Joel Shapiro

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Joel Shapiro (born 1941 New York City, New York) is among the preeminent American sculptors of the 21st century. He began his career as a painter, but moved to making Minimalist sculpture influenced by artists such as Tony Smith and Carl Andre. During the 1970s, Shapiro established his reputation with his small intense sculptures of chairs, ladders, houses or bridges installed large open gallery spaces. By the 1980s his work became larger and more figurative and his pieces seem to move, bend, dance off balance. Shapiro’s long-standing interest in modernist figurative sculpture stems from his respect for the work of Auguste Rodin, Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, Alberto Giacometti and Constantin Brancusi. Since the 1990s, Shapiro has been experimenting with new forms, shapes, and color. In addition, he has been working on large-scale outdoor works.

Shapiro lives and works in New York City.

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[edit] Education

1941 Born in New York
1964 B.A., New York University
1969 M.A., New York University

[edit] Works in Collections

[edit] United States

California

  • Untitled, 1978, San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla
  • Untitled, 1974, Gersh, Philip & Beatrice, Los Angeles
  • Untitled, 1988, Gersh, Philip & Beatrice, Los Angeles
  • Untitled, 1981, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
  • Untitled, 1979, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
  • Untitled, 1982, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
  • Untitled 1975, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
  • Untitled, 1988, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, San Francisco

District of Columbia

  • Untitled, 1989, National Gallery of Art, Washington
  • Untitled, 1974, National Gallery of Art, Washington
  • Untitled, 1975, National Gallery of Art, Washington
  • Untitled, 1975, National Gallery of Art, Washington
  • Untitled, 1983, National Gallery of Art, Washington
  • Untitled, 1986, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington
  • Loss and Regeneration, 1993, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington

Illinois

  • Untitled, 1984, Elliott, Gerald S., Chicago
  • Untitled (Arching Figure), 1985, Elliott, Gerald S., Chicago
  • Untitled (for G.S.E.), 1987, Elliott, Gerald S., Chicago
  • Untitled, 1981, Governors State University, University Park

Indiana

  • Untitled, 1984, Ball State Museum of Art, Indiana

Iowa

  • Untitled, 2003, Principal Riverwalk, Des Moines

Maine

  • Untitled, 1984, Colby College, Museum of Art, Waterville

Maryland

  • Untitled, 1985, Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore
  • Untitled, 1970, Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore

Massachusetts

  • Untitled, 1990, Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge

Michigan

  • Untitled, 1975, Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit
  • Untitled, 1985, Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit

Minnesota

  • Untitled, 1975, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis

Missouri

  • Untitled, 1984, St. Louis Art Museum, St. Louis
  • Untitled, 1991, Nelson-Atkins Museum, Kansas City

Nebraska

  • Untitled, 1984, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery and Garden,

Lincoln

New York

  • Seven Elements, 2001-2003, Albany Institute of History and Art, Albany
  • Untitled, 1988, Museum of Modern Art, NYC
  • Untitled, 1988, Museum of Modern Art, NYC
  • Untitled (house on shelf), 1974, Museum of Modern Art, NYC
  • Untitled, 1994, Sony Plaza, NYC
  • Untitled (House on Field), 1976, Whitney Museum of American Art, NYC
  • Untitled, 1978, Whitney Museum of American Art, NYC
  • Untitled, 1981, Whitney Museum of American Art, NYC
  • Untitled, 2000, Rockefeller University, New York

North Carolina

  • Untitled, 1990, North Carolina Museum of Art

Ohio

  • Untitled, , University of Cincinnati Galleries, Ohio
  • Untitled, 1977, Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, Ohio
  • Untitled, 1989, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio

Pennsylvania

  • Untitled maquette, 1984, CIGNA Museum and Art Collection, Philadelphia
  • Untitled, 1984, CIGNA Museum and Art Collection, Philadelphia

Texas

  • Untitled, 1975, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas
  • Untitled, 1983, Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas
  • Untitled, 1977, Fort Worth Art Museum, Fort Worth
  • Untitled, 1977, Fort Worth Art Museum, Fort Worth

Washington

  • Untitled, 1980-81, Restricted Owner, Seattle, Washington

Wisconsin

  • Untitled, 1987, Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, Wisconsin

[edit] International Collections

Australia

  • Untitled (chair), 1974, Australian National Gallery, Canberra

Canada

  • Conjunction, 1999, Embassy of the United States of America, Ottawa

Denmark

Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek

Germany

  • Untitled, 1999, Köln Skulpture Park, Cologne

Israel

  • Untitled, 1991, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv

Sweden

  • Untitled, 1979, Moderna Museet, Stockholm
  • Untitled, 1982, Moderna Museet, Stockholm

United Kingdon

  • Untitled, 1978, Tate Gallery, London
  • Untitled, 1984, Tate Gallery, London

[edit] Bibliography

  • Marshall, Richard and Smith, Robert. (1982) Joel Shapiro. Whitney Museum of American Art. ISBN 0-87427-039-1

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