Royden Rabinowitch

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Royden Rabinowitch (born March 6, 1943) is a Canadian sculptor.

Born in Toronto, Ontario, he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada in 2002. He lives in Ghent, Belgium.

Rabinowitch’s works are in public and private collections around the world. The Stedelijk Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Amsterdam owns 44 of his major works, more than for any other artist including Picasso, Judd, and Smith.

More than 20 of his works constituted the largest single permanent exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art and Contemporary in Geneva, Switzerland. They are also in the Guggenheim Museum in New York, the Watari Museum in Tokyo, and the Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin.

The National Gallery of Canada has more than 35 of his works in its permanent collection. The Art Gallery of Ontario has 88 of his works. In Montreal both the Museum of Contemporary Art and the Museum of Fine Art have his works.

Jan Hoet, Director of the Frank Gehry designed museum, MARTa in Herford, Germany has stated that Rabinowitch’s sculpture, Judgment on the Copernican Revolution is “the most important judgment on culture since Tatlin’s tower” in 1920.^{[citation needed]}

Rabinowitch is an Officer of the Order of Canada. In 1986 Rabinowitch became the only artist to be named a Life Member, Clare Hall, Cambridge University.

He has given addresses to universities including: Oxford, Cambridge, Stanford, Yale, St. Andrews, Leijden, Warsaw, Berlin’s Technische Universität and the Universität der Künste and the Jagiellonian University in Kracow.

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