About

Portrait of Sarah Lucas by Julian Simmons (Framlingham, Suffolk, UK, February 2020).
© Sarah Lucas / Photo: Julian Simmons
Sarah Lucas (b. 1962, London) lives and works in London. She studied art at The Working Men's College (1982–83), London College of Printing (1983–84), and Goldsmiths College (1984–87) in London. Lucas’ work has been the subject of recent solo presentations at the Kunsthalle Mannheim, Germany (2024); Tate Britain, London (2023); The Perimeter, London (2021); the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Australia (2021); Le Consortium, Dijon, France (2020); Red Brick Art Museum, Beijing (2019); Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (2019); and New Museum, New York (2018). Her work is in major public collections including: ARKEN Museum for Moderne Kunst, Copenhagen, Denmark; Centre Pompidou, Paris; Daegu Art Museum, South Korea; Guggenheim Museum, New York; Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), California; Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, Denmark; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; MCA Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Illinois; MoCA Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California; Museum of Modern Art, New York; National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Australia; National Portrait Gallery, London, England; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, California; Tate Modern, London; Walker Art Centre, Minneapolis, Minnesota, among others.
Exhibitions
Publications
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Funny, disturbing and kinky: ‘Happy Gas’ at Tate Britain is one wild romp through Sarah Lucas’s oeuvre
Tatler ↗Harriet Kean
October 16, 2023
‘We’re all secretly embarrassed about something’: Inside the world of artist Sarah Lucas
CNN ↗Ananda Pellerin
October 12, 2023
Sarah Lucas’s cheeky sculptures bring light relief at Tate Britain
The Art Newspaper ↗Gareth Harris
September 27, 2023
Sarah Lucas, Tate Britain review — smut and sensitivity side by side
Financial Times ↗September 27, 2023
Barn stormer – Sarah Lucas talks shock tactics and country living
Apollo Magazine ↗Edward Behrens
September 25, 2023
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