Anish Kapoor

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contemporary artist human sculptor

Anish Kapoor is a renowned British-Indian sculptor known for his large-scale, reflective, and often abstract public artworks that explore perception, space, and materiality.

Aliases (1)

Anish Kapoor’s void sculptures ×1

Statements (56)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	contemporary artist → human → sculptor →
awardReceived	Commander of the Order of the British Empire → Knighthood → Praemium Imperiale → Turner Prize →
basedIn	London →
birthName	Anish Kapoor →
citizenship	India → United Kingdom →
countryOfBirth	India →
creatorOf	ArcelorMittal Orbit → Cloud Gate → Descent into Limbo → Leviathan → Marsyas → Shooting into the Corner → Sky Mirror →
dateOfBirth	1954-03-12 →
educatedAt	Chelsea School of Art and Design → Hornsey College of Art →
ethnicOrigin	Indian →
familyName	Kapoor →
fieldOfWork	public art → sculpture →
gender	male →
givenName	Anish →
honorificTitle	Sir →
knownFor	exploration of voids and negative space → monumental inflatable installations → use of highly polished reflective surfaces → use of intense pigments →
languageOfWorkOrName	English → Hindi →
movement	contemporary art → postminimalism →
name	Anish Kapoor →
nationality	British → Indian →
notableFor	abstract sculpture → large-scale public sculptures → reflective sculptures →
notableWork	ArcelorMittal Orbit → Cloud Gate → Descent into Limbo → Leviathan → Marsyas → Shooting into the Corner → Sky Mirror →
placeOfBirth	Mumbai →
residence	London →
workLocation	United Kingdom → international public spaces →
yearAwarded	1991 Turner Prize → 2013 Knighthood →

Referenced by (22)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Cloud Gate → Descent into Limbo → Leviathan → Marsyas → Shooting into the Corner → Sky Mirror → The Bean →	creator
Cloud Gate → Descent into Limbo → Leviathan → Shooting into the Corner →	artist
Anish Kapoor →	birthName
Monumenta 2011 →	commissionedArtist
The Bean →	designedBy
Turbine Hall →	hasNotableArtist
Royal Academy of Arts →	hasNotableMember
The Phillips Collection →	hasWorkBy
Anish →	isNotablyBorneBy
Anish Kapoor →	name
Hornsey College of Art →	notableAlumni
Kapoor →	notablePerson
Descent into Limbo ("Anish Kapoor’s void sculptures") →	relatedWork