Sir Anish Mikhail Kapoor

Sir Anish is a British-Indian sculptor and one of the most influential of his generation. His public sculptures are both adventures in form and feats of engineering such as the permanent artwork, ArcelorMittal Orbit in London’s Olympic Park completed in 2012. Sir Anish specializes in installation art and conceptual art and his works can be seen in capital cities across the globe and have featured in numerous major exhibitions. He was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in 2003 for services to the visual arts and named a knight bachelor in 2013. He has received many distinctions and prizes, including the Premio Duemila Prize at the XLIV Venice Biennale in 1990, the Turner Prize in 1991, the Unilever Commission for the Turbine Hall at Tate Modern, the Padma Bhushan by the Indian government in 2012, an honorary doctorate degree from the University of Oxford in 2014 and the 2017 Genesis Prize for achievement as a Jewish person His notable public sculptures include Cloud Gate (2006, also known as “The Bean”) in Chicago’s Millennium Park; Sky Mirror, exhibited at the Rockefeller Center in New York City in 2006 and Kensington Gardens in London in 2010; Temenos, at Middlehaven, Middlesbrough; and Leviathan, at the Grand Palais in Paris in 2011.