Anish Kapoor: Early Works
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Anish Kapoor: Early Works
Showcasing Anish Kapoor’s rarely seen pigment sculptures from the 1970s and 1980s, this exhibition marks the first U.S. museum presentation dedicated to the artist’s early work.
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The Jewish Museum
October 24, 2025 to February 01, 2026
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Exhibition Details

Anish Kapoor: Early Works presents rarely seen works from the trailblazing artist, highlighting Kapoor’s striking pigment sculptures, along with works on paper and the artist’s sketchbooks.

Through some 55 works—sculptures, drawings, and goaches—Early Works foregrounds Kapoor’s early and ongoing investigations of the boundaries of sculpture, color, and form. Displaying the artist’s pigment sculptures in richly hued and evocative groupings, along with select examples of his more recent sculptures created with Vantablack, a nanotechnological substance that absorbs nearly all light, the exhibition showcases Kapoor’s masterful play with perception, drawing on the psychic effects of color—and its absence—as well as the allure of objects that appear to defy their own material nature.

About the Artist

Born in Mumbai, India in 1954 and following a time in Israel in the early 1970s, Kapoor moved to England to study art. Since his first solo exhibition in 1980, he has gone on to become one of the most internationally recognizable artists working today.

Location

The Jewish Museum
1109 5th Avenue (at 92nd Street)
New York, NY 10128

Image: Anish Kapoor, “Part of the Red”, 1981, mixed media, pigment, 28.3 × 118.1 × 157.5 in. (72 × 300 × 400 cm). Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, The Netherlands. © Anish Kapoor. All Rights Reserved, DACS, London/ ARS, NY 2025