The British conceptual artist Ceal Floyer died on December 11 after a long battle with illness, Esther Schipper gallery has announced.
Born in Pakistan, Ceal Floyer grew up in England and earned her BFA at Goldsmiths College, London, before moving to Berlin. Her film and installation-based work often played with simple and witty alterations of everyday, overlooked objects, such as light switches, receipts, megaphones or a nail and hammer, inviting viewers to poetically reconsider their immediate environment.
In 2007 she was awarded the Preis der Nationalgalerie für junge Kunst and in 2009 the Nam June Paik Art Center Prize Award. Her work was included in the 53rd Venice Biennale (2009); documenta 13 in Kassel (2012) and Manifesta 11, Zurich (2016). She was the subject of numerous solo exhibitions including at the Aspen Art Museum (2016); Museion, Bolzano (2014); Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2009) and KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin (2009).
