1. Antony Gormley's works include the Angel of the North, a public sculpture in Gateshead in the north of England, commissioned in 1994 and erected in February 1998; Another Place on Crosby Beach near Liverpool; and Event Horizon, a multipart site installation which premiered in London in 2007, then subsequently in Madison Square in New York City, Sao Paulo and Hong Kong.
Antony Gormley's paternal grandfather was an Irish Catholic from Derry who settled in Walsall in Staffordshire.
Antony Gormley grew up in a Roman Catholic family living in Hampstead Garden Suburb.
The family was wealthy, with a cook and a chauffeur, with a home overlooking the golf course; Antony Gormley's father was an art lover.
Antony Gormley attended Ampleforth College, a Benedictine boarding school in Yorkshire, before reading archaeology, anthropology, and the history of art at Trinity College, Cambridge, from 1968 to 1971.
Antony Gormley's career began with a solo exhibition at the Whitechapel Gallery in 1981.
Antony Gormley then turned his attention to the human body, creating moulds of his own body in plaster that he would then encase in lead.
Antony Gormley had his first solo exhibition with Xavier Hufkens in 1987, who still represents Gormley.
In September 2015, Antony Gormley had his first sculpture installed in New Zealand.
Antony Gormley returned to Florence in 2018 with the exhibition Essere at the Uffizi Gallery.
In 2017, Antony Gormley curated Inside, an exhibition at the Southbank Centre, London, presented by Koestler Trust showing artworks by prisoners, detainees, and ex-offenders.
Antony Gormley then held the first solo exhibition at the newly remodelled Kettle's Yard in Cambridge, England.
On 21 April 2018, Antony Gormley released a limited edition vinyl album of ambient sounds from his studio for Record Store Day titled Sounds of the Studio.
Antony Gormley installed 29 sculptures made during the last 20 years, including five new works specially commissioned by the NEON Organization, both at the periphery and integrated amongst Delos's archaeological site and museum animating the geological and archaeological features of the island.
Also in 2019, the Royal Academy held an exhibition filling its 13 main galleries with Antony Gormley's works, including some new, some remade for the gallery, and some of his early sculptures, with two rooms of his drawings and sketchbooks.
In 2020, Antony Gormley was confirmed to be "lending" a sculpture to Kirklees College to sit atop its new building at Pioneer House in Dewsbury, as part of a major redevelopment in the town.
In 2022, a Antony Gormley sculpture called Alert was installed on the main campus of Imperial College London.
That year, Antony Gormley held exhibitions at Xavier Hufkens in Brussels, Belgium Lehmbruck Museum in Duisburg, Germany and Museum Voorlinden in Wassenaar, the Netherlands.
In 2023, Antony Gormley opened a number of large-scale exhibitions, including Living Time at TAG Art Museum in Qingdao, China, and Critical Mass at Musee Rodin in Paris, France, which marked the first time that a living artist has been invited to exhibit in all areas of the museum, including the Hotel Biron.
Inside the Hotel Biron, Antony Gormley placed four sculptures in dialogue with Rodin's own work and selected a number of his working models to be seen alongside Rodin's plaster maquettes.
Later in the year, Antony Gormley opened Body Politic at White Cube in London, a solo exhibition of new sculptures responding to themes of movement and containment, as well as the topic of migration.
Antony Gormley unveiled True, for Alan Turing at King's College, Cambridge.
Antony Gormley won the Turner Prize in 1994 with Field for the British Isles.
Antony Gormley has been a Royal Academician since 2003, and was a trustee of the British Museum from 2007 to 2015.
Antony Gormley is an honorary fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and the Royal Institute of British Architects, honorary doctor of the universities of Teesside, Liverpool, University College London, and Cambridge, and a fellow of Trinity and Jesus Colleges, Cambridge.
On 13 March 2011, Antony Gormley was awarded the Laurence Olivier Award for Outstanding Achievement in Dance for the set design for Babel at Sadler's Wells in collaboration with Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui and Damien Jalet.
Antony Gormley was the recipient of the Obayashi Prize in 2012 and is the 2013 Praemium Imperiale laureate for sculpture.
Antony Gormley was knighted in the 2014 New Year Honours for services to the arts, having previously been appointed OBE in 1998.
Antony Gormley is a patron of Paintings in Hospitals, a charity that provides art for health and social care in England, Wales, and Northern Ireland.
In June 2022 Antony Gormley said that he had applied for German citizenship, to which he is entitled through his German mother, after describing Brexit as "a practical disaster" and a "betrayal".
Antony Gormley's website includes images of nearly all of his works and exhibitions up to 2024.