Richard Serra Sculpture: forty years

Richard Serra was born in San Francisco, California, in 1939. After attending the University of California at Berkeley, Serra earned a B.A. in English literature from the University of California at Santa Barbara. Serra went to on study painting at the Yale University’s School of Art and Architecture where he earned both a B.F.A. and a M.F.A.; while at Yale, Serra worked with Josef Albers on his seminal book The Interaction of Color (1963). Upon graduating, Serra received a Yale Traveling Fellowship and Fullbright, allowing him to spend a year in both Paris and Florence. Upon returning to New York in 1966, Serra began to experiment in rubber, neon, and lead and had his first one-man exhibiton in the United States at the Leo Castelli Warehouse, in 1969. Since then he has exhibited both his sculptures and works on paper around the world, in addition to installing numerous landscape and site-specific sculptures throughout North America and Europe. Serra has had retrospectives at the Centre Georges Pompidou, Museé national d’art moderne, Paris (1983-84) and at The Museum of Modern Art (1986). Fonte(s) MoMA| The Museum of Modern Art. Richard Serra Sculpture: forty years. Nova York, 2007.