b. 1964
Mark Leckey was born and raised in Birkenhead, England, and now lives in London. After graduating from Newcastle Polytechnic in 1990, Leckey was exhibited at New Contemporaries at the ICA in the same year. The artist works across sculpture, installation, music, performance and video art. His found object and video pieces are imbued with themes of memory and nostalgia and draw on elements of rave culture, casual culture, sci-fi, comics, and technology.
Some of his best-known works include Fiorucci Made Me Hardcore (1999), a looped music video shown at the ICA; Made in ‘Eaven (2004), a 16mm film of a CGI Jeff Koons rabbit; and O’ Magic Power of Bleakness, that was shown at the Tate Britain, London (2019).
Leckey won the 2008 Turner Prize with his film Industrial Light and Magic, and has since exhibited at Tate Britain, London (2019); MOMA PS1, New York (2017); Haus der Kunst, Munich (2015), Serpentine Gallery, London (2011), Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne (2008).
Leckey’s works are held in the collections of the Tate and the Centre Pompidou.
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A quasi-holy experience with Mark Leckey
