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Tracey Emin

Tracey Emin: Viewing the Work Through an Installation Lens

By Evan Portzline

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Dame Tracey Emin was born in 1963 in Croydon as the result of an affair between her parents, who each has other families
Much of her work is autobiographical and responds to her childhood, the abuse she endured, and her rape at 13
She is highly controversial in the art world due to the brunt honesty of her work and her argumentative nature

Creator: Tracey Emin

Title: My Bed [on floor]; Soba Sex [on wall, left]; My Cunt Is Wet with Fear [on wall, right]

Work Type: Sculpture and Installations

Date: bed 1998; wall pieces 1999 (left), 1998 (right)

Description: Photographer: Larry Qualls

Location: Exhibited at Lehmann Maupin Gallery, 1 May-26 June 1999

Medium: on floor: mattress, linens, pillows, rope, various memorabilia; on wall: neon

Measurements: on floor: 31" x 83" x 92"; on wall, left: 20" x 50"; on wall, right: 10" x 55"

Collection: Larry Qualls Archive: Contemporary Art https://www.jstor.org/site/artstor/LarryQuallsArchiveContemporaryArt-100141487

Source: Image and original data provided by Larry Qualls

Resource Type: Images

File Name: /fpx/larry_qualls/d0001/qualls_020182_post_as_srgb_8b.fpx.jpg

SSID: 14252374

Disclaimer: Use of this image is in accordance with the JSTOR Terms & Conditions (https://about.jstor.org/terms/)

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“Free + Really

Wet,” monoprint,

1997

Creator: Tracey Emin

Title: Free + Really Wet

Work Type: monoprint

Date: 2009

Image Date: Image: 2011

Location: Exhibited at Lehmann Maupin Gallery, February to April 2011.

Medium: monoprint

Measurements: 21 x 30 cm; framed, 40 x 53 cm

Subjects: photo archives,contemporary,exhibitions

Collection: Larry Qualls Archive: Contemporary Art https://www.jstor.org/site/artstor/LarryQuallsArchiveContemporaryArt-100141487

Local Identifier: 25157

Source: Image and original data provided by Larry Qualls

Photographed by: Photographer: Larry Qualls

Resource Type: Images

File Name: Qualls_L23_IMG_25157_as_8b_sRGB.tif

SSID: 10706011

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“Hotel International,” appliqué

quilt, 1993, 102.25” x 94.5”

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“Psycho Slut,” appliqué quilt, 1999,

96” x 76”

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“My Bed,”

readymade

sculpture,

1998

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“Everyone

I Have

Ever Slept

With

1963-

1995,”

appliqué

sculpture,

1995

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“To Meet My

Past,’

sculpture,

2002

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Bibliography:

Baydar, Gülsüm. “Bedrooms in Excess: Feminist Strategies Used by Tracey Emin and Semiha Berksoy.” Woman’s Art Journal, vol. 33, no. 2, 2012, pp. 28–34. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/24395286. Accessed 20 May 2026.

Emin, Tracey, et al. Tracey Emin: 20 Years. National Galleries of Scotland, 2008.

Murray, Yxta Maya. “Rape Trauma, the State, and the Art of Tracey Emin.” California Law Review, vol. 100, no. 6, 2012, pp. 1631–710. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org.lawrence.idm.oclc.org/stable/23409482. Accessed 20 May 2026.

Ring Petersen, Anne. Installation Art: Between Image and Stage. Museum Tusculanum, 2015.

“Tracey Emin.” Grove Art Online, Oxford University Press, www-oxfordartonline-com.lawrence.idm.oclc.org/groveart/display/10.1093/gao/9781884446054.001.0001/oao-9781884446054-e-7000096797. Accessed 20 May 2026.

“Tracey Emin.” White Cube, www.whitecube.com/artists/tracey-emin. Accessed 20 May 2026.

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