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Sarah Lucas

1962

WA-00009261

InstallationContemporaryInstallation ArtPhotography

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None documented

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90%

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Authority Records (2)

WikidataQ267786

MoMA

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Plaza: Sarah Lucas—VENUS VICTORIA

New Museum

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3 cross-verified · 3 single-source

Primary mediumWikidata + Unknown· 92%✓
Birth yearWikidata + Unknown· 92%✓
BiographyWikipedia + Unknown· 88%✓
NationalityWikidata + Artsy+1· 92%
LocationArtsy + Wikidata+1· 85%
DeceasedUnknown· 20%

Source Registry (6)

Gladstonehttps://www.artsy.net/artist/sarah-lucas
Tier 3 · Scraped/inferred100%
Christies-Artsyhttps://www.artsy.net/artist/sarah-lucas
Tier 3 · Scraped/inferred100%
Sothebyshttps://www.sothebys.com/en/artists/sarah-lucas
Tier 3 · Scraped/inferred100%
White-Cubehttps://www.artsy.net/artist/sarah-lucas
Tier 3 · Scraped/inferred100%
Sadie-Coleshttps://sadiecoles.com/artists/
Tier 3 · Scraped/inferred100%
MoMA bulk 2026-05-04https://www.moma.org/artists/7810
Tier 1 · Institutional92%

About

Why this artist matters now

Sarah Lucas makes sculpture, installation, and collage that weaponises found objects and bawdy visual puns to probe gender, sexuality, and the body. Emerging from the Young British Artists generation in the late 1980s, she is known for assembling everyday materials, including cigarettes, fried eggs, and stockings, into figures that are bluntly confrontational. Her formal approach is deliberately crude, using the cheap and the disposable to puncture social propriety. She represented Britain at the 2015 Venice Biennale.

Source: Gladstone · Trust score: 100% · Updated 1mo ago

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Museum of Modern ArtNew York Tate New Museum

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Artworks (34)

NUD CYCLADIC 6

2010 · Nylon tights, synthetic fibre, breeze blocks and steel wire

Sarah Lucas

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Authority Records (2)

Selected Institutional Exhibitions

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Source Registry (6)

Why this artist matters now

Taste overlap and adjacency

Museum Collections

Artworks (34)

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