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Introduction

Date of Birth
12 Mar 1954
Zodiac sign
Pisces
Place of Birth
Bombay, Maharashtra, India
State Country of Birth
Maharashtra, India

Exhibitions

  1. 1974

    1. Art into Landscape 1, Serpentine Gallery, London, UK

      21 Sep 1974 to 20 Oct 1974

  2. 1975

    1. Young Contemporaries, Royal Academy of Art, London, UK
  3. 1978

    1. Northern Young Contemporaries, Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, UK
  4. 1979

    1. Whitechapel Open, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, UK
    2. Tolly Cobbold: Eastern Arts, 2nd National Exhibition, Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK
  5. 1980

    1. Anish Kapoor, Patrice Alexandre, Paris, France
    2. New Sculpture, Midland Group Gallery, Nottingham, UK
  6. 1981

    1. Anish Kapoor, Coracle Press, London, UK

      03 Apr 1981 to 01 May 1981

    2. Objects & Sculpture: Richard Deacon, Antony Gormley, Anish Kapoor, Peter Randall-Page, Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol, UK
    3. Summer Show, Serpentie Gallery, London, UK

      21 Sep 1981 to 11 Oct 1981

    4. British Sculpture in the 20th Century, Part -2: Symbol and Imagination 1951-80, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, UK

      27 Nov 1981 to 24 Jan 1982

    5. Objects & Sculpture: Richard Deacon, Antony Gormley, Anish Kapoor, Peter Randall-Page, Institute of Contemporary Art, London, UK
    6. British Sculpture in the 20th Century: Part -1, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, UK
  7. 1982

    1. Lisson Gallery, London, UK

      19 May 1982 to 12 Jun 1982

    2. Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, UK

      13 Mar 1982 to 18 Apr 1982

    3. Prefiguration, Centre d'Art Contemporain, Chambรฉry, France
    4. Englische Plastik Heute/British Sculpture Now, Kunstmuseum Luzern, Lucerne, Switzerland
    5. Aperto '82, XL Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
    6. XII Paris Biennale, Paris, France

      02 Oct 1982 to 14 Nov 1982

    7. London / New York 1982, Lisson Gallery, London, UK
    8. India: Myth and Reality, Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, UK
    9. Objects and Figures: New Sculpture in Britain, Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland
  8. 1983

    1. Patrice Alexandre, Paris, France
    2. Feeling into Form, Nouveau Musee, Villeurbanne/Lyon, France

      20 May 1983 to 05 Jul 1983

    3. Lisson Gallery, London, UK

      22 Oct 1983 to 19 Nov 1983

    4. Anish Kapoor: Beeldhouwwerken, Organised by the Rotterdam Arts Council, Galerie 't Venster, Rotterdam, Netherlands

      21 Jan 1983 to 23 Feb 1983

    5. Feeling into Form, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, UK

      16 Mar 1983 to 17 Apr 1983

    6. The Sculpture Show, Organised by the Arts Council of Great Britain, Hayward gallery & Serpentine Gallery, London, UK
    7. Sculpture 1983, Van Krimpen Gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands

      28 May 1983 to 25 Jun 1983

    8. Beelden/Sculpture 1983, Rotterdam Arts Council, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

      13 May 1983 to 22 Jun 1983

    9. Douceur de l'Avant-Garde, C'est Rien de le Dire, Rennes, France

      07 Jan 1983 to 29 Jan 1983

    10. Figures and Objects, John Hansard Gallery, Southampton, England, UK
    11. La Trottola di Sirio, Organised by The British Council, Centro d'Arte Contemporanea, Siracusa, Italy

      29 Jan 1983 to 26 Mar 1983

    12. Tema Celeste, Museo Civico d'Arte Contemporanea, Gibellina, Italy

      22 Jan 1983 to 30 Mar 1983

    13. Eros Mythos Ironie, Neue Galerie, Graz, Austria

      17 Sep 1983 to 23 Oct 1983

    14. Constellazione, Galleria Giorgio Persano, Turin, Italy
    15. Finland Biennale, Helsinki, Finland
    16. New Art, Tate Gallery, London, UK

      14 Sep 1983 to 23 Oct 1983

    17. Transformations : New Sculpture from Britain, Organised by The British Council, XVII Biennale de Sao Paulo, Brazil

      14 Oct 1983 to 18 Dec 1983

  9. 1984

    1. Anish Kapoor, Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York, USA

      03 Mar 1984 to 31 Mar 1984

    2. Transformations : New Sculpture from Britain, Organised by The British Council, Museu de Arte Moderna, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

      20 Jan 1984 to 20 Feb 1984

    3. Transformations : New Sculpture from Britain, Organised by The British Council, Museo de Arte Moderna, Maxico City, U.S.A.

      15 Mar 1984 to 15 May 1984

    4. Transformations : New Sculpture from Britain, Organised by The British Council, Fundaรงรฃo Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisboa, Portugal
    5. An International Survey of Recent painting and Sculpture, Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA

      17 May 1984 to 19 Aug 1984

    6. Anish Kapoor and Bill Woodrow, Galeries Paul Maenz, Cologne, Germany

      06 Jun 1984 to 30 Jun 1984

    7. ROSC 84, The Guinness Hop Store, Dublin, Ireland
    8. The British Art Show: Old Allegiances & New Directions 1979 - 1984, Organised by The Art Council of Great Britain, Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, Birmingham, UK

      02 Nov 1984 to 22 Dec 1984

  10. 1985

    1. Lisson Gallery, London, UK

      04 Sep 1985 to 23 Sep 1985

    2. Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York, USA
    3. Anish Kapoor, Kunsthalle, Basel, Switzerland

      06 Oct 1985 to 10 Nov 1985

    4. The British Art Show: Old Allegiances & New Directions 1979 - 1984, Organised by The Art Council of Great Britain, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, UK

      19 Jan 1985 to 24 Feb 1985

    5. The British Art Show: Old Allegiances & New Directions 1979 - 1984, Organised by The Art Council of Great Britain, Mappin Art Gallery, Sheffield, UK

      16 Mar 1985 to 04 May 1985

    6. The British Art Show: Old Allegiances & New Directions 1979 - 1984, Organised by The Art Council of Great Britain, Southampton Art Gallery, Southampton, UK

      18 May 1985 to 30 Jun 1985

    7. Nouvelle Biennale de Paris, Paris, France
    8. The British Show, Organized by the Art Gallery of New South Wales and The British Council, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, Australia

      19 Feb 1985 to 24 Mar 1985

    9. The British Show, Organized by the Art Gallery of New South Wales and The British Council, Travelled to Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia

      23 Apr 1985 to 09 Jun 1985

    10. The British Show, Organized by the Art Gallery of New South Wales and The British Council, Travelled to Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia

      05 Jul 1985 to 11 Aug 1985

    11. The British Show, Organized by the Art Gallery of New South Wales and The British Council, Travelled to The Exhibition Hall, Melbourne, Australia
    12. The British Show, Organized by the Art Gallery of New South Wales and The British Council, Travelled to National Art Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand
    13. Who's Afraid of Red, Yellow and Blue?, Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol, UK

      31 Aug 1985 to 06 Oct 1985

    14. Anniottanta, Galleria Comunale d' Arte Moderna, Bologna, Italy

      04 Jul 1985 to 30 Sep 1985

    15. Three British Sculptors, Neuberger Museum, State University of New York, USA
    16. 20 Sculptures du FRAC Rhone - Alpes, I'Abbaye de Tournus, France
    17. Anish Kapoor and Bill Woodrow, Donald Young Gallery, Chicago, USA
    18. The Poetic Object, Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin, Ireland

      21 Nov 1985 to 21 Dec 1985

    19. Currents, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, USA
    20. Sculptors' Drawings, Artspace Galleries, Aberdeen, also travelled to Ayr and Glasgow, Scotland, UK; Dracos Arts Center, Athens, Greece
    21. 7000 Eichen, Kunsthalle Tรผbingen, Tรผbingen, Germany

      02 Mar 1985 to 14 Apr 1985

    22. 7000 Eichen,Travelled to Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany

      02 Jun 1985

  11. 1986

    1. Anish Kapoor, Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo, Norway
    2. Anish Kapoor, Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, Netherlands

      03 May 1986 to 08 Jun 1986

    3. Anish Kapoor: Recent Sculpture and Drawings, University Gallery, Fine Arts Center, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts, USA

      01 Nov 1986 to 14 Dec 1986

    4. The Poetic Object, The Arts Council Gallery, Belfast, Ireland

      09 Jan 1986 to 01 Feb 1986

    5. Entre el Objecto y la Imagen, Organised by The British Council and Ministerio de Cultura, Palacio de Velazquez, Madrid, Spain

      28 Jan 1986 to 30 Apr 1986

    6. Entre el Objecto y la Imagen, Organised by The British Council and Ministerio de Cultura, Foundacion Caja de Pensiones, Barcelona, Spain

      03 Jun 1986 to 17 Jul 1986

    7. Skulptur - 9 Kunstnere fra Storbrittanien, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark

      01 Mar 1986 to 20 Apr 1986

    8. Project '86, Eine Internationale Austellung Aktueller Kunst, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt, Germany

      09 Sep 1986 to 02 Nov 1986

    9. Dessins de Sculpteurs, Galerie Gabrielle Maubrie, Paris, France

      24 Sep 1986 to 24 Oct 1986

    10. Sonsbeek 1986, International Sculpture Exhibition, Arnhem, The Netherlands

      18 Jun 1986 to 14 Sep 1986

    11. General Idea, Anish Kapoor, Melissa Miller, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York, U.S.A.

      12 Jul 1986 to 24 Aug 1986

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Chronicled Highlights

11 entries
Anish Kapoor
1954Born
Anish Kapoor
Anish Kapoor was born in 1954 in Bombay, Maharashtra, India.
Kapoor, Anish (Artist). Untitled. pigment on fiberglass, 1990 | Sculpture | FineArts | 00576196
Kapoor, Anish (Artist). Untitled. pigment on fiberglass, 1990 | Sculpture | FineArts | 00576196
In 2008, the artist achieved a new high in the auction market with the sale of Untitled (1990), offered in the Contemporary Art: Evening Auction by Sotheby's, which concluded on 17 October 2008 at London, achieving a sale price of โ‚น3,25,03,543 ($667,698). This record marked a defining moment in the artist's market history, reflecting both the significance of the artwork and its reception within the broader art world.
Kapoor, Anish (Artist). Untitled. Polished Stainless steel, 1997 | Sculpture | FineArts | 00577081
Kapoor, Anish (Artist). Untitled. Polished Stainless steel, 1997 | Sculpture | FineArts | 00577081
In 2009, the artist achieved a new high in the auction market with the sale of Untitled (1997), offered in the Contemporary Art: Including Arab And Iranian Art by Sotheby's, which concluded on 16 October 2009 at London, achieving a sale price of โ‚น6,22,50,010 ($1,345,364). This record marked a defining moment in the artist's market history, reflecting both the significance of the artwork and its reception within the broader art world.
Kapoor, Anish (Artist). Untitled. Watercolour on paper, 2000 | Painting | FineArts | 00562971
Kapoor, Anish (Artist). Untitled. Watercolour on paper, 2000 | Painting | FineArts | 00562971
In 2007, the artist achieved a new high in the auction market with the sale of Untitled (2000), offered in the South Asian Modern and Contemporary Art by Christie's, which concluded on 20 September 2007 at New York, achieving a sale price of โ‚น20,51,374 ($51,400). This record marked a defining moment in the artist's market history, reflecting both the significance of the artwork and its reception within the broader art world.
Kapoor, Anish (Artist). Untitled. Stainless steel and lacquer, 2000 | Sculpture | FineArts | 00417531
Kapoor, Anish (Artist). Untitled. Stainless steel and lacquer, 2000 | Sculpture | FineArts | 00417531
In music, light blue is like a flute, dark blue like a cello, and when still darker, it becomes a wonderful double bass. The deepest and most serene form of blue may be compared to the deep notes of an organ.
Kapoor, Anish (Artist). Untitled. Stainless steel and paint, 2003 | Sculpture | FineArts | 00576520
Kapoor, Anish (Artist). Untitled. Stainless steel and paint, 2003 | Sculpture | FineArts | 00576520
In 2009, the artist achieved a new high in the auction market with the sale of Untitled (2003), offered in the Contemporary Art by Sotheby's, which concluded on 18 March 2009 at Doha, achieving a sale price of โ‚น5,00,40,575 ($974,500). This record marked a defining moment in the artist's market history, reflecting both the significance of the artwork and its reception within the broader art world.
Kapoor, Anish (Artist). Untitled. Mirrored Plexiglas and wood, 2006 | Sculpture | FineArts | 00354440
Kapoor, Anish (Artist). Untitled. Mirrored Plexiglas and wood, 2006 | Sculpture | FineArts | 00354440
Red is a colour of the earth, it\'s not a colour of deep space; it\'s obviously the colour of blood and body. I have a feeling that the darkness that it reveals is a much deeper and darker darkness than that of blue or black
Kapoor, Anish (Artist). Untitled. Lacquer & stainless steel, 2011 | Sculpture | FineArts | 00419063
Kapoor, Anish (Artist). Untitled. Lacquer & stainless steel, 2011 | Sculpture | FineArts | 00419063
In 2022, the artist achieved a new high in the auction market with the sale of Untitled (2011), offered in the Present Future by Asta Guru, which concluded on 23 September 2022 at Online, achieving a sale price of โ‚น6,95,58,792 ($859,636.69). This record marked a defining moment in the artist's market history, reflecting both the significance of the artwork and its reception within the broader art world.
Kapoor, Anish (Artist). Untitled. Stainless steel and resin, 2012 | Sculpture | FineArts | 00603238
Kapoor, Anish (Artist). Untitled. Stainless steel and resin, 2012 | Sculpture | FineArts | 00603238
In 2024, the artist achieved a new high in the auction market with the sale of Untitled (2012), offered in the Contemporary Indian Art by Asta Guru, which concluded on 09 April 2024 at Mumbai, achieving a sale price of โ‚น9,04,07,609 ($1,086,299.59). This record marked a defining moment in the artist's market history, reflecting both the significance of the artwork and its reception within the broader art world.
Kapoor, Anish (Artist). Untitled. Copper alloy and lacquer, 2012 | Sculpture | FineArts | 00355748
Kapoor, Anish (Artist). Untitled. Copper alloy and lacquer, 2012 | Sculpture | FineArts | 00355748
Bronze is the mirror of form, wine of the heart.
Asta Guru (Auction House). Present Future. 24 September 2023, Online | Auction Catalogue | EconomicsArt | 00862488
Asta Guru (Auction House). Present Future. 24 September 2023, Online | Auction Catalogue | EconomicsArt | 00862488
In 2023, an artwork by Anish Kapoor was featured on the cover of Asta Guru: Present Future (September 2023, Mumbai), marking a documented highlight in the artist's public and auction market visibility.
Asta Guru (Auction House). Contemporary Indian Art. 09 April 2024, Mumbai | Auction Catalogue | EconomicsArt | 00862515
Asta Guru (Auction House). Contemporary Indian Art. 09 April 2024, Mumbai | Auction Catalogue | EconomicsArt | 00862515
In 2024, an artwork by Anish Kapoor was featured on the cover of Asta Guru: Contemporary Indian Art (April 2024, Mumbai), marking a documented highlight in the artist's public and auction market visibility.

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