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Richard Serra
Richard Serra was an American artist known for his large-scale abstract sculptures made for site-specific landscape, urban, and architectural settings, and whose work has been primarily associated with postminimalism. Described as "one of his era's greatest sculptors", Serra became notable for emphasizing the material qualities of his works and exploration of the relationship between the viewer, t…
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culture · American sculptor (1938–2024) · sculptor · painter · draftsperson · television producer · video artist · visual artist · artist · also Richard Serra, Serra
Born 2 November 1938 · Died 26 March 2024 · Q321245
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2026· 1 entry
2024· 2 entries
Died 2024-03-26.
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Richard Serra died from pneumonia at his home in Orient, New York, on March 26, 2024, at the age of 85.
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2019· 1 entry
Serra donated his entire film and video works to the Museum of Modern Art in Manhattan, New York
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2013· 1 entry
Shift was designated a Heritage Site under the Ontario Heritage Act
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2010· 1 entry
Awarded Princess of Asturias Award for the Arts (2010).
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2008· 1 entry
Serra participated in Monumenta, an annual exhibition held in Paris's Grand Palais featuring a single artist
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2005· 1 entry
"The Matter of Time", a commissioned installation, opened at the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao in Spain
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1994· 1 entry
Awarded Praemium Imperiale (1994).
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1991· 2 entries
Awarded Wilhelm Lehmbruck Award (1991).
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Serra visited Borromini's Church of San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane in Rome and mistook the ovals of the dome and the floor to be offset from one another
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1988· 1 entry
Serra was invited by the National Gallery of Iceland to build a work
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1981· 3 entries
Awarded Goslarer Kaiserring (1981).
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A second site-specific curved sculpture Tilted Arc (1981) was installed in New York City's Federal Plaza
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Serra produced his first lithograph series comprising seven editions, titled: Sketch #1 through Sketch #7
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1980· 1 entry
Serra installed two sculptures, with the support of the Public Art Fund, in New York City
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1977· 1 entry
And traveled to the Kunsthalle Tübingen in 1978
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1974· 2 entries
And measured approximately 10 1⁄2 feet (3
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Serra started to make his Installation Drawings—large-scale site-specific sheets of canvas completely covered in paintstick and stapled to the wall
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1972· 1 entry
Include the prints Circuit; Balance; Eight by Eight; or 183rd & Webster Avenue, each titled after a sculpture created around the same time
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1970· 1 entry
Serra received a Guggenheim Fellowship and traveled to Japan
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1969· 3 entries
Propped four lead plates up on the floor like a house of cards
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His piece Casting was included in the exhibition Anti-Illusion: Procedures/Materials at the Whitney Museum of American Art in
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When he was commissioned by the artist Jasper Johns to make a Splash Piece in Johns's studio
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1968· 1 entry
Serra was included in the group exhibition "Nine at Castelli" at Castelli Warehouse in New York where he showed Prop (1968), Scatter Piece (1968), and made Splashing (1968) by throwing molten lead against the angle of th
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1966· 2 entries
While still in Italy, Serra made a trip to the Prado Museum in Madrid, Spain and saw Diego Velázquez's painting Las Meninas
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Serra worked to radicalize and extend the definition of sculpture beginning with his early experiments with rubber, neon, and lead, to his large-scale steel works
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1964· 3 entries
Befriended composer Philip Glass and explored Constantin Brâncuși's studio, both of which had a strong influence on his work
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Serra was awarded a one-year traveling fellowship from Yale and went to Paris where he met the composer Philip Glass who became a collaborator and long-time friend
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Studied at Yale University, Master of Fine Arts (1964).
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1961· 2 entries
Studied at University of California, Santa Barbara, Bachelor of Arts (1961).
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Where he met influential muralists Rico Lebrun and Howard Warshaw
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1957· 1 entry
Before transferring to the University of California, Santa Barbara and graduating in 1961 with a BA in English Literature
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1938· 2 entries
Born 1938-11-02.
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To Tony and Gladys Serra – the second of three sons
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