Michael Craig-Martin (b.1941) is a distinguished figure in the world of British conceptual art, concerned with the nature of representation and the role of the spectator. He explores this through the rendering of everyday objects in bold lines and bright colours, in media ranging from sculpture to painting to drawing.

Craig-Martin's early works in the 1970s included sculpture that incorporated readymade objects and it was around this time that he established his reputation as a leading conceptual artist of the late twentieth century. In the 1990s he made a decisive move towards painting and developed his characteristic style that now also influences his sculpture, using precise lines that demarcate objects in flat planes.

He attended Fordham University, New York, from 1959 to 1961, then Yale University, where he received a BA in 1963 and an MFA in 1966. Craig-Martin taught at Goldsmiths College School of Art, London, from 1974 to 1988 and from 1994 to 2000.

Craig-Martin has shown at distinguished institutions worldwide, including the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Kunsthaus Bregenz, Austria, the Goss-Michael Foundation, Dallas, Chatsworth House, England and the Shanghai Himalayas Museum in China. His work resides in numerous public collections, including the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Tate, London; Centre Pompidou, Paris; and Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid.

His most recent exhibition was at Seoul Arts Centre Hangaram Art Museum 2022, showing a Selected work from 1973 to 2021.

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