Anthony McCall was born in St Paul’s Cray, England, in 1946. He 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 exhibitions at the Whitney Museum of American Art (2001); Museum Moderner Kunst, Vienna (2003); Centre Pompidou, Paris (2004); Kunsthaus Zurich (2006); Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin (2006, 2012); Serpentine Gallery, London (2007); Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC (2008); Moderna Museet, Stockholm (2009); Museum of Modern Art (2010); Eye Film Museum, Amsterdam (2014); Pioneer Works (2018); Hepworth Wakefield (2018); Albright Knox Art Gallery (2019); Guggenheim Bilbao (2024); and currently at Tate Modern (2024).
