Richard Nonas was born in 1936 and died in 2021 in New York.
A professional anthro- pologist, he dedicated himself to sculpture from the 1970s onwards. He has frequently exhibited in America and abroad. His artworks are included in many collections in the United States such as the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum; the Whitney Museum of American Art, and the MoMA of New York; the Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art in Ridgefield, Connecticut; the Museum of Contemporary Art of Los Angeles; the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C.; in Italy at the Collection Panza in Varese; in Sweden at the Moderna Museet in Stockholm; and in Switzerland, at the MAMCO in Geneva. In 2019, he will present solo exhibitions at the Gassendi Museum in Dignes-les-Bains, France, and at the Stadtpark Gallery in Krems, Austria. Richard Nonas’ work is also represented in the United States by the Fergus McCaffrey Gallery in New York, in Italy by the P420 Gallery in Bologna, and in Austria by the Hubert Winter Gallery in Vienna.
COLLECTIONS
Ackland Art Museum, The University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC (US)
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York, NY (US)
The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT (US)
Anderson Gallery, School of the Arts, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA (US)
Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, TX (US)
Center for Contemporary Art, Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw (PL)
The Chase Manhattan Bank, New York, NY (US)
Cranbrook Academy, Bloomfield Hills, MI (US)
Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI (US)
Eli Luria Library, Santa Barbara City College, Santa Barbara, CA (US)
Fine Arts Gallery at Wright State University, Dayton, OH (US)
The Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY (US)
Musée de Grenoble, Parc de sculptures (FR)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH (US)
Karlskrona, Sweden (SE)
The City of Kungsskrona, Sweden (SE)
Kunstmuseum, Zurich (CH)
The City of Lodz (PL)
Lunds Universitet, Lund, Sweden (SE)
Malmo Museum, Malmo, Sweden (SE)
Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson, MS (US)
Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden (SE)
Musee en Plein Air, Paris (FR)
Musee d’Art Moderne de Saint-Etienne Metropole (FR)
Museum Sztuki, Lodz (PL)
Mundsee (AT)
The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA (US)
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY (US)
National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC (US)
Neuberger Museum, State University of New York at Purchase, Purchase, NY (US)
Niort (FR)
Norman Fisher Collection at the Jacksonville Art Museum, Jacksonville, FL (US)
The North Dakota Museum of Art. Grand Forks, ND (US)
Collezione Panza, Milano (IT)
C.W. Post Campus, Long Island University, NY (US)
Radford University, Radford, VA (US)
Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, NY (US)
Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE (US)
Stockholm, Skarpnack Subway Station, Sweden (SE)
Stocklolm School of Economics, Stockholm, Sweden (SE)
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN (US)
Wanås Sculpture Park, Wanås, Sweden (SE)
Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Greensboro, NC (US)