Anish Kapoor

Quick Facts

Full Name	Anish Kapoor
Occupation	Sculptor
Date Of Birth	Mar 12, 1954(1954-03-12)
Age	70
Birthplace	Mumbai
Country	India
Birth City	Maharashtra
Horoscope	Pisces

Anish Kapoor Biography

Anish Kapoor is one of the most popular and richest Sculptor who was born on March 12, 1954 in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India. Popular for his works such as Cloud Gate in Chicago and Sky Mirror in New York He won his Premio Duemila Prize in 1990 as well as his Turner Prize in 1991.

He displayed a sculpture in collaboration alongside He exhibited a collaborative sculpture with Salman Rushdie called Blood Relations at the Brighton Festival in 2009. named Blood Relations at the Brighton Festival in 2009.

Anish Kapoor CBE, RA (born 12 March 1954) is a British Indian sculptor specializing in installation art and conceptual art. Born in Mumbai, Kapoor has lived and worked in London since the early 1970s when he moved to study art, first at the Hornsey College of Art and later at the Chelsea School of Art and Design.

Kapoor attended The Doon School, an all-boys boarding school in Dehradun, then in the state of Uttar Pradesh, India. He is said to have “hated” his time at Doon. In 1971 he moved to Israel with one of his two brothers, initially living on a kibbutz. He began to study electrical engineering, but had trouble with mathematics and quit after six months. In Israel, he decided to become an artist. In 1973, he left for Britain to attend Hornsey College of Art and Chelsea School of Art and Design. There he found a role model in Paul Neagu, an artist who provided a meaning to what he was doing. Kapoor went on to teach at Wolverhampton Polytechnic in 1979 and in 1982 was Artist in Residence at the Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool. He has lived and worked in London since the early 1970s.

His brother is famous scholar Ilan Kapoor.

Anish Kapoor Net Worth

Anish Kapoor is one of the richest Sculptor from India. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Anish Kapoor 's net worth $700 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

He relocated from London in the beginning of 1970 and went to his first class at Chelsea School of Art and Design.

His 115-metre-high work ArcelorMittal Orbit was commissioned as an ongoing artwork for Olympic Park.

Kapoor’s work is collected worldwide, notably by the Museum of Modern Art in New York City; Tate Modern in London; Fondazione Prada in Milan; the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney; the Guggenheim in Bilbao; De Pont Museum of Contemporary Art in Tilburg, the Netherlands; the Moderna Museet, Stockholm; the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art in Kanazawa, Japan; and the Israel Museum in Jerusalem.

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In 1995, Kapoor married German-born medieval art historian Susanne Spicale. They have a daughter Alba and a son Ishan and lived in a house designed by architect Tony Fretton in Chelsea, London. They separated and divorced in

2013. Kapoor has since been in a relationship with garden designer Sophie Walker and the two married in 2016 (or early 2017).

Facts & Trivia

Anish Ranked on the list of most popular Sculptor. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in India. Anish Kapoor celebrates birthday on March 12 of every year.

Since 1995, he has worked with the highly reflective surface of polished stainless steel. These works are mirror-like, reflecting or distorting the viewer and surroundings. Over the course of the following decade Kapoor’s sculptures ventured into more ambitious manipulations of form and space. He produced a number of large works, including Taratantara (1999), a 35-metre- high piece which was installed in the Baltic Flour Mills in Gateshead, England, prior to the renovation beginning there which turned the structure into the Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art; and Marsyas (2002), a large work consisting of three steel rings joined by a single span of PVC membrane that reached end to end of the 3,400-square-foot (320 m) Turbine Hall of Tate Modern. Kapoor’s Eye in Stone (Norwegian: Øye i stein) is permanently placed at the shore of the fjord in Lødingen in northern Norway as part of Artscape Nordland. In 2000, one of Kapoor’s works, Parabolic Waters, consisting of rapidly rotating coloured water, was shown outside the Millennium Dome in London.