Michael Craig-Martin Biography

1941 Born 28, August, Dublin, Ireland
1946 Family moves to Washington D.C: Education in U.S.A.
1961 - 1966 Studying Fine Art at Yale University, B.A., M.F.A.
1965 - 1966 Teaching at School of Visual Arts, New York
1966 Moves to Britain
1966 - 1969 Teaching at Bath Academy of Art
1969 First One-man exhibition, Rowan Gallery, London, England
1968 - 1970 Teaching at Canterbury College of Art
1970 - 1972 Artist-in-Residence, King's College, Cambridge, England
1981 - 1982 Living and working in New York
1982 First One-Man exhibition with Waddington Galleries, London
1974 - 1988 Teaching at Goldsmith's College School of Art, London
1989 Retrospective Exhibition, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London
1989 Appointed Trustee of the Tate Gallery, London
1994 - 2000 Appointed MIllard Professor of Fine Art, Goldsmith's College, University of London, England
2001 Awarded a CBE
2001 Lives and works in London, England

Selected Exhibitions
2003 Gagosian Gallery, New York (solo)
2002 Inhale/Exhale, Manchester Art Gallery (solo)
 Works 1984-1989, Waddington Galleries, London, England (solo)
2001 Landscapes, The Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin, Ireland (solo)
Intelligence, New British Art 2000, Tate Britain, London
2000 Live in your head, Whitechapel Art Gallery, Lond
Voilà, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris
Shifting Ground, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland
Conference, Waddington Galleries, London, England (solo)
Haus der Kunst, Munich (forthcoming)
IVAM, Valencia, Spain (forthcoming)
1999 Signature Pieces, Alan Cristea Gallery
 ‘ModernStarts: Things’, Museum of Modern Art, New York (site specific installation)
1998 'Elegant Austerity’, Waddington Galleries, London
'Jardin d’artiste’, Musée Zadkine, Paris
'Up to 2000’, Southampton City Art Gallery
‘Cluster Bomb’, Morrison Judd, London
1997 Treasure Island, Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon
'Follow me: British Art on the lower Elbe’, organised by Landschaftsverband
Alan Cristea Gallery, London, England (solo)
Waddington Galleries, London, England (solo)
Southampton City Art gallery (solo)
Galerie Der Spiegel, Cologne, Germany (solo)
'Michael Craig-Martin und Raymond Pettibon', Kunstverein fur die Rheinlande, Dusseldorf, Germany (solo)
1996 - 1997 Ace! Arts Council Collection New Purchases, South Bank Centre exhibition: touring Britain
1996 ‘Un siècle de sculpture Anglaise’, galerie nationale du jeu de Paume, Paris
1995 Drawing the line: Reappraising drawing past and present, selected by Michael Craig-Martin, South Bank Centre exhibition: touring Britain
Open House, Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge
The Adventure of Painting, Kunstverein, Dusseldorf and Kunstverein, Stuttgart
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (solo)
1994 Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France (solo)
'An oak tree', galeria Foksal, Warsaw, Poland (solo)
Wall Paintings at the Villa Herbst, Museum Sztuki, Lodz, Poland (solo)
1994 Wall to Wall, Serpentine Gallery, London; touring to Southampton and Leeds; wall drawing exhibition with Lothar Baumgarten, Jessica Diamond, Neile Toroni, Lawrence Weiner and Barbara Kruger
1993 ‘Out of sight out of mind’ Lisson Gallery, London
‘Here and Now’, Serpentine Gallery, London
Accomodating, British School at Rome (solo)
 Galerie Claudine Papillon, Paris, France (solo)
At Home, Waddingtons Galleries, London, England (solo)
1992 - 1993 Twelve Stars: selected works from the European Parliament Collection, Arts Council Gallery, Belfast; touring to Edinburgh and London
1991 Objects for the Ideal Home: The Legacy of Pop Art, Serpentine Gallery, London
Michael Craig-Martin, Michael Landy, Julian Opie, Goldsmiths College Art Gallery
Project Gallery, Museum of Modern Art, New York (solo)
David Nolan Gallery, New York (solo)
Musee des Beaux Arts, Andre alraux, Le Havre (solo)
1990 Galerie Claudine Papillon, Paris, France (solo)
The Readymade Boomerang, Sydney Biennale, Sydney, Australia
A Painting Show: Michael Craig-Martin, Gary Hume, Christopher Wool, Karsten Schubert, London, England
1989 'Sculpture’, Six Friedrich Gallery, Munich, Germany
Michael Craig-Martin, Grenville Davey, Julian Opie’, Lia Rumma Gallery, Naples
Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, England (retrospective) solo
1988 - 1989 100 Years of Art in Britain, Leeds City Art Gallery, 100th Anniversary Exhibition
1988 Starlit Waters: British Sculpture, an International Art 1986-88, Tate Gallery, Liverpool, England
Britannica: Trente Ans de Sculpture 1960-88, Musee des Beaux-Arts, Andre Malraux, Le Havre: touring France and Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst, Antwerp
That Which Appears Is Good, That Which Is Good Appears, Tanja Grunert Gallery, Cologne
1987 Vessel, Serpentine Gallery, London, England
Wall Works, Cornerhouse Gallery, Manchester, England
Zach Schuster Gallery, Florida (solo)
1986 L’Attitude, Galeria Comicos, Lisbon
Entre El Objeto Y La Image-Escultra británica contemporánea, Palacio Velázquez, Madrid; touring to Barcelona and Bilabao
1985 Waddington Galleries, London, England (solo)
1984 1965-72 - when attitude became form, Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge: touring to Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, Ireland
1984 The British Art Show, City Museum and Art Gallery and Ikon Gallery, Birmingham: touring Britain
Waddington & Shiell Gallery, Toronto, Canada (solo)
1983 New Art, Tate Gallery, London, England
1982 Aspects of British Art Today, Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo: touring Japan
Fifth Triennale India, New Delhi, India (solo)
Waddington Galleries, London (and 1985, 1988, 1992) solo
1981 Galerija Suvremene Umjetnosti, Zagreb (solo)
‘British Sculpture in the 20th Century’, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London
'Malmoe’, Konsthall, Malmo Sweden
‘Construction in Process’, Lodz, Poland
1980 Galerie Bama, Paris, France (solo)
1979 Oliver Dowling Gallery, Dublin, Ireland (solo)
Galeria Foksal, Warsaw, Poland (solo)
Galeria Akumlatory, Poznan, Poland (solo)
‘Un Certain Art Anglais’, Musee d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris; organised by ARC II and the British Council
'JP II’, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, in collaboration with the British council
1978 Galerie December, Dusseldorf, Germany (solo)
‘Michael Craig-Martin: 10 works 1970-77’ (solo)
Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane; touring Australia (solo)
1977 ‘Documenta VI’, Kassel, West Germany
‘Hayward Annual: Current British Art Part II’, Hayward Gallery, London, England
‘Reflected Images’, Kettle’s Yard Gallery, Cambridge, England
‘Works on Paper - The Contemporary Art Society’s Gifts to Public Galleries 1952-77’, Royal Academy of Arts, London, England
1976 - 1977 Turnpike Gallery, Leigh (solo)
New Gallery, London (solo)
Glynn Vivian Art Gallery & Museum, Swansea (solo)
Third Eye Centre, Glasgow, Ireland (solo)
1975 ‘IX Biennale des Jeunes Artistes’, Paris, France
‘Body and Soul’, Peter Moores Liverpool Project 3, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool R.I.B.A., London, England
'Contemporary British Drawings’, XIII Bienal of Sao Paolo
1974 ‘Idea and Image in Recent Art’, Art Institute of Chicago
'Art as Thought Process’, Serpentine Gallery, London
Galerie December, Munster, Germany (solo)
1973 ‘11 British Artists’, Staatlichen Kunsthalle, Baden-Baden: touring to Kunsthalle, Bremen
‘Henry Moore to Gilbert & George’, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels
1972 ‘7 Exhibitions’, Tate Gallery, London
'The New Art’, Hayward Gallery, London
1971 Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol (solo)
Richard Demarco Gallery, Edinburgh, Ireland (solo)
1970 ‘Critic’s Choice’, Arthur Tooth & Sons, London
1969 Rowan Gallery, London. (also 1970, 1972, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1976, 1978, 1980)