Anish Kapoor
Anish Kapoor is considered one of the most influential artists working today. Renowned for public sculptures that are both adventures in form and feats of engineering, Kapoor manoeuvres between vastly different scales, across numerous bodies of work. Immense PVC skins, stretched or deflated; concave or convex mirrors whose reflections attract and swallow the viewer; recesses carved in stone and pigmented so as to disappear: these voids and protrusions summon up deep-felt metaphysical polarities of presence and absence, concealment and revelation. Kapoor’s geometric forms from the early 1980s, for example, rise up from the floor and appear to be made of pure pigment, while the viscous, blood-red wax sculptures started in the early 2000s – kinetic and self-generating – ravage their own surfaces and explode the quiet of the gallery environment. There are resonances with mythologies of the ancient world – Indian, Egyptian, Greek and Roman – and with modern times.
Anish Kapoor was born in Mumbai, India in 1954 and lives and works in London and Venice, Italy. He studied at Hornsey College of Art, London (1973–77) followed by postgraduate studies at Chelsea School of Art, London (1977–78). Recent solo exhibitions include Cidade Matarazzo, São Paulo, Brazil (2024); Liverpool Cathedral, UK (2024); ARKEN Museum of Contemporary Art, Ishøj, Denmark (2024); Palazzo Strozzi, Florence, Italy (2023-24); Gallerie dell'Accademia di Venezia and Palazzo Manfrin, Venice, Italy (2022); Modern Art Oxford, UK (2021); Museum of Contemporary Art and Urban Planning, Shenzhen, China (2021); Houghton Hall, Norfolk, UK (2020); Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, Germany (2020); ‘Surge’ at Fundación Proa, Buenos Aires (2019); Central Academy of Fine Arts Museum and Imperial Ancestral Temple, Beijing (2019); CorpArtes, Santiago (2019); Pitzhanger Manor and Gallery, London (2019); Serralves Museum, Porto, Portugal (2018); Descension at Public Art Fund, Brooklyn Bridge Park Pier 1, New York, NY, USA (2017); Parque de la Memoria, Buenos Aires (2017); MAST Foundation, Bologna, Italy (2017); Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo (MUAC), Mexico City (2016); Couvent de la Tourette, Eveux, France (2015); Château de Versailles, Versailles, France (2015) and The Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center, Moscow (2015). He represented Britain at the 44th Venice Biennale in 1990 with Void Field (1989), for which he was awarded the Premio Duemila for Best Young Artist and won the Turner Prize in 1991. Large scale public projects include Cloud Gate (2004) in Millennium Park, Chicago, USA; Dismemberment Site I (2003–2009) Kaipara Bay, New Zealand and Ark Nova (2013) the world's first inflatable concert hall in Japan. Anish Kapoor was awarded a CBE in 2003 and a Knighthood in 2013 for services to visual arts.
Recent, current and forthcoming projects
'Anish Kapoor. Unseen' ARKEN, Denmark (11 April 2024 - 10 October 2024)
'Anish Kapoor. Untrue Unreal' - Palazzo Strozzi, Florence (7 October 2023 - 4 February 2024)
'Anish Kapoor' - Gallerie dell’Accademia di Venezia ( -
'Anish Kapoor: Painting' - Modern Art Oxford (2 October 2021 - 13 February 2022)
'Anish Kapoor' - Museum of Contemporary Art and Urban Planning (2 April - 4 July 2021)
Museum Exhibitions
Exhibitions
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Anish Kapoor: Drawings
2 November 2024 – January 2025
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Anish Kapoor
2 November – 22 December 2023
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Selected Works in Seoul
2 September – 10 September 2023
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Anish Kapoor
20 August – 30 October 2022
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Portals
10 February – 9 April 2022
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Pavilions
14 January – 12 February 2022
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Anish Kapoor
14 September – 30 October 2021
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Selected works in London
8 December 2020 – 12 January 2021
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Horizon
6 October – 31 October 2020
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Anish Kapoor
13 August – 17 August 2020
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Anish Kapoor
31 October – 20 December 2019
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Anish Kapoor
15 May – 22 June 2019
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Anish Kapoor
31 March – 6 May 2017
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Anish Kapoor
14 May – 22 July 2016
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Anish Kapoor
25 March – 9 May 2015
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Anish Kapoor
10 October – 10 November 2012
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Anish Kapoor: New Works
14 October – 14 November 2009
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Anish Kapoor
13 October – 18 November 2006
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Anish Kapoor: Painting
5 May – 28 June 2003
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Anish Kapoor: Blood
5 May – 1 July 2000
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Anish Kapoor
23 January – 28 February 1998
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Anish Kapoor
8 November 1995 – 6 January 1996
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Anish Kapoor
16 April – 20 May 1993
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Anish Kapoor
1 December 1989 – 4 January 1990
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Anish Kapoor
11 April – 7 May 1988
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Anish Kapoor: Recent Sculpture
4 September – 23 September 1985
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Anish Kapoor
22 October – 19 November 1983
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Anish Kapoor
19 May – 12 June 1982