Tony Cragg

b. 1949, England/Germany
Lives in Wuppertal, Germany

British sculptor Tony Cragg is one of the most highly acclaimed and influential sculptors of his generation. Having maintained a consistently high international profile since the 1980s, his work has contributed significantly to the discourse around contemporary sculpture. At the centre of his sculptural practice is an interest in the relationship between materials, science, and the body. He pushes materiality to the limit in his gravity-defying sculptures, working with a range of materials from bronze, corten steel and stainless steel through to plaster, wood and plastic. The results range from the delicate to the monumental.

Cragg has won a number of major international art awards, including the Tate Gallery London’s Turner Prize in 1988, the prestigious Piepenbrock Award for Sculpture, Germany, in 2002, and the Praemium Imperial, Japan, in 2007. Further accolades include being made a Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (CBE) for services to art in 2002.

Internationally, Cragg has exhibited independently at an extraordinary range of prestigious public galleries, including the Heydar Aliyev Art Centre, Azerbaijan (2014); National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taiwan (2014); the State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia (2012); the Scottish National Gallery (2011); Museum of Modern Art, Malaga (2007); the Museum of Contemporary Art of Rome (2003); Neue National Gallerie, Berlin (2001); National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul (1997) and Whitechapel Art Gallery, London (1997).

His works have appeared in group shows at Glasstress at the 56th International Art Exhibition, Venice, Italy (2015); Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, USA (2012); the Royal Academy of Arts, London (2011); Louvre, Paris, France (2011); MoMA (2005); Tate Liverpool (2005); National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo (2002); and the Peggy Guggenheim Museum, Venice (2002).

Gow Langsford Gallery has represented Tony Cragg since 2007.