翠西·艾敏

翠西·艾敏女爵士，DBE，RA（，），毕业于英国伦敦大学伯贝克学院，塞浦路斯土耳其裔英國藝術家，英國藝術家群體「青年英國藝術家」成員之一。

早年生活
翠西·艾敏來自英格蘭東南方小鎮馬蓋特，母親曾經經營一個旅館，父親是土耳其裔塞浦路斯人，許多作品因此和土耳其的題材有關。艾敏13歲的時候被性侵，同年輟學，之後在咖啡館、酒吧遊蕩。1978年時，艾敏參加全英國的迪斯可舞蹈錦標賽，一群曾和她發生過肉體關係的男人叫嚷著「妓女、妓女」(slag、slag)，公開地羞辱她，讓她不得不落荒離開舞場，也決心離開她成長的小鎮。之後艾敏經歷了一次流產、兩次墮胎、數次的自殺未遂，這些不順遂的經歷都成了她創作上的來源。

參考注釋
延伸閱讀
Elliot, Patrick and Schnabel, Julian. Tracey Emin: Twenty Years* (National Galleries of Scotland, 2008) ISBN 978-1-906270-08-7.
Emin, Tracey. Borrowed Light: the British Pavilion, Venice Biennale 2007* (London: British Council, 2007) ISBN 0-86355-589-6.
Emin, Tracey. Tracey Emin: Works 1963 – 2006* (London: Rizzoli, 2006) ISBN 0-8478-2877-8.
Brown, Neal. Tracey Emin (Tate's Modern Artists Series)* (London: Tate, 2006) ISBN 1-85437-542-3.
Doyle, Jennifer. Sex Objects: Art and the Dialectics of Desire* (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2006) ISBN 0-8166-4526-4.
Emin, Tracey. Strangeland* (London: Scepter, 2005) ISBN 0-340-76944-0
Emin, Tracey. I Can Feel Your Smile* (New York: Lehmann Maupin, 2005)
Emin, Tracey. The Is Another Place* (Oxford: Museum of Modern Art, Oxford; Limited edition, 2002) ISBN 1-901352-15-3
Emin, Tracey, Brown, Neal and Kent, Sarah and Collings, Matthew. Tracey Emin* (London: Jay Jopling/White Cube, 1998) ISBN 0-9522690-2-3
Merck, Mandy and Townsend, Chris (eds). The Art of Tracey Emin* (London: Thames & Hudson, 2002) ISBN 0-500-28385-0
Remes, Outi. "After Bad Taste: Tracey Emin’s Work on Abortion and Other Confessions" in Harris, Jonathan. (ed.) Inside the Death Drive Excess and Apocalypse in the World of the Chapman Brothers.* (Liverpool: Liverpool University Press and Tate Liverpool, 2010) 119–143. ISBN 978-1-84631-192-5.
Remes, Outi. "Replaying the Old Stereotypes into an Artistic Role: the case of Tracey Emin" in Women’s History Review* (Vol. 18, No. 4, September 2009) 561–577.

外部連結
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20100201205913/http://www.emininternational.com/ 翠西·艾敏官方網站]
*[http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/video/2010/jan/27/foundling-museum-tracy-emin 英國衛報報導]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20140701051857/http://www.egs.edu/faculty/tracey-emin/biography/ 翠西·艾敏]，歐洲高等學院網站資料
*[http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A3784782 英國國家廣播公司(BBC)報導]
*[http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/tracey-emin-2590 泰特美術館網頁介紹]