FRANK STELLA (American, b. 1936)

Present Lives and works in New York, NY

2012 Retrospective at Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg

2010 Received National Medal of Arts

1995 Retrospective at the Reina Sofia, Madrid

1989 Named to the Ordre des arts et des lettres, France

1987 Second Museum of Modern Art, New York, retrospective

1984 Honorary Doctorate from Princeton University

1983 Delivers Charles Eliot Norton Lectures at Harvard University

1970 Museum of Modern Art, New York, retrospective

1967 First Prize, International Biennial Exhibition of Paintings, Tokyo, Japan

1959 Featured in 16 Americans exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, NY

1958 Moved to New York, NY

1954–58 Princeton University, Princeton, NJ

1936 Born in Malden, MA

SELECT EXHIBITIONS

2012 : Die Retrospectiv, 1958-2012, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, Germany

2011 Stella Sounds: The Scarlatti K Series. Phillips Collection, Washington, DC Frank Stella: Connections. Haunch of Venison Gallery, London, England Frank Stella: Geometric Variations. Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York, NY Frank Stella: American Master. The Bascom, The Highlands, NC Frank Stella. More Gallery, Giswil, Switzerland Stella & Calatrava. The Michael Kohlhaas Curtain, Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin, Germany

2010 Frank Stella: Irregular Polygons. Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Dartmouth, NH Frank Stella: Exotic Birds. L+M Arts, New York, NY

2009 Moby Dick: Frank Stella and Herman Melville. Grand Rapids Art Museum, Grand Rapids, MI

2008 Frank Stella. Wetterling Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden Polygons to Printmaking: The Work of Frank Stella, 1958 – 1997. Princeton University Art Museum. Princeton, NJ

2007 Frank Stella. Gallery Ficher Rohr, Basel, Switzerland Frank Stella on the Roof, The Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Roof Garden, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY Frank Stella: Painting into Architecture, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY Frank Stella: New Work, Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York, NY Frank Stella. Galerie Haas & Fuchs, Berlin.

2006 Frank Stella 1958. Harvard University Art Museums, Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts. 4 February – 7 May, 2006. [Will travel to The Menil Collection, Houston, Texas, 25 May – 20 August, 2006; The Ohio State University, Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, 9 September – 31 December, 2006.] Frank Stella: Black Paintings, Haus der kunst, Munich, Germany Frank Stella. Gallery Thomas, Munich, Germany. 8 September – 11 November. Frank Stella: Collages and Related Sculpture from the von Kleist Series, Jacobson Howard Gallery, New York, 2 November – 22 December. Frank Stella: Major Works from the von Kleist Series, Danese Gallery, New York, 17 November – 22 December.

2005 Frank Stella. John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA Frank Stella. Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York, NY Frank Stellaʼs Moby Dick Series Prints. National Museum of Fine Arts, Santiago, Chile Frank Stella. Waddington Galleries, London, England. Frank Stellaʼs Moby Dick Series Prints. MALBA (The Museum of Latin American Art in Buenos Aires) Collection Constantini, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

2004 Frank Stella - A Breakthrough in Abstraction - Exotic Birds. Gagosian Gallery, New York, NY Frank Stella, Moby Dick and Imaginary Places. Galerie Jamileh Weber, Zurich, Switzerland What You See Is What You See: Frank Stella and the Anderson Collection at SFMOMA. San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA Frank Stella. Galerie Terminus, Munich, Germany Frank Stella: New Works. McClain Gallery, Houston, TX

2003 Frank Stella. The Nagoya City Art Museum, Nagoya, Japan Frank Stella. Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London, England Frank Stella: Recent Work. Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York, NY Frank Stella. IWATE Museum of Art, Morioka City, Japan

2002 Frank Stella “Hacilar 1999-2001.” Greenberg Van Doren Gallery, New York, NY

2001 Heinrich von Kleist by Frank Stella. JENOPTIK Gallery, Jena. Traveled to Roemer-und Pelizaeus-Museum, Hildesheim; Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart, Stuttgart; Galerie Akira Ikeda, Berlin; Singapore Tyler Print Institute Limited (STPI), Singapore Frank Stella. Galerie Hans Strelow, Duesseldorf, Germany Frank Stella: Recent Work. Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York, NY Frank Stella. Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University, Stanford, CA

2000 Frank Stella. Waddington Galleries, London, England Frank Stella: Recent Paintings and Sculpture. Richard Gray Gallery, Chicago, IL Frank Stella. Recent Works. Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, PA Frank Stella. Love Letters and Correspondence. Barbara Mathes Gallery, New York, NY

1999 Frank Stella at two thousand. Changing the Rules. Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami, Miami, FL Frank Stella: Easel Paintings. Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London, England Frank Stella: New Work. Sperone Westwater, New York, NY

1998 Frank Stella: New Paintings. Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London, England Frank Stella and Kenneth Tyler - A Unique 30-Year Collaboration. Kawamura Memorial Museum of Art, Chiba, Japan Frank Stella at Tyler Graphics. Addison Gallery of America Art, Andover, MA

1997 Stella in Studio: The Public Art of Frank Stella, 1982 -1997. University of Houston, Blaffer Gallery, Houston, TX Frank Stella: New Sculpture. Gagosian Gallery, New York, NY Frank Stella. City Museum of Art, Kagoshima, Japan Frank Stella: Juam. Juam, State I from Imaginary Places. Tyler Graphics, Mount Kisco, NY

1996 Frank Stella. Akira Ikeda Gallery, Nagoya, Japan Frank Stella. Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany Frank Stella. New Sculpture. Hudson River Valley Series. JENOPTIK AG, Jena, Germany Frank Stella: Imaginary Places II . Project Notes. Tyler Graphics, Mount Kisco, NY

1995 Frank Stella. LʼUsine, Dijion, France Frank Stella: New Sculpture. Gagosian Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Frank Stella: Imaginary Places . Tyler Graphics, Mount Kisco, NY Frank Stella: Imaginary Places, New Paintings and Prints. Knoedle Gallery, New York City, NY Frank Stella: New Works. Wetterling Teo Gallery, Singapore, Singapore

1994 Frank Stella: Imaginary Places. New Work: Painting, Relief, and Sculpture. Waddington Galleries, London, England

1993 Frank Stella: Moby Dick Deckle Edges . Tyler Graphics, Mount Kisco, NY

1992 Frank Stella: Sculpture and Collage. Akira Ikeda Gallery, Tokyo, Japan Frank Stella: New Work: Projects and Sculpture. Knoedler Gallery, New York City, NY Frank Stella: The Fountain. Tyler Graphics, Mount Kisco, NY

1990 Frank Stella. Municipal Museum of Art and Kawamura Memorial Museum of Art, Kitakyushu, Japan

1989 Frank Stella: The Waves. Akira Ikeda Gallery, Nagoya, Japan Frank Stella: New Work. Knoedler Gallery, New York, NY Frank Stella: 1970 – 1987. Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX. Frank Stella: Waves II. Richard Green Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Frank Stella: Waves. Waddington Graphics, London, England

1988 Frank Stella: 1970 – 1987. Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands Frank Stella: Reliefs. James Corcoran Gallery, Santa Monica, CA Frank Stella: Waves. Nan Miller Gallery, Rochester, NY Frank Stella. Akira Ikeda Gallery, Taura, Japan Frank Stella: Black Paintings, 1958 – 1960. Cones and Pillars, 1984 – 1987. Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart, Germany

1987 Frank Stella: 1970 – 1987. The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY

1986 Frank Stella: New Reliefs. Akira Ikeda Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

1985 Frank Stella. Relief Paintings. M. Knoedler & Co. New York City, NY Frank Stella. Akira Ikeda Gallery, Tokyo, Japan Frank Stella. Ceramic Reliefs and Steel Reliefs. Knoedler Gallery, London, England. Frank Stella. Works 1979 – 1985 and New Graphics. Institute of Contemporary Arts. ICA Gallery, London, England. 17 May – 7 July Traveled to Dublin, Ireland, Douglas Hyde Gallery, 8 August – 14 September.]

1983 Frank Stella. Polish Wooden Synagogues – Constructions from the 1970s. Jewish Museum, New York, NY Resource / Response / Reservoir. Stella Survey 1959 – 1982. San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA Frank Stella – Works from the Permanent Collection. Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY Frank Stella. Reliefs. Akira Ikeda Gallery, Tokyo, Japan Focus on Frank Stella. Nasielk II, A polish Wooden Synagogue Construction. Hebrew Union College. Los Angeles, CA Frank Stella. Selected Works. Harvard University Art Museum, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, MA Frank Stella. Recent Work. M. Knoedler AG, Zurich Switzerland; traveled to Vienna, Austria, Galerie Würthle

1982 Frank Stella. New Reliefs. Akira Ikeda Gallery, Nagoya, Japan Frank Stella. Recent Works. Akira Ikeda Gallery, Tokyo, Japan Frank Stella. Knoedler Gallery, London, England Frank Stella. From Start to Finish. Phillips Academy. Addison Gallery of American Art. Andover, MA Frank Stella. Working Drawings from the Artistʼs Collection. Kitakyushu Municipal Museum of Art. Kitakyushu, Japan

1981 Frank Stella / Works. Painting, Drawing and Maquettes. Akira Ikeda Gallery, Nagoya, Japan Frank Stella. Metal Reliefs. Knoedler & Co. New York, NY Frank Stella. New York. Galerie Hans Strelow, Düsseldorf, West Germany

1980 Frank Stella. Paintings and Prints. Galerie Ninety-Nine, Bay Harbor Islands, FL Frank Stella. Koh Gallery, Tokyo, Japan Frank Stella. Works on Paper. Knoedler Gallery, London, England Frank Stella. Recent Works. Galerie Valeur, Nagoya, Japan Frank Stella. peintures 1970 – 1979. Centre dʼArts Plastiques Contemporains de Bordeaux. Bordeaux, France Frank Stella. Working Drawings / Zeichungen 1956 – 1970. Kunstmuseum Basel, Basel, Switzerland Frank Stella. Akira Ikeda Gallery, Nagoya, Japan Frank Stella. Getler / Pall Gallery. New York, NY

1979 Indian Birds. Painted Reliefs. Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, NY Frank Stella. The Indian Bird Maquettes. Museum of Modern Art. New York, NY Frank Stella. 8 Drawings. 1976 Sketch Variation / 1977 Exotic Bird Series. Galerie Valeur, Nagoya, Japan

1978 Stella Since 1970. Fort Worth Art Museum, Fort Worth, TX. Traveled to Newport Beach, CA, Newport Art Museum; Montreal, Quebec, Canada, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts; Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, Vancouver Art Gallery; Washington, DC, Corcoran Gallery of Art; Jackson, MS, Mississippi Art Museum; Denver, CO, Denver Art Museum; Minneapolis Institute of Art; Des Moines, IA, Des Moines Art Center Frank Stella. Galerie Valeur, Nagoya, Japan Frank Stella. The Series within a Series. School of Visual Arts, Visual Arts Museum. New York, NY

1977 Frank Stella. Werke 1958 – 1976. Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Bielefeld, West Germany Frank Stella. Paintings and Recent Prints. John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA Frank Stella. Paintings, Drawings, and Prints, 1959 – 1977. Knoedler Gallery, London, England

1976 Frank Stella. Paintings and Graphics. Sears Bank and Trust Company, Chicago, IL Frank Stella. Neue Reliefbilder – Bilder und Graphik. Kunsthalle Basel. Switzerland, Basel Frank Stella. Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, NY Frank Stella. Recent Paintings. M. Knoedler & Co. New York, NY Frank Stella. The Black Paintings. Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD Frank Stella. An Historical Selection. Gallery, , Ontario, Canada

1975 Frank Stella. Variations on the Square 1960 – 1974. Janie C. Lee Gallery, Houston, TX Frank Stella. Recent Paintings. Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris, France Frank Stella. Galleria dellʼAreite, Milan, Italy Frank Stella. High-Relief Aluminum. Ace Venice, Venice, CA Frank Stella. Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, NY

1974 Frank Stella. Recent Works. Portland Center for the Visual Arts, Portland, OR; Traveled to Henry Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle; Ace Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada Frank Stella. Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, NY

1973 Frank Stella. Phillips Collection. Washington, DC

1971 Frank Stella. David Mirvish Gallery, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

1970 Frank Stella. Galerie René Ziegler. Zürich, Switzerland Frank Stella. Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands; Pasadena Art Museum, Pasadena, CA; Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

1969 Frank Stella. University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez, PR Recent Paintings by Frank Stella. Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA Frank Stella. Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, NY

1968 Frank Stella, Recent Paintings and Drawings. Washington Gallery of Modern Art. Washington, DC Frank Stella. Irving Blum Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Frank Stella. Recent. David Mirvish Gallery, Toronto, Ontario, Canada Frank Stella. New Gallery, Bennington College, Bennington, VT

1967 Frank Stella. Galerie Bischofsberger, Zürich, Switzerland

1966 Frank Stella. David Mirvish Gallery, Toronto, Ontario, Canada Frank Stella. Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, NY Frank Stella – A Selection of Paintings and Recent Drawings. Kasmin Limited, London, England

1965 Frank Stella in an Exhibition of New York. Ferus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

1964 Frank Stella. Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, NY Frank Stella. Galerie Lawrence, Paris, France Frank Stella Recent Paintings. Kasmin Limited, London, England The Shaped Canvas. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY

1963 Frank Stella. Ferus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

1962 Frank Stella. Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, NY

1961 Frank Stella. Galerie Lawrence, Paris, France

1960 Frank Stella. Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, NY

1959 Frank Stella. Malden Public Library, Malden, MA

SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, MA Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Ontario, Canada Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL Baltimore Museum, Baltimore, MD Brooklyn Museum, New York, NY Brown University, List Art Center, Providence, RI Cleveland Art Museum, Cleveland, OH Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, 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, D.C. Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA Kawamura Memorial Museum of Art, Sakura, Japan Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO Kitakyushu Municipal Museum, Japan Kunstmuseum, Basel, Switzerland Los Angeles County Museum, Los Angeles, CA Louisiana Museum, Humlebaek, Denmark The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, MN Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, TX Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France Museum Bochum, Bochum, Germany Museum Boymans von Beuningen, Rotterdam, Netherlands Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA The Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Houston, Texas The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas, TX National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Nationalgalerie, Berlin, Germany National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Australia Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C. Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO Philadelphia Art Museum, Philadelphia, PA The Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C. Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, New Jersey The Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, MO San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, Washington Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, Netherlands The Tate, London, England University of Michigan Art Museum, East Lansing, MI Vancouver Art Museum, British Columbia, Canada Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, CT Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN Wallraf-Richartz Museum, Cologne, Germany Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT

AWARDS

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

2001 Gold Medal of the National Arts Club, New York, NY

1998 Gold Medal for Graphic Art Award, American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, NY

1992 Awarded the Barnard Medal of Distinction

1989 Ordre des Arts et des Lettres from the French Government

1986 Honorary Degree, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA

1985 Award of American Art, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA Honorary Degree, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH

1984 Honorary Doctor of Arts, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ

1983 Appointed the Charles Eliot Norton Professor of Poetry, Harvard University, Cambridge, 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

1967 First Prize, International Biennial Exhibition of Paintings, Tokyo, Japan

SELECTED LITERATURE

Axsom, Richard H. The Prints of Frank Stella: A Catalog Raisonné 1967-1982. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press,1983.

Bielefield Kunsthalle. Frank Stella: Werke, 1958-1976. Bielefeld: 1977.

Clearwater, Bonnie. Frank Stella at Two Thousand: Changing the Rules. Miami: Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami, 2001.

Cooper, Harry; Megan R. Luke. Frank Stella 1958. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Art Museums, 2006.

Fried, Michael. Frank Stella: An Exhibition of Recent Paintings. Pasadena, CA: Pasadena Art Museum, 1966.

Geelhaar, Christian. Frank Stella Working Drawings 1956-1970. Basel, Switzerland: Kunstmuseum Basel, 1980.

Goldberger, Paul. Frank Stella: Painting into Architecture. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2007.

Goldman, Judith. Frank Stella. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Museum of Art, 1983.

Goldman, Judith. Frank Stella. Madrid: Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, 1995.

Guberman, Sidney. Frank Stella: An Illustrated Biography. New York, 1995.

Hughes, Robert. Frank Stella, the Swan Engravings. Fort Worth, TX: Fort Worth Art Museum, 1984.

Kennedy, Brian P. Frank Stella: Irregular Polygons 1965-66. Dartmouth, NH: Hood Museum of Art, 2010.

Leider, Philip. Stella Since 1970. Fort Worth, TX: Fort Worth Art Museum, 1978.

McLean, John. Frank Stella, London Retrospective. London: Hayward Gallery, 1970.

Meier, Richard. Shards: Thoughts on Stella. London, 1983.

Meyer, Franz. Frank Stella. Basel, Switzerland: Kunsthalle Basel, 1976.

The Phillips Collection. Stella Sounds: The Scarlatti K Series. Washington, D.C., 2001.

Richardson, Brenda. Frank Stella: The Black Paintings. Baltimore: Baltimore Museum of Art, 1976.

Rosenblum, Robert. Frank Stella. London, 1971.

Rubin, Lawrence. Frank Stella Paintings, 1958-1965: A Catalog Raisonné. New York, 1986.

Rubin, William S. Frank Stella. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1970.

Rubin, William S. Frank Stella: 1970-1987. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1987.

Seitz, William. Recent Paintings of Frank Stella. Waltham, MA: Rose Art Museum, 1969.

Stella, Frank. Working Space: The Charles Eliot Norton Lectures, 1983-1984. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1983.

Verspoehl, Franz-Joachim, ed. The Writings of Frank Stella. Cologne, 2001.

Wallace, Robert K. Frank Stella's Moby Dick. New York, 2006.