Anish Kapoor
Sculptor
Anish Kapoor was born in Mumbai in 1954 and lives and works in London. He studied sculpture at Hornsey College of Art, followed by postgraduate studies at Chelsea School of Art, London.
He represented Britain at the 44th Venice Biennale, for which he was awarded the Premio Duemila and won the Turner Prize in 1991.
Recent solo exhibitions include: Gallerie dell’Accademia and Palazzo Manfrin, Venice, Italy, Modern Art Oxford, UK, Houghton Hall, Norfolk, UK, ‘HOWL’, Rotunda, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, Germany; CAFA Art Museum / Imperial Ancestral Temple, Beijing; CorpArtes, Santiago; Serralves, Museu de Arte Contemorânea, Porto; Parque de la Memoria, Buenos Aires; Museo d’Arte Contemporanea di Roma (MACRO), Rome; Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo (MUAC), Mexico City; Château de Versailles, France. Permanent commissions include Cloud Gate in Millennium Park in Chicago; Orbit, Queen Elizabeth Park, London and Ark Nova, the world’s first inflatable mobile concert hall, Japan.