Richard Serra ( born November 2, 1938) is an American minimalist
sculptor and video artist known for working with large - scale
assemblies of sheet metal . [1] Serra was involved in the Process
Art Movement. He lives and works in Tribeca , New York , and on
Cape Breton Island in Nova Scotia . Serra had his first solo
exhibitions at the Galleria La Salita, Rome, 1966, and in the
United States at the Leo Castelli Warehouse, New York. The Pasadena
Art Museum organized a solo exhibition of Serra's work in 1970.
Serra has since participated in Documentas 5 (1972), 6 (1977), 7
(1982), and 8 (1987), in Kassel, the Venice Biennales of 1984 and
2001, and the Whitney Museum of American Art's Annual and Biennial
exhibitions of 1968, 1970, 1973, 1977, 1979, 1981, and 19 95.[57]
Serra was honored with further solo exhibitions at the Kunsthalle
Tubingen, Germany, in 1978; the Musee National d'Art Moderne,
Paris, in 1984; the Museum Haus Lange, Krefeld, Germany, in 1985;
and the Museum of Modern Art, New York, in 1986. From 1997 to 1998
his Torqued Ellipses (1997) were exhibited at and acquired by the
Dia Center for the Arts, New York. In 2005 eight major works by
Serra were installed permanently at Guggenheim Museum Bilbao. In
the summer of 2007 the Museum of Modern Art pre sented a
retrospective of Serra's work in New Y ork. Intersection II (1992 -
1993) and Torqued Ellipse IV (1998) were included in this show
along with three new works.[59] The retrospective consisted of 27
of Serra's works, including three large new sculpture s made
specifically for the second floor of the museum, two works in the
garden, and Yearlier pieces from the 1960s through the 1980s
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