1977 Chelsea School of Art, London, UK 1973 Hornsey College of Art, London, UK
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2021 Anish Kapoor, Shenzhen Museum of Contemporary Art and Urban Planning, Shenzhen, China Anish Kapoor, Lisson Gallery, London, UK Anish Kapoor: Painting, Modern Art Oxford, Oxford, UK
2020 Anish Kapoor: Howl, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, Germany Anish Kapoor, Houghton Hall, Norfolk, UK Anish Kapoor, Regen Projects, Los Angeles, US
2019 Surge, Foundacion Proa, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Lisson Gallery, New York, US Anish Kapoor, Central Academy of Fine Arts Museum and Imperial Ancestral Temple, Beijing, China
2018 Anish Kapoor, Galerie Klüser, München, Germany Anish Kapoor in Beppu, Beppu Park, Oita, Japan Anish Kapoor, Serralves Museum, Porto, Portugal 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–Ètienne Mètropole, France Concept of Happiness. Anish Kapoor’s Outline of Collapse, Eye of Gyre, Tokyo, Japan Places of Origin–Monuments for the 21st Century, MAST Foundation, Bologna, Italy Destierro, Parque de la Memoria, Buenos Aires, Argentina Descension, Brooklyn Bridge Park, Public Art Fund, New York, US
Lisson Gallery, London, UK
Galleria Massimo Minini, Brescia, Italy
2016
Museo d’Arte Contemporane, Rome, Italy
Galleria Continua, Havana, Cuba Descension, Nuit Blanche 2016, The Seine, Paris, France Archaeology: Biology, Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo (MUAC), Mexico City, Mexico
Casamadre Arte Contemporanea, Naples, Italy
SCAI The Bathhouse, Tokyo, Japan
Gagosian Gallery, Hong Kong Gathering Clouds, Kukje Gallery, Seoul, Korea Anish Kapoor, Lisson Gallery, Milan, Italy Tomorrow you will be in Paradise, Gladstone Gallery, New York, US
2015 Descension, Galleria Continua, San Gimignano, Italy Anish Kapoor, Chateau de Versailles, Yvelines, France Anish Kapoor, Lisson Gallery, London, UK Anish Kapoor, Gladstone Gallery, Brussels, Belgium Anish Kapoor, Regen Projects, Los Angeles, US
2012 Anish Kapoor, Gladstone Gallery, New York, US PinchuckArtCentre, Kiev, Ukraine Lisson Gallery, London, UK Anish Kapoor, De Pont Foundation for Contemporary Art, Tilburg, The Netherlands Anish Kapoor,Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Sydney, Australia
2011 Flashback, Manchester Art Gallery, Manchester; Nottingham Castle Museum & Art Gallery, Nottingham; Longside Gallery, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Wakefield, UK Leviathan, Monumenta 2011 / Anish Kapoor, Grand Palais, Paris,France Between Shit and Architecture, Galerie Kamel Mennour, Chapelle des Petits Augustins Beaux-Arts de Paris, Paris, France Anish Kapoor, Rotonda della Besana, Milan, Italy
2010 Anish Kapoor: Delhi, Mumbai, National Gallery of Modern Art New Delhi, New Delhi, India & Studios Mumbai, Mumbai, India Anish Kapoor,SCAI the Bathhouse, Tokyo, Japan Turning the World Upside Down, Kensington Gardens, London, UK
2009 Anish Kapoor, Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK Anish Kapoor Drawings, Regen Projects, Los Angeles, US Anish Kapoor, New Works, Lisson Gallery, London, UK Memory, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, US Anish Kapoor Islamic Mirror, Museum of the Monasterio de Santa Clara, Murcia, Spain Anish Kapoor: Memory, Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin, Germany
2008 Anish Kapoor, Gladstone Gallery, New York, USA Anish Kapoor, Gladstone Gallery, Brussels, Belgium Anish Kapoor, Kukje Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2007 Anish Kapoor. Works on Paper, Gladstone Gallery, New York, US Anish Kapoor – Svayambh, Musee des Beaux Arts, Nantes, France; travelled to Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany
2006 Anish Kapoor, Regen Projects, Los Angeles, US Sky Mirror, Rockefeller Center (Public Art Fund), New York, US Anish Kapoor, Lisson Gallery, London, UK
2005 Japanese Mirrors,SCAI the Bathhouse, Tokyo, Japan
2004 Whiteout, Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York, US Cloud Gate, Chicago Millennium Park, Chicago, US Anish Kapoor, Galleria Massimo Minini, Brescia, Italy
2003 Painting, Lisson Gallery, London, UK Anish Kapoor, Kukje Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2002 Marsyas, The Unilever Series for the Turbine Hall, Tate Modern, London, UK
2001 Anish Kapoor, Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York, US
2000 Blood, Lisson Gallery, London, UK Anish Kapoor, Regen Projects, Los Angeles, US
1999 Anish Kapoor, SCAIthe Bathhouse, Tokyo, Japan
1998 Anish Kapoor, Gallery Massimo Minini, Brescia, Italy Her Blood, La Chapelle de la Salpétrière, Paris, France Anish Kapoor, Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York, US
1997 Anish Kapoor, Galerie Lucien Durand, Paris, France
1996 Anish Kapoor, Kunst-Station Sankt Peter, Cologne, Germany
1995 Anish Kapoor, Fondazione Prada, Milan, Italy Anish Kapoor, Gourds, Nishimura Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1993 Anish Kapoor,Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel
1991 Anish Kapoor (Organized in co-operation with the British Council), Palacio de Velazquez, Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain
1990 Anish Kapoor, Drawings, Tate Gallery, London, UK
1989 Kohji Ogura Gallery (in Co-operation with the Lisson Gallery), Nagoya, Japan
1988 Lisson Gallery, London, UK
1987 Anish Kapoor: Works on Paper 1975 – 1987, Ray Hughes Gallery, Sydney, Australia; travelled to MOMA, Brisbane, Australia
1986 Anish Kapoor, Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo, Norway
1985 Lisson Gallery, London, UK
1983 Feeling into Form, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, UK; travelled to Le Nouveau Musee, Villeurbanne/Lyon, France
1981 Anish Kapoor, Coracle Press, London, UK
1980 Anish Kapoor, Patrice Alexandre, Paris, France
Selected Group Exhibitions
2021 ECTOPIA, Forum Leverkusen, Leverkusen, Germany Light: Works from the Tate Collection, Buk-Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea Light & Space, Copenhagen Contemporary, Denmark
2020 Bangkok Art Biennale 2020: Escape Routes, Bangkok, Thailand Selected works in London, Lisson Gallery, London, UK The Artist-Collector’s Dream (A Nice Thing), Galleria Continua, San Gimignano, Italy LX by Archeus/ Post-Modern, LX ARTS NYC, New York, US Objects of Wonder: From Pedestal, to Interaction, Aros Aahus Kunstmuseum, Århus, Denmark
2019 Pushing paper: contemporary drawing from 1970 to now, British Museum, London, UK Reflections on Space and Time, Galeria Nara Roesler,São Paulo, Brazil A Time Capsule Continued, Parkett Exhibition Space, Zurich, Switzerland 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 Rituals of Signs and Metamorphosis, Red Brick Art Museum, Beijing, China Space Shifters, Hayward Gallery, London, UK Daniel Buren & Anish Kapoor, Galleria Continua, San Gimignano, Italy
2017 Everything at Once, Lisson Gallery X The Vinyl Factory, The store studios, 180 The strand, London, UK ReView, De Pont at 25: Anniversary Exhibition, De Pont Museum, Tillburg, The Netherlands A Journey, Kewenig Gallery, Berlin, Germany Lyric on a Battlefield, Galdstone Gallery, New York, US Euro Visions: Contemporary Art from the Goldberg Collection, National Art School Gallery, Sydney, Australia The Creative Act: Performance, Process, Presence, Guggenheim Abu Dhabi, UAE Colori, Castello di Rivoli Museo D’Arte Contemporanea, Turin, Italy Intuition, Palazzo Fortuny, Venice, Italy Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK
2016 Daydreaming with Stanley Kubrick, Somerset House, London, UK Seeing Round Corners: The Art of the Circle, Turner Contemporary, Margate, UK Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK Yinchuan Biennale, Yinchuan, China
2015 Folia Continua- 25 Years of Galleria Continua, Cent Quatare, Paris, France History Is Now: 7 Artists Take on Britain, Hayward Gallery, London, UK
2014 Formes Simples, Centre Pompidou-Metz, Metz, France Making Links: 25 Years, SCAI the Bathhouse, Tokyo, Japan
2013 Earth and Elsewhere: Contemporary works from the Collection,Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia Las huellas del camino. CAC Málaga, una década, CAC Málaga, Málaga, Spain Nostalgic for the Future, Lisson Gallery, London, UK Dynamo – A Century of Light and Motion in Art, 1913-2013,Grand Palais, Paris, France
2012 Prism. Drawings from 1990 to 2012,Museum of Contemporary Art, Oslo, Norway Light and Landscape, Storm King Art Centre, Mountainville, US
2011 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, USA; travelled to Bass Museum of Art, Miami, US Black Swan: The Exhibition, Regen Projects, Los Angeles, US
2010 ColorForms, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C., US Itinéraires de l’élégance entre l’Orient et l’Occident, Villa Empain, Boghossian Foundation, Brussels, Belgium Outside the Box, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, US Contemplating the Void, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, US
2009 Marble, Gagosian Gallery, New York, US Incidental Affairs: Contemporary Art of Transient States, Suntory Museum, Osaka, Japan Domus Collection New York | Beijing, White Space, Beijing, China 3rd Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia
2008 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
2007 Contrepoint III, The Louvre, Paris, France Makers and Modelers, Gladstone Gallery, New York, US
2006 The Expanded Eye, Kunsthaus Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland How to Improve the World, Hayward Gallery, London, UK
2005 Universal Experience, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago, US Colour After Klein, Barbican Art Gallery, London, UK British Sculpture Show, Kunsthalle Würth, Schwäbisch Hall, Germany
2004 5thGwangju Biennale – A Grain of Dust a Drop of Water, Gwangju, Korea
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 Taratantara, BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, UK
1995 Mountain, Toronto, Canada
1994 Mountain, Tachikawa Art Project, 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
Samsung 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