Anish KAPOOR

1954

Born, Bombay, India

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

1990

Awarded "Premio Duemila" at the Venice Biennale

1991

Turner Prize Award

1997

Awarded an Honorary Fellowship at the London Institute and Leeds University

1999

Awarded an Honorary Fellowship at the University of Wolverhampton

2001

Awarded an Honourary Fellowship at Royal Institute of British Architecture

Lives and works in London

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Selected Solo Exhibitions

1980

Patrice Alexandre, Paris

1981

Coracle Press, London

1982

Lisson Gallery, London
Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool

1983

Galerie 't Venster, Rotterdam (organized by the Rotterdam Arts Council) (exh cat) Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool (travelled to Le Nouveau Musee, Villeurbanne/Lyon) (exh cat)
Lisson Gallery, London

1984

Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York

1985

Lisson Gallery, London
Kunsthalle, Basel (exh cat) (travelled to Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven)

1986

Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo (exh cat)
Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York
"Anish Kapoor: Recent Sculpture and Drawings", University Gallery, Fine Arts Center, University of Massachusetts, Amherst (exh cat)

1987

"Anish Kapoor: Works on Paper 1975-1987", Ray Hughes Gallery, Sydney (exh cat) (travelled to MOMA, Brisbane, Australia)

1988

Lisson Gallery, London

1989

Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York
Kohji Ogura Gallery, Nagoya, Japan (exh cat)

1989-90

"Void Field", Lisson Gallery, London

1990

"Anish Kapoor, XLIV Biennale di Venezia", British Pavilion, Venice (organized by The British Council) (exh cat)
"Drawings", Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York

1990-91

"Anish Kapoor Drawings", Tate Gallery, London (exh cat)
Le Magasin, Centre National d'Art
Contemporain, Grenoble (organized in cooperation with the British Council)

1991

Palacio de Velazquez, Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid (organized in cooperation with The British Council) (exh cat)
Kunstverein Hannover (organized in cooperation with The British Council) (exh cat)
The Sixth Japan Ushimado International Art Festival, Ushimado, Japan
"Anish Kapoor & Ban Chiang", Feuerle Gallery, Köln

1992

Galeria Soledad Lorenzo, Madrid (exh cat)
Stuart Regen Gallery, Los Angeles

1992-93

San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla. Travelled to the Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, Iowa; The National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa; The Power Plant, Toronto (exh cat)

1993

Lisson Gallery, London
Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv (exh cat)
Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York

1994

Mala Galerija, Moderna Galerija Ljubljana, Museum of Modern Art, Slovenia (exh cat)
"Echo", Kohji Ogura Gallery, Nagoya, Japan ( in Co-Operation with the Lisson Gallery)

1995

"Anish Kapoor", DePont Foundation, Tillburg
Nishimura Gallery, Tokyo

1995-96

Prada Milanoarte, Milan
Lisson Gallery, London

1996

"Anish Kapoor. Sculptures", Aboa Vetus & Ars Nova, Turku, Finland
"Anish Kapoor. Two Sculptures", Kettle's Yard, Cambridge
Galleria Massimo Minini, Brescia
"Gourd Project 1993-95", Freddie Fong Contemporary Art, San Francisco

1996-97

Kunst-Station Sankt Peter, Cologne. Catalogue. Text by Claudia von Blücker, Heinrich Heil and Friedhelm Mennekes.

1998

Dobre Espacio, Centro Galego de Arte Contemporanea, Santiago de Compostela
Lisson Gallery, London
Gallery Massimo Minini, Brescia, Italy
Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York
Hayward Gallery, London
CAPC, Bordeaux
"Her Blood", La Chapelle de la Salpetriere, Paris

1999

Scai The Bathhouse, Tokyo, Japan
"Anish Kapoor", Andre Viana, Porto, Portugal
"Installation by Anish Kapoor", Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, UK

2000

"Blood", Lisson Gallery, London
Regen Projects, Los Angeles, California
"The Edge of the World", permanent installation at Axel Vervoordt Kanal, Wijnegem, Belgium
"Blood Solid", fig-1, London

2001

Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York

2002

"The Unilever Series: Anish Kapoor", Tate Modern, London

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Selected Group Exhibitions

1974

"Art into Landscape 1", Serpentine Gallery, London

1975

"Young Contemporaries", Royal Academy of Art, London

1978

"Northern Young Contemporaries", Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester

1979

"Tolly Cobbold: Eastern Arts", 2nd National Exhibition, Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge (travelling exhibition)
"Whitechapel Open", Whitechapel Art Gallery, London

1980

"New Sculpture", Midland Group Gallery, Nottingham

1981

"Objects & Sculpture: Richard Deacon, Antony Gormley, Anish Kapoor, Peter Randall-Page", Institute of Contemporary Art, London (exh cat)(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 (exh cat)

1982

"Aperto '82", XL Biennale di Venezia, Venice (exh cat)
"Englische Plastik Heute/British Sculpture Now", Kunstmuseum, Luzern, Switzerland (exh cat)
"XIIiéme 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)(exh cat)
"India: Myth and Reality", Museum of Modern Art, Oxford

1983

"Tema Celeste", Museo Civico d'Arte Contemporanea, Gibellina
"La Trottola di Sirio", Centro d'Arte Contemporanea, Siracusa, Italy (organized by The British Council) (exh cat)
"Figures and Objects", John Hansard Gallery, Southampton (exh cat)
"Douceur de l'Avant-Garde", C'est Rien de le Dire, Rennes, France (exh cat)
"Beelden/Sculpture 1983", Rotterdam Arts Council, Rotterdam (exh cat)
"Finland Biennale", Helsinki
"Sculpture 1983", Van Krimpen Gallery, Amsterdam
"The Sculpture Show", Hayward Gallery/Serpentine Gallery, London (organized by the Arts Council of Great Britain) (exh cat)
"New Art", Tate Gallery, London (exh cat)
"Constellazione", Galleria Giorgio Persano, Torino
"Eros Mythos Ironie", Neue Galerie, Graz, Austria
"Transformations: New Sculpture from Britain", XVII Bienal de Sao Paulo, Brazil (organized by the British Council) (exh cat) (travelled to Museo de Arte Moderna, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Museo de Arte Moderna, Mexico DF; Fundacao Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon)

1984

"An International Survey of Recent Painting and Sculpture",Museum of Modern Art, New York (exh cat)
"ROSC '84", Dublin, Ireland (exh cat)
"The British Art Show: Old Allegiances and New Directions, 1979-1984", (organized by the Arts Council of Great Britain) (exh cat) (travelled to City of Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, Birmingham, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham; Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh; Mappin Art Gallery, Sheffield; Southampton Art Gallery)
"Anish Kapoor and Bill Woodrow", Galerie Paul Maenz, Cologne

1985

"Sculptors' Drawings", (organized by the Scottish Arts Council) (travelled to Artspace Galleries,Aberdeen; Ayr, Lyth, Stirling, Stromness, Glasgow; Dracos Arts Centre, Athens)
"CURRENTS", Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston (exh cat)
"Nouvelle Biennale de Paris", Paris
"The British Show", (organized by Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney and The British Council) (exh cat) (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 (exh cat)(travelled to Kunsthalle, Bielefeld)
"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 Comune di Ravenna) (travelled to Bologna, Imola)
"20 Sculptures du FRAC Rhone-Alpes", l'Abbaye de Tournus, Tournus, France
"Anish Kapoor and Bill Woodrow", Donald Young Gallery, Chicago

1985-86

"The Poetic Object: Richard Deacon, Shirazeh Houshiary, Anish Kapoor", Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin (exh cat) (travelled to the Arts Council Gallery, Belfast)

1986

"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) (exh cat)
"Skulptur - 9 Kunstnere fra Storbrittanien", Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark (exh cat)
"Sonsbeek 1986. International Sculpture Exhibition", Arnhem, The Netherlands (exh cat)
"General Idea, Anish Kapoor, Melissa Miller", Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo
"Prospect '86. Eine internationale Austellung aktueller Kunst", Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt (exh cat)
"Inaugural Exhibition", Lang & O'Hara Gallery, New York
"Dessins de Sculpteurs", Galerie Gabrielle Maubrie, Paris
"Vessel", Serpentine Gallery, London

1987

"Juxtapositions: Recent Sculpture from England and Germany", The Institute for Art and Urban Resources, New York (exh cat)
"Inside/Outside", Museum Van Hedendaagse Kunst, Antwerpen (exh cat)
"British Art of the 1980's: 1987", Liljevalchs Konstall, Stockholm (organized by the British Council) (exh cat) (travelled to Sara Hilden Art Museum, Tampere)

1987-88

"Viewpoint. L'art contemporain en Grande Bretagne", Musee d'Art Moderne, Brussels (organized in cooperation with the British Council) (exh cat)
"Simila - Dissimila", Kunsthalle, Dusseldorf (exh cat)(travelled to Columbia University, Sonnabend Gallery and Leo Castelli Gallery, New York)

1988

"Europa oggi/Europe now", Museo d'Arte Contemporanea, Prato, Italy (exh cat)
"Fourth International Drawing Triennale", Kunsthalle Nuremburg (exh cat)
"La Couleur seule, l'Experience du Monochrome", Musee St. Pierre, Lyon (exh cat)
"Britannica. 30 Ans de Sculpture", Musee des Beaux-Arts Andre Malraux, Le Havre; Ecole d'architecture de Normandie, Rouen; Musée d'Evreux, Evreux (exh cat)
"Starlit Waters. British Sculpture: An International Art 1968-88", Tate Gallery, Liverpool (exh cat)

1988-89

"Carnegie International", Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburg, Pennsylvania (exh cat)

1989

"British Now: sculpture et autres dessins", Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal, Montréal, Quebec(exh cat)
"Anish Kapoor, Wolfgang Laib, Richard Long", Galerie Le Gall Peyroulet, Paris

1990

"Affinities and Intuitions. The Gerald S. Elliott Collection of Contemporary Art", The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago (exh cat)
"Dujourie, Fortuyn, Houshiary, Kapoor", Rijksmuseum Kröller-Müller, Otterlo, Holland (exh cat)
"Works on paper", Frith Street Gallery, London

1990-91

"Heroes of Contemporary Art", Galerie Saqqarah, Gstaad, Switzerland (exh cat) (travelled to TransArt Exhibitions Kreishaus, Cologne)
"Made of Stone", Galerie Isy Brachot, Brussels(exh cat)
"British Art Now: A Subjective View", (organised by the British Council) (exh cat).
Travelled to Setagaya Museum, Tokyo, Fukuoka Art Museum, Nagoya City Museum, Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Arts, Hyogo Prefectural Museum, Hiroshima City Museum

1991

Gallery Shirakawa, Kyoto
"La Sculpture Contemporaine après 1970", Fondation Daniel Templon, Fréjus, France (exh cat)
"Trans/Mission", Rooseum, Malmö, Sweden (exh cat)
"The 1991 Turner Prize 1991: An Exhibition of Work by the Four Shortlisted Artists", Tate Gallery, London (exh cat)
Milano, Studio Oggetto, "Il Limite delle Cose nella Nuova Scultura Inglese", Studio Oggetto, Milan (exh cat)

1991-92

"Rhizome", Haags Gemeentemuseum, The Hague (exh cat)
"Anish Kapoor and Abstract Art in Asia", Fukuoka Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan

1992

Documenta IX, Kassel
"The New British Sculpture, selected works from the Patsy R. and Raymond D. Nasher Collection", University of North Texas Art Gallery (exh cat)
"Whitechapel Open", Whitechapel Art Gallery, London
"Anish Kapoor invita Gary Woodley", Foro per l'Arte Contemporanea, Verona (exh cat)
"New Voices, New Works for the British Council Collection", organised by the British Council, Centre de Conférences Albert Borschette, Brussels(tour) (exh cat)

1992-93

Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
"De Opening", De Pont Foundation for Contemporary Art, Tilburg, The Netherlands (exh cat)

1993

"Another World", Art Tower Mito, Mito-shi Ibaraki, Japan (exh cat)
"British Sculpture from the Arts Council Collection", organised by the Arts Council of Great Britain, Derby Museum and Art Gallery, tour (exh cat)
"Punti Dell'Arti", Italian Pavilion, XLV Venice Biennale
"Tresors De Voyage", Monasterio dei Padri Mechitaristi dell' Isola di San Lazzaro Degli Armeni, Venice
"Art Against Aids", XLV Venice Biennale
"Sculpture", Leo Castelli Gallery, New York
"Body of Drawings", South Bank touring exhibition, Graves Art Gallery, Sheffield (tour to Mead Art Gallery, Coventry)
"Cerco", Bienal Internacional de Óbidos, Portugal (exh cat)
"Magazin", Architectur Zentrum, Vienna

1994

"Punishment and Decoration", Hohenthal und Bergen, Köln
"Asian Art Now", Hiroshima, Japan
"Sculptors' Drawings", Tate Gallery, London
"Re Rebaudengo Sandretto Collection", S. Antonio di Susa, Turin

1995

"Ars 95 Helsinki", Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki
"Contemporary British Art in Print" Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh (touring to the Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, December 1995-February 1996), (Exh Cat)
"British Art of the 1980s & 1990s - works from The WeltKunst Collection", The Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin
"De Henry Moore ós anos 90. Escultura británica contemporánea", Auditorio de Galicia, Santiago de Compostella, Spain (touring to Serralves Foundation, Oporto, Portugal) (exh cat)
"Longing and Belonging:From the Faraway Nearby", SITE, Santa Fe
"A Changing World - Fifty Years of Sculpture from the British Council Collection", Castle Riding Hall, Prague
"Ideal Standard Summertime", Lisson Gallery, London
"British Abstract Art Part II: Sculpture", Flowers East, London

1995-96

"Fémininmasculin. Le sexe de l'art", Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris

1996

"Dessins and maquettes de sculpteurs/Drawings and maquettes by sculptors", Galerie Samuel Lallouz, Montréal
"New Art on Paper 2", Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia
"Dissonant Wounds: Zones of Display/Metaphors of Atrophy", Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-0n-Hudson, New York
"Works on Paper from the Weltkunst Collection of British Art of the 80s and 90s", The Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, 30 March- 16 June 1996.
"Un siècle de sculpture anglaise", Jeu de Paume, Paris (exh cat), 6 June- 15 September 1996.
"Collections du Castello di Rivoli", Le Nouveau Musée, Villeurbanne, 14 June- 21 September 1996.
"Anish Kapoor, Barry X Ball", Angles Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, 28 June- 7 September 1996.
"23rd International Biennial of Sao Paolo", Sao Paolo
Moderner Galerija Ljubljana for the Museum of Modern Art, Sarijevo, Ljubljana, Slovenia
"Multiples", Galerie Lucien Durand, Paris, 20 September- 2 November 1996.
"Betong", Malmö Konsthall, 9 November 1996- 26 January 1997.

1997

"Meditations", Madrasa Ibn Youssef, Marrakech
"Belladonna", Institute of Contemporary Arts, London
"entgegen", Mausoleum am Dom, Graz, 24 January- 12 April 1997.
"Follow Me, Britische Kunst an der Unterelbe", Stade, Germany, 6 September- 31 October 1997.
"Arte Continua", Chiesa di San Giusto and Pinacoteca Civica,Volterra, Italy
"Changing Spaces", The Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, 12 November 1997- 4 January 1998.

1998

"Towards Sculpture", Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon (exh cat)
"The Art of the 80s",Culturgest, Caixa Geral de Depositos, Lisbon
"Wounds: Between democracy and redemption in contemporary art", Moderna Museet, Stockholm
"Spatiotemperal", Magasin 3, Stockholm
"Then and Now", Lisson Gallery, London

1999

"Prime", Dundee Contemporary Art, Dundee
"Shape of the Century",Salisbury's Festival, Salisbury, UK
"Den Haag Sculptuur 1999", The Hague
"Art Worlds in Dialogue", Museum Ludwig, Cologne
"Together: Artists in support for the homeless", The Passage House, London
"Beauty - 25th Anniversary", Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington DC.; touring to Haus der Kunst, Munich, (7 October 1999 - 17 January 2000) (exh. cat)
"Retrace your steps: Remember Tomorrow", Artists at the Soane Museum, curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist, London

2000

"Blue", New Walsall Museum, Walsall, UK
"Groenningen Exhibition 2000", Charlottenborg, Copenhagen
"Sinn und Sinnlichkeit", Neues Museum Weserburg, Bremen, Germany
"La Beauté", Papal Palace, Avignon, France
"Lyon Biennale", Lyon, France
"Drawings 2000", Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York
"Bluer", Carrie Secrist Gallery, Chicago, US
London Road Gallery, Northwich, Liverpool

2001

"Signatures of the Invisible", London Institute, London
"1951-2001 Made in Italy", Triennale, Palazzo dell'Arte, Milan
Shanghai Biennale, Shanghai
Valencia Biennale, Valencia
"BO01", Concepthaus, Malmo
"Drawings", Regen Projects, Los Angeles
"Sculpture in the Close 2001", Jesus College, Cambridge
"Artcité when Montréal Turns into a Museum", Museum of Contemporary Art, Monréal, Canada (exh cat)
"Field Day: Sculpture from Britain", Taipei Fine Art Museum. Organized by the Taipei Fine Arts and The British Councl (exh cat)
"Sculpture Conemporaine: Œuvres de la Collection Frac Rhône-Alpes de l'Institut d'art contemporain", Substances, Lyon

2002

"Work on Paper: Anish Kapoor, José Bedia, Richard Serra", Quint Contemporary Art, California, USA

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Museum

De Pont Foundation, Tillburg, Holland
Museo National Centro de Arte Reina Sofia,Madrid, Spain
Tate Gallery, London, Great Britain
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington DC, USA
Museo d'Arte Contemporanea, Prato, Italy
Fukuoka City Museum, Japan
Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
Weltkunst Foundation, Zurich, Switzerland
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburg, USA
Musée St. Pierre, Lyon, France
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, USA
Contemporary Art Society, London, Great Britain
National Gallery, Ottawa, Canada
Rijksmuseum Kröller-Müller, Otterlo, Holland
Fine Art Museum of San Francisco, USA
Leeds City Art Gallery, Great Britain
Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
Auckland City Art Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
Heide Park and Art Gallery, Victoria, Australia
Fundacio Berardo, Lisbon, Portugal
Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel
Moderna Galerija, Ljublijana, Slovenia
Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum, Duisburg, Germany
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago
Kloster Schoenthal, Basel, Switzerland