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Anish Kapoor

 
ANISH KAPOOR
Born 1954 in Mumbai, India
Lives and works in London
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Education
1979
Taught at Wolverhampton Polytechnic, Wolverhampton, England
1978
Chelsea School of Art, London
1977
Hornsey College of Art, London
Awards
2017
Genesis Prize, The Genesis Prize Foundation
2011
Praemium Imperiale Award, Japan Art Association
2003
Awarded Commander of the British Empire
2001
Honorary Fellowship, Royal Institute of British Architecture
1997
Honorary Fellowship, the London Institute
1991
Turner Prize
1990
Premio Duemila, Venice Biennale
1982
Artist in Residence, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, England
Solo Exhibitions
2018
“Anish Kapoor. Space and Place – The Experience of Spirituality,” PUNKT, Moss, Norway
“Anish Kapoor,” Serralves Museum and Park, Porto, Portugal
2017
“My Red Homeland,” Museé D’Art Moderne et Contemporain Saint Étienne Métropole, Saint Étienne, France 
“Places of Origin – Monuments for the 21st Century,” MAST Foundation, Bologna, Italy
“Destierro,” Parque de la Memoria, Buenos Aires
"Descension," The Public Art Fund, Brooklyn Bridge Park, New York
“Anish Kapoor,” Lisson Gallery, London
2016
"Anish Kapoor," Museo d'Arte Contemporanea Roma, Rome
"Anish Kapoor," Galleria Continua, Havana, Cuba
"Anish Kapoor," Scai The Bathhouse, Tokyo
"Anish Kapoor: Gathering Clouds," Kukje Gallery, Seoul
“Anish Kapoor,” Lisson Gallery, Milan, Italy
“Anish Kapoor,” Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico City, Mexico
“Today You Will Be In Paradise,” Gladstone Gallery, New York
2015
"Descension," Galleria Continua, San Gimignano, Italy
"Anish Kapoor," Regen Projects, Los Angeles
“Anish Kapoor,” Lisson Gallery, London
"Anish Kapoor," Gladstone Gallery, Brussels
"Anish Kapoor," Chateau de Versailles, Versailles, France
“Anish Kapoor: Prints from the Collection of Jordan D. Schnitzer,” Portland Art Museum, Portland, Oregon
“Anish Kapoor chez Le Corbusier,” Couvent de La Tourette, Eveux, France
“Anish Kapoor: My Red Homeland,” Jewish Museum and Tolerance Centre, Moscow
2013
“Anish Kapoor,” Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin
"Anish Kapoor," Sakip Sabanci Museum, Istanbul
2012
“Anish Kapoor,” Gladstone Gallery, New York
“Anish Kapoor,” Leeum – Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
“Anish Kapoor,” Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia
“Anish Kapoor,” Lisson Gallery, London
“Flashback: Anish Kapoor,” Longside Gallery, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, West Bretton, England
“Anish Kapoor,” Pinchuk Art Centre, Kiev
"Anish Kapoor" De Pont Foundation for Contemporary Art, Tilburg, the Netherlands
2011
“Anish Kapoor: Flashback,” Nottingham Castle Museum, Nottingham, England
“MONUMENTA 2011: Leviathan,” Grand Palais, Paris
“Anish Kapoor,” Chapelle des Petits-Augustins, Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris
 “Anish Kapoor: Dirty Corner,” La Fabbrica del Vapore and Rotonda di Via Besana, Milan, Italy
“Ascension,” Basilica San Giorgio, Venice, Italy
“Anish Kapoor: Flashback,” Edinburgh College of Art, Edinburgh, Scotland
“Anish Kapoor: Almost Nothing,” Kamel Mennour, Paris
"Between Shit and Architecture", Galerie Karmel Mennour, Chapelle des Petits Augustins Beaux-Arts de Paris
"Anish Kapoor", Rotunda della Besana, Milan
2010
“Anish Kapoor,” National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi
“Anish Kapoor,” Mehboob Studios, Mumbai, India
“Shadow III,” Greenfield Sacks Gallery, Santa Monica, California
“Turning the World Upside Down: Anish Kapoor in Kensington Gardens,” Kensington Gardens, London
“Anish Kapoor,” Guggenheim Bilbao, Bilbao, Spain
"Anish Kapoor", MIMA, Middlesborough
"Anish Kapoor" SCAI the Bathhouse
"Anish Kapoor", Galleria Massimo Minini
2009
“Anish Kapoor: Shooting into the Corner,” MAK Museum of Applied Arts, Vienna
“Anish Kapoor,” Royal Academy of Arts, London
“Anish Kapoor: New Works,” Lisson Gallery, London
"Anish Kapoor Drawings" Regen Projects, Los Angeles
2008
"Anish Kapoor: Past, Present, Future," Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston
"Anish Kapoor," Gladstone Gallery, New York
“Place; No Place: Anish Kapoor in Architecture,” Royal Institute of British Architecture
“Anish Kapoor,” Kukje Gallery, Seoul
“Anish Kapoor: Memory,” Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin [traveled to: Solomon R.
 Guggenheim, New York (2009)]
"Anish Kapoor Islamic Mirror" Sarq al-Andalus Hall, Museum of the Monasterio de Santa Clara, Murcia
2007
“Anish Kapoor,” Galleria Continua, Beijing
"Anish Kapoor: Works on Paper," Gladstone Gallery, New York
"Anish Kapoor," Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany
"Anish Kapoor: Svayambh," Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nantes, France
2006
“Sky Mirror,” Public Art Fund, Rockefeller Center, New York
“Anish Kapoor,” Lisson Gallery, London
"Anish Kapoor. Ascension," Centro Cultural Banco Do Brasil, Rio De Janeiro, Brazil [traveled to: Centro Cultural Banco Do Brasil, Brasilia; Centro Cultural Banco Do Brasil, São Paulo, Brazil]
2005
"Japanese Mirrors," Shiraishi Contemporary Art, Tokyo
2004
“Whiteout,” Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York
“Anish Kapoor,” Galleria Massimo Minini, Brescia, Italy
“Anish Kapoor,” Le Grand-Hornu, Boussu, Belgium
2003
“Anish Kapoor,” Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Naples, Italy
“My Red Homeland,” Kunsthaus Bregenz, Bregenz, Austria [traveled to: Centro de Arte
Contemporáneo, Malaga, Spain (2006)]
"Painting," Lisson Gallery, London
“Anish Kapoor,” Kukje Gallery, Seoul
“Anish Kapoor,” Galleria Continua, San Gimignano, Italy
2002
“Anish Kapoor: Marsyas,” Unilever Commission for the Turbine Hall, Tate Modern, London
2001
“Anish Kapoor,” Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York
“Anish Kapoor,” Kunsthalle Helsinki, Helsinki
2000
"Blood,” Lisson Gallery, London
"Blood Solid,” fig-1, London
“Anish Kapoor,” Regen Projects, Los Angeles
"The Edge of the World,” permanent installation at Axel Vervoordt Kanaal, Wijnegem, Belgium
1999
“Anish Kapoor,” Galeria Andre Viana, Porto, Portugal
“Anish Kapoor,” SCAI The Bathhouse, Tokyo
"Taratantara", Anish Kapoor, Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, UK
1998
“Anish Kapoor,” CAPC, Musee d’art contemporain de Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France
Centro Galego de Arte Contemporanea, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
“Anish Kapoor,” Galleria Massimo Minini, Brescia, Italy
“Anish Kapoor,” Lisson Gallery, London
“Anish Kapoor,” Hayward Gallery, London
“Her Blood,” La Chapelle de la Salpêtrière, Paris
“Anish Kapoor,” Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York
Dobre Espacio, Centro Galego de Arte Contemporanea, Santiago de Compostela
1997
“Anish Kapoor,” Galerie Lucien Durand, Paris
1996
“Anish Kapoor,” Angles Gallery, Santa Monica, California
"Um Fontana,” Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, Germany
“Anish Kapoor,” Galleria Massimo Minini, Brescia, Italy
“Anish Kapoor,” Lisson Gallery, London
“Anish Kapoor,” Kunst-Station St. Peter, Cologne, Germany
“Anish Kapoor. Sculptures,” Aboa Vetus & Ars Nova, Turku, Finland
“Anish Kapoor. Two Sculptures,” Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge, Massachusetts
"Gourd Project 1993-95,” Freddie Fong Contemporary Art, San Francisco
1995
“Anish Kapoor,” Fondazione Prada, Milan, Italy
“Anish Kapoor,” Lisson Gallery, London
“Anish Kapoor,” De Pont, Tilburg, The Netherlands
"Gourd,” Nishimura Gallery, Tokyo
1994
“Anish Kapoor,” Stuart Regen Gallery, Los Angeles
“Anish Kapoor,” Moderna Galerija Ljubljana, Ljubljana
"Echo,” Kohji Ogura Gallery, Nagoya, Japan  
1993
“Anish Kapoor,” Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York
“Anish Kapoor,” Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel
"Sculptures," Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris
“Anish Kapoor,” Lisson Gallery, London
1992
“Anish Kapoor,” San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla, California [traveled to: Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines; National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa; The Power Plant, Toronto]
“Anish Kapoor,” Stuart Regen Gallery, Los Angeles
“Anish Kapoor,” Galeria Soledad Lorenzo, Madrid
1991
“Anish Kapoor,” Kunstverein Hannover, Hanover, Germany
“Anish Kapoor,” Palacio de Velazquez, Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid
"Anish Kapoor & Ban Chiang,” Feuerle, Cologne, Germany
The 6th Japan Ushimado International Art Festival, Ushimado, Japan
Palacio de Velazquez, Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid (organized in cooperation with The British Council)
1990
"Drawings,” Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York
"Anish Kapoor, Drawings", Tate Gallery, London
"Anish Kapoor" (in collaboration with the British Council) Le Magasin, Centre National d'Art Contemporain, Grenoble, France
Anish Kapoor, XLIV Biennale di Venezia", British Pavilion, Venice
1986
"Anish Kapoor" Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo
"Anish Kapoor: Sculpture" Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York
"Anish Kapoor: Recent Sculpture and Drawings", University Gallery, Fine Arts Center, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts
"Sensual Transcendence: The Sculpture of Anish Kapoor" Albright-Knox Art Gallery, New York
1985
Lisson Gallery, London
"Anish Kapoor" Kunsthalle, Basel [travelled to: Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, Netherlands]
1984
"Anish Kapoor" Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York
1983
"Anish Kapoor: Beeldhouwwerken" Galerie 't Venster, Rotterdam (organized by the Rotterdam Arts Council)
"Feeling into Form" Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, UK [travelled to: Le Nouveau Musee, Villeurbanne/Lyon, France.
Lisson Gallery, London
1982
"Anish Kapoor" Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, UK
Lisson Gallery, London
1981
"Anish Kapoor" Coracle Press, London
1980
"Anish Kapoor" Patrice Alexandre
Group Exhibitions
2017
“Everything at Once,” Lisson Gallery x The Vinyl Factory, The Store Studios, 180 The Strand, London
“ReView," De Pont at 25: Anniversary Exhibition, De Pont Museum, Tillburg, Netherlands
“A Journey,” Kewenig Gallery, Berlin
“Lyric on a Battlefield,” Gladstone Gallery, New York
"EuroVisions: Contemporary Art from the Goldberg Collection,” National Art School Gallery, Sydney [traveled to: Heide Museum of Modern Art, Bulleen, Victoria, Australia (2018)]
“L’ emozione del COLORI nell’arte,” Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea and Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea of Turin, Turin, Italy
2015
“A Secret Affair: Selections from the Fuhrman Family Collection,” The FLAG Art Foundation, New York
"Between Idea and Experience," Havana Biennial, Havana, Cuba
"Sprayed," Gagosian Gallery, London
“Reflections on the Reflection – Dynamics of Cinetisme in Three-dimensional,” TRIO Biennial, Fine Arts National Museum, Rio de Janeiro
“Making It: Sculpture in Britain, 1977-1986,” Mead Gallery, Warwick Arts Centre, Warwick University, Coventry, United Kingdom
“Phantom Bodies: The Human Aura in Art,” The First Center for Visual Arts, Nashville, Tennessee
“Anish Kapoor & Rembrandt,” Rijkmuseum, Amsterdam
"Wind and Art Don't Care About Borders," Metropolitan Art Society, Beirut 
2014
“Whorles Explorations,” Kochi-Muziris Biennale, Kochi, India
“A Secret Affair: Selections from the Fuhrman Family Collection,” The Contemporary Austin, Austin
"Making Links: 25 Years," SCAI the Bathhouse, Tokyo
“Art and Alchemy: The Mystery of Transformation,” Museum Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf
2013
"Out of Hand: Materializing the Postdigital," Museum of Arts and Design, New York
"Drawing Line into Form: Works on Paper by Sculptors from the Collection of BNY Mellon," Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma
2012
“Landscape and Light,” Storm King Art Center, New York
"Ashes and Gold, A World’s Journey," Marta Herford, Herford, Germany
"Prism. Drawings from 1990 to 2012," Museum of Contemporary Art, Oslo
"Lux Perpetua," Kamel Mennour, Paris, 26th March – 26th May, 2012
"Klein/Byars/Kapoor," Musee d'Art Moderne et d'Art Contemporain, Nice, France [travelled to: ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum, Åarhus, Denmark
2011
“Made in the UK: Contemporary Art from the Richard Brown Baker Collection,” Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Providence
“Fondazione Prada at Ca’ Corner della Regina,” Venice, Italy
“with one color…,” Van de Weghe Fine Art, New York
“Black Swan,” Regen Projects, Los Angeles
“Watercolour,” Tate Britain, London
“TRA: Edge of Becoming,” Palazzo Fortuny, Venice, Italy
Venice Fondazione Prada, Ca’ Corner della Regina, Venice, Italy
“Summer Exhibition 2011,” Royal Academy of Arts, London
 “Picasso to Koons: The Artist as Jeweler,” Museum of Arts and Design, New York
“Silent Echoes: Collection Exhibition I”,” 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan
 “Roots in the Air, Branches Below: Modern and Contemporary Art from India,” San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, California
 “By Design and By Chance,” McMaster Museum of Art, Hamilton, Ontario
“Dojima River Biennale 2011,” Dojima River Forum, Osaka, Japan
"Absolute Installation," The Museum of Contemporary Art/Museet for Samtidskunst, Oslo
2010
“5 Oeuvres Majeures,” La Galerie de France, Paris
“Arctic Lights,” Dorfman Projects, New York
“Sexuality and Transcendence,” Pinchuk Art Center, Kiev
“BAROCK – Art, Science, Faith and Technology in the Contemporary Age,” Museo D'Arte Contemporanea Donna Regina, Naples, Italy
“Rudolf Steiner and Contemporary Art,” Wolfsburg Museum, Wolfsburg, Germany [travelled to: Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany; DOX, Centre for Contemporary Art, Prague]
“ColorForms,” Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC
“Itinéraires de l’élégance entre l’Orient et l’Occident,” Villa Empain, Boghossian Foundation, Brussels
“Outside the Box”,  Edition Jacob Samuel, 1988-2010, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
“Drawing to form: Art from the Weltkunst Collection Irish Museum of Modern            
“Art”, Crawford Art Gallery, Cork, Ireland
“Contemplating the Void”, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
2009
“Marble,” Gagosian Gallery, New York
“Incidental Affairs: Contemporary Art of Transient states,” Suntory Museum, Osaka, Japan 
“Hundred Stories about Love,”Japan 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan
3rd Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, Garage Center of Contemporary Culture, Moscow
‘Barock’ Museo di Arte Contemporanea, Donna Regina, Naples, Italy
2008
"Blood on Paper," Victoria and Albert Museum, London  
“Traces du sacré,” Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
“Blake’s Shadow,” Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, England
“Ambiition of Art,” Institut d’art contemporain, Lyon, France
‘For What We Are About To Receive’, Gagosian Gallery, Moscow
2007
“Makers and Modelers,” Gladstone Gallery, New York
“Köln Skulptur 4”, Skulpturenpark, Cologne, Germany
"Small Sculpture to Wear," Louisa Guinness Gallery, London
"The Last Seduction: Welcome Surrender to Beauty," Carrie Secrist Galley, Chicago
"Door Cycle," Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York
"Artempo," Lisson Gallery, La Biennale Di Venezia, Venice, Italy
“One Colour,” Galleria Continua, Beijing
“Contrepoint III,” The Louvre, Paris
“Timer 01/Intimacy, Milan 
2006
"Sublime Embrace: Experiencing Consciousness in Contemporary Art," Art Gallery of Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
"Surprise, Surprise," Institute of Contemporary Arts, London
"The Grand Promenade," Hellenic Ministry of Culture, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens
"Il Buco," Pio Monte, Rome
“The Expanded Eye,” Kunsthaus Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
“Printemps de Septembre,” Toulouse, France
“Asia Pacific Triennale,” Queensland Art Gallery, Australia
“The Sublime is Now,” Museum Franz Gertsch, Burgdorf, Switzerland
“Sculpture,” Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg, Austria
“How to Improve the World,” Hayward Gallery, London
“Super Vision,” Institute of Contemporary Art Boston, Boston
2005
“Universal Experience: Art, Life, and the Tourist’s Eye,” Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
“Colour After Klein,” Barbican Art Gallery, London
“British Sculpture Show,” Kunsthalle Wurth, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany
“God is Great,” Venice, Italy
Arte all’Arte, San Gimignano, Italy
2004
Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju, Korea
Lustwarande 04, Tilburg, The Netherlands
“Arts and Architecture 1900-2000,” Palazzo Ducale, Genoa, Italy
"Pain; Passion, Compassion, Sensibility", The Science Museum, London
Kanazawa Museum
2003
  “Anish Kapoor,” Beaufort, Ostend, Belgium
“Anish Kapoor,” Himmelschwer, Graz, Austria [traveled to: institution Odense,
Denmark]
"Ineffable Beauty," Kunsthalle Erfurt, Erfurt, Germany
“Retrospectacle: 25 years of Collecting Modern and Contemporary Art,” Denver Art Museum, Denver
"Bewitched Bothered and Bewildered,"Migros Museum [travelled to: Lanzia Centre for contemporary Art, Gdansk, Poland
"Windstill", Cotthem Gallery, Brussels
"As Heavy as Heaven", Landesmuseum Joannneum, Graz, Austria
"Mind Space", Ho-Am Art Gallery, Seoul, Korea
"Himmelschwer", Beaufort, Ostend, Belgium [travelled to Odense, Denmark]
"In Good Form; Recent Sculpture from the Arts Council Collection,” Longside Gallery, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Yorkshire, UK
"Fresh: Contemporary British Artists in Print", Edinburgh Printmakers, Scotland
"Minimalism and More; Contemporary Art from the Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation,” Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art, Minneapolis
"Saved! 100 years of the National Art Collections Fund", Hayward Gallery, London
2002
"Blast to Freeze,” Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, Germany
“Slip: Contemporary British and Dutch artists working with Ceramic," Frans Hals Museum, Haarlem, The Netherlands [traveled to: Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts,
Norwich, England]
"four women and one pregnant man visiting Oslo,” Galleri MGM, Oslo 
"No Object, No Subject, No Matter…,” Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin
"Kaash,” collaborative dance production with Akram Kahn and Nitin Sawhney, Paris institution, Sandfield Theatre, Nottingham, England; Tramway, Glasgow, Scotland
"Homage to Rudolf Schwarzkogler,” Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna
"this ain't no Tupperware,” Kunststoff, Kortrijk and Herford, Belgium
"Coulour White,” De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill, England
"Un ange passe; Seven Venues of Faith,” Mrat, Switzerland
"Remarks on Colour," Sean Kelly Gallery, New York
"Work on Paper: Anish Kapoor, José Bedia, Richard Serra", Quint Contemporary Art, California, USA
"Print Publisher Spotlight: The Lapis Press" Barbara Krakow Gallery
"Sphere. Loans from Invisible Museum", Sir John Soane’s Museum, London
"Imagine You Are Standing Here In Front Of Me”, The Caldic Collection in the Boijmans van Beuningen Museum, Rotterdam
2001
“The Inward Eye: Transcendence in Contemporary Art,” Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Houston, Texas
"1951-2001 Made in Italy,” Triennale, Palazzo dell'Arte, Milan, Italy
"BO-01,” Concepthaus, Malmö, Sweden
"Drawings,” Regen Projects, Los Angeles
"Field Day: Sculpture from Britain,” Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei
"Signatures of the Invisible," London Institute, London
1st Valencia Biennale, Valencia, Italy
"Sculpture in the Close 2001", Jesus College, Cambridge
"Artcité: when Montréal Turns into a Museum", Museum of Contemporary Art, Monréal, Canada
"Sculpture Conemporaine: Œuvres de la Collection Frac Rhône-Alpes de l’Institut d’art contemporain", Substances, Lyon
2000
“Bluer,” Carrie Secrist Gallery, Chicago
“Around 1984: a Look at the Eighties,” P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York
“La beauté,” Papal Palace, Avignon, France
“A celebration of contemporary Art,” Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond
"Blue: Borrowed and New,” New Walsall Museum, Walsall, England
"Groenningen Exhibition 2000,” Charlottenborg, Copenhagen
"Sinn und Sinnlichkeit,” Neues Museum Weserburg, Bremen, Germany
"Lyon Biennale,” Lyon, France
"Vanitas: Meditations on Life and Death in Contemporary Art," Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond
"Drawings 2000,” Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York
London Road Gallery, Northwich, Liverpool
3rd Shanghai Biennale, Shanghai
"À travers le miroir de Bonnard à Buren," Musée des Beaux Arts, Rouen, France
1999
“Prime,” Dundee Contemporary Art, Dundee, Scotland
“Shape of the Century,” Salisbury’s Festival, Salisbury, England
“Den Haag Sculptur 1999,” The Hague, The Netherlands
"Art Worlds in Dialogue,” Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany
"Together: Artists in support for the homeless,” The Passage House, London
"Beauty- 25th Anniversary,” Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C. [traveled to: Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany]
"Retrace your steps: Remember Tomorrow: Artists at the Soane Museum," curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist, Soane Museum, London
1998
“Then and Now,” Lisson Gallery, London
“Spatiotemporal - Works from the Collection,” Magasin 3 Stockholm Konsthall, Stockholm
“Wounds Between Democracy and Redemption in Contemporary Art,” Moderna Museet, Stockholm
“The Art of the 80s,” Culturgest, Caixa Geral de Depositos, Lisbon
“In Celebration, Part II: Highlights from the Collection of Contemporary Sculpture,” Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, California
"Towards Sculpture,” Fundacao Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon
1997
“Meditations,” Madrasa Ibn Youssef, Marrakech, Morocco
“Belladonna,” Institute of Contemporary Arts, London
“Entgegen,” Mausoleum am Dom, Graz, Austria
“Follow Me, Britische Kunst an der Unterelbe,” Stade, Germany institution
“Arte Continua,” Chiesa di San Giusto and Pinacoteca Civica, Volterra, Italy
"Changing spaces,” Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit
1996
1996  "Cut, Cast, Assemble: Contemporary Sculpture from the Permanent Collection," San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco
"Betong," Malmö Konsthall, Malmo, Sweden
"Gramercy International Art Fair,” Los Angeles
"Interzones," Uppsala Konstmuseum, Uppsala, Sweden
23rd International Biennial of São Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
“Collections du Castello di Rivoli,” Le Nouveau Musee, Villeurbanne, France
“Un siecle de Sculpture Anglaise,” Jeu de Paume, Paris
“Dissonant Wounds: Zones of Display/Metaphors of Atrophy,” Bard Center for Curatorial Studies and Hessel Museum of Art, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York
“Works on Paper from the Weltkunst Collection of British Art of the 80s and 90s,” The Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin
"Anish Kapoor, Barry X Ball,” Angles Gallery, Santa Monica, California
“Anish Kapoor,” Moderna Galerija Ljubljana, Ljubljana
"Dessins and maquettes de sculpteurs/Drawings and maquettes by sculptors", Galerie Samuel Lallouz, Montreal
"New Art on Paper 2", Philadelphia Museum of Art
"Multiples", Galerie Lucien Durand
1995
Ripple Across the Water," Watari Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo
"Contemporary British Printmaking, The Paragon Press, 1986 – 1995,” Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, Connecticut
"Longing and Belonging, Faraway Nearby,” Santa Fe Biennial, SITE Santa Fe Warehouse and the New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fe
"ARS 95: Helsinki," Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki
"British Art of the 1980s - works from the Welt Kunst Collection,” The Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin
"De Henry Moore os anos 90. Escultura britanica contemporanea,” Auditorio de Glaicia, Santiago de Compostella, Spain
"A Changing World - Fifty Years of Sculpture from the British Council Collection,” Castle Riding Hall, Prague
"Ideal Standard Summertime," Lisson Gallery, London
"British Abstact Art Part II: Sculpture,” Flowers East, London
"Femmininmasculin. Le sexe de l'art,” Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
"De Opening,” De Pont Foundation for Contemporary Art, Tilburg, The Netherlands
"A Changing World - Fifty Years of Sculpture from the British Council Collection”, Castle Riding Hall, Prague
1994
"Drawing the Line Against AIDS," 45th Venice Biennale, Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice
"Drawing on Sculpture,” Cohen Gallery, New York
“Anish Kapoor,” Moderna Galerija Ljubljana, Ljubljana
"Punishment and Decoration,” Hohenthal und bergen, Cologne, Germany
"Asian Art Now,” Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan
"Sculptor's Drawings,” Tate Modern, London
"Re Rebaudengo Sandretto Collection,” institution (Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo) Sant’Antonino di Susa, Turin, Italy
1993
"Sculpture,” Leo Castelli Gallery, New York
"Another World,” Art Tower Mito, Mito, Ibaraki, Japan
"Punti Dell'Arti,” Italian Pavillion, 45th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
"Bio 93: State of Siege - Obidos Biennale,” Obidos, Portugal
"River Run,” dance performance with Laurie Booth and Hans Kuhn, Queen Elizabeth Hall, London
"Magazin,” Architectur Zentrum, Vienna
“Body of Drawings,” Graves Art Gallery, Sheffield, England
"Art Against Aids,” 45th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
"British Sculpture from the Arts Council Collection,” Derby Museum and Art Gallery, The Strand, Derby, England
“Anish Kapoor,” Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
"Cerco", Bienal Internacional de Óbidos, Portugal
1992
Documenta 9, Kassel, Germany
"The New British Sculpture,” University of North Texas Art Gallery, Denton, Texas
"Whitechapel Open,” Whitechapel Art Gallery, London
"Rhizome," Gemeentemuseum Den Haag, The Hague, Netherlands
“Anish Kapoor,” Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam [solo?] [also: see 1993 – same show?]
"Anish Kapoor and Janis Provisor New Editions," Crown Point Press, New York
Expo '92, Seville, Spain
“Anish Kapoor invita Gary Woodley,” Foro per l'Arte Contemporanea, Verona, Italy
"New Voices, New Works for the British Council Collection,” Albert Borschette Conference Centre, Brussels
“De Opening,” De Pont Foundation for Contemporary Art, Tilburg
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
"Anish Kapoor and Abstract Art in Asia,” Fukuoka Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan  
1991
"The 1991 Turner Prize: An Exhibition of Work by the Four Shortlisted Artists," Tate Gallery, London
"Masterworks from the Guggenheim Collection," Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid
"Fragments," Frith Street Gallery, London
"La Sculpture Contemporaine après 1970," Fondation Daniel Templon, Fréjus, France
"Trans/Mission," Rooseum Center for Contemporary Art, Malmö, Sweden
"Made of Stone," Galerie Isy Brachot, Brussels
Gallery Shirakawa, Kyoto, Japan
"Il Limite delle Cose nella Nuova scultura Inglese,” Studio Oggetto, Milan, Italy
1990
"British Art Now: A Subjective View,” Setagaya Art Museum, Tokyo [traveled to: Fukuoka Art Museum, Nagoya, Japan; City Museum, Tochigi, Japan; Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art, Hyogo, Japan; Hiroshima Prefectural Art Museum, Hiroshima, Japan]
"Dujourie, Fortuyn, Houshiary, Kapoor," Kroller-Muller Museum, Otterlo,
The Netherlands
"Heroes of Contemporary Art," Galerie Saqqarah, Gstaad, Switzerland [traveled to:
TransArt Exhibitions Kreishaus, Cologne, Germany]
"Made of Stone," Galerie Isy Brachot, Brussels
"Works on Paper," Frith Street Gallery, London
"Affinities and Institutions. The Gerald S. Elliott Collection of Contemporary Art," The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago
1989
"Anish Kapoor, Wolfgang Laib, Richard Long," Galerie Le Gall Peyroulet, Paris
"Collection 1989 à Jacques Guillot,” Musée d'Art Contemporain de Lyon, France
"British Now: sculpture et autres dessins", Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal, Montréal, Quebec
1988
"British Now: Sculpture et Autres Dessins," Musee d'Art Contemporain de Montreal, Montreal, Quebec
"1988 Carnegie International," Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
"Starlit Waters. British Sculpture: An International Art 1968-88," Tate Gallery, Liverpool, England
"Britannica: 30 Ans de Sculpture," Musee des Beaux-Arts Andre Malraux, Le Havre, France [traveled to: Ecole d'Architecture de Normandie, Rouen, France; Musee
d'Evreux, Evreux, France]
"La Couleur Seule, l'Experience du Monochrome," Musee St. Pierre, Lyon, France
"Fourth International Drawing Trienniale," Kunsthalle Nurnberg, Nuremberg, Germany
"Europa Oggi/Europe Today," Museo d'Arte Contemporanea, Prato, Italy
"Sculptors on Paper: New Work," Madison Art Center, Madison
"Works on Paper," Curt Marcus Gallery, New York
"Carnegie International,” Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
1987
"Similia/Dissimilia," Stadtische Kunsthalle, Dusseldorf [traveled to: Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery, New York; Sonnabend Gallery, New York; Leo Castelli Gallery, New York]
"Viewpoint: L'Art Contemporain en Grande Bretagne," Musee d'Art Moderne, Brussels
"British Art of the 1980's: 1987," Liljevalchs Konsthall, Stockholm [traveled to: Sara Hilden Art Museum, Tampere, Finland]
"Inside/Outside," Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst, Antwerp, Belgium
"Juxtapositions: Recent Sculpture from England and Germany," The Institute for Art and Urban Resources, New York
"Sacred Spaces," Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, New York
"20th Anniversary Exhibition" Lisson Gallery, London
"Vessel", Serpentine Gallery, London
1986
"Skulptur - 9 Kunstnere fra Storbrittanien," Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark
"Sonsbeek 1986 - The International Sculpture Exhibition," Arnhem, The Netherlands
"Prospect '86. Eine Internationale Austellung Aktueller Kunst," Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt, Germany
"General Idea, Anish Kapoor, Melisa Miller," Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York
"Inaugural Exhibition," Lang & O'Hara Gallery, New York
"Dessins de Sculpteurs," Galerie Gabrielle Maubrie, Paris
Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York
"Entre el Objeto y la Imagen," Palacio de Velazquez Madrid and Fundacion Caja de Pensiones, Barcelona, Spain
"Vessel," Serpentine Gallery, London
1985
"Currents," Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston
"Sculptors' Drawings," Artspace Galleries, Aberdeen, Scotland [traveled to: Ayr, Lyth, Stirling, Stromness, Glasgow; Dracos Arts Center, Athens]
"Nouvelle Biennale de Paris," Paris
"The British Show," Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, Australia [traveled to: Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia; Queensland Art Gallery Brisbane, Australia; The Exhibition Hall, Melbourne, Australia; National Art Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand]
"7000 Eichen," Kunsthalle Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
"Who's Afraid of Red, Yellow, and Blue?," Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol, England
"Three British Sculptors," Neuberger Museum, State University of New York, Purchase, New York
"Anniottanta," Bologna, Italy institution
"20 Sculptures du FRAC Rhone-Alpes," l'Abbaye de Tournus, Tournus, France
"Anish Kapoor and Bill Woodrow," Donald Young Gallery, Chicago
"The Poetic Object," Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin [traveled to: Arts Council Gallery,
Belfast, Ireland]
"Anniottanta," (organized by the Cultura del Comune di Ravenna) [travelled to: Bologna, Imola]
1984
"An International Survey of Recent Painting and Sculpture," Museum of Modern Art, New York
"ROSC '84," Dublin
"The British Art Show: Old Allegiances and New Directions, 1979-1984," City of Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, Birmingham, England; Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, England; Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh; Mappin Art Gallery, Sheffield, England; Southhampton Art Gallery, Southhampton, England]
"Anish Kapoor and Bill Woodrow," Galeries Paul Maenz, Cologne, Germany
1983
"Transformations: New Sculpture from Britain," 17th Bienal de São Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil [traveled to: Museu de Arte Moderna, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City; Fundacao Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon]
"Eros Mythos Ironie," Neue Galerie, Graz, Austria
"Constellazione," Galleria Giorgio Persano, Turin, Italy
"New Art," Tate Modern, London
"The Sculpture Show," Hayward Gallery and Serpentine Gallery, London
"Sculpture 1983," Van Krimpen Gallery, Amsterdam
"Finland Biennale," Helsinki
"Beelden/Sculpture 1983," Rotterdam Arts Council, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
"Douceur de l'Avant-Garde," C'est Rien de le Dire, Rennes, France
"Figures and Objects," John Hansard Gallery, Southampton, England
"La Trottola di Sirio," Centro d'Arte Contemporanea, Siracusa, Italy
"Tema Celeste," Museo Civico d'Arte Contemporanea, Gibellina, Italy
"Douceur de l'Avant-Garde", C'est Rien de le Dire, Rennes, France
"La Trottola di Sirio", Centro d'Arte Contemporanea, Siracusa, Italy
1982
"Aperto '82," 50th Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy
"Englische Plastik Heute/British Sculpture Now," Kunstmuseum Luzern, Lucerne, Switzerland
"XIIieme Paris Biennale," Paris
"Prefiguration," Centre d'Art Contemporain, Chambéry, France
"London/New York 1982," Lisson Gallery, London
"Objects and Figures: New Sculpture in Britain," Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh
"India: Myth and Reality," Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, England
1981
"Objects & Sculpture: Richard Deacon, Antony Gormley, Anish Kapoor, Peter Randall Page," Institute of Contemporary Art, London [traveled to: Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol, England]
"Summer Show," Serpentine Gallery, London
“British Sculpture in the 20th Century: Part 1, Symbol and Imagination 1951-80," Whitechapel Art Gallery, London
1980
"New Sculpture," Midland Group Gallery, Nottingham, England
1979
"Tolly Cobbold: Eastern Arts," 2nd National Exhibition, Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, England
"Whitechapel Open," Whitechapel Art Gallery, London
1978
"Northern Young Contemporaries," Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, England
1975
"Young Contemporaries," Royal Academy of Art, London
1974
"Art into Landscape 1," Serpentine Gallery, London
Selected Public Collections
 
Albright-Knox Museum, Buffalo, New York
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Auckland City Art Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Contemporary Art Society, London
DePont Foundation for Contemporary Art, Tilburg, Netherlands
Fukuoka Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan
Fundacio Berardo, Lisbon
Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo
Heide Park and Art Gallery, Victoria, England
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.
Leeds City Art Gallery, Leeds, England
Moderna Galerija, Ljubljana
Moderna Museet, Stockholm
Museo d'Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato, Italy
Museo National Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid
Museum of Modern Art, New York
Musee Saint Pierre, Lyon, France
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
Rijksmuseum Kröller-Müller, Otterlo, The Netherlands
San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, California
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
Tate Gallery, London
Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel
Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver
Minneapolis Sculpture Garden, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
Weltkunst Foundation, Zürich, Switzerland
Public Commissions
2012
“Orbit,” Arcelor Mittal, Olympic Park, London
2010
“Turning the World Upside Down,” Israel Museum, Jerusalem
2006
“Sky Mirror,” Public Art Fund, Rockefeller Center, New York
2004
“Cloud Gate,” Millennium Park, Chicago
1995
“Untitled (mountain),” Toronto, Canada
“Cast Iron Mountain,” Tachikawa Art Project, Japan
Collaborations
2012
“Parsifal,” De Nederlandse Opera, Amsterdam (set design)
2009
Monte St Angelo Subway Station, Naples, Italy. Collaboration with Amanda Levete Architects
2008
“Pelléas and Mélisande,” La Monnaie, Brusells (set design)
“In-I” Akram Khan and Juliette Binoche, National Theatre, London
2003
 “Idomeneo,” Glyndebourne, UK. Set design for collaborative production with Peter   Sellars (director), Simon Rattle (conductor), Mark Morris (choreographer)
2002
"Kaash,” Anish Kappor, Akram Khan, Nittin Sawhney; touring collaborative dance
production, Paris
1993
“Echo,” A group of five sculptures that incorporate music mechanisms. A collaboration with the composer Brian Elias.
“River Run,” Stage design for dance performance at the Queen Elizabeth Hall, London, and regional tour. A collaboration with Laurie Booth and Hans          Peter Kuhn
1992
“Building for A Void,” Expo'92, Seville. Architectural collaboration with David Connor.