Martin Creed (b. 1968,  Wakefield, UK) lives and works in London and studied at Slade School of Fine Art, London. Creed won the Turner Prize in 2001 for his work No. 227: The lights going on and off. Selected solo exhibitions include: Martin Creed: What’s the Point of It?, Hayward Gallery, London, (2014); Martin Creed, Johnen Galerie, Berlin (2014); ARTIST ROOMS Martin Creed, Quay Arts, Isle of Wight (2014); Work No. 1562: Half the Air in a Given Space, Museum De Paviljoens, Almere, Netherlands (2013); The Warhol, Pittsburg, PA (2013); and Artist Rooms: Martin Creed, Tate Britain, Liverpool (2012). Selected group exhibitons include: Art or Sound, Fondazione Prada, Venice, Italy (2014); Frieze Sculpture Park, London, England (2014); Le Mouvement: Performing the city, Kunsthaus Centre PasquArt, Biel, Switzerland (2014); The Okayama Project: Imagineering, Kuro Train, Koraku-kan High School,Okayama, Japan (2014); Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 2014, Royal Academy, London (2014); Happy Birthday Galerie Perrotin / 25 ans, Galerie Perrotin, Lille, France (2013); Illuminations, Richard Telles Fine Art, Los Angeles (2013); Simon Starling Commission at Tate Britain, Tate Britain, London (2013); Utopraxia, The Art Foundation, Athens (2012);  Positions on Conceptual Art, Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle, Munich (2012); Art Returns to Art, Galleria dell’Accademia, Musei del Polo, Florence (2012); Kadist – Pathways into a Collection, Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai (2012); LOVE, Stern Maguire, London (2012); ILLUMInations, Venice Biennale, Venice (2011); Summer Collection Display, Tate St Ives, Cornwall (2011); and Drawing Two Hundred- Biennial Fundraiser, Drawing Room, London (2005).