Sarah Lucas

NUD CYCLADIC 14, 2010
Tights, fluff, wire
Sculpture: 17 34 x 15 34 x 15 inches (45x 40 x 38 cm)
MDF: 31 12 x 16 78 x 16 78 inches (80 x 43 x 43 cm)
Four breeze blocks: 7 78 x 16 78 x 16 78 inches (20 x 43 x 43 cm)

Overall plinth: 39 38 x 16 78 x 16 78 inches (100 x 43 x 43 cm)

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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Sarah Lucas at Tate Britain: humour, desire, domesticity

Wallpaper*

Hannah Silver

January 4, 2024

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

The Story Behind Sarah Lucas’s Most Vital Works

AnOther Magazine

Daisy Woodward

October 3, 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

‘Happy Gas’ at Tate Britain review

Time Out

Eddy Frankel

September 25, 2023

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