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Richard Serra

(American, 1938–2024)

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Richard Serra

Paths and Edges #9, 2007

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Richard Serra

Paths and Edges #10, 2007

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Richard Serra

Paths and Edges #13, 2007

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Richard Serra

Horizontal Reversal II, 2017

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Richard Serra

Horizontal Reversal III, 2017

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Richard Serra

Horizontal Reversal IX, 2017

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Richard Serra

Horizontal Reversal X, 2017

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Richard Serra

Elevational Weight I, 2016

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Richard Serra

Elevational Weight II, 2016

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Richard Serra

Elevational Weight III, 2016

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Richard Serra

Elevational Weight IV, 2016

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Richard Serra

Elevational Weight V, 2016

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Biography

Timeline

1939
Born in San Francisco, CA
1957 - 1961
BA, University of California, Berkeley, CA
1962
BFA, Yale University, New Haven, CT
1964 - 1966
Received Fulbright Scholarship and traveled to France and Italy
1964
MA, Yale University, New Haven, CT
1975
Received the Skowhegan Sculpture Prize
1994
Elected Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Received the Premium Imperiale, Japan Art Association
Lives and works in New York, NY, and Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia

Exhibitions

2019
Richard Serra Selected Exhibitions in 2019:
Negative Space. Trajectories of Sculpture, ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe, Germany
2018
Richard Serra Selected Exhibitions in 2018:
Richard Serra: Rifts, Gagosian Gallery (Grosvenor Hill), London (solo exhibition)
Richard Serra: Black and White, Alan Cristea Gallery, London (solo exhibition)
Richard Serra Drawings, David Zwirner, Hong Kong (solo exhibition)
Studio Visit: Selected Gifts from Agnes Gund, The Museum of Modern Art
Second Sight: The Paradox of Vision in Contemporary Art, Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Maine
Minimalism: Space. Light. Object., National Gallery of Singapore
2017 - 2019
Richard Serra Selected Exhibitions in 2017-2019:
The Long Run, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
2017
Richard Serra Selected Exhibitions in 2017:
Richard Serra: Sculpture and Drawings, David Zwirner, New York (solo exhibition)
Richard Serra: Drawings 2015-2017, Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam, The Netherlands (solo exhibition)
Richard Serra: Films and Videotapes, Kunstmuseum Basel (solo exhibition)
Richard Serra: Props, Films, Early Works, Museum Wiesbaden, Germany (solo exhibition)
Richard Serra – Drawings, Peder Lund, Oslo (solo exhibition)
Richard Serra: Prints, Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas (solo exhibition)
A Tale of Two Worlds: Experimental Latin American Art in Dialogue with the MMK Collection, 1944-1989, MMK Museum of Modern Art, Frankfurt [itinerary: Museo de Art Moderno de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires]
Never Ending Stories: The Loop in Art, Film, Architecture, Music, Literature and Cultural History, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Gemany
Minimalism & Beyond, Mnuchin Gallery, New York
Deadeye Dick: Richard Bellamy and His Circle, Peter Freeman, New York
Vom Raum an die Wand: Bildhauergrafik/Of the Space on the Wall: Sculptural Graphics, Kunstmuseum Vogelmann, Heilbronn, Germany
The Horizontal, Cheim & Read, New York
Restless gestures. Works from the Hubert Looser Collection, Nasjonalmuseet for kunst, arkitektur og design, Oslo
Beyeler Collection/Remix. With Works by Andy Warhol from the Daros Collection, Fondation Beyeler, Basel
Converation Piece, Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Rome
Minimal Art from the Marzona Collection, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac - Ely House, London
Beauty is a rare thing: Art in balance from Buchheister to Serra, Museum Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf
A different way to move. Minimalismes, New York, 1960-1980, Carré d’Art - musée d’art contemporain, Nîmes, France
The Great Graphic Boom, Nasjonalmuseet for kunst, arkitektur og design, Oslo [itinerary: Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Germany]
Primary Structures. Masterworks of Minimal Art, Museum für Moderne Kunst (MMK), Frankfurt, Germany
2016
Richard Serra Selected Exhibitions in 2016:
Richard Serra: Reversal, Galerie Lelong, Paris (solo exhibition)
Richard Serra: NJ-2, Rounds: Equal Weight, Unequal Measure, Rotate, Gagosian Gallery (Britannia Street), London (solo exhibition)
Richard Serra: Drawings, Gagosian Gallery (Davies Street), London (solo exhibition)
Richard Serra: NJ-1, Gagosian Gallery (21st Street), New York (solo exhibition)
Richard Serra: Above Below Betwixt Between, Every Which Way, Silence (For John Cage), Through), Gagosian Gallery (24th Street), New York (solo exhibition)
Richard Serra: Prints, The Fralin Museum of Art, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia (solo exhibition)
Richard Serra: Ramble Drawings, Gagosian Gallery, Paris (solo exhibition)
Primary structures and speculative forms, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Die Akademie der Künste, Berlin. Zu Gast in den Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz, Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz, Chemnitz, Germany
Melodrama, Luxembourg & Dayan, New York
Embracing the Contemporary: The Keith L. and Katherine Sachs Collection, Philadelphia Museum of Art
FORTY, MoMA PS1, New York
2000 Years of Art, Design, and Collectibiels: Boys' Toys & Girls' Pearls, Galerie Bob van Orsouw, Zurich
Plane.site, Gagosian Gallery, San Francisco
Approaching American Abstraction: The Fisher Collection, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco
Rodin – Giacometti | Pollock – Twombly | Rothko – Serra…The Looser Collection at the Museum Folkwang. Dialogues, Museum Folkwang, Essen
Sculpture on the Move 1946-2016, Kunstmuseum Basel
Memory and Continuity: A Selection from the Huma Kabakcı Collection, Pera Museum, Istanbul
A Material Legacy: The Nancy A. Nasher and David J. Haemisegger Collection of Contemporary Art, Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham, North Carolina
The Serial Impulse at Gemini G.E.L., Los Angeles County Museum of Art
[sic]: oeuvres de la Collection du CAPC/works from the CAPC Collection, Centre d’arts plastiques contemporains (CAPC) Musée d’art contemporain de Bordeaux, France
The Sonnabend Collection: Meio Século De Arte Europeia E Americana. Part 1, Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Serralves, Porto, Portugal (February 6-May 8, 2016) Material Considerations, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco
Electronic Superhighway (2016 – 1966), Whitechapel Art Gallery, London
Dansaekhwa And Minimalism, Blum & Poe, Los Angeles (January 16-March 12, 2016) [itinerary: Blum & Poe, New York
From Minimalism Into Algorithm, The Kitchen, New York
From the Collection: 1960-1969, Museum of Modern Art, New York
Three Centuries of American Prints from The National Gallery of Art, The National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. [itiernary: Národní galerie v Praze, Prague; Antiguo Colegio de San Ildefonso, Mexico City; Dallas Museum of Art]
2015
Richard Serra Selected Exhibitions in 2015:
Richard Serra: Ramble Drawings, Gagosian Gallery (Madison Avenue), New York (solo exhibition)
Richard Serra: Equal, David Zwirner (20th Street), New York (solo exhibition)
Narrativas monumentales. Figuras, paisajes y rituals, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Gas Natural Fenosa (MAC), A Coruña, Spain
Maison Fragiles, Hauser & Wirth, London
Realm of the Absolute: Prints by Robert Ryman and Richard Serra, Senior & Shopmaker Gallery, New York
Black Sun, Fondation Beyeler, Riehen, Switzerland
The Art of Our Time. Masterpieces from the Guggenheim Collections, Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Spain
Alfredo Jaar: Nous l’avons tant aimée la revolution/We loved it so much, the revolution, Musée d’Art Contemporain (MAC), Marseille, France
Zero to one on paper, Ratio 3, San Francisco
America is Hard to See, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Glenn Ligon: Encounters and Collisions, Nottingham Contemporary, England [itinerary: Tate Liverpool, England]
Private View, Städtische Galerie Villingen-Schwenningen, Villingen-Schwenningen, Germany
Fresh Prints: The Nineties to Now, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio
From The Archives: Art And Technology At LACMA, 1967-1971, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles
Poor Art – Rich Legacy. Arte Povera and parallel practices 1968-2015, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Oslo, Norway
(Re)-Discovered. Werke aus der Sammlung des Mönchehaus Museums, Mönchehaus Museum Goslar, Germany
Abstracción. De Jean Arp a Richard Serra, Galerìa Guillermo de Osma, Madrid, Spain
Nice to See You! 160 Works from the Collection, Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Vaduz, Liechtenstein
Geometries On and Off the Grid: Art from 1950 to the Present, The Warehouse, Dallas
Chromophobia, Gagosian Gallery, Geneva, Switzerland
2014
Richard Serra Selected Exhibitions in 2014:
Richard Serra: Vertical and Horizontal Reversals, David Zwirner (20th Street), New York (solo exhibition)
Richard Serra: Backdoor Pipeline, Ramble, Dead Loan, London Cross, Gagosian Gallery (Britannia Street), London (solo exhibition)
Richard Serra: Drawing, Gagosian Gallery (Davies Street), London (solo exhibition)
Richard Serra: desenhos na casa da Gávea, Instituto Moreira Salles, Rio de Janeiro (solo exhibition)
Richard Serra Retrospective, QMA Gallery, Katara and Al Riwaq, Doha
Sight Lines: Richard Serra’s Drawings for Twain, Saint Louis Art Museum, Missouri (solo exhibition)
One Way: Peter Marino, Bass Museum of Art, Miami, Florida
Standing in the Shadows of Love: The Aldrich Collection 1964–1974, Part 2, Richard Artschwager, Eva Hesse, Ellsworth Kelly, Agnes Martin, Richard Serra, The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, Connecticut
Sufficient Force: Minimal art, conceptual art and land art. The adventurous spirit of the American avant-garde art of the nineteen sixties, Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterloo, The Netherlands
The Whole Earth - Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin
Now Here is also Nowhere: Part II - Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA
Vibrations - Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA

Public Collections

The National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas, Texas
Museum Voorlinden, Wassenaar, The Netherlands
Museum Moderner Kunst Stifung Ludwig Wien, Vienna
Museum Ludwig, Cologne
Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts
The Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, La Jolla, California
The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois
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