CONTEMPORARY ARTISTS

Tracey Emin

b. 1963

A prominent member of the Young British Artists (YBAs), Emin works in a wide range of mediums, including painting, neon, embroidery, drawing, installation, and sculpture.

Her work is intensely personal, revealing intimate details of her life with brutal honesty and poetic humor. She has spoken of “the narcissism behind what I do—the self, self, self—and how difficult it is for me to really share things, even though I think I am sharing all the time.” A paradoxical approach —at once audacious and confessional, narcissistic and self-deprecatory— of art.