11 Facts About Richard Tuttle

Richard Dean Tuttle was born on July 12,1941 and is an American postminimalist artist known for his small, casual, subtle, intimate works.

Richard Tuttle studied art, philosophy and literature at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut from 1959 to 1963.

Richard Tuttle then began working at the Betty Parsons Gallery.

Richard Tuttle had a survey exhibition in 1975 at the Whitney Museum of American Art.

In 1983, Richard Tuttle made Monkey's Recovery for a Darkened Room, a wall relief of branches, wire, cloth, string and wood scraps, which he says formally relates to Jan van Eyck's Crucifixion and Last Judgement diptych.

In 2004, Richard Tuttle installed Splash, his first public art project, a mural 90 by 150 feet with about 140,000 pieces of colored glass and white ceramic tiles.

Richard Tuttle has always "privileged newness, not found or weathered elements that refer to past lives and experiences," Sharon Butler wrote in a Two Coats of Paint review of "Days, Muses and Stars," his 2019 expansive multiple-gallery exhibition at Pace.

Richard Tuttle has since been the subject of museum exhibitions around the world, and included in the Venice Biennale, three documenta and three Whitney Biennial exhibitions.

Richard Tuttle continues a 20-year relationship with the Kunsthaus Zug in Zug, Switzerland, out of which have grown five exhibitions and many publications from catalogues to posters and ephemera.

Richard Tuttle has been the recipient of many awards for his work, including the 74th American Exhibition, Art Institute of Chicago Biennial Prize, the Skowhegan Medal for Sculpture in 1998, and the Aachen Art Prize in 1998 from the Ludwig Forum fur Internationale Kunst.

Richard Tuttle is represented by the Pace Gallery in New York, Galerie Schmela in Dusseldorf, and by the Annemarie Verna Galerie in Zurich.