Sir Antony Gormley | Artist | Royal Academy of Arts

Sir Antony Gormley RA

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 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 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); The State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg (2011); Kunsthaus Bregenz, Austria (2010); Hayward Gallery, London (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, Kassel, Germany (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).

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.

Antony Gormley was born in London in 1950.

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Royal Academician

Sculptor

Born: 1950 in London, England, United Kingdom

Nationality: British

Elected RA: 23 May 2003

Gender: Male

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Preferred media: Sculpture

Works by Sir Antony Gormley in the RA Collection

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Plant, 2002

Cast iron

Works associated with Sir Antony Gormley in the RA Collection

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There is no intrinsic value in a work of art until it is experienced. The work of experiencing art in our day is as important as the work of the artist.

Antony Gormley RA

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Antony Gormley RA, HUMAN.

Forte di Belvedere, Florence, Italy, 2015
Photograph by Emiliano Cribari Courtesy Galleria Continua and White Cube © The artist.

Antony Gormley RA, HUMAN.

Forte di Belvedere, Florence, Italy, 2015
Photograph by Pietro Savorelli Courtesy Galleria Continua and White Cube © The artist.

Antony Gormley RA, HUMAN.

Forte di Belvedere, Florence, Italy, 2015 Photograph by Antony Gormley Courtesy Galleria Continua and White Cube © The artist.

Antony Gormley RA, HUMAN.

Forte di Belvedere, Florence, Italy, 2015 Photograph by Antony Gormley Courtesy Galleria Continua and White Cube © The artist.

Antony Gormley RA, Installation view of 'SECOND BODY', Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Pantin, France.

Photograph: Charles Duprat.

Antony Gormley RA, Installation view of 'SECOND BODY', Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Pantin, France.

Photograph: Charles Duprat.

Antony Gormley RA, Installation view of 'SECOND BODY', Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Pantin, France.

Photograph: Charles Duprat.

Video

'HUMAN', a new exhibition of work by Antony Gormley RA

The exhibition HUMAN brings together over one hundred works by Antony Gormley in Florence’s 16th century fortress, Forte di Belvedere.

Sculptures are positioned throughout the interior and courtyards to occupy every part of the Forte, positioned to resonate with the building’s scale and mass.

Antony Gormley RA - Selected CV
- Recent Solo Exhibitions
  
  2015 Human, Forte di Belvedere, Florence, Italy
  Field for the British Isles, 20-21 Visual Arts Centre, Scunthorpe, England
  Second Body, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac Pantin, Paris, France
  2014 The Lehmbruck Museum, Duisburg, Germany
  Galleri Andersson/Sandström, Stockholm, Sweden
  Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern, Switzerland
  Mardalsfossen, Norway
  White Cube, Hong Kong
  Allmeinde Commongrounds, Lech am Arlberg, Austria
  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
- Selected group exhibitions
  
  2015 Sleepless: The Bed in History and Contemporary Art, 21er Haus, Belvedere, Austria
  Model, Galerie Rudolfinum, Prague, Czech Republic
  Self: Image & Identity, Turner Contemporary, Margate, England
  In Search of Meaning: The Human Figure in a Global Perspective, Museum de Fundatie, Zwolle, The Netherlands
  2014 One to the Other, The Lowry, Manchester, England
  Beyond Limits, Chatsworth House, Chatsworth, England
  Crucible, Gloucester Cathedral, Gloucestershire, England
  Body & Voide: Echoes of Moore in Contemporary Art, Henry Moore Foundation, Perry Green, England
  2013 Gifted: From the Royal Academy to the Queen, The Queens Gallery, Buckingham Palace, London, England
  Uncommon Ground: Land Art in Britain 1966 – 1979, Southampton City Art Gallery, Southampton, and touring: National Museum of Wales, Cardiff; Mead Gallery, University of Warwick; Longside Gallery, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, England
- Selected Publications
  
  Expansion Field, Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern and Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern, Switzerland, 2014
  Still Standing, Fontanka, London 2011
  Antony Gormley, Tate Publishing, London 2010
  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