(1968 - )
Martin Creed was born in Wakefield, Yorkshire. He studied at the Slade School of Art, London, since when he has exhibited his work widely around the world. Creed is perhaps best known for his controversial Turner Prize show at the Tate Gallery in 2001, the year that he won the Prize. His conceptual piece, ‘Work No. 227, the lights going on and off’ consisted of an empty room in which lights were periodically switched on and off. He followed this up in 2008 with ‘Work No. 850’, an installation at Tate Britain, in which a runner sprinted the length of the gallery’s neo-classical sculpture galleries every 30 seconds for four months. Recent solo exhibitions of Creed’s work include shows in Moscow, Edinburgh and London. He lives and works in London.
