Michael Landy CBE RA

born 1963

*Credit Card Destroying Machine* 2010
© Michael Landy; Installation View Dream On, 2022 | Hellenic Parliament + NEON at the former Public Tobacco Factory, Athens Photograph © Natalia Tsoukala; Courtesy NEON
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Biography

Michael Landy (born 1963) is one of the Young British Artists (YBAs). 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. On 29 May 2008, Landy was elected a member of the Royal Academy of Arts in London.

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