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Nationality
  
British

Name
  
Nicola Tyson

Known for
  
Visual arts, Painting


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Born
  
1960 (age 54–55)

Nicola Tyson is a British painter who lives in New York. Her work consists of what she describes as "psycho-figuration", and is primarily concerned with issues of identity, gender and sexuality.

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Early life

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Tyson was born in London in 1960. She attended Chelsea School of Art, London (1979–80) and Central St. Martins, London (1980-81 & 1986-89).

Work

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Although Tyson works in many media including sculpture, she is best known as a figurative painter. Tyson's figures tend to be misshapen and presented with unexpected proportions. Her work has been connected stylistically to postwar British Expressionism, specifically artists such Francis Bacon and Hans Bellmer

Dead Letter Men

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In 2013, Tyson published Dead Letter Men, a collection of letters written by her to dead male artists including Francis Bacon, Édouard Manet, and Pablo Picasso. For Tyson, these satirical letters bring together "autobiographical anecdotes, sexual politics and art history to create a kind soup out of which it becomes clear [her] work has evolved".

Exhibitions

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In 1993, Tyson had her first solo exhibition at Trial Balloon, a space that she established to exclusively show female artists in New York. In 1995, she had her first solo exhibition in London at Anthony d'Offay Gallery, which was followed by a show of her drawings at Entwistle Gallery.

She has exhibited as part of numerous group exhibitions including The Whitechapel Open at Whitechapel Gallery, London (1989), and New Work: Painting Today Recent Acquisitions at San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (1999).

Art market

Tyson is represented by Friedrich Petzel Gallery in New York and Sadie Coles HQ in London.

References

Nicola Tyson Wikipedia


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