Sarah Lucas
Sarah Lucas is one of the leading figures of the generation of young British artists who emerged during the 1990s. She studied in London at the Working Men’s College (1982–83), London College of Printing (1983–84), and Goldsmiths’ College (1984–87).
Sarah Lucas’s practice is characterized by irreverent humor and the creation of visual puns and vulgar euphemisms. Spanning sculpture, photography, and installation, her work evokes the body in its physical, cultural, and psychic dimensions. In her compositions, Lucas often uses everyday objects as a substitute for the human body: furniture, food, tabloid newspapers, tights, toilets, and cigarettes are usually coupled with slang and crude genital innuendo. These elements intertwine and transform into visceral, anthropomorphic representations of limbs, breasts, and phalli; forms that are embodied in light-reflecting bronze sculptures or as plaster casts taken directly from models. In order to probe representations of gender and national identity, Lucas also employs familiar references to postwar and contemporary British life. By appropriating and exhibiting lewd gestures that reveal the absurdity of sexual stereotypes, she subverts the male gaze and the tropes of what is considered feminine or masculine; in a similar vein, her defiant self-portraits invoke the sexual dynamics of the observer and the observed. Lucas’s artwork pushes the sculptural possibilities of bodily representation to question the way we understand and relate to inherent aspects of human experience such as sexuality, illness, and death.
Education
1984 - 1987
Goldsmith's College, London
1983 - 1984
London College of Printmaking, London
1982 - 1983
Working Men's College, London
Selected Solo Shows (2015~)
2024 “Sense of Human,” Kuntshalle Mannheim, Germany
2023 "Happy Gas", Tate Britain, London, England
2021 “Dream Fourteen,” Paul Stolper, London, United Kingdom
“Sarah Lucas: SEX LIFE,” The Perimeter, London, United Kingdom
“Project 1,” NGA National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Australia
2020 "NOT NOW DARLING,” Le Consortium, Dijon
“HONEY PIE,” Gladstone Gallery, New York
“HONEY PIE,” Sadie Coles HQ, London
2019 “Sarah Lucas,” Red Brick Art Museum, Beijing
2018 “Sarah Lucas: Au Naturel,” New Museum, New York
“Dame Zero,” Kurimanzutto, Mexico City
2017 Sarah Lucas: Good Muse,” Legion of Honor, California
“FunQroc,” Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin
“POWER IN WOMAN,” Humber Street Gallery, Hull, United Kingdom
2016 “INNAMEMORABILIAMUMBUM,” Fondazione Nicola Trussardi, Milan
“Father Time,” Sadie Coles HQ, London
“POWER IN WOMAN,” The Soane Museum, London
2015 “Sarah Lucas,” Whitworth Art Gallery, University of Manchester, UK
“I SCREAM DADDIO,” British Pavilion, 56th Venice Art Biennale, Venice
Selected Group Shows (2021~)
2024 “Transmissions: Selections from Marciano Collection,” Marciano Art Foundation, LA, CA
2023 "Big Women," curated by Sarah Lucas, FIRSTSITE, Colchester, United Kingdom
2022 “Objects of Desire: Surrealism &Design 1924 – Today,”Design Museum, London, England
“Sculpture in the City,” London, England
“Back to the Cave,” Gallery Pangolin, at Clearwell Caves, Chalford, England
“The Sentimental Museum of Eva Apelli,” Centre Pompidou Metz, Metz, France
“Michael Clark: Cosmic Dancer,” V&A Dundee, Dundee, Scotland
"Sweet Lust," White Cube, Paris, France
“REPEATER,” Sadie Coles HQ, London, United Kingdom
“Women and Change,” Arken Museum of Modern Art, Ishøj, Denmark
"Nature Doesn't Know About Us," curated by Ugo Rondinone, Sculpture Milwaukee, WI
2021 “New Works in the Louisiana Collection,” Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Denmark
“I. Between Image and Reinvention,” Galerie Stihl Waiblingen, Waiblingen, Germany
“The Point of Sculpture,” Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona, Spain
“POP GOES THE PASTORAL,” The Old Theatre, Framlingham, United Kingdom
“Flat Work,” Solid Haus, Suffolk, England
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