Sam Taylor-WoodPage 1/1
born in London in 1967
Sam Taylor-Wood has participated in numerous group and solo exhibitions, including the Venice Biennale (1997) and The Turner Prize (1998), Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington DC (1999), Hayward Gallery, London (2002), and MCA Sydney (2006).
Taylor-Wood makes photographs and films that examine, through highly charged scenarios, our shared social and psychological conditions. Her work examines the split between being and appearance, often placing her human subjects, either singly or in groups, in situations where the line between interior and external sense of self is in conflict. Taylor-Wood has also explored notions of weight and gravity in elegiac, poised photographs and films such as Ascension (2003) and a series of self-portraits that depict the artist floating in mid air without the aid of any visible support, or balancing on the upturned edge of a tipping chair.
She has been identified as a member of the young British Artist group, and is a graduate of Goldsmiths College. She is married to her art dealer Jay Jopling.
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