Overview

 

 

Martin Creed (*1968, Wakefield, UK) is one of today’s leading exponents of conceptual art. Artist, performer, composer, and ‘punk poet’, he has become known for hugely varied work, which is by turns uncompromising, entertaining, shocking, and beautiful. He won the Turner Prize in 2001 for “The Lights Going On And Off”, “Work No. 227”, shown at Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle that same year. In Creed’s “Step Paintings”, colors build up like a staircase to heaven, like a wedding cake, like favorite socks in a drawer, like a house on an island in the middle of the sea.

 

“Creed is a social artist; the true magic of his work lies in the way it interacts with people and places.”

– Jonathan Jones, ‘Martin Creed’s stairway to heaven,’ The Guardian, London, UK, August 1, 2011, ill. (on Work No. 1059).

 

Martin Creed’s works can be found in reputable collections around the world, including Colleccion Jumex, Mexico City; MOMA, New York City; Tate Modern, London; Rennie Museum, Vancouver; Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane; Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe (ZKM), Karlsruhe; Kadist Paris; Kunsthalle Bern; Kunstmuseum Stuttgart; Sammlung Deutsche Bank, Frankfurt; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; Musée d’Art Moderne et Contemporain, Strasbourg; Gallery of Modern Art, Turin; Victoria & Albert Museum, London; Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland; De La Cruz Collection, Miami.

Works
  • Martin Creed, Work No. 3900, 2025
    Work No. 3900, 2025
  • Martin Creed, Work No. 3903, 2025
    Work No. 3903, 2025
  • Martin Creed, Work No. 3904, 2025
    Work No. 3904, 2025
  • Martin Creed, Work No. 3910, 2025
    Work No. 3910, 2025
  • Martin Creed, Work No. 3914, 2025
    Work No. 3914, 2025
  • Martin Creed, Work No. 3925 Whatever, 2025
    Work No. 3925 Whatever, 2025
  • Martin Creed, Work No. 3884 , 2024
    Work No. 3884 , 2024
  • Martin Creed, Work No. 3879, 2024
    Work No. 3879, 2024
  • Martin Creed, Work No. 3103 LEARNING MISSING WANTING, 2018
    Work No. 3103 LEARNING MISSING WANTING, 2018
  • Martin Creed, Work No. 3096 LONELY, 2018
    Work No. 3096 LONELY, 2018
  • Martin Creed, Work No. 3036 TREES FLOWERS SEAS PLEASE, 2018
    Work No. 3036 TREES FLOWERS SEAS PLEASE, 2018
  • Martin Creed, Work No. 3034 PLENTY PLEASE, 2018
    Work No. 3034 PLENTY PLEASE, 2018
  • Martin Creed, Work No. 2085, 2014
    Work No. 2085, 2014
  • Martin Creed, Work No. 1677, 2013
    Work No. 1677, 2013
  • Martin Creed, Work No. 934 A sheet og paper folded up and unfolded, 2008
    Work No. 934 A sheet og paper folded up and unfolded, 2008
  • Martin Creed, Work No. 939 , 2008
    Work No. 939 , 2008
Biography

“The experience of looking at a painting on a wall is a live, kinetic event because people are living, breathing and moving, but the solid, stable, step pyramid structures give me something to hang on to in that uncertain, everchanging world.”

 
Martin Creed
Martin Creed
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