21 Facts About Mark Leckey

Mark Leckey was born on 1964 and is a British contemporary artist.

Mark Leckey's found object art and video pieces, which incorporate themes of nostalgia and anxiety, and draw on elements of pop culture, span several works and exhibitions.

Mark Leckey's work has been widely exhibited internationally, including solo exhibitions at Kolnischer Kunstverein, Cologne, in 2008 and at Le Consortium, Dijon, in 2007.

Mark Leckey's 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.

Mark Leckey's works are held in the collections of the Tate and the Centre Pompidou.

Mark Leckey left school at 15 with one O Level, in art, and at 19 became obsessed with learning about ancient civilizations.

Mark Leckey moved to New York in late 1995 and first returned to London in 1997, where he worked for web design agency Online Magic.

Mark Leckey formed the band donAteller with Ed Laliq, and had the first gig at the 414 Club in Brixton.

Mark Leckey served as professor of film studies at the Stadelschule, Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany from 2005 to 2009.

Mark Leckey 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 2013, Mark Leckey toured the UK for his curatorial project, The Universal Addressability of Dumb Things, commissioned by the Hayward Gallery.

One evening in 1999, Gavin Brown, Martin McGeown and Mark Leckey were at a gallery private view in London.

Emma Dexter, then a curator at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, talked to Mark Leckey, who argued that the most exciting art form of the time was music video.

Mark Leckey produced a 15-minute film that he called Fiorucci Made Me Hardcore.

Mark Leckey has made 'immersion' pieces that offer aural and visual stimuli to the audience, such as Sound System.

Mark Leckey filmed the comic strip, added close-ups and jump-cuts reworked into a stop-motion like video.

Mark Leckey has removed all the speech bubbles and replaced them with a dialogue read verbatim from the comic by himself and Steven Claydon, a member of his band JackTooJack.

Mark Leckey added aural effects with burping, vomiting, slurping, among others and fades to black between episodes.

Mark Leckey won the 2008 Turner Prize for his exhibition Industrial Light and Magic.

The work, Mark Leckey said, is a kind of fantasy: that he could bring himself into "a state outside of myself, fridge-like, less-human, feeling like an image".

Mark Leckey imagined it as a work of fiction, in his own words a "non-realist, anti-realist, magic-realist, speculative, slipstream fiction, a sort of sci-fi show".