Gillian Wearing: Performing Artist in New York

About Gillian Wearing

Gillian Wearing is a British conceptual artist associated with the Young British Artists and recognized with the Turner Prize. Her work often uses staged encounters, confessional speech, and masks to test how identity is performed and recorded. Elected to the Royal Academy of Arts, she has also produced major public sculpture, including a monument to suffragist Millicent Fawcett in London’s Parliament Square. In New York, her exhibition “Gillian Wearing: Wearing Masks” appears at the Guggenheim, where her practice reads as attentive observation rather than spectacle.