Artist: Anish Kapoor (1954 - )
Nationality: British
Movement: Abstract Art
Media: Sculpture, Installation
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Biography:
Anish Kapoor was born in India to a Hindu father and a Jewish-Iraqi mother. He moved to London in 1973 and began working in wood and mixed media. In the 1980’s, his work switched directions and he began working in stone and metal. Kapoor represented Great Britain at the Venice Biennale in 1990 and was awarded the Turner Prize in 1991.

Artworks in Museum Collections: (5)
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Anish Kapoor - Untitled 1988 tempera and pigment Hirshhorn Museum British
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Anish Kapoor - At the Hub of Things 1987 prussian blue pigmen Hirshhorn Museum British
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Anish Kapoor - Untitled, 1985 1985 gouache, emulsion, a Hirshhorn Museum British
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Nata Ragini, Wife of Bhairava Raga, Folio from a Ragamala (Garland of Melodies), Bhimsen  (Artist), 1762, Opaque watercolor, gold, and ink on paper
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Rukn-ul-din, Indian, late 17th century Bangal Ragini, from an illustrated Ragamala series Indian, Rajasthani Northern

Artnews Articles and Exhibition Information: (14)
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Kunsthaus Bregenz: My Red Homeland: Anish Kapoor
Anish Kapoor has lived and worked in London for over thirty years. His work combines the spiritual traditions of his native country and the notion of the sublime from the Western art tradition. Since his first sculptures – simple forms covered wit...
Jewish Museum: LIGHT  x  EIGHT: THE HANUKKAH PROJECT 2000
As a holiday commemorating the indomitable nature of light and spirit, Hanukkah is a fitting occasion to show works that represent light's mystical qualities.  Light x Eight will remain on view though January 29, 2001. Hanukkah beings at ...
Shanghai Art Museum: Third Shanghai Biennale
Almost half (31) came from outside of China, such as Matthew Barney (U.S.), William Kentridge (South Africa), Emily Kane Kngwarreya (Australia), Sarkis (Turkey), Anish Kapoor (India/England), Funakoshi Katsura (Japa...
South London Gallery: William Furlong: To Hear Yourself as Others Hear You
Come and See is a further work, installed in the entrance to the gallery, which through voice recording explores local issues, ideas, and identity, constructed from the words and sounds of Camberwell and Peckham residents. From school children to ...
Edinburgh Printmakers: FRESH: Contemporary British Artists in Print
The exhibition includes works by YBA’s such as the Chapman brothers, Gary Hume and Chris Ofili with leading innovators from Scotland such as Toby Paterson, Graham Fagen and Moyna Flannigan. The graphic quality and wide range of subject matte...
Tate Modern: Between Cinema and a Hard Place
Ranging from film and video to sculpture, the exhibition features works by the following artists: Miroslaw Balka, Matthew Barney, Christian Boltanski, Janet Cardiff and George Bures-Miller, James Coleman, Stan Douglas,...
Contemporary Arts Museum Houston: The Inward Eye: Transcendence in Contemporary Art
The exhibition features twenty-nine works created between 1970 and 2001 that capture the viewer's attention in a variety of ways. From perceptual work like that of Charles Ray or James Turrell that allows us to see ourselves seeing, to ...
Museum Ludwig: ART-WORLDS IN DIALOGUE
These dialogues are as multifarious as the artists who conduct them. The approximately 120 artists in this exhibition have each found their own, highly individual ways of exploring and examining one or more culture...
Aakriti Art Gallery: Indian Surrealism: Paintings of Contemporary Indian Aritsts
The term 'Surrealism' as a common currency now. It is taken for granted as a generative force that offers explorations into the plastic possibilities in the visual range. The proposed exhibition intends to present Surrealism as a human predicament...
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts: The Missing Peace: Artists Consider the Dalai Lama
Curated by Randy Rosenberg, formerly the curator for the art collections of The World Bank and the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, the roster of artists includes: Marina Abramovic, Seyed Alavi, Jane Alexander, El Anatsui, Laurie Anders...
Palazzo Ducale: Arti and Architettura: 1900 - 2000
A utopian adventure, encroaching sometimes into “archisculpture”, whose protagonists – artists and architects from Kazimir Malevich to Vladmir Tatlin, from Antonio Sant'Elia to Giuseppe Terragni, from Ludwig Mies van der Rohe to Piet Mondrian, f...
Fundament Foundation: Lustwarande 08 - Wanderland
Twenty-seven artists from thirteen countries are taking part in Lustwarande 08 - Wanderland. Most of the artists have created new work for the exhibition. Many of them have never previously exhibited work in the Netherlands.

David Altmejd (C...
MASS MoCA: The Nanjing Particles: Ambitious New Installation by Simon Starling
The jurors who awarded Starling the prestigious Turner Prize in 2005 singled out Starling's "unique ability to create poetics, drawing together a wide range of cultural, political and historical narratives."  Engaging directly with the sites where...
Art Basel Miami Beach: Art Projects: Art from the Gallery to the Street, to the Parks, on the Ocean and in the skies
The encouragement of young art has a long tradition at Art Basel - a tradition which is being consistently continued in Miami Beach. The special "Art Statements" sector encourages the youngest generation of artists by way of one-person shows; "A...

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