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ANISH KAPOOR
BIOGRAPHY
Born 1954 in Bombay, India.
Lives and works in London.
Education:
Hornsey College of Art, London, 1973-77
Chelsea School of Art, London, 1977-78
Taught at Wolverhampton Polytechnic, 1979
Artist in Residence, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, 1982
Solo Exhibitions:
2009
"New Works," Lisson Gallery, London, UK,, October 14 – November 14, 2009
"Anish Kapoor," Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK, September 26 – December 11, 2009
"Drawings," Regen Projects, Los Angeles, CA, January 8 – February 28 2009
2008
"Shooting into the Corner," Mak, Vienna, Austria, January 20-April 19, 2009
"Memory," Berlin –Mitte, November 30, 2008 – January 2, 2009
Title, Location/Gallery or Institutuion, city, state or country, dates
Martinez, Rose, "Islamic Mirror," Santa Clara Convent, Murcia, November 25, 2008- January 10, 2009
"Anish Kapoor," Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, Massachusetts, May 30–September 7, 2008
"Anish Kapoor," Gladstone Gallery, New York, NY, May 12, - April 2008
2007
"Svayambh," Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany, October 18, 2007 – January 20, 2008
"Anish Kapoor," Galleria Continua Beijing, China, September 1 – December 1, 2007
"Anish Kapoor," Gladstone Gallery, New York, NY, March 9 – April 14, 2007
2006
"Anish Kapoor," Lisson Gallery, London, United Kingdom, October 13 – November 18, 2006
"Anish Kapoor," curated by Marcello Dantas and Lorenzo Fiaschi, Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil, Brazil, July 24- September 7, 2006; travels to the Centro Cultural banco do Brasil, Brasilília, October 12 , 2006 – January 7, 2007; travels to the Centro Cultural Banco do Brasi, São
Paulo, January 29,2007 – April 1, 2007; cat.
"Anish Kapoor," Regen Projects, Los Angeles, California, February 24 – March 25, 2006
"My Red Homeland," Centro de Arte Contemporáneo de Málaga, Spain, January 27 – April 30, 2006
2005
"Anish Kapoor: Japanese Mirrors," SCAI The Bathhouse, Tokyo, Japan, November 18 – December 22, 2005
2004
"Anish Kapoor," Galleria Massimo Minini, Brescia, Italy, September 25 - December 18, 2004
"Whiteout," Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York, May 8 – June 25, 2004
2003
"Painting." Lisson Gallery, London, England
Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Naples, Italy, October 25, 2003-January 15, 2004
"Anish Kapoor: la montagna, la pietra, lo specchio," National Art Gallery, Rome, Italy, December 3, 2003-March 7, 2003
"My Red Homeland," Kunsthaus Bregenz
2002
"The Unilever Series: Anish Kapoor," Tate Modern, London, England
2001
Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York
2000
Regen Projects, Los Angeles
"Blood," Lisson Gallery, London
"The Edge of the World," permanent installation at Axel Vervoordt Kanal,
Wijnegem, Belguim
1999
Galeria Andre Viana, Porto, Portugal
CAPC, Musee d'Art Contemporain de Bordeaux
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)
1985
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);
traveled to Le Nouveau Musee, Lyon
Lisson Gallery, London
1982
Lisson Gallery, London
Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
1981
Coracle Press, London
1980
Patrice Alexandre, Paris (studio exhibition)
Selected Group Exhibitions:
2009
"Anish Kapoor, John McCracken, avid Rabinowitch, Rachel Whiteread," Fredericks & Freiser, New York, NY, May 9 – June 26, 2009
"3," Lisson Gallery, London, April 8 – April 25, 2009
2008
"Helga de Alvear und Harald Falckenberg im Dialog," Phoenix Kulterstiftung, Hamburg, November 21 – March 15, 2008
"Ambition of Art," Institut d'art Contemporain (IAC), Lyon
"Traces du Sacre," Centre Georges Pompidou, Galerie I, Paris
"Blood on Paper - the Art of the Book," Victoria and Albert Museum London, April 29 – June 2009
"Blake's Shadow," Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester
2007
"Makers and Modelers: Works in Ceramic," Gladstone Gallery, New York, NY, September 8 – October 13, 2007
"Arttempo-Where Time Becomes Art," Palazzo Fortuny, Venice, Italy, June 9 – November 5, 2007
"Estuaire: A Brand New Artistic Trail," Nantes, Saint-Nazaire, France, June 1 – September 1, 2007
"Fast Forward: Contemporary Collections for the Dallas Museum of Art," Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas, February 11 – May 20, 2007; cat.
2006
"Surprise Surprise," Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, England, August 2 – September 10, 2006
"The Grande Promenade," curated by Anna Kafetsi, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens, Greece, July 17 – September 29, 2006
2005
"God is Great," curated by David Thorp, Istituto Nautico Venier, Venice, Italy,
June 10 – September 9, 2005
"Bidibidobidiboo," curated by Francesco Bonami, Sandretto Re Rebaudengo Collection, Turin, Italy, May 31 – October 2, 2005
"Colour after Klein," Barbican Art Gallery, May 26 – September 11 2005, cat.
2004
"Opera Video," Galleria Continua, San Gimignano, Italy, February 2004
2003
"Inaugural Exhibition," Regen Projects, Los Angeles, CA, January 25 - March 8
"Minimalism and More: Contemporary Art From The Frederick R. Weisman Art
Foundation," Malibu, CA, August 22 – November 16, 2003
2002
"Retrospective: 25 years of Collection Modern and Contemporary Art," Denver Art Museum, November 16, 2002 – August 3, 2003
"Blast to Freeze," Kuntsmuseum Wolfsburg, September 14 – January, 19, 2003
"Remarks on Color," Sean Kelly Gallery, New York, June 1 - July 26
"No Object, No Subject, No Matter…," Irish Museum of Modern Art, May 19 – September 1, 2002
2001
"Drawings," Regen Projects, Los Angeles, May 26 - July 21
"The Inward Eye," Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX, December 8 - February 17, 2002
"Field Day: Sculpture from Britain, Tapei Fine Art Museum, Japan, Organized by the Taipei Fine Arts and the British Council, cat.
2000
"Around 1984: a Look at the Eighties," PS1 Contemporary Art Center, New York, NY
"Drawings 2000," Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York, NY, July 6 - August 5, cat.
"Vanitas: Meditations on Life and Death In Contemporary Art," Virginia
Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, Virginia, April 4 – June 28, 2000
1999
"Art Worlds in Dialogue," Museum Ludwig, Cologne
"Beauty- 25th Anniversary," Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington DC,; touring to Haus der Kunst, Munich, (07.10.99-17.01.2000), Catalogue: Regarding Beauty
1998
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
1997
"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
1996
"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
1995
"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)
1994
"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
1993
"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
1992
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)
1991
"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
1990
"British Art Now, Japan 1990-1991," Setagaya Museum, Tokyo, Organized by
the British Council (catalogue); Traveled 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); Traveled 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)
1989
"Anish Kapoor, Wolfgang Laib, Richard Long," Galerie Le Gall Peyroulet, Paris
"Collection 1989 à Jacques Guillot," Musée d'Art Contemporain de Lyon
1988
"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
1987
"Similia/Dissimilia," Stadtische Kunsthalle, Dusseldorf (catalogue).
Traveled 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
1986
"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
1985
"Currents," Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston (catalogue)
"Sculptors' Drawings," Artspace Galleries, Aberdeen. Organized by the
Scottish Arts Council, Traveled 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); Traveled 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; traveled 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); traveled to Arts Council Gallery, Belfast
1984
"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); traveled 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"
1983
"Transformations: New Sculpture from Britain," XVII Bienal de Sao Paulo,
Brazil, Organized by the British Council (catalogue); traveled 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)
1982
"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)
1981
"Objects & Sculpture: Richard Deacon, Antony Gormley, Anish Kapoor,
Peter Randall-Page," Institute of Contemporary Art, London (catalogue), traveled 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)
1980
"New Sculpture," Midland Group Gallery, Nottingham
1979
"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 Center and Sculpture Garden Minneapolis
Weltkunst Foundation, Zürich
Public Commissions:
"Sky Mirror," organized by Public Art Fund, hosted by Tishman Speyer, at Rockefeller Center, New York, NY, 2006
"Cast Iron Mountain," Tachikawa Art Project, Japan, 1995
Toronto, Canada, 1998
Israel Museum, Jerusalem, 1998
Awards:
2005
Louise T. Blouin Foundation
1991
Turner Prize Award
1992
"Premio Duemila" Venice Biennale, Italy
1997
Honorary Fellowship at the London Institute
2003
Dayawati Modi Award
