Michael Craig-Martin

Michael Craig-Martin (born 1941 in Dublin, Ireland) is a key figure in British conceptual art and one of the most influential artists of his generation. For over forty years he has continuously had exhibitions and installations in international institutions such as the Centre Georges-Pompidou, Paris, MoMA, New York, the Kunstverein in Dusseldorf, Stuttgart and Hannover, at Kunsthaus Bregenz and IVAM in Valencia. Craig-Martin represented Britain in the 23rd Sao Paulo Biennial and has had a retrospective of his work presented three times: at the Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, in 1989, at the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, in 2006, and at the Serpentine Gallery, London, in 2015. Alongside his personal artistic success, Michael Craig-Martin is arguably one of the most influential teachers in contemporary British art, tutoring artists such as Damien Hirst, Tracey Emin and Gary Hume, as a part of the generation known as "Young British Artists", at Goldsmiths University.