Anish Kapoor: Dissolving Margins

From the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and His Family Foundation
August 19, 2025 – March 14, 2026

Events, September 25

12:00-1:00pm, CURATORIAL TOUR with Maryanna G. Ramirez and Ryan Hardesty 
3:00-4:00pm, ARTIST LECTURE Spirit Citizen: Provocative Native American Public Art and Studio Practice, by Hock E Aye Vi Edgar Heap of Birds 
4:00-6:00pm, OPENING RECEPTION: Exhibitions Anish Kapoor: Dissolving Margins and Color Outside the Lines 

Please Note

A portion of Anish Kapoor: Dissolving Margins, from the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and His Family Foundation will close after Saturday, March 7, to make way for the installation of our upcoming exhibitions.

Exhibition

Anish Kapoor: Dissolving Margins, from the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and His Family Foundation proposes a bold and extensive exhibition of Anish Kapoor’s four-decade-long printmaking practice, debuting at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art at Washington State University.

Kapoor is one of the most influential contemporary artists working today. Renowned for works on an architectural scale such as Cloud Gate (2004) in Chicago’s Millennium Park and Ark Nova (2013), the world’s first inflatable concert hall in Japan, his works both engage public space and envelop the viewer in an interiority. In parallel with his sculptural projects, Kapoor has maintained a career-long commitment to printmaking, which began in the 1970s and continues to this day. While Kapoor’s prints have been featured in group exhibitions, this project will mark the artist’s first solo survey dedicated to this collaborative and often technical practice.

Renowned for his beguiling experiments with form in all media and material, Kapoor’s graphic oeuvre similarly evokes a sense of awe as we contemplate the hallucinatory qualities of heavily pigmented prints that appear to breathe, expand, and dissolve before our eyes. Elsewhere, especially in his earlier works, Kapoor explores organic and biological forms alongside an overarching metaphysical concern with expressions of presence and absence.

Adding resonance to the Kapoor exhibition will be the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art’s exterior façade. Designed by Jim Olson of Olson Kundig, the museum is wrapped in mirrored crimson glass. While the building reflects the campus life surrounding it, allowing one to perceive oneself within its reflection, it is also a mysterious form. Visually transitive, the perception of the building shifts with changes in light conditions, as well as the movement and angle of one’s gaze. In this respect, the building will amplify Kapoor’s investigations into visual perception and form, as well as his long-held fascination with the color red. 

“Red, of course, is the color of the interior of our bodies. In a way, it’s inside out—red.”

About the Artist

Born in 1954 in Mumbai, India, Kapoor came to Britain to study at the Hornsey College of Art (1973-77) and Chelsea School of Art and Design (1977-78). He has exhibited in the world’s leading museums and galleries; in London, New York, Delhi, Paris, Istanbul, Berlin, Ottawa, Madrid, Sydney, Italy, and more. He represented Britain at the 44th Venice Biennale in 1990 where he was awarded the Premio Duemila Prize and he won the Turner Prize the following year in 1991. In 2013, Kapoor was awarded a Knighthood for services to the visual arts. He lives and works in London and Venice, Italy.

About The Jordan Schnitzer Family Foundation

The Jordan Schnitzer Family Foundation’s contemporary art collection is one of the most notable in North America. The Foundation has shared its art with millions across the U.S. and internationally through groundbreaking exhibitions, publications, and programs. Founded by ARTNews Top 200 Collector Jordan D. Schnitzer—whose passion for art began in his mother’s contemporary art gallery in Portland, Ore.—the Foundation has organized over 180 exhibitions from its collection and additionally loaned thousands of artworks to over 130 museums at no cost to the institutions. Schnitzer began collecting contemporary prints and multiples in 1988 and today is North America’s foremost print collector. His Foundation’s collection consists of thousands of works, including a wide variety of prints, sculptures, paintings, glass, and mixed media works.

Organized by the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art. Funding for this exhibition and related programs has been made possible by a grant from Jordan Schnitzer and The Harold & Arlene Schnitzer CARE Foundation, Olson Kundig architects, the Samuel H. and Patricia W. Smith Endowment, and friends of the museum.

Location

The Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art WSU is located in the Crimson Cube (on Wilson Road across from Martin Stadium/Gesa Field and the CUB) on the WSU Pullman campus.

Visit

The museum is located at the heart of campus. Visitors can park closest in the Smith Center For Undergraduate Education parking garage. Daily parking permits can be purchased the same day online at parking.wsu.edu.

Exhibition Artworks

To view selected artworks from the exhibition, click on the arrows after each image, or click the individual work to scroll through full size images of the works. © Anish Kapoor. All Rights Reserved, DACS, London/ ARS, NY 2025