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Anish Kapoor

British, 1954

Biography

Anish Kapoor

Education

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

Selected Solo Exhibitions

  • 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

  • 2023
    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

  • 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

  • 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

Publications

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Selected Press

2023-11-00 Smithsonian Magazine
2023-09-18 한겨레
2023-09-00 Harper's Bazaar
2017-05-10 Open Magazine
2016-10-07 Korea Joongang Daily
2016-10-00 LUXURY
2016-10-00 INTERIORS
2016-10-00 World Sculpture News
2016-09-19 livemint
2016-09-09 The Korea Herald
2016-09-00 CA
2016-09-00 Randian
2015-10-00 월간미술
2015-08-00 서울아트가이드
2015-06-15 Paris Zigzag
2015-06-10 Korea Joongang Daily
2015-06-05 New York Times
2015-06-00 The Art Newspaper
2014-10-00 PUBLIC ART
An Inside Look at Anish Kapoor’s Next Act   pdf Smithsonian Magazine
Anish Kapoor presents a world of illusion and mystery in spellbinding new exhibition in Florence   pdf Euronews
Anish Kapoor at Palazzo Strozzi, an invitation to explore the possibilities of the unreal   pdf domus
친밀하면서도 무서운 혀   pdf 한겨레
아니쉬 카푸어의 크레센도 #요즘전시   pdf ELLE
죽어가는 듯 태어나는 듯… 기괴한 듯 온순한 듯   pdf 동아일보
700㎏ 검은 운석, 하얀방에 불시착   pdf 매일경제
숭고한 '피범벅'…거장 카푸어가 7년만에 들고 온 신세계   pdf 한국경제
카푸어가 새로 쓴 숭고의 신화   pdf Harper's Bazaar
Anish Kapoor: The Poetic Act Isn't Illustrative   pdf Contemporary Lynx
Anish Kapoor in Venice: gore, glory and blackest black magic   pdf Wallpaper
Venice Biennale: Anish Kapoor's works stir conversations on beauty and brutality   pdf Architectural Digest
Anish Kapoor’s Largest Outdoor Sculpture Show Includes New Work Plus Famous Sky Mirror   pdf Forbes
Surprise in store as Anish Kapoor’s ‘reflective’ UK exhibition opens   pdf Financial Times
Anish Kapoor on myth, meaning and melancholia   pdf Wallpaper
Anish Kapoor interview: ‘How can a bit of paint on a canvas be worth £50 million?’   pdf The Telegraph
Anish Kapoor: My Name is Red   pdf Open Magazine
아니쉬 카푸어 개인전 <Gathering Clouds>   pdf 미술과 비평
[ART & SPACE] Anish Kapoor   pdf bob
Kapoor show twists reality   pdf Korea Joongang Daily
아니쉬 카푸어의 '반대'라는 말   pdf BAZAAR ART
인식 너머 보이지 않는 예술   pdf Style H
시선을 사로잡는 힘   pdf LUXURY
조각, 공간에 쓰인 시 아니쉬 카푸어   pdf 美術世界
아니쉬 카푸어 개인전   pdf INTERIORS
아니쉬 카푸어 개인전 <Gathering Clouds>   pdf ArtWIDE
ANISH KAPOOR, GATHERING CLOUDS   pdf bob
Reflection and Distortion   pdf World Sculpture News
What Only Art Can Do: ‘Anish Kapoor: Gathering Clouds’   pdf SPACE
아니쉬 카푸어와 알렉스 프라거의 신세계   pdf HEREN
Anish Kapoor reflects on Korea’s maturing art identity, as Kukje Gallery leads the charge   pdf Wallpaper
‘You could disappear into it’: Anish Kapoor on his exclusive rights to the ‘blackest black’   pdf the Guardian
단순하지만 오묘한 비정형의 이미지 잔치   pdf 동아일보
최욱경·신성희·백영수·김덕기…발칙·참신한 상상력을 구입하라   pdf 한국경제
Anish Kapoor’s twisted feat   pdf livemint
[아주 동영상] 국제갤러리 아니쉬 카푸어 개인전 'Gathering Clouds'   pdf 아주경제
밤하늘엔 보름달이…미술관엔 별들의 작품이…   pdf 서울경제
Anish Kapoor Talks Void Forms and Vag   pdf observer
Twisted, distorted magical world      pdf korea.net
뒤틀린 스테인리스 덩어리…깊이 알 수 없는 블랙   pdf 이데일리
조각 거장 애니시 카푸어 "예술…단순할수록 더 깊죠"    pdf 매일경제
Fall art shows in full swing    pdf The Korea Herald
A conversation with Anish Kapoor   pdf OCULA
“예술은 물성과 비물성의 관계속에서 만들어지는 것”   pdf 세계일보
Vantablack ist keine Farbe – Anish Kappor in der Kukje Gallery   pdf Sabine B. Vogel
조각의 거장 카푸어 “단순할수록 더 깊다”   pdf 한국일보
As Anish Kapoor Opens Show in Seoul, He Considers Skipping China Biennial   pdf Blouinartinfo
세계적 조각가 아니쉬 카푸어, 국제갤러리서 개인전   pdf 한국경제
Anish Kapoor Reveals His Hopes for Vantablackat Seoul’s Kukje Gallery   pdf artnet
아니쉬 카푸어의 마법…거울조각에 홀리다   pdf 한겨레
'뒤틀린 스테인리스 덩어리'의 반사 반사…아니쉬 카푸어展   pdf NEWSIS
GATHERING CLOUDS   pdf CA
<아니쉬 카푸어_Gathering Clouds>   pdf Public Art
ANISH KAPOOR “Gathering Clouds” Kukje Gallery Seoul   pdf Randian
安尼施·卡普尔个展   pdf Randian
영국 크리에이터 애니시 커푸어+토머스 헤더윅, 서울을 수놓다   pdf Style조선일보
아니쉬 카푸어 개인전 ‘개더링 클라우즈’ 개최   pdf F.OUND
아니쉬 카푸어 4년만에 한국 개인전..."물성이 창출하는 비현실적 차원 다뤄"   pdf 경향신문
비정형과 비물질성에 대한 탐구…'스타 작가' 카푸어 개인전   pdf 연합뉴스
손에 잡힐 듯 잡히지 않는…아니쉬 카푸어의 조각을 만나다   pdf 헤럴드경제
현대미술 거장' 아니쉬 카푸어 "형태 단순할수록 큰 의미   pdf news1
Clouds Gather for Anish Kapoor in South Korea   pdf Blouinartinfo
Anish Kapoor   pdf 월간미술
아니쉬 카푸어   pdf 서울아트가이드
베르사유 궁에 인 파문   pdf Heren
ANISH KAPOOR INVESTIT VERSAILLES   pdf Paris Zigzag
Kapoor provokes with 'Dirty Corner' sculpture   pdf Korea Joongang Daily
Anish Kapoor, un sculpteur renversant à Versailles   pdf La Croix
Versailles : cinq choses à savoir sur Anish Kapoor   pdf Le Figaro
Palace revolutionary: Anish Kapoor at Versailles   pdf Financial Times
Avoiding niceties at Versailles   pdf New York Times
애니시 커푸어의 광할한 우주   pdf beyond
Anish Kapoor's revolution in Versailles   pdf The Art Newspaper
애니시 커푸어, 권력의 영광에 도전하다   pdf artnow
ANISH KAPOOR   pdf PUBLIC ART
애니쉬 카푸어가 만든 희망을 실어 나르는 배   pdf article