Mark Leckey

Mark Leckey (b. 1964, Birkenhead, United Kingdom) lives and works in London. Leckey’s dynamic practice takes various forms including video, installation, performance, and sound, to address notions of memory and class, desire and identity. His work focuses on the effects of technology on popular culture, often through the rhetoric of British youth and subcultures.

Mark Leckey
Dream English Kid, 1964 – 1999 AD (2015)
video, projection, colour and sound (surround): 4:3 film (colour), 5.1 surround sound
Collection of the Tate

Survey

  • Installation view,

    Serpentine Gallery, London, 19 May - 26 June, 2011

  • GreenScreenRefrigeratorAction, 2010

    Installation view. Samsung refrigerator, rear screen projection rig, digital video, green screen set, PA, can of coolant. Dimensions variable.

  • Untitled (Prince Albert, Little Richard, Pouter), 2003

    Three parts, dimensions variable

  • Costume Design from O Magic Power of Bleakness, 2019

    Installation View, Mark Leckey, Cabinet, London

Biography

Courtesy of the artist and Cabinet, London

Leckey’s work has been the subject of solo exhibitions at the Espace Louis Vuitton, Tokyo (2024); Julia Stoschek Collection, Berlin (2022, 2020); Tate Britain, London (2019); Glasgow International, Scotland (2018); MoMA PS1, New York (2016-2017); Museo Madre, Naples, Italy (2015) Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany (2015); WIELS Contemporary Art Centre, Brussels, Belgium (2014); the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (2013); Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham, United Kingdom (2013); Banff Centre, Alberta, Canada (2012); Serpentine Gallery, London (2011); Abrons Art Center, New York (2009); and the Guggenheim Museum, New York (2008); He has participated in the Belgrade Biennial (2021), Carnegie International (2013), 55th Venice Biennale (2013), and 8th Gwangju Biennial (2010). In 2008, Leckey was awarded the Turner Prize.