Art In April - At Home: Artists in Conversation with Michael Craig-Martin

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Friday, April 16, 2021 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm

During the month of April, OISS is promoting the amazing virtual arts programs that are happening across campus. This week we are featuring an event at the Yale Center for British Art.

“The artist Michael Craig-Martin (Yale BA 1963, MFA 1966) talks with Anoka Faruqee (Yale BA 1994), Professor and Codirector of Graduate Studies at the Yale School of Art.

Craig-Martin lives and works in England. Born in Dublin in 1941, he grew up and was educated in the United States, studying fine art at Yale University. His best-known works include An oak tree (1973), in which he claimed to have turned a glass of water into an oak; his large-scale black-and-white wall drawings; and his intensely colored paintings, installations, and commissions of everyday objects.

A participant in the definitive exhibition of British conceptual art, The New Art, at the Hayward Gallery, London, in 1972, Craig-Martin has since had numerous exhibitions at galleries and museums across the world, including the Centre Pompidou, Paris; the Museum of Modern Art, New York; and the Kunstvereins in Dusseldorf, Stuttgart, and Hannover. He was an influential teacher at Goldsmiths College, London, as well as a Tate Trustee from 1989 through 1999. Awarded a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 2000, Craig-Martin was elected a Royal Academician in 2006 and knighted in 2016 for his services to art.

This program is presented through the generosity of the Terry F. Green 1969 Fund for British Art and Culture.”