Anish Kapoor was born in 1954 in Bombay. He moved to London in 1973, studying at the  Hornsey College of Art and at the Chelsea School of Art.His first solo exhibition took place in Paris in 1980 in Patrice Alexandre’s workshop. Since the 1980s, he has gone on to exhibit his work in numerous galleries and institutions internationally. He represented the United-Kingdom at the Venice Biennale in 1990 and won the Turner Prize the following year. Several major exhibitions of his work have taken place in France, in Grenoble, Bordeaux and Nantes. Kapoor has become recognized for his creation of monumental works. These include Taratantara in 1999 at the Baltic Centre, and then in Naples; Marsyas at Tate Modern, Leviathan in 2011 at the Grand Palais, as part of the Monumenta project, and Ark Nova, an inflatable, mobile concert hall. Public commissions include Cloud Gate in Chicago; Temenos in Middlesbrough, and the spectacular Orbit, created for the 2012 London Olympic Games.He is represented by Lisson Gallery, London; Gladstone Gallery, New York; Galleria Continua, San Gimignano; Regen Projects, Los Angeles; Kukje Gallery, Seoul; SCAI the Bathhouse, Tokyo; Galleria Massimo Minini, Brescia; Kamel mennour, Paris.