Born in Mumbai, 1954
Lives and works in London and Venice
Selected Solo Exhibitions, Commissions and Projects
2024
‘Anish Kapoor’ Lisson Gallery, London (Current)
‘Anish Kapoor. Drawings’, Lisson Gallery, Shanghai, China (Current)
‘Inflamação’ Casa Bradesco, Cidade Matarazzo, São Paulo, Brazil (Current)
‘Monadic Singularity’, Liverpool Cathedral, U.K
‘Unseen’, ARKEN, Ishøj, Denmark
2023
‘Anish Kapoor’, Lisson Gallery, New York, U.S.A
‘Untrue Unreal’, Palazzo Strozzi, Florence, Italy
‘Anish Kapoor’, Kukje Gallery, Seoul
‘Anish Kapoor’, Regen Projects, Los Angeles, U.S.A
2022
‘Anish Kapoor’, Centre of Polish Sculpture in Orońsko, Poland
‘Anish Kapoor’, Lisson Gallery, Beijing
‘Anish Kapoor’, Skulpturen-Park, Waldfrieden, Wuppertal, Germany
‘Anish Kapoor’, Gallerie dell’Accademia di Venezia & Palazzo Manfrin, Italy
2021
‘Painting’, Modern Art Oxford, U.K
‘Anish Kapoor’, Lisson Gallery, London
‘Anish Kapoor’, Galleria Continua, Commanderie de Peyrassol, Flassans-sur-Issole, France
‘Anish Kapoor’, Shenzhen Museum of Contemporary Art and Urban Planning (MoCAUP), China
2020
‘HOWL’, Rotunda, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, Germany
‘Anish Kapoor at Houghton Hall’, Norfolk, U.K
‘Anish Kapoor’, Regen Projects, Los Angeles, U.S.A
2019
‘Anish Kapoor’, Lisson Gallery, New York, U.S.A
‘Anish Kapoor’, CAFA Art Museum / Imperial Ancestral Temple, Beijing
Anish Kapoor Lisson Gallery, London
Surge CorpArtes, Santiago; Fundación Proa, Buenos Aires
Anish Kapoor Pitzhanger Manor, London
2018
Anish Kapoor Galerie Klüser, Munich, Germany
Anish Kapoor in Beppu, Beppu Park, Japan
Anish Kapoor–Works, Thoughts, Experiments, Serralves, Museu de Arte Contemorânea, Porto, Portugal
Anish Kapoor, PUNKT Ø Galleri F 15, Moss, Norway
Another (M)other, Kamel Mennour, Paris
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
Places of Origin–Monuments for the 21st Century, MAST Foundation, Bologna, Italy
Ark Nova, Lucerne Festival, Tokyo Midtown
Destierro, Parque de la Memoria, Buenos Aires
Descension, Brooklyn Bridge Park, Public Art Fund, New York, U.S.A
Anish Kapoor, Lisson Gallery, London
Stackhouse, Winnipeg Warming Huts, Manitoba, Canada
Anish Kapoor, Galleria Massimo Minini, Brescia, Italy
2016
‘Anish Kapoor’, Museo d’Arte Contemporane, Rome
‘Anish Kapoor’, Galleria Continua, Havana
‘Descension’, Nuit Blanche 2016, The Seine, Paris
‘Anish Kapoor’, Gagosian, Hong Kong
‘Anish Kapoor’, Scai The Bathhouse, Tokyo
‘Gathering Clouds’, Kukje Gallery, Seoul
‘Anish Kapoor’, Casamadre Arte Contemporanea, Naples, Italy
‘Tristan and Isolde’, Set design, English National Opera, London Coliseum
‘Archaeology, Biology’, Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo, UNAM, Mexico City
‘Anish Kapoor’, Lisson Gallery, Milan, Italy
‘Anish Kapoor’, Gladstone Gallery, New York, U.S.A
2015
‘Ascension’, Follia Continua, Paris
‘Ark Nova’, Lucerne Festival, Fukushima, Japan
‘My Red Homeland’, The Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center, Moscow
‘Anish Kapoor Chez Le Corbusier’, La Tourette, Lyon, France
‘Anish Kapoor Versailles’, Château de Versailles
‘Descension’, Galleria Continua, San Gimignano, Italy
‘Anish Kapoor’, Lisson Gallery, London
‘Anish Kapoor’, Gladstone Gallery, Brussels
‘Anish Kapoor’, Regen Projects, Los Angeles, U.S.A
2014
‘Ark Nova’, Lucerne Festival, Sendai, Japan
‘Descension’, Kochi-Muziris Biennale, India
2013
‘Kapoor in Berlin’, Martin–Gropius–Bau, Berlin
‘Anish Kapoor in Istanbul’, Sakıp Sabancı Müzesi, Istanbul
‘Anish Kapoor’, Galleria Continua, Le Moulin, France
‘Ark Nova’, Lucerne Festival, Matsushima, Japan
2012
‘Anish Kapoor’, MCA Sydney, Australia
‘Anish Kapoor’, Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul
‘Anish Kapoor’, Lisson Gallery, London
‘Anish Kapoor’, De Pont Museum of Contemporary Art, Tilburg, Netherlands
‘Parcifal’. Set Design. Het Muzietheatre, De Nederlands Opera, Amsterdam
‘Orbit’, Queen Elizabeth Park, London
‘Anish Kapoor’, Pinchuk Art Centre, Kyiv
‘Anish Kapoor’, Gladstone Gallery, New York, U.S.A
2011
‘Anish Kapoor’, Rotonda della Besana, Milan, Italy
‘Dirty Corner’, Fabricca del Vappore, Milan, Italy
‘Leviathan’, Monumenta 2011, Grand Palais, Paris
‘Between Shit and Architecture’, Galerie Kamel Mennour, Chapelle des Petits Augustins, Beaux-Arts de Paris
‘Flashback’, Manchester Art Gallery; Sculpture Court, Edinburgh College of Art; Nottingham Castle Museum and Art Gallery, U.K, 2012
‘Ascension’, Basilica di San Giorgio Maggiore, Venice, Italy
2010
‘Anish Kapoor, Delhi Mumbai’, National Gallery of
Modern Art and Mehboob Studios, Mumbai, India
‘Turning the World Upside Down’,
Kensington Gardens, The Royal Parks and the
Serpentine Gallery, London
‘Temenos’, Middlesbrough, Tees Valley, U.K
‘Anish Kapoor’, Museo Guggenheim de Arte Moderno
y Contemporáneo, Bilbao, Spain
‘Turning the World Upside Down’, Israel Museum, Jerusalem
‘Anish Kapoor’, Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art,
Middlesbrough, U.K
2009
‘Shooting into the Corner’, MAK, Vienna
‘Anish Kapoor’, Royal Academy of Arts, London
Guest Artistic Director, Brighton Festival, U.K
‘Earth Cinema’, Arte Pollini, Basilicata, Italy
‘Dismemberment, Site I’, The Farm, Kaipara Bay, New Zealand
2008
‘Past, Present, Future’, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, U.S.A
‘Place/No Place’: Anish Kapoor in Architecture,
Royal Institute of British Architects, London
‘Pelleas and Mellisander’. Set Design. La Monnaie, Brussells
‘Memory’, Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin (travelled to Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York)
2007
‘Svayambh’, Musee des Beaux-Arts, Nantes, France
‘Svayambh’, Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany
‘In-I’. Set design. Akram Khan Company, Queen Elizabeth Hall, London
2006
‘Ascension’, Centro Cultural Banco Do Brasil, Rio de Janeiro (travelled to Brasilia and Sao Paulo)
‘Sky Mirror’, Rockefeller Center, New York, U.S.A
‘My Red Homeland’, CAC Malaga, Spain
2004
‘Whiteout’, Gladstone Gallery, New York, U.S.A
‘Melancholia’, MAC Grand Hornu, Belgium
‘Cloud Gate’, Millennium Park, Chicago, U.S.A
‘L’Origine du monde’, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan
2003
‘My Red Homeland’, Kunsthaus, Bregenz, Austria
‘Painting’, Lisson Gallery, London
‘Anish Kapoor’, Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Naples, Italy
‘Idomeneo’, Set design, Glyndebourne, Lewes, Sussex, U.K
2002
‘Marsyas’, The Unilever Series: Anish Kapoor, Turbine Hall, Tate Modern, London
‘Kaash’ Set design. Akram Khan Company, Festival Hall, London
2001
‘Anish Kapoor’, Barbara Gladstone, New York, U.S.A
‘Sky Mirror’, Nottingham Playhouse, Nottingham, U.K
‘Anish Kapoor’, Taidehalli, Helsinki
‘Anish Kapoor’, Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York, U.S.A
2000
‘Blood’, Lisson Gallery, London
‘Taratantara’, Piazza Plebicito, Naples, U.S.A
‘Blood Solid’, Fig-1, London
1999
‘Taratantara’, BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, U.K
1998
‘Anish Kapoor’, Hayward Gallery, London
‘Her Blood’, La Chapelle de la Salpetriere, Paris
‘Anish Kapoor’, Sobre Espacio, Centro Galego de Arte Contemporanea, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
‘Anish Kapoor’, Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York, U.S.A
1997
‘Anish Kapoor’, Galerie Lucien Durand, Paris
1996
‘Anish Kapoor’, Kunst-Station Sankt Peter, Cologne, Germany
‘Anish Kapoor’ Galleria Massimo Minini, Brescia, Italy
1995
‘Anish Kapoor’, DePont Foundation, Tilburg, Netherlands
(travelled to Nishimura Gallery, Tokyo)
‘Mountain’, Toronto, Canada
‘Anish Kapoor’, Fondazione Prada, Milan, Italy
1994
‘Mountain’, Tachikawa Art Project, outside Tokyo
‘Anish Kapoor’, Mala Galerija, Moderna Galerija Ljubljana, Slovenia
1993
‘Anish Kapoor’, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel
‘River Run’ Set design, Queen Elizabeth Hall, London
Anish Kapoor, Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New Your, U.S.A
1992
‘Anish Kapoor’, San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla, U.S.A
‘Anish Kapoor’, Stuart Regen Gallery, Los Angeles, U.S.A
1991
‘Anish Kapoor’, Palacio de Velazquez, Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid
‘Anish Kapoor’, Kunstverein Hannover, Germany
1990
‘Anish Kapoor’, XLIV Biennale di Venezia, British Pavilion, Venice, Italy
‘Drawings’, Tate Gallery, London
‘Anish Kapoor’, Le Magasin, Centre National d’Art Contemporain, Grenoble, France
1989
‘Anish Kapoor’, Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York, U.S.A
‘Anish Kapoor’, Kohji Ogura Gallery, Nagoya, Japan
‘Void Field’, Lisson Gallery, London
1988
Lisson Gallery, London
1987
‘Anish Kapoor:Works on Paper 1975 – 1987’, Ray Hughes Gallery, Sydney (travelled to MOMA, Brisbane, Australia)
1986
‘Anish Kapoor’, Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo
‘Sensual Transcendence: The Sculpture of Anish Kapoor’, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, New York, U.S.A
‘Anish Kapoor: Sculpture’ Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York, U.S.A
1985
‘Anish Kapoor’, Kunsthalle, Basel, Switzerland (travelled to Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven)
1984
‘Anish Kapoor’, Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York, U.S.A
1983
‘Feeling into Form’, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, U.K
(travelled to Le Nouveau Musée, Villeurbanne/Lyon)
Lisson Gallery, London
Anish Kapoor: Beeldhouwwerken” Galerie’t Venster, Rotterdam, Netherlands
1982
‘Anish Kapoor’, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, U.K
Lisson Gallery, London
1981
‘Anish Kapoor’, Coracle Press, London
1980
Patrice Alexandre, Paris