Installation view of Mark Leckey: Containers and Their Drivers, MoMA PS1,
October 23, 2016 – March 5, 2017. Image courtesy of MoMA PS1. Photo by Pablo Enriquez.

About

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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.

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.

Exhibitions

Publications

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The Exchange with Arthur Jafa and Mark Leckey

Plaster

July 2, 2025

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“I Didn’t Get Into Art to Find Safety”

AnOther Magazine

Emily Steer

November 17, 2025

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What Is There Still to Learn From Mark Leckey?

ArtReview

Martin Herbert

November 13, 2025

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How Artist Mark Leckey Found God in the Glitches

Interview Magazine

Travis Diehl

September 10, 2025

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Mark Leckey’s eternal search for the ecstatic

Art Basel

Tom Morton

April 1, 2025

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NM Greenroom: Mark Leckey (2025) + “3 Songs from the Liver” radio play

New Models

Caroline Busta

February 28, 2025

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Mark Leckey 3 Songs from the Liver

ArtReview

Jenny Wu

January 30, 2025

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Mark Leckey: 3 Songs from the Liver

The Brooklyn Rail

Andrew Paul Woolbright

January 29, 2025

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