Keith Tyson — À propos — Slash Paris

Keith Tyson was born in Ulverston, Cumbria. He left School at 15 and worked as a shipyard apprentice, building Trident nuclear submarines. In 1989 he enrolled onto the Art Foundation course at Carlisle College, and completed a degree in Alternative Practice at Brighton University in 1993. In 1996 he received the ICA Arts & Innovation Award, and in 2002 won the Turner Prize.

His work has been exhibited at the Centre Georges-Pompidou, Whitney Museum, Royal Academy, Tate Modern, the ICA and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and is held in collections around the world including the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art (Copenhagen), Arts Council (London), MoMA (New York), Centre Georges-Pompidou (Paris) and Los Angeles Contemporary Museum of Art. He lives and works in Sussex and is represented by Galerie Georges-Philippe & Nathalie Vallois since 1997.