Tacita Dean (born Canterbury, UK) trained as a painter and now employs a range of media, including film, drawing and photography. Her training is evident in the painterly quality of her work, which explores a realm somewhere between fact and fiction. Her works have in common a sense of searching for something elusive, which may only exist in the imagination.

In 2007 Film and Video Umbrella commissioned Dean to make the 28-minute film ‘Michael Hamburger’. This continued her series of acclaimed film portraits. It was part of the touring group exhibition ‘Waterlog’, which was accompanied by a major publication, ‘Waterlog: Journeys Around an Exhibition’.

Dean has established an international reputation, with solo presentations at Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne; Guggenheim Museum, New York; Tate Britain; and ICA Philidelphia, amongst many others. Group exhibitions include the 2009 Tate Triennial, the 2008 Folkestone Triennial, the 2006 Berlin Biennial and the 2005 Venice Biennial. Dean won the Hugo Boss award in 2007 and was nominated for the Turner Prize in 1998. She is represented by Frith Street Gallery, London and Marian Goodman Gallery, New York and Paris.