Anthony McCall

Born St Paul’s Cray, England, in 1946. Lives and works in Manhattan, New York.

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 (2001-2);
“The Expanded Screen: Actions and Installations of the Sixties and Seventies,” Museum Moderner Kunst, Vienna (2003-4);

“The Expanded Eye,” Kunsthaus Zurich (2006);
“Beyond Cinema: the Art of Projection,” Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin (2006-7);
The Cinema Effect: Illusion, Reality and the Projected Image, ” Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC (2008);
and “On Line ,” Museum of Modern Art (2010-11) ;
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- 8);
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);
and Albright Knox Art Gallery (2019);
and Guggenheim Bilbao (2024).