Kapoor, Anish

Moves from India to England. Takes classes at the Hornsey College of Art in London and comes into contact with other artists for the first time.

While studying at the Chelsea School of Art, Kapoor is included in the group exhibition Young Contemporaries at the Royal Academy of Arts in London.

Accepts a teaching position at Wolverhampton Polytechnic in the Midlands. Creates his first pieces using pigments, the 1,000 Names series.

Has his first solo exhibition, at Galerie Patrice Alexandre in Paris, presenting several works from the 1,000 Names series.

Participates in the exhibition British Sculpture in the Twentieth Century: Part Two, Symbol and Imagination 1951-1980 at the Whitechapel Art Gallery in London.

Shows pigment sculptures at Lisson Gallery in London.

Has solo exhibitions at Galerie ‘t Venster in Rotterdam, Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool (travels to Le Nouveau Musée in Lyon), and Lisson Gallery in London.

Kapoor’s first exhibition in the United States takes place at Barbara Gladstone Gallery in New York. All the works are sold before the opening, and the show is praised by critics.

A solo exhibition at the Kunsthalle Basel travels to the Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven, Netherlands.

Has his second solo exhibition at Barbara Gladstone Gallery, confirming his increasing recognition in New York. Also has solo exhibitions at the Kunstnernes Hus in Oslo; Albright-Knox
Art Gallery in Buffalo, New York; and the University Gallery at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

Kapoor’s At the Hub of Things marks the peak of his transition toward the “void pieces.” The creation process for these pieces leads to his first works in stone.
Has solo exhibitions at Ray Hughes Gallery in Sydney and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Brisbane.

Begins what will become a key work, Adam.
Has a solo exhibition at Lisson Gallery in London.

Has exhibitions at Barbara Gladstone Gallery in New York; Kohji Ogura Gallery in Nagoya, Japan; and Lisson Gallery in London.

Represents Great Britain at the Venice Biennale, receiving the Premio Duemila for best young artist.
Meets Homi K. Bhabha.
The Tate Gallery in London presents Anish Kapoor: Drawings.

Receives the Turner Prize.
Solo exhibitions are presented at the Palacio de Velázquez in Madrid and Kunstverein Hannover.

Takes part in Documenta IX in Kassel with the work Descent into Limbo (1992), which requires the first building constructed especially to house the artist’s work.For Expo ’92 in Seville, works with the architect David Connor to create Building for a Void.A solo exhibition is presented by the Museum of Contemporary Art in San Diego and later travels to the Des Moines Art Center in Des Moines, Iowa; National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa; and the Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery in Toronto.

Exhibits at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art and Barbara Gladstone Gallery in New York.
Carries out two joint projects, his first multidisciplinary collaborations: a stage design for a dance performance, and a musical collaboration involving five sculptures.

The Moderna Galerija in Ljubljana and Kohji Ogura Gallery in Nagoya present solo exhibitions.

One of Kapoor’s first mirror works, Turning the World Upside Down (1995), is installed at the Fondazione Prada in Milan.
The De Pont Foundation for Contemporary Art in Tilburg, Netherlands, presents the exhibition Anish Kapoor.
Kapoor’s work is also exhibited at Nishimura Gallery in Tokyo and Lisson Gallery in London.

The exhibitions Anish Kapoor: Sculptures and Anish Kapoor: Two Sculptures are presented at Aboa Vetus & Ars Nova in Turku, Finland, and Kettle’s Yard in Cambridge, respectively.

Receives honorary doctorates from the London Institute and University of Leeds.
Participates in Arte all’Arte 2, organized by Associazione Arte Continua in San Gimignano, Italy.

Solo exhibitions are presented by the Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea in Santiago de Compostela; CAPC, Musée d’art contemporain, in Bordeaux; Galleria Massimo Minini
in Brescia; Gladstone Gallery in New York; Hayward Gallery in London; and Chapelle de la Salpetrière in Paris.

Receives an honorary doctorate from the University of Wolverhampton.
Elected Royal Academician of the Royal Academy of Arts in London.
Along with the engineer Neil Thomas, produces the installation Taratantara at the BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art in Gateshead, United Kingdom.

Lisson Gallery in London presents the solo exhibition Blood.
Taratantara (1999) is exhibited in Piazza del Plebiscito in Naples.
Produces the permanent installation At the Edge of the World for Axel Vervoordt Kanaal in Wijnegem, Belgium.

Awarded an honorary fellowship by the Royal Institute of British Architects.
Has solo exhibitions at the Kunsthalle Helsinki and at Gladstone Gallery in New York.
The Nottingham Playhouse commissions Kapoor to produce his first permanent open-air work in the United Kingdom, SkyMirror.

With technical help from engineer Cecil Balmond, creates Marsyas for the Unilever Series in the Turbine Hall of Tate Modern in London.

Is named Commander of the Order of the British Empire in recognition of his contribution to the arts.
The work My Red Homeland (2003) is shown in an exhibition of the same name at the Kunsthaus Bregenz in Bregenz, Austria.
Exhibits at the Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli in Naples and Galleria Continua in San Gimignano, Italy.
Receives a joint commission with Future Systems for the Traiano metro station in Naples.

Kapoor’s first public work in the United States, Cloud Gate, is installed in Millennium Park in Chicago.
Has solo exhibitions at Gladstone Gallery in New York; Galleria Massimo Minini in Brescia; and the Musée des arts contemporains du Grand-Hornu in Boussu, Belgium.
Wins a competition to create a monument for the British Memorial Garden in New York, a new park paying homage to British soldiers and victims of the attack on the World Trade Center in 2001.
Kapoor’s Untitled (2004) is installed in the Castello di Ama in Gaiole in Chianti, Italy.

The solo exhibition Japanese Mirrors is shown at SCAI The Bathhouse in Tokyo.
Participates in Arte all’Arte 10, organized by Associazione Arte Continua, creating a permanent installation in the Torrione di Sant’Agostino in San Gimignano, Italy.

Exhibits in South America for the first time, at the Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil in Rio de Janeiro. The exhibition, titled Anish Kapoor: Ascension, later travels to Brasilia and São Paulo.
Sky Mirror (2006) is shown at Rockefeller Center in New York.
The Centro de arte contemporáneo in Malaga presents the exhibition Anish Kapoor: My Red Homeland.

The Musée des Beaux-Arts in Nantes, France, shows the work Svayambh (2007). The same work is shown later in the year, along with other works by the artist, in Anish Kapoor: Svayambhat the Haus der Kunst in Munich.
Exhibits at Gladstone Gallery in New York and Galleria Continua in Beijing.

The exhibition Anish Kapoor: Past, Present, Future takes place at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston.
The Royal Institute of British Architects in London presents Place/No Place: Anish Kapoor in Architecture.
The Deutsche Guggenheim in Berlin presents the site-specific commissioned work Memory (2008), which will be shown at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York in 2009–10.
Exhibits at Gladstone Gallery in New York; Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, in Washington, D.C.; and Museo de Santa Clara in Murcia, Spain.
Reveals plans for the Tees Valley Giants project, a series of large-scale public sculptures located in the northeast of England, in Middlesbrough, Stockton, Redcar, Hartlepool, and Darlington, realized in collaboration with engineer Cecil Balmond.

Serves as artistic director of the Brighton Festival and exhibits his work in and around the city.
MAK Österreichisches Museum für angewandte Kunst/Gegenwartskunst in Vienna presents Anish Kapoor: Shooting into the Corner, and the Royal Academy of Arts in London presents Anish Kapoor (travels to the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao in 2010).  Regen Projects in Los Angeles presents Anish Kapoor: Drawings.

The Royal Parks and the Serpentine Gallery present Anish Kapoor: Turning the World Upside Down, an exhibition of four large-scale outdoor sculptures installed in Kensington Gardens, London.
The public sculpture Temenos (2010), part of the Tees ValleyGiants project, is installed in Middlesbrough.
Kapoor’s Celestial Mirror (2010) is exhibited at the State Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg.
Wins a commission to build the grand ArcelorMittal Orbit for the 2012 Summer Olympics in London.

Kapoor’s Tall Tree and the Eye (2009) is acquired by the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao.
Creates the site-specific piece Leviathan (2011) for Monumentaat the Grand Palais in Paris, dedicating the work to the artist Ai Weiwei.
Takes part in the Venice Biennale with Ascension (2006), installed in the Basilica di San Giorgio, Isola di San Giorgio Maggiore.

Receives the Praemium Imperiale – Sculpture, awarded in Japan.

His monumental public artwork Orbit is installed in the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in London.
Designs sets for Parsifal, staged at the Het Muziektheater, De Nederlandse Opera, in Amsterdam (The Netherlands).
Large exhibitions dedicated to Kapoor’s work are held in the De Pont Museum of Contemporary Art in Tilburg, Netherlands; the Pinchuk Art Center in Kiev, Ukraine; the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia in Sydney; and the Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art in Seoul, South Korea.

Kapoor in Berlin, a major exhibition, is held at Martin-Gropius-Bau in Berlin.
Exhibits recent works at Galleria Continua in Les Moulins, France, and at the Sakıp Sabancı Müzesi in Istanbul.
Partners with architect Arata Isozaki to create the traveling concert hall Ark Nova for the Lucerne Festival in Matsushima, Japan.

Ark Nova is set up for the Lucerne Festival in Sendai, Japan.
Creates the fascinating installation Descension for the Kochi-Muziris Biennale in Kochi, India.

Ascension is installed as part of the exhibition Follia Continua at Galleria Continua in San Gimignano, Italy.
My Red Homeland opens at the Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center in Moscow.
On the occasion of the Biennale de Lyon (France), a show titled Anish Kapoor chez Le Corbusier is held in La Tourette.
Monumental works by Kapoor are installed on the gardens of the Palace of Versailles, France.
Descension is on show at Galleria Continua in San Gimignano, Italy.

Has a major solo exhibition at the Museo d’Arte Contemporanea di Roma. Also, Casamadre Arte Contemporanea in Naples (Italy) stages an exhibition of Kapoor’s work.
Descension is installed by the River Seine in Paris, in the context of Nuit Blanche 2016.
Designs the sets for Tristan and Isolde, staged at the English National Opera in London. Archaeology: Biology is exhibited at UNAM’s Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo (MUAC) in Mexico City.

The Musée d’art moderne et contemporain in Saint-Ètienne Mètropole, France, shows Kapoor’s My Red Homeland.
Places of Origin–Monuments for the 21st Century is installed at MAST Foundation in Bologna, Italy.
Descension is installed in the Brooklyn Bridge Park, Public Art Fund, New York.
Creates Stackhouse in the context of the Winnipeg Warming Huts in Manitoba, Canada.
Sky Mirror (for Hendrik) (2017) is permanently installed in the De Pont Museum of Contemporary Art in Tilburg, Netherlands.

Works by Kapoor are installed in Beppu Park, Japan, for the exhibition Anish Kapoor in Beppu.
Anish Kapoor–Works, Thoughts, Experiments is an exhibition of works by Kapoor installed inside and outside the Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Serralves in Porto, Portugal.
Anish Kapoor is organized by PUNKT Ø Galleri F 15 in Moss, Norway.
Presents recent works in the exhibition Another (M)other, staged at Galerie Kamel Mennour in Paris.

The exhibition Anish Kapoor opens at Pitzhanger Manor & Gallery, on the occasion of the reopening of the gallery in London.