Ceysson & Bénétière

Born in 1936, Malden, USA.
Dead in 2024, in New York, USA.

   Presentation

Born in 1936 in Malden, Massachusetts, Frank Stella now lives in New York. A painter considered the precursor of Minimalism, he is one of the main exponents of Op Art and the shaped canvas. After studying art at Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts, and history at Princeton University, he was influenced by the abstract expressionism of Pollock and Kline. Only later did he renounce the expressive use of paint and reject the lyricism of this movement. He worked on oppositions between shapes and colors, and was the inventor of “cut-out canvases”. This led him to break the boundaries of classical geometry, and his paintings evolved into veritable sculptures from the 1980s onwards.

   Education

   Awards

   Public collections

Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, USA

Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT,  USA

The Museum of Fine Arts Houston, TX, USA

The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, USA

National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, USA

National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, USA

Philadelphia Art Museum, Philadelphie, PA, USA

The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC, USA

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA, USA

Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA, USA

The Tate, Londres, England

Vancouver Art Museum, Vancouver, BC, Canada

Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN, USA

Kawamura Memorial Museum of Art, Sakura, Japan

Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO, USA

Kunstmuseum, Bâle, Switzerland

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY, USA

Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, TX, USA

Musée National d’Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France

Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL, USA

Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA,  USA

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA, USA

Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas,  TX, USA

Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO, USA

Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA

Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, MA, USA

Folkwang Museum, Essen, Germany

Solomon R.Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY, USA

The Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan

High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA, USA

Phillips Academy, Andover, MA, USA

Baltimore Museum, Baltimore, MD, USA

Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY, United States

Brooklyn Museum, New York, NY, USA

Cleveland Art Museum, OH,  Cleveland, USA

Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX, USA

Frank Stella was born in 1936 in Malden, Massachusetts. After attending high school at Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts, he went on to Princeton University, where he painted and majored in history. Early visits to New York art galleries would prove to be an influence upon his artistic development. Stella moved to New York in 1958 after his graduation.

Stella’s art was recognized for its innovations before he was twenty-five. In 1959, several of his paintings were included in Three Young Americans at the Allen Memorial Art Museum at Oberlin College, as well as in Sixteen Americans at the Museum of Modern Art in New York (1959–60). Stella joined dealer Leo Castelli’s stable of artists in 1959. In his early series, including the Black Paintings (1958–60), Aluminum Paintings (1960), and Copper Paintings (1960–61), Stella cast aside illusionistic space for the physicality of the flat surface and deviated from the traditional rectangular-shaped canvas.

Stella married Barbara Rose, later a well-known art critic, in 1961.

Stella’s Irregular Polygon canvases (1965–67) and Protractor series (1967–71) further extended the concept of the shaped canvas. Stella began his extended engagement with printmaking in the mid-1960s, working first with master printer Kenneth Tyler at Gemini G.E.L. In 1967, Stella designed the set and costumes for Scramble, a dance piece by Merce Cunningham. The Museum of Modern Art in New York presented a retrospective of Stella’s work in 1970. During the following decade, Stella introduced relief into his art, which he came to call “maximalist” painting for its sculptural qualities. Ironically, the paintings that had brought him fame before 1960 had eliminated all such depth. After introducing wood and other materials in the Polish Village series (1970–73), created in high relief, he began to use aluminum as the primary support for his paintings. As the 1970s and 1980s progressed, these became more elaborate and exuberant. Indeed, his earlier Minimalism became baroque, marked by curving forms, DayGlo colors, and scrawled brushstrokes. Similarly, his prints of these decades combined various printmaking and drawing techniques.

In 1973, he had a print studio installed in his New York house.

 From the mid-1980s to the mid-1990s, Stella created a large body of work that responded in a general way to Herman Melville’s Moby Dick. During this time, the increasingly deep relief of Stella’s paintings gave way to full three-dimensionality, with sculptural forms derived from cones, pillars, French curves, waves, and decorative architectural elements. To create these works, the artist used collages or maquettes that were then enlarged and re-created with the aid of assistants, industrial metal cutters, and digital technologies.

In the 1990s, Stella began making freestanding sculpture for public spaces and developing architectural projects. In 1992–93, for example, he created the entire decorative scheme for Toronto’s Princess of Wales Theatre, which includes a 10,000-square-foot mural. His 1993 proposal for a kunsthalle (arts center) and garden in Dresden did not come to fruition. His aluminum bandshell, inspired by a folding hat from Brazil, was built in downtown Miami in 1999. 

In 2001, a monumental Stella sculpture was installed outside the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.

 Stella’s work was included in several important exhibitions that defined 1960s art, among them the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum’s The Shaped Canvas (1964–65) and Systemic Painting (1966). His art has been the subject of several retrospectives in the United States, Europe, and Japan. Among the many honors he has received was an invitation from Harvard University to give the Charles Eliot Norton lectures in 1983–84. Calling for a rejuvenation of abstraction by achieving the depth of baroque painting, these six talks were published by Harvard University Press in 1986.

The artist continues to live and work in New York.

Solo shows at Ceysson Gallery
Frank Stella, Panéry, Pouzilhac
July 05 - September 28, 2024

Frank Stella, Paris
May 11 - June 24, 2023

Frank Stella, Wandhaff
March 05 - May 07, 2022

Frank Stella, Lyon
October 14 - November 20, 2021


Group shows at Ceysson Gallery
“The lines of life are various, like roads and the contours of the mountains…”, Wandhaff
September 10 - October 29, 2016

Sculptures, Matters, Materials, Textures..., Offsite
September 10 - October 16, 2016

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Solo shows (selection)

2019
Frank Stella : Recent Work, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, USA

2018
Frank Stella – Abstract Narration, Galerie der Stadt Tuttlingen, Tuttlinfgen, Allemagne
Frank Stella : Recent Work, Sprüth Magers, Los Angeles, USA
Frank Stella Unbound : Literature and Pintmaking, Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, USA

2017
Frank Stella : Works from three decades, Galerie Hans Strelow, Dusseldorf, Allemagne
Frank Stella, Charles Riva Collection, Bruxelles, Belgique
Frank Stella, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, USA
Frank Stella Prints : A Retrospective, Addison Gallery of American, Andover, USA
Line/Edges : Frank Stella On Paper, Pizzuti Collection, Columbus, USA

2016
Frank Stella: A Retrospective, Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Madison; travelling show: Addison Gallery of American Art, Philips Academy, Andover; Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Springs, USA
Frank Stella and the Synagogues of Old Poland, POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews, Warsaw, Poland
Frank Stella, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, USA

2015
Frank Stella: Retrospective, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA ; travelling show: Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth; de Young Museum, San Francisco, USA
Frank Stella Paintings & Drawings, Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Basel, Switzerland
Frank Stella: Shape as Form, Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York, USA
Frank Stella: Recent Works, Leeahn Gallery, Seoul, South-Korea
Inflated Star and Wood Star, Annenberg Courtyard, Royal Academy, London, United-Kingdom; travelling show: Artzuid, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Frank Stella, Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London, United-Kingdom

2014
Frank Stella: Big Works in Progress, More Gallery, Giswil Frank Stella Sculpture, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, USA

2013
Frank Stella, Wetterling Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden

2012
Frank Stella: The Retrospective. Works 1958-2012, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg,
Wolfsburg, Germany
Frank Stella: New Work, Freedman Art, New York, USA
Frank Stella: Black, Aluminum, Copper, L & M Arts, New York, USA
Frank Stella: Recent Work, Galerie der Stadt Tuttlingen, Tuttlingen; travelling show: Friedrich-Schiller-Universitat Jena, Jena, Germany
Frank Stella: Connections, Haunch of Venison, London, United-Kingdom
Frank Stella Geometric Variations, Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York, USA
Stella & Calatrava, Neue Nationalagalerie, Berlin, Germany; travelling show: Museo Pablo Serano, Zaragoza, Spain
Stella Sounds: The Scarlatti K Series, The Phillips Collection, Washington, USA

2010
Frank Stella: Irregular Polygons, 1965-66, Hood Museum of Art - Dartmouth College, Hanover; travelling show: Toledo Museum of Art, Toldeo, Spain

2009
Frank Stella: Polychrome Relief, Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York, USA
Moby Dick: Frank Stella and Herman Melville, Grand Rapids Art Museum,
Grand Rapids, USA

2008
Frank Stella: Work on Canvas from the 60s, Van de Weghe Fine Art, New
York, USA
Frank Stella: K Series, Jacobson Howard Gallery, New York, USA Frank Stella, Wetterling Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden

2007
Frank Stella: Five Decades of Painting & Sculpture, Gary Nader Fine Art, Miami, USA
Frank Stella: Paintings 1958 - 1965, Peter Freeman Inc., New York, USA
Frank Stella, Galerie Haas & Fuchs, Berlin, Germany
Frank Stella: Recent Works, Galerie Terminus, Munich, Germany
Frank Stella, Gallery Ficher Roher, Basel, Switzerland
Frank Stella on the Roof, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA
Frank Stella: Painting into Architecture, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA
Frank Stella: New Work, Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York, USA
Frank Stella, Samuelis Baumgarte Galerie, Bielefeld, Germany

2006
Frank Stella 1958, Harvard University Art Museums, Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge; travelling show: Menil Collection, Houston, USA; The Ohio State University, Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, USA
Frank Stella: Black Paintings, Hausderkunst, Germany
Frank Stella, Gallery Thomas, Munich, Germany
Frank Stella: Major Works from the von Kleist Series, Danese Gallery, New York, USA
Frank Stella: Collages and Related Sculpture from the von Kleist Series, Jacobson Howard Gallery, New York, USA

2005
Frank Stella, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, USA
Frank Stella, Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York, USA
Frank Stella's Moby Dick Series Prints, National Museum of Fine Arts, Santiago, Chile
Frank Stella, Waddington Galleries, London, United-Kingdom
Frank Stella's Moby Dick Series Prints, The Museum of Latin American Art in Buenos Aires, Collection Constantini, Buenos Aires, Argentina

2004
Frank Stella - A Breakthrough in Abstraction - Exotic Birds, Gagosian Gallery, New York, USA
Frank Stella, Moby Dick and Imaginary Places, Galerie Jamileh Weber, Zurich, Switzerland
What You See Is What You See: Frank Stella and the Anderson Collection at SFMOMA, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, USA
Frank Stella, Galerie Terminus, Munich, Germany
Frank Stella: New Works, McClain Gallery, Houston, USA

2003
The Nagoya City Art Museum, Nagoya, Japan
Frank Stella, Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London, United-Kingdom
Frank Stella: Recent Work, Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York, USA
Frank Stella, IWATE Museum of Art, Morioka City, USA

2002
Frank Stella "Hacilar 1999-2001," Greenberg Van Doren Gallery, New York, USA

2001
Heinrich von Kleist by Frank Stella, JENOPTIK Gallery, Jena; travelling show: Roemer-und Pelizaeus-Museum, Hildesheim; Württembergischer, Germany
Kunstverein Stuttgart, Germany, Stuttgart, Germany; Galerie Akira Ikeda, Berlin, Germany; Singapore Tyler Print Institute Limited, Singapore
Frank Stella, Galerie Hans Strelow, Duesseldorf, Germany
Frank Stella: Recent Work, Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York, USA
Frank Stella, Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University, Stanford, United-Kingdom

2000
Frank Stella, Waddington Galleries, London, United-Kingdom
Frank Stella: Recent Paintings and Sculpture, Richard Gray Gallery, Chicago, USA
Frank Stella: Recent Works, Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, USA
Frank Stella. Love Letters and Correspondence, Barbara Mathes Gallery, New York, USA

1999
Frank Stella at two thousand. Changing the Rules, Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami, Miami, USA
Frank Stella: Easel Paintings, Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London, United-Kingdom
Frank Stella: New York, Sperone Westwater, New York, USA

1998
Frank Stella: New Paintings, Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London, United-Kingdom
Frank Stella and Kenneth Tyler - A Unique 30-Year Collaboration, Kawamura Memorial Museum of Art, Chiba, Japan
Frank Stella at Tyler Graphics, Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, United-Kingdom

1997
Stella in Studio: The Public Art of Frank Stella, 1982 - 1997, University of Houston, Blaffer Gallery, Houston, USA
Frank Stella: New Sculpture, Gagosian Gallery, New York, USA
Frank Stella, City Museum of Art, Kagoshima, Japan
Frank Stella: Juam. Juam, State I from Imaginary Places, Tyler Graphics,
Mount Kisco, USA

1996
Frank Stella, Akira Ikeda Gallery, Nagoya, Japan
Frank Stella, Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany
Frank Stella. New Sculpture, Hudson River Valley Series, JENOPTIK AG, Jena, Germany
Frank Stella: Imaginary Places II, Project Notes, Tyler Graphics, Mount Kisco, USA

1995
Frank Stella, L'Usine, Dijon, France
Frank Stella: New Sculpture, Gagosian Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
Frank Stella: Imaginary Places, Tyler Graphics, Mount Kisco, USA
Frank Stella: Imaginary Places, New Paintings and Prints, Knoedler Gallery, New York, USA
Frank Stella: New Works, Wetterling Teo Gallery, Singapore

1994
New Work: Painting, Relief, and Sculpture, Waddington Galleries, London, United-Kingdom

1993
Frank Stella: Moby Dick Deckle Edges, Tyler Graphics, Mount Kisco, USA

1992
Frank Stella: Sculpture and Collage, Akira Ikeda Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Frank Stella: New York, USA : Projects and Sculpture, Knoedler Gallery, New York, USA
Frank Stella: The Fountain, Tyler Graphics, Mount Kisco, USA

1990
Frank Stella, Municipal Museum of Art and Kawamura Memorial Museum of Art, Kitakyushu, Japan

1989
Frank Stella: The Waves, Akira Ikeda Gallery, Nagoya, Japan
Frank Stella: New Work, Knoedler Gallery, New York, USA
Frank Stella: 1970 - 1987, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, USA
Frank Stella: Waves II, Richard Green Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
Frank Stella: Waves, Waddington Galleries, London, United-Kingdom

1988
Frank Stella: 1970 - 1987, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Frank Stella: Reliefs, James Corcoran Gallery, Santa Monica, USA
Frank Stella: Waves, Nan Miller Gallery, Rochester, USA
Frank Stella, Akira Ikeda Gallery, Taura, Japan
Frank Stella: Black Paintings, 1958 - 1960. Cones and Pillars, 1984 - 1987,
Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart, Germany

1987
Frank Stella: 1970 - 1987, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA

1986
Frank Stella: New Reliefs, Akira Ikeda Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

1985
Frank Stella, Relief Paintings, M. Knoedler & Co., New York, USA
Frank Stella, Akira Ikeda Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Frank Stella, Ceramic Reliefs and Steel Reliefs, Knoedler Gallery, London, United-Kingdom
Frank Stella, Works 1979 - 1985, Institute of Contemporary Arts, ICA Gallery, London, United-Kingdom; travelling show: Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin, Ireland

1983
Frank Stella. Polish Wooden Synagogues - Constructions from the 1970s, Jewish Museum, New York, USA
Resource / Response / Reservoir. Stella Survey 1959 - 1982, Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, USA
Frank Stella - Works from the Permanent Collection, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, USA
Frank Stella. Reliefs, Akira Ikeda Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Focus on Frank Stella. Nasielk II, A polish Wooden Synagogue Construction, Hebrew Union College, Los Angeles, USA
Frank Stella. Selected Works, Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University Art Museum, Cambridge, United-Kingdom
Frank Stella. Recent Work, M. Knoedler AG, Zürich; travelling show: Galerie Würthle, Vienna, Austria

1982
Frank Stella. New Reliefs, Akira Ikeda Gallery, Nagoya, Japan
Frank Stella, Knoedler Gallery, London, United-Kingdom
Frank Stella. From Start to Finish, Phillips Academy, Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, United-Kingdom
Frank Stella. Working Drawings from the Artist's Collection, Kitakyushu Municipal Museum of Art, Kitakyushu, Japan

1981
Frank Stella / Works. Painting, Drawing and Maquettes, Akira Ikeda Gallery, Nagoya, Japan
Frank Stella. Metal Reliefs,Knoedler & Co, New York, USA
Frank Stella. New York, Galerie Hans Strelow, Düsseldorf, Germany

1980
Frank Stella. Paintings and Prints, Galerie Ninety-Nine, Bay Harbor Islands, USA
Frank Stella, Koh Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Frank Stella. Works on Paper, Knoedler Gallery, London, United-Kingdom
Frank Stella. Recent Works, Galerie Valeur, Nagoya, Japan
Frank Stella. Peintures 1970 - 1979, Centre d'Arts Plastiques Contemporains de Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France
Frank Stella. Working Drawings? Zeichungen 1956 - 1970, Kunstmuseum Basel, Basel, Switzerland
Frank Stella, Akira Ikeda Gallery, Nagoya, Japan
Frank Stella, Getler / Pall Gallery, New York, USA

1979
Indian Birds. Painted Reliefs, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, USA
Frank Stella. The Indian Bird Maquettes, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
Frank Stella. 8 Drawings. 1976 Sketch Variation / 1977 Exotic Bird Series, Galerie Valeur, Nagoya, Japan

1978
Stella Since 1970, Fort Worth Art Museum, Fort Worth; travelling show: Newport Art Museum, Newport Beach; Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal; Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, USA; Mississippi Art Museum, Jackson; Denver Art Museum, Denver; Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis; Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, USA
Frank Stella, Galerie Valeur, Nagoya, Japan
Frank Stella. The Series within a Series, School of Visual Arts, Visual Arts Museum, New York, USA

1977
Frank Stella. Werke 1958 - 1976, Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Bielefeld; travelling show: Tübingen, Germany
Frank Stella. Paintings and Recent Prints, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, USA
Frank Stella. Paintings, Drawings and Prints, 1959 - 1977, Knoedler Gallery, London, United-Kingdom

1976
Frank Stella. Paintings and Graphics, Sears Bank and Trust Company, Chicago, USA
Frank Stella. Neue Reliefbilder - Bilder und Graphik, Kunsthalle Basel, Switzerland, Basel, Switzerland
Frank Stella, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, USA
Frank Stella. Recent Paintings, M. Knoedler & Co., New York, USA
Frank Stella. The Black Paintings, Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, USA
Frank Stella. A Historical Selection, David Mirvish Gallery, Toronto, Canada

1975
Frank Stella. Variations on the Square 1960 - 1974, Janie C. Lee Gallery, Houston, USA
Frank Stella. Recent Paintings, Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris, France
Frank Stella, Galleria dell'Areite, Milan, Italy
Frank Stella. High-Relief Aluminum, Ace Venice, Venice, Italy
Frank Stella, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, USA

1974
Frank Stella. Recent Works, Portland Center for the Visual Arts, Portland; travelling show: Henry Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, USA
Ace Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
Frank Stella, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, USA

1973
Frank Stella, Phillips Collection, Washington, USA

1971
Frank Stella, David Mirvish Gallery, Toronto, Canada

1970
Frank Stella, Galerie René Ziegler, Zürich, Switzerland
Frank Stella, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA ; travelling show: Hayward Gallery, London, United-Kingdom; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; Pasadena Art Museum, Pasadena; Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada

1969
Frank Stella, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez, Porto Rico
Recent Paintings by Frank Stella, Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, USA
Frank Stella, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, USA

1968
Frank Stella, Recent Paintings and Drawings, Washington Gallery of Modern Art, Washington, USA
Frank Stella, Irving Blum Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
Frank Stella, Recent, David Mirvish Gallery, Toronto, Canada
Frank Stella, Bennington College, New Gallery, Bennington, USA

1967
Frank Stella, Galerie Bischofscberger, Zürich, Switzerland

1966
Frank Stella, David Mirvish Gallery, Toronto, Canada
Frank Stella, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, USA
Frank Stella - A Selection of Paintings and Recent Drawings, Kasmin Limited, London, United-Kingdom

1965
Frank Stella in an Exhibition of New York, Ferus Gallery, Los Angeles, USA

1964
Frank Stella, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, USA
Frank Stella, Galerie Lawrence, Paris, France
Frank Stella Recent Paintings, Kasmin Limited, London, United-Kingdom
The Shaped Canvas, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA

1963
Frank Stella, Ferus Gallery, Los Angeles, USA 1962 Frank Stella, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, USA

1961
Frank Stella, Galerie Lawrence, Paris, France

1960
Frank Stella, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, USA

1959
Frank Stella, Malden Public Library, Malden, USA

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Group shows (selection)

2019

Out of Office, Sara Hildén Art Museum, Tampere, Finland

Size Matters, Monumental Artworks, Plutschow Gallery, Zurich, Switzerland



2018

Painting with Method: Neoavantgarde Positions from the Mumok Collection, Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig (MUMOK), Vienna, Austria

Summer Selections 2018, Berry Campbell Gallery, New York City, NY, United States

Giant Steps: Artists and the 1960s, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY, United States

Summer 2018, Mnuchin Gallery, New York City, NY, United States

Off The Wall, Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, PA, United States

Critical Dictionary - In homage to G. Bataille, Gagosian Gallery, Paris, France

Line, Form and Colour – Works from the Berardo Collection, Berardo Museum, Lisbon, Portugal

Subespecies de almacén, Carreras, Múgica, Bilbao, Spain

Accrochage, Michael Fuchs Galerie, Berlin, Germany

Racers: Larry Poons and Frank Stella, Loretta Howard Gallery, New York City, NY, United States

De Calder à Koons, Musées des Arts Décoratifs, Paris, France

The Myriad Forms of Visual Art : 196 Works with 19 Themes, The National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan

Op Art in Focus, Tate Liverpool, Liverpool, England

The Vitalist Economy of Painting, Galerie Neu, Berlin, Germany

Twentyfourseven – Wetterling Gallery 40 Years, Wetterling Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden

Epic Abstraction, Pollock to Herrera, The Met Breuer, New York, United States



2017

The Long Run, MoMa, New York, United States

Monochrome : Painting in Black in White, National Gallery, London, England

Being Modern : MoMa in Paris, Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris, France

Summer Exhibition 2017, Royal Academy of Arts, Londres,England

Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Nusantra, Jakarta, Indonesia



2016

Painting 2.0: Expression in the Information Age, Munok, Vienna, Austria

The World Meets Here, Custot Gallery, Duai, United Arab Emirates

Pop, Minimal and Figurative Art : The Fisher Collection, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California, United States

Shapeshifters, Luhring Augustine, New York, United States

The Collection Kurt Fried, Ketterer Kunst, Berlin, Germany



2015

Looking back: 45 years, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, California, United States

America is Hard to See, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, United States

Open Source: Art at the Eclipse of Capitalism, Max Hetzler Gallery, Paris, France

Land, Air, See, Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles, California, United States

Geometries On and Off the Grid: Art from 1950 to the Present, The Warehouse, Dallas, Texas, United States



2014

Local History: Castellani, Judd, Stella, Dominique Levy, New York, NY, United States

Love Story – The Anne and Wolfgang Titze Collection, 21er Haus, Vienna, Austria

The Shaped Canvas, Revisited, Luxembourg & Dayan, New York, NY, United States

Black | White, Mnuchin Gallery, New York, NY, United States

2013

Resonant Minds: Abstraction, Pomona College Museum of Art, Claremont, California, United States

Pictures of Nothing: Abstract Art from the Permanent Collection, The Frances Lehman Loed Art Center, Poughkeepsie, NY, États-Unis

Les aventures de la vérité, Fondation Maeght, Saint-Paul-de-Vence, France

S(ch)ichtwechsel! Neue Blicke auf die Sammlung, Museum für Konkrete Kunst, Ingolstadt, Germany

From Picasso to Koons: The Artist as Jeweler, Bass Museum of Art, Miami, Florida, United States



2012

Word Symbol Space, The Jewish Museum of New York, New York, NY, United States

Avant-Gardes – The Collection of the Triton, Kunsthal Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

Aufbruch. Malerei und realer Raum, Kunsthalle Rostock, Rostock, Germany

Mid-Twenteth Century Photography and Design, The Molesworth Gallery, Dublin, Ireland

Pompidou à Monaco, Grimaldi Forum Monaco, Monaco



2011

Contemporary Drawings from the Irving Stenn Jr. Collection, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States
The Indiscipline of Painting: International abstraction from the 1960s to now, Tate St. Ives, St. Ives, United Kingdom

Hot Cold Cool, AMUM – Art Museum of The University of Memphis, Memphis, Tennessee, United States

Surface Tension: Contemporary Pints from the Anderson Collection, The De Young Museum, San Fransisco, California, United States

Stella & Calatrava, the Michael Kohlaas Curtain, Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin, Germany; IAACC Pablo Serrano, Saragosse, Spain

Arp, Beckmann, Munch, Kirchner, Warhol… Klassiker in Bonn, Kunst – und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Bonn, Germany



2010

Color Fields, Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin, Germany

Painting: Process and Expansion From the 1950s till Now, Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig - MUMOK, Vienna, Austria

Calder to Warhol - Introducing the Fisher Collection, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, SFMOMA, San Francisco, California, United States



2009

Robert and Jane Mayerhoff Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., United States

Die Gegenwart der Linie, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, Germany

Synthetic, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, United States



2008

India Moderna, IVAM – Institut Valencià d’Art Modern, Valence, Spain

Full House, Kiasma - Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland

Color Chart: Reinventing Color from 1950 to today, Museum of Modern Art (MOMA), New York, NY, United States ; Tate Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom



2007

Modern American Masters, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, San Diego, California, United States
Between the Lines, Stephane Simoens Contemporary Fine Art, Knokke-Zoute, Belgium

Color as Field – American Painting, 1950-1975, Denver Art Museum, Denver, Colorado; Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C.; Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville, Tennessee, United States

Coming of Age: American Art, 1850s to 1950s, Meadows Museum, Dallas, Texas, United States; Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice, Italy

Before (plus ou moins), Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France



2006

Big Juicy Paintings, Miami Art Museum, Miami, Floride, United States

The Persistence of Geometry, Museum of Contemporary Art  (MOCA) Cleveland, Ohio, United States

Le mouvement des images, Centre Pompidou - Musée National d´Art Moderne, Paris, France



2005

Contemporary Voices: Works from the UBS Art Collection, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, United States; Fondation Beyeler, Riehen, Switzerland



2004

Singular Forms (Sometimes Repeated) - Art from 1951 to the Present, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY, United States



2003

Work Ethic, The Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, Maryland, United States

L’union fait la force, Artiscope, Bruxelles, Belgium



2002
The Big Americans - The Art of Collaboration, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Australia

La culture pour vivre, Centre Pompidou – Musée national d’art moderne, Paris, France



2001

Ornament und Abstraktion, Foundation Beyeler, Riehen, Switzerland

G.E.L., The National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., United States



2000

From Cubism to Minimalism - A selection of Works by World Leading Artists, Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art, Teheran, Iran



1999

The American Century: Art & Culture 1900-2000, Whitney Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, United States

Abstraction, Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris, France

The first view, Sammlung Essl - Kunsthaus, Klosterneuburg, Austria

L’envers du décor, Institut d’art contemporain - Villeurbanne/Rhones-Alpes, Villeurbanne, France



1998

(re) Mediation - The Digital in Contemporary American Printmaking, University of South Florida Contemporary Art Museum, Tampa, Floride, United States



1994

Country Sculpture, Le Consortium, Dijon, France



1993

Richard Meier e Franck Stella : arte e architettura, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome, Italy



1988

Judd, Lichtenstein, Stella, Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris, France



1985

Art Minimal, Musée d’art contemporain, Bordeaux, France



1984

Accents Américains, Musée d’Art Contemporain de Montréal, Montréal, Canada



1981

A New Spirit in Painting, Royal Academy of Arts, London, United Kingdom



1980

MOMA at Brooklyn, Brooklyn Museum, New York, NY, United States



1978

10 ans Galerie Templon, Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris, France



1977

A view of a decade, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois, United States



1976

New York in Europa, Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin, Germany

Druckgrafik von Künsterlern der USA nach 1945, Kunsthalle zu Kiel, Kiel, Germany

1973

Maîtres de l'abstraction: Ellsworth Kelly, Kenneth Noland, Jules Olitski, Larry Poons, Frank Stella, Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris, France



1972

Works in a Series: Johns, Stella , Warhol, The Art Museum of South Texas Corpus Christi, Texas, United States



1970

Retrospective, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, United States



1969

Paintings of Olitsky, Stella, and Noland, McMaster Museum of Art, Hamilton, Canada

1968

Documenta 4, Cassel, Germany



1965

The Responsive Eye, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, United States



1962

Geometric Abstraction in America, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, United States



1960

American abstract impressionists and imagists, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY, United States

2018
Frank Stella Unbound : Literature and printmaking. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2018. Essays by Mitra Abbaspour, Calvin Brown et Erica

2016
Frank Stella: i synagogi dawnej Polski and Synagogues of Historic Poland. Warsaw: POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews, 2016, text by Artur Tanikowski.

2015
Frank Stella: A Retrospective. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2015.text by Michael Auping.

2013
Frank Stella: American Abstract Artist (Crescent Moon Publishing, UK); text by James Pearson 
Frank Stella Shaped Canvases (Grin Verlag, Munich); text by Tina Pfab

2012
Frank Stella: The Retrospective Works 1958-2012 (Hatje Cantz, Germany) essays by Holger Broker, Markus Bruderlin, Gregor Stemmrich, et al. Masterworks, from Degas to Rosenquist (Acquavella Galleries, New York)
Frank Stella Paintings: Black Aluminum Copper (L & M Arts, New York); essays by Robert Pincus-Wittin, Katy Siegal Stella

2011
Frank Stella Connections (Ed.Hatje Cantz, Ben Tufnell Germany); essays by Robert Hobbs, Tom Hunt, Karen Wilken, et al.

2010
Frank Stella: Irregluar Polygons, 1965-66 (Hood Museum of Art, Hanover); text by Brian P. Kennedy

2007
Frank Stella: Painting into Architecture (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York); text by Paul Goldbereger
Black Paintings: Robert Rauschenberg, Ad Reinhardt, Mark Rothko, Frank Stella (Hatje Cantz, Berlin); text by Stephanie Rosenthal

2006
Frank Stella 1958 (Yale University Press, New Haven); essays by Harry Cooper, Megan R. Luke

2002
Henrich von Kleist by Frank Stella (Wlather Konig, Germany); essays by Wolfram Hogrebe, Franz-Joachim Verspohl, Robert K. Wallace, Martin Warnke Frank Stella at Two Thousand: Changing the Rules (Museum of Contemporary Art, New York); text by Boonie Clearwater, Frank Stella

2001
Frank Stella: Schriften/Writings (Verlag Der Buchhandlung Walther Konig); text by Frank Stella, Franz-Joachim Verspohl

2000
Frank Stella's Moby Dick Series (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor); text by Robert K. Wallace

1997
Frank Stella at Tyler Graphics (Walker Art Center, Minneapolis); text by Siri Engberg, Frank Stella

1996
Frank Stella Imaginary Places II (Imaginary Places) (Tyler Graphics Ltd., Mount Kisco); text by Frank Stella, Tyler Graphics

1995
Frank Stella: An Illustrated Biography (Rizzoli, New York); text by Sidney Guberman

1993
Frank Stella: Engravings, Domes and Deckle Edges (Moby Dick) (Distributed Art Pub Inc., New York); text by Frank Stella

1990
Frank Stella: New Works (Heland Wetterling Gallery, Stockholm); text by Frank Stella

1988
Frank Stella: 1970-1987 (The Museum of Modern Art, New York); edited by William Rubin
Frank Stella: The circuits prints (Walker Art Center, Minneapolis); text by Frank Stella

1986
Frank Stella Paintings, 1958-1965: A Catalogue Raisonne (Workman Pub Co, New York); text by Lawrence Rubin
Working Space: Frank Stella, The Charles Eliot Norton Lectures (Harvard University Press, Cambridge); text by Frank Stella

1984
Frank Stella: The Swan Engravings (Fort Worth Art Museum, Fort Worth); text by Frank Stella

1983
The Prints of Frank Stella: A Catalogue Raisonne, 1967-1982 (Hudson Hills Press, Manchester); text by Richard H. Axsom
Frank Stella: Fourteen prints with drawings, collages, and working proofs (Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton); text by Judith Goldman

1982
Frank Stella Prints: 1967 - 1982 (University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor); text by Richard H. Axsom

1978
Frank Stella (Modern Museum of Art, New York); text by William S. Rubin

1976
Frank Stella: The Black Paintings (Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore); text by Brenda Richardson, Tom Freudenheim

1970
Frank Stella (The Museum of Modern Art, New York); text by William Rubin
Frank Stella: A Retrospective Exhibition - Hayward Gallery, London, 25 July to 31 August, 1970 (Arts Council of Great Britain, Manchester); text by Frank Stella
Frank Stella (New Art) (Penguin Books Ltd., New York); text by Robert Rosenblum

1965
Three American Painters (Fogg Art Museum, New York); text by Michael Fried