Born in 1954 Bombay, India
Lives and works in London, UK
Education
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 Honorary Fellowship at Royal Institute of British Architecture
2003
Awarded an CBE.
2004
Winner of the British Memorial Garden Trust
Recent Solo Exhibitions
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, New York
2002- 2003
“Marsyas”, Turbine Hall, Tate Modern, London
2003
“My Red Homeland”, KUB, Kunsthaus Bregenz
“Anish Kapoor”, Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Naples Italy
“Blood Solid”, art of this century, NY, US
“Painting”, Lisson Gallery, London
“Anish Kapoor”, Kukje Gallery, Seoul
“Anish Kapoor”, Galeria Continua, Italy
“Whiteout”, Gladstone Gallery, New York
“Anish Kapoor”, Massimo Minini Gallery, Brescia, Italy
2004-05
‘Melancholia’, MAC Grand Hornu, Belgium
2005
‘Anish Kapoor Japanese Mirrors’, Scai The Bathhouse, Tokyo
2006
‘Anish Kapoor’ Regen Projects, Los Angeles
‘Anish Kapoor’ Lisson Gallery, London
‘Anish Kapoor, Sky Mirror’ Rockefeller Centre, New York
‘Anish Kapor, Ascension’ Centro Cultural Banco Do Brazil, Rio de Janeiro (touring to Brasilia and Sao Paulo)
2007
‘Drawings on paper’, Barbara Gladstone, New York
Anish Kapoor - Svayambh, Musee des Beaux-Arts, Nantes
‘Anish Kapoor’, Haus der Kunst, Munich
‘One Colour’, Galleria Continua, Beijing
2008
‘Anish Kapoor: Past, Present, Future’, ICA Boston
Anish Kapoor, Barbara Gladstone, New York
Recent Group Exhibitions
2000
“Blue”, New Walsall Museum, Walsall, UK
“Groenningen Exhibition 2000”, Charlottenborg, Copenhagen
“Sinn und Sinnlichkeit”, Neues Museum Weserburg, Bremen, Germany
“La Beaute”, Papal Palace, Avignon, France
“Lyon Biennale”, Lyon, France
“Drawings 2000”, Barbara Gladstone, New York
“Bluer”, Carrie Secrist Gallery, Chicago, US
London Road Gallery, Northwich, Liverpoo
2001
“Signatures of the Invisible”, London Institute
“1951-2001 Made in Italy”, Triennale, Palazzo dell’Arte, Milan
Shanghai Biennale
Valencia Biennale
“BO01”, Concepthaus, Malmo
“Drawings”, Regen Projects, Los Angeles
“Sculpture in the Close 2001”, Jesus College, Cambridge
“Artcite: when Montreal Turns into a Museum”, Museum of Contemporary Art,
Monreal, Canada (exh cat)
“Field Day: Sculpture from Britain”, Tapei Fine Art Museum, Japan.
Organized by the Taipei Fine Arts and The British Councl (exh cat)
“Sculpture Conemporaine: Œuvres de la Collection Frac Rhone-Alpes de l’Institut d’art contemporain”, Substances, Lyon
2002
“Work on Paper: Anish Kapoor, Jose Bedia, Richard Serra”, Quint Contemporary
Art, California, USA
Barbara Krakow Gallery, 2002
“Colour White”, De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill on Sea, England, (cat.)
“Remarks on Color”, Sean Kelly Gallery, New York
“Four women and one pregnant man”, Galleri MGM, Oslo, Norway
“Sphere”, Sir John Soane’s Museum, London
“Sphere. Loans from invisible Museum”, Sir John Soane’s Museum, London
“Homage to Rudolf Schwarzkolger”, Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna, Austria
“Kaash”, Anish Kapoor, Akram Khan, Nitin Sawhney; touring collaborative dance production, Paris
“This Ain’t No Tupperware”, Kunsthoff, Kortrijk and Herford, Belgium
“No Object, No Subject, No Matter…”, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin
2002-03
“Blast to Freeze. British Art in the 20th century”, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, Germany, (cat.)
“Retrospectacle: 25 Years of Collecting Midern and Contemporary Art”, Denver Art Museum
“Imagine you are standing here in front of me”, The Caldic Collection in the Boijmans van Beuningen Museum, Rotterdam. (cat.)
2003
“Bewitched Bothered and Bewildered”, migros museum, Zurich
Tate Modern, Anish Kapoor, 6 April 2003, London
“Blast to Freeze: British Art in the 20th Century”, Les Abattoirs, Toulouse, France
“Windstill”, Cotthem Gallery, April-May, Brussels
“As Heavy as Heaven”, Landesmuseum Joannneum, Graz
“Mind Space, Ho-Am Art Gallery, Seoul, Korea (works in the collection of the Samsung Museum of Modern Art)
Beaufort 2003, Ostend, Belgium
“Ineffable Beauty”, “Schon Unaussprechlich”, Kunsthalle Erfurt
“Fresh: Contemporary British Artists in Print”, Edinburgh Printmakers, Scotland
2004
“Dzine, Beautiful Things”, May 14th-June 19, Shiraishi Contemporary Art Inc, Japan
“Pain: Passion, Compassion, Sensibility”, Science Museum, London
“Lustwarande 04”, Tilburg, Netherlands
“Gwangju Biennale”, Korea
“Arts and Architecture 1900-2000”, Palazzo Ducale, Genova
2005
“Donnaregina Napoli”, Museo D’Arte Contemporanea
“Raised Awareness”, Tate Modern
2006
‘Modern and Comtemporary Master Drawings’, Connaught Brown, London
‘Concepts for a Collection’ Exhibition Cente of Centro Culture de Belem, Brazil
‘Surprise Surprise’ ICA, London
‘The 5th Asia-Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art’, Queensland Art Gallery, South Brisbane
2007
‘Timer 01/Intimacy’, Milan, 30 March-16 June
‘Counterpoint III’, Louvre, Paris, 4 April-25 July
‘Artempo’, Palazzo Fortuny, Venice
‘Traces du Sacre’, Centre Pompidou, Paris
‘Simply Red’, The Fabric Workshop & Museum, Philadelphia
‘Slow’, Z33, Hasselt, Belgium, 25 Nov 07-10 Feb 08
‘Makers and Modelers: Works in Ceramic’, Gladstone Gallery, New York
2008
‘Blake’s Shadow’, Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester
‘Blood on Paper - the Art of the Book’, Victoria and Albert Museum London, 15 April - 29 June 2008
‘Traces du Sacre’, Centre Georges Pompidou - Galerie 1, Paris,
‘Ambition of Art’ Institut d’art contemporain (IAC) Lyon
Public Collections
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
Musee 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 Kroller-Muller, Otterlo, Holland
Fine Art Museum of San Francisco, USA
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 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
21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanawaza, Japan
Nelson Atkins Museum, Kansas City, Missouri, USA
Samsung Museum, Korea
Arts Council, UK
British Council, UK
Kanazawa Museum, Japan
