Behind the scenes in “Tracey Emin: I Loved You Until The Morning”

installing a large painting

March 24, 2025

Martina Droth, Paul Mellon Director, YCBA, and Harry Weller, the creative director of Tracey Emin’s studio, worked together to install Tracey Emin: I Loved You Until The Morning, the first presentation of Emin’s work in a North American museum and the first solo museum exhibition to foreground her practice as a painter.
 

installation of a large painting

Droth’s ongoing dialogue with Emin shaped this exhibition, which spans her painting career from Pelvis High (2007) to I Followed you to the end (2024). The latter was recently gifted to the YCBA and is one of Emin’s first paintings to be accessioned to a public museum.

people inside an exhibioiton

Installation of Tracey Emin: I Loved You Until The Morning, Yale Center for British Art, all photos by Michael Ipsen. 

I Loved You Until The Morning will be on view from March 29 through August 10, 2025. 

On April 3, 12 pm ET, Tracey Emin will be in conversation with Martina Droth, Paul Mellon Director, YCBA, about her artistic career and her passion for painting.