Biography
Anish Kapoor
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Born in 1954, Bombay, India
Lives and works in London, UK
http://anishkapoor.com/
Education
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1977 Chelsea School of Art, London, UK
1973 Hornsey College of Art, London, UK
Selected Solo Exhibitions
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2026
Anish Kapoor, Serlachius Museum, Mänttä, Finland
Anish Kapoor: Palazzo Manfrin, Palazzo Manfrin, Venice, Italy
Anish Kapoor. Winner of the Wilhelm Lehmbruck Prize of the City of Duisburg and the Rhineland Regional Council, Stiftung Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum, Duisburg, Germany
Earth Sky on Red Ground, SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah, US
2025
Anish Kapoor: Early Works, The Jewish Museum, New York, US
Anish Kapoor: Dissolving Margins, Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art at Washington State University, Washington, US
2024
Anish Kapoor, Lisson Gallery, London, UK
Anish Kapoor, Drawings, Lisson Gallery, Shanghai, China
INLFAMAÇAO, Casa Bradesco at Cidade Matarazzo, São Paulo, Brazil
Monadic Singularity, Liverpool Cathedral, Liverpool, UK
Anish Kapoor: Unseen, ARKEN Museum of Modern Art, Ishøj, Denmark
2023
Anish Kapoor. Untrue Unreal, Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi, Firenze, Italy
Anish Kapoor, Kukje Gallery, Seoul, Korea
Anish Kapoor, Regen Projects, Los Angeles, USA
2022
Anish Kapoor, Centre of Polish Sculpture, Oronsko, Poland
Anish Kapoor: Sculptures, Skulpturenpark Waldfrieden, Wuppertal, Germany
Anish Kapoor, Lisson Gallery, Beijing, China
Anish Kapoor: Selected works 2015-2022, SCAI Bathhouse, Tokyo, Japan
Anish Kapoor, Gallerie dell'Accademia and Palazzo Manfrin, Venice, Italy
2021
Anish Kapoor: Painting, Modern Art Oxford, Oxford, UK
Anish Kapoor, Lisson Gallery, London, UK
Anish Kapoor, Shenzhen Museum of Contemporary Art and Urban Planning, Shenzhen, China
2020
Anish Kapoor: Howl, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, Germany
Anish Kapoor, Houghton Hall, Norfolk, UK
Into Yourself, Fall, Waddesdon Manor, Buckinghamshire, UK
Anish Kapoor, Regen Projects, Los Angeles, US
2019
Surge, Fundación Proa, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Anish Kapoor, Lisson Gallery, New York, US
Anish Kapoor, Central Academy of Fine Arts Museum and Imperial Ancestral Temple, Beijing, China
Anish Kapoor, Lisson Gallery, London, UK
Anish Kapoor, Fundación CorpArtes, Santiago, Chile
Anish Kapoor, Pitzhanger Manor & Gallery, London, UK
2018
Anish Kapoor, Galerie Klüser, Munich, Germany
Anish Kapoor, Punkt Ø, Moss, Norway
Anish Kapoor: Works, Thoughts, Experiments, Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art, Porto, Portugal
Anish Kapoor in Beppu, Beppu Park, Oita, Japan
Anish Kapoor: Red Shadow, Galeria La Caja Negra, Madrid, Spain
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–Étienne Métropole, France
Places of Origin – Monuments for the 21st Century, MAST Foundation, Bologna, Italy
Concept of Happiness: Anish Kapoor’s Outline of Collapse, Eye of Gyre, Gyre Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Destierro, Parque de la Memoria, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Descension, Brooklyn Bridge Park, Public Art Fund, New York, US
Anish Kapoor, Lisson Gallery, London, UK
Anish Kapoor: Wall Drawings, Galleria Massimo Minini, Brescia, Italy
2016
Anish Kapoor, Museo d’Arte Contemporanea Roma (MACRO), Rome, Italy
Anish Kapoor, Galleria Continua, Havana, Cuba
Descension, Nuit Blanche 2016, The Seine, Paris, France
Anish Kapoor, Gagosian Gallery, Hong Kong
Anish Kapoor, SCAI The Bathhouse, Tokyo, Japan
Gathering Clouds, Kukje Gallery, Seoul, Korea
Archaeology: Biology, Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo (MUAC), Mexico City, Mexico
Casamadre Arte Contemporanea, Naples, Italy
Anish Kapoor, Lisson Gallery, Milan, Italy
Today You Will Be In Paradise, Gladstone Gallery, New York, US
2015
Anish Kapoor & Rembrandt, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Anish Kapoor. My Red Homeland, Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center, Moscow, Russia
Anish Kapoor chez Le Corbusier, 13th Biennale de Lyon, Priory of La Tourette, Lyon, France
Anish Kapoor: Prints from the Collection of Jordan D. Schnitzer, Portland Art Museum, Portland, US
Anish Kapoor, Chateau de Versailles, Versailles, France
Descension, Galleria Continua, San Gimignano, Italy
Anish Kapoor, Lisson Gallery, London, UK
Anish Kapoor, Gladstone Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
Anish Kapoor, Regen Projects, Los Angeles, US
2013
Anish Kapoor, Sakıp Sabancı Müzesi, Istanbul, Turkey
Anish Kapoor in Berlin, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin, Germany
2012
Anish Kapoor, Gladstone Gallery, New York, US
Anish Kapoor, Pinchuk Art Centre, Kiev, Ukraine
Anish Kapoor, Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Sydney, Australia
Anish Kapoor, Lisson Gallery, London, UK
Anish Kapoor, De Pont Foundation for Contemporary Art, Tilburg, The Netherlands
Anish Kapoor, Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
2011
Anish Kapoor: Push Pull, Galleria Massimo Minini, Brescia, Italy
Anish Kapoor: Turning the World Inside Out, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, US
Almost Nothing, Chapel of the Paris École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris, France
Anish Kapoor, Rotonda della Besana and Fabbrica del Vapore, Milan, Italy
Ascension, Basilica di San Giorgio, Venice, Italy
Anish Kapoor: Leviathan, Monumenta 2011, Grand Palais, Paris, France
Flashback, Manchester Art Gallery, Manchester; Nottingham Castle Museum & Art Gallery, Nottingham; Longside Gallery, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Wakefield, UK
Between Shit and Architecture, Galerie Kamel Mennour, Chapelle des Petits Augustins Beaux-Arts de Paris, Paris, France
2010
Anish Kapoor: Delhi, Mumbai, National Gallery of Modern Art New Delhi, New Delhi, India & Studios Mumbai, Mumbai, India
Anish Kapoor: Turning the World Upside Down, Kensington Gardens, London, UK
Anish Kapoor, SCAI The Bathhouse, Tokyo, Japan
Anish Kapoor: An Exhibition to Coincide with the Launch of Temenos, Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art, Middlesbrough, UK
Anish Kapoor, Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Bilbao, Spain
2009
Anish Kapoor: Islamic Mirror, Museum of the Monasterio de Santa Clara, Murcia, Spain
Anish Kapoor: New Works, Lisson Gallery, London, UK
Anish Kapoor: Memory, Guggenheim Museum, New York, US
Anish Kapoor, Royal Academy of Arts, London
Anish Kapoor: Drawings, Regen Projects, Los Angeles, US
Shooting into the Corner, Museum of Applied Arts (MAK), Vienna, Austria
2008
Anish Kapoor: Memory, Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin, Germany
Anish Kapoor: Islamic Mirror, Santa Clara Convent, Murcia, Spain
Perspectives: Anish Kapoor, Smithsonian’s National Museum of Asian Art, Washington, D.C., US
Place/No Place: Anish Kapoor in Architecture, Royal Institute of British Architects, London, UK
Anish Kapoor, Kukje Gallery, Seoul, Korea
Anish Kapoor: Past, Present, Future, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, US
Anish Kapoor, Gladstone Gallery, New York, US
2007
Anish Kapoor – Svayambh, Musée des Beaux Arts, Nantes, France; traveled to Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany
Anish Kapoor, Galleria Continua Beijing, China
Anish Kapoor, Haus Der Kunst, Munich, Germany
Anish Kapoor: Works on Paper, Gladstone Gallery, New York, US
2006
Anish Kapoor, Lisson Gallery, London, UK
Anish Kapoor, curated by Marcello Dantas and Lorenzo Fiaschi, Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; traveled to the Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Centro Cultural Banco do Brasi, São Paulo, Brazil
Anish Kapoor, Regen Projects, Los Angeles, US
My Red Homeland, Centro de Arte Contemporáneo de Málaga, Málaga, Spain
2005
Japanese Mirrors, SCAI The Bathhouse, Tokyo, Japan
2004
Anish Kapoor, Galleria Massimo Minini, Brescia, Italy
Whiteout, Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York, US
2003
Anish Kapoor: la Montagna, la Pietra, lo Specchio, National Art Gallery, Rome, Italy
Anish Kapoor: Painting, Lisson Gallery, London, UK
Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Naples, Italy
My Red Homeland, Kunsthaus Bregenz, Bregenz, Austria
Anish Kapoor, Kukje Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2002
Marsyas, The Unilever Series for the Turbine Hall, Tate Modern, London, UK
2001
Anish Kapoor, Gladstone Gallery, New York, US
2000
Anish Kapoor, Regen Projects, Los Angeles, US
Blood, Lisson Gallery, London, UK
1999
Galeria Andre Viana, Porto, Portugal
CAPC, Musée d'Art Contemporain de Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France
Anish Kapoor, SCAI the Bathhouse, Tokyo, Japan
1998
Anish Kapoor, Gallery Massimo Minini, Brescia, Italy
Centro Galego de Arte Contemporanea, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
Massimo Minini, Brescia, Italy
Lisson Gallery, London, UK
Hayward Gallery, London, UK
CAPC, Musée d'art contemporain de Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France
Her Blood, La Chapelle de la Salpétrière, Paris, France
Anish Kapoor, Gladstone Gallery, New York, US
1997
Anish Kapoor, Galerie Lucien Durand, Paris, France
1996
Angles Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, 1996
Um Fontana, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, Germany
Massimo Minini, Brescia, Italy
Lisson Gallery, London, UK
Anish Kapoor, Kunst-Station St Peter, Cologne, Germany, 1996
Anish Kapoor: Sculptures, Aboa Vetus & Ars Nova, Turku, Finland
Anish Kapoor: Two Sculptures, Kettle's Yard, Cambridge, UK
1995
Anish Kapoor, Fondazione Prada, Milan, Italy
Lisson Gallery, London, UK
De Pont, Tilburg, Netherlands
Gourd, Nishimura Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1994
Stuart Regen Gallery, New York, US
1993
Anish Kapoor, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel
Gladstone Gallery, New York, NY
Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel
Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, US
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Canada
The Power Plant, Toronto, Canada
Anish Kapoor: Sculptures, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, France
Lisson Gallery, London, UK
1992
Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, La Jolla, US
Stuart Regen Gallery, Los Angeles, US
Galeria Soledad Lorenzo, Madrid, Spain
1991
Kunstverein Hannover, Hanover, Germany, 1991; catalogue
Anish Kapoor (organized in co-operation with the British Council), Palacio de Velazquez, Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain
Anish Kapoor & Ban Chiang, Feuerle, Koln, Cologne, Germany
The 6th Japan Ushimado International Art Festival, Ushimado, Japan
1990
Drawings, Gladstone Gallery, New York, US
British Pavilion, organized by The British Council, The 44th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
Magasin, Centre National d'Art Contemporain, Grenoble, France
Anish Kapoor, Drawings, Tate Gallery, London, UK
1989
Gladstone Gallery, New York, US
Kohji Ogura Gallery (organized in co-operation with the Lisson Gallery), Nagoya, Japan
Void Field, Lisson Gallery, London, UK
1988
Lisson Gallery, London, UK
1987
Anish Kapoor: Works on Paper 1975 – 1987, Ray Hughes Gallery, Sydney, Australia; traveled to Museum of Modern Art (MOMA), Brisbane, Australia
1986
Gladstone Gallery, New York, US
Anish Kapoor: Recent Sculpture and Drawings, University Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, US
Sensual Transcendence: The Sculpture of Anish Kapoor, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, US
Anish Kapoor, Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo, Norway
1985
Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, Switzerland; traveled to the Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, Netherlands
Lisson Gallery, London, UK
Donald Young Gallery, Chicago, US
Currents: Anish Kapoor, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, Boston, US
1984
Gladstone Gallery, New York, US
Galerie Paul Maenz, Cologne, Germany
1983
Anish Kapoor: Beeldhouwwerken, organized by Rotterdam Arts Council, Galerie 't Venster, Rotterdam, Netherlands
Feeling into Form, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, UK; travelled to Le Nouveau Musee, Villeurbanne/Lyon, France
Lisson Gallery, London, UK
1982
Lisson Gallery, London, UK, 1982
Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, UK, 1982
1981
Anish Kapoor, Coracle Press, London, UK
1980
Anish Kapoor, Patrice Alexandre, Paris, France
Selected Group Exhibitions
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2026
YBA & Beyond: British Art in the 90s from the Tate Collection, National Art Center, Tokyo, Japan
2025
Stillness in the storm, Museum Voorlinden, Wassenaar, Netherlands
Orizzonti Rosso, Piazza Mignanelli 23, Rome, Italy
It Must Be Seen. The Autonomy of Colour in Abstract Art, Fundación Juan March, Madrid, Spain
2024
Illusion, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany
Modern Sculpture in Stone, Fundació Catalunya La Pedrera, Barcelona, Spain
In the House of the Trembling Eye: an exhibition staged by Allison Katz, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, US
Van Gogh and the Stars, The Fondation Vincent Van Gogh, Arles, France
Nostalgia: Modernity of a feeling, Palazzo Ducale, Genova, Italy
Light: Visionary Perspectives, Aga Khan Museum, Toronto, Canada
2023
Inaugural Collection Exhibition, Centro de Arte Hortensia Herrero, Valencia, Spain
Light: Works from the Tate Collection, Nakanoshima Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan
Light: Works from the Tate Collection, National Art Center, Tokyo, Japan
Collection Presentation, De Pont Museum, North Brabant, Netherlands
The Ability to Dream, Galleria Continua, Boissy Le Chatel, France
Empyrean, Mennour, Paris, France
Rounding the Circle: The Mary and Al Shands Collection, Speed Art Museum, Louisville, US
First Circle: Circles in Art, Heather James Fine Art, Palm Desert, US
Reaching for the Stars: From Maurizio Cattelan to Lyette Yiadom Boakye, Palazzo Strozzi, Florence, Italy
Anish Kapoor/Giulio Paolini, Galleria Massimo Minini, Brescia, Italy
60 Years of Collecting: An anniversary exhibition celebrating the UMCA Permanent Art Collection, University of Massachusetts Fine Arts Center, Amherst, US
Making Worlds, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
2022
wHole, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Bulleen, Australia
In Our Veins Flow Ink and Fire, Kochi-Muziris Biennale 2022, India
Façade 2022, Contemporary Art Festival Middelburg, Abdijplein, Middelburg, Netherlands
Rouge Odyssée, Biennale d’art contemporain de Bonifacio, Jardin du Bastion, Bonifacio, France
59th Venice Biennale, Gallerie dell’Accademia di Venezia, Venice, Italy
From Monet to Richter: Focus on New Acquisitions, Pola Museum of Art, Kanagawa, Japan
LONDON CALLING, Palazzo Cipolla, Rome, Italy
2021
Light: Works from the Tate Collection, Buk-Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
ECTOPIA, Forum Leverkusen, Leverkusen, Germany
INHERENT FORM, Regen Projects, Los Angeles, US
Selections: Gallery Artists, Regen Projects, Los Angeles, US
Contemporary Optics: Olafur Eliasson, Teresita Fernández, and Anish Kapoor, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, US
Light & Space, Copenhagen Contemporary, Copenhagen, Denmark
2020
Selected works in London, Lisson Gallery, London, UK
Escape Routes: 2020 Bangkok Art Biennale, Bangkok, Thailand
Objects of Wonder: From Pedestal, to Interaction, Aros Aahus Kunstmuseum, Århus, Denmark
Come Out!, Kistefos Museet, Jevnaker, Norway
LX by Archeus/Post-Modern, LX Arts, New York, US
The Artist-Collector’s Dream (A Nice Thing), Galleria Continua, San Gimignano, Italy
When You Touch About Me, I Think Myself, SIGNS, Istanbul, Turkey
Momentum, Voorlinden Museum and Gardens, Wassenaar, The Netherlands
2019
15 Artists x 15 Years in China, Galleria Continua, Beijing, China
Selections from the Marciano Collection, Marciano Art Foundation, Los Angeles, US
Pushing paper: contemporary drawing from 1970 to now, British Museum, London, UK 9/12
Reflections on Space and Time, Galeria Nara Roesler, São Paulo, Brazil 4/2
A Time Capsule Continued, Parkett Exhibition Space, Zurich, Switzerland 2/23
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
1914/1918 – Not Then, Not Now, Not Ever, Art & Culture International, German Bundestag, Berlin, Germany
Rituals of Signs and Metamorphosis, Red Brick Art Museum, Beijing, China
The Gift of Art, Pérez Art Museum Miami, Miami, US
The World on Paper, Deutsche Bank, Palais Populaire, Berlin, Germany
Space Shifters, Hayward Gallery, London, UK
Dream: Art Meets Dreams, Chiostro del Bramante, Rome, Italy
Heinz Peter Schwerfel: Artist Portraits, Large Meadow Exhibitions 2018, Bilsart, Istanbul, Turkey
250th Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK
Daniel Buren, Camille Henrot, Anish Kapoor, Bertrand Lavier, Claude Lévêque, Christodoulos Panayiotou, Galerie Kamel Mennour, Paris, France
Daniel Buren & Anish Kapoor, Galleria Continua, San Gimignano, Italy
Art & Jewelry, Custot Gallery Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
2017
Process and Practice: 40 Years of Experimentation, The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, US
Blood: Uniting and Dividing, POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews, Warsaw, Poland
Everything at Once, Lisson Gallery and The Vinyl Factory, Store Studios, 180 The Strand, London, UK
ReView, De Pont at 25: Anniversary Exhibition, De Pont Museum, Tillburg, The Netherlands
Lucerne Festival Ark Nova 2017, Tokyo Midtown, Tokyo, Japan
A Journey, Kewenig Gallery, Berlin, Germany
Windows, Jhaveri Contemporary, Mumbai, India
Lyric on a Battlefield, Gladstone Gallery, New York, US
Summer Exhibition 2017, Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK
Euro Visions: Contemporary Art from the Goldberg Collection, National Art School Gallery, Sydney, Australia
Intuition, Palazzo Fortuny, Venice, Italy
Reconstitution, LAXART, Los Angeles, US
The Creative Act: Performance, Process, Presence, Guggenheim Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
L’emozione dei COLORI nell’arte, Castello di Rivoli Museo D’Arte Contemporanea, Turin, Italy
Warming Huts, Winnipeg River Trail, Winnipeg, Canada
2016
Nuit Blanche, Seine River, Paris, France
Yinchuan Biennale, Yinchuan, China
Seeing Round Corners: The Art of the Circle, Turner Contemporary, Margate, UK
Daydreaming with Stanley Kubrick, Somerset House, London, UK
Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK
British Sculptors, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, US
Sculptors in Print, Marlborough Fine Art, London, UK
2015
Wind and Art Don't Care About Borders, Metropolitan Art Society, Beirut, Lebanon
Interact With Us, Ventana Contemporary Ibiza, Ibiza, Spain
Phantom Bodies: The Human Aura in Art, The Frist Center for Visual Arts, Nashville, US
Making It: Sculpture in Britain 1977-1986, Warwick Art Centre, West Midlands, UK
Folia Continua- 25 Years of Galleria Continua, Cent Quatare, Paris, France
TRIO Bienal, Fine Arts National Museum, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Back to Basics: Selections from the Weisman Art Fondation, Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art, Pepperdine University, Malibu, US
Sprayed, Gagosian Gallery, London, UK
KölnSkulptur #8, Skulpturenpark Köln, Cologne, Germany
Between the Idea and Experience, 12th Havana Biennial, Havana, Cuba
The Secret Life of the Pencil, Paul Smith, No. 9 Albemarle Street, London, UK
Proportio, Palazzo Fortuny, Venice, Italy
Drawing Biennial 2015, The Drawing Room, London, UK
(im)possible!: Artists as Architects, Marta Herford, Herford, Germany
History Is Now: 7 Artists Take on Britain, Hayward Gallery, London, UK
On Show, Austin/Desmond Find Art, London, UK
Construire une Collection (Building a Collection), Nouveau musée national de Monaco, Monaco
2014
Melting Walls: The Babel Trilogy, University of Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel
Whorled Explorations: Kochi-Muziris Biennale 2014, Fort Kochi, India
Akram Khan - One Side to the Other, The Lowry, Salford, UK
The Mirror, Toshio Shimizu Art Office, Tokyo, Japan
ARCO Foundation Collection, Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo, Madrid, Spain
The Other Side – Mirrors and Reflections in Contemporary Art, Belvedere, Vienna
Formes Simples, Centre Pompidou-Metz, Metz, Metz, France
Genius Loci – Spirit of Place, 14th International Architecture Biennale, Venice, Italy
Anish Kapoor & James Lee Byars, Galerie Kamel Mennour in collaboration with Michael Werner Gallery, Paris, France
A Secret Affair: Selections From The Fuhrman Family Collection, The Contemporary Austin, Austin, US; traveled to The FLAG Art Foundation, New York, US
Picture of Wound – Wound as Picture, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Bochum, Germany
Abstract Drawing, curated by Richard Deacon, Drawing Room, London, UK
Making Links: 25 Years, SCAI The Bathhouse, Tokyo, Japan
2013
Nostalgic for the Future, Lisson Gallery, London, UK
Las huellas del camino. CAC Málaga, una década, CAC Málaga, Málaga, Spain
Out of Hand: Materializing the Postdigital, The Museum of Arts and Design, New York, US
Otherworldly, Magasin 3 Stockholm Konsthall, Stockholm, Sweden
Beam In Thine Own Eye, Museum of Old and New Art, Tasmania, Australia; traveled as I Look to You and I See Nothing, to Sharjah Art Foundation, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
Earth and Elsewhere: Contemporary works from the Collection, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia
Köln Skulptur #7, Sculpture Park, Cologne, Germany
Dynamo – A Century of Light and Motion in Art, 1913-2013, Grand Palais, Paris, France
What to Think, What to Desire, What to Do, Fundació “la Caixa,” Barcelona, Spain
2012
Think Twice, Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK
Inaugural Exhibition by Gallery Artists, Regen Projects, Los Angeles, US
Klein Byars Kapoor, Musée d'Art Moderne et d'Art Contemporain, Nice, France
Prism. Drawings from 1990 to 2012, Museum of Contemporary Art, Oslo, Norway
Light and Landscape, Storm King Art Centre, Mountainville, US
Lux Perpetua, Kamel Mennour, Paris, France
Matters of Fact, Hessel Museum of Art, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, US
2011
Made in the UK: Contemporary Art from the Richard Brown Baker Collection, Rhode Island School of Design Museum of Art, Providence, US
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, US; traveled to Bass Museum of Art, Miami, US
Black Swan: The Exhibition, Regen Projects, Los Angeles, US
2010
Spazio/Space, The National Museum of the XXI Century Arts, Rome, Italy
Outiside the Box: Edition Jacob Samuel, 1988 – 2010, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, US
Sexuality and Transcendence, Pinchuk Art Centre, Kiev, Ukraine
Itinéraires de l’élégance entre l’Orient et l’Occident, Villa Empain, Boghossian Foundation, Brussels, Belgium
ColorForms, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C., US
Contemplating the Void, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, US
2009
3rd Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia
Domus Collection New York | Beijing, White Space, Beijing, China
Anish Kapoor, John McCracken, Avid Rabinowitch, Rachel Whiteread, Fredericks & Freiser, New York, US
3, Lisson Gallery, London, UK
Incidental Affairs: Contemporary Art of Transient States, Suntory Museum, Osaka, Japan
Marble, Gagosian Gallery, New York, US
2008
Helga de Alvear und Harald Falckenberg im Dialog, Phoenix Kulterstiftung, Hamburg, Germany
Ambition of Art, Institut d'art Contemporain, Lyon, France
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
Blake's Shadow, Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, UK
2007
Makers and Modelers: Works in Ceramic, Gladstone Gallery, New York, US
Arttempo-Where Time Becomes Art, Palazzo Fortuny, Venice, Italy
Estuaire, Nantes<>Saint-Nazaire, Nantes, France
Fast Forward: Contemporary Collections for the Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, US
Timer 01/Intimacy, Milan, Italy
Contrepoint, Musée du Louvre, Paris, France
Simply Red, The Fabric Workshop & Museum, Philadelphia, US
Slow, Z33, Hasselt, Belgium
2006
How to Improve the World, Hayward Gallery, London, UK
The Expanded Eye, Kunsthaus Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Surprise Surprise, The Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, London, UK
The Grande Promenade, curated by Anna Kafetsi, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens, Greece
The 5th Asia-Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, Queensland Art Gallery, South Brisbane, Australia
Concepts for a Collection, Centro Cultural de Belém, Belém, Brazil
Modern and Contemporary Master Drawings, Connaught Brown, London, UK
2005
Collection Automne – Hiver, 2ème Partie, CAPC Musée d’Art Contemporain, Bordeaux, France
God is Great, curated by David Thorp, Istituto Nautico Venier, Venice, Italy
Bidibidobidiboo, curated by Francesco Bonami, Sandretto Re Rebaudengo Collection, Turin, Italy
Colour After Klein, Barbican Art Gallery, London, UK
Universal Experience: Art, Life, and the Tourist's Eye, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago, US
Donnaregina Napoli, Museo d'Arte Contemporanea, Rome, Italy
(In)Visible (In) Corporeo, Museo d'Arte Provincia di Nuoro, Nuoro, Italy
British Sculpture Show, Kunsthalle Würth, Schwäbisch Hall, Germany
2004
Arts and Architecture 1900-2000, Palazzo Ducale, Genoa, Italy
5th Gwangju Biennale – A Grain of Dust a Drop of Water, Gwangju, Korea
Lustwarande 04, Tilburg, Netherlands, 2004
Pain: Passion, Compassion, Sensibility, Science Museum, London, UK
Dzine, Beautiful Things, SCAI The Bathhouse, Tokyo
2003
Inaugural Exhibition, Regen Projects, Los Angeles, US
Minimalism and More: Contemporary Art, The Frederick R Weisman Art Foundation, Malibu, US
Fresh Contemporary British Artists in Print, Edinburgh Printmakers, Edinburgh, Scotland
Ineffable Beauty, Schon Unaussprechlich, Kunsthalle Erfurt, Erfurt, Germany, 2003
Beaufort 2003, Ostend, Belgium
Mind Space, Ho-Am Art Gallery, Seoul, Korea
As Heavy as Heaven, Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz, Austria
Windstill, Cotthem Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
Blast to Freeze: British Art in the 20th Century, Les Abattoirs, Toulouse, France
Tate Modern, London, UK
Bewitched Bothered and Bewildered, Migros Museum, Zurich, Switzerland
Selected Projects
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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
The Edge of the World, Axel Vervoordt Kanal, Wijnegem, Belgium
1999
Taratantara, BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, UK
1995
Mountain, Simcoe Park, Toronto, Canada
1994
Mountain, Tachikawa Art Project, Tachikawa, Japan
Selected Awards
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2025
Wilhelm Lehmbruck Prize for Sculpture
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
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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
Media
News
Selected Press