| ABSTRACT : Michael Craig-Martin, one of the most influential artists and teachers of his generation, was born in Dublin, Ireland, in 1941 and educated in the United States where he studied History at Fordham University, New York, from 1955-59 before going on to attain a BA and an MFA in Fine Art at Yale University from 1961-66. He returned to Europe in the mid-1960s and had his first solo exhibition in London in 1969. Craig-Martin was a key figure in the first generation of British conceptual artists, teaching at Bath Academy of Art, Canterbury College of Art and, eventually, Goldsmiths College, University of London, from 1974-1988 and 1994-2000, where he had a significant influence on two generations of young British artists. |