Sam Taylor-Wood

Sam Taylor-Wood graduated from Goldsmiths College in 1990. Her work in photography and film is distinguished by an ironic and subversive use of these media, which centre on the creation of enigmatic situations replete with a latent but explosive energy. Since her first solo exhibition at White Cube in 1995, Taylor-Wood has had numerous solo shows including Fundacio La Caixa, Barcelona, Kunsthalle, Zurich, Louisiana Museum, Humlebaek, Hirshhorn Museum, Washington D.C., Fondazione Prada, Milan,...See more

Sam Taylor-Wood graduated from Goldsmiths College in 1990. Her work in photography and film is distinguished by an ironic and subversive use of these media, which centre on the creation of enigmatic situations replete with a latent but explosive energy. Since her first solo exhibition at White Cube in 1995, Taylor-Wood has had numerous solo shows including Fundacio La Caixa, Barcelona, Kunsthalle, Zurich, Louisiana Museum, Humlebaek, Hirshhorn Museum, Washington D.C., Fondazione Prada, Milan, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam and the Hayward Gallery, London. In 1997 she received the Illy Cafe Prize for Most Promising Young Artist at the Venice Biennale and was nominated for the Turner Prize. Sam Taylor-Wood lives and works in London. See less