BIOGRAPHY
Frank Stella (b. 1936) is among the most prominent and prolific living artists. After graduating from Princeton University, Stella began a dedicated painting practice. He immediately received acclaim for his Black Paintings, which were included in “Sixteen Americans” at the Museum of Modern Art in 1959...
AWARDS & EDUCATION
1954 Phillips Academy, Andover, MA
1958 BA, Princeton, NJ
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
1983 Appointed the Charles Eliot Norton Professor of Poetry, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
1984 Honorary Doctor of Arts, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ
1985 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
2009 Received the 2009 National Medal of Arts from President Barack Obama at an East Room ceremony at the White House on February 25, 2010
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
Frank Stella's Stars, A Survey, The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, May 17 - October 11, 2020
Frank Stella: What You See, Tampa Museum of Art, April 2 - August 2, 2020
Frank Stella: Selections From The Permanent Collection, May 5 - Setpember 15, 2019, LACMA, May 5 - September 15, 2019
Frank Stella Unbound: Literature and Printmaking, MOCA Jacksonville, October 6, 2018 - January 13, 2019
Frank Stella The Kenneth Tyler Print Collection, National Gallery of Australia, November 19, 2016 - July 1, 2017
Frank Stella: A Retrospective, The Whitney, Oct 30, 2015–Feb 7, 2016
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Whitney Museum of American Art New York, NY; 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; Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA; The Tate, London, England
