Frank Stella, photo Kristine Larsen.
Born in Malden, Massachusetts, 1936, Stella studied art history and painting at the Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts, and later graduated from Princeton University with a BA in history. Early in his career he was included in landmark New York shows that defined post-war art such as Sixteen Americans at Museum of Modern Art (1959) and The Shaped Canvas at Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (1964-65). Stella has been honoured with numerous retrospectives - most recently at the Whitney Museum, New York (2016) and is the only living artist to have had two at the Museum of Modern Art (1970 and 1987). His work is found in the collections of eminent museums throughout the world. Stella has lived and worked in New York for the past 40 years.