Gormley Antony
Antony Gormley was born in London in 1950.
Gormley is widely acclaimed for his sculptures, installations and public artworks that investigate the relationship of the human body to space. His work has developed the potential opened up by sculpture since the 1960s through a critical engagement with both his own body and those of others in a way that confronts fundamental questions of where human beings stand in relation to nature and the cosmos. Gormley continually tries to identify the space of art as a place of becoming in which new behaviours, thoughts and feelings can arise.
Gormley’s work has been widely exhibited throughout the UK and internationally with exhibitions at Musée Rodin, Paris (2023); Lehmbruck Museum, Duisburg (2022); Museum Voorlinden, Wassenaar (2022); National Gallery Singapore, Singapore (2021); Schauwerk Sindelfingen, Sindelfingen (2021); Royal Academy of Arts, London (2019); Delos, Greece (2019); Uffizi Gallery, Florence (2019); Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia (2019); Long Museum, Shanghai (2017); National Portrait Gallery, London (2016); Forte di Belvedere, Florence (2015); Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern (2014); Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil, São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro and Brasilia (2012); Deichtorhallen, Hamburg (2012); Kunsthaus Bregenz, Austria (2010); Hayward Gallery, London (2007); Malmö Konsthall, Sweden (1993) and Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, Denmark (1989). Permanent public works include the Angel of the North (Gateshead, England), Another Place (Crosby Beach, England), Inside Australia (Lake Ballard, Western Australia), Exposure (Lelystad, the Netherlands), Chord (MIT – Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA) and Alert (Imperial College London, England).
Gormley was awarded the Turner Prize in 1994, the South Bank Prize for Visual Art in 1999, the Bernhard Heiliger Award for Sculpture in 2007, the Obayashi Prize in 2012 and the Praemium Imperiale in 2013. In 1997 he was made an Officer of the British Empire (OBE) and was made a knight in the New Year’s Honours list in 2014. He is an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects, an Honorary Doctor of the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Trinity and Jesus Colleges, Cambridge. Gormley has been a Royal Academician since 2003.
Solo exhibitions
2024
Body Buildings, Galleria Continua, Beijing, China
Antony Gormley / Pavla Melková, Galerie Rudolfinum, Prague, Czech Republic
Allotment III, University of Monterrey, Monterrey, Mexico [permanent installation]
Aerial, White Cube, New York, USA [Cat.]
Time Horizon, Houghton Hall, Norfolk, England [Cat.]
True, For Alan Turing, King’s College, Cambridge, England [permanent installation]
2023
Body Politic, White Cube, Bermondsey, London, England [Cat.]
Critical Mass, Musée Rodin, Paris, France [Cat.]
Nightwatch, Kollegienkirche, Salzburg, Austria
Living Time, TAG Art Museum, Qingdao, China [Cat.]
Umwelt, Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg, Austria [Cat.]
Sense: Beuys / Gormley, a conversation through drawing, Thaddaeus Ropac, London, England
2022
Body Field, Xavier Hufkens, Brussels, Belgium [Cat.]
Alert, Imperial College London, England [permanent installation]
Gormley / Lehmbruck: Calling On The Body, Lehmbruck Museum, Duisberg, Germany [Cat.]
Ground, Museum Voorlinden, Wassenaar, the Netherlands [Cat.]
Body Space Time, Galleria Continua, San Gimignano, Italy [Cat.]
Lucio Fontana / Antony Gormley, Negozio Olivetti, Venice, Italy [Cat.]
Witness VII and Witness VIII, Ecole Du Louvre, Paris, France [permanent installation]
2021
Strapworks, White Cube, West Palm Beach, Florida, USA
Asian Field, M+, Hong Kong [Cat.]
Antony Gormley: Works From The Collection, Hall Art Foundation, Schloss, Derneburg, Germany
Antony Gormley, National Gallery Singapore, Singapore [Cat.]
Present, Rana Kunstforening, Rana, Norway
Field For The British Isles, Northern Gallery For Contemporary Art, Sunderland
Antony Gormley: Earth Drawings, Sunderland Museum and Winter Gardens, Sunderland
Learning To Be, Schauwerk Sindelfingen, Stuttgart, Germany [Cat.]
2020
In Habit, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Marais, Paris, France [Cat.]
2019
In Formation, White Cube Masons Yard, London, England [Cat.]
Feel, Busan Museum of Art, Busan, Korea
Antony Gormley, Royal Academy of Arts, London, England [Cat.]
Sight, Various Sites, Delos, Greece [Cat.]
Present, Gallery of Contemporary Art and Architecture – České Budějovice House of Art, České Budějovice, Czech Republic
Essere, Le Gallerie Degli Uffizi, Florence, Italy [Cat.]
Stand, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA