# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/michael-craig-martin
# Generated: 2026-08-14T12:01:24.257Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/michael-craig-martin"
name: "Michael Craig-Martin"
slug: "michael-craig-martin"
description: "Sir Michael Craig-Martin is an Irish-born contemporary conceptual artist and painter. He is known for fostering and adopting the Young British Artists, many of whom he taught, and for his conceptual artwork, An Oak Tree. He is an emeritus Professor of Fine Art at Goldsmiths. His memoir and advice for the aspiring artist, On Being An Artist, was published by London-based publisher Art / Books in April 2015."
tagline: "Irish painter (born 1941)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Michael_Craig_Martin_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
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  slug: "artists"
profileType:
  name: "Artist"
  slug: "artist"
birthDate: "1941-08-28"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             2.649006622516556
  historical:           10.12934266666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "nm5361746"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "https://michaelcraigmartin.co.uk"
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    title: "Discogs"
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    title: "Michael Craig-Martin"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Craig-Martin"
    title: "Michael Craig-Martin"
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  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Craig-Martin"
    title: "Michael Craig-Martin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Craig-Martin"
    title: "Michael Craig-Martin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "마이클 크레이그 마틴"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump