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Tony Cragg - Biography

Sculptor Tony Cragg (British, b.1949) is best known for his use of diverse materials, ranging from found objects to the more traditional bronze, wood, and marble. Cragg was born in Liverpool, and spent two years working as a lab technician before attending the Gloucestershire College of Art and Design and the Royal College of Art in London. Cragg moved to Wuppertal in 1977, and has resided in Germany ever since. In his early work, he incorporated found materials, such as pieces of plastic, detritus from construction sites, and household wares, into his sculptures, creating flat mosaics and three-dimensional works with serrated and stacked elements. 

In more recent works, Cragg has used traditional materials, such as bronze and wood, producing tall, sleek works with a rippled texture, conveying motion and animation. Cragg has taught at the School of Art in Düsseldorf since 1978, and has held professorships at several other arts institutions. He has been honored with the Turner Prize, an Order of Arts and Letters from the French Ministry of Culture, and the Praemium Imperiale from the Japan Art Association, and has exhibited work at the Venice Biennale. Cragg currently divides his time between Wuppertal and Düsseldorf, and also has a studio on the island of Tjörn, off the coast of Sweden.

Awards and honors

  • 1988 – Turner Prize, London
  • 1989 – Von der Heydt-Kulturpreis, Wuppertal
  • 1992 – Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres
  • 2001 – Shakespeare-Preis der Alfred Toepfer Stiftung F. V. S.
  • 2002 – Piepenbrock Preis für Skulptur
  • 2007 – Praemium Imperiale
  • 2009 – Goldene Schwebebahn, Wuppertal
  • 2008 – Ehrenring der Stadt Wuppertal
  • 2012 – Bundesverdienstkreuz 1. Klasse
  • 2012 – Cologne-Fine-Art-Preis
  • 2013 – Großer Kulturpreis der Sparkassen-Kulturstiftung Rheinland
  • 2014 – Ehrenbürger der Stadt Wuppertal
  • 2015 – Ehrenmitglied der Kunstakademie Düsseldorf

Exhibitions

  • 1981 Musée d’Art et d’Industrie, St. Etienne, Frankreich
  • 1982 Museo Cantonale d’Arte, New Stones, Newton's Tones, Lugano
  • 1983 Kunsthalle Bern, Schweiz
  • 1984 Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, Dänemark
  • 1985 Kunsthalle Winterthur, Schweiz
  • 1986 The Brooklyn Museum, New York, USA
  • 1988 Biennale di Venezia, Italien
  • 1989 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf
  • 1990 The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, USA
  • 1991 Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, Niederlande
  • 1992 Musée Departemental d’art Contemporain, Rochechouart, Frankreich
  • 1994 Kunstmuseum St. Gallen, Schweiz
  • 1995 Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spanien
  • 1996 Städtische Galerie im Park Viersen, Deutschland
  • 1997 Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona, Spanien
  • 1998 Ulmer Museum, Ulm; Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, München
  • 1999 Von der Heydt-Museum, Wuppertal
  • 1999 Galerie der Stadt Stuttgart, Stuttgart („Spyrogyra“)
  • 2000 Tate Gallery, Liverpool
  • 2000 Works in space, Sammlung Essl – Kunst der Gegenwart, Klosterneuburg/Wien
  • 2001 Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz, Chemnitz
  • 2003 Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Bonn
  • 2004 Fundacao Serralves, Museu Serralves, Porto, Portugal
  • 2005 neues museum, Staatliches Museum für Kunst und Design, Nürnberg
  • 2005 figur / skulptur, Sammlung Essl – Kunst der Gegenwart, Klosterneuburg/Wien
  • 2006 Akademie der Künste, Berlin; Eröffnungsschau H2 – Zentrum für Gegenwartskunst, Augsburg
  • 2007 Tony Cragg – das Potenzial der Dinge, Lehmbruck-Museum, Duisburg
  • 2008 Tony Cragg >< F. X. Messerschmidt, Orangerie im Schloss Belvedere, Wien
  • seit 2008 Skulpturenpark Waldfrieden, Wuppertal
  • 2009 Tony Cragg – Second Nature, Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe; Bronzeskulpturen, Museum der Moderne Salzburg
  • 2010 CORSO. Werke der Sammlung Essl im Dialog, Sammlung Essl – Kunst der Gegenwart, Klosterneuburg/Wien
  • 2011 Tony Cragg – Figure out / Figure in, Louvre, Paris, Frankreich; Museum Küppersmühle für Moderne Kunst, Duisburg hier betitelt: Dinge im Kopf
  • 2011 Tony Cragg: Sculptures and Drawings. Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art One
  • 2012 Against the grain, Ernst-Barlach-Haus Hamburg
  • 2012 MATRIX in der Nord/LB art gallery in Hannover
  • 2016 Parts of the World, Retrospektive, Von der Heydt-Museum, Wuppertal

 

ARTWORKS FOR SALE

Tony Cragg, Willow 70 - available at artsation.com

Tony Cragg, Willow 70

Tony Cragg, Willow 70 - available at artsation.com

Tony Cragg, Willow 70