Anish Kapoor
Anish Kapoor(Born 1954)
Sir Anish Kapoor is a British sculptor. Born in Bombay, 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.
He was awarded the Turner Prize in 1991.
Notable public sculptures include Cloud Gate (colloquially known as "the Bean") in Chicago's Millennium Park, Leviathan, at the Grand Palais in Paris in 2011, and the ArcelorMittal Orbit, commissioned as a permanent artwork for London's Olympic Park and completed in 2012.
Kapoor received a knighthood in the 2013 Birthday Honours for services to visual arts.
He was awarded the Turner Prize in 1991.
Notable public sculptures include Cloud Gate (colloquially known as "the Bean") in Chicago's Millennium Park, Leviathan, at the Grand Palais in Paris in 2011, and the ArcelorMittal Orbit, commissioned as a permanent artwork for London's Olympic Park and completed in 2012.
Kapoor received a knighthood in the 2013 Birthday Honours for services to visual arts.
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