Marciano Art Foundation Walkthrough: Artist Tacita Dean & Larchmont Jewelers Hosted Lunch

“My relationship to film begins at that moment of shooting and ends in the moment of projection. Along the way, there are several stages of magical transformation that imbue the work with varying layers of intensity. This is why the film image is different from the digital image: it is not only emulsion versus pixels, or light versus electronics, but something deeper—something to do with poetry.”

—Tacita Dean

Tacita Dean is a British European artist born in 1965 in Canterbury. She lives and works in Berlin and Los Angeles, where she stayed after being the Artist in Residence at the Getty Research Institute in 2014–2015.

Dean has been the recipient of numerous awards including the Queen Sonja Print Award in 2026, the Kurt Schwitters Prize in 2009, the Hugo Boss Prize at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, in 2006, and the Sixth Benesse Prize at the 51st Venice Biennale in 2005.

Solo exhibitions include The Columbus Museum of Art in 2025; the Menil Collection, Houston in 2024; the Bourse de Commerce, Pinault Collection, Paris in 2023; MUDAM, Luxembourg, The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles in 2022; Kunstmuseum Basel in 2021; EMMA – Espoo Museum of Modern Art, Espoo in 2020; NY Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen and at the Serralves Museum, Porto in 2019; and at the Kunsthaus Bregenz, The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, as well as the Royal Academy of Arts, London, in 2018 as part of a trilogy of exhibitions held in conjunction with the city’s National Gallery and National Portrait Gallery. In 2011 Dean’s work FILM, a part of the Unilever Series of Tate Modern, and shown in the Turbine Hall marked the beginning of the campaign to save photochemical film.