1986 won the Turner Prize.

1989 won the international special prize (Los Angeles)

In 2007, he won the South Bank Award and Lorenzo Award (Florence).

In 2005, he represented Britain in Venice Biennale.

The largest retrospective exhibition was held in tate modern in 2007.

From June 5438 to February 2008, Gilbert was awarded an honorary doctorate by City University of London. His mother tongue is Latin, not Italian. Before moving to England, he studied at wolken Stein Art School, Harlem Art School and Munich Art Institute.

George grew up in a single-parent family, accompanied by his mother since childhood, and his living conditions were very poor. He studied at Darden Hall College of Art and Oxford College of Art, then part of Oxford Polytechnic, and now he is in oxford brookes university.

1September 25, 967, they met for the first time. At that time, both of them studied sculpture at St Martin's College of Art in London (now the Central St Martin's College of Art and Design, one of the six universities in university of the arts london).

By 1969, they began to unite against the sculpture method prevailing at St. Martin's College at that time, because they thought it was elite and it was difficult to communicate with people outside the art world. Their strategy is to make themselves into sculptures, sacrifice their personal identity for art and stimulate creative thinking. Although their works include various media, Gilbert and George still call all their works sculptures.

When they were students (1969), they jointly created the original work "Singing Sculpture", which was first exhibited in Nigel Green Wood Gallery in 1970. For this performance, they covered their heads and hands with metallized powder of various colors, stood on a table and sang Flanagan and Allen's song "Under the Arch" while dancing, sometimes for one day at a time. The suit they wore became a kind of uniform for them. They will wear them in almost any public place. And the two of them always appear in public together. They consider themselves "living sculptures". They refuse to separate their art from their daily life, insisting that everything they do is art.

From 1970 to 1974, they also created charcoal paintings (called "paper carved charcoal paintings") and oil paintings, which highlighted their status as "living sculptures".

197 1 year, Gilbert and George created their first "photo work", which has since become their main form of expression. They gradually shifted the focus of their creative theme from their own life experiences, and turned to pay attention to the real life of the city they saw on the street and the various structures and feelings that affected their lives, such as religion, class, kingship, sex, hope, nationality, death, identity, politics and fear.

From 65438 to 0980, artists mainly focused on religion and despair-barren and empty life beliefs.

1986, a series of works by Gilbert and George that seem to advocate "rough style" have been criticized, such as "skinheads" and a picture called "Pakistanis", which contains racial discrimination. Because images contain a lot of potential content, some of their works have also attracted the attention of the media. Such as works "Naked", "Description of Sexual Behavior" and "Body Fluid".

In the early 1990s, through a series of exhibitions in Moscow (1990), Beijing and Shanghai (1993), they made people pay more attention to their ideas of "art for life" and "art for all". These exhibitions highlight their belief that art can still break down barriers.

1994' s "pictures of naked stools" and 2005' s "pictures of Sonofagud" have attracted wide attention.

In 2007, a retrospective exhibition of Gilbert's and George's works was held in tate modern, and tate modern published the art book Complete Pictures (197 1-2005), which included more than 1000 examples of their works.

In 2009, Gilbert and George held an exhibition called "Jack Weird Pictures" in White Cube (London). Gilbert and George are partners in life and art. They created a world in which their existence is a work of art. ..

They integrate themselves, their thoughts and their feelings into their art. Their pictures capture people's daily life, which contains a lot of emotions and themes. From pastoral to the rough scene of corrupt London, from the colorful panorama to the test of human disaster, from pornographic advertisements to religious teachings. His artistic goal is "art for all".

From the work "Singing Sculpture" to their forever matching clothes, their overall unity has been largely fixed. They are well-known figures in the British art world, although they always exist as outsiders to some extent-they never leave their long-term residence in Fornier Street in East London easily and eat in the same cafe at the same time every day. Gilbert and George declared "national art" and "art is life". As they explained with their unique rhetorical style, the theme of art "must be the human condition, and we regard the human condition as the highest ideal." Man is the most wonderful thing in all things, and the whole form of art (color and form) is only used to serve the theme, and it has no importance in itself. We hate art for art's sake-we totally disagree with this view. [Noe: Conversation with George and Ilmelin Lebier, Art Press]