BIOGRAPHY

Anish Kapoor

Born in 1954, Bombay, India
Lives and works in London, UK

http://anishkapoor.com/


Education

1977     Chelsea School of Art, London, UK
1973     Hornsey College of Art, London, UK


Selected Solo Exhibitions

2021
Anish Kapoor, Shenzhen Museum of Contemporary Art and Urban Planning, Shenzhen, China
Anish Kapoor, Lisson Gallery, London, UK
Anish Kapoor: Painting, Modern Art Oxford, Oxford, UK 

2020       
Anish Kapoor: Howl, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, Germany
Anish Kapoor, Houghton Hall, Norfolk, UK
Anish Kapoor, Regen Projects, Los Angeles, US

2019       
Surge, Foundacion Proa, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Lisson Gallery, New York, US
Anish Kapoor, Central Academy of Fine Arts Museum and Imperial Ancestral Temple, Beijing, China

2019       
Anish Kapoor, Lisson Gallery, London, UK
Anish Kapoor, Fundación CorpArtes, Santiago, Chile
Anish Kapoor, Pitzhanger Manor & Gallery, London, UK

2018      
Anish Kapoor, Galerie Klüser, München, Germany
Anish Kapoor in Beppu, Beppu Park, Oita, Japan
Anish Kapoor, Serralves Museum, Porto, Portugal
Anish Kapoor, Gallery F 15, Moss, Norway
ANOTHER (M)OTHER, Galerie Kamel Mennour, Paris, France

2017               
Anish Kapoor. My Red Homeland, Musée d’Art et Contemporain, Saint–Ètienne Mètropole, France
Concept of Happiness. Anish Kapoor’s Outline of Collapse, Eye of Gyre, Tokyo, Japan
Places of Origin–Monuments for the 21st Century, MAST Foundation, Bologna, Italy
Destierro, Parque de la Memoria, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Descension, Brooklyn Bridge Park, Public Art Fund, New York, US
Lisson Gallery, London, UK
Galleria Massimo Minini, Brescia, Italy

2016               
Museo d’Arte Contemporane, Rome, Italy
Galleria Continua, Havana, Cuba
Descension, Nuit Blanche 2016, The Seine, Paris, France
Archaeology: Biology, Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo (MUAC), Mexico City, Mexico
Casamadre Arte Contemporanea, Naples, Italy
SCAI The Bathhouse, Tokyo, Japan
Gagosian Gallery, Hong Kong
Gathering Clouds, Kukje Gallery, Seoul, Korea
Anish Kapoor, Lisson Gallery, Milan, Italy
Tomorrow you will be in Paradise, Gladstone Gallery, New York, US

2015   
Descension, Galleria Continua, San Gimignano, Italy
Anish Kapoor, Chateau de Versailles, Yvelines, France
Anish Kapoor, Lisson Gallery, London, UK
Anish Kapoor, Gladstone Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
Anish Kapoor, Regen Projects, Los Angeles, US

2013   
Anish Kapoor, Sakıp Sabancı Museum, Istanbul, Turkey
Kapoor in Berlin, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin, Germany

2012 
Anish Kapoor, Gladstone Gallery, New York, US
PinchuckArtCentre, Kiev, Ukraine
Lisson Gallery, London, UK
Anish Kapoor, De Pont Foundation for Contemporary Art, Tilburg, The Netherlands
Anish Kapoor, Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Sydney, Australia

2011    
Flashback, Manchester Art Gallery, Manchester; Nottingham Castle Museum & Art Gallery, Nottingham; Longside Gallery, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Wakefield, UK
Leviathan, Monumenta 2011 / Anish Kapoor, Grand Palais, Paris, France
Between Shit and Architecture, Galerie Kamel Mennour, Chapelle des Petits Augustins Beaux-Arts de Paris, Paris, France
Anish Kapoor, Rotonda della Besana, Milan, Italy

2010 
Anish Kapoor: Delhi, Mumbai, National Gallery of Modern Art New Delhi, New Delhi, India & Studios Mumbai, Mumbai, India
Anish Kapoor, SCAI the Bathhouse, Tokyo, Japan
Turning the World Upside Down, Kensington Gardens, London, UK

2009    
Anish Kapoor, Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK
Anish Kapoor Drawings, Regen Projects, Los Angeles, US
Anish Kapoor, New Works, Lisson Gallery, London, UK
Memory, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, US
Anish Kapoor Islamic Mirror, Museum of the Monasterio de Santa Clara, Murcia, Spain
Anish Kapoor: Memory, Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin, Germany

2008
Anish Kapoor, Gladstone Gallery, New York, USA
Anish Kapoor, Gladstone Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
Anish Kapoor, Kukje Gallery, Seoul, Korea

2007
Anish Kapoor. Works on Paper, Gladstone Gallery, New York, US
Anish Kapoor – Svayambh, Musee des Beaux Arts, Nantes, France; travelled to Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany

2006
Anish Kapoor, Regen Projects, Los Angeles, US
Sky Mirror, Rockefeller Center (Public Art Fund), New York, US
Anish Kapoor, Lisson Gallery, London, UK

2005
Japanese Mirrors, SCAI the Bathhouse, Tokyo, Japan

2004      
Whiteout, Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York, US
Cloud Gate, Chicago Millennium Park, Chicago, US
Anish Kapoor, Galleria Massimo Minini, Brescia, Italy

2003 
Painting, Lisson Gallery, London, UK
Anish Kapoor, Kukje Gallery, Seoul, Korea

2002 
Marsyas, The Unilever Series for the Turbine Hall, Tate Modern, London, UK

2001 
Anish Kapoor, Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York, US

2000 
Blood, Lisson Gallery, London, UK
Anish Kapoor, Regen Projects, Los Angeles, US

1999
Anish Kapoor, SCAI the Bathhouse, Tokyo, Japan

1998
Anish Kapoor, Gallery Massimo Minini, Brescia, Italy
Her Blood, La Chapelle de la Salpétrière, Paris, France
Anish Kapoor, Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York, US

1997 
Anish Kapoor, Galerie Lucien Durand, Paris, France

1996 
Anish Kapoor, Kunst-Station Sankt Peter, Cologne, Germany

1995 
Anish Kapoor, Fondazione Prada, Milan, Italy
Anish Kapoor, Gourds, Nishimura Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

1993 
Anish Kapoor, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel

1991 
Anish Kapoor (Organized in co-operation with the British Council), Palacio de Velazquez, Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain

1990 
Anish Kapoor, Drawings, Tate Gallery, London, UK

1989 
Kohji Ogura Gallery (in Co-operation with the Lisson Gallery), Nagoya, Japan

1988 
Lisson Gallery, London, UK

1987 
Anish Kapoor: Works on Paper 1975 – 1987, Ray Hughes Gallery, Sydney, Australia; travelled to MOMA, Brisbane, Australia

1986 
Anish Kapoor, Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo, Norway

1985 
Lisson Gallery, London, UK

1983 
Feeling into Form, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, UK; travelled to Le Nouveau Musee, Villeurbanne/Lyon, France

1981 
Anish Kapoor, Coracle Press, London, UK

1980 
Anish Kapoor, Patrice Alexandre, Paris, France


Selected Group Exhibitions

2021
ECTOPIA, Forum Leverkusen, Leverkusen, Germany
Light: Works from the Tate Collection, Buk-Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
Light & Space, Copenhagen Contemporary, Denmark

2020    
Bangkok Art Biennale 2020: Escape Routes, Bangkok, Thailand
Selected works in London, Lisson Gallery, London, UK
The Artist-Collector’s Dream (A Nice Thing), Galleria Continua, San Gimignano, Italy
LX by Archeus/ Post-Modern, LX ARTS NYC, New York, US
Objects of Wonder: From Pedestal, to Interaction, Aros Aahus Kunstmuseum, Århus, Denmark

2019    
Pushing paper: contemporary drawing from 1970 to now, British Museum, London, UK
Reflections on Space and Time, Galeria Nara Roesler, São Paulo, Brazil
A Time Capsule Continued, Parkett Exhibition Space, Zurich, Switzerland
Objects of Wonder: British Sculpture from the Tate Collection 1950 – Present, Palais Populaire, Berlin, Germany
A National Treasure: Fred Meijer, His Collection and Legacy, Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park, Grand Rapids, US

2018    
Minimalism: Space, Light, Object, National Gallery Singapore and ArtScience Museum, Singapore
Rituals of Signs and Metamorphosis, Red Brick Art Museum, Beijing, China
Space Shifters, Hayward Gallery, London, UK
Daniel Buren & Anish Kapoor, Galleria Continua, San Gimignano, Italy

2017    
Everything at Once, Lisson Gallery X The Vinyl Factory, The store studios, 180 The strand, London, UK
ReView, De Pont at 25: Anniversary Exhibition, De Pont Museum, Tillburg, The Netherlands
A Journey, Kewenig Gallery, Berlin, Germany
Lyric on a Battlefield, Galdstone Gallery, New York, US
Euro Visions: Contemporary Art from the Goldberg Collection, National Art School Gallery, Sydney, Australia
The Creative Act: Performance, Process, Presence, Guggenheim Abu Dhabi, UAE
Colori, Castello di Rivoli Museo D’Arte Contemporanea, Turin, Italy
Intuition, Palazzo Fortuny, Venice, Italy
Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK

2016    
Daydreaming with Stanley Kubrick, Somerset House, London, UK
Seeing Round Corners: The Art of the Circle, Turner Contemporary, Margate, UK
Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK
Yinchuan Biennale, Yinchuan, China

2015 
Folia Continua- 25 Years of Galleria Continua, Cent Quatare, Paris, France
History Is Now: 7 Artists Take on Britain, Hayward Gallery, London, UK

2014
Formes Simples, Centre Pompidou-Metz, Metz, France
Making Links: 25 Years, SCAI the Bathhouse, Tokyo, Japan

2013    
Earth and Elsewhere: Contemporary works from the Collection, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia
Las huellas del camino. CAC Málaga, una década, CAC Málaga, Málaga, Spain
Nostalgic for the Future, Lisson Gallery, London, UK
Dynamo – A Century of Light and Motion in Art, 1913-2013, Grand Palais, Paris, France

2012
Prism. Drawings from 1990 to 2012, Museum of Contemporary Art, Oslo, Norway
Light and Landscape, Storm King Art Centre, Mountainville, US

2011    
Silent Echoes: Collection Exhibition II, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan
Picasso to Koons: The Artist as Jeweler, Museum of Arts & Design, New York, USA; travelled to Bass Museum of Art, Miami, US
Black Swan: The Exhibition, Regen Projects, Los Angeles, US

2010               
ColorForms, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C., US
Itinéraires de l’élégance entre l’Orient et l’Occident, Villa Empain, Boghossian Foundation, Brussels, Belgium
Outside the Box, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, US
Contemplating the Void, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, US

2009    
Marble, Gagosian Gallery, New York, US
Incidental Affairs: Contemporary Art of Transient States, Suntory Museum, Osaka, Japan 
Domus Collection New York | Beijing, White Space, Beijing, China
3rd Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia

2008    
Traces du Sacré, Centres Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
Blood on Paper- the Art of the Book, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK
For What We Are About To Receive, Gagosian Gallery, Moscow, Russia

2007    
Contrepoint III, The Louvre, Paris, France
Makers and Modelers, Gladstone Gallery, New York, US

2006    
The Expanded Eye, Kunsthaus Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland  
How to Improve the World, Hayward Gallery, London, UK

2005    
Universal Experience, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago, US
Colour After Klein, Barbican Art Gallery, London, UK
British Sculpture Show, Kunsthalle Würth, Schwäbisch Hall, Germany

2004    
5th Gwangju Biennale – A Grain of Dust a Drop of Water, Gwangju, Korea


Selected Projects

2017
Ark Nova Tokyo 2017, Tokyo Midtown, Japan

2013    
Art Nova, Lucerne Festival, Matsushima, Japan

2012    
Orbit, Queen Elizabeth Park, London, UK

2011    
Leviathan, Grand Palais, Monumenta, Paris, France

2010    
Temenos, Middlesbrough. Frist of the Five Tees Valley Giants Sculptures, public artworks commissioned as part of Tees Valley Regeneration (TVR), North Shore and Stockton, Tees Valley, UK
Turning the World Upside Down, Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel

2009
Brighton Festival, Guest Artistic Director
Earth Cinema, Arte Pollini, Basilicata, Italy

2008    
56 Leonard Street, Collaboration with Herzog and de Meuron

2006   
Sky Mirror, Rockefeller Center, New York, US

2004    
Cloud Gate, Millennium Park, Chicago, US
L’Origine du monde, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan

2002    
Marsyas, Turbine Hall, The Unilever Series, Tate Modern, London, UK

2001    
Sky Mirror, Nottingham Playhouse, Nottingham, UK

2000    
Taratantara, BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, UK

1995    
Mountain, Toronto, Canada

1994    
Mountain, Tachikawa Art Project, Japan


Selected Awards

2014    
Honorary Fellowship, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK

2013
Knighthood, UK

2011       
Praemium Imperiale, Japan Art Association, Japan
Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, France

2003       
Commandeer of the Order of the British Empire, UK

2001      
Honorary Fellowship, Royal Institute of British Architecture, London, UK

1999       
Elected Royal Academician, Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK
Honorary Fellowship, University of Wolverhampton, Wolverhampton, UK

1997       
Honorary Fellowship, London Institute, London, UK
Honorary Fellowship, Leeds University, Leeds, UK

1991       
Turner Prize, Tate Gallery, London, UK

1990       
Premio Duemila, 44th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy


Selected Public and Private Collections

Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, US
Arts Council of Great Britain, UK
Auckland City Art Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
British Council Collection, UK
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, US
Contemporary Art Society, London, UK
De Pont Foundation, Tilburg, The Netherlands
Fine Art Museum of San Francisco, US
Fukuoka City Museum, Fukuoka, Japan
Fundacio Berardo, Lisbon, Portugal
Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
Heide Park and Art Gallery, Victoria, Australia
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C., US
Kloster Schönthal, Basel, Switzerland
Leeds City Art Gallery, Leeds, UK
Moderna Galerija, Ljublijana, Slovenia
Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
Musée St. Pierre, Lyon, France
Museo National Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain
Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Prato, Italy
Museum of Modern Art, New York, US
National Gallery, Ottawa, Canada
Nelson Atkins Museum, Kansas City, US
Rijksmuseum Kroller-Muller, Otterlo, The Netherlands
Leeum Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, US
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, US
Tate Collection, London, UK
Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel
21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan
Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
Weltkunst Foundation, Zurich, Switzerland
Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum, Duisburg, Germany



EXHIBITIONS

Gathering Clouds
Aug 31, 2016 - Oct 30, 2016

ANISH KAPOOR
Sep 3, 2008 - Oct 5, 2008

Anish Kapoor
May 21, 2003 - Jun 29, 2003

VIDEOS

Installation Video
Anish Kapoor: Gathering Clouds

Teaser Trailer
Anish Kapoor: Gathering Clouds


PUBLICATIONS

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Exhibition: Gathering Clouds

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