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<\/p>\nCeal Floyer\u2014an artist known for her subtly humorous, conceptual films and installations that utilised everyday objects\u2014died yesterday (11 December) \u201cafter a long battle with illness\u201d, according to a statement from her galleries, Lisson and Esther Schipper.<\/p>\n
Floyer became well known in the 1990s for her minimalist aesthetic that often played with scale, language and meaning. Examples include her early work Light Switch (1992\u201399), part of the Tate collection, made up of a projector beaming the image of a light switch onto the wall, and her Nail Biting Performance (2001), in which she bit her nails into a microphone.<\/p>\n
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Ceal Floyer’s Light Switch (U.S.) #2 (2017) Photo: \u00a9 MSU \u00a9 The artist \/ VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2025<\/p>\n
\u201cFloyer was one of the most radically conceptual artists of her generation, renowned for her concise humour and profoundly understated visual language,\u201d write her galleries in a statement. \u201cHer works are brilliantly inventive and, just like her, full of razor-sharp intelligence, dry wit, and visual acuity […] <\/p>\n
\u201cShe achieved, in her practice, a paradoxical condition of feather-light gravitas. Exuding a quiet but forceful presence, her distinct artistic voice was both playful and profound.\u201d<\/p>\n
Floyer was born in Pakistan in 1968 and grew up in England before settling in Berlin in the late 1990s. She studied at Goldsmiths College, London, and went on to teach herself as a visiting professor in the sculpture department at the HFBK University of Fine Arts Hamburg between 2014 and 2017. <\/p>\n
\u201cThroughout her various teaching roles, she was an important source of inspiration for the university and its students,\u201d says a statement from HFBK Hamburg. \u201cWe will miss her greatly as an artist and teacher.\u201d<\/p>\n
Floyer received several prizes during her career, including the Preis der Nationalgalerie f\u00fcr junge Kunst in 2007 and the Nam June Paik Art Center Prize in 2009. She exhibited at major international biennials and exhibitions including Manifesta 11 in Zurich (2016), Documenta 13 in Kassel (2012), and the 53rd Venice Biennale (2009). Her major solo shows include those held at Aspen Art Museum (2016), Kunstmuseum Bonn (2015); Museum of Modern Art in North Miami (2010), and Palais de Tokyo in Paris (2009). <\/p>\n
As well as the Tate, her work can be found in museum collections including the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin; the Kunstmuseum Basel; the Mus\u00e9e d\u2019Art Moderne de Paris; Museo Jumex, Mexico; the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne; and the Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Tokyo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ceal Floyer\u2014an artist known for her subtly humorous, conceptual films and installations that utilised everyday objects\u2014died yesterday (11…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":345978,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[228,226,227,172857,168860,229,88,93762,10756,13441],"class_list":{"0":"post-345977","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-arts-and-design","10":"tag-artsanddesign","11":"tag-ceal-floyer","12":"tag-conceptual-art","13":"tag-design","14":"tag-entertainment","15":"tag-minimalism","16":"tag-obituaries","17":"tag-obituary"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345977","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=345977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345977\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/345978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=345977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=345977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=345977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}