Mike Ricketts was born in Sheffield in 1971. He completed a BA (Hons) in Fine Art at the Chelsea College of Art and Design in 1996, following a BA (Hons) in History of Art at the Courtauld Institute of Art.
Concerned with specific spaces and histories, Ricketts is interested in the gaps between the ways in which urban planners and developers design and regulate public spaces, and the complexity of actual social experience and urban life.
Ricketts' work has featured in exhibitions including solo project 'Reverse Consultation (Old New Town)', Harlow, Essex (2008), and group shows: 'Ouagadougou Rendez-Vous', Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (2009); 'Building, Dwelling, Thinking', Laura Bartlett Gallery, London (2008); 'Someone Else's House', 6 Hillsleigh Road, London (2007); 'Picnic Area (Dumb Interior)', Scenery, ROOM, Bristol (2006); 'Inventory: Twenty Thousand Streets under the Sky', The Approach, London (2000) and 'The Office of Misplaced Events', Lotta Hammer Gallery, London (1999). He has also made independent interventions in public space, most recently 'Cushion Distribution (Public Enquiry)', Crystal Palace, London (2009).
Ricketts has also contributed critical writings and artists projects to publications including Photoworks, Inventory and Camera Austria. Currently a Senior Lecturer in Modern and Contemporary Art at Christie's Education, London], he is also working on doctoral research at Chelsea College of Art and Design.