Bombay, Bombay State, India (now Mumbai, Maharashtra, India)
Nationality
Indian, British
Education
The Doon School Hornsey College of Art Chelsea School of Art and Design
Known for
Sculpture
Notable work
Cloud Gate Sky Mirror ArcelorMittal Orbit Temenos
Spouses
Susanne Spicale
(m. 1995; div. 2013)
Sophie Walker (unknown–present)
Relatives
Ilan Kapoor (brother)
Awards
Turner Prize 1991 Praemium Imperiale 2011 Genesis Prize 2017
Website
anishkapoor.com
Sir Anish Mikhail Kapoor, CBE, RA (born 12 March 1954) is a British-Indian[2] sculptor specializing in installation art and conceptual art. Born in Mumbai,[3][4] Kapoor attended the elite all-boys Indian boarding school The Doon School, before moving to the UK to begin his art training at Hornsey College of Art and, later, Chelsea School of Art and Design.
His notable public sculptures include Cloud Gate (2006, also known as "The Bean") in Chicago's Millennium Park; Sky Mirror, exhibited at the Rockefeller Center in New York City in 2006 and Kensington Gardens in London in 2010;[5]Temenos, at Middlehaven, Middlesbrough; Leviathan,[6] at the Grand Palais in Paris in 2011; and ArcelorMittal Orbit, commissioned as a permanent artwork for London's Olympic Park and completed in 2012.[7] In 2017, Kapoor designed the statuette for the 2018 Brit Awards.[8]
An image of Kapoor features in the British cultural icons section of the newly designed British passport in 2015.[9] In 2016, he was announced as a recipient of the LennonOno Grant for Peace.[10]
Kapoor has received several distinctions and prizes, such as the Premio Duemila Prize at the XLIV Venice Biennale in 1990, the Turner Prize in 1991, the Unilever Commission for the Turbine Hall at Tate Modern, the Padma Bhushan by the Indian government in 2012,[11] a knighthood in the 2013 Birthday Honours for services to visual arts, an honorary doctorate degree from the University of Oxford in 2014.[12][13] and the 2017 Genesis Prize for "being one of the most influential and innovative artists of his generation and for his many years of advocacy for refugees and displaced people".[14][15][16][17][18]
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^"Anish Kapoor". ArtSlant. Retrieved 26 March 2012.
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^"This is what Brit winners will take home next year". BBC. 10 December 2017.
^"Introducing the new UK passport design" (PDF). Gov.uk. 7 November 2016.
^"Sculptor Anish Kapoor among winners of Lennon Ono peace prize". News & Star online. 17 August 2016. Archived from the original on 18 November 2018. Retrieved 26 August 2016.
^"President gives away Padma awards". The Times of India. 23 March 2012. Retrieved 13 November 2015.
^"Sculptor to be given degree at Sheldonian". Oxford Mail. 24 June 2014.
^"Oxford announces honorary degrees for 2014". Archived from the original on 28 June 2014. Retrieved 25 June 2014.
^"Sir Anish Kapoor, 2017 Genesis Prize Laureate". The Genesis Prize. Mr. Kapoor was recognized for being one of the most influential and innovative artists of his generation and for his many years of advocacy for refugees and displaced people.
^Jeffries, Stuart (8 June 2016). "Anish Kapoor on Wagner: 'He was antisemitic and I'm Jewish. Who cares?'". The Guardian. Retrieved 6 February 2017.
^"Anish Kapoor receives 'Jewish Nobel' Genesis Prize, and donates $1m to refugees". 6 February 2017. Retrieved 6 February 2017.
^"Anish Kapoor condemns 'abhorrent' refugee policies as he wins Genesis prize". The Guardian. 6 February 2017. Retrieved 6 February 2017.
^"ArtPremium – Anish Kapoor – "It waves you to a more removed ground"". ArtPremium. 13 March 2017. Archived from the original on 24 August 2018. Retrieved 3 May 2018.
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