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Frank Stella Biography
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1950 - 1954 |
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Studied Painting under Patrick Morgan at Phillips Academy, Andover, MA, USA
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1954 - 1958 |
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Studied History and Art History at Princeton University under Stephen Greene and William Seitz
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1967 |
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First Prize, International Biennial Exhibition of Paintings, Tokyo
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1981 |
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New York City Mayor’s Award for Arts and Culture
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1981 |
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Medal for painting at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan
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1981 |
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Honorary Fellowship from Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem
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1984 |
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Honorary Doctor of Arts, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA
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1985 |
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Award of American Art from the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts
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1985 |
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Honorary Degree from Dartmouth College
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1986 |
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Honorary Degree Brandeis University
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1989 |
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Ordre des Arts et des Lettres from the French government
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2001 |
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Gold Medal of the National Arts Club in New York
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Lives and works in New York
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| Selected Exhibitions |
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2009
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Moby Dick: Frank Stella and Herman Melville. Grand Rapids Art Museum
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2008
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Polygons to Printmaking: The Work of Frank Stella, 1958 – 1997. Princeton University Art Museum. Princeton, NJ. (solo)
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2008
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Frank Stella, Wetterling Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden (solo)
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2008
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Between the Lines, Stephane Simoens, Knokke, Belgium
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2007
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Samuelis Baumgarte Galerie Bielefeld
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2007
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Frank Stella, Haas & Fuchs, Berlin (solo)
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2007
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Modern American Masters, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, San Diego
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2007
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Frank Stella: Recent Works, Galerie Terminus, Munich, Germany
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2007
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Frank Stella, Galerie Ficher Rohr, Basel, Switzerland (solo)
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2007
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Frank Stella on the Roof, The Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Roof Garden, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (solo)
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2007
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Frank Stella: Painting into Architecture, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (solo)
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2007
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Frank Stella: New Work, Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York (solo)
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2007
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Modern American Masters, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, San Diego, CA, USA
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2006
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Black Paintings. Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany
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2006
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Frank Stella 1958, Harvard University Art Museums, Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge, MA. (solo)
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2006
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Traveled to The Menil Collection, Houston, The Ohio State University, Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH (solo)
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2006
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Frank Stella, Galerie Thomas, Munich, Germany (solo)
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2006
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Frank Stella: Major Works from the von Kleist Series, Danese Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
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2006
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Frank Stella: Collages and Related Sculpture from the von Kleist Series, Jacobson Howard Gallery in Conjunction with Danese Gallery
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2006
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Samuelis Baumgarte Galerie Bielefeld
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2005
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Frank Stella, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA, USA (solo)
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2005
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Frank Stella, Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York (solo)
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2005
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Frank Stella’s Moby Dick Series Prints, National Museum of Fine Arts, Santiago, Chile (solo)
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2005
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Frank Stella, Waddington Galleries, London (solo)
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2005
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Frank Stella’s Moby Dick Series Prints, The Museum of Latin American Art in Buenos Aires, Collection Constantini, Buenos Aires (solo)
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2005
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New Works, Wetterling Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden (solo)
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2005
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Black Paintings, Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany
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2004
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Singular Forms (Sometimes Repeated) – Art from 1951 to the Present, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
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2004
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Frank Stella - A Breakthrough in Abstraction - Exotic Birds, Gagosian Gallery, New York (solo)
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2004
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Frank Stella, Moby Dick and Imaginary Places, Galerie Jamileh Weber, Zürich, Switzerland (solo)
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2004
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What You See Is What You See: Frank Stella and the Anderson Collection, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA, USA (solo)
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2004
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Frank Stella, Galerie Terminus, Munich, Germany (solo)
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2004
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Frank Stella: New Works, McClain Gallery, Houston, TX, USA (solo)
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2003
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Frank Stella, The Nagoya City Art Museum, Nagoya, Japan (solo)
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2003
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Frank Stella, Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London (solo)
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2003
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Frank Stella: Recent Work, Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York (solo)
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2003
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Frank Stella, IWATE Museum of Art, Morioka City, Japan (solo)
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2003
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Work Ethic, The Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, USA
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2002
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Frank Stella: Hacilar 1999-2001, Greenberg Van Doren Gallery, New York (solo)
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2001
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Heinrich von Kleist by Frank Stella, JENOPTIK Gallery, Jena, Germany (solo)
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2001
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Frank Stella, Galerie Hans Strelow, Düsseldorf, Germany (solo)
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2001
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Frank Stella: Recent Work, Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York (solo)
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2001
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Frank Stella, Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA (solo)
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2001
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Frank Stella, Waddington Galleries, London (solo)
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2001
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Frank Stella: Recent Paintings and Sculpture, Richard Gray Gallery, Chicago, IL (solo)
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2001
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Frank Stella, Recent Works, Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, PA (solo)
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2001
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Frank Stella, Love Letters and Correspondence. Barbara Mathes Gallery, New York (solo)
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2001
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Prince of Homburg, Installation on the lawn of the National Gallery, Washington D.C.
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2001
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Heinrich von Kleist, Traveling exhibition, Jena, Hildesheim, Stuttgart, Berlin and Singapore
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1999 - 2000
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Frank Stella at 2000: Changing the Rules, Museum of Contemporary Art Miami, Florida
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1999 - 2000
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The American Century: Art & Culture 1900-2000, Whitney Museum of Contemporary Art, New York
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1999
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Abstraction, Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris
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1999
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Drawing is Another Kind of Language, Parrish Art Museum, organized by Harvard Museums, Southampton, NY
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1999
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Frank Stella: Easel Paintings, Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London
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1999
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Frank Stella: New Work, Sperone Westwater, New York
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1998
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Rendez-vous, Solomon R. Guggenheim, New York
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1998
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Frank Stella: New Paintings, Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London
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1998
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Samuelis Baumgarte Galerie, Bielefeld
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1998
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Frank Stella: Smoke Rings, Knoedler & Company, New York
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1997
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Samuelis Baumgarte Galerie, Bielefeld
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1987
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Retrospective, Museum of Modern Art, New York
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1970
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Retrospective, Museum of Modern Art, New York
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