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Antony Gormley Biography
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1968 - 1971 |
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After schooling at Ampleforth College, Yorkshire, he went on to complete a degree in Archaeology, Anthropology and History of Art at Trinity College, Cambridge
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1974 |
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Returned to London after travelling to India and Sri Lanka to study Buddhism for three years
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1977 - 1979 |
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Attended Central School of Art and Goldsmith's College before completing a postgraduate course in sculpture at Slade School of Art
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1994 |
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Awarded the Turner Prize
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1999 |
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Awarded the South Bank Prize for Visual Art
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Awarded the Bernhard Heiliger Award for Sculpture
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Lives and works in London
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| Selected Exhibitions |
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2008 - 2009
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Antony Gormley, MARCO Monterrey, Monterrey, Mexico
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2008 - 2009
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Between You and Me, Musée d’art moderne de Sainte-Etienne, St. Etienne, France, 11 October – 25 January 2009
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2008
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Between You and Me, Kunsthal Rotterdam, Rotterdam, Netherlands, 12 July – 14 September (solo)
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2008
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En perspective, Giacometti, Musée des Beaux Arts de Caen, Caen, France, May 17 - August 31
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2008
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Fourth Plinth Commission: The New Proposals, The National Gallery, London, UK
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2008
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Space to Draw, Jerwood Space, London, UK
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2008
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On Time: The East Wing Collection VIII, The Courtauld Institute of Art, London, UK
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2008
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Gravity: Ernesto Esposito Collection, Artium, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain
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2008
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Firmament, White Cube, London (solo)
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2007
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Blind Light, Hayward Gallery, London (solo)
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2007
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Spacetime, Mimmo Scognamiglio, Milan (solo)
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2007
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Bodies in Space, Bernhard Heiliger Award for Sculpture, Georg-Kolbe-Museum, Berlin, Germany (solo)
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2007
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Feeling Material, Deutscher Bundestag Gallery, Berlin, Germany (solo)
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2007
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Blind Light, Sean Kelly Gallery, New York (solo)
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2007
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Ataxia, Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne, Australia (solo)
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2007
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British Visions: Modern and Contemporary Sculpture and Works on Paper, Davidson College, North Carolina, USA
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2007
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Body & Mind: Exclusively Drawings, Antony Gormley and Oliviero Rainaldi, Temple University, Rome Campus, Rome, Italy
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2007
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Rummage: Sculptors’ Drawings, The Winchester Gallery, Winchester School of Art, Winchester, UK
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2007
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Enigma: Absence + Presence in Contemporary Art, Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, Nevada, USA
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2007
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Turner Prize: A Retrospective 1984-2006, Tate Britain, London, UK
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2007
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Reflection, Pinchuk Art Centre, Kiev, Ukraine
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2007
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Structures and Surfaces, Sean Kelly Gallery, New York
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2006
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Breathing Room, Galerie Thaddeus Ropac, Paris, France(solo)
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2006
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Altered States, Mimmoscognamiglio, Naples, Italy (solo)
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2006
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Antony Gormley, Parco and Museo di Scolacium, Catanzaro, Italy (solo)
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2006
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You and Nothing, Galerie Xavier Hufkens, Brussels, Belgium (solo)
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2006
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Critical Mass, Museo D'Arte Contemporanea Donna Regina, Naples, Italy (solo)
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2006
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To the Human Future-Flight from the Dark Side, Art Tower Mito, Japan
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2006
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Less is More, More or Less, Weinstein Gallery, Minneapolis, USA
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2006
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Sixty Years of Sculpture in the Arts Council Collection, Longside Gallery, Yorkshire Sculpture Park
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2006
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The Ship: The Art of Climate Change, The Natural History Museum, London, UK
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2006
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The Faces of a Collection, Kunsthalle Mannheim, Mannheim, Germany
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2006
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Zones of Contact, 2006 Biennale of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
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2006
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Motion on Paper, Ben Brown Fine Arts, London, UK
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2006
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Beyond Limits, Sotheby’s at Chatsworth, Chatsworth House, Derbyshire, UK
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2006
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Making a Mark, Northern Print, Newcastle upon Tyne
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2005
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New Works, Sean Kelly, New York (solo)
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2005
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Another Place, Crosby and Waterloo Beach, Liverpool, UK (solo)
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2005
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Field for the British Isles, Longside Gallery, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Wakefield, UK (solo)
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2005
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Certain Made Places, Gallery Koyanagi, Tokyo, Japan (solo)
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2005
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Asian Field, ICA, Singapore (solo)
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2005
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Inside Australia, Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne, Australia (solo)
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2005
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Tate Sculpture: The Human Figure in British Art from Moore to Gormley, Millenium Galleries, Sheffield, UK
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2005
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Figures/Sculpture, Sammlung Essl – Kunst der Gegenwart, Klosterneuburg, Vienna, Austria
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2005
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Ceramics Biennale, Icheon, Korea
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2005
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Glyndebourne Festival, Glyndebourne, East Sussex
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2005
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Blickachsen 5, Bad Homburg, Germany
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2005
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Henry Moore Epoch and Echo. Aspects of English Sculpture In The Twentieth Century, Museum Würth, Schwäbisch Hall, Germany
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2005
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Sculpture: Time and Process, The Study Gallery, Poole
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2005
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Soul / Inspired Art, Museum of Modern Art by the Sea, Ostend, Bruges, Belgium
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2005
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Munch Revisited, Henie Onstad Kunstcenter, Oslo, Norway
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2005
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Space – Now And Then, AaBe Factories, Tilburg, Netherlands
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2005
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The Difference in Temperature Between Your Body And Mine, Galleria Suzy Shammah, Milan, Italy
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2004
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Domain Field, Great Hall, Winchester, UK (solo)
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2004
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Mass and Empathy, Fundacao Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon, Portugal (solo)
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2004
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Clearing, White Cube, London, UK (solo)
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2004
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Field for the British Isles, Gloucester Cathedral, Gloucester, UK (solo)
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2004
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Asian Field, Guangdong Museum of Contemporary Art, China (solo)
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2004
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Clearing, Galerie Nordenhake, Berlin, Germany (solo)
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2004
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Uniform, Yale Centre for British Art, Yale, USA (solo)
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2004
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Asian Field, Jonan High School, Tokyo, Japan (solo)
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2004
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Antony Gormley, BP British Art Displays,Tate Britain, London, UK (solo)
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2004
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Presence: Images of Christ for the Third Millenium, Canterbury Cathedral
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2004
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Off the Beaten Track: Arts Council Collection Explored, Longside Gallery, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, UK
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2004
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Etre: Les droits de l’homme à travers l’art, United Nations, Palais des Nations, Geneva, Switzerland
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2004
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Bodily Space: New Obsessions in Figurative Sculpture, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, USA
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2004
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A Secret History Of Clay: From Gauguin to Gormley, Tate Liverpool, Liverpool, UK
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2004
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Laocoon Devoured, ARTIUM, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain / Centro José Guerrero, Granada / DA2, Salamanca, Spain
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2004
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Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy, London, UK
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2004
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A13, The Wapping Project, London, UK
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2004
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Den Haag Sculpture Project, Den Haag, Netherlands
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2004
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Out of Place, Galerie Nordenhake, Berlin, Germany
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2004
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Conversation Pieces, The Hague, the Netherlands
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2004
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A Araneira. 100 Artistas Da Coleccion CGAC, Centro Galego de Arte Contemporanea, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
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2004
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Umedalen, Umea, Sweden
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2004
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Cobweb, CGAC, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
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2004
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20JAHRE20YEARS, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg, Austria
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2004
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Making Space, Taking Place, Tuscia, Poggibonsi
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2004
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British Sculpture Show, National Museum of Art, Bucharest, Romania
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2003
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Asian Field, China touring exhibition; Guangzhou, Beijing, Shanghai, Chongqing (solo)
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2003
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Standing Matter, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg, Austria (solo)
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2003
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Domain Field, BALTIC, Gateshead, UK (solo)
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2003
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Independence, South London Gallery, London, UK
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2003
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Blickachsen, Bad Homburg, Germany
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2003
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Me & More, Kunstmuseum Luzern, Switzerland
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2003
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SKULPTUR 03, Max-Gandolph-Bibliothek and Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg
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2003
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Past and Present: Jewellery by 20th Century Artists, Louisa Brown Gallery, London, UK
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2003
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Open Spaces: Vancouver International Sculpture Project – Third Biennale, Vancouver, Canada
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2003
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Perpetual Bliss – Form, Symbol & Material in Contemporary Sculpture, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, France
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2002
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The Nude In 20th Century Art, Kunsthalle Emden, Germany
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2002
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Blast To Freeze, Les Abattoirs, Toulouse, France
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2002
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Beaufort 2003, De Panne Beach, Belgium
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2002
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Territoires Nomades, Rurart, Poitou Charentes, France
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2002
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Himmelschwer (As Heavy as the Heavens – Transformations of Gravity), Landesmuseum Joanneum and Jesuit’s College, Graz, Austria (Part of Graz 2003)
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2002
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Sancturary – Contemporary Art and Human Rights, Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow, UK
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2002
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Antony Gormley: Sculpture, Centro Galego de Arte Contemporanea, Santiago de Compostela, Spain (solo)
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2002
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Antony Gormley, Galleria Mimmo Scognamiglio, Naples, Italy (solo)
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2002
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Antony Gormley, Galerie Xavier Hufkens, Brussels, Belgium (solo)
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2002
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Tuscia Electa, San Casciano, Italy (solo)
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2002
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Antony Gormley Drawing, The British Museum, London. UK (solo)
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2002
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Field For the British Isles, The British Museum, London, UK (solo)
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2002
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Inside Australia, Lake Ballard, Perth International Arts Festival, Australia (solo)
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2002
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Sculptura Internazionale a la Mandria, Villa Dei Laghi, Venaria Reale, Turin, Italy
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2002
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Slip: British And Dutch Contemporary Artists Working with Ceramic, Frans Halsmuseum, Haarlem, the Netherlands (touring to Sainsbury Centre of Visual Arts, Norwich)
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2002
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Time Space Motion, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac and Max-Gandolph-Bibiliotek, Salzburg. Austria
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2002
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European Field, Galleri Stefan Andersson, Umeå [part of Umedalen Skulptur 2002]
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2002
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Who Comes – Who Leaves – Who Stays, Eastern Cemetery, Malmo, Sweden
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2002
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Blast to Freeze, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Germany
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2002
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Gardens of Art: The Sculpture Park at the Frederik Meijer Gardens, Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA
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2002
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Self-Evident: Making the Self the Subject of Art from 1970 to the Present Day, Tate Britain, UK
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2002
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Retrospectacle: 25 Years of Collecting Modern And Contemporary Art, Denver Art Museum, USA
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2002
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To Eat or Not to Eat, CASA. Centro de Arte de Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain
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2001
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New Works, Galerie Nordenhake, Berlin, Germany (solo)
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2001
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Insiders, New Art Centre and Sculpture Park, Roche Court, East Winterslow, UK (solo)
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2001
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Insiders, White Gallery, Brighton, UK (solo)
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2001
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Antony Gormley, Contemporary Sculpture Centre, Tokyo, Japan (solo)
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2001
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Some Of The Facts, Tate St. Ives, Cornwall, UK (solo)
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2001
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Dialogue: Antony Gormley Allotment, Kockumshallen, Malmo, Sweden (solo)
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2001
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Field for The British Isles, Church of St. Mary the Virgin, Shrewsbury; Tullie House, Carlisle (solo)
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2001
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States and Conditions, Orchard Gallery, Derry (touring to Model Arts and Niland Gallery, Sligo) (solo)
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2001
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Drawings, Sommer Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv, Israel
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2001
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Vibration, Utsunomiya Museum of Art, Japan
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2001
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Geometrie Plus Gestus, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac and Max-Gandolph-Bibiliotek, Salzburg, Austria
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2001
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Steirischer Herbst 2001, Graz, Austria
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2001
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Miroslaw Balka, Antony Gormley, Ulrich Ruckreim, Galleri Solvberget, Stavanger, Norway
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2000
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Quantum Cloud (part of North Meadow Sculpture Project), Millennium Dome, Greenwich, London, UK (solo)
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2000
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Quantum Clouds and Other Work, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, France (solo)
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2000
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Field, Vieille Église, Caumont, Picardy, France (solo)
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2000
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Strange Insiders, fig-1, London, UK (solo)
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2000
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Drawn, White Cube2, London, UK (solo)
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2000
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Trialogo: Giuseppe Gallo, Antony Gormley, David Hammons, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome, Italy; Kwangju Biennale, Korea
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2000
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London Calling, Fundraising auction for Ken Livingstone’s Mayoral Campaign, Gimpel Fils, London, UK
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2000
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Out There, White Cube2, London, UK
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2000
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Lost Paradise Lost, Lutherkirche/ Kunsthalle zu Kiel, Hanover, Germany
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2000
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Between Cinema and a Hard Place, Tate Modern, London, UK
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2000
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Lappeenranta 2000, South Carelia Art Museum, Lappeenranta, Finland
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2000
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Enclosed and Enchanted, Museum of Modern Art, Oxford and touring to Mappin Art Gallery, Sheffield and others
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2000
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Narcisse blessé: Autoportraits Contemporains, Passage de Retz, Paris, France
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2000
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Positionen, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac and Max-Gandolph-Bibiliotek, Salzburg, Austria
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2000
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Interplay: Selected Works from the Museum and Private Collections, Museet for Samtidskunst, Oslo, Norway
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2000
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Utopia, Rogaland Kunstmuseum, Stavanger, Norway
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2000
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Conversation, Milton Keynes Gallery, Milton Keynes
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2000
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Die Intelligenz der Hand, Rupertinum, Salzburg, Austria
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| Literature |
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2005
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“Art Listings: Antony Gormley,” Time Out New York, June 9-15, 2005, p.63
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2005
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“Art Listings: Antony Gormley,” New York Magazine, May 30th, 2005, p. 121.
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2005
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“Books: ‘Making Space’,” tema celeste, Volume XXII, No. 109, May-June 2005, p. 24
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2005
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Cascade, Rebecca, “Getting Into Competitive Shape,” Art + Auction, March 2005, p. 84
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2005
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Chambers, Christopher, “Antony Gormley: Sean Kelly Gallery,” Flash Art, Vol. XXXVIII, No. 243, July-September 2005, p. 122.
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2005
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Dantas, Andréa, “Raphael Castoriano Respira Arte Contemporânea, Caras, Edition 607, No. 25, pp. 60-63
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2005
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“ICI New York Studio Events” (invitation), 2005
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2005
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MacAdam, Barbara A., “Antony Gormley,” ARTnews, Volume 104, No. 7,Summer 2005, p. 198
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2005
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Neuman, William, “A Penthouse Closer to the Stars,” The New York Times, Sunday, May 29th, 2005, Section 11, p. 2
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2005
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Smith, Roberta, “Antony Gormley: ‘Clearing IV’,” The New York Times,Friday,June 3, 2005, E27
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