Antony Gormley RA

Born: 30 August 1950, London, UK
Elected RA: 23 May 2003
Category of Membership: Sculptor

It is no hero, no ideal, just the industrially reproduced body of a middle-aged man trying to remain standing and trying to breathe, facing a horizon busy with ships.
Antony Gormley RA on an installation of 100 cast-iron sculptures moulded from the artist's own body sited on Crosby Beach, Sefton (2006).

Antony Gormley was born in London in 1950. Upon completing his studies at Trinity College, Cambridge, he travelled to India, returning to London three years later to study at the Central School of Art, Goldsmiths College and the Slade School of Art.

Antony Gormley RA, Critical Mass II Throughout his career, Gormley has used his own body as an archetype, the starting point from which to explore the relationships between bodies and the contexts which they inhabit, primarily through the medium of sculpture. Over this time he has created some of the most ambitious and recognisable works of the past two decades including 'Field', 'The Angel of the North' and, most recently, 'Quantum Cloud for the Millennium Dome' in Greenwich.

He has created large-scale installations in Cuxhaven, Germany and at the Royal Academy of Arts, London and has had solo exhibitions at the Whitechapel Gallery, the Serpentine Gallery and White Cube. He was awarded the Turner Prize in 1994 and the South Bank prize in 1999.

Read an interview with Anthony Gormley in RA Magazine Summer 2010

AUDIO: Antony Gormley RA at the Hermitage (23 September-15 January 2012)

Recent solo exhibitions
2013 Galerie Thaddeaus Ropac, Salzburg, Austria
Xavier Hufkens gallery, Brussels
Middelheim Museum, Antwerp
2012-2013 Museum of Modern Art, Hayama, Japan
White Cube Bermondsey, London
2012 CCBB, Brasilia and Rio de Janeiro
Middelheim Museum, Antwerp
Museum of Modern Art, Hayama, Japan
2011 Harewood House, Leeds
Hermitage, St Petersburg
2010 Madison Square Park, New York
Sean Kelly Gallery, New York
Anna Schwartz Gallery, Sydney
2009 Antiguo Colegio San Ildefonso, Mexico City
Artium Museum Vitoria, Spain
Pro-Arte Foundation, Helsinki, Finland
Galerie Ropac, Salzburg, Austria
2008 White Cube, Mason's Yard, London
Galleri Andersson Sandström, Umea, Sweden
Castle Coronet, Guernsey
Soho Chaowai, Beijing
Kunsthall Rotterdam
Museo de Arte Contemporaneo, Monterrey, Mexico
Musée d'Art Moderne de Saint-Étienne, France
2007 Hayward Gallery, Southbank Centre, London
Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne
Sean Kelly Gallery, New York
2006 Kunsthalle Mannheim, Germany
2005 Sean Kelly Gallery, New York
ICA, Singapore
2002 Galleria Mimmo Scognamiglio, Naples
Centro Galego de Arte Contemporanea, Santiago de Compostela
2001 Orchard Gallery, Derry (touring to Model Arts a**nd Niland Gallery, Sligo)
Church of St. Mary the Virgin, Shrewsbury; Tullie House, Carlisle
Kockumshallen, Malmo
Tate St. Ives, Cornwall
Contemporary Sculpture Centre, Tokyo
White Gallery, Brighton
New Art Centre and Sculpture Park, Roche Court, East Winterslow
Galerie Nordenhake, Berlin
2000 Galerie Nordenhake, Berlin
White Cube2, London
Vieille þglise, Caumont, Picardy, France
Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris
Millennium Dome, Greenwich, London
1999 Jablonka Galerie, Cologne, Germany
Malmo Konsthall
MacClaren Art Centre, Barrie, Ontario
Stroom, The Hague
Roman House, Colchester
Ace Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
Galerie Xavier Hufkens, Brussels, Belgium
Rupertinum, Salzburg, Austria
Stavanger, Norway
1998 The Royal Academy, London
Jablonka Galerie, Cologne, Germany
The Gallery, Central Library, Gateshead
1997 Herning Museum, Denmark
Cuxhaven, Germany
Galerie Nordenhake, Stockholm, Sweden
Kunsthalle zu Kiel, Kiel, Germany
Koelnischer Kunstverein, Cologne, Germany
1996 Independent Art Space, London
Hayward Gallery, London
Museum of Modern Art, Kamakura/Nagoya City Art Museum, Aichi/Takaoka Art Museum, Toyama/Iwaki City Museum of Art, Fukushima/Museum of Contemporary Art, Sapporo/Museum of Modern Art, Tokushima, Japan
Arts 04, St. Remy de Provence, France
Galerie Xavier Hufkens, Brussels, Belgium
Obala Art Centar, Sarajevo, Bosnia
Johnson County Community College, Kansas City, USA
1995 Remise, Vienna
The Pace Foundation for Contemporary Art, San Antonio
Kohji Ogura Gallery, Nagoya, Japan
1994 Galeria Pedro Oliviera, Porto, Portugal
Oriel Mostyn, Llandudno/Scottish Museum of Modern Art, Edinburgh/(1995) Orchard Gallery, Derry/Ikon Gallery, Birmingham [with concrete works]/National Gallery of Wales, Cardiff/(1996) Greensfield BR Works, Gateshead
White Cube, London
1993 Centrum Sztuki Wspolczesnej, Warsaw/(1994) Moderna Galerija, Ljubljana, Slovenia/Muzej Suvremene Umjetnosti, Zagreb, Croatia/Ludwig Muzeum, Budapest, Hungary/(1995) Prague Castle, Prague, Czech Republic/National Theatre, Bucharest, Romania/(1996) Arsenals, Riga, Latvia/Museum of Contemporary Art, Vilnius, Lithuania/Art Hall, Tallin, Estonia/Magasin 3, Stockholm, Sweden/Galerie Nordenhake, Stockholm, Sweden
Konsthall Malmo, Sweden/Tate Gallery, Liverpool/(1994) Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin
Galerie Thaddeus Ropac, Paris
1992 The British School, Rome
Contemporary Sculpture Centre, Tokyo
Burnett Miller Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Centro Cultural Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico City/San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla, CA/(1993) The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC/The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, Canada
1991 Modern Art Museum, Fort Worth
Miller Nordenhake, Koln
Galerie Nordenhake, Stockholm
Gallery Shirakawa, Kyoto
Salvatore Ala Gallery, New York
Galerie Isy et Christine Brachot, Brussels
Frith Street Gallery, London
1990 Burnett Miller Gallery, Los Angeles

Publications
Antony Gormley, Phaidon Press, London. Antony Gormley in conversation with E. H. Gombrich. Texts by John Hutchinson, Lela B. Njatin, Antony Gormley. Interview with Declan McGonagle, 1995
Making an Angel, Booth-Clibborn Editions, London. Texts by Antony Gormley, Iain Sinclair, Beatrix Campbell, Stephanie Brown, Neil Carstairs, Gail-Nina Anderson, 1995
Critical Mass, Royal Academy, London. Interview with George Benjamin, 1995

Contact details for further information
Email membershipoffice@royalacademy.org.uk

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