Frank Stella Biography
Frank Stella (1936 - ) is an American painter and printmaker born in Malden, Massachusetts, in 1936. He finished secondary school at Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts, and then enrolled at Princeton University to study history. The artist moved to New York, NY, after receiving his bachelor's degree in 1958.
The rings and geometric stripes from Jasper Johns' first solo exhibition in 1958 would serve as inspiration for Stella. The following year, his paintings were included in the exhibition 16 Americans at the Museum of Modern Art. In 1960 Stella held his first solo exhibition in New York at the Leo Castelli Gallery.
The Phillips Collection in Washington, DC; Gagosian Gallery in New York, NY and the Kunstmuseum in Basel, Switzerland, among others, have all featured Stella's works in exhibitions that have taken place across the United States and around the world. A retrospective of Stella's work was presented at the Museum of Modern Art in 1970, when the artist was still in his thirties.
In addition to numerous honors and awards, Stella also won First Prize at the International Painting Biennial in Tokyo, Japan (1967), the French government's Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (1989), and the American Academy of Arts Medal Golden Letters Award for Graphic Art (New York, NY, 1998). Currently, the artist resides and works in New York, NY.
