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Biography - Anish Kapoor

Born

1954 Bombay, India. Lives and works in London

Education

1973-77 Hornsey College of Art, London
1977-78 Chelsea School of Art, London
1979 Taught at Wolverhampton Polytechnic
1982 Artist in Residence, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool

Awards

1991 Turner Prize Award
1992 “Premio Duemila” Venice Biennale, Italy
1997 Honorary Fellowship at the London Institute

Solo Exhibitions

2008 ICA Boston
Gladstone Gallery, New York, NY
2007 “Drawings on paper”, Barbara Gladstone, New York
“Anish Kapoor”, Svayambh, Musee des Beaux-Arts, Nantes “Anish Kapoor”, Haus der Kunst, Munich
“One Colour”, Galleria Continua, Beijing
2006 Sky Mirror, presented by the Public Art Fund, Rockefeller Center, New York
Lisson Gallery, London
“Anish Kapoor,” Centro Cultural Banco Do Brasil, Rio De Janeiro. Travels to: Centro Cultural Banco Do Brasil, Brasilia; Centro Cultural Banco Do Brasil, Sao Paulo
“Anish Kapoor”, Regen Projects, Los Angeles
2005 “Anish Kapoor Japanese Mirrors”, Scai The Bathhouse, Tokyo
2004 “Melancholia”, MAC Grand Hornu, Belgium
2003 “My Red Homeland”, KUB, Kunsthaus Bregenz
“Anish Kapoor”, Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Naples Italy
“Blood Solid”, art of this century, NY, US
“Painting”, Lisson Gallery, London
“Anish Kapoor”, Kukje Gallery, Seoul
“Anish Kapoor”, Galeria Continua, Italy
“Whiteout”, Gladstone Gallery, New York
“Anish Kapoor”, Massimo Minini Gallery, Brescia, Italy
2002- 2003 “Marsyas”, Turbine Hall, Tate Modern, London
2001 Barbara Gladstone Gallery
2000 Regen Projects, Los Angeles
Lisson Gallery, London
“The Edge of the World”, permanent installation at Axel Vervoordt Kanal, Wijnegem, Belgium
1999 Galeria Andre Viana, Porto, Portugal
Scai The Bathhouse, Tokyo, Japan
“Installation by Anish Kapoor”, Baltic Center for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, UK
1998 Centro Galego de Arte Contemporanea, Santiago de Compostela
Massimo Minini, Brescia, Italy
Lisson Gallery, London
Hayward Gallery, London
CAPC, Musee d’art contemporain de Bordeaux (catalogue)
La Chapelle de la Salpetiere, Paris, “Her Blood”
1996 Angles Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, Germany, “Um Fontana”
Massimo Minini, Brescia, Italy
Lisson Gallery, London
Kunst-Station St. Peter, Cologne
Aboa Vetus & Ars Nova, “Anish Kapoor. Sculptures,” Turku Finland
Kettle’s Yard, “Anish Kapoor. Two Sculptures,” Cambridge
1995 Fondazione Prada, Milano, Italy
Lisson Gallery, London
De Pont, Tilburg, The Netherlands
Nishimura Gallery, Tokyo, “Gourd”
1994 Stuart Regen Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1993 Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York,
Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel (catalogue)
Des Moines Art Center, Iowa
National Gallery of Canada, Ottowa
The Power Plant, Toronto, Canada
Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, “Sculptures”
Lisson Gallery, London
1992 Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego (catalogue)
Stuart Regen Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Galeria Soledad Lorenzo, Madrid, Spain
1991 Kunstverein Hannover (catalogue)
Palacio de Velazquez, Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain (catalogue)
Feuerle, Koln, “Anish Kapoor & Ban Chiang” (catalogue)
The 6th Japan Ushimado International Art Festival, Ushimado, Japan
1990 Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York, “Drawings”
British Pavilion, The 44th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy. Organized by The British Council (catalogue)
Magasin, Centre National d’Art Contemporain, Grenoble
Tate Gallery, London, “Anish Kapoor: Works on Paper”
1989 Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York
Kohji Ogura Gallery, Nagoya, Japan (catalogue)
Lisson Gallery, London, “Void Field”
1988 Lisson Gallery, London
1987 Ray Hughes Gallery, Sydney, “Anish Kapoor: Works on Paper 1975-1987” (catalogue). Traveled to Museum of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australia
1986 Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York
University Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, “Anish Kapoor: Recent Sculpture and Drawings” (catalogue)
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY “Sensual Transcendence: The Sculpture of Anish Kapoor” (catalogue)
Kunstnerses Hus, Oslo, “Anish Kapoor” (catalogue)
Kunsthalle, Basel (catalogue). Traveled to the Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven
Lisson Gallery, London
Donald Young Gallery, Chicago
Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, “Currents: Anish Kapoor” (catalogue)
1984 Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York
Galerie Paul Maenz, Cologne
1983 Galerie ‘t Venster, Rotterdam, Organized by Rotterdam Arts Council, “Anish Kapoor: Beeldhouwwerken” (catalogue)
Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, “Feeling into Form” (catalogue)
Travelled to Le Nouveau Musee, Lyon
Lisson Gallery, London
Lisson Gallery, London
Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
1981 Coracle Press, London
1980 Patrice Alexandre, Paris (studio exhibition)

Selected Group Exhibitions

2007 ‘“Timer 01/Intimacy”, Milan, 30 March-16 June
“Counterpoint III”, Louvre, Paris, 4 April-25 July
“Artempo”, Palazzo Fortuny, Venice
“Traces du Sacre”, Centre Pompidou, Paris
“Simply Red”, the Fabric Workshop & Museum, Philadelphia
2006 “Surprise, Surprise,” ICA, London
“The Grand Promenade,” Hellenic Ministry of Culture, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens, Greece
“Il Buco,” Pio Monte, Rome, Italy
“The Expanded Eye,” Kunsthaus Zurich
“Printemps de Septembre,” Toulouse, France
“Asia Pacific Triennale,” Queensland Art Gallery, Australia
2005 “Japanese Mirrors,” Shiraishi Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan; CAC Malaga, Spain
2004 MAC Grand-Hornu, Belgium
Galleria Massimo Minini, Naples
2000 “Bluer”, Carrie Secrist Gallery, Chicago
PS1 Contemporary Art Center, New York, “Around 1984 : a Look at the Eighties”
“La beauté”, Avignon, France
“A celebration of contemporary Art”, The Virginia Museum of Art, Richmond, Virginia
Magasin 3 Stockholm, Konsthall, “Spatiotemporal - Works from the Collection” (catalogue).
“Wounds Between Democracy and Redemption in Contemporary Art,” Moderna Museet Stockholm (catalogue)
“In Celebration, Part II: Highlights from the Collection of Contemporary Sculpture,” Santa Barbara Museum of Art, California
“Meditations,” Madrasa Ibn Youssef, Marrakech
“Belladonna,” Institute of Contemporary Arts, London
“entgegen,” Mausoleum am Dom, Graz
“Follow Me, Britische Kunst an der Unterelbe,” Stade, Germany
“Arte Continua,” Chiesa di San Giusto and Pinacoteca Civica, Volterra, Italy
“Cut, Cast, Assemble: Contemporary Sculpture from the Permanent Collection,” San Francisco
Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco
“Betong,” Konsthalle Malmö, Sweden
“Gramercy International Art Fair,” Los Angeles, CA
“Interzones,” Uppsala Konstmuseum, Sweden
23rd International Biennial of Sao Paolo, Brazil
“Collections du Castello di Rivoli,” Le Nouveau Musee, Villeurbanne
“Un siecle de Sculpture Anglaise,” Jeu de Paume, Paris
“Dissonant Wounds: Zones of Display/Metaphors of Atrophy,” Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Anandale-On-Hudson
“Ripple Across the Water,” Watari Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo
“Contemporary British Printmaking, The Paragon Press, 1986 - 1995,” Yale Center for British Art, New Haven
“Longing and Belonging, Faraway Nearby,” Santa Fe Biennial, Site Santa Fe Warehouse and the Museum of Fine Art, Santa Fe
“ARS’95,” Museum of Contemporary Art, Finland (catalogue + ill. pp. 204-205)
“Drawing the Line Against AIDS,” 45th Venice Biennale, Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice, Italy (catalogue)
“Drawing on Sculpture,” Cohen Gallery, New York
Moderna Galerija, Ljubljana, Slovenia
“Sculpture,” Leo Castelli Gallery, New York City
“Another World,” Art Tower Mito, Mito-shi Ibaraki, Japan
“Punti Dell’Arti,” Italian Pavillion, XLV Venice Biennale
“Bio 93: State of Siege - Obidos Bienale,” Portugal
“River Run,” Dance performance, Queen Elizabeth Hall, London. Collaboration with Laurie Booth and Hans Kuhn
Documenta IX, Kassel, Germany. Catalogue
“The New British Sculpture…,” University of N. Texas Art Gallery (catalogue)
“Whitechapel Open,” Whitechapel Art Gallery, London
“Rhizome,” Haags Gemeentemuseum, The Hague, Holland
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
“Anish Kapoor and Janis Provisor New Editions,” Crown Point Press, New York
Expo ‘92, Seville, Spain (collab. w/ David Conner)
“The 1991 Turner Prize: An Exhibition of Work by the Four Shortlisted Artists,” Tate Gallery, London (catalogue)
“Masterworks from the Guggenheim Collection,” Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain
“Fragments,” Fifth Street Gallery, London
“La Sculpture Contemporaine après 1970,” Foundation Daniel Templon, Fréjus, France (catalogue)
“Trans/Mission,” Rooseum Center for Contemporary Art, Malmö, Sweden. Organized by Lars Nittve (catalogue)
“Made of Stone,” Galerie Isy Brachot, Brussels, Belgium
Gallery Shirakawa, Kyoto
“British Art Now, Japan 1990-1991,” Setagaya Museum, Tokyo, Organized by the British Council (catalogue). Travelled to Fukuoka Art Museum, Nagoya City Museum, Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Arts, Hyogo Prefectural Museum, Hiroshima City Museum
“Dujourie, Fortuyn, Houshiary, Kapoor,” Rijksmuseum Kroller-Muller, Otterlo, Holland
“Heroes of Contemporary Art,” Galerie Saqqarah, Gstaad, Switzerland (catalogue). Travelled to TransArt Exhibitions Kreishaus, Cologne
“Made of Stone,” Galerie Isy Brachot, Brussels
“Works on Paper,” Frith Street Gallery, London
“Affinities and Institutions. The Gerlad S. Elliott Collection of Contempoary Art,” The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago (catalogue)
“Anish Kapoor, Wolfgang Laib, Richard Long,” Galerie Le Gall Peyroulet, Paris
“Collection 1989 à Jacques Guillot,” Musée d’Art Contemporain de Lyon
“British Now: Sculpture et Autres Dessins,” Musee d’Art Contemporain de Montreal, Montreal, Quebec (catalogue)
“1988 Carnegie International,” Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh (catalogue)
“Starlit Waters. British Sculpture: An International Art 1968-88,” Tate Gallery, Liverpool (catalogue)
“Britannica: 30 Ans de Sculpture,” Musee des Beaux-Arts Andre Malraux, Le Havre (catalogue). Travelled to Ecole d’Architecture de Normandie, Rouen and Musee d’Evreux, Evreux
“La Couleur Seule, l’Experience du Monochrome,” Musee St. Pierre, Lyon (catalogue)
“Fourth International Drawing Trienniale,” Kunsthalle Nuremburg (catalogue)
“Europa Oggi/Europe Today,” Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Prato, Italy (catalogue)
“Sculptors on Paper: New Work,” Madison Art Center, Wisconsin. Traveling (catalogue)
“Works on Paper,” Curt Marcus Gallery, New York
“Similia/Dissimilia,” Stadtische Kunsthalle, Dusseldorf (catalogue). Travelled to Wallach Art Gallery, Sonnabend Gallery, and Leo Castelli Gallery, New York
“Viewpoint: L’Art Contemporain en Grande Bretagne,” Musee d’Art Moderne, Brussels. Organized in cooperation with the British Council (catalogue)
“British Art of the 1980’s: 1987,” Liljevachs Konstall, Stockholm, Organized by the British Council (catalogue). Travelled to Sara Hilden Art Museum, Tampere
“Inside/Outside,” Museum Van Hedendaagse Kunst, Antwerp (catalogue)
“Juxtapositions: Recent Sculpture from England and Germany,” The Institute for Art and Urban Resources, New York (catalogue)
“Sacred Spaces,” Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, New York
“Skulptur - 9 Kunstnere fra Storbrittanien,” Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark (catalogue)
“Sonsbeek 1986 - The International Sculpture Exhibition,” Arnhem,The Netherlands (catalogue)
“Prospect ‘86. Eine Internationale Austellung Aktueller Kunst,” Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt (catalogue)
“General Idea, Anish Kapoor, Melisa Miller,” Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York
“Inaugural Exhibition,” Lang & O’Hara Gallery, New York
“Dessins de Sculpteurs,” Galerie Gabrielle Maubrie, Paris
Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York
“Entre el Objeto y la Imagen,” Palacio de Velazquez Madrid and Fundacion Caja de Pensiones, Barcelona. Organized by the British Council and Ministerio de Cultura, Spain (catalogue)
“Vessel,” Serpentine Gallery, London
“Currents,” Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston (catalogue)
“Sculptors’ Drawings,” Artspace Galleries, Aberdeen. Organized by the Scottish Arts Council. Travelled to Ayr, Lyth, Stirling, Stromness, Glasgow, and Dracos Arts Center, Athens
“Nouvelle Biennale de Paris,” Paris (catalogue)
“The British Show,” Organized by the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney and The British Council (catalogue). Travelled to Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth; Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney; Queensland Art Gallery Brisbane; The Exhibition Hall, Melbourne; National Art Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand
“7000 Eichen,” Kunsthalle, Tubingen (catalogue)
“Who’s Afraid of Red, Yellow, and Blue?” Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol
“Three British Sculptors,” Neuberger Museum, State University of New York, Purchase
“Anniottanta,” Organized by the Cultura del Commune de Ravenna. Travelled to Bologna, Imola, Romagna
“20 Sculptures du FRAC Rhone-Alpes,” l’Abbaye de Tournus, Tournus, France
“Anish Kapoor and Bill Woodrow,” Donald Young Gallery, Chicago
“The Poetic Object,” Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin (catalogue). Travelled to Arts Council Gallery, Belfast
“An International Survey of Recent Painting and Sculpture,” Museum of Modern Art, New York (catalogue)
“ROSC ‘84,” Dublin, Ireland (catalogue)
“The British Art Show: Old Allegiances and New Directions, 1979-1984.” Organized by the Arts Council of Great Britain (catalogue). Travelled to City of Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, Birmingham, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham; Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh; Mappin Art Gallery, Sheffield; Southhampton Art Gallery
Galerie Paul Maenz, Cologne, “Anish Kapoor and Bill Woodrow”
“Transformations: New Sculpture from Britain,” XVII Bienal de Sao Paulo, Brazil, Organized by the British Council (catalogue). Travelled to Museo de Arte Moderna, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Museo de Arte Moderna, Mexico DF; Fundacao Calouste Gulbenkien, Lisbon
“Eros Mythos Ironie,” Neue Galerie, Graz, Austria
“Constellazione,” Galleria Giorgio Persano, Torino, Italy
“New Art,” Tate Gallery, London (catalogue)
“The Sculpture Show,” Hayward Gallery/Serpentine Gallery, London, Org. by the Arts Council of Great Britain (catalogue)
“Sculpture 1983,” Van Krimpen Gallery, Amsterdam
“Finland Biennale,” Helsinki
“Beelden/Sculpture 1983,” Rotterdam Arts Council, Rotterdam (catalogue)
“Douceur de l’Avant-Garde,” C’est Rien de le Dire, Rennes, France (catalogue)
“Figures and Objects,” John Hansard Gallery, Southampton, (catalogue)
“La Trottola di Sirio,” Centro d’Arte Contemporanea, Siracusa, Italy, Organized by the British Council (catalogue)
“Tema Celeste,” Museo Civico d’Arte Contemporanea, Gibellina (catalogue)
“Aperto ‘82,” XL Biennale di Venezia, Venice (catalogue)
“Englische Plastik Heute/British Sculpture Now,” Kunstmuseum, Luzern, Switzerland (catalogue)
“Paris Biennale,” Paris
“Prefiguration,” Centre d’Art Contemporain, Chambery, France
“London/New York 1982,” Lisson Gallery, London
“Objects and Figures: New Sculpture in Britain,” Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, Organized by the Scottish Arts Council (catalogue)
“India: Myth and Reality,” Museum of Modern Art, Oxford
“British Sculpture Now,” Kunstmuseum, Lucern (catalogue)
“Objects & Sculpture: Richard Deacon, Antony Gormley, Anish Kapoor, Peter Randall-Page,” Institute of Contemporary Art, London (catalogue). Travelled to Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol
“Summer Show,” Serpentine Gallery, London
“British Sculpture in the 20th Century: Part 1, Symbol and Imagination 1951-80,” Whitechapel Art Gallery, London (catalogue)
“New Sculpture,” Midland Group Gallery, Nottingham
“Tolly Cobbold: Eastern Arts,” 2nd National Exhibition, Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge. Travelling
“Whitechapel Open,” Whitechapel Art Gallery, London
1978 “Northern Young Contemporaries,” Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester
1975 “Young Contemporaries,” Royal Academy of Art, London
1974 “Art into Landscape 1,” Serpentine Gallery, London

Selected Public Collections

Albright-Knox Museum, Buffalo
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Auckland City Art Gallery, Auckland
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh
Contemporary Art Society, London
DePont Foundation for Contemporary Art, Tilburg
Fukuoka Art Museum, Fukuoka
Fundacio Berardo, Lisbon
Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo
Heide Park and Art Gallery, Victoria
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington DC
Leeds City Art Gallery, Leeds
Moderna Galerija, Ljublijana
Moderna Museet, Stockholm
Museo d’Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato
Museo National Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid
Museum Of Modern Art, New York
Musee Saint Pierre, Lyon
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
Rijksmuseum Kröller-Müller, Otterlo
San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
Tate Gallery, London
Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv
Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver
Walker Art Museum and Sculpture Garden Minneapolis
Weltkunst Foundation, Zürich

Public Commissions

1995 “Cast Iron Mountain,” Tachikawa Art Project, Japan
1998 Toronto, Canada
Israel Museum, Jerusalem