In a career spanning nearly 40 years, Turner Prize–winning artist Antony Gormley has made sculptures that explores the relation of the human body to space at large, explicitly in large-scale installations like Another Place, Domain Field and Inside Australia, and in works such as Clearing, Breathing Room and Blind Light where the work becomes a frame through which the viewer becomes the viewed. By using his own existence as a test ground, Gormley’s work transforms a site of subjective experience into one of collective projection. Increasingly, the artist has taken his practice beyond the gallery, engaging the public in active participation, as in Clay and the Collective Body (Helsinki) and the acclaimed One & Other commission in London’s Trafalgar Square.

Born in London in 1950, Gormley’s work has been widely exhibited throughout the UK with solo shows at the Whitechapel, Serpentine, Tate, Hayward Gallery, British Museum and White Cube. His work has been exhibited internationally in solo shows in Denmark, Sweden, Germany, Beijing, Mexico City, and Austria. Gormley has also participated in group shows at the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; the Venice Biennale; and Documenta 8 in Kassel, Germany.

Gormley was awarded the Turner Prize in 1994, the South Bank Prize for Visual Art in 1999 and the Bernhard Heiliger Award for Sculpture in 2007. He was made an Officer of the British Empire (OBE) in 1997 and is an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects; Trinity College, Cambridge; and Jesus College, Cambridge. Gormley has been a Royal Academician since 2003 and a British Museum Trustee since 2007.