Tony Cragg (b. 1949, Liverpool) completed his undergraduate studies at Wimbledon School of Art, London, in 1973, and earned a Master’s degree from the Royal College of Art, London, in 1977. In 1988, he represented the United Kingdom at the 43rd Venice Biennale and won the Turner Prize that same year. Cragg has received prestigious awards such as the Praemium Imperiale for Sculpture in Tokyo (2007) and the 1st Class Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (2012), and he was knighted in 2016. His works were featured at numerous international biennials an group exhibitions and are also included in significant collections such as Tate, London; the State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg; and the Centre Pompidou, Paris. His major solo exhibitions include Castle Howard, York (2024); Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf (2024); Albertina Museum, Vienna (2022); Houghton Hall, Norfolk (2021); Istanbul Modern, Istanbul (2018) and Yorkshire Sculpture Park, UK (2017). Tony Cragg lives and works in Wuppertal.
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