Martin Creed
1968
Geboren in Wakefield | Born in Wakefield
1986 – 1990
Studium an der Slade School of Fine Art, London | Studied at Slade School of Fine Art, London
Lebt und arbeitet in London | Lives and works in London
Einzelausstellungen (Auswahl) | Solo exhibitions (Selection)
2024 – 2025
Martin Creed: Work No. 3868 Half the air in a given space, Orange County Museum of Art, California
2023 – 2024
Martin Creed: I don't know what art is, Museum für Konkrete Kunst, Ingolstadt
ARTIST ROOMS: Martin Creed, The Dick Institute, Kilmarnock
2023
ARTIST ROOMS: Martin Creed, Mercer Art Gallery, Harrogate
Martin Creed: Step Paintings, Hauser & Wirth, St. Moritz
2022
Martin Creed: Hats!, Hauser & Wirth, Los Angeles
Colección Jumex: Martin Creed, Museo Jumex, Mexico City
2020
EVERYTHING IS GOING TO BE ALRIGHT, Gstaad Palace, Gstaad
UNDERSTANDING, Ofelia Plads, Copenhagen
EVERYTHING IS GOING TO BE ALRIGHT, in the grounds of Braemar Castle, Aberdeenshire
Three Toasts and Some Broccoli, Hauser & Wirth, London
2019
Centro Botín, Santander
Thinking / Not Thinking, MARe / Museum of Recent Art, Bucharest
2018
Hauser & Wirth, London
Tate Britain, London
Creator Projects, Frederica Railway Station, at Kolding Library and at Vejle Town Hall, Vejle
2017
Artist Rooms, Harris Museum and Art Gallery, Preston
Say Cheese!, Museum Voorlinden, Wassenaar
2016
Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle, Munich
Galerie im Taxipalais, Innsbruck
Hauser & Wirth, Somerset
Public Art Fund, Brooklyn Bridge Park, New York
Park Avenue Armory, New York
2015
Peder Lund, Oslo
Michael Lett, Auckland
NEAR EAST, Istanbul
Hauser & Wirth, Zurich
Work No. 360: Half the air in a given space, Henry Art Gallery, Seattle
Martin Creed: Like Water At A Buffet, Kappatos Gallery, Athens
Galerie Javier Lopez, Madrid
Kunstverein Heilbronn, Heilbronn
Kunsthalle Vogelmann, Heilbronn
Work No. 1562: Half the air in a given space, THEMUSEUM, Kitchener, Canada
2014
Martin Creed: What's the Point of It?, Hayward Gallery, London
Johnen Galerie, Berlin
ARTIST ROOMS Martin Creed, Quay Arts, Isle of Wight, England
ARTIST ROOMS Martin Creed, Tate Britain, London
2013
Martin Creed: Scales, Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield
Artist Rooms: Martin Creed, Ferens Art Gallery, Hull
Galleria Lorcan O'Neill, Rome
Hauser & Wirth and Gavin Brown's enterprise, New York
Work No. 1513: Half the air in a given space, THEMUSEUM, Ontario
Work No. 1562: Half the Air in a Given Space, Museum De Paviljoens, Almere
Work No. 202, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
Artist Rooms: Martin Creed, Work No. 227: The lights going on and off, Tate Britain, London
The Warhol, Pittsburg
Work No. 1676: All the Bells, 3 minutes at 19:00, Nuit Blanche Paris, Paris
2012
Museum de Arte de Lima, Lima
Work No. 965: Half the Air in a Given Space, Cleveland Art Museum, Cleveland
Work No. 268: Half the Air in a Given Space, Pavement Gallery, Manchester
House of Art, Ceske Budejovice
Michael Lett, Auckland
Artist Rooms: Martin Creed, Tate Liverpool
Martin Creed – Wanting to Say Hello, Conceptual Art Center Bukovje, Landskrona
Martin Creed plays Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
Down Over Up, Edinburgh Art Festival Exhibition, The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh
Ballet: Work No. 1020, Traverse Theatre, The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh
2011
Mothers, Hauser & Wirth, London
Martin Creed: Paintings, Johnen Galerie, Berlin
Martin Creed: Work No. 200, Musée d'Art Moderne et d'Art Contemporain (MAMAC), Nice
Martin Creed: Works, Museo de Arte Contemporanea de Vigo (MARCO), Vigo
Sightings: Martin Creed, Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas
Martin Creed: Collected Works, Rennie Collection, Vancouver
Things / Cosas, Sala Alcalá 31, Madrid
Work No. 1059, Scotsman Steps, Edinburgh
Tardis Projects: Martin Creed, Tardis House, Truro, England
Martin Creed: Work No. 700, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Wakefield, England
2010
Ballet: Work No. 1020, Traverse Theatre Edinburgh festival Fringe, The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburg
Down over up, Edinburgh Art Festival Exhibition, The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh
Martin Creed, Gavin Brown's enterprise, New York
2009
Artsonje Center, Seoul
Work No. 245’, Centre Pompidou-Metz, Metz,
Hauser & Wirth, Zurich
Hiromi Yoshii Gallery, Tokyo
Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima
Work No. 975, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh
Work No. 203, Tate Britain, London
2008
Work No. 160, 79A Brick Lane, London
Ikon Gallery, Birmingham
Duveens Commission Work No: 850, Tate Britain, London
Gavin Brown's enterprise, New York
Galeria Lorcan O'Neill, Rome
2007
Martin Creed's Variety Show, Abrons Art Center, New York
The Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin
Galleria Alberto Peola, Turin
Hauser & Wirth Coppermill, London
Feelings, Hessel Museum of Art and CCS Galleries, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson
The Lights Going On and Off, Mills Gallery, Boston Center for the Arts, Boston
Small Things, Pace Gallery, New York
2006
All the bells in a city or town rung as quickly and as loudly as possible for three minutes, San Juan, Puerto Rico
Sick Film, Curzon Mayfair, London
I like things, Fondazione Nicola Trussardi, Milan
Work No. 547, Johnen Galerie, Berlin
The lights off, Haubrok Foundation, Berlin
Hauser & Wirth, Zurich
Big Dogs, MC, Los Angeles
Michael Lett Gallery, Auckland
Martin Creed's Variety Show, Tate Modern, London
The Wrong Gallery, Tate Modern, London
2005
Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle, Munich
Down – Up, Gavin Brown's enterprise, New York
Kunst-Station St. Peter, Cologne
2004
TWG@CCA, Centre for Contemporary Art, Kitakyushu, Japan
the whole world + the work = the whole world, Centre for Contemporary Art, Ujadowski Castle, Warsaw
Work No. 330, Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin, Paris
Hauser & Wirth, London
Work No. 360, Johnen Galerie, Berlin
2003
Kunsthalle, Bern, Switzerland
Beaucoup de bruit pour rien, mit Marylene Negro, Frac, Montpellier
Small things, Analix Forever, Geneva
Work No. 300, GBE (Modern), New York
Work No. 289, The British School at Rome, Rome
2001
Art Now: Martin Creed, Turner Prize 2001, Tate Britain, London
Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle, Munich (mit Anri Sala | with Anri Sala)
Martin Creed Works, Camden Arts Centre, London
Sankt Peter, Cologne
The lights off, Galerie Johnen + Schöttle, Cologne
2000
MARTINCREEDWORKS, Camden Arts Centre, London
Work No. 227, Gavin Brown's Enterprise, New York
Work No. 225, Times Square, New York (Projekt des | Project of the Public Art Fund)
Martin Creed Works, Southampton City Art Gallery, Southampton, UK
1999
Marc Foxx, Los Angeles
Art Metropole, Toronto
Galerie Praz-Delavallade, Paris
Cabinet Gallery, London
Work No. 203, The Portico, London
Work No. 160, Space 1999, London
Alberto Peola Arte Contemporanea, Torino
1998
Galerie Analix B & L Polla, Geneva
1997
Galleria Paolo Vitolo, Milan
Victoria Miro Gallery, London
The British School at Rome, Rome
1995
Galerie Analix B & L Polla, Geneva
Galleria Paolo Vitolo, Milan
Camden Arts Centre, London
Javier Lopez Gallery, London
1994
Cubitt Gallery, London
Marc Jancou Gallery, London
1993
Work No. 78, Starkmann Limited, London
Gruppenausstellungen (Auswahl) | Group exhibitions (Selection)
2024 – 2025
Walk This Way, Museum Ravensburg, Ravensburg (upcoming)
2024
Duty of Care, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australia
Cactus, Musée Yves Saint Laurent, Marrakech
2023 – 2024
Archive Highlights, Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle, Munich
2023
BROKEN GREY WIRES: TWO PLUS TWO MAKES FOUR, The Auxiliary, Middlesbrough
Good Object / Bad Object, Ackland Art Museum, Chapel Hill
Imaginary Friends, Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona
2022
51@51: Collected Works, Rennie Collection, Vancouver
2021
Portraits, Galerie Rüfiger Schötttle, Munich
St. Elmo's Fire, Rodeo, Piraeus
2020
On Everyone's Lips. From Pieter Bruegel to Cindy Sherman, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg
The Musical Years: 1920 – 2020, VOX, Montréal
Double Lives: Visual Artists Making Music, Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn
Sculpture & Nature, Schlossgut Schwante Sculpture Park, Brandenburg
2019
Hodgkin and Creed: Inside Out, Kistefos Museum, Jevnaker,
Animal Revolution: 200 Years of the Bremen Town Musicians in Art, Kitsch and Society Kunsthalle Bremen, Bremen
Can I Show You My Collection? 40 Years – 40 Visiting Masterpieces, Wilhelm-Hack-Museum, Ludwigshafen am Rhein
2018
THE STREET. Where the World Is Made', MAXXI, Rome
The Party, Anton Kern Gallery, New York
The Print Show, Richard Levy Gallery, New York
2016
Home Improvements, Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco
2015
Extraordinary: Everyday objects & actions in contemporary art, The Lowry, Manchester
REFLECTION: Creed & LeWitt, National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh
Stories We Tell Ourselves, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen
Private Utopia. Contemporary Art from the British Council Collection, Dunedin Public Art Gallery, Dunedin
20 Years of Collecting: Between Discovery and Invention, Zabludowicz Collection, London
2014
Art & Sound, Fondazione Prada, Venice
Art as a Verb, Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne
From the Collection: Looking at the Process, De la Cruz Collection, Miami
Optical Mix, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Victoria
White Night Melbourne 2014, Melbourne
2013
Ordinary / Extra / Ordinary, The Public, West Bromwich
Rythm in it – Vom Rythmus in der Gegenwartskunst, Aargauer Kunsthaus, Aarau
Happy Birthday Galerie Perrotin / 25 ans, Galerie Perrotin, Lille
Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle, Munich
Works on Paper, i8 Gallery, Reykjavik
Things from before beside things from after around things of the moment, 'Work No. 843', Parra & Romero gallery, Ibiza
Illuminations, Richard Telles Fine Art, Los Angeles
Work No. 570, Art Unlimited, Basel
Blink, Lynch Tham, New York
Arthouse Select, Museum of St. Albans, Hertfordshire
The Universal Addressability of Dumb Things, Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham
Revealed: Government Art Collection, Ulster Museum, Belfast (Travelling exhibition)
Simon Starling Commission at Tate Britain, Tate Britain, London
Works on Paper by Sculptors from the Collection of BNY Mellon, Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma
Rotesque, Schauwerk, Sindelfingen
A House of Leaves, David Roberts Art Foundation, London
Living Loss: The Experience of Illness in Art, Lewis Glucksman Gallery – University College Cork, Cork
2011
Johnen Galerie, Berlin
Folkstone Triennial 2011, Folkstone
Belief & Understanding, Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York
Private / Corporate VI, Daimler Contemporary, Berlin
Singapore Biennale 2011, Singapore
2007
Critical Mass – Kritische Masse. 20 Jahre Stiftung Kunsthalle Bern: Die Sammlung, Kunsthalle Bern,
Silence: Listen to the show, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin
Into Me / Out of Me, MACRO Museo d’Arte Contemporanea di Roma, Rome
Ensemble, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
Il Futuro del Futurismo. Dalla rivoluzione italiana all’arte contemporanea, GAMeC, Galleria d'arte moderna e contemporanea, Bergamo
2006
abstract art now – floating forms (Teil 1 | Part 1), Wilhelm-Hack-Museum, Ludwigshafen
Good Vibrations – Visual Arts and Rock music, Palazzo delle Papesse – Centro Arte Contemporanea, Siena
Strange I've seen that face before – Objekt, Gestalt, Phantom, Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach
Von Mäusen und Menschen, 4. Berlin Biennale für zeitgenössische Kunst, KW Institut für zeitgenössische Kunst, u. a., Berlin
Rubell Family Collection, Miami
The Sublime is Now! Das Erhabene in der zeitgenössischen Kunst, Museum Franz Gertsch, Burgdorf / Bern
Reality, Odense 10’55, Kunshallen Brandts Klaedefabrik, Odense
I like things, Fondazione Nicola Trussardi, Arengario, Milan
2005 – 2006
Lichtkunst aus Kunstlicht, ZKM Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe
Des deux côtés du Rhin: Mouvement, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Des deux côtés du Rhin: Ambiance, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf
Joy, Casino Luxembourg, Forum d'art contemporain, Luxemburg
2005
Expérience de la Durée, La Biennale d'Art Contemporain de Lyon, Lyon
L’humanité mise à nu et l’Art en FRAC, même, Casino Luxembourg, Luxemburg
Feeling strangely fine, Galeria Estrany / De la Mota, Barcelona
2004
State of play, Serpentine Gallery, London
2003
Cezary Bodzianowski, Martin Boyce, Rafal Bujnowski, Martin Creed, Slawomir Elsner, Stefan Hablützel, Candida Höfer, Marko Lulic, Thomas Ruff, Wilhelm Sasnal, Galerie Johnen + Schöttle, Cologne
Adorno, Kunstverein Frankfurt am Main
Skulptur 03, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg
2002
BOYCE – CREED – SALA – SASNAL, Galerie Johnen + Schöttle, Cologne
The Young And The Hung, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg
No Return, Collection Haubrok, Mönchengladbach
Tempo, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
2001
Yokohama Museum, Yokohama
Art/Music: Rock, Pop, Techno, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
White Light/White Noise, Mexico
2000
Protest and Survive, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London
A casa di…, Fondazione Pistoletto, Biella, Italy
Intelligence: New British Art 2000, Tate Britain, London
1999
Limit Less, Aktuelle Britische Kunst, Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna
54 × 54 × 54, Museum of Contemporary art, London
Porcupines / Arthinking, 291 Gallery, London
Getting the Corners, Or Gallery, Vancouver
Nerve, ICA, London
Ainsi de suite 3 (Teil II | Part II), Centre regional d'art contemporain, Sete
Turner Prize 2001, Tate Britain, London
1998
Lovecraft, Spacex Gallery, Exeter
Not Today, Gavin Brown's enterprise, New York
Imitating Christmas, Wiensowski & Harbord, Berlin
11th Biennale of Sydney, Sydney
Proper: Blind Date 1, Titanik, Turku
Speed, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London
Crossings, Kunsthalle, Vienna
Camouflage 2000, Galerie Praz-Delavallade, Paris
Lovecraft, South London Gallery, London
Sunday, Cabinet Gallery, London
An Idea of Art / Art and Life, Galleria Paolo Vitolo, Milan
1997
Dimensions Variable, Helsinki und Stockholm
Laure Genillard – Une selection et une collection, Galerie de l'Ancien College, Chatellerault
Cairn Gallery, Nailsworth, Gloucestershire
Superstore de Luxe No.1, Up & Co., New York
Answer 'Affirmative' or 'Negative', Art Metropole, Toronto
Galerie Mot & van den Boogaard, Brussels
Snowflakes Falling on the International Dateline, CASCO, Utrecht
1996
Life / Live, Musee d'Art Moderne, Paris
Against, Anthony d'Offay Gallery, London
Ace!, Arts Council Collection, Hayward Gallery, London
A Century of Sculptors' Drawings, Karsten Schubert, London
East International, Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, Norwich
Trace 1995 – 96, Galleria Paolo Vitolo, Milan
well morgan, Eisfabrik, Hannover
Affinata, Castello di Rivara, Turin
1995
Just Do It, Cubitt Gallery, London
Laure Genillard Gallery, London
Imprint 93 / City Racing, City Racing, London
Unpop, Anthony Wilkinson Fine Art, London
The Fall of Man, Three Rooms and a Kitchen, Pori
In Search of the Miraculous, Starkmann Ltd., LondonFuori Fase, Viafarini, Milan
1994
Conceptual Living, Rhizome, Amsterdam
The Little House on the Prairie, Marc Jancou Gallery, London
Modern Art, Transmission Gallery, Glasgow
Imprint 93 / Cabinet Gallery, Cabinet Gallery, London
Domestic Violence, Gio' Marconi, Milan
1993
Wonderful Life, Lisson Gallery, London
1992
Inside a Microcosm, Laure Genillard Gallery, London
Outta Here, Transmission Gallery, Glasgow
1989
The Black Bull, London
Preise und Stipendien | Awards and Scolarships
2001
Turner Prize, Tate Britain
Publikationen | Publications
2000
Godfrey Worsdale & Iona Spens [ed.]: MARTINCREEDSWORKS [exh.cat.], Southampton City Art Gallery, The Pale Green Press
Sammlungen | Collections
Colleccion Jumex, Mexico City, Mexico
Museum of Modern Art New York, New York, USA
Tate Modern, London, UK
Haubrok Foundation, Alte Nationalgalerie Berlin, Germany
National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh, UK
British Council Collection, UK
Zabludowicz Collection, London, UK
Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, New York, USA
Rennie Museum, Vancouver, Canada
Government Art Collection, UK
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia
Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe (ZKM), Karlsruhe, Germany
Chartwell Collection, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, Auckland, New Zealand
Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago, USA
Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK
Fundación Botín, Santander, Spain
Royal Collection Trust, London, UK
Harris Museum, Preston, UK
FRAC Grand Large – Hauts-de-France, Dunkirk, France
Frac Occitanie Montpellier, Montpellier, France
Kadist Paris, Paris, France
Kunsthalle Bern, Bern, Switzerland
Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany
Museum Kurhaus Kleve, Kleve, Germany
Sammlung Deutsche Bank, Frankfurt, Germany
Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, USA
Wilhelm-Hack-Museum, Ludwigshafen, Germany
Qiao Collection, Shanghai, China
Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
Musée d’Art Moderne et Contemporain, Strasbourg, France
Igal Ahouvi Art Collection, Tel Aviv, Israel
Gallery of Modern Art, Turin, Italy
Contemporary Art Society, London, UK
Victoria & Albert Museum, London, UK
Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, USA
De La Cruz Collection, Miami, USA
The New Art Gallery, Walsall, UK
