Tracey Emin

British · b. 1963

Contemporary Art

A leading figure of the Young British Artists generation, Emin transforms autobiography into art through neon text, embroidered blankets, drawing, and film. My Bed, shown at the Turner Prize in 1999, brought her wide notoriety. Her work interrogates desire, grief, and the female body with a directness that has become her signature.

On now and coming soon exhibitions

Tracey Emin: A Second Life

Until Aug 31

40-year Tracey Emin retrospective: 90+ works including My Bed and new paintings

"Walking into Tate Modern's huge Tracey Emin retrospective is like walking in on her crying, naked, sobbing and snotty, as if you have stumbled into something painfully private. Don't come here looking for a good time – you won't find it. But come looking for pure, unapologetic, undiluted, full-frontal love, grief, heartache and sadness, and you will end up feeling more feelings than you've probably felt for years."

— The Guardian