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McCall, Anthony
St Paul’s Cray, England, 1946

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Born in St Paul’s Cray, England.
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Studies Art History, Photography, and Graphic Design at Ravensbourne Collage of Art and Design, Bromley, Kent, England.
71
Makes first video: Stages.
With his London-based studio performances begins his Fire Event series.
72
Begins his Landscape for Fire performance series across the United Kingdom: London, Oxford, North Weald, Reading.
Participates in group exhibitions in London.
73
Moves to New York.
Begins work on his Solid Light Works series with Line Describing a Cone.
75
Solo exhibition at the Serpentine Gallery in London: Anthony McCall. Four Projected Movements.
Takes part in the 9th Biennale de Paris.
His works are shown in group exhibitions in the United Kingdom, the United States, and Sweden.
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Solo exhibition at the Musée National d’Art Moderne de Paris.
His works are shown at Cineprobe – 9th Season of Independent Filmmakers, held at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York.
Takes part in the 37th Venice Biennale.
77
Participates in Documenta 6 in Kassel, West Germany.
His works are shown in group exhibitions in Germany, Belgium, and California, USA.
78
Takes part in the 38th Venice Biennale.
79
Makes film Sigmund Freud’s Dora with Claire Pajaczkowska, Andrew Tyndall, and Jane Weinstock, and then withdraws from making art.
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His work is shown in the group exhibition Hors limites, L’art et la vie, 1952–1994, held at the Centre Pompidou in Paris.
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His work is shown as part of Into the Light: the Projected Image in American Art, 1964–1977, an exhibition staged at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York.
03
After a twenty-year hiatus, he returns with a new Solid Light series, now using digital video technology. The first video installation in the series is Doubling Back.
04
Begins series of vertically-oriented works: Breath.
Exhibition at Tate Britain: Long Film for Four Projectors.
Exhibition at Centre Pompidou: Anthony McCall: Films et installations de lumière solide.
Doubling Back shown at the Whitney Biennial.
06
Wins the Special Exhibition 2006 Award from the International Association of Art Critics (AICA).
07
Holds solo exhibition at the Serpentine Gallery in London.
Participates in group exhibitions in Switzerland, Ireland, Germany, and the United States, among other countries.
08
Receives fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.
His works are shown in group exhibitions in the United States, France, and Germany.
09
Nu/Now: Anthony McCall run by Moderna Museet, Stockholm.
Pirelli HangarBicocca in Milan presents Anthony McCall: Breath [The Vertical Works].
Anthony McCall: Line Describing a Cone staged at Centre Pompidou-Metz in Lorraine, France.
10
Reconfigures Line Describing a Cone (1973) for the digital age, under the title Line Describing a Cone 2.0.
12
Sprüth Magers presents Anthony McCall: Early Performance Films in Berlin.
In London, Tate Modern stages Anthony McCall: The Complete Cone Films.
His works are shown in exhibitions in Switzerland, France, Austria, the United States, and Brazil.
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Anthony McCall: Solid Light Works presented at the Museo d’arte de la Svizzera italiana (MASI) at the LAC cultural center.
The Museum of Old and New Art (MONA) in Hobart, Australia, shows Anthony McCall: Light Works.
Also, McCall’s works are shown in ¡DARK!, a group exhibition at the Center for International Light Art in Unna, Germany.
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Wins American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Art.
New group exhibitions: Dreamlands: Immersive Cinema and Art, 1905–2016, at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; About Time: Photography in a Moment of Change, at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) in California, USA.
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Solo exhibition at the KW Institute for Contemporary Art in Berlin: Pause: Anthony McCall.
Works shown in art venues in France, Germany, and Australia.
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His work is shown in group exhibitions in Germany, France, Belgium, New Zealand, and the United Arab Emirates.
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The Denver Art Museum (Colorado, USA) presents Eyes On: Anthony McCall.
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Participates in group exhibitions in Germany, France, and Portugal.
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Selected as member of the National Academy of Design, New York.
First solo exhibition in Portugal: Anthony McCall – Rooms at the Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology (MAAT) in Lisbon.
Tate Modern presents Anthony McCall: Solid Light in London.
Anthony McCall: Split Second staged at the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao.
McCall’s works are shown in group exhibitions in France, Korea, and other countries.