Martin CREED
Born 1968, Wakefiled (UK). Lives and works in London and Alicudi (IT).
Solo Exhibitions
2011 Nasher Sculpture Centre, Dallas
Paintings, Johnen Galerie, Berlin
MACRO Museo d'Arte Contemporaneo, Vigo
Rennie Collection, Vancouver
Tardis House, Truro
MAMAC, Nizza
Work No.1059, The Scotsman Steps, EdinburghMothers', Hauser & Wirth, London
2010 Numbers', Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow
Work No.700, Southwood Garden, St. James's Church, London
Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh
Gavin Brown's Enterprise, New York
Work No. 409, Royal Festival Hall Elevator, London
Things, The Common Guild, Glasgow
2009 Work No. 975, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh
Work No. 203, Tate Britain, London
Artsonje Center, Seoul
Horoshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima
Hauser & Wirth, Zürich
Martin Creed, Hiromi Yoshii Gallery, Tokyo
2008 Ikon Gallery, Birmingham
Work No.160, 79A Brick Lane, London
Duveens Commission, Tate Britain, London
Galeria Lorcan O'Neill, Roma
2007 The Douglas Hyde Gallery, Trinity College, Dublin
Galleria Alberto Peola, Torino
The Lights going On and Off, Mills Gallery, Boston Center for the Arts, Boston
Feelings, Hessel Museum of Art and CCS Galleries, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York
Small Things, 508 West 25th Street, New York
Hauser & Wirth Coppermill, London
Dogs, Sorry we're closed, Rue de la Régence, Brussels
Martin Creed's Variety Show, Abrons Art Center, New York
2006 Sick Film, Curzon Mayfair, 38 Curzon Street, London
Michael Lett Gallery, Auckland
Bid Dogs, MC, Los Angeles
The Wrong Gallery @Tate Modern, London
Fondazione Nicola Trussardi, Milano
Work No. 547, Johnen Galerie, Berlin
The Lights off, Haubrokshows, private apartment, Berlin
Hauser & Wirth, Zürich
2005 The lights going on and off, Comptoir du Nylon, Brussles
Graves Art Gallery, Sheffield
Van Abbe Museum, Eindhoven
Ikon Gallery, Birmingham
Lachen, Saint Peter's Curch, Köln
The lights off, ACCA, Melbourne
Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle, München
Gavin Brown's Enterprise, New York
2004 Work No. 360, Johnen Galerie, Berlin
Hauser & Wirth, London
TWG @CCA, Centre for Contemporary Art, Kitakyushu (curated by M. Cattelan)
Work No. 330, Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin, Paris
Centre for Contemporary Art, Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw (curated by P. Polit)
2003 Work n°289, The British School at Rome, Villa Borghese, Roma (curated by C. Perella)
Kunsthalle Berna, Berna
Small things, Galerie Analix Forever, Ginevra
2002 A large piece of furniture partially obstructing a door, Galleria Alberto Peola, Torino (curated by G. Cochrane)
The Wrong Gallery, New York
2001 winner of the Turner Prize
The lights off, Galerie Johnen & Schöttle, Köln
Hamilton Gallery, Hamilton*
Work n°265, Micromuseum, Palermo (curated by P. Falcone)
Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle, München
2000 Gavin Brown's Enterprise corp., New York
MARTINCREEDWORKS, Camden Arts Centre, London (curated by G. Worsdale)*
Work n°252, Saint Peter's Church, Köln
Arte all'Arte, Arte Continua, San Gimignano (curated by G. Williams and R. Pinto)*
Art Now: Martin Creed, Tate Britain, London
The Lights going on and off, Gavin Brown's Enterprise, New York
MARTINCREEDWORKS, Southampton City Art Gallery, Southampton; Leeds City Art Gallery, Leeds; Bluecoat Gallery, Liverpool (curated by G. Worsdale)
Work n°225, Times Square / 42nd St., New York
1999 Galleria Alberto Peola, Torino (curated by G. Cochrane)
Mark Foxx Gallery, Los Angeles
Art Metropole, Toronto
Galerie Praz-Delavallade, Paris
Cabinet Gallery, London
Work n° 203, The Portico, London (curated by I. Swenson)
Work n° 160, Space 1999, London (curated by M. Higgs)
1998 Galerie Analix B & L Polla, Ginevra
1997 Galleria Paolo Vitolo, Milano
Victoria Miro Gallery, London
The British School, Roma
1995 Galeria Analix B & L Polla, Ginevra
Galleria Paolo Vitolo, Milano
Camden Arts Centre, London
Javier Lòpez Gallery, London
1994 Cubitt Gallery, London (third part of "Weekenders" curated by M. Higgs)
Marc Jancou Gallery, London
1993 Work n° 78, Starkmann Limited, London
Selected Group Exhibitions
2011 Stazione Leopolda, 8 1/2: a selection of works from the exhibitions organized by the Fondazione Nicola Trussardi from 2003 to the present, Firenze
Invocations of the Blank Page, Spike Island, Bristol
Luftkunst / Air Art, Zeppelin Museum, Friedrichshafen
Made in Britain - Contemporary Art from the British Council Collection 1980-2010, Xi'an Art Museum, Xi'an
Singapore Biennale 2011, Shanghai
Sammler - LEIDENSCHAFT - Sammlungswelten eines halben Jahrtausends im Stift Admont, Museum Admont, Admont (curated by Michael Barunsteiner)
Invocations of the Blank Page, NICC Antwerp, Antwerp
Space Oddity, CCA Andratx, Malaga
The One Show, Fort Gallery, London
Tate St. Ives, Porthmeor Baech, Cornwall
Made in Britain - Contemporary Art from the British Council Collection 1980-2010, Hong Kong Heritage Museum, Hong Kong
A million miles from home, Folkestone Triennial, Folkstone
Made in Britain - Contemporary Art from the British Council Collection 1980-2010, Suzhou
Dojima River Biennale 2011, Dojima River Forum, Osaka
Summer Exhibition 2011, Royal Academy of the Arts, London
Continuum the Perception Zone, Kunstihoone Talinn Art Hall, Talinn
Museums, Galleries, Homes and other stories, Galleria Enrico Astuni, Bologna
Whitley Arts Festival, Whitley Art Trail, Reading2010 Heidelberger Kunstverein, Heidelberg
The Gathering, Longside Gallery, Yorkshire
Silent Revolution, K21. Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf
Party, The New Art Gallery, Walsall
Phil Collins presents Auto-Kino, Temporäre Kunsthalle, Berlin
2009 Compass in Hand: Selections from the Judith Rothschild Collection, Museum of Modern Art, New York
Tonight, The Modern Institut, Glasgow
A House is not a Home, La Calmeleterie, Nazelles Négron
Classified: Contemporary Art at Tate Britain, Tate Britain, London
London Calling, The Total Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul
Work No. 245, Centre Pompidou-Metz, Metz
Hanjiyun Contemporary Space, Beijing
2008 Platform Seoul, Sun Contemporary, Seoul
21:100:100, Gertrude Contemporary Art Space, Fitzroy, Aus
The ICA Auction Exhibition, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London
History in the Making: A Retrospective of the Turner Prize, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo
Peintures, entre autres, Analix Forever, Geneva
2007 The Turner Prize: A Retrospective, Tate Britain, London
Insubstantial Pageant Faded, Eric Frederickson Gallery, Seattle
The Future of Futurism, Galleria d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Bergamo
Words Fail Me, Museum of Contemporary Art, Detroit
Shallow, I-20 Gallery, New York
Deaf 2 From the Audible to the Visible, Galerie Frank Elbaz, Paris
Ensemble, ICA | University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia (curated by C. Marclay)
The Lath Picture Show, Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York
Lines, Grids, Stains, Words, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Mouth Open, Teeth Showing: Major Works from the True Collection,The Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle
SILENCE: Listen to the Show, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Torino
Hot for Teacher, Nog, London
Maximiminalist, Inova, Milwaukee
Half square, half crazy, Villa Arson Nice, Nizza
Critical Mass, Kunsthalle Bern Foundation, Bern
Disforie 007, Palafukas, Torino
The Invisible show, Centro Jose Guerrero, Granada
Dogs, Sorry we're closed, Rue de la Régence, Brussels
2006 Off the Wall, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh
Wrestle, Hessel Museum of Art, Bard Centre for Curatorial Studies, Annandale-on-Hudson, USA
Scape, 2006 Biennial of Art in Public Space, Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetu, Christchurch, New Zealand
Out of Place, The New Art Gallery, Walsall, UK
I: Act Two, Secession, Vienna
Word, Deborah Colton Gallery, Houston
Concrete Language, Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver
How to Improve the world, Hayward Gallery, London
As if big magic, Bethlehem Peace Center, Bethlehem
Out of time: a contemporary view, Museum of Modern Art, New York
Surprise surprise, ICA, London
Coincidence, Gallery Vianuova Arte Contemporanea, Firenze
Yes Bruce Nauman, Zwirner & Wirth, New York
Other rooms, other voices, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
Into me/out of me, PS1, New York
I: Act one, Futura, Prague
The Summer Show, The Royal Academy, London
Good Vibrations, Palazzo delle Papesse, Siena
Draw a straight line and follow it, Centre for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, New York
Disposition, Galerie Feichtner, Vienna
Strange I've seen that face before, Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach
Crème anglaise, LAAC, Dunkirk
Of mice and men: 4th Berlin Biennial for Contemporary Art, Berlin
Freeplay, Ha Gamle Prestegard, nr. Stavanger
The Sublime is now, Franz Gertsch Museum, Burgdorf
Infinity, Mercer Union, Toronto
Haubrokshows: Sounds of Silence, Galerie Gisela Capitain, Berlin
Reality, Odense 10'55', Kunsthallen Brandts, Odense
Joy, Casino Luxembourg - Forum d'art Contemporain, Luxembourg
Big Bang: Destruction and Creation in 20th Century Art, Centre Pompidou, Paris
2005 Light Art from Artificial Light, Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe
The Art of White, The Lowry, Salford
Ambiance - Des Deux Côtes du Rhin, K20 Kunstsammlung, Düsseldorf
L'humanité mise à nu et l'art en frac, même, Casino Luxembourg Forum d'Art Contemporain, Luxembourg
Extra Ordinary, Kulturhuset, Stockholm
Fragile, Analix Forever, Geneva
Encore, Büyük Londra Oteli, Istanbul
General ideas - Rethinking Conceptul Art 1987-2005, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Art, San Francisco
Expérience de la Durée, Biennale d'Art Contemporain, Lyon (curated by N. Bourriaud and J. Sans)
Drunk vs. Stoned 2, Gavin Brown's enterprise, New York
Narrow Focus, Tranzit, Bratislava (curated by Vít Havránek)
Reimagine: Oeuvres du Fonds National d'Art Contemporain, Musée d'Art Contemporain, Lyon
Monument for the U.S.A., CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco (curated by R. Rugoff)
Size Matters: Exploring Scale in the Arts Council Collection, Longside Gallery, Yorkshire
Popisme, Episode IV, Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Tours (curated by F. Lamy)
Feeling strangely fine, Galeria Estrany, Barcelona
2004 Sur la Terre Comme au Ciel, Espace Paul Riquet, Béziers
Art News, Three Colts Gallery, London
None of the above, Swiss Institute, New York (curated by John Armleder)
Artist's Favourites: Act II, ICA, London
Artist's Favourites: Act I, ICA, London
Strategies of Desire, Kunsthaus Basseland, Basel (curated by Sabine Schaschl-Cooper)
Art & Architettura, 1900-2000, Museo d'Arte Contemporanea di Villa Croce, Genova
State of Play, Serpentine Gallery, London (curated by R. Steiner)
Live, Palais de Tokyo, Paris (curated by N. Bourriaud and J. Sans)
Russian Doll, MOT, London
Bad Behaviour: from the Arts Council Collection, Longside Gallery, Yorkshire
Genesis Sculpture, Experience Pommery #1, Domaine Pommery, Reims
Café in Mito, Art Tower Mito, Mito
Optimo: Manifestations of Optimistm in Contemporary Art, Ballroom Marfa
From Moore to Hirst: Sixty Years of British Sculpture, National Museum of Art, Bucharest
2003 Adorno, Kunstverein, Frankfurt
Skulptur 03, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg
Soundsystem, Kunstverein, Salzburg
Johnen & Schöttle, Köln
Shine, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam
Thatcher, The Blue Gallery, London
2002 The Young and The Hung, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg
No Return, Collection Haubrok, Mönchengladbach
Rock my World: Recent Art and the Memory of Rock'n Roll, CCA, San Francisco (curated by R. Rugoff)*
Galerie Johnen & Schöttle, Köln
2001 Turner Prize 2001, Tate Britain, London
Space-Jack!, Yokohama Museum, Yokohama (curated by Y. Kamiya)
White Light/White Noise, Mexico City (curated by J. Martin)
Art/Music: Rock, Pop, Techno, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney (curated by S. Cramer)
Makeshift, Brighton University Art Gallery, Brighton (curated by D. Green)
2000 Protest and Survive, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London (curated by M. Higgs and P. Noble)
A casa di..., Fondazione Pistoletto, Biella (curated by G. Di Pietrantonio)
Intelligence: New British Art 2000, Tate Britain, Londra (curated by C. Esche and V. Button)
…sabotage…, Shed im Eisenwerk, Frauenfeld (curated by S. Schaachl)
The British Art Show 5, Edinburgh (traveling exhibition)(curated by P. Coles, M. Higgs and J. Poncelet)
Don't worry, Chelsea & Westminster Hospital, Londra (curated by T. Dillon)
The invisible touch, Kunstraum Innsbruck, Innsbruck (curated by M. Damianovic)