Since the early 1990s, Wolfgang Tillmans (born in Remscheid, Germany, 1968) has been creating work that epitomized a new kind of subjectivity in photography, pairing intimacy and playfulness with social critique and the persistent questioning of existing values and hierarchies. Through his seamless integration of genres, subjects, techniques, and exhibition strategies, he has expanded conventional ways of approaching the medium, and his practice continues to address the fundamental question of what it means to create pictures in an increasingly image-saturated world.Tillmans studied at Bournemouth and Poole College of Art and Design in Bournemouth, England, from 1990 to 1992. In 2000, he became the first photographer and first non-British artist to receive the Turner Prize. He has been the recipient of numerous other awards, including the Hasselblad Foundation International Award in Photography and the Kaiserring (or “Emperor’s Ring”) prize from the city of Goslar in Germany. His work has been the subject of prominent solo exhibitions at international institutions and is held in museum collections worldwide. A major retrospective of Tillmans’s work will be held at the Museum of Modern Art, New York in 2021.

Since the early 1990s, Wolfgang Tillmans (born in Remscheid, Germany, 1968) has been creating work that epitomized a new kind of subjectivity in photography, pairing intimacy and playfulness with social critique and the persistent questioning of existing values and hierarchies. Through his seamless integration of genres, subjects, techniques, and exhibition strategies, he has expanded conventional ways of approaching the medium, and his practice continues to address the fundamental question of what it means to create pictures in an increasingly image-saturated world.Tillmans studied at Bournemouth and Poole College of Art and Design in Bournemouth, England, from 1990 to 1992. In 2000, he became the first photographer and first non-British artist to receive the Turner Prize. He has been the recipient of numerous other awards, including the Hasselblad Foundation International Award in Photography and the Kaiserring (or “Emperor’s Ring”) prize from the city of Goslar in Germany. His work has been the subject of prominent solo exhibitions at international institutions and is held in museum collections worldwide. A major retrospective of Tillmans’s work will be held at the Museum of Modern Art, New York in 2021.

Since the early 1990s, Wolfgang Tillmans (born in Remscheid, Germany, 1968) has been creating work that epitomized a new kind of subjectivity in photography, pairing intimacy and playfulness with social critique and the persistent questioning of existing values and hierarchies. Through his seamless integration of genres, subjects, techniques, and exhibition strategies, he has expanded conventional ways of approaching the medium, and his practice continues to address the fundamental question of what it means to create pictures in an increasingly image-saturated world.Tillmans studied at Bournemouth and Poole College of Art and Design in Bournemouth, England, from 1990 to 1992. In 2000, he became the first photographer and first non-British artist to receive the Turner Prize. He has been the recipient of numerous other awards, including the Hasselblad Foundation International Award in Photography and the Kaiserring (or “Emperor’s Ring”) prize from the city of Goslar in Germany. His work has been the subject of prominent solo exhibitions at international institutions and is held in museum collections worldwide. A major retrospective of Tillmans’s work will be held at the Museum of Modern Art, New York in 2021.