Tony Cragg

Liverpool, England, United Kingdom, 1949 -

BiographyEducation: Gloucestershire College of Art, Cheltenham, England, 1969-70
Wimbledon School of Art, London, England, 1970-73
Royal College of Art, London, England, 1973-77

Awards: Turner Prize, Tate Gallery, London, England, 1988

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2003
Bibliotheque Nationale de France, Paris, France
Kunst und Ausstellungshalle der BDR, Bonn, Germany
Museum of Modern Art, Malaga, Spain

2001
"Tony Cragg," Malmo Konsthall, Malmo, Sweden
"Anthony Cragg Skulpturen," Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz, Chemnitz, Germany
"Tony Cragg, Skulpturen und Papierarbeiten," Stadtsparkasse Wuppertal, Wuppertal, Germany

2000
"A New Thing Breathing: Recent Work by Tony Cragg," Tate Gallery Liverpool, Liverpool, England
Glyndebourne Opera House, Glyndebourne, England
Kunstverein Springhornhof, Neuenkirchen, Germany
Holderbank, Holderbank, Switzerland
MUHKA, Museum van Hedenaagse Kunst, Antwerp, Belgium
Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, New York

1999
Vonderheydt Museum, Wuppertal, Germany
Lenbachhaus, Stadtische Gallery, Munich, Germany
Sara Hildén Art Museum, Tampere, Finland
Tate Gallery Liverpool, Liverpool, England

1998
Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, New York

1997
Lenbachhaus, Stadtische Gallery, Munich, Germany
The Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
"Tony Cragg. Skulpturen und Zeichnungen," BAWAG Foundation, Vienna, Austria
Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, England
Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Toyota City, Japan
Nationalgalerie, Skopje, Macedonia
Nationalgalerie, Bratislava, Czechoslovakia
National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea
Nationalgalerie, Ujazdowskie Castle, Warsaw, Poland
BEL, Banque Européen, Luxembourg, Belgium
Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
Bunkier Sztuki, Krakow, Poland
Sennestadt GmbH, Bielefeld, Germany

1996
Musée National d’Art Moderne-Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France

1995
Kunst auf der Zugspitze, Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany
OTTO, Bologna, Italy
"Dum umeni mestr Brno," Kunsthaus Brno, Brno, Czechoslavakia
Valdsteinska jizdarna v Praze, Prague, The Czech Republic
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofiá, Madrid, Spain
Nova Sin, Prague, The Czech Republic

1995-94
"Tony Cragg, Drawings," Musée des Beaux-Arts, Nantes, France; Stadtgalerie, Saarbrücken, Germany; Kunstmuseum St. Gallen, St. Gallen, Switzerland

1994
Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, New York
Gesellschaft für Gegenwartskunst, Augsburg, Germany
Kunstverein, St. Gallen, Switzerland

1993
Museum voor Hedendaagse Kunst, 's-Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands

1992
Musée d'Art Contemporain de Rochechouart, Haute-Vienne, France
Centre d'Art Contemporain du Domaine de Kerguehennec, Locminé, France
IVAM Centro Julio González, Valencia, Spain
Tramway and Center for Contemporary Art, Glasgow, Scotland
Moderna Galerija, Ljubljana, Slovenia

1991
Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, New York
Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
Wiener Secession, Vienna, Austria
Art & Project, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

1991-90
Newport Harbor Museum of Art, Newport Beach, California; The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; Power Plant, Toronto, Ontario; The Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, Texas

1990
"New Etchings," Crown Point Press, New York, New York

1989
Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, New York
Kunstsammlung Nordhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf, Germany
The Tate Gallery, London, England
Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, The Netherlands

1988
Silo/Centre de Création Contemporaine, Église de Courmelois, Val-de-Vesle, France

1987
Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, New York
Corner House, Manchester, England

1986
Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, New York
La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California
Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York, New York
University Art Museum, Berkeley, California

1985
Kunsthalle Waaghaus, Winterthur, Switzerland
Staatsgalerie Moderner Kunst, Munich, Germany
Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, Belgium
ARC/Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France
Kestner-Gesellschaft, Hannover, Germany

1984
Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne, Germany
Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, New York
Vleeshal, Middelburg, The Netherlands
Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark

1983
Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, New York
Kunsthalle Bern, Bern, Switzerland

1982
Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe, Germany
Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, New York
Nouveau Musée, Lyon, France
Rijksmuseum Kröller-Müller, Otterlo, The Netherlands

1981
Musée d'Art et d'Industrie, St. Etienne, France
Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, England
Nouveau Musée, Lyon, France
Front Room, London, England
Von der Heydt-Museum, Wuppertal, Germany
Vacuum, Düsseldorf, Germany

1980
Lutzowstrasse Situation, Berlin, Germany

1979
Lutzowstrasse Situation, Berlin, Germany
Kunstlerhaus Weidenalle, Hamburg, Germany

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2003
-"Tony Cragg, Cecily Brown, Simon Starling, Sissi," Museo d'arte Contemporanea Roma, Rome, Italy
-OICS, Vigeland Museum, Oslo, Norway
"A Sculpture Show," Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, New York

2002
“Realitetsfantasier,” Astrup Fearnley Museet for Moderne Kunst, Oslo, Norway

2000
"Aspectos de la Collección," Fundació La Caixa, Madrid, Spain
"Passajes de la colleción en Málaga," Fondació la Caixa, Málaga, Spain
"L’ombra della ragione," Galleria d’Arte Moderna, Bologna, Italy
Kallmann Museum, Ismaning, Germany
"The History of the Turner Prize," Victoria Art Gallery, Bath, England
"Aller Anfang ist Merz-Von Kurt Schwitters bis heute," Sprengel Museum, Hannover, Germany

2000-99
"At Home with Art," The Tate Gallery, London, England; Artsway, Sway, England

1999
"House of Sculpture," Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, Texas
"Silent Friendship; 1960-90’s: 7 Artists," Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Toyota, Japan
"Zeitwenden," Rheinische Landsmuseum and Kunstmuseum Bonn, Germany
"Project for the Millenium Dome," London, England

1998
"Breaking Ground," Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, New York
"Jardin d’artiste: de mémoire d’arbre," Musée Zadkine, Paris, France

1997
47th Venice Biennial, Venice, Italy

1994
Prospect/Retrospect, Kunstmuseum Luzern, Lucerne, Switzerland
Werkstatt Kollerschlag, Vienna, Austria
Castello di Rivoli, Turin, Italy
Sprengel Museum, Hannover, Germany
Fundació La Caixa, Barcelona, Spain
Museum für Gestaltung, Zurich, Switzerland
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain
"Paper Art," Leopold Hoesch Museum, Düren, Germany
"The Enchantment of Transcendency," Galleria Civica di Arte Contemporanea, Trento, Italy
"Toujours: Modern," Le Nouveau Musée-Institut d’Art Contemporain, Villeurbanne, France

1993
"Binaera," Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria
"Detente," Kunsthalle Zacheta, Warsaw, Poland
"Sculpture in the Little Forest," Raanana, Israel
"Gegenbilder," Münster, Germany
Werkstatt Kollerschlag, Kollerschlag, Austria
"Art against AIDS Venezia: Drawing the Line," 45th Venice Biennale, Peggy Guggenheim Museum, Venice, Italy
"The Raw and the Cooked: New Work in Clay in Britain," Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, England

1992
Fundacão Serralves, Porto, Portugal
Fundació La Caixa, Barcelona, Spain
Gérard Delsol et Laurent Innocenzi, Paris, France
Musée Communal, Ixelles, Belgium
Centre de Conférences Albert Borschene, Brussels, Belgium
The Tate Gallery, Liverpool, England

1991
"In anderen Räumen," Museum Haus Lange and Haus Esters, Krefeld, Germany
Carnegie International, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, New York
"Excavating the Present," Kettle's Yard, Cambridge, England
"La sculpture contemporaine," Fondation Daniel Templon, Fréjus, France
"Niauwe viengel," Stedelijk van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
"¿Qué se n'ha fet dels 80?," Fundació La Caixa, Barcelona, Spain
"Grandes lignes," Rencontres Art-Public Gare de L'Est, Paris, France
"Restes: des humeurs colorées," Ecole Régionale des Beaux-Arts, Rennes, France

1990
Werkstatt Kollerschlag, Kollerschlag, Austria
"Altered States," Crown Point Press, New York, New York
Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, New York
"Signs of Life," ICA, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
"Von der Natur in der Kunst," Messepalast, Vienna, Austria
"Culture and Commentary: An 80s Perspective," Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.
"The Readymade Boomerang. Certain Relations in 20th Century Art," Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
"British Art Now: A Subjective View," Setagaya Museum, Tokyo, Japan
"Keys for a Building," Galerie Crousel-Robelin, Paris, France
"Affinities and Intuitions. The Gerald S. Elliott Collection of Contemporary Art," The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois

1989
"Britse Scultuur 1960-1988," Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst, Antwerp, Belgium

1989-88
"Britannica: Vingtcinq Ans de Sculpture," Musée des Beaux-Arts André Malraux, Le Havre, France; Musée de l'Evêché, Evreux and Ecole d'Architecture de Normandie, Rouen, France; Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst, Antwerp, Belgium

1988
Venice Biennial (British Pavilion), Venice, Italy
"Présentation & Propositions," Fonds Régional d’Art Contemporain Rhône-Alpes, Villa du Parc, France
"De Verzameling," Museum van Hedendaags Kunst, Antwerp, Belgium
"Europa oggi. Arte contemporanea nell'Europa Occidentale," Museo d'Arte Contemporanea, Prato, Italy
"British Now: sculpture et autres dessins," Musée d'Art Contemporain, Montreal, Quebec
"Camouflage," Scottish Art Council, Third Eye Centre, Glasgow, Scotland
"Starlit Waters: British Sculpture. An International Art 1968-1988," The Tate Gallery Liverpool, Liverpool, England
"Still Life, A New Life," Carlisle Museum and Art Gallery, Carlisle, Scotland

1987
"A Quiet Revolution: British Sculpture Since 1965," San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois
Documenta 8, Kassel, Germany
"Juxtapositions," P.S.1/Institute for Art and Urban Resources, Long Island City, New York, New York
"Current Affairs, British Painting and Sculpture in the 1980s," British Council, traveled to Hungary, Czechoslovakia, and Poland
"British Art of the 1980s," Liljevalchs Konsthall, Stockholm, Sweden and Sara Hilden Art Museum, Tampere, Finland
"L'époque, la mode, la morale, la passion," Musée Nacional d'Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
"Andere Leute Kunst," Museum Hans Lange, Krefeld, Germany
"Edinburgh International," Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, Scotland

1986
Venice Biennal, Venice, Italy
"The Generic Figure," Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
"De Sculptura," Wiener Festwochen, Vienna, Austria
"Entre el objeto y la imagen. Escultura británica contemporanea," Palacio de Velázquez, Madrid, Spain
Sonsbeek '86 International Sculpture Exhibition, Arnhem, The Netherlands
"Beuys zu Ehren," Stadtischen Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich, Germany
"Skulptur Sein," Stadtische Kunsthalle, Düsseldorf, Germany

1985
"7000 Eichen," Kunsthalle, Tübingen, Germany
"Mobel--Objekte und Installationen...," Von der Heydt Museum, Wuppertal, Germany
18th Biennial of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium
"Alles und noch viel mehr," Kunsthalle Bern, Bern, Switzerland
"Anniottanta," Galeria Communale d'Arte Moderna, Bologna, Italy
"The British Show," Perth, Sydney, Brisbane, Australia
"The Turner Prize Exhibition," Tate Gallery & Patrons of the New Art, London, England
"Spuren, Skulpturen und Monumente ihrer präzisen Reise," Kunsthaus Zurich, Switzerland
"Aureola Borealis," Oslo, Norway
"Les vingt ans du Musée à travers sa collection," Musée d'Art Contemporain, Montreal, Quebec

1984
"Sol-Mur," Musée des Beaux-Arts, Rouen, France
"Plastique et Plasticiens," Ziem, Martigues, France
"Tilt l'Art à l'Oeuvre," Musée de Nantes, Nantes, France
Sydney Biennial, Sydney, Australia
"An International Survey of Recent Painting and Sculpture," The Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York
"Histoire de Sculpture," Château des Ducs d’Eperon, Cadillac, France
"Skulptur im 20. Jahrhundert," Merian Park, Basel, Switzerland
"The British Art Show," Birmingham, Southhampton, Edinburg Herculaneum, Scotland
"Terrae Motus," Villa Campolieto, Italy
ROSC, The Guiness Hop Store, Dublin, Ireland

1983
"Marie et Pierre, Truc et Troc," Musée d'Art Contemporain, Paris, France
"Tema Celeste," Museo Civico d'Arte Contemporanea, Gibellina, Italy
"Sculpture 1983," Rotterdamse Kunststichtings, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
"Arcaico Contemporaneo," Museo del Sannio, Benevento, Italy
São Paulo Biennial, São Paulo, Brazil
"Arts '83," Kunstmuseet Ateneum, Helsinki, Finland
"New Art," The Tate Gallery, London, England

1982
India Triennial, New Delhi, India
"Kunst wird Material," Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin, Germany
Documenta, Kassel, Germany
"Leçons des Choses," Kunsthalle Bern, Bern, Switzerland
"British Sculpture Now," Kunstmuseum Luzern, Lucerne, Switzerland
"Art and Architecture," Institute of Contemporary Art, London, England
"De la catastrophe," Centre d'Art Contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland
Galerie Nächst St. Stephan, Vienna, Austria
"Aspects of British Art Today," Metropolitan Museum, Tokyo, Japan

1981
"The Motor Show," Front Room, London, England

1980
"Fifteen Years of Sculpture at the Royal College of Art," London, England
"Nuovo Immagine/New Image," 16th Triennial, Palazzo della Triennal and Galleria del Disegno, Milan, Italy
"A Perspective," Basel, Switzerland
"Aperto `80," Venice Biennial, Venice, Italy
"Art in Europe After 1968," Museum Voor Hedendaagse-Kunst, Ghent, Belgium

1979
"Europa Kunst der 80er Jahre," Stuttgart, Germany

1978
JA-NA-PA III, Paris, France

1977
"RCA Degree Show," Royal College of Art, London, England
"Silver Jubilee Exhibition of Contemporary British Sculpture," Battersea Park, London, England

1976
École des Beaux-Arts, Metz, France

1975
Brunel University, Uxbridge, England
RCA Gulbenkian Hall, London, England

COMMISSIONS/PUBLIC PROJECTS

2001
"Tony Cragg, Turbo & Ferryman," Doris C. Freedman Plaza, New York, New York (commissioned by the Public Art Fund and sponsored by Bloomberg)

2000
"Wood Crystal," Kunstverein Springhornhof, Neuekirchen, Germany (commissioned in conjunction with solo exhibition)

1996
"New Waves," Battery Park City, New York, New York (commissioned by Public Art Fund)
"World Events," Atlanta, Georgia (commissioned by Atlanta Committee for the Olympic Games)

1994
"Daily Bread," Weiner Neustad, Vienna, Austria (commissioned by Werenhandels-AG)

1993
"Archimedes Screw," Corner of Hekelaan and Pettelaarseweg, ‘s- Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands (commissioned by the Municipality of ‘s-Hertogenbosch and sponsored in part by Lips B.V. in Druen and Koninklijke van Duren, B.V., ‘s-Hertogenbosch)
"Untitled" (7 parts), Bodo, Norway (commissioned by Merkur Werehandels-AG)

1992
"Untitled," The Lille and Hugh Roy Cullen Sculpture Garden, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas (commissioned by the Museum of Fine Arts/gift of The Schissler Foundation)

1991
"Unsere Broken. Umgestaltung. Licht-Dichtung. 2 Flusse," Landeszentralbank. Nordrhein- Westfalen, Düsseldorf, Germany (commissioned by Landeszentralbank)

1989
"Ordovician Pore," Minneapolis Sculpture Garden, Minneapolis, Minnesota (commissioned by the Walker Art Center/gift of Joanne and Phillip von Blon)
"Neue Formen," Museum Von der Heydt, Wuppertal, Germany (commissioned by Museum von der Heydt)

1987
"Fossils," The British Oxygen Company, Windlesham, Surrey, England (commissioned by The British Oxygen Company)

1986
"Jurassic Landscape," Basel, Switzerland (commissioned by Galerie Buchman for private collection)

1984
"Realms and Neighbours," Merian Park, Basel, Switzerland (commissioned by Kunstmuseum Basel/gift of Christoph Merian Collection)

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