Exhibitions
Michael Craig-Martin: 1967 to 2024
21 September - 10 December 2024
Royal Academy of Arts
An Anthology
25 October - 23 November 2024
Cristea Roberts Gallery, London
Past Present
23 September - 5 November 2024
Cristea Roberts Gallery, London
California Dreaming
19 October - 22 December 2023
Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco
Musical Instruments
20 April - 18 June 2023
Carling Dalenson, Stockholm
Here and Now: Selected work from 1973 to 2021
8 April - 28 August 2022
Seoul Arts Centre Hangaram Art Museum
London Calling: British Contemporary Art
17 March - 17 July 2022
Palazzo Cipolla, Rome
Michael Craig-Martin: All Things Considered
2 October - 14 December 2021
Reflex Gallery, Amsterdam
London Calling: British Contemporary Art
17 June - 17 October 2021
Fundacion Bancaja, Valencia
Michael Craig-Martin
10 June - 23 July 2021
Krakow Witkin Gallery, Boston
Transitional Objects
7 May - 10 July 2021
Carling Dalenson Gallery, Stockholm
Michael Craig-Martin: Present Sense
19 January - 25 April 2019
The Gallery at Windsor, Florida
NOW
23 April - 21 June 2015
The Hubei Museum of Art, Wuhan
Michael Craig-Martin at Chatsworth
16 March - 29 June 2014
Chatsworth, Bakewell
Michael Craig-Martin
Catalogue of the largest exhibition of Craig-Martin’s work to have been mounted in the UK, contains thought-provoking texts by the critics Michael Bracewell and Richard Cork, and an illuminating conversation between the artist and the writer Carolina Grau.
Biography
Michael Craig-Martin was born in Dublin Ireland in 1941. He grew up and was educated in the United States, studying Fine Art at the Yale School of Art and Architecture. He has lived and worked in Britain since 1966.
His first solo exhibition was at the Rowan Gallery, London, in 1969. He participated in the definitive exhibition of British conceptual art, The New Art at the Hayward Gallery in 1972. His best known works include An oak tree of 1973, in which he claimed to have changed a glass of water into an oak tree; his large-scale black and white wall drawings; and his intensely coloured paintings, installations, and commissions, including the European Investment Bank in Luxembourg, the Laban Dance Centre in London (in collaboration with Herzog and deMeuron), the DLR station at Woolwich Arsenal, and, most recently, the HDI Gerling Headquarters in Hannover.
Over the past forty-two years he has had numerous exhibitions and installations in galleries and museums across the world, including the Centre Pompidou, Paris, and MoMA, New York, the Kunstvereins in Dusseldorf, Stuttgart, and Hannover, at IVAM in Valencia, and Kunsthaus Bregenz. He represented Britain in the 23rd Sao Paulo Biennal. A retrospective of his work was presented at the Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, in 1989, and a second at the Irish Museum of Modern Art in Dublin in 2006, and a third at the Serpentine gallery, London, in 2015.
Recent solo exhibitions include Less is still more at Krefeld Museum Haus Esters, Sculpture at Chatsworth House in association with Gagosian Gallery, Objects of our time at Cristea Roberts Gallery, and NOW, a touring exhibition in China.
Craig-Martin is well known to have been an influential teacher at Goldsmiths College, London. He was a Tate Trustee from 1989 to 1999, was awarded a CBE in 2000 and was elected an RA in 2006. In 2016 he was knighted in the Queen’s Birthday Honours for his services to art.
He is represented in London by Gagosian Gallery and Cristea Roberts Gallery.