Frank Stella


1936 Born Malden, MA
1950 - 1954 Studied Painting under Patrick Morgan at Phillips Academy,Andover, MA
1954 - 1958 Studied History and Art History at Princeton University under Stephen Greene and William Seitz
1967 First Prize, International Biennial Exhibition of Paintings, Tokyo
1981 New York City Mayor¡¯s Award for Arts and Culture
1981 Medal for painting at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan
1981 Honorary Fellowship from Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem 1984 Honorary Doctor of Arts, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ
1985 Award of American Art from the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts
1985 Honorary Degree from Dartmouth College
1986 Honorary Degree Brandeis University
1989 Ordre des Arts et des Lettres from the French government
2001 Gold Medal of the National Arts Club in New York


Selected Exhibitions

2006
Frank Stella: Collages and Related Sculpture from the von Kleist Series, Jacobson Howard Gallery in Conjunction with Danese Gallery

2001
'Prince of Homburg,' Installation on the lawn of the National Gallery, Washington D.C.
'Heinrich von Kleist,' Traveling exhibition, Jena, Hildesheim, Stuttgart, Berlin and Singapore

1999 - 2000
Frank Stella at 2000: Changing the Rules, Museum of Contemporary Art Miami, Florida
The American Century: Art & Culture 1900-2000, Whitney Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY

1999
Abstraction, Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris
Drawing is Another Kind of Language, Parrish Art Museum, organized by Harvard Museums, Southampton, NY
Frank Stella: Easel Paintings, Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London
Frank Stella: New Work, Sperone Westwater, New York, NY

1998
Rendez-vous, Solomon R. Guggenheim, New York, NY
Frank Stella: New Paintings, Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London
Frank Stella: Smoke Rings, Knoedler & Company, New York, NY

1987
Retrospective, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY

1970
Retrospective, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY