Michael Craig-Martin

Artist

After moving from Ireland to America with his family in 1945, Michael Craig-Martin studied painting at Yale University. He moved to England in 1966, where he taught at Bath Academy of Art and Canterbury College of Art, before moving to Goldsmiths College (London) in 1973.

He was appointed artist in residence at King’s College, University of Cambridge in 1970, and his work is regularly exhibited at the Tate Gallery, London, and the Hayward Gallery, London. During the 1980s and ‘90s he taught and inspired a number of artists credited with defining British art of the 1990s-the YBAs.

Craig-Martin was appointed Millard Professor of Fine Art at Goldsmiths' in 1994 before being appointed Professor Emeritus of Fine Art. A retrospective of his major works was held at the Whitechapel Art Gallery in 1989. He has also previously been a Trustee of the Tate Gallery (1989-99), and became a CBE in 2001.