Biography for Michael Craig-Martin CBE RA (1941)

Although born in Dublin, Michael Craig-Martin grew up and was educated in the United States, studying Fine Art at the Yale School of Art and Architecture. He came to live and work in the UK in1966.

He has held a strong presence in the Britiain's artworld from quite early on with his first solo exhibition was at the Rowan Gallery, London, in 1969.

He exhibitied in an important show at the Hayward Gallery in 1972 titled The New Art at the Hayward which was an exhibition of British Conceptual Artsits.

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

His most noted exhibitions include:- 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.

He recently had a solo exhibition at the Royal Academy London.

Recent solo exhibitions include Less is still more at Krefeld Museum Haus