About the work

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. 

Date and country of birth

1950, GB

About the artist

Born 1950 London, Antony Gormley lives and works in London. Graduated from Trinity College, University of Cambridge; Saint Martin’s School of Art; and Goldsmiths, University of London.

His work is held in public and private collections including National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne; Museum of Modern Art, Vienna; Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; Arts Council of England, London; Tate, London; and Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Wakefield.

Selected solo exhibitions and projects include Royal Academy of Arts, London (2019); Sight: Antony Gormley on the Island of Delos, Delos (2019); Essere, Uffizi Gallery, Florence (2019); STAND, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia (2019); Still Moving, Long Museum, Shanghai (2017); Human, Forte di Belvedere, Florence (2015); EXPANSION FIELD, Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern (2014); STILL BEING, [CORPOS PRESENTES], Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil (2012); Still Standing, State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg (2011); HORIZON FIELD, Kunsthaus Bregenz (2010); Blind light, Hayward Gallery, London (2007); Our house, Kunsthalle zu Kiel (1997); Malmö Konsthall (1993); and Sculpture, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Copenhagen (1989). Selected group exhibitions include Venice Biennale (2013) and Documenta 8, Kassel (1987). Permanent public works include the Angel of the North, Gateshead; Another Place, Crosby Beach; Exposure, Lelystad; and Chord, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge.

Awards include Turner Prize (1994); and election to the Royal Academy (2003). Gormley was made an Officer of the British Empire (1997), and knighted (2014).