Catherine Yass (born 1963) is an English artist known for her wall-mounted lightboxes.

Biography

Catherine Yass was born in 1963 in London. She studied at the

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, the Hochschule der Künste, Berlin, and

Goldsmiths College Goldsmiths, University of London, formerly Goldsmiths College, University of London, is a Member institutions of the University of London, constituent research university of the University of London. It was originally founded in 1891 as The G ...

. In 2002, Yass was nominated for the

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. She teaches photography at the

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, London. She lives in London.

Works

Yass is noted for her films and brightly coloured photographs. Many of her works are mounted on light boxes. Yass has also worked with video. ''Descent'' (2002) is one film and two light boxes. In 2000, Yass designed the

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for

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, and in the same year along with Richard Wentworth she designed the public square around

The New Art Gallery Walsall The New Art Gallery Walsall is a modern and contemporary art gallery in the town of Walsall, in the West Midlands, England. It was built with £21 million of public funding, including £15.75 million from the UK National Lottery and additiona ...

. Yass has had solo exhibitions including ''Lighthouse'' at Alison Jacques Gallery, London (2012); a mid-career retrospective at De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill-on-Sea (2011); ''Flight'', The Phillips Collections, Washington D.C.; ''The China Series'', Stedelijk-Hertogenbosch Museum, The Netherlands (2009); ''Descent'', St Louis Art Museum, St Louis, MO (2009). Yass participated in the 13th Montreal Photo Biennale (2013). Her work is in the collections of the

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, New York, the

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, and the

. it is also in the

National Museum of Women in the Arts The National Museum of Women in the Arts (NMWA), located in Washington, D.C., is "the first museum in the world solely dedicated" to championing women through the arts. NMWA was incorporated in 1981 by Wallace and Wilhelmina Holladay. Since openi ...

collection. 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".

References

External links

images of Yass' work
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