Antony Gormley, Esq, OBE's Biography

Antony Gormley, Esq, OBE's Professional Career

Career

artist and sculptor; memb Arts Cncl of England 1998-; major cmmn incl Angel of the North 1997 (Civic Tst Award 2000); winner Turner Prize 1994, South Bank Art Award 1999, Br D&AD Silver Award for Illustration 2000, Bernard Heilinger Award for Sculpture 2007; hon fell: Goldsmiths Coll London 1998, RIBA 2001, Jesus Coll Cambridge 2003, Trinity Coll Cambridge 2003; hon doctorate: Univ of Sunderland 1998, UCE 1998, Open Univ 2001, Univ of Cambridge 2003, Univ of Newcastle upon Tyne 2004, Univ of Liverpool 2006, UCL 2006; FRSA 2000, RA 2003; Solo Exhibitions most recent incl: Sculpture (Centro Galego de Arte Contemporanea Santiago de Compostela) 2002, Galleria Mimmo Scognamiglio Naples 2002, Inside Australia (Lake Ballard, Menzies, Perth Int Arts Festival WA) 2002 and (Anna Schwartz Gallery Melbourne) 2005, Asian Field (Xinhuahuayuan Huajingxincheng, Guangzhou China and tour in China) 2003 and (ICA Singapore) 2005, Standing Matter (Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac Salzburg) 2003, Baltic Centre for Contemporary Arts Gateshead 2003, Domain Field (The Great Hall Winchester) 2004, Mass and Empathy (Fundacao Gulbenkain Lisbon) 2004, Clearing (White Cube London and Galerie Nordenhake Berlin) 2004, Fai Spazio, Prendi Posto (Poggibonsi part of Arte 'all Arte 9 Italy) 2004, Asian Field (Johnan High School Tokyo) 2004, Unform (Yale Centre for Br Art) 2004, Antony Gormley Display (Tate Britain) 2004, Antony Gormley: New Works (Sean Kelly Gallery NYC) 2005, ANtony Gormley (Glyndebourne Opera House) 2005, Another Place (Crosby Beach Merseyside) 2005, Altered States (Galleria Mimmo Scognamiglio Naples) 2006, You and Nothing (Xavier Hufkens Brussels) 2006, Critical Mass (Museo D'Arte Contemporanea Donna Regina Napoli) 2006, Blind Light (Hayward Gallery) 2007, Spacetime (Mimmo Scognamiglio Arte Contemporanea Milan) 2007, Feeling Material (Deutscher Bundestag Gallery Berlin) 2007, Blind Light (Sean Kelly Gallery NY) 2007, Ataxia (Anna Schwartz Gallery Melbourne) 2007, Firmament (White Cube Mason's Yard London) 2008, Another Singularity (Galleri Andersson Sandstrom Sweden) 2008, Lot (Castle Cornet Guernsey) 2008, Drawings 1981-2001 (Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac Paris) 2008, Clay and the Collective Body (Helsinki) 2009, One and Other (forth plinth commission Trafalgar Square) 2009, Domain Field (Garage Centre for Contemporary Culture Moscow) 2009, Breathing Room II (Sean Kelly Gallery NY) 2010, Firmament IV (Anna Schwartz Gallery Sydney) 2010, Critical Mass (De La Warr Pavillion Bexhill-on-Sea) 2010, Test Sites (White Cube Mason's Yard London) 2010, Event Horizon (Madison Sq Art NY) 2010, Memes (Melbourne) 2011, Flare II (Salisbury Cathedral) 2011, For the Time Being (Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac Paris) 2011, Two States (Harewood House Yorks) 2011, Still Standing (State Hermitage Museum St Petersburg) 2011, Vessel (Galleria Continua San Gimignano Italy) 2012, Still Being (CCBB Sao Paulo) 2012; Group Exhibitions Objects and Sculpture (ICA London) 1981, Br Sculpture of the 20th Century (Whitechapel Art Gallery London) 1981, Venice Biennale 1982 and 1986, Biennale de São Paulo 1983, Int Survey MOMA NY 1984, British Art Now: A Subjective View (touring exhbn Japan) 1990-91, Inheritance and Transformation (Irish MOMA Dublin) 1991, Natural Order (Tate Gallery Liverpool) 1992, Images of Man (Isetan Museum of Art, Tokyo/Daimura Museum, Umeda-Osaka/Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art) 1992, The Human Factor: Figurative Sculpture Reconsidered (Albuquerque Museum) 1993, HA HA: Contemporary British Art in an 18th Century Garden (Killerton Park) 1993, The Fujisankei Biennale (Hakone Open-Air Museum) 1993, From Beyond the Pale: Part One (Irish MOMA Dublin) 1994, Sculptors' Drawings from the Weltkunst Collection (Tate Gallery London) 1994, Contemporary British Art in Print (Scot Nat Gallery of Modern Art Edinburgh and Yale Center for Br Art New Haven) 1995, Glaube, Hoffnung, Liebe und Tod (Kunsthalle Vienna) 1995, Un Siècle de Sculpture Anglaise (Jeu de Paume Paris) 1996, Betong (Konsthall Malmö) 1996, A Ilha Do Tesouro (Centro de Arte Moderna Jose de Azeredo Perdigao Lisbon) 1997, L'Empreinte (Centre Georges Pompidou Paris) 1997, Material Culture: The Object in British Art of the 1980's and 90's (Hayward Gallery) 1997, Arte Urbana (Expo '98 Lisbon) 1998, Presence: Figurative Art at the End of the Century (Tate Gallery Liverpool) 1999, Trialogo Rome 2000, Tate Liverpool 2004, Millennium Galls Sheffield 2005, Figure/Sculpture Vienna 2005, Henry Moore - Epoch und Echo (Künzelsau Germany) 2005, Zero Degrees (Sadler's Wells) 2005, Space: Now & Then (Funamend Fndn Tilburg) 2005, to the Human Future (Mito Contemporary Art Center Japan) 2006, Asian Field (Sydney Biennale) 2006, 60 Years of Sculpture (Arts Cnsl Collection Yorks Sculpture Park) 2006, Turner Prize: A Retrospective (Tate Britain) 2007, Reflection (Pinchuk Art Centre Kiev) 2007, Fourth Plinth Proposals (Nat Gallery) 2008, Gravity: Ernesto Esposito Collection (Spain) 2008, Genesis - The Art of Creation (Bern) 2008, Locked In (Luxembourg) 2008, History in the Making (Mori Art Museum Tokyo) 2008, En Perspective (Musée des Beaux-Arts de Caen) 2008, Kivik Art 08 (Kivik Art Centre Sweden) 2008, Statuephilia (Br Museum) 2008, Earth: Art of a Changing World (Royal Acad) 2009), Visceral Bodies (Vancouver Art Gallery) 2010, XIV International Sculpture Biennale of Carrara 2010, A Serpentine Gesture and Other Prophecies (49 Nord 6 Est Franc Lorraine Metz) 2011, TRA: Edge of Becoming (Palazzo Fortuny Venice) 2011, Summer Exhibition (Royal Acad) 2011

Antony Gormley, Esq, OBE's Publications

Books and Publications

Books, Publications and Catalogues most recent incl: Antony Gormley Drawing (2002), Antony Gormley: Workbooks 1 1977-1992 (2002), Antony Gormley (2002), Asian Field (2003), Antony Gormley: Standing Matter (2003), Domain Field (2003), Making Space (2004), Domain Field at Winchester: Antony Gormley (2004), Broken Column (2004), Mass and Empathy (2004), Antony Gormley: Inside Australia (2005), Antony Gormley: Asian Field (2005), Asian Field: Makers and Made (2006), Fai Spazio Prendi Posto/Making Space Taking Place (2006), Antony Gormley: Breathing Room (2006), Intersezioni 2: Time Horizon (2006), Antony Gormley (2007), Antony Gormley: Blind Light (2007), Antony Gormley: Bodies in Space (2007), Acts, States, Times, Perspectives (2008), Between You and Me (2008), Antony Gormley (2009), Antony Gormley - Another Singularity (2009), Gormley on Guernsey (2009), Ataxia II (2009), Antony Gormley (2009), AG - Antony Gormley (2010), Aperture (2010), Exposure (2010), One and Other (2010), Event Horizon (2010), Drawing Space (2010), Memes (2011), For the Time Being (2011), Horizon Field (2011), Still Standing (2011)

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