Joel Shapiro
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Joel Shapiro (b. 1941 NY, NY) 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
Isreal
- 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
