Tony Cragg has been working and exhibiting since 1969. He studied at the Royal College of Art in London and has lived in Wuppertal since 1977. He participated in documenta 7 and 8 and represented Great Britain at the Venice Biennale in 1988. He received the Turner Prize at the Tate Gallery in London in 1988, the prestigious Praemium Imperiale Award in Tokyo in 2007 and the Lifetime Achievement in Contemporary Sculpture Award in 2017.
He was a professor at the Akademie der Künste in Berlin and at the Kunstakademie in Düsseldorf, where he was director from 2009 to 2013.
