
Anthony Caro at Tate Britain, London, UK, 2005. Photo credit: Mark Heathcote. Copyright: Anthony Caro Centre.

Anthony Caro on The Roof at The Met (rooftop display), New York, USA, 2011. Photo credit: Wilson Santiago. Copyright: Anthony Caro Centre and Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Caro: Close-Up at Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, USA, 2012. Photo credit: Richard Caspole. Copyright: Anthony Caro Centre and Yale Center for British Art.

Anthony Caro at Museo Correr as part of the 55th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy, 2013. Photo credit: Mike Bruce. Copyright: Anthony Caro Centre and Gagosian.

Caro in Yorkshire, The Hepworth Wakefield, Wakefield, UK, 2015. Photo credit: Jonty Wilde. Copyright: Anthony Caro Centre and Hepworth Wakefield.

Anthony Caro: The Last Judgement Sculpture from the Wurth Collection at Gemäldergalerie, Berlin, Germany, 2020. Photo credit: David von Becker. Copyright: Anthony Caro Centre and Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Gemäldegalerie.

Anthony Caro – Sculptures at Skulpturenpark Waldfrieden, Wuppertal, Germany, 2024. Photo credit: Michael Richter. Copyright: Anthony Caro Centre and Skulpturenpark Waldfrieden.
Selected Works
Anthony Caro
Born in 1924 in New Malden, England. Passed away 2013.
Anthony Caro is one of the most influential figures in the development of twentieth-century sculpture and its expanded fields. Born in New Malden, England in 1924, Caro studied engineering at Christ’s College, Cambridge, before training as a sculptor at the Royal Academy Schools, London. After graduating Caro produced early works on paper and in bronze interested in gestural, embodied and often humorous scenes of everyday life. From the 1960s, following a pivotal visit to North America, Caro began making brightly painted, abstract sculptures from scrap steel that he positioned directly on the floor, the omission of a pedestal marking a radical shift in the dynamic between work and viewer. In addition to steel, he also produced works in bronze, lead, silver, stoneware, Perspex and wood, as well as on paper. Throughout Caro’s seven-decade oeuvre, his sculptures in both abstract and figurative form explore the forces and resistances of the human body, as well as the feeling registers of human experience. As art historian Rosalind Krauss observed, “Caro rendered the human form not as it looked from the outside, but how it felt from the inside, with its relationships subjectively conditioned.” Caro’s constant reinvention of the language of abstract sculpture, as well as his influential teaching at St. Martin’s School of Art in London, has distinguished him as the successor to artists such as Henry Moore and David Smith. However, his works were also made and sit in dialogue with other global movements across sculpture, painting and architecture, formatively shaped by travel in South-East Asia in the 1980s and 1990s, as he continued to reinvent his sculptural language.
Caro’s interest in architecture is exemplified in London’s Millennium Bridge (2000), which he designed in collaboration with Arup and Foster + Partners. In 2008 he completed the monumental Chapel of Light installation at the Église Saint Jean-Baptiste, Bourbourg, France, materially setting in stone his role in the history of art.
Mid-career retrospectives of Caro’s work were held at the Hayward Gallery, London (1969), and Museum of Modern Art, New York (1975). In 1992, the British Council organized an exhibition of his sculpture in the ancient setting of Trajan’s Market in Rome, followed by a major exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, in 1995. In celebration of Caro’s eightieth birthday, Tate Britain, London, staged a retrospective in 2005. In 2011, a selection of works dating from 1960 through 2010 were exhibited in the Roof Garden of New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art. Caro’s 2013 retrospective at Museo Correr, Venice, coincided with the 55th Biennale di Venezia and was on view at the time of the artist’s death. In 2015 The Hepworth Wakefield and Yorkshire Sculpture Park held a joint retrospective to celebrate and commemorate Caro’s life and work. Knighted in 1987, he was awarded the Praemium Imperiale Prize for Sculpture by the Japan Art Association in 1992, and was inducted into the Order of Merit in 2000—the first sculptor to be so honoured since Henry Moore in 1963.
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2024
Entwined Spaces at Anthony Caro Center, London
Collection Display at Anthony Caro Centre, London
Anthony Caro Sculptures, Skulpturenpark Waldfrieden, Wuppertal, Germany
2023
Caro and Music, Annely Juda Fine Art, London, UK
Anthony Caro:
The Inspiration of Architecture, Pitzhanger Manor, London, UK
2022
Anthony Caro: Six Decades, Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin, Germany
Caro, Roche Court Sculpture Park, Salisbury, UK Anthony Caro: ‘More real, more felt’, Galerie Templon, Paris, France
2021
Anthony Caro: Exploring Space: Sculpture 1966-69, The Anthony Caro Centre, London, UK
The Presence of Sculpture, The Anthony Caro Centre, London, UK
2019
Anthony Caro: The Last Judgement Sculpture from the Würth Collection, Gemäldegalerie, Berlin, Germany
Anthony Caro at Cliveden, The National Trust’s Cliveden, Taplow, UK
Seven Decades, Annely Juda Fine Art, London, UK
2017
Anthony Caro in the Gardens of the van Buuren Museum, Van Buuren Museum, Belgium
Table Pieces and Late Sculptures, Galerie Daniel Templon, Brussels, Belgium
Paper Like Steel, New Art Centre Sculpture Park & Gallery, Salisbury, UK
Anthony Caro, Galerie Hans Mayer, Düsselforf, Germany
Anthony Caro: Sculpture Laid Bare, AGO, Ontario, Canada
First Drawings Last Sculptures, Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York, USA
2016
Bronze and Book Sculptures, Annely Juda Fine Art, London, UK
Arena Pieces, Galeria Alvaro Alcazar, Madrid, Spain
2015
Caro in Yorkshire, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Hepworth Wakefield and Leeds City Art Gallery, UK
Anthony Caro, Works from the 1960’s, Gagosian Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
Public Collections
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto
Arts Council of Great Britain, London
Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Massachusetts
The British Council, London
British Museum, London
Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio
Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, Dallas
Fundacio Antoni Tapies, Barcelona
Henry Moore Institute, Leeds
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC
Joan Miro Foundation, Barcelona
Kunsthaus Zürich, Zürich
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Musée nationale d'art moderne Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
Museo de Arte Contemporaneo, Barcelona
Museum Ludwig, Cologne
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo
Museum of Modern Art, New York
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC.
National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul
Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice
Royal Academy of Art, London
Samsung Museum, Seoul
Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh
Seattle Art Museum, Seattle
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
Tate Gallery, London
Tel Aviv Museum, Israel
Vancouver Art Gallery, British Columbia
Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut
York University of Fine Art, Toronto, Ontario