Biographical Information

1939 Born in San Francisco, California
1957–61 B.A., University of California; Berkeley, California
1964 M.A., Yale University; New Haven, Connecticut
1964–66 Received the Fulbright Scholarship and traveled to France and Italy
1975 Received the Skowhegan Sculpture Prize
1994 Elected Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Received the Premium Imperiale, Japan Art Association
2024 Died in Orient, New York

Selected Exhibitions

2010 “Richard Serra, Greenpoint Rounds;” Gagosian Gallery; Roma, Italy
2009 “RICHARD SERRA: Blind Spot/Open Ended;” Gagosian Gallery, New York
“Richard Serra, Fernando Pessoa;” Gagosian Gallery; London, England
2008 “Monumenta;” Grand Palais; Paris, France
“Richard Serra, Drawings;” Gagosian Gallery; London, England
“Richard Serra, Sculpture;” Gagosian Gallery; London, England
2007 “Richard Serra Sculpture: Forty Years;” Museum of Modern Art, New York
1999 “Richard Serra: New Etchings: Torqued Ellipses and Rounds;” Gemini G.E.L.; Los Angeles, California
1998 “Richard Serra: Rounds, Eleven New Drawings;” Galerie M. Bochum, Germany
“Richard Serra: Weight and Measure Drawings;” Gagosian Gallery, New York
“Richard Serra;” The Geffen Contemporary at the Museum of Contemporary Art; Los Angeles, California
1997 “Leone and Macdonald/Richard Serra;” Rena Bersten Gallery; San Francisco, California
1996 “Weight and Measure, Etchings and Ike and Tina: a Drawing Installation;” Matthew Marks Gallery, New York
“Richard Serra Drawings;” Galerie Nieves Fernandez; Madrid, Spain
“Richard Serra: Weight and Measure Etchings;” John Berggruen Gallery; San Francisco, California
“Richard Serra: Prints;” International Biennial of Easel Graphik Kaliningrad-Konigsberg, Russia
“Richard Serra: Thirteen Intaglio Prints;” Gemini G.E.L.; Los Angeles, California
1995 “Richard Serra: To Whom it May Concern,” Matthew Marks Gallery, New York
“Masterworks Given by Philip Johnson,” The Museum of Modern Art, New York
“L’Informe;” Mode d’Emploi;” Centre Georges Pompidou; Paris, France
“Abstraction in the Twentieth Century: Total Risk, Freedom, Discipline,” Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
1994 “Beyond Boundaries—Art of the ‘60s and ‘70s,” San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, California
“Sculpture’s Maquettes,” Pace Wildenstein, New York
“After and Before,” The Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago, Illinois
“The Tradition of the New: Postwar Masterpieces from the Guggenheim Collection,” Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
1993 “The Tradition of Geometric Abstraction in American Art 1930–1990,” The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
1991 “Johns, Kelly, Lichtenstein, Serra: Works Loaned by the Artists in Honor of Neill Rudenstein;” Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University; Cambridge, Massachusetts
“Richard Serra: Skulptur;” Malmö Konsthall; Malmö, Sweden
“Richard Serra: The Afangar Icelandic Series,” The Museum of Modern Art, New York
“Richard Serra: Sculpture and Drawings,” Gagosian Gallery, New York
1990 “Image World: Art and Media Culture,” The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
“Richard Serra: Tekeningen/Drawings;” Bonnefantenmuseum Maastrict; Maastricht, Netherlands
“Richard Serra: The Hours of the Day;” Kunsthaus; Zurich, Switzerland
1989 “The Linear Image: American Master Work on Paper,” Marisa del Re Gallery, New York
1988 “Richard Serra: Graphik;” Galerie Cora Hölzl; Dusseldorf, Germany
“Richard Serra: Gravures Récentes;” Galerie Lelong; Paris, France
1987 “Richard Serra: New Editions,” Pace Primitive/Prints, New York
“Richard Serra: Sculpture,” Leo Castelli Gallery and Pace Gallery, New York
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
“Richard Serra: Sculpture;” Galerie Daniel Templon; Paris, France
1983 “Gemini G.E.L., Art and Collaboration;” National Gallery of Art; Washington, D.C.
1982 “A Century of Modern Drawing;” The British Museum; London, England
1981 “Richard Serra: Recent Drawings;” Blum Helman Gallery, New York
1980 “Richard Serra: Elevator 1980;” The Hudson River Museum; Yonkers, New York
1974 “Art as Language;” organized under the International Council of the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Museo de Arte Moderna; Bogota, Colombia
1973 “Opinions and Alternatives: Some Directions in Recent Art;” Yale University Art Gallery; New Haven, Connecticut
1971 “Sixth Guggenheim International,” The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
1968 “Primary Structure, Minimal Pop Art, Anti-Form;” Galerie Ricke-Kassel; Kassel, Germany
1966 “From Arp to Arschwager 1,” Noah Goldowsky Gallery, New York

Selected Public Collections

Albright-Knox Art Gallery; Buffalo, New York
Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois
Guggenheim Museum; Bilbao, Spain
Guggenheim Museum, New York
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden; Washington, D.C.
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Massachusetts
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Texas
Museum of Modern Art, New York
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, California
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York