Antony Gormley
SURVEY

In the first major museum survey of Antony Gormley’s (b. 1950, United Kingdom) work in the United States, the exhibition, which spans the breadth of Gormley’s career from experimental work of the early 1980s to the present, in the words of the artist, “investigates what sculpture is and what it can do.” In addition to the work shown at the museum, the artist will debut a project installed on the rooftops of skyscrapers in and around Downtown Dallas. SURVEY: Antony Gormley will be on view from September 13, 2025 to January 4, 2026.

For the past 45 years Gormley has been acclaimed for his sculptures, installations, and major public works. His exhibition at the Nasher traces the development of his practice and his varied formal and material vocabularies through a focused selection of works that embody the myriad ways—physical and poetic—he has expressed the experience of the body in space and the space of the body. Gormley’s works will engage the light-filled architecture of the Nasher, inside and out, examining the relationship of sculpture to the space it inhabits. Antony Gormley has said of his show at the Nasher, “For me, sculpture is a thing in the world in a world of things, a physical manifestation of thinking and feeling through making. Like every show that I make, this exhibition is a test site for sculpture and for how the work might animate a viewer. The beholder's share is an intrinsic part of a sculpture's making.” Expanding on this investigation will be a new installation that sets sculptures at elevation on buildings surrounding the Nasher. Made specifically for the exhibition in Dallas, these new sculptures—where stainless steel trajectories identify a body space as an energy system of reflected light—will be placed on roofs of buildings in and around the Dallas Arts District so that the sculptures can be seen against the brilliant Texas sky, high above the Nasher’s sculpture garden. To provide context for this major new public project, a gallery at the Nasher will feature models from the artist’s studio highlighting over 60 large-scale projects, both unrealized and completed from around the world, such as Angel of the North (1998), located in Gateshead, England. The models will be accompanied by a selection of workbooks, which the artist has carried with him continually since the 1970s.