Cornelia Parker

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Cornelia Parker is a British contemporary artist renowned for her large-scale installations and sculptures that often involve the transformation or destruction of everyday objects to explore themes of perception, memory, and history.

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Cornelia Parker canonical 3

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instanceOf contemporary artist
human
awardReceived OBE
Turner Prize nomination
countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom
dateOfBirth 1956-07-14
educatedAt Gloucestershire College of Art and Design
Reading University
Wolverhampton Polytechnic
employer Royal Academy of Arts
familyName Parker
fieldOfWork contemporary art
installation art
sculpture
givenName Cornelia
hasWorkExhibitedAt Metropolitan Museum of Art
Serpentine Gallery
Tate Britain
Tate Modern
Whitworth Art Gallery
honorificSuffix RA
memberOf Royal Academy of Arts
movement conceptual art
contemporary art
name Cornelia Parker
nationality British
nominatedFor Turner Prize
notableExhibition Tate Britain retrospective 2022
linked to: Tate Britain
notableWork Avoided Object
Cold Dark Matter: An Exploded View
Edge of England
Magna Carta (An Embroidery)
One Day This Glass Will Break
Perpetual Canon
Subconscious of a Monument
The Maybe
Thirty Pieces of Silver
Transitional Object (PsychoBarn)
War Room
placeOfBirth Cheshire, England
linked to: Cheshire
positionHeld Professor of Sculpture at the Royal Academy Schools
workFocus destruction and reconfiguration of objects
themes of history
themes of memory
themes of perception
transformation of everyday objects
yearOfTurnerPrizeNomination 1997

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Young British Artists associatedPerson Cornelia Parker
National Museum of Western Art hasWorkBy Cornelia Parker
Cornelia Parker name Cornelia Parker