Antony Gormley is most famous for his Angel of the North (1994-98), a public sculpture in Gateshead. The power and strength of the North East is captured perfectly in this piece. To see it for the first time is an almost Holy experience!

He studied at Trinity College, Cambridge, the Central School of Art, Goldsmiths College and the Slade School of Art.

He uses moulds from his own body for his sculptures.

His books include: Antony Gormley (1995); Making an Angel (1995); Critical Mass (1995)

Dateline:

• 1990: Solo exhibition at the Burnett Miller Gallery, Los Angeles

• 1991: Solo exhibitions at the Modern Art Museum, Fort Worth; Miller Nordenhake, Koln; Galerie Nordenhake, Stockholm; Gallery Shirakawa, Kyoto; Salvatore Ala Gallery, New York; Galerie Isy et Christine Brachot, Brussels; Frith Street Gallery, London

• 1992: Solo exhibitions at The British School, Rome; Contemporary Sculpture Centre, Tokyo; Burnett Miller Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; Centro Cultural Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico City/San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla, CA/(1993) The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC/The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, Canada

• 1993: Solo exhibitions at the Centrum Sztuki Wspolczesnej, Warsaw/(1994) Moderna Galerija, Ljubljana, Slovenia/Muzej Suvremene Umjetnosti, Zagreb, Croatia/Ludwig Muzeum, Budapest, Hungary/(1995) Prague Castle, Prague, Czech Republic/National Theatre, Bucharest, Romania/(1996) Arsenals, Riga, Latvia/Museum of Contemporary Art, Vilnius, Lithuania/Art Hall, Tallin, Estonia/Magasin 3, Stockholm, Sweden/Galerie Nordenhake, Stockholm, Sweden Konsthall Malmo, Sweden/Tate Gallery, Liverpool/(1994) Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin Galerie Thaddeus Ropac, Paris

• 1994: Wins Turner Prize

  Solo exhibitions at the Galeria Pedro Oliviera, Porto, Portugal; Oriel Mostyn, Llandudno/Scottish Museum of Modern Art, Edinburgh/(1995) Orchard Gallery, Derry/Ikon Gallery, Birmingham [with concrete works]/National Gallery of Wales, Cardiff/(1996) Greensfield BR Works, Gateshead; White Cube, London

• 1995: Solo exhibitions at the Remise, Vienna; The Pace Foundation for Contemporary Art, San Antonio; Kohji Ogura Gallery, Nagoya, Japan

• 1996: Solo exhibitions at the Independent Art Space, London; Hayward Gallery, London; Museum of Modern Art, Kamakura/Nagoya City Art Museum, Aichi/Takaoka Art Museum, Toyama/Iwaki City Museum of Art, Fukushima/Museum of Contemporary Art, Sapporo/Museum of Modern Art, Tokushima, Japan; Arts 04, St. Remy de Provence, France; Galerie Xavier Hufkens, Brussels, Belgium; Obala Art Centar, Sarajevo, Bosnia; Johnson County Community College, Kansas City, USA

• 1997: Solo exhibitions at the Herning Museum, Denmark; Cuxhaven, Germany; Galerie Nordenhake, Stockholm, Sweden; Kunsthalle zu Kiel, Kiel, Germany; Koelnischer Kunstverein, Cologne, Germany

• 1998: Solo exhibitions at the Royal Academy, London; Jablonka Galerie, Cologne, Germany; The Gallery, Central Library, Gateshead

• 1999: Wins South Bank prize

  Solo exhibitions at the Jablonka Galerie, Cologne, Germany; Malmo Konsthall; MacClaren Art Centre, Barrie, Ontario; Stroom, The Hague; Roman House, Colchester; Ace Gallery, Los Angeles, USA; Galerie Xavier Hufkens, Brussels, Belgium; Rupertinum, Salzburg, Austria; Stavanger, Norway

• 2000: Solo exhibitions at the Galerie Nordenhake, Berlin; White Cube2, London; Vieille þglise, Caumont, Picardy, France; Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris; Millennium Dome, Greenwich, London

• 2001: Solo exhibitions at the Orchard Gallery, Derry; Church of St. Mary the Virgin, Shrewsbury; Tullie House, Carlisle; Kockumshallen, Malmo; Tate St. Ives, Cornwall; Contemporary Sculpture Centre, Tokyo; White Gallery, Brighton; New Art Centre and Sculpture Park, Roche Court, East Winterslow; Galerie Nordenhake, Berlin

• 2002: Solo exhibitions at the Galleria Mimmo Scognamiglio, Naples and Centro Galego de Arte Contemporanea, Santiago de Compostela

• 2003: Elected RA

• 2005: Solo exhibitions at the Sean Kelly Gallery, New York and the ICA, Singapore

• 2006: Solo exhibition at Kunsthalle Mannheim, Germany

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