Anish Kapoor was born to a Jewish mother and an Indian Punjabi Hindu father in Bombay (now, Mumbai), India in 1954. He immigrated to England in 1973, attending Hornsey College of Art (BA) and Chelsea School of Art and Design (MA), rising to fame in the 1980s with his geometric and biomorphic sculptures. He has pioneered installation and conceptual art, often in the public domain, working across an unprecedented range of scale, engineering complexity and materials, including granite, limestone, marble, pigment, reflective surfaces, red wax and vantablack. He was awarded the prestigious Turner Prize (1991), was made CBE for services to the Arts in 2003 and in 2009 became the first living artist to have a solo exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts, London.

Listen to his story here or read the full biography on the BURU database: https://www.buru.org.uk/contributor/anish-kapoor