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Frank Stella

(American, born 1936)

Frank Stella

Ahab's Leg (from: The Waves II), 1985–1989

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Frank Stella

Squid from The Waves Series, 1988

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Biography

Timeline

1936: Born in Malden, MA
1950 - 1954: Studied Painting under Patrick Morgan, Phillips Academy, Andover, MA
1954 - 1958: Studied History and Art History under Stephen Greene and William Seitz, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ
1958: Moved to New York, NY
1967: First Prize, International Biennial Exhibition of Paintings, Tokyo, Japan
1979: Awarded the Claude M. Fuess Distinguished Service Award, Phillips Academy, Andover, MA
1981: New York City Mayor’s Award for Arts and Culture, New York, NY
: Medal for Painting, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME
: Honorary Fellowship, Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem, Israel
1983: Appointed the Charles Eliot Norton Professor of Poetry, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
1984: Honorary Doctor of Arts, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ
1985: Award of American Art, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
: Honorary Degree, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
1986: Honorary Degree, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
1989: Ordre des Arts et des Lettres from the French Government
1992: Awarded the Barnard Medal of Distinction
1998: Gold Medal for Graphic Art Award, American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, NY
2001: Gold Medal of the National Arts Club, New York, NY
2010: Received the 2009 National Medal of Arts from President Barack Obama at an East Room ceremony at the White House on February 25, 2010
: Lives and works in New York, NY

Exhibitions

2014 - 2015: Retrospective, Organized by the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, TX; Traveling to the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA; Whitney Museum of American Art, Downtown Renzo Piano Building, New York, NY (solo)
2013: Pictures of Nothing - The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Poughkeepsie, NY
Over, Under, Next: Experiments in Mixed Media, 1913–present - Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC
S(ch)ichtwechsel! Neue Blicke auf die Sammlung - Museum für Konkrete Kunst, Ingolstadt
Il Guggenheim. L'avanguardia americana 1945–1980 - Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome
Poesie der Reduktion - Minimal, Concept, Land Art - Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig - MUMOK , Vienna
2012: Frank Stella - Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg
Frank Stella - IVAM - Institut Valencià d'Art Modern, Valencia
Frank Stella: Selected Prints 1974-1982 - Greenfield Sacks Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
The 1960s - The University of Lethbridge Art Gallery, Lethbridge, Alberta
Frank Stella - Black, Aluminum, Copper Paintings - L&M Arts, New York, New York City, NY
2011: Frank Stella - Haunch of Venison - London, London (England)
Frank Stella - Geometric Variations - Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York City, NY
Frank Stella - Vered Gallery, East Hampton, NY
Frank Stella - Polychrome Reliefs und Prints - Galerie der Stadt Tuttlingen, Tuttlingen
Stella Sounds: The Scarlatti K Series - The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC
Frank Stella - 75 Years Anniversary Show - Galerie Jamileh Weber, Zurich
Frank Stella: Irregular Polygons - Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, OH
2010: Frank Stella: Irregular Polygons - Hood Museum of Art, Hanover, NH
Frank Stella - Galerie Meyer Kainer, Vienna
Frank Stella - Wetterling Gallery, Stockholm
2009: Frank Stella - Exotic Birds, 1976 - L&M Arts, New York, New York City, NY
Frank Stella - Polychrome Relieff - Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York City, NY
Moby-Dick: Frank Stella and Herman Melville - GRAM - Grand Rapids Art Museum, Grand Rapids, MI
2008: Frank Stella Prints, 1980-2008 - Loretta Howard Gallery, New York City, NY
Frank Stella: K Series - Loretta Howard Gallery, New York City, NY
Polygons to Printmaking: The Work of Frank Stella, 1958-1997 - Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, NJ
2007: space - Galerie Terminus, Munich
Frank Stella - - Galerie Haas & Fuchs - Berlin, Berlin
Frank Stella - Peter Freeman, Inc., New York City, NY
Frank Stella - Bali Series - Galerie Ficher Rohr, Basel
Frank Stella - New Work - Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York City, NY
Frank Stella - Painting into Architecture - The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, NY
2006: Frank Stella - Major Work from the von Kleist Series - Danese, New York City, NY
Frank Stella - Samuelis Baumgarte Galerie,
Frank Stella: Working Collages - Loretta Howard Gallery, New York City, NY
Frank Stella - Rizziero Arte, Pescara
Frank Stella - 1958 - Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH
Frank Stella - Galerie Thomas Modern, Munich
Frank Stella - Galerie Thomas, Munich
Frank Stella - 1958 - The Menil Collection, Houston, TX
2005: Frank Stella - Die Marquise von O - Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris
Frank Stella - Serie Moby Dick - MALBA Colección Costantini - Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires
Frank Stella - New Work - Waddington Custot Galleries, London (England)
rank Stella - Moby Dick Series - MNBA - Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes Santiago Chile, Santiago
Frank Stella - Recent Work - John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Frank Stella - Rosenbaum Contemporary, Boca Raton, FL
Frank Stella: Painting in Three Dimensions - Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas, TX
2004: Frank Stella: The Marquise of O Paintings - Loretta Howard Gallery, New York City, NY
Frank Stella - Galerie Terminus, Munich
What You See Is What You See: Frank Stella and the Anderson Collection at SFMOMA - San Francisco Museum of Modern Art - SFMOMA, San Francisco, CA
Frank Stella - A Breakthrough In Abstraction - Exotic Birds - Gagosian Gallery , New York City, NY
Frank Stella - Loretta Howard Gallery, New York City, NY
2003: Frank Stella - Iwate Museum of Art, Morioka
Frank Stella - Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London (England)
Frank Stella - The Nagoya City Art Museum, Nagoya
Frank Stella - Akira Ikeda - New York, New York City, NY
2002: A Bold Experiment: Ken Tyler and the Printed Image - UMMA - The University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, MI
Frank Stella - Peinture / Sculpture - Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris
Frank Stella - Hacilar 1999-2001 - Greenberg Van Doren Gallery, New York City, NY
2001: Frank Stella - Heinrich von Kleist by Frank Stella - Akira Ikeda - Berlin, Berlin
Frank Stella - Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University, Stanford, CA
Frank Stella - Galerie Hans Strelow, Dusseldorf
Heinrich von Kleist by Frank Stella - Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart
Color, Patter and Form - Leslie Sacks Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA
2000: Frank Stella at 2000: Changing the Rules, Museum of Contemporary Art Miami, Miami, FL
The American Century: Art & Culture 1900-2000, Whitney Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY
1999: Abstraction, Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris, France
Drawing is Another Kind of Language, Parrish Art Museum, organized by Harvard Museums, Southampton, NY
Frank Stella: Easel Paintings, Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London, UK (solo)
Frank Stella: New Work, Sperone Westwater, New York, NY (solo)
1998: Rendez-vous, Solomon R. Guggenheim, New York, NY
Frank Stella: New Paintings, Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London, UK (solo)
Frank Stella: Smoke Rings, Knoedler & Company, New York, NY (solo)
1997: Samuelis Baumgarte Galerie, Bielefeld, Germany
1987: Retrospective, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY (solo)
1970: Retrospective, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY (solo)

Public Collections

: Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
: Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX
: Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO
: Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
: Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, MA
: Folkwang Museum, Essen, Germany
: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
: The Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
: High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA
: Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC
: Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, MA
: Phillips Academy, Andover, MA
: Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
: Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
: Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, ON, Canada
: Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, ON, Canada
: Baltimore Museum, Baltimore, MD
: Brooklyn Museum, New York, NY
: Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
: Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
: Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
: Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT
: The Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Houston, TX
: The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
: National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
: National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
: Philadelphia Art Museum, Philadelphia, PA
: The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC
: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
: Cleveland Art Museum, Cleveland, OH
: Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA
: Vancouver Art Museum, Vancouver, BC, Canada
: Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN
: Kawamura Memorial Museum of Art, Sakura, Japan
: Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO
: Kunstmuseum, Basel, Switzerland
: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
: Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, TX
: Musée National d’Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
: The Tate, London, England
: Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX