A basketball. A water tap. A wheelbarrow. All of them have a function, all of them are more or less part of everyday life, so that they are almost overlooked because of their self-evident presence. Craig-Martin brings them back into our field of vision. With brilliant colors against a contrasting background, they look like two-dimensional drawings. In 2015, Craig-Martin said in an interview with the English newspaper The Observer, "We often look for the special in special objects or special events but actually, if we understood the quality of ordinary things, we are closer to the substance of life."
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Born in Dublin in 1941, he spent many years of his childhood in Washington, D.C.. At Yale University, he was influenced by the color and form theories of Josef Albers, who was no longer teaching there at the time, but whose influence still lingered as the former head of the Art Department. Craig-Martin has lived and worked in London since 1966. As a teacher at Goldsmiths College in London, he influenced several generations of students, including Damian Hirst, Sarah Lucas, and Tracey Emin, as well as the artists Julian Opie and Steve Johnson.
His works can be found in numerous international private and public collections, including the collection of the Centre George Pompidou, Paris, the MoMA in NewYork and the Tate Gallery in London.
Publications
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Vita
Lives and works in London, England.
1941
born in Dublin, Ireland
1959 - 1961
Study of English Literature and History at Fordham University, New York, NY.
1961 - 1963
Study of Arts and Architecture (BA) at Yale University, New Haven, CT.
1964 - 1966
Study of Art and Architecture (MFA) at Yale University, New Haven, CT.
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1966
Relocation to Great Britain
1974 - 1988
Tutor at Goldsmith’s College School of Art, London
1989 - 1999
Artist Trustee Tate Gallery, London
1994 - 2000
Tutor at Goldsmith’s College School of Art, London
2015
Book publication “On Being an Artist“
2016
to today: Member Royal Academy of Art, London
2016
Knighted by Queen Elisabeth II
Exhibitions
Einzelausstellungen
2022
• Here and Now: Selected work from 1973 to 2021, Seoul Arts Centre Hangaram Art Museum, Seoul.
2021
• Michael Craig‑Martin: All Things Considered, Reflex Gallery, Amsterdam.
• Michael Craig‑Martin, Krakow Witkin Gallery, Boston.
• Transitional Objects, Carling Dalenson Gallery, Stockholm.
2020
• Cornucopia Galactica, W1 Curates, Oxford Street, London.
2019
• Sculpture, Gagosian Gallery, London.
• Michael Craig‑Martin: Present Sense, The Gallery at Windsor, Florida.
2017
• Quotidian, Alan Cristea Gallery, London.
• Michael Craig-Martin: All in All, Hyundai Gallery, Seoul.
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2016
• Michael Craig-Martin: Present Tense, Galerie Andres Thalmann, Zürich.
2015
• Transience, Serpentine Gallery, London.
• NOW, Himalayas Museum, Shanghai and The Hubei Museum of Art, Shanghai.
• MTV RE:DEFINE, Goss-Michael Foundation, Dallas, Texas.
• Michael Craig-Martin, Gagosian Gallery, Hongkong.
2014
• Michael Craig‑Martin at Chatsworth, Chatsworth, Bakewell.
• Objects of our Time, Alan Cristea Gallery, London.
2013
• Less is Still More, Museum Haus Esters - Kunstmuseen Krefeld, Krefeld.
• Michael Craig-Martin: Drawings 1967–1992, Recent Paintings and Prints., Galerie Andres Thalmann, Zürich.
2012
• Alphabet by Michael Craig-Martin, Rugby Art Gallery and Museum, Rugby.
• Michael Craig-Martin: Drawings, Luther W. Brady Art Gallery, George Washington University, Washington, D.C..
• Michael Craig-Martin: Prints and Drawings, Galerie I.D., Genf.
2011
• Michael Craig-Martin. New Painting and Sculpture In the Gallery and the Sculpture Park, Roche Court, Wiltshire.
• Drawings, Alan Cristea Gallery, London.
2010
• Michael Craig-Martin, Gagosian Gallery, Athen.
• Michael Craig-Martin, The Goss-Michael Foundation, Dallas, Texas.
2009
• Michael Craig-Martin—New Works, Galerie Haas & Fuchs, Berlin.
• Michael Craig-Martin, PKM Trinity Gallery, Seoul.
2008
• Alphabets and Sunsets, Alan Cristea Gallery, London.
• Michael Craig-Martin, The Columns, Seoul.
2007
• A is for Umbrella, Gagosian Gallery, Britannia Street, London.
2006
• Michael Craig-Martin, New Art Centre, Wiltshire.
• Michael Craig-Martin: Signs of Life, Kunsthaus Bregenz, Bregenz.
• Michael Craig-Martin (curated by Enrique Juncosa), Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin.
• Climate Change, Le Magasin – Centre National d’Art Contemporain de Grenoble, Grenoble.
2005
• ARP / CRAIG-MARTIN / ARP, Arp Museum, Remagen.
• Michael Craig-Martin, Galerie Haas & Fuchs, Berlin.
2004
• Michael Craig-Martin: Surfacing, Milton Keynes Art Gallery, Milton Keynes.
• Deconstructing Piero, Deconstructing Seurat, Folio, Alan Cristea Gallery, London.
2003
• Workspace, Galerie Judin, Zürich.
• Eye of the Storm, Gagosian Gallery, West 24th Street, New York City, NY.
2002
• Inhale/exhale, Manchester Art Gallery, Manchester.
2001
• Landscapes, Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin.
• Living, Sintra Museum of Modern Art, Berardo Collection, Sintra.
2000
• Conference, Waddington Galleries, London.
• Michael Craig-Martin, IVAM, Valencia.
1999
• Michael Craig-Martin: And sometimes a cigar is just a cigar, Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart.
• ModernStarts: Things, Museum of Modern Art, New York.
1998
• Michael Craig-Martin, British Pavilion, Ibirapuera park, 24th International Bienal of Sao Paolo, Sao Paolo, Brasilien.
• Mario Diacono Gallery, Boston, MA.
1997
• Innocence and experience, Waddington Galleries, London.
• Michael Craig-Martin, Galerie Der Spiegel, Köln.
• Michael Craig-Martin und Raymond Pettibon, Kunstverein für die Rheinlande, Düsseldorf.
1995
• Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago.
1994
• Private space, public space, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris.
• Wall paintings at the Villa Herbst, Museum Sztuki, Lodz.
1993
• An oak tree, Galeria Foksal, Warschau.
• Accommodating, British School at Rome, Rom.
• Galerie Claudine Papillon, Paris.
1991
• Projects 27, Museum of Modern Art, New York.
• David Nolan Gallery, New York.
• Michael Craig-Martin, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Andre Malraux, Le Havre.
1990
• Galerie Claudine Papillon, Paris.
1989
• Michael Craig-Martin: A retrospective 1968-1989, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London.
1988
• Waddington Galleries, London.
1987
• Zach Schuster Gallery, Miami, FL.
1985
• Waddington Galleries, London.
1984
• Waddington & Shiell Gallery, Toronto.
1982
• Fifth Triennale India, Neu Delhi.
• Waddington Galleries, London.
1981
• Galerija Suvremene Umjetnosti, Zagreb.
1980
• Galeria Bama, Paris.
1979
• Galeria Foksal, Warschau.
• Galeria Akumlatory, Poznan.
• Oliver Dowling Gallery, Dublin.
1978
• Galerie December, Düsseldorf.
• Michael Craig-Martin: 10 works 1970-77 (Tour Australien 1978), Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane.
1977
• Oliver Dowling Gallery, Dublin.
1976
• Michael Craig-Martin: Selected Works 1966-1975 (Tour Großbritannien 1977), Turnpike Gallery, Leigh.
1974
• Galerie December, Münster.
1971
• Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol.
• Richard Demarco gallery, Edinburgh.
1969
• Rowan Gallery, London.
Gruppenausstellungen
2021
• London Calling: British Contemporary Art, Fundacion Bancaja, Valencia.
• Icons, Boghossian Foundation - Villa Empain, Brüssel.
2020
• Summer Exhibition 2020, Royal Academy of Arts, London.
2019
• The Aerodrome, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham.
2018
• Home Futures, Design Museum, London.
• Do I have to draw you a picture?, The Heong Gallery of Downing College, Cambridge.
• Summer Exhibition 2018, Royal Academy of Arts, London.
2015
• ArtZuid International Sculpture Route, Amsterdam.
• Summer Exhibition 2015 (coordinated by Michael Craig-Martin), Royal Academy of Arts, London.
• Sleepless – The bed in history and contemporary art, 21er Hause, Wien.
2014
• Post Pop: East Meets West, Saatchi Gallery, London.
• What Marcel Duchamp Taught Me, Fine Art Society, London.
• FIERCE CREATIVITY, Pace Gallery, New York.
• Le Jardin Décomposé / Decomposed Garden, Gagosian Gallery, Le Bourget, Paris.
2013
• New Acquisitions, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh.
• Howard Hodgkin – Michael Craig-Martin – Ian Davenport – Jessica Craig-Martin, Galerie Andres Thalmann, St. Moritz.
• Art Everywhere, various locations, Vereinigtes Königreich.
2011
• The Indiscipline of Painting, Tate St. Ives, St. Ives.
• The Moderns: The ‘60s and ‘70s, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin.
• Small, Medium, Large, Le Donjon de Vez, Vez.
2010
• Art – Curated by Michael Craig-Martin, Galerie Haas & Fuchs, Berlin.
2009
• Istanbul Biennial. Antrepo No.3, Tobacco Warehouse, and Feriköy Greek School, Istanbul.
• Northern Print Biennale, Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
2008
• New Prints from the Royal College of Art Selected by Chris Orr RA, Royal Academy of Arts, London.
• For the Spirit-From the USB Art Museum, Tokio.
• Long Distance Information, Bengal Gallery of Fine Arts, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
2007
• Living In the Material World – Things In Art Of The 20th Century and Beyond, The National Art Center, Tokio.
2006
• Hyperdesign, Shanghai Biennale, Shanghai.
• How to Improve the World. 60 years of British Art, Arts Council Collection, Hayward Gallery, London.
• As if by Magic, Bethlehem Peace Centre, Palästina.
2005
• Painting the Edge, Gallery Hyundai, Seoul.
• Works on Paper, Gagosian Gallery, Beverly Hills, CA.
2004
• 100 Artists See God (curated by John Baldessari and Meg Cranston), Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA; travelled to Institute of Contemporary Art, London, England.
2002
• Passenger, Astrup Fearnley Museum, Oslo.
• Blast to Freeze. British Art in the 20th Century, Kunstmuseum, Wolfsburg.
2001
• Lux Gallery, London.
• Yale School of Art and Architecture, New Haven, CT.
2000
• Intelligence, New British Art 2000, Tate Britain, London.
• Die scheinbaren Dinge., Haus der Kunst, München.
• Voilá le Monde dans la tête, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris.
• Shifting ground, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin.
1998
• Jardin d’artiste, Musée Zadkine, Paris.
• Cluster Bomb, Morrison Judd, London.
1997
• Treasure Island, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lissabon.
• Follow Me: British Art on the Lower Elbe, Buxtehude Museum, Stade.
1996
• Un siècle de sculpture Anglaise, Galerie Nationale du Jeu de Paume, Paris.
1995
• The Adventure of Painting, Kunstverein, Düsseldorf & Kunstverein, Stuttgart.
• Drawing the line: reassessing drawing past and present (selected by Michael Craig-Martin), Southampton City Art Gallery, Southampton.
1994
• Wall to Wall, Serpentine Gallery, London.
1993
• Out of sight, out of mind, Lisson Gallery, London.
• Here and Now, Serpentine Gallery, London.
1990
• The Readymade Boomerang (curated by Rene Block), Sydney Biennale, Sydney.
1988
• Starlit Waters: British Sculpture, on International Art 1968-1988, Tate Gallery, Liverpool.
• Britannica: Treinte Ans de Sculpture, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Andre Malraux, Le Havre.
1987
• Vessel, Serpentine Gallery, London.
1983
• New Art, Tate Gallery, London.
1982
• Aspects of British Art Today, Metropolian Art Museum, Tokio.
1981
• British Sculpture in the 20th Century, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London.
1979
• Un Certain Art Anglais (organised by ARC II and the British Council), Musée d’Art Moderne de to Ville de Paris, Paris.
1977
• Documenta VI, Kassel.
1973
• Art as Thought Process, Serpentine Gallery, London.
1972
• 7 Exhibitions, Tate Gallery, London.