Frank Stella

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1936 Born: Malden, MA
1950 - 1954 Studied Painting under Patrick Morgan at Phillips Academy, Andover, MA
1954 - 1958 Studied History & Art History- Princeton University under Stephen Greene & 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
2007 'Frank Stella', Haas & Fuchs, Berlin (solo)
2007 'Modern American Masters', Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, San Diego
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.
2001 ‘Heinrich von Kleist,’ Traveling exhibition, Jena, Hildesheim, Stuttgart, Berlin & Singapore
1999 - 2000 Frank Stella at 2000: Changing the Rules, Museum of Contemporary Art Miami, Florida
1999 - 2000 The American Century: Art & Culture 1900-2000, Whitney Museum of Contemporary Art
1999 Abstraction, Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris
1999 Drawing is Another Kind of Language, Parrish Art Museum, organized by Harvard
Museums, Southampton, NY
1999 Frank Stella: Easel Paintings, Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London
1999 Frank Stella: New Work, Sperone Westwater, New York, NY
1998 Rendez-vous, Solomon R. Guggenheim, New York, NY
1998 Frank Stella: New Paintings, Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London
1998 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