About the artist
Based in the United States (New York City) and the Netherlands (Rotterdam)
1965: Was born 1965 Providence, Rhode Island
Ellen Gallagher was born in 1965 in Providence, Rhode Island. She
studied at Oberlin College, Ohio (1982–84); Studio 70, Fort Thomas,
Kentucky (1989); School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston,
Massachusetts (1992); and Skowhegan School of Art, Maine (1993). In 2000
Gallagher was awarded the American Academy Award in Art and
participated in the Biennale di Venezia in 2003. Her work is represented
in public collections including Tate Modern, London; Centre Pompidou,
Paris; Moderna Museet, Stockholm; Museum of Modern Art, New York, and
Whitney Museum of American Art; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; San
Francisco Museum of Modern Art; and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los
Angeles. Solo exhibitions include "Watery Ecstatic," Institute of
Contemporary Art, Boston (2001, traveled to the Museum of Contemporary
Art, Sydney Australia in 2002); "Preserve," Des Moines Art Center, Iowa
(2001, traveled to Yerba Buena Arts Center, San Francisco and The
Drawing Center, New York in 2002); St. Louis Art Museum, Missouri
(2003); "Ichthyosaurus," Freud Museum, London (2005); "Deluxe," Whitney
Museum of American Art, New York and Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami
(2005); Tate Liverpool (2007); and "An experiment of unusual
opportunity," South London Gallery (2009).
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