1936 Born: Malden, MA
1950 - 1954 Studied Painting under Patrick Morgan at Phillips Academy, Andover, MA, USA
1954 - 1958 Studied History and Art History at Princeton University under Stephen Greene and William Seitz
1967 First Prize, International Biennial Exhibition of Paintings, Tokyo
1981 New York City Mayor’s Award for Arts and Culture
1981 Medal for painting at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan
1981 Honorary Fellowship from Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem
1984 Honorary Doctor of Arts, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA
1985 Award of American Art from the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts
1985 Honorary Degree from Dartmouth College
1986 Honorary Degree Brandeis University
1989 Ordre des Arts et des Lettres from the French government
2001 Gold Medal of the National Arts Club in New York Lives and works in New York Selected
Exhibitions
2008 Frank Stella, Wetterling Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden
2008 Between the Lines, Stephane Simoens, Knokke, Belgium
2007 Samuelis Baumgarte Galerie Bielefeld
2007 Frank Stella, Haas&Fuchs, Berlin (solo)
2007 Modern American Masters, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, San Diego
2007 Frank Stella: Recent Works, Galerie Terminus, Munich, Germany
2007 Frank Stella, Galerie Ficher Rohr, Basel, Switzerland (solo)
2007 Frank Stella on the Roof, The Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Roof Garden, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (solo)
2007 Frank Stella: Painting into Architecture, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (solo)
2007 Frank Stella: New Work, Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York (solo)
2007 Modern American Masters, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, San Diego, CA, USA
2006 Black Paintings. Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany
2006 Frank Stella 1958, Harvard University Art Museums, Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge, MA. (solo)
2006 Traveled to The Menil Collection, Houston, The Ohio State University, Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH (solo)
2006 Frank Stella, Galerie Thomas, Munich, Germany (solo)
2006 Frank Stella: Major Works from the von Kleist Series, Danese Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
2006 Samuelis Baumgarte Galerie Bielefeld
2006 Frank Stella: Collages and Related Sculpture from the von Kleist Series, Jacobson Howard Gallery in Conjunction with Danese Gallery
2005 Frank Stella, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA, USA (solo)
2005 Frank Stella, Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York (solo)
2005 Frank Stella’s Moby Dick Series Prints, National Museum of Fine Arts, Santiago, Chile (solo)
2005 Frank Stella, Waddington Galleries, London (solo)
2005 Frank Stella’s Moby Dick Series Prints, The Museum of Latin American Art in Buenos Aires, Collection Constantini, Buenos Aires (solo)
2005 New Works, Wetterling Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden (solo)
2005 Black Paintings, Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany
2004 Singular Forms (Sometimes Repeated)– Art from 1951 to the Present, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York 2004 Frank Stella- A Breakthrough in Abstraction - Exotic Birds, Gagosian Gallery, New York (solo)
2004 Frank Stella, Moby Dick and Imaginary Places, Galerie Jamileh Weber, Zürich, Switzerland (solo)
2004 What You See Is What You See: Frank Stella and the Anderson Collection, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA, USA (solo)
2004 Frank Stella, Galerie Terminus, Munich, Germany (solo)
2004 Frank Stella, New Works, McClain Gallery, Houston, TX, USA (solo)
2003 Frank Stella, The Nagoya City Art Museum, Nagoya, Japan (solo)
2003 Frank Stella, Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London (solo)
2003 Frank Stella, Recent Work, Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York (solo)
2003 Frank Stella, IWATE Museum of Art, Morioka City, Japan (solo)
2003 Work Ethic, The Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, USA
2002 Frank Stella, Hacilar
1999-2001, Greenberg Van Doren Gallery, New York (solo)
2001 Heinrich von Kleist by Frank Stella, JENOPTIK Gallery, Jena, Germany (solo)
2001 Frank Stella, Galerie Hans Strelow, Düsseldorf, Germany (solo)
2001 Frank Stella, Recent Work, Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York (solo)
2001 Frank Stella, Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA (solo)
2001 Frank Stella, Waddington Galleries, London (solo)
2001 Frank Stella, Recent Paintings and Sculpture, Richard Gray Gallery, Chicago, IL (solo)
2001 Frank Stella, Recent Works, Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, PA (solo)
2001 Frank Stella, Love Letters and Correspondence, Barbara Mathes Gallery, New York (solo)
2001 Prince of Homburg, Installation on the lawn of the National Gallery, Washington D.C.
2001 Heinrich von Kleist, Traveling exhibition, Jena, Hildesheim, Stuttgart, Berlin and Singapore
1999 - 2000 Frank Stella at 2000: Changing the Rules, Museum of Contemporary Art Miami, Florida
1999 - 2000 The American Century: Art&Culture 1900-2000, Whitney Museum of Contemporary Art, New York
1999 Abstraction, Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris
1999 Drawing is Another Kind of Language, Parrish Art Museum, organized by Harvard Museums, Southampton, NY
1999 Frank Stella, Easel Paintings, Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London
1999 Frank Stella, New Work, Sperone Westwater, New York
1998 Rendez-vous, Solomon R. Guggenheim, New York
1998 Frank Stella, New Paintings, Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London
1998 Samuelis Baumgarte Galerie, Bielefeld
1998 Frank Stella, Smoke Rings, Knoedler & Company, New York
1997 Samuelis Baumgarte Galerie, Bielefeld 1987 Retrospective, Museum of Modern Art, New York 1970 Retrospective, Museum of Modern Art, New York