Mark Leckey (1964) is a British contemporary artist, working with collage art, music and video. His found object art and video pieces, which incorporate themes of nostalgia and anxiety, and draw on elements of pop culture, span several videos. In particular, he is known for Fiorucci Made Me Hardcore (1999) and Industrial Light and Magic (2008), for which he won the 2008 Turner Prize.
His work has been widely exhibited internationally, including solo exhibitions at Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne, in 2008 and at Le Consortium, Dijon, in 2007. His performances have been presented in New York City at the Museum of Modern Art, Abrons Arts Center; at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, both in 2009; and at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York City, in 2008.
In a 2008 interview in The Guardian, he described how he grew up in a working class family and became a ‘casual’ in his youth. School, at a comprehensive in Ellesmere Port in Cheshire, was not a happy experience for Leckey. He left school at 15 with one O Level, in art, and at 19 became obsessed with learning about ancient civilizations. He has described himself as an autodidact.
Leckey moved to New York in late 1995 and first returned to London in 1997, where he worked for web design agency Online Magic. When he made the video Fiorucci Made Me Hardcore in 1999, he was living in a tiny flat. He formed the band donAteller, and had the first gig at the 414 Club in Brixton.
Leckey's video work has as its subject the "tawdry but somehow romantic elegance of certain aspects of British culture," He likes the idea of letting "culture use you as an instrument." but adds that the pretentiousness that artists sometimes fall into is destructive to the artistic process: "What gets in the way is being too clever, or worrying about how something is going to function, or where it's going to be. When you start thinking of something as art, you're fucked: you're never going to advance."
He exhibited alongside Damien Hirst in the 1990 New Contemporaries exhibition at the ICA but afterwards dropped from view, before making a "comeback" with Fiorucci Made Me Hardcore in 1999. In 2004, he participated in Manifesta 5, The European Biennial of Contemporary Art. In 2006 he participated in the Tate Triennial. In 2013, Leckey toured the UK for his curatorial project, The Universal Addressability of Dumb Things, commissioned by the Hayward Gallery. In the autumn of 2014, the Wiels contemporary art centre in Brussels staged a mid-career retrospective devoted to Leckey.
© 2019. All images are copyrighted © by Mark Leckey. Apart from fair dealing for the purpose of private study, research, criticism or review as permitted under the Copyright Act, the use of any image from this site is prohibited unless prior written permission is obtained. All images used for illustrative purposes only.
His work has been widely exhibited internationally, including solo exhibitions at Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne, in 2008 and at Le Consortium, Dijon, in 2007. His performances have been presented in New York City at the Museum of Modern Art, Abrons Arts Center; at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, both in 2009; and at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York City, in 2008.
In a 2008 interview in The Guardian, he described how he grew up in a working class family and became a ‘casual’ in his youth. School, at a comprehensive in Ellesmere Port in Cheshire, was not a happy experience for Leckey. He left school at 15 with one O Level, in art, and at 19 became obsessed with learning about ancient civilizations. He has described himself as an autodidact.
Leckey moved to New York in late 1995 and first returned to London in 1997, where he worked for web design agency Online Magic. When he made the video Fiorucci Made Me Hardcore in 1999, he was living in a tiny flat. He formed the band donAteller, and had the first gig at the 414 Club in Brixton.
Leckey's video work has as its subject the "tawdry but somehow romantic elegance of certain aspects of British culture," He likes the idea of letting "culture use you as an instrument." but adds that the pretentiousness that artists sometimes fall into is destructive to the artistic process: "What gets in the way is being too clever, or worrying about how something is going to function, or where it's going to be. When you start thinking of something as art, you're fucked: you're never going to advance."
He exhibited alongside Damien Hirst in the 1990 New Contemporaries exhibition at the ICA but afterwards dropped from view, before making a "comeback" with Fiorucci Made Me Hardcore in 1999. In 2004, he participated in Manifesta 5, The European Biennial of Contemporary Art. In 2006 he participated in the Tate Triennial. In 2013, Leckey toured the UK for his curatorial project, The Universal Addressability of Dumb Things, commissioned by the Hayward Gallery. In the autumn of 2014, the Wiels contemporary art centre in Brussels staged a mid-career retrospective devoted to Leckey.
© 2019. All images are copyrighted © by Mark Leckey. Apart from fair dealing for the purpose of private study, research, criticism or review as permitted under the Copyright Act, the use of any image from this site is prohibited unless prior written permission is obtained. All images used for illustrative purposes only.
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| Fiorucci Made Me Hardcore, Video still, 1999 |
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| Fiorucci Made Me Hardcore, Video still, 1999 |
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| Little Richard, Offset poster, 2003 |
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| Made in 'Eaven, 2004 |
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| Septic Tank, Gavin Brown's enterprise, 2004 |
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| Septic Tank, Gavin Brown's enterprise, 2004 |
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| Septic Tank, Gavin Brown's enterprise, 2004 |
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| Septic Tank, Gavin Brown's enterprise, 2004 |
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| Modern-Cinema in the Round (red), High impact polystyrene, 2007 |
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| In the Long Tail, Performance, 2009 The Abrons Art Center, presented by the Museum of Modern Art, New York |
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| Green Screen Refrigerator Action, 2010 Samsung refrigerator, rear screen projection rig, digital video, green screen set, PA |
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| Green Screen Refrigerator Action, 2010, Gavin Brown's enterprise, New York |
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| Green Screen Refrigerator Action, 2010, Gavin Brown's enterprise, New York |
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| See we assemble, 2011 |
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| See we assemble, 2011Serpentine Gallery, London |
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| See we assemble, 2011Serpentine Gallery, London |
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| Big Box Green Screen Refrigerator Actions, 2012, The Banff Centre, Banff, Alberta |
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| Big Box Green Screen Refrigerator Actions, 2012, The Banff Centre, Banff, Alberta |
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| Big Box Green Screen Refrigerator Actions, 2013, The Banff Centre, Banff, Alberta |
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| Felix the Cat, Louis Vuitton, 2013 |
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| UniAddDumThs, view on Felix the Cat, 2014 |
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| UniAddDumThs, view on Felix the Cat, 2014 |
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| UniAddDumThs, view into Monster, 2015 |
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| UniAddDumThs, Kunstahlle Basel, 2015 |
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| UniAddDumThs, view on Maschine, 2015 |
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| UniAddDumThs, view on Maschine, 2015 |
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| UniAddDumThs, view on Mensch, 2016 |
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| 2015, UniAddDumThs, view on Tier, 2015 |
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| UniAddDumThs, Sant'Andrea de Scaphis, Rome, Italy, 2016 |
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| UniAddDumThs, Sant'Andrea de Scaphis, Rome, Italy, 2016 |
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| UniAddDumThs, Sant'Andrea de Scaphis, Rome, Italy, 2016 |
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| UniAddDumThs, Sant'Andrea de Scaphis, Rome, Italy, 2016 |
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| UniAddDumThs, Sant'Andrea de Scaphis, Rome, Italy, 2016 |
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| Containers and Their Drivers, 2017 |
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| Affect Bridge Age Regression, Cubitt, London, 2017 |
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| Containers and Their Drivers, MoMA PS1, 2017 |
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| Containers and Their Drivers, MoMA PS1, 2017 |
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| Containers and Their Drivers, MoMA PS1, 2017 |
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| Containers and Their Drivers, MoMA PS1, 2017 |
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| Containers and Their Drivers, MoMA PS1, 2017 |
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| Glasgow International, Tramway, 2018 |
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