Anish Kapoor is renowned for creating sensual, enigmatic sculptural forms. His inventiveness and versatility have produced collaborations with composers, choreographers and sound artists. His works range from small powdered pigment pieces to gigantic installations such as Marsyasfor the Turbine Hall at Tate Modern, and Cloud Gate, his building-sized, polished steel sculpture for the AT&T Plaza, in Chicago, USA.

Whilst his portfolio of works is diverse, the themes that preoccupy him are consistent. He explores what he sees as universal polarities: presence and absence, the solid and the intangible, inside and outside.

Anish Kapoor was born in Bombay in 1954 and has lived in London since the early 1970s when he studied at Hornsey College of Art and Chelsea School of Art & Design.

Over the past twenty years he has exhibited extensively in London and all over the world. His solo shows have included venues such as Kunsthalle Basel, Tate Gallery and Hayward Gallery in London, Reina Sofia in Madrid, CAPC in Bordeaux and most recently Haus der Kunst in Munich. He has also participated internationally in many group shows including the Whitechapel Art Gallery, The Royal Academy and Serpentine Gallery in London, Documenta IX in Kassel, Moderna Museet in Stockholm and Jeu de Paume and Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris.

Anish Kapoor was awarded the ‘Premio Duemila’ at the Venice Biennale in 1990, the Turner Prize Award in 1991 and was awarded an Honorary Fellowship at the London Institute in 1997 and a CBE in 2003. He is represented by the Lisson Gallery, London, Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York and Galleria Continua and Galleria Massimo Minini, Italy.