Tony Cragg - Biografija
Tony Cragg rođen je u Liverpoolu, UK, 1949.god. Živi i radi u Wuppertal, Njemačka od 1977. Studirao je na Wimbledon School of Art, London, UK gdje je stekao BA diplomu (1973) i MA diplomu Royal College of Art, London, UK (1977).
Imao je brojne samostalne izložbe među kojim izdavajamo: Yorkshire Sculpture Park, UK (2017); National Museum of Havana, Cuba (2017); MUDAM Luxembourg, Luxembourg (2017); Ludwig Museum, Koblenz, Germany (2017); Wroclaw Contemporary Art Museum, Wroclaw, Poland (2017); The State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg, Russia (2016; Von der Heydt Museum, Wuppertal, Germany (2016); Benaki Museum, Athens, Greece (2015); Gothenburg International Sculpture Exhibition, Gothenburg, Sweden (2015); Heydar Aliyev Centre, Baku, Azerbaijan (2014); Musée d’art modern de Saint-Étienne, Saint-Étienne, France (2014); National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, Taiwan (2013); CAFA Museum in Beijing, China (2012); Musée du Louvre, Paris, France (2011); the Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh, UK (2011); Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas, TX, USA (2011); Skulpturenpark Waldfrieden, Wuppertal, Germany (2010); Tate Gallery, Liverpool, UK (2000); Museo Nacional Centro de Arte, Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain (1995), Stedelijk van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, The Netherlands (1991) and Tate Gallery, London, UK (1988).
Predstavljao je Veliku Britaniju na 43. Venecijanskom bijenalu 1988. i iste godine nagrađen je Turnerovom nagradom u Tate Gallery, London, UK.
Profesor je na Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux Arts, Paris, France (1999-2009) i Kunstakademie, Dusseldorf, Germany (2009–do danas).
Od 1994. god. ima titulu Royal Academician; primio je Praemium Imperiale for Sculpture, Tokyo, Japan (2007); nagrađen 1. Class Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (2012) i postao je Knight's Bachelor u 2016.