Anthony Caro

1924 Born in New Malden, Surrey, England

1942–44 Attends Cambridge University residing at Christ’s College; obtains Masters in Engineering; during holidays attends classes at Farnham School of Art, Surrey

1944–46 Serves in Fleet Air Arm of Royal Navy

1946–47 Studies sculpture under Geoffrey Deeley at Regent Street Polytechnic, London, England

1947–52 Attends Royal Academy Schools, London

1951–53 Works as part-time assistant to sculptor Henry Moore, Much Hadham, Hertfordshire

1956 First solo exhibition at Galleria del Naviglio, Milan, Italy

1958 Included in exhibition, Three young English artists at Venice biennale, Italy

1959 Wins sculpture prize at Paris biennale of Young Artists, Musée d’Art Moderne, Paris, France; visits United States of America for the first time on Ford Foundation English Speaking Union Grant

1960 Makes first abstract sculptures in steel

1963–65 Teaches at Bennington College, Bennington, Vermont

1966 Included in exhibition, Five young British artists at Venice biennale, receives David E Bright Sculpture Prize

1967 Included in travelling exhibition, Guggenheim international exhibition, 1967: sculpture from twenty nations, originating at Solomon R Guggenheim Museum, New York City, New York; retrospective exhibition at Rjksmuseum Kröller-Müller, Otterlo, The Netherlands

1968 Included in Ways of contemporary research at the Venice biennale, included in exhibition, Kenneth Noland, Morris Louis, and Anthony Caro, at Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City; 30th annual exhibition, Contemporary Art Society of New South Wales, Blaxland Gallery, Sydney, Australia

1969 Appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire; exhibits in the British Section of Biennial of São-Paulo, Brazil

1974 Works at York Steel Co., Toronto, Canada

1975 Retrospective exhibition, Anthony Caro, originates at Museum of Modern Art, New York City

1977 Retrospective exhibition, at Tel Aviv Museum, Israel, travelling to Australia, New Zealand and Germany

1982 Completes 124 paper sculptures at Tyler Graphics Ltd., Bedford Village, New York

1984 Travelling exhibition, Serpentine Gallery, London; included in travelling exhibition, Artistic collaboration in the twentieth century, originating at Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC

1987 Awarded Knight of the British Empire, Queen’s Birthday Honours

1988 Included in exhibition, Twentieth century paintings and sculpture: selections for the tenth anniversary of the east building, at National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC

1990 Retrospective exhibition, at Musée des Beaux Arts, Calais, France

1992 Included in travelling exhibition, Innovation in collaborative printmaking: Kenneth Tyler: 1963–1992, originating at Yokohama Museum of Art, Japan; awarded Praemium Imperiale Award for sculpture, Tokyo; retrospective exhibition, at Trajan Market, Rome, Italy

1993 Completes 35 paper sculptures at Tyler Graphics Ltd., Mount Kisco, New York, using papers handmade at TGL and other paper products

1994 Retrospective exhibition, at Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan

1996 Exhibition, Caro and Olitzki: masters of abstraction draw the figure, at New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting, and Sculpture, New York City; included in exhibition, A century of English sculpture, at Galerie Nationale du Jeu de Paume, Paris, France

1997 Receives Lifetime Achievement Award from International Sculpture Centre

1998 Solo exhibition, Caro – sculpture from painting at National Gallery, London

1999 Exhibits The last judgement at Venice biennale

2000 Completes commission for Millennium Bridge, London, with architect Sir Norman Foster and engineer Chris Wise; completes sculpture, Book of Eden, at Tyler Graphics Ltd., Mount Kisco, New York; included in exhibition, Encounters, at National Gallery, London; receives Order of Merit from HM Queen Elizabeth

2001 Travelling solo exhibition, Anthony Caro: a sculptor's development, originating at Lewes Town Hall, Sussex, England; solo exhibition, Caro at Longside: sculpture and sculptitecture, at Longside Gallery, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Wakefield, England

2002 Solo exhibition, Anthony Caro: drawing in space - sculptures from 1964 to 1988 and The Last Judgement, at Gaudi's 'La Pedrera' building, Barcelona, Spain; included in travelling exhibition, Blast to freeze: British art of the 20th century, originating at Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, Germany

2004 80th birthday marked with display of Sculpture two outside Tate Britain and exhibitions all over the world, including Artemis Greenberg van Doren and Garth Clark Gallery in New York, C Grimaldis Gallery in Baltimore, Galerie Josine Bokhoven in Amsterdam and Galerie Daniel Templon in Paris; included in exhibition, The Kenneth E Tyler gift, at Tate Modern, London

2005 Retrospective exhibition, at Tate Britain, London; Caro in focus, at Portland Art Museum, Portland, Oregon

2006 Included in exhibition, 60: sixty years of sculpture, at Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Wakefield, England

2008 Opening of Chapel of Light, at Church of St. Jean Baptiste, Bourbourg, France, accompanied by three retrospective exhibitions held simultaneously at Musée des Beaux Arts et de la Dentelle, Calais,  Musée du Dessin et de l'Estampe Originale, Gravelines, Lieu d'Art et Action Contemporain, Dunkirk, as well as exhibitions in Angers, Paris and Lille; solo exhibition, Anthony Caro: portraits, at National Portrait Gallery, London; included in exhibition, British sculptors' drawings: Moore to Gormley, at British Museum, London

2009 Joint retrospective with Eduardo Paolozzi at The Lightbox, Woking, Surrey, England

2010 Travelling solo exhibition, Caro: the figure, originating at Royal Society of British Sculptors, London

2011 Solo exhibition, Anthony Caro on the roof, at Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; included in exhibition, Modern British sculpture, at Royal Academy of Art, London

2012 Designs first ever UK Gold Kilo coin for the Royal Mint to mark London Olympics

2013 Anthony Caro died in London, England

Barbara Delano © Tyler Graphics Ltd., revised Kate Buckingham, 2006; revised Julia Greenstreet, 2013

This chronology provides an overview of selected biographical information, major solo and group exhibitions held within the artist's own lifetime.