Tracey Emin, CBE, RA is an English artist. She is part of the group known as Britartists or YBAs. In 1997, her work Everyone I Have Ever Slept With 1963?1995, a tent appliqu�d with names, was shown at Charles Saatchi's Sensation exhibition held at the Royal Academy in London. The same year, she gained considerable media exposure when she swore multiple times in an apparent state of drunkenness on a live discussion program on UK television. In 1999, Emin had her first solo exhibition in the United States at Lehmann Maupin Gallery, entitled "Every Part of Me's Bleeding". Later that year, she was a Turner Prize nominee and exhibited My Bed ? an installation, consisting of her own unmade dirty bed with used condoms and blood-stained underwear. In 2004, her tent artwork was destroyed in the Momart warehouse fire. In March 2007 Emin was chosen to join the Royal Academy of Arts in London as a Royal Academician. She represented Britain at the 2007 Venice Biennale. In 2008, her first major retrospective 20 Years opened at the Dean Gallery in Edinburgh. The exhibition toured Europe until 2009. 

July 3rd, 1963 in Croydon (Age 61)