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Sarah Lucas

1962

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• Installation Art
• Photography

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Plaza: Sarah Lucas—VENUS VICTORIA

New Museum

About

Why this artist matters now

Sarah Lucas makes sculpture, installation, and collage that weaponises found objects and bawdy visual puns to probe gender, sexuality, and the body. Emerging from the Young British Artists generation in the late 1980s, she is known for assembling everyday materials, including cigarettes, fried eggs, and stockings, into figures that are bluntly confrontational. Her formal approach is deliberately crude, using the cheap and the disposable to puncture social propriety. She represented Britain at the 2015 Venice Biennale.

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Contemporary

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Museum of Modern ArtNew York Tate New Museum

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Artworks (34)

NUD CYCLADIC 6

2010 · Nylon tights, synthetic fibre, breeze blocks and steel wire

displayed: 1300 x 440 x 430 mm

Tate

NUD CYCLADIC 10

2010 · Nylon tights, synthetic fibre, breeze blocks and steel wire

displayed: 1382 x 437 x 430 mm

Tate

NUD CYCLADIC 3

2010 · Nylon tights, synthetic fibre, breeze blocks and steel wire

displayed: 1857 x 430 x 430 mm

Tate

Oh! Soldier

2005 · Braces, wire hanger, cast concrete army boots, and nylon stockings

6' 4" x 18" x 11" (193 x 45.7 x 27.9 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

It's Not the End of the World (Remember Me)

2003 · Cigarettes and pencil on colored paper

86 3/4 x 110 1/2" (220.3 x 280.7 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Charlie (I Am Sorry)

2002 · Synthetic polymer paint on cut-and-pasted printed paper

38 1/2 x 27 1/4" (97.8 x 69.2 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Geezer

2002 · Oil, cut-and-pasted printed paper, and pencil on wood

31 7/8 × 29 1/2" (81 × 74.9 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Beyond the Pleasure Principle

2000 · Futon mattress, cardboard coffin, metal clothes rail, 2 fluorescent tubes, light bulbs, metal bucket, wire coat hanger,

1560 x 1905 x 2900 mm Variable

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Museum of Modern Art

New York, US

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New Museum

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New Museum

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Education

Goldsmiths, University of London

Visual Arts

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Exhibition Plaza: Sarah Lucas—VENUS VICTORIA

Exhibition Plaza: Sarah Lucas—VENUS VICTORIA New Museum