Richard Serra

Born in San Francisco, California, in 1939, Richard Serra is one of the most significant artists of the 21st century. He has exhibited widely at major museums and created site-specific sculptures in both public and private settings around the world. Serra's work has been the subject of two retrospectives at MoMA in New York, the first in 1986 and the second in 2007. Other major exhibitions include the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Spain (1999); American Academy in Rome, Italy (2000); Saint Louis Art Museum, Missouri (2003, 2014); Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Italy (2004); “Richard Serra Drawings,” Kunsthaus Bregenz (2008); “Promenade,” Monumenta, Grand Palais, Paris (2008); "Richard Serra Drawing: A Retrospective," Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (2011, traveled to the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, California; and The Menil was installed as part of the inaugural exhibition at the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao. Este-Oeste / West-East (2014) was permanently installed in the desert of the Brouq Nature Reserve in western Qatar in 2014. Serra participated in DOCUMENTA in 1972, 1977, 1982, and 1987, and in the Biennale di Venezia in 1980, 1984, 2001, and 2013. Serra lives and works in New York City and Nova Scotia, Canada.