Anish Kapoor was born in Bombay in 1954 from Indian father and Jewish mother. Since the early 70's he has lived in London where he moved for studying.

His works investigate the dialectic of opposites and the use of colour in its purity becomes a constant element in his work as a symbol of synthesis between east and west. Anish Kapoor's art journey is made of two stages: the early eighties artworks belong to the first stage. They are all sculptural objects whose forms, abstract or natural, are fully covered by pure, deep colour that hides the origins of the handmade object and suggests the idea of exceeding. From the nineties his works come to be more and more monumental representing the staging of emptiness by hollows that are filled up and substance cleared out.

A crucial moment in his career was the 1979, when Kapoor came back to India rediscovering his roots and his being a sort of boundary line between east and west. Once back to England, he realized the 1000 names series. In 1980 there was his first individual exhibition in Patrice Alexandre's Studio in Paris, while in 1981 he exhibited at London Coracle Press. In the same yeas he starts his collaboration with Nicholas Logsdail, art gallery manager of London Lisson Gallery. He became soon a central figure for New British Sculpture, the avant-garde English sculpture scene, together with artists such as Cragg, Deacon, Woodrow e Gormley. During those years his research was oriented towards the use of colour that gives surface quality to his works; "Skin, exterior quality has always been to me the place of action: It is the contact moment between the object and the world. The film which divides the inside from the outside."

Anish Kapoor was awarded the ‘Premio Duemila' at the 44th Venice Biennale in 1990, as British representative. In 1992 was awarded The Turner Prize Award and for the second time the ‘Premio Duemila' at the 45th Venice Biennale. Exhibitions all over the world, public and private commissions follow.

His works are exhibited in London Tate, New York MOMA, Reina Sofia in Madrid, Kunsthalle Basel, Stedelijk Museum of Modern Art in Amsterdam.