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Keith Tyson, (b.1969) lives and works in Brighton. Tyson was awarded a Doctorate of Letters in 2005 from the University of Brighton and has work in many major international museum collections. Solo exhibitions include the exhibition of the major sculptural work Large Field Array; a multi-faceted sculptural installation
which toured from the Louisiana Museum for Modern Art, Denmark, to the De Pont museum of contemporary art, Holland, 2006-07, and is currently on display at PaceWildenstein in New York until 20 October 2008.
In March 2002 Tyson was one of four artists from the UK to show their work at the Sao Paulo Biennale, Brazil, and later the same year was awarded the Turner Prize. Tyson has also exhibited at the 49th Venice Biennale, (his installation, Drawing and Thinking, included The Thinker, (after Rodin), a black hexagonal sculpture housing the internal hum of computers, a monolithic manifestation of thought itself), the 2nd Berlin Biennale, the Kunsthalle Zürich, 2002, and the South London Gallery, 2002. |