“Anish Kapoor CBE RA (born 12 March 1954) is a British sculptor of Indian birth. Born in Mumbai (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 initially began exhibiting as part of New British Sculpture art scene. He went on to exhibit internationally at venues such as the Tate Gallery and Hayward Gallery in London, Kunsthalle Basel, Haus der Kunst Munich, Deutsche Guggenheim in Berlin, Reina Sofia in Madrid, MAK Vienna, ICA Boston and Royal Academy of Art, London. In 2010 his first major exhibition in India took place at the NGMA New Delhi, and Mehboob Studio in Mumbai. He represented Britain in the XLIV Venice Biennale in 1990, when he was awarded the Premio Duemila Prize. In 1991 he received the Turner Prize and in 2002 received the Unilever Commission for the Turbine Hall at Tate Modern. Notable public sculptures include Cloud Gate, Millennium Park, Chicago,Sky Mirror exhibited at the Rockefeller Center, New York in 2006 and Kensington Gardens in 2010, and Temenos, at Middlehaven, Middlesbrough.

Anish Kapoor is a Royal Academician and was made a Commander of the British Empire in 2003.

Kapoor's sculptures are frequently simple, curved forms, usually monochromatic and brightly coloured. His early works use powder pigment to define and permeate the form. Such use of pigment characterised his first high profile exhibit as part of the New Sculpture exhibition at the Hayward Gallery London in 1978. His later works are made of solid, quarried stone, many of which have carved apertures and cavities, often alluding to, and playing with, dualities (earth-sky, matter-spirit, lightness-darkness, visible-invisible, conscious-unconscious, male-female and body-mind). His most recent works are mirror-like, reflecting or distorting the viewer and surroundings. The use of red wax is also part of his current repertoire, evocative of flesh, blood and transfiguration”. – Wikipedia

Rockefeller Center rises behind a three-story polished stainless steel sculpture titled “Sky Mirror” by Anish Kapoor October 2, 2006 in New York City. The sculpture is 33 feet in diameter and weighs 23 tons with the disc facing Rockefeller Center at a 60 degree angle. (Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images)

Workmen install a large-scale sculputure by Anish Kapoor at the Lisson Gallery on October 10, 2006 in London, England. (Photo by Gareth Cattermole/Getty Images)

People take shelter from the falling snow under Anish Kapoor's Cloud Gate sculpture in Millennium Park December 1, 2006 in Chicago, Illinois. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images)

Visitors to Christie's auctioners are reflected in Anish Kapoor's untitled stainless steel sphere on February 4, 2008 in London. (Photo by Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images)

A visitor looks at her distorted reflection in a sculpture by Anish Kapoor at The Royal Academy on September 22, 2009 in London. (Photo by Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images)

Wax deposits left by Anish Kapoor's moving train sculpture “Svayambh” fill a gallery at The Royal Academy on September 22, 2009 in London. (Photo by Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images)

Anish Kapoor's sculpture “Shooting into the Corner” is displayed as it fires a wax canon ball in The Royal Academy on September 22, 2009 in London. (Photo by Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images)

A woman views a stainless steel sculpture by artist Anish Kapoor entitled “Untitled” at Sotheby's auction house on October 12, 2009 in London, England. (Photo by Oli Scarff/Getty Images)

This handout image supplied by ARUP shows a computer-generated impression of artist Anish Kapoor's winning design for a visitor attraction, as it is unveiled to the public at City Hall on March 31, 2010 in London, England. The steel structure, to be placed in the 2012 Olympic Park, is entitled “The ArcelorMittal Orbit” and will become the UK's largest sculpture standing at 115m in height. 16m GBP of the cost of the structure is to be funded by the steel company AreclorMittal after its CEO Lakshmi Mittal was approached by Mayor of London, Boris Johnson. (Photo by ARUP via Getty Images)

A general view of the construction of the ArcelorMittal Orbit designed by artist Anish Kapoor ahead of the London 2012 Olympic Games at the Olympic Park on April 6, 2011 in London, England. (Photo by Dean Mouhtaropoulos/Getty Images)

Anish Kapoor (L) attends the “Il Mondo Vi Appartiene” dinner at Fondazione Cini on June 1, 2011 in Venice, Italy. (Photo by Vittorio Zunino Celotto/Getty Images)