Martin Creed

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.