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Martin Creed

Biography

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Born

Wakefield, UK, 1968

Education

Slade School of Fine Art, London, UK, 1986 – 1990

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2023

Museum für Konkrete Kunst, 'Martin Creed. I Don’t Know What Art Is', Ingoldstadt, Germany 

Mercer Art Gallery, 'ARTIST ROOMS: Martin Creed', Harrogate, UK

Hauser & Wirth, 'Martin Creed. Step Paintings', St. Moritz, Switzerland

2022

Hauser & Wirth, 'Martin Creed', Los Angeles CA

Selected Group Exhibitions

2024

Institute of Modern Art, 'Duty of Care', Brisbane, Australia

Musée Yves Saint Laurent, 'Cactus…', Marrakech, Morocco 

2023

Sim Smith, 'Stellatundra', London, UK 

Hauser & Wirth Somerset, 'Gruppenausstellung', Bruton, UK 

Ackland Art Museum, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 'Good Object / Bad Object', Chapel Hill NC 

The Auxiliary, 'Two Plus Two Makes Four', cur. Broken Grey Wires, Middlesbrough, UK 

Fundació Joan Miró, 'Imaginary Friends', Barcelona, Spain 

Awards and Grants

2001

Tate Britain, Turner Prize 2001, London, UK

Live Shows

2022

'En Vivo en La Ciudad de México', 9 June, Museo Nacional de Antropología, Mexico City, Mexico

2020

'WORK IN PROGRESS', 29 September, Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn, Germany

'WORK IN PROGRESS', 27 September, Sculpture Park Schlossgut Schwante, Oberkrämer, Germany

'WORK IN PROGRESS', 12 September, Wilhelm Hack Museum, Ludwigshafen, Germany

'WORK IN PROGRESS', 25 – 26 February, Toynbee Studios, London, UK

Bibliography

Monographs

2019

Weil, Benjamin (ed.), 'Martin Creed. Amigos', Santander: Fundación Botín, 2019 (exh. cat.)

Robertson, Guy (ed.), 'Hodgkin and Creed Inside Out', Jevnaker: Kistefos, 2019 (exh. cat.)

2017

de Vries, Jorien (ed.), 'Martin Creed. SAY CHEESE! ', Wassenaar: Museum Voorlinden, 2017 (exh. cat.)

Writing by the artist

2014

'Martin Creed: Why I love Bob Dylan', on: www.guardian.co.uk, London/UK, 18 June 2014

'Food for Thought: Martin Creed', on: www.independent.co.uk, London/UK, 16 February 2014

Publications

2022

Schellekens, Elisabeth, Dal Sasso, Davide (eds.), 'Aesthetics, Philosophy and Martin Creed', London: Bloomsbury, 2022, ill.

Centquatre-Paris (ed.), 'Foire Foraine D'Art Contemporain', Paris/FR: Centquatre-Paris, 2022, unpag. ill. (exh. cat.)

2021

Somerset House (ed.), 'Beano. The Art of Breaking the Rules!', London: Somerset House, 2021, ill. unpag. (exh. cat.)

Qiao, Zhibing, 'Collection of Qiao Zhibing. Aesthetics', Shanghai: TANK Shanghai, 2021, ill., pp. 95-97,106-107, (exh. cat.)

Dag Holmboe, Rye, Morris, Susan, 'On Boredom. Essays in art and writing', London: UCL Press, 2021, ill. pp. 59, 87, 99, 141

Press

2023

Nermin, Ahmet, 'Hauser & Wirth St. Moritz sets the bar', in: Moralmoda, Geneva, 7 February 2023

2022

Wilson, Benji, 'Mary Beard’s Forbidden Art, review: an adventure into the absurd and the downright disgusting', in: The Telegraph, London, 3 February 2022

Midgley, Carol, 'Mary Beard’s Forbidden Art review – what do our taboos tell us about ourselves', in: The Times, London, 3 February 2022

Camps, Maria, 'Martin Creed al moll de ses monges', in: Mira Menorca, Menorca, 23 July 2022

Vargas, Steven, 'Art and Activism power a starry Hammer Museum gala', in: Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles, 9 October 2022

Greenberger, Alex, 'Hauser & Wirth to Launch Performance Festival in LA with works by Jeremy O. Harris, Martin Creed, Wu Tsang, and More', in: Artnews, New York, 26 October 2022

___, 'Hauser & Wirth Announces the Performance Project', in: Martin Cid Magazine, 27 October 2022