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Presentation

Born in 1936, Malden, USA.

Dead in 2024, in New York, USA.



  Presentation


Born in 1936 in Malden, Massachusetts, Frank Stella now lives in New York. A painter considered the precursor of Minimalism, he is one of the main exponents of Op Art and the shaped canvas. After studying art at Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts, and history at Princeton University, he was influenced by the abstract expressionism of Pollock and Kline. Only later did he renounce the expressive use of paint and reject the lyricism of this movement. He worked on oppositions between shapes and colors, and was the inventor of “cut-out canvases”. This led him to break the boundaries of classical geometry, and his paintings evolved into veritable sculptures from the 1980s onwards.



  Education


1950

Philips Academy, Andover, USA

1954

Princeton University, Princeton, USA



  Awards


2016

Lotos Foundation Prize in the Arts and Sciences, New York, USA

2015

National Artist Award, Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Aspen, USA

2009

National Medal of Arts, United States President, Washington, USA

2001  

Gold Medal, The National Arts Club, New York, USA

1998  

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

1992

Barnard Medal of Distinction, Columbia University, New York, USA

1989

Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, Gouvernement français, Paris, France

1986

Honorary Degree, Brandeis University, Waltham, USA

1985

Award of American Art Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, USA

Honorary Degree, Dartmouth College, Hanover, Germany

1984

Honorary Doctor of Arts, Princeton University, Princeton, USA

1983

Charles Eliot Norton Professor of Poetry, Harvard University, United Kingdom

1981

New York City Mayor's Award for Arts and Culture, New York, USA

Medal for Painting, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, USA

Honorary Fellowship, Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem, Israel

1979

Claude M. Fuess Distinguished Service Award, Phillips Academy, United Kingdom

1967

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



  Public collections


Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY, USA

Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, USA

Brooklyn Museum, New York, USA

Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH, USA

Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Houston, USA

Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, USA

Denver Art Museum, Denver, USA

Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, San Francisco, USA

Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, USA

Folkwang Museum, Essen, Germany

Hara Museum ARC, Gunma/Tokyo, Japan

High Museum of Art, Atlanta, USA

Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, USA

Kawamura Memorial DIC Museum of Art, Sakura, Japan

Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, USA

Kunstmuseum Basel, Basel, Switzerland

Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, Denmark

Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, USA

Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden

Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), Los Angeles, CA, USA

Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, USA

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, USA

National Museum of Modern Art - Centre Pompidou, Paris, France

National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, USA

National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, USA

Nationalgalerie, Berlin, Germany

Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, USA

Phillips Academy, Andover, USA

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA), San Francisco, CA, USA

Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, USA

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY, USA

Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands

Tate Modern, London, England

The Met (The Metropolitan Museum of Art), New York, NY, USA

The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, USA

The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York, NY, USA

The Phillips Collection, Washington, USA

Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC, Canada

Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, USA

Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, USA

Yishu 8 House of the Arts, Beijing, China


Selected Artworks
Oekoen 2006
Oekoen 2006
2014
228.6 x 139.7 x 127.0 cm / 90.0 x 55.0 x 50.0 in
Michael Kohlaas ( From an old chronicle ) Panel 2
Michael Kohlaas ( From an old chronicle ) Panel 2
2000
426.7 x 426.7 cm / 168.0 x 168.0 in
The Street ( from the Moby-Dick Series )
The Street ( from the Moby-Dick Series )
1990
250.0 x 180.0 x 160.0 cm / 98.4 x 70.9 x 63.0 in
Plombières-les-Bains, from Spa Sculptures
Plombières-les-Bains, from Spa Sculptures
1999
36.8 x 35.6 x 30.5 cm / 14.5 x 14.0 x 12.0 in
Karpathenburg II - FS635
Karpathenburg II - FS635
1996
297.2 x 458.5 cm / 117.0 x 180.5 in
Hercules and Achelous - FS2017.003
Hercules and Achelous - FS2017.003
2017
348.0 x 223.5 x 330.2 cm / 137.0 x 88.0 x 130.0 in
Monel Star - FS2021.230, 2019 -
Monel Star - FS2021.230, 2019 -
2021
426.7 x 426.7 x 426.7 cm / 168.0 x 168.0 x 168.0 in
The Restigouche 2x - FS2021.204
The Restigouche 2x - FS2021.204
2021
168.9 x 138.4 x 78.7 cm / 66.5 x 54.5 x 31.0 in
The Petite Cascapedia 2x - FS2021.208
The Petite Cascapedia 2x - FS2021.208
2021
177.8 x 193.0 x 94.0 cm / 70.0 x 76.0 x 37.0 in
The Kedgwick 2x - FS2021.209
The Kedgwick 2x - FS2021.209
2021
198.1 x 152.4 x 81.3 cm / 78.0 x 60.0 x 32.0 in
The Miramichi (Version 1) 2x and The Restigouche 1x - FS2021.210
The Miramichi (Version 1) 2x and The Restigouche 1x - FS2021.210
2021
221.0 x 162.6 x 96.5 cm / 87.0 x 64.0 x 38.0 in
The Grand Cascapedia 2x and The Bonaventure (Version 2) 1x - FS2021.211
The Grand Cascapedia 2x and The Bonaventure (Version 2) 1x - FS2021.211
2021
202.6 x 194.3 x 76.2 cm / 79.8 x 76.5 x 30.0 in
Illustrations after El Lissitzky's 'Had Gadya'
Illustrations after El Lissitzky's 'Had Gadya'
1985
153.0 x 135.0 cm / 60.2 x 53.1 in
Illustrations after El Lissitzky's 'Had Gadya': Then Came A Fire And Burnt The Stick (Work Proof) - FS-150
Illustrations after El Lissitzky's 'Had Gadya': Then Came A Fire And Burnt The Stick (Work Proof) - FS-150
1984
130.2 x 135.6 cm / 51.3 x 53.4 in
Split Star 2015
Split Star 2015
2022
176.0 x 152.0 x 119.5 cm / 69.3 x 59.8 x 47.0 in
A Squeeze of the Hand
A Squeeze of the Hand
1989
185.4 x 138.4 cm / 73.0 x 54.5 in
Corona Collage 343 Print
Corona Collage 343 Print
2023
174.0 x 118.1 x 5.1 cm / 68.5 x 46.5 x 2.0 in
Fluid Motion Extended II (2x)
Fluid Motion Extended II (2x)
2021
77.5 x 167.6 x 45.7 cm / 30.5 x 66.0 x 18.0 in
Videos
Sculptures, Matters, Materials, Textures... Foetz, Luxembourg
Sculptures, Matters, Materials, Textures... Foetz, Luxembourg
The lines of life are various...
The lines of life are various...
Exhibitions In Our Galleries
All Exhibitions

Solo shows (selection)


2026

Minimal / Maximal, Musée d'art moderne et contemporain, Saint-Étienne, France


2022

Salmon Rivers of the Maritime Provinces, Ceysson & Bénétière, Wandhaff, Luxembourg


2019

Frank Stella : Recent Work, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, USA


2018

Frank Stella – Abstract Narration, Galerie der Stadt Tuttlingen, Tuttlinfgen, Allemagne

Frank Stella : Recent Work, Sprüth Magers, Los Angeles, USA

Frank Stella Unbound : Literature and Pintmaking, Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, USA


2017

Frank Stella : Works from three decades, Galerie Hans Strelow, Dusseldorf, Allemagne

Frank Stella, Charles Riva Collection, Bruxelles, Belgique Frank Stella, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, USA

Frank Stella Prints : A Retrospective, Addison Gallery of American, Andover, USA

Line/Edges : Frank Stella On Paper, Pizzuti Collection, Columbus, USA


2016

Frank Stella: A Retrospective, Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Madison; travelling show: Addison Gallery of American Art, Philips Academy, Andover; Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Springs, USA

Frank Stella and the Synagogues of Old Poland, POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews, Warsaw, Poland Frank Stella, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, USA


2015

Frank Stella: Retrospective, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA ; travelling show: Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth; de Young Museum, San Francisco, USA

Frank Stella Paintings & Drawings, Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Basel, Switzerland

Frank Stella: Shape as Form, Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York, USA

Frank Stella: Recent Works, Leeahn Gallery, Seoul, South-Korea

Inflated Star and Wood Star, Annenberg Courtyard, Royal Academy, London, United-Kingdom; travelling show: Artzuid, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Frank Stella, Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London, United-Kingdom


2014

Frank Stella: Big Works in Progress, More Gallery, Giswil Frank Stella Sculpture, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, USA


2013

Frank Stella, Wetterling Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden


2012

Frank Stella: The Retrospective. Works 1958-2012, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, Germany

Frank Stella: New Work, Freedman Art, New York, USA

Frank Stella: Black, Aluminum, Copper, L & M Arts, New York, USA

Frank Stella: Recent Work, Galerie der Stadt Tuttlingen, Tuttlingen; travelling show: Friedrich-Schiller-Universitat Jena, Jena, Germany

Frank Stella: Connections, Haunch of Venison, London, United-Kingdom

Frank Stella Geometric Variations, Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York, USA

Stella & Calatrava, Neue Nationalagalerie, Berlin, Germany; travelling show: Museo Pablo Serano, Zaragoza, Spain

Stella Sounds: The Scarlatti K Series, The Phillips Collection, Washington, USA


2010

Frank Stella: Irregular Polygons, 1965-66, Hood Museum of Art - Dartmouth College, Hanover; travelling show: Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, Spain


2009

Frank Stella: Polychrome Relief, Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York, USA

Moby Dick: Frank Stella and Herman Melville, Grand Rapids Art Museum, Grand Rapids, USA


2008

Frank Stella: Work on Canvas from the 60s, Van de Weghe Fine Art, New York, USA

Frank Stella: K Series, Jacobson Howard Gallery, New York, USA

Frank Stella, Wetterling Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden


2007

Frank Stella: Five Decades of Painting & Sculpture, Gary Nader Fine Art, Miami, USA Frank Stella: Paintings 1958 - 1965, Peter Freeman Inc., New York, USA

Frank Stella, Galerie Haas & Fuchs, Berlin, Germany

Frank Stella: Recent Works, Galerie Terminus, Munich, Germany

Frank Stella, Gallery Ficher Roher, Basel, Switzerland

Frank Stella on the Roof, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA

Frank Stella: Painting into Architecture, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA

Frank Stella: New Work, Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York, USA

Frank Stella, Samuelis Baumgarte Galerie, Bielefeld, Germany


2006

Frank Stella 1958, Harvard University Art Museums, Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge; travelling show: Menil Collection, Houston, USA; The Ohio State University, Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, USA

Frank Stella: Black Paintings, Hausderkunst, Germany

Frank Stella, Gallery Thomas, Munich, Germany

Frank Stella: Major Works from the von Kleist Series, Danese Gallery, New York, USA

Frank Stella: Collages and Related Sculpture from the von Kleist Series, Jacobson Howard Gallery, New York, USA


2005

Frank Stella, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, USA

Frank Stella, Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York, USA

Frank Stella's Moby Dick Series Prints, National Museum of Fine Arts, Santiago, Chile

Frank Stella, Waddington Galleries, London, United-Kingdom

Frank Stella's Moby Dick Series Prints, 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, USA

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, USA

Frank Stella, Galerie Terminus, Munich, Germany

Frank Stella: New Works, McClain Gallery, Houston, USA


2003

The Nagoya City Art Museum, Nagoya, Japan

Frank Stella, Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London, United-Kingdom

Frank Stella: Recent Work, Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York, USA

Frank Stella, IWATE Museum of Art, Morioka City, USA


2002

Frank Stella "Hacilar 1999-2001," Greenberg Van Doren Gallery, New York, USA


2001

Heinrich von Kleist by Frank Stella, JENOPTIK Gallery, Jena; travelling show: Roemer-und Pelizaeus-Museum, Hildesheim; Württembergischer, Germany Kunstverein Stuttgart, Germany, Stuttgart, Germany; Galerie Akira Ikeda, Berlin, Germany; Singapore Tyler Print Institute Limited, Singapore

Frank Stella, Galerie Hans Strelow, Duesseldorf, Germany

Frank Stella: Recent Work, Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York, USA

Frank Stella, Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University, Stanford, United-Kingdom


2000

Frank Stella, Waddington Galleries, London, United-Kingdom

Frank Stella: Recent Paintings and Sculpture, Richard Gray Gallery, Chicago, USA

Frank Stella: Recent Works, Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, USA

Frank Stella. Love Letters and Correspondence, Barbara Mathes Gallery, New York, USA


1999

Frank Stella at two thousand. Changing the Rules, Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami, Miami, USA

Frank Stella: Easel Paintings, Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London, United-Kingdom

Frank Stella: New York, Sperone Westwater, New York, USA


1998

Frank Stella: New Paintings, Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London, United-Kingdom

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 American Art, Andover, United-Kingdom


1997

Stella in Studio: The Public Art of Frank Stella, 1982 - 1997, University of Houston, Blaffer Gallery, Houston, USA

Frank Stella: New Sculpture, Gagosian Gallery, New York, USA

Frank Stella, City Museum of Art, Kagoshima, Japan Frank Stella: Juam. Juam, State I from Imaginary Places, Tyler Graphics, Mount Kisco, USA


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, USA


1995

Frank Stella, L'Usine, Dijon, France Frank Stella: New Sculpture, Gagosian Gallery, Los Angeles, USA

Frank Stella: Imaginary Places, Tyler Graphics, Mount Kisco, USA

Frank Stella: Imaginary Places, New Paintings and Prints, Knoedler Gallery, New York, USA

Frank Stella: New Works, Wetterling Teo Gallery, Singapore


1994

New Work: Painting, Relief, and Sculpture, Waddington Galleries, London, United-Kingdom


1993

Frank Stella: Moby Dick Deckle Edges, Tyler Graphics, Mount Kisco, USA


1992

Frank Stella: Sculpture and Collage, Akira Ikeda Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

Frank Stella: New York, USA : Projects and Sculpture, Knoedler Gallery, New York, USA

Frank Stella: The Fountain, Tyler Graphics, Mount Kisco, USA


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, USA

Frank Stella: 1970 - 1987, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, USA

Frank Stella: Waves II, Richard Green Gallery, Los Angeles, USA

Frank Stella: Waves, Waddington Galleries, London, United-Kingdom


1988

Frank Stella: 1970 - 1987, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Frank Stella: Reliefs, James Corcoran Gallery, Santa Monica, USA

Frank Stella: Waves, Nan Miller Gallery, Rochester, USA

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, USA


1986

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


1985

Frank Stella, Relief Paintings, M. Knoedler & Co., New York, USA

Frank Stella, Akira Ikeda Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

Frank Stella, Ceramic Reliefs and Steel Reliefs, Knoedler Gallery, London, United-Kingdom

Frank Stella, Works 1979 - 1985, Institute of Contemporary Arts, ICA Gallery, London, United-Kingdom; travelling show: Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin, Ireland


1983

Frank Stella. Polish Wooden Synagogues - Constructions from the 1970s, Jewish Museum, New York, USA

Resource / Response / Reservoir. Stella Survey 1959 - 1982, Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, USA

Frank Stella - Works from the Permanent Collection, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, USA

Frank Stella. Reliefs, Akira Ikeda Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

Focus on Frank Stella. Nasielk II, A polish Wooden Synagogue Construction, Hebrew Union College, Los Angeles, USA

Frank Stella. Selected Works, Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University Art Museum, Cambridge, United-Kingdom

Frank Stella. Recent Work, M. Knoedler AG, Zürich; travelling show: Galerie Würthle, Vienna, Austria


1982

Frank Stella. New Reliefs, Akira Ikeda Gallery, Nagoya, Japan

Frank Stella, Knoedler Gallery, London, United-Kingdom

Frank Stella. From Start to Finish, Phillips Academy, Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, United-Kingdom

Frank Stella. Working Drawings from the Artist's 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, USA

Frank Stella. New York, Galerie Hans Strelow, Düsseldorf, Germany


1980

Frank Stella. Paintings and Prints, Galerie Ninety-Nine, Bay Harbor Islands, USA

Frank Stella, Koh Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

Frank Stella. Works on Paper, Knoedler Gallery, London, United-Kingdom

Frank Stella. Recent Works, Galerie Valeur, Nagoya, Japan

Frank Stella. Peintures 1970 - 1979, Centre d'Arts 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, USA


1979

Indian Birds. Painted Reliefs, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, USA

Frank Stella. The Indian Bird Maquettes, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA

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; travelling show: Newport Art Museum, Newport Beach; Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal; Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, USA; Mississippi Art Museum, Jackson; Denver Art Museum, Denver; Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis; Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, USA

Frank Stella, Galerie Valeur, Nagoya, Japan

Frank Stella. The Series within a Series, School of Visual Arts, Visual Arts Museum, New York, USA


1977

Frank Stella. Werke 1958 - 1976, Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Bielefeld; travelling show: Tübingen, Germany

Frank Stella. Paintings and Recent Prints, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, USA

Frank Stella. Paintings, Drawings and Prints, 1959 - 1977, Knoedler Gallery, London, United-Kingdom


1976

Frank Stella. Paintings and Graphics, Sears Bank and Trust Company, Chicago, USA

Frank Stella. Neue Reliefbilder - Bilder und Graphik, Kunsthalle Basel, Switzerland, Basel, Switzerland

Frank Stella, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, USA

Frank Stella. Recent Paintings, M. Knoedler & Co., New York, USA

Frank Stella. The Black Paintings, Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, USA

Frank Stella. A Historical Selection, David Mirvish Gallery, Toronto, Canada


1975

Frank Stella. Variations on the Square 1960 - 1974, Janie C. Lee Gallery, Houston, USA

Frank Stella. Recent Paintings, Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris, France

Frank Stella, Galleria dell'Areite, Milan, Italy

Frank Stella. High-Relief Aluminum, Ace Venice, Venice, Italy

Frank Stella, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, USA


1974

Frank Stella. Recent Works, Portland Center for the Visual Arts, Portland; travelling show: Henry Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, USA Ace Gallery, Vancouver, Canada

Frank Stella, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, USA


1973

Frank Stella, Phillips Collection, Washington, USA


1971

Frank Stella, David Mirvish Gallery, Toronto, Canada


1970

Frank Stella, Galerie René Ziegler, Zürich, Switzerland

Frank Stella, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA ; travelling show: Hayward Gallery, London, United-Kingdom; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; Pasadena Art Museum, Pasadena; Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada


1969

Frank Stella, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez, Porto Rico

Recent Paintings by Frank Stella, Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, USA

Frank Stella, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, USA


1968

Frank Stella, Recent Paintings and Drawings, Washington Gallery of Modern Art, Washington, USA

Frank Stella, Irving Blum Gallery, Los Angeles, USA

Frank Stella, Recent, David Mirvish Gallery, Toronto, Canada

Frank Stella, Bennington College, New Gallery, Bennington, USA


1967

Frank Stella, Galerie Bischofscberger, Zürich, Switzerland


1966

Frank Stella, David Mirvish Gallery, Toronto, Canada

Frank Stella, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, USA

Frank Stella - A Selection of Paintings and Recent Drawings, Kasmin Limited, London, United-Kingdom


1965

Frank Stella in an Exhibition of New York, Ferus Gallery, Los Angeles, USA


1964

Frank Stella, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, USA

Frank Stella, Galerie Lawrence, Paris, France

Frank Stella Recent Paintings, Kasmin Limited, London, United-Kingdom

The Shaped Canvas, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA


1963

Frank Stella, Ferus Gallery, Los Angeles, USA


1962

Frank Stella, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, USA


1961

Frank Stella, Galerie Lawrence, Paris, France


1960

Frank Stella, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, USA


1959

Frank Stella, Malden Public Library, Malden, USA


Group shows (selection)


2019

Out of Office, Sara Hildén Art Museum, Tampere, Finland

Size Matters, Monumental Artworks, Plutschow Gallery, Zurich, Switzerland


2018


Painting with Method: Neoavantgarde Positions from the Mumok Collection, Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig (MUMOK), Vienna, Austria

Summer Selections 2018, Berry Campbell Gallery, New York City, NY, United States

Giant Steps: Artists and the 1960s, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY, United States

Summer 2018, Mnuchin Gallery, New York City, NY, United States

Off The Wall, Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, PA, United States Critical Dictionary - In homage to G. Bataille, Gagosian Gallery, Paris, France


Line, Form and Colour – Works from the Berardo Collection, Berardo Museum, Lisbon, Portugal

Subespecies de almacén, Carreras, Múgica, Bilbao, Spain

Accrochage, Michael Fuchs Galerie, Berlin, Germany

Racers: Larry Poons and Frank Stella, Loretta Howard Gallery, New York City, NY, United States

De Calder à Koons, Musées des Arts Décoratifs, Paris, France

The Myriad Forms of Visual Art : 196 Works with 19 Themes, The National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan


Op Art in Focus, Tate Liverpool, Liverpool, England

The Vitalist Economy of Painting, Galerie Neu, Berlin, Germany

Twentyfourseven – Wetterling Gallery 40 Years, Wetterling Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden


Epic Abstraction, Pollock to Herrera, The Met Breuer, New York, United States


2017

The Long Run, MoMa, New York, United States 
Monochrome : Painting in Black in White, National Gallery, London, England


Being Modern : MoMa in Paris, Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris, France

Summer Exhibition 2017, Royal Academy of Arts, Londres, England Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Nusantra, Jakarta, Indonesia


2016

Painting 2.0: Expression in the Information Age, Munok, Vienna, Austria

The World Meets Here, Custot Gallery, Duai, United Arab Emirates


Pop, Minimal and Figurative Art : The Fisher Collection, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California, United States

Shapeshifters, Luhring Augustine, New York, United States

The Collection Kurt Fried, Ketterer Kunst, Berlin, Germany


2015


Looking back: 45 years, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, California, United States

America is Hard to See, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, United States

Open Source: Art at the Eclipse of Capitalism, Max Hetzler Gallery, Paris, France

Land, Air, See, Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles, California, United States

Geometries On and Off the Grid: Art from 1950 to the Present, The Warehouse, Dallas, Texas, United States


2014


Local History: Castellani, Judd, Stella, Dominique Levy, New York, NY, United States

Love Story – The Anne and Wolfgang Titze Collection, 21er Haus, Vienna, Austria

The Shaped Canvas, Revisited, Luxembourg & Dayan, New York, NY, United States

Black | White, Mnuchin Gallery, New York, NY, United States


2013


Resonant Minds: Abstraction, Pomona College Museum of Art, Claremont, California, United States

Pictures of Nothing: Abstract Art from the Permanent Collection, The Frances Lehman Loed Art Center, Poughkeepsie, NY, États-Unis

Les aventures de la vérité, Fondation Maeght, Saint-Paul-de-Vence, France

S(ch)ichtwechsel! Neue Blicke auf die Sammlung, Museum für Konkrete Kunst, Ingolstadt, Germany

From Picasso to Koons: The Artist as Jeweler, Bass Museum of Art, Miami, Florida, United States


2012


Word Symbol Space, The Jewish Museum of New York, New York, NY, United States

Avant-Gardes – The Collection of the Triton, Kunsthal Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

Aufbruch. Malerei und realer Raum, Kunsthalle Rostock, Rostock, Germany 
Mid-Twenteth Century Photography and Design, The Molesworth Gallery, Dublin, Ireland 
Pompidou à Monaco, Grimaldi Forum Monaco, Monaco


2011

Contemporary Drawings from the Irving Stenn Jr. Collection, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States , Kunst – und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Bonn, Germany `

The Indiscipline of Painting: International abstraction from the 1960s to now, Tate St. Ives, St. Ives, United Kingdom

Hot Cold Cool, AMUM – Art Museum of The University of Memphis, Memphis, Tennessee, United States

Surface Tension: Contemporary Pints from the Anderson Collection, The De Young Museum, San Fransisco, California, United States

Stella & Calatrava, the Michael Kohlaas Curtain, Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin, Germany; IAACC Pablo Serrano, Saragosse, Spain

Arp, Beckmann, Munch, Kirchner, Warhol… Klassiker in Bonn


2010
Color Fields, Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin, Germany 
Painting: Process and Expansion From the 1950s till Now, Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig - MUMOK, Vienna, Austria Calder to Warhol - Introducing the Fisher Collection, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, SFMOMA, San Francisco, California, United States



2009


Robert and Jane Mayerhoff Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., United States

Die Gegenwart der Linie, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, Germany

Synthetic, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, United States


2008


India Moderna, IVAM – Institut Valencià d’Art Modern, Valence, Spain

Full House, Kiasma - Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland

Color Chart: Reinventing Color from 1950 to today, Museum of Modern Art (MOMA), New York, NY, United States ; Tate Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom


2007


Modern American Masters, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, San Diego, California, United States

Between the Lines, Stephane Simoens Contemporary Fine Art, Knokke-Zoute, Belgium

Color as Field – American Painting, 1950-1975, Denver Art Museum, Denver, Colorado; Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C.; Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville, Tennessee, United States

Coming of Age: American Art, 1850s to 1950s, Meadows Museum, Dallas, Texas, United States; Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice, Italy

Before (plus ou moins), Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France


2006


Big Juicy Paintings, Miami Art Museum, Miami, Floride, United States


The Persistence of Geometry, Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) Cleveland, Ohio, United States

Le mouvement des images, Centre Pompidou - Musée National d´Art Moderne, Paris, France


2005


Contemporary Voices: Works from the UBS Art Collection, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, United States; Fondation Beyeler, Riehen, Switzerland


2004


Singular Forms (Sometimes Repeated) - Art from 1951 to the Present, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY, United States


2003


Work Ethic, The Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, Maryland, United States


L’union fait la force, Artiscope, Bruxelles, Belgium


2002

The Big Americans - The Art of Collaboration, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Australia

La culture pour vivre, Centre Pompidou – Musée national d’art moderne, Paris, France


2001


Ornament und Abstraktion, Foundation Beyeler, Riehen, Switzerland G.E.L., The National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., United States


2000

From Cubism to Minimalism - A selection of Works by World Leading Artists, Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art, Teheran, Iran


1999

The American Century: Art & Culture 1900-2000, Whitney Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, United States


Abstraction, Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris, France


The first view, Sammlung Essl - Kunsthaus, Klosterneuburg, Austria

L’envers du décor, Institut d’art contemporain - Villeurbanne/Rhones-Alpes, Villeurbanne, France


1998


(re) Mediation - The Digital in Contemporary American Printmaking, University of South Florida Contemporary Art Museum, Tampa, Floride, United States


1994

Country Sculpture, Le Consortium, Dijon, France


1993

Richard Meier e Franck Stella : arte e architettura, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome, Italy


1988

Judd, Lichtenstein, Stella, Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris, France


1985

Art Minimal, Musée d’art contemporain, Bordeaux, France


1984

Accents Américains, Musée d’Art Contemporain de Montréal, Montréal, Canada


1981


A New Spirit in Painting, Royal Academy of Arts, London, United Kingdom


1980


MOMA at Brooklyn, Brooklyn Museum, New York, NY, United States


1978

10 ans Galerie Templon, Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris, France


1977

A view of a decade, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois, United States


1976


New York in Europa, Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin, Germany

Druckgrafik von Künsterlern der USA nach 1945, Kunsthalle zu Kiel, Kiel, Germany


1973


Maîtres de l'abstraction: Ellsworth Kelly, Kenneth Noland, Jules Olitski, Larry Poons, Frank Stella, Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris, France


1972


Works in a Series: Johns, Stella , Warhol, The Art Museum of South Texas Corpus Christi, Texas, United States


1970


Retrospective, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, United States


1969


Paintings of Olitsky, Stella, and Noland, McMaster Museum of Art, Hamilton, Canada


1968

Documenta 4, Cassel, Germany 1965

The Responsive Eye, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, United States


1962

Geometric Abstraction in America, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, United States


1960


American abstract impressionists and imagists, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY, United States

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2018
Frank Stella Unbound : Literature and printmaking. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2018. Essays by Mitra Abbaspour, Calvin Brown et Erica

2016
Frank Stella: i synagogi dawnej Polski and Synagogues of Historic Poland. Warsaw: POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews, 2016, text by Artur Tanikowski.

2015
Frank Stella: A Retrospective. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2015.text by Michael Auping.

2013
Frank Stella: American Abstract Artist (Crescent Moon Publishing, UK); text by James Pearson 
Frank Stella Shaped Canvases (Grin Verlag, Munich); text by Tina Pfab

2012
Frank Stella: The Retrospective Works 1958-2012 (Hatje Cantz, Germany) essays by Holger Broker, Markus Bruderlin, Gregor Stemmrich, et al. Masterworks, from Degas to Rosenquist (Acquavella Galleries, New York)
Frank Stella Paintings: Black Aluminum Copper (L & M Arts, New York); essays by Robert Pincus-Wittin, Katy Siegal Stella

2011
Frank Stella Connections (Ed.Hatje Cantz, Ben Tufnell Germany); essays by Robert Hobbs, Tom Hunt, Karen Wilken, et al.

2010
Frank Stella: Irregluar Polygons, 1965-66 (Hood Museum of Art, Hanover); text by Brian P. Kennedy

2007
Frank Stella: Painting into Architecture (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York); text by Paul Goldbereger
Black Paintings: Robert Rauschenberg, Ad Reinhardt, Mark Rothko, Frank Stella (Hatje Cantz, Berlin); text by Stephanie Rosenthal

2006
Frank Stella 1958 (Yale University Press, New Haven); essays by Harry Cooper, Megan R. Luke

2002
Henrich von Kleist by Frank Stella (Wlather Konig, Germany); essays by Wolfram Hogrebe, Franz-Joachim Verspohl, Robert K. Wallace, Martin Warnke Frank Stella at Two Thousand: Changing the Rules (Museum of Contemporary Art, New York); text by Boonie Clearwater, Frank Stella

2001
Frank Stella: Schriften/Writings (Verlag Der Buchhandlung Walther Konig); text by Frank Stella, Franz-Joachim Verspohl

2000
Frank Stella's Moby Dick Series (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor); text by Robert K. Wallace

1997
Frank Stella at Tyler Graphics (Walker Art Center, Minneapolis); text by Siri Engberg, Frank Stella

1996
Frank Stella Imaginary Places II (Imaginary Places) (Tyler Graphics Ltd., Mount Kisco); text by Frank Stella, Tyler Graphics

1995
Frank Stella: An Illustrated Biography (Rizzoli, New York); text by Sidney Guberman

1993
Frank Stella: Engravings, Domes and Deckle Edges (Moby Dick) (Distributed Art Pub Inc., New York); text by Frank Stella

1990
Frank Stella: New Works (Heland Wetterling Gallery, Stockholm); text by Frank Stella

1988
Frank Stella: 1970-1987 (The Museum of Modern Art, New York); edited by William Rubin
Frank Stella: The circuits prints (Walker Art Center, Minneapolis); text by Frank Stella

1986
Frank Stella Paintings, 1958-1965: A Catalogue Raisonne (Workman Pub Co, New York); text by Lawrence Rubin
Working Space: Frank Stella, The Charles Eliot Norton Lectures (Harvard University Press, Cambridge); text by Frank Stella

1984
Frank Stella: The Swan Engravings (Fort Worth Art Museum, Fort Worth); text by Frank Stella

1983
The Prints of Frank Stella: A Catalogue Raisonne, 1967-1982 (Hudson Hills Press, Manchester); text by Richard H. Axsom
Frank Stella: Fourteen prints with drawings, collages, and working proofs (Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton); text by Judith Goldman

1982
Frank Stella Prints: 1967 - 1982 (University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor); text by Richard H. Axsom

1978
Frank Stella (Modern Museum of Art, New York); text by William S. Rubin

1976
Frank Stella: The Black Paintings (Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore); text by Brenda Richardson, Tom Freudenheim

1970
Frank Stella (The Museum of Modern Art, New York); text by William Rubin
Frank Stella: A Retrospective Exhibition - Hayward Gallery, London, 25 July to 31 August, 1970 (Arts Council of Great Britain, Manchester); text by Frank Stella
Frank Stella (New Art) (Penguin Books Ltd., New York); text by Robert Rosenblum

1965
Three American Painters (Fogg Art Museum, New York); text by Michael Fried
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