My Bed

My Bed
Artist	Tracey Emin
Year	1998
Medium	Found Happening
Movement	Postmodernism
Subject	Mental health, surrealism, originality, conceptualism

My Bed is a work by the English artist Tracey Emin. First created in 1998, it was exhibited at the Tate Gallery in 1999 as one of the shortlisted works for the Turner Prize.^[1] It consisted of her bed with bedroom objects in a dishevelled state, and gained much media attention. Although it did not win the prize, its notoriety has persisted. It was sold at auction by Christie’s in July 2014 for £2,546,500.