RICHARD SERRA

Jumpstart, 1995
Etching printed in black on Mexican paper
33 3/4 x 44 in. / 88.3 x 111.9 cm
Edition of 65

Richard Serra (born November 2, 1939) is an American minimalist sculptor and video artist known for working with large scale assemblies of sheet metal. Serra was involved in the Process Art Movement.

1939 Born: San Francisco, CA

1957 - 1961 B.A. University of California in Berkeley. Santa Barbara, CA

1964 M.A. Yale University, New Haven, CT

1964 - 1966 Fulbright Scholarship (travelled to Paris and Italy)

1975 Skowhegan Sculpture Prize

1994 Elected Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

1994 Praemium Imperiale, Japan Art Association; D.F.A. CA College of Art and Crafts
Selected Exhibitions
2007 Sculpture: 40 Years, Museum of Modern Art, NY

1999 Richard Serra: New Etchings: Torqued Ellipses and Rounds, Gemini G.E.L. Los Angeles, CA

1998 Richard Serra: Rounds, Eleven New Drawings, Galerie m Bochum, Germany

1998 Richard Serra: Weight and Measure Drawings, Gagosian Gallery New York, NY

1998 Richard Serra, The Geffen Contemporary at the Mus. of Contem. Art Los Angeles, CA

1997 Leone and Macdonald/Richard Serra, , Rena Bersten Gallery San Francisco, CA

1996 "Weight and Measure" Etchings and Ike and Tina: a Drawing Installation, Matthew Marks Gallery New York, NY

1996 Richard Serra Drawings, Galerie Nieves Fernandez Madrid, Spain

1996 Richard Serra: Weight and Measure Etchings, John Berggruen Gallery San Francisco, CA

1996 Richard Serra: Prints, International Biennial of Easel Graphik Kaliningrad-Konigsberg, Russia

1996 Richard Serra: Thirteen Intaglio Prints, Gemini G.E.L. Los Angeles, CA

1995 Richard Serra: To Whom it May Concern, Matthew Marks Gallery New York, NY

1995 From Bauhaus to Pop: Masterworks Given by Philip Johnson, The Museum of Modern Art New York, NY

1995 L'Informe; Mode d'Emploi, Centre Georges Pompidou Paris, France

1995 Abstraction in the Twentieth Century: Total Risk, Freedom, Discipline, Soloman R. Guggenheim Museum New York, NY

1994 Beyond Boundaries - Art of the 60s and 70s, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art San Francisco, CA

1994 Sculpture's Maquettes, Pace Wildenstein New York, NY

1994 After and Before, The Renaissance Society at the Univ. of Chicago Chicago, IL

1994 The Tradition of the New: Postwar Masterpieces from the Guggenheim Collection, Soloman R. Guggenheim Museum New York, NY

1993 The Tradition of Geometric Abstraction in American Art 1930-1990, The Whitney Museum of American Art New York, NY

1991 Johns, Kelly, Lichtenstein, Serra: Works Loaned by the Artists in honor of Neill Rudenstein, Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University Cambridge, MA

1991 Richard Serra: The Afangar Icelandic Series, The Museum of Modern Art New York, NY

1991 Richard Serra: Sculpture and Drawings, Gagosian Gallery New York, NY

1991 Richard Serra: Skulptur, Malmö Konsthall Malmö, Sweden

1990 Richard Serra:Tekeningen/Drawings, Bonnefantenmuseum Maastrict, Netherlands

1990 Richard Serra: The Hours of the Day, Kunsthaus Zurich

1990 Image World: Art and Media Culture, The Whitney Museum of American Art New York, NY

1989 The Linear Image: American Master Work on Paper, Marisa del Re Gallery New York, NY

1988 Richard Serra; Graphik, Galerie Cora Hölzl Dusseldorf

1988 Richard Serra: Gravures Récentes, Galerie Lelong Paris

1987 Richard Serra: New Editions, Pace Primitive/Prints New York, NY

1987 Richard Serra: Sculpture, Leo Castelli Gallery and Pace Gallery New York, NY

1985 Black: Jasper Johns, Frank Stella, Richard Serra, Akira Ikeda Gallery Tokyo, Japan

1984 Richard Serra: Room Installation and Drawings from "Clara-Clara", Leo Castelli Gallery New York, NY

1984 Richard Serra: Sculpture, Galerie Daniel Templon Paris

1983 Gemini G.E.L., Art and Collaboration, National Gallery of Art Washington, D.C.

1982 A Century of Modern Drawing (org. under the Int'l. Council of MOMA, NY), The British Museum London

1981 Richard Serra: Recent Drawings, Blum Helman Gallery New York, NY

1980 91e Salon des Artistes Independants, Grand Palais Paris

1980 Richard Serra: Elevator 1980, The Hudson River Museum Yonkers, NY

1974 Art as Language (org. under the Int'l. Council of MOMA, NY), Museo de Arte Moderna Bogota (traveled)

1973 Opinions and Alternatives: Some Directions in Recent Art, Yale University Art Gallery New Haven, CT

1971 Sixth Guggenheim International, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum New York, NY

1968 Primary Structure, Minimal pop Art, Anti-Form, Galerie Ricke Kassel, Germany

1966 From Arp to Arschwager 1, Noah Goldowsky Gallery New York, NY