Early Life and Education
Tacita Dean was born in Canterbury, in Kent. Her brother is architect Ptolemy Dean. Her grandfather was an actor Basil Dean.
Dean was educated at Kent College, Canterbury. She studied at Falmouth University, graduating in 1988. From 1990–2, Dean studied for a Masters degree at the Slade School of Fine Art. Dean held her first solo exhibition, The Martyrdom of St Agatha and Other Stories, at Galerija Skuc, Maribor, Slovenia.
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