Michael Craig-Martin

Realized exhibitions

• TRANSIENCE – Serpentine Galleries, London 2015/16
• UNTITLED – Gagosian Gallery, London 2014
• NEW ACQUISITIONS – National Gallery of Modern ART, Scotland 2013
• ART – Galerie Haas & Fuchs, Berlin 2010
• NEW WORKS – Galerie Haas & Fuchs, Berlin 2009
• EXQUISITE CORPSE – Irish Musum of Modern Art, Ireland 2008
• SIGNS OF LIFE – Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Irland 2006
• SIGNS OF LIFE – KUB, House of Arts Bregenz, Austria 2006
• SIGNS OF LIFE – Johanniterkirche, Austria 2006
• SIGNS OF LIFE – Köln, Germany 2006
• HELLO WALLS – Gladstone Gallery, New York 2005

Michael Craig-Martin has been concerned with fundamental questions about the nature of art, representation, authorship and the role of the viewer since his early days as an artist.

As with Renaissance painting, two things were particularly important to the artist, even in his early work: “Firstly, the development of a highly complex visual language in which observation and imagination merge into a seamless synthesis of artistry and realism, and secondly, the exceptionally close and direct contact and interaction between artists and their audience”. (Michael Craig-Martin). From early conceptual beginnings, his path led him to a visual language whose overwhelming symbolism, clear legibility and complexity of form and content symbolise our world in an ideal way.