Richard Nonas was an American anthropologist and post-minimalist sculptor.
10 Facts About Richard Nonas
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Richard Nonas followed this with field-work studies on Native American sites in Northern Ontario, Canada, and in Northern Mexico and Southern Arizona before becoming a sculptor.
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Richard Nonas' oeuvre is known for modular sculptural installations, primarily in stone or wood, in interior and exterior settings.
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Richard Nonas's work has been compared to that of Richard Serra, Joel Shapiro, and Dorothea Rockburne.
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Richard Nonas created a 300-foot-long installation in the US at MassMoca in a one-person exhibition, Richard Nonas: The Man in the Empty Space.
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Richard Nonas's work was featured in the 1973 Whitney Biennial.
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Richard Nonas exhibited his work widely throughout the world, including shows in the US at MoMA PS1, Museum of the Art Institute of Chicago, MASS MoCA, Walker Art Museum, among many others.
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Richard Nonas was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in 1974.
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Richard Nonas' work is included in the collections of the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota, the Metropolitan Museum, and the Whitney Museum of American Art among others.
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Richard Nonas's work is included in the permanent collection of the Fondazione Ratti, Italy.