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"Anish Kapoor is one of the world's most renowned and influential sculptors" - Donna De Salvo, Senior Curator Tate Modern.

Life at a Glance

  • Name: Anish Kapoor (1954-)
  • Education: Doon School, Dehra Dun (259-K 1958-1960);
    Hornsey College of Art , London
    Cambridge University
  • Artistic Highlights:
    Anish Kapoor won the Premio 2000 in 1990 when he represented the British Pavillion at the XLIV Venice Biennial. He was awarded the Turner Prize in 1991 and in 1992. He contributed to Documenta IX with the building 'Descent into Limbo'. In the same year Expo Seville commissioned a large architectural work entitled 'Building for Void'. After his Exhibition at the Hayward Gallery in 1998 and his ambitious exhibition at CAPC Bordeaux, the South Bank Show presented the first full-length television profile of him.
    (Extract from the Lisson Gallery, London.)
  • Representation: Anish Kapoor is presented by the Lisson Gallery in London and the Barbara Gladstone Gallery in New York
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 Introduction
One doesn't hear much about Anish Kapoor. He's not based in India and avoids the limelight. He's an artist after all and one who prefers to speak through the art he creates. In the last 30 years since his move to London to study, he's had phenomenal success in the art world letting his sculptures do the talking.

Today his sculputers fetch as much as Rs.60 lakhs each. He has been chosen to represent the UK in the prestigious Venice Biennial. In 1991, he won the even more prestigious Turner Prize for contemporary British art. His art is to be found places like the Musuem of Modern Art to the Tate Modern in London and in fact even in 10 Downing Street. Needless to say, Anish Kapoor is a dynamic dosco and a role model for the rest of us.
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