Catherine Yass

Template:Short description Template:Use British English Template:Use dmy dates Template:Infobox artist Catherine Yass (born 1963) is an English artist known for her wall-mounted lightboxes.<ref name="Phaidon Editors">Template:Cite book</ref>

Biography

Catherine Yass was born in 1963 in London. She studied at the Slade School of Fine Art, the Hochschule der Künste, Berlin, and Goldsmiths College.<ref name="Alison Jacques Gallery">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> In 2002, Yass was nominated for the Turner Prize.<ref name="Vertigo"/> She teaches photography at the Royal College of Art, London.<ref name="Cristea Roberts Gallery">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> She lives in London.

Works

Yass is noted for her films and brightly coloured photographs. Many of her works are mounted on light boxes.<ref name="Cristea Roberts Gallery"/>

Yass has also worked with video. Descent (2002) is one film and two light boxes.<ref name="Godfrey">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

In 2000, Yass designed the Christmas tree for Tate Britain,<ref name="Tate">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> and in the same year along with Richard Wentworth she designed the public square around The New Art Gallery Walsall.<ref name="New Art Gallery">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Yass has had solo exhibitions including Lighthouse at Alison Jacques Gallery, London (2012);<ref name="Lighthouse, 2011">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> a mid-career retrospective at De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill-on-Sea (2011);<ref name="DLWP">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Flight, The Phillips Collections, Washington D.C.;<ref name="Vertigo">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> The China Series, Stedelijk-Hertogenbosch Museum, The Netherlands (2009);<ref name="Vertigo"/> Descent, St Louis Art Museum, St Louis, MO (2009).<ref name="Vertigo"/>

Yass participated in the 13th Montreal Photo Biennale (2013).<ref name="Vertigo"/> Her work is in the collections of the Jewish Museum, New York, the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, and the Tate Britain.<ref name="Vertigo"/> it is also in the National Museum of Women in the Arts collection.<ref name="nmwa">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

In July 2014 Yass was refused permission to drop a piano from the 27-story Balfron Tower in Poplar, London as part of a "community workshop to explore how sound travels".<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

External links

• images of Yass' work at the Galerie Lelong & Co