Frank Stella (b. 1936, Malden, MA) had his first one-person gallery exhibition at Leo Castelli Gallery in 1960. Early in his career, his work was included in significant exhibitions that defined the art in the postwar era, including Sixteen Americans at the Museum of Modern Art, New York (1959), Geometric Abstraction at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (1962), The Shaped Canvas at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York (1964-65), Systemic Painting at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York (1966), Documenta 4 (1968), and Structure of Color at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (1971). The Museum of Modern Art, New York, presented retrospectives of Stella’s work in 1970 and 1987. More recently, a career retrospective of Stella's work was presented by the Whitney Museum of American Art (2015), NSU Fort Lauderdale organized Frank Stella: Experiment and Change (2017) and Frank Stella's Stars: A Survey was presented at The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, CT (2020). Stella lives in New York.
