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Tracey Emin is a London based artist internationally known for her autobiographical art. She was born in London in 1963, and attended the Royal College of Art which she left in 1998 with a Master of Art in Paintings. She studied modern philosophy in London and was on the short list for the Turner Prize in 1999. In her multimedia work she uses sewing, neons, videos, Super-8 films, photographs watercolors and is also a compulsive writer. Emin's art is highly confessional, for she makes her life known as well as her beliefs and her feelings. Her life and art are inextricably entwined. Her work is a controlled exhibition of the self: often tragic, sometimes funny. David Bowie called Emin “William Blake as a woman, written by Mike Leigh”, critics describe her art as ”full of passion and striving and liveliness” with a ”raw openness”. Her work includes: Exploration of the Soul; Everyone I have ever slept with 1963-95; Fighting For Love; My Bed; The Interview; No Chance; The Hut; Tracey Emin. Her solo exhibitions were shown in America, Japan and Germany.
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