, Reality and the Moving Image, The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.
Festival d’Automne, Paris, France 
elles@centrepompidou, artistes femmes dans les collections du Centre Pompidou, Centre Georges Pompidou, Musée National d’Art Moderne, Paris, France 
Production Site: The Artist’s Studio Inside–Out, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois | 6 February – 30 May 2010
En presence, Centre Européen d’Actions Artistiques Contemporaines, Strasbourg, Germany 
Haunted: Contemporary Photography/Video/Performance, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York 
Les Promesses du passé, Centre Pompidou – Musée National d’Art Moderne, Paris, France 
PhotoEspaña Festival, Teatro Fernán Gómez Arts Center, Madrid, Spain, MAN / Museo D’Arte Della Provincia Di Nuoro, Sardinia, Italy, La Regenta Arts Centre, Las Palmas de Gran Canarias, Spain
 
2009
Mark Wallingher Curates The Russian Linesman, The Hayward Gallery,
London, England
The Quick and the Dead, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
The Times of a Place, Centro de Arte y Naturaleza (CDAN), Fundación Beulas, Huesca, Spain
Sonic Youth etc.: Sensational Fix, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany; Museum of Malmö, Malmö, Sweden
Altermodern: Tate Triennial 2009, Tate Britain, London, England
Pequeña historia de la fotografía, Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea (CGAC), Santiago de Compostela, Spain
A mancha humana / the human stain, Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea (CGAC), Santiago de Compostela, Spain
aus/gezeichnet/zeichnen, Akademie der Künste, Berlin, Germany
elles@centrepompidou, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
Il Tempo del Postino, Theater Basel, Art 40 Basel, Basel, Switzerland
Paisagens Oblicas Exposition, Museu Municipal de Faro, Faro, Portugal
As Long As It Lasts, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York
Moby Dick, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, California
Craneway Event, Performa 09, St. Mark’s Church, New York
 
2008
Archive Fever: Uses of the Document in Contemporary Art, Curated by Okwui Enwezor, International Center of Photography, New York, New York
The Cinema Effect: Illusion, Reality and the Moving Image, The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.
Tales of Time and Space, Folkestone Triennial, Folkestone, England
Order. Desire. Light., Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland
PerformA, New York
Utopia, Museu Berardo Lisbon, Photoespana Festival, Madrid, Spain
Porzadki Urojone – so ist es und Andres, Muzeum Sztuki, Lodz, Poland
 
2007
On History, Fundacion Santander Central Hispano, Madrid, Spain
Il Tempo del Postino Group Show, Co-Curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist and Philippe Parreno, Manchester International Festival, Opera House Manchester, England
Marking Time, York Art Gallery
Sea Pieces: From Max Beckmann to Gerhard Richard Richter, Hamburger Kunshalle, Germany
Scenes and Sequences, Aargauer Kunsthaus, Germany
Waterlog, Castle Museum, Norwich, England
 
2006
Constructing New Berlin, Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, Bass Museum of Art, Miami, Florida
Grey Flags, Sculpture Center, Long Island City, New York
Universal Experience: Art, Life, and the Tourist’s Eye, curated by Francesco Bonami, MART Roverto, Italy
4th Berlin Biennial for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany, curated by Maurizio Cattelan (with Massimiliano Gioni and Ali Subotnick)
Sydney Biennale 
 
2005
Universal Experience: Art, Life, and the Tourist’s Eye, curated by Francesco  Bonami, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois; Hayward Gallery, London, England
Truth Universally Acknowledged, Australian Centre for Contemporary 
Art, Victoria, Australia
The Experience of Art, The Italian Pavilion, The 51st Venice Biennial
New British Art, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
Likeness: Portraits of Artists by Other Artists, Institute of Contemporary 
Art (ICA), Boston, Massachusetts 
Universal Experience: Art, Life and the Tourist’s Eye, MCA Chicago, Chicago, IL; Hayward Gallery, London, England
Daumenkino: The Flip Book Show, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf
An Aside, (Curator), Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland
Bidibidobidiboo, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, Italy
Elements of Nature, National Gallery of Canada, Ottowa
Soul, Museum Voor Moderne Kunst, Oostende, The Netherlands
Documentary Creations, Kunst Museum, Lucerne, Switzerland
Very Early Drawings, Luckman Gallery, California State University, Los Angeles; Arcadia University Art Gallery, Glenside, Pennsylvania
Berlin Works, Tate St Ives
 
2004
Premiers, The Museum of Modern Art Film Department, NY, NY
TIME CLASH, Fundação de Serralves, Porto, Portugal
Colecção (Tacita Dean e outres Artistas), Museu Serralves, Porto, Portugal 
Memory and Landscape, La Casa Encendida, Madrid, Spain
Fade In, New Film and Video, Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Houston, Texas
Reflecting the Mirror, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, New York
 
2003
The Moderns, Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Art Contemporanea, Rivoli-Turin, Italy
Trauer, Zentrum für zeitgenössische Kunst der Österreichischen Galerie Belvedere, Vienna, Austria
Ritardi e Rivoluzioni and Utopia Station, The 50th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
Fotografie, Video, Mixed Media, organized by Daimler Chrysler Contemporary, Galerie der Stadt Sindelfingern, Sindelfingern, Germany 
Utopia Station Poster Project, Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany
Image Stream, Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Ohio
Fast Forward: Media Art from the Goetz Collection, ZKM Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe, Germany
Remind, Kunsthaus Bregenz, Bregenz, Austria
 
2002
Tacita Dean, Ingar Dragset, Michael Elmgreen, Maria 
Eichhorn, Daniel Richter, Preis der nationalgalerie für junge Kunst, Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, Germany 
Arte all’Arte: Arte Architettura Paesaggio, Arte Continua Cultural Association, San Gimignano, Italy
 
2001
Futureland2001.com, Städisches Museum Abteiberg Mönchengladbach, Mönchengladbach, Germany
Yokohama International Triennial of Contemporary Art, Yokohama, Japan
Elusive Paradise: The Millenium Prize, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario
At Sea, Tate Liverpool, Liverpool, England
Under/Above, Melbourne Festival Australia, Melbourne, Australia
AUBETTE-The Longing for a(nother) place, Museum Dhont Dhaenens, Deurle, Belgium
 
2000
Ghosts, (Loans from Nvisible Museum), Marshall Arts Drive Thru (A Delta Axis Exhibition), Memphis, Tennessee 
Media City Seoul 2000, Contemporary Art and Technology Biennial, Seoul, Korea 
On the Edge of the Western World, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, California
Tout le temps, Montreal Biennial, Montreal, Quebec
Vision and Reality, Louisiana Museum, Humlebaek, Denmark
New British Art 2000: Intelligence, Tate Triennial, Tate Britain, London, England
Mixing Memory and Desire-Wunsch und Erinnerung, Kunstmuseum Luzern, Lucerne, Switzerland
Pennsylvania; Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin, Ireland
Somewhere near Vada, Project Arts Centre, Dublin, Ireland
Artifice, Deste Foundation, Athens, Greece
Another Place, Tramway, Glascow, Scotland
Amateur/Liebhaber, Kunstmuseum, Kunsthallen & Hasselblad, Gothenberg, Sweden
L’ombra della ragione, Galleria d’Arte Moderna, Bologna, Italy
 
1999
Robert Smithson, Tacita Dean and the Spiral Jetty: A program of audio and film at the rooftop Urban Park Project, Dia Center for the Arts, New York, New York
New visions of the sea, A commission by the National Maritime Museum, London, England
Fourth Wall, Public Art Development Trust, National Theatre, London
Geschichten des Augenblicks: An Exhibition on Narration and Slowness, Lenbachhaus Kunstbau, Munich, Germany 
The Balloon Art Festival, Hot Air, Nanjo and Associates, Tokyo, Japan
Un monde réel, Fondation Cartier, Paris, France
 
1998
Breaking Ground, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, New York
Felsenvilla Baden, Baden, Austria
Disrupting the Scene, Cambridge Darkroom, Cambridge, England
La Mer n’est pas la Terre, Fonds Régional d’Art Contemporain Bretagne, France
La Terre est Ronde-Nouvelle narration, Musée de Rochechouart,
Haute-Vienne, France
Wounds: Between Democracy and Redemption in Contemporary Art, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
Voiceover: Sound and Vision in Recent Art, The South Bank Center, London, England; Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol, England; Hatton Gallery, Newcastle, England; Castle Museum, Nottingham, England
 
1997
20/20, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, New York
Social Space, Marian Goodman Gallery, Paris, France
At One Remove, Henry Moore Institute, Leeds, England
The Frame of Time-Openmuseum, Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst, Limburg, Belgium
Flexible, Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich, Switzerland
Speaking of Sofas, Atheneum, Dijon, France
Challenge of Materials, Science Museum, London, England
International Film Festival, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
 
1996
CCATV, Centre for Contemporary Art, Glasgow, Scotland Art Node Foundation, Stockholm, Sweden
State of Mind, Centrum Beeldende Kunst, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Swinging the Lead, International Festival of the Sea, Bristol, England
Berwick Ramparts Project, Berwick-upon-Tweed, England
Container ‘96: Art Across Oceans, Copenhagen Cultural Capital Foundation, Copenhagen, Denmark
 
1995
Mysterium Alltag, Hammoniale der Frauen, Kampnagel, Hamburg, Germany
Kine[kunst] ‘95, Casino Knokke, Brussels, Belgium
Whistling Women, Royal Festival Hall, London, England
Videos and Films by Artists, Ateliers d’Artistes de la ville deMarseilles, France
British Art Show 4, various venues in Manchester, England; Edinburgh, Scotland; Cardiff, Wales
 
1994
Watt, Witte de With, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Mise en Scène, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, England
 
1992
BT New Contemporaries, Newlyn Orion, Penzance, England; Cornerhouse, Manchester, England; Orpheus Gallery, Belfast, Northern Ireland; Angel Row & The Bonnington, Nottingham, England; Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, England
 
COMMISIONS/PUBLIC PROJECTS
 
1999
Millennium Sculpture Project, London, England
Sadler’s Wells Theatre, London, England, (site-specific project)
 
OTHER PROJECTS 
 
2005
An Aside, selected by Tacita Dean, Camden Arts Centre, London, England; Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland; Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea, Wales
 
 
FILMOGRAPHY
 
2017 Ear on a Worm, 16mm color film with optical sound; 3 minutes 33 seconds
 
2016
Portraits, 16mm color film, optical sound, 16 minutes
Purple Steering Wheel, 16mm color film (transferred from Kodachrome Super 8), mute; 3 minutes continuous loop, (1998/2016)
 
2015
Event for a Stage, 16mm color with optical sound, 50 minutes
 
2014
Buon Fresco, 16mm film, back projected, 33 minutes 
10 to the 21: Target Area Petawatt, 16mm black and white film, optical sound; 4 ½ minutes, continuous loop
10 to the 21: Nanospoke, 16mm black and white film, mute; 2 minutes, continuous loop
 
2012
JG, 35mm anamorphic film; 26 minutes, looped
 
2011
Manhattan Mouse Museum, 16mm color film, optical sound, 16 minutes
Gdgda, two 16 mm color films, mute, 4 and 3 minutes
Edwin Parker, 16mm color film, optical sound, 29 minutes
 
2010
The Friar’s Doodle, 16mm Color fiom, mute, 13 minutes 
 
2009
Day for Night, 16mm Color film, mute, 10 minutes
Still Life, 16mm black and white film, mute, 5 ½ minutes
Craneway Event, 16mm color anamorphic film, optical sound, 108 minutes
 
2008
Prisoner Pair, 16mm color film, 11 minutes
Merce Cunningham performs STILLNESS (in three movements) to John Cage's composition 4'33" with Trevor Carlson, New York City, 28 April 2007, Six 16mm color films with optical sound
Amadeus, 16mm color anamorphic film, silent, 50 minutes
 
2007
Darmstädter Werkblock, 16mm color films with optical sound, 18 minutes
Michael Hamburger, 16mm color anamorphic film, 28 minutes
 
2006
Noir et Blanc, 16mm black and white film, 4 minutes, 30 seconds
Kodak, 16 mm color and black and white film, 44 minutes
 
2005
Presentation Sisters, 16mm, sound, 60 minutes
 
2004
Palast, Film, sound, 10-1/2 minutes 
The Uncles, 16mm film, 77 minutes
 
2003
Pie, 16mm color film, optical sound, 7 minutes
Boots, 3, 16mm, color anamorphic films (English version; French version; German version), optical sound, 20 minutes (each)
 
2002
Diamond Ring, 16mm black and white film, 6 minutes (cycle of 12 films, each 27 seconds) 
Ztráta, 1991/2002, 16mm black and white film (transferred from Standard 8), 3-1/2 minutes
Section Cinema, 16mm color film, optical sound, 13 minutes
Mario Merz, 16mm color film, optical sound, 8-1/2 minutes 
Baobab, 16mm black and white film, optical sound, 10 minutes
 
2001
The Green Ray, 16mm colour, 2 mins
Fernsehturm, 16mm colour anamorphic, optical sound, 44 mins
Jukebox 2, 1 console; 3 CD changing mechanisms, 192 CDs, 4 speakers
 
2000
Jukebox 1, 1 console; 3 CD changing mechanisms, 192 CDs, 4 speakers
Totality, 16 mm, color, anamorphic film, 11 minutes
Teignmouth Electron, 16 mm, color, 7 minutes
 
1999
 
From Columbus Ohio to the Partially Buried Woodshed, 1999, super-8 mm (transferred to video), color, 7 minutes
Sound Mirrors, 16 mm, black and white with optical sound, 7 minutes
Banewl, 16 mm, color, anamorphic film, 63 minutes
Bubble House, 16 mm, color, 7 minutes
 
1998
Gellért, 16 mm, color, optical sound, 6 minutes
 
1997
The Structure of Ice, 16 mm, color, optical sound, 3 minutes
Disappearance at Sea II (Voyage de Guérison), 16 mm anamorphic film, color, optical sound, 4 minutes
 
1996
Disappearance at Sea (Cinemascope), 16 mm anamorphic film, color, optical sound, 14 minutes
Delft Hydraulics, 16 mm, black and white, optical sound, 3 minutes
 
1995
A Bag of Air, 16 mm, black and white, optical sound, 3 minutes
How to Put a Boat in a Bottle, video, 18 minutes
 
1994
 
The Martyrdom of St. Agatha (in several parts), 16 mm, color, optical sound, 14 minutes
Girl Stowaway, 16 mm, color and black and white, optical sound, 8 minutes
 
1992
The Story of Beard, 16 mm, color, optical sound, 8 minutes