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Michael Landy was born on 1963 in London, is a British artist. Discover Michael Landy's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 61 years old?

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1963

Michael Landy (born 1963) is one of the Young British Artists (YBAs).

1988

After graduating from Goldsmiths in 1988, he exhibited in the Freeze exhibition, organised by Damien Hirst—an exhibition which first brought together a group of artists that would later become known as the Young British Artists.

1990

In 1990, Landy exhibited in East Country Yard with several of the artists from Freeze.

His first solo exhibition was Market (1990), an installation comprising numerous empty market stalls.

Like much of his later work it was intended as a comment on consumerism and society.

1992

In 1992, Landy started an association with Karsten Schubert by making Closing Down Sale for his gallery, an installation made up of a number of objects in shopping trolleys labelled "BARGAIN" and recorded announcements encouraging visitors to buy.

The work was intended as a comment on the commodification of art, and might be seen as a precursor of sorts to Break Down, a work which produced no salable objects, except an edition of inventories (books) listing all destroyed items.

1995

Before Break Down, Landy's best-known work was Scrapheap Services (1995–1996), which featured a fictitious cleaning company which sought to change society by way of "a minority of people being discarded".

Promotional videos were made for the company and a large number of cut-out men were made from old magazines to be swept up and destroyed.

This installation typifies the YBAs' interests in transforming the mundane into art, and recontextualisation.

Its visual impact on one level is a typical industrial event, yet the gallery environment and bright red figures, along with the sinister irony of the title, is intended to force the viewer to address issues of humanity and consumerism.

1997

In 1997, work which Landy had previously sold to Charles Saatchi was included in the Sensation exhibition at the Royal Academy in London.

This show later toured Berlin and New York, but Landy's work was somewhat overshadowed by some of the other more outrageous artworks.

2001

He is best known for the performance piece installation Break Down (2001), in which he destroyed all his possessions, and for the Art Bin project (2010) at the South London Gallery.

Break Down, the work which put him in the public eye, was held in February 2001 at an old branch of the clothes store C&A on Oxford Street in London (C&A had recently ceased trading, and the shop had been emptied).

Landy gathered together all his possessions, ranging from postage stamps to his car, and including all his clothes and works of art by himself and others, painstakingly catalogued all 7,227 of them in detail, and then destroyed all in public.

The process of destruction was done on something resembling an assembly line in a mass production factory, with ten workers reducing each item to its basic materials and then shredding them.

The exhibition was a joint commission from The Times newspaper and Artangel, and attracted around 45,000 visitors.

At the end of the process all that was left was bags of rubbish, none of which was sold or exhibited in any form.

An edition of inventory books listing all destroyed items was available to buy when exiting through the gift shop.

Landy made no money as a direct result of Break Down, and following it had no possessions at all.

2002

Landy made little art in the year following Break Down before returning with a solo show in late 2002, entitled Nourishment.

The exhibition consisted of a series of detailed etchings of weeds, rendered in the traditional style of botanical draughtsmanship.

The intricate detailing is reported to have resulted in lasting eye damage for Landy.

2003

In 2003, Landy was selected to chair the judging panel for the Beck's Futures art prize.

2008

On 29 May 2008, Landy was elected a member of the Royal Academy of Arts in London.

Landy was born in London.

He first studied art in Loughton and Loughborough, then at Goldsmiths College in London, having been inspired to take up art professionally after having a picture selected for display on the BBC television art program Take Hart.

In 2008, Ridinghouse published Michael Landy: Everything Must Go!, Landy's first monograph, which brings together over 20 years of the artist's work for the first time.

It was in this year that Landy was elected a member of the Royal Academy.

2010

Landy's Art Bin installation for the South London Gallery in February–March 2010 was described by the artist as "a monument to creative failure."

A large transparent skip was installed at the gallery, into which he invited the public to throw art work with which they were dissatisfied.

Artists and collectors were invited to apply to dispose of works of art via a dedicated website.

Landy's partner is fellow British artist Gillian Wearing.

He was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2021 New Year Honours for services to art.