Frank Stella (1936–2024) lived and worked in New York. Solo exhibitions include MOCA Jacksonville (2023), Museum Wiesbaden (2022), Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT (2020), Princeton University Art Museum (2018), NSU Art Museum, Fort Lauderdale, FL (2017–18), The de Young Museum, San Francisco (2016), Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2015), POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews, Warsaw (2016), Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg (2012), Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (2007), Haus der Kunst, Munich (1996), Museum of Modern Art, New York (1988, 1970), Kunsthalle Bielefeld (1977), Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (1970) and Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York (1965). In 2009, Stella received the National Medal of Arts from President Barack Obama, and other recent awards include Lifetime of Artistic Excellence Award from The Black Alumni of Pratt, New York (2019), 2017 Watch Award from World Monuments Fund, New York (2017), NY Award for Distinguished Contributions to the Arts in Canada from the Council for Canadian American Relations, New York, and the National Artist Award from The Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Aspen (2015).
2019 |
Lifetime of Artistic Excellence Award, Black Alumni of Pratt |
2015 |
National Artist Award, The Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Aspen, CO |
2010 |
National Medal of Arts from President Barack Obama, Washington, DC |
2001 |
Gold Medal of the National Arts Club, New York |
1998 |
Gold Medal of the National Arts Club, New York |
1992 |
Barnard Medal of Distinction, New York |
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 |
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Honorary Degree, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH |
1984 |
Honorary Doctor of Arts, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ |
1983 |
Appointed Charles Eliot Norton Professor of Poetry, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA |
1981 |
New York City Mayor’s Award for Arts and Culture |
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Medal for Painting, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME |
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Honorary Fellowship, Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem |
1979 |
Awarded the Claude M. Fuess Distinguished Service Award, Phillips Academy, Andover, MA |
1967 |
First Prize, International Biennial Exhibition of Paintings, Tokyo |
Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, MA |
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY |
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney |
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto |
Art Institute of Chicago |
Baltimore Museum |
Brooklyn Museum |
Brown University, List Art Center, Providence, RI |
Cleveland Museum of Art |
Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX |
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC |
Dallas Museum of Art |
Denver Art Museum |
Detroit Institute of Arts |
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco |
Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, MA |
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York |
High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA |
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC |
Indianapolis Museum of Art |
Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA |
Kawamura Memorial Museum of Art, Sakura |
Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO |
Kitakyushu Municipal Museum |
Kunstmuseum, Basel |
Los Angeles County Museum of Art |
Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk |
Minneapolis Institute of Arts |
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth |
Moderna Museet, Stockholm |
Musée National d’Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris |
Museum Bochum |
Museum Boymans von Beuningen, Rotterdam |
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago |
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles |
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston |
Museum Folkwang, Essen |
Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas, TX |
National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC |
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra |
National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC |
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO |
Philadelphia Art Museum |
Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, NJ |
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art |
Seattle Art Museum |
Staatliche Museen zu Berlin |
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam |
Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven |
Tate, London |
The Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo |
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston |
The Museum of Modern Art, New York |
The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC |
The Saint Louis Art Museum |
University of Michigan Art Museum, East Lansing, MI |
Vancouver Art Museum |
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA |
Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, CT |
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN |
Wallraf-Richartz Museum, Cologne |
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York |
Yale University Art Gallery New Haven, CT |