British/American, b. 1946
Anthony McCall, born in St Paul’s Cray, England in 1946, now lives and works in Manhattan. McCall is known for his ‘solid-light’ installations, a series that he began in 1973 with “Line Describing a Cone,” in which a volumetric form composed of projected light slowly evolves in three-dimensional space. Occupying a space between sculpture, cinema and drawing, his work’s historical importance has been recognized in such exhibitions as “Into the Light: the Projected Image in American Art 1964-77,” Whitney Museum of American Art (2001); “The Expanded Screen: Actions and Installations of the Sixties and Seventies,” Museum Moderner Kunst, Vienna (2003); “The Expanded Eye,” Kunsthaus Zurich (2006); “Beyond Cinema: the Art of Projection,” Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin (2006); “The Cinema Effect: Illusion, Reality and the Projected Image,” Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC (2008); “On Line,” Museum of Modern Art (2010); and “Solid Light,” at Tate Modern (2024).
McCall’s work has also been exhibited at, amongst others: Centre Pompidou, Paris (2004); Tate Britain, London (2004); SFMoMA (2007); Serpentine Gallery, London (2007); Hangar Bicocca, Milan (2009); Moderna Museet, Stockholm (2009); Serralves, Porto (2011); Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin (2012); Kunstmuseum St Gallen – Lokremise (2013); Eye Film Museum, Amsterdam (2014); Lugano Arte e Cultura (2015); Pioneer Works (2018); Hepworth Wakefield (2018); Albright Knox Art Gallery (2019); and Guggenheim Bilbao (2024).
Awards include the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship, 2008; The Berlin Prize, Fellow of the American Academy in Berlin, 2014; Arts and Letters Award in Art, American Academy of Arts and Letters, 2015.
McCall’s work has also been exhibited at, amongst others: Centre Pompidou, Paris (2004); Tate Britain, London (2004); SFMoMA (2007); Serpentine Gallery, London (2007); Hangar Bicocca, Milan (2009); Moderna Museet, Stockholm (2009); Serralves, Porto (2011); Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin (2012); Kunstmuseum St Gallen – Lokremise (2013); Eye Film Museum, Amsterdam (2014); Lugano Arte e Cultura (2015); Pioneer Works (2018); Hepworth Wakefield (2018); Albright Knox Art Gallery (2019); and Guggenheim Bilbao (2024).
Awards include the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship, 2008; The Berlin Prize, Fellow of the American Academy in Berlin, 2014; Arts and Letters Award in Art, American Academy of Arts and Letters, 2015.
