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Antony Gormley

Biography

Photo by Stephen White, London

Antony 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 being stands in relation to nature and the cosmos. Gormley continually tries to identify the space of art as a place of becoming in which new behaviors, thoughts and feelings can arise.

Gormley’s work has been widely exhibited throughout the UK and internationally with exhibitions at Forte di Belvedere, Florence (2015); Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern (2014); Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil, São Paulo, Rio di Janeiro and Brasilia in Brazil (2012); Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, Germany (2012); The State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg, Russia (2011); Kunsthaus Bregenz, Austria (2010); Hayward Gallery, London, England (2007); Malmö Konsthall, Sweden (1993) and Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, Denmark (1989). He has also participated in major group shows such as the Venice Biennale (1982 and 1986) and Documenta 8 (1987). Permanent public works include the Angel of the North (Gateshead, England), Another Place (Crosby Beach, England), Inside Australia (Lake Ballard, Western Australia) and Exposure (Lelystad, The Netherlands) and Chord (MIT – Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA).  

Gormley was awarded the Turner Prize in 1994, the South Bank Prize for Visual Art in 1999 and the Bernhard Heiliger Award for Sculpture in 2007. In 1997 he was made an Officer of the British Empire (OBE). 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.

Antony Gormley was born in London in 1950.


For more information, please visit www.antonygormley.com.

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Videos

Antony Gormley’s Imaginative Furniture for an Otherwise Functional World, Frieze, 2019

"Antony Gormley: Video Interview", The Florentine, February 27, 2019

Louisiana Channel, 5 Artists on Making Sculptures, January 2017

Antony Gormley, Brilliant Ideas, 2016

CONSTRUCT at Sean Kelly Gallery, 2016

Antony Gormley: Sculpted space, within and without, Filmed June 2012 at TEDGlobal 2012

LAND by Antony Gormley: 50 Years of the Landmark Trust

HUMAN, Antony Gormley, Firenze 2015

BBC FOUR - What Do Artists Do All Day ?

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BBC FOUR - What Do Artists Do All Day? 
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Salon | Artist Talk | Antony Gormley: Making Space, June 18, 2013
Filmed on June 16, 2013 at Art Basel

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