Frank Gehry
Born: 1929
Hometown: Toronto, Ontario
Lives and Works: Santa Monica, CA
Website: http://foga.com
Education:
University of Southern California's School of Architecture, Los Angeles, CA, 1954
About The Artist
A figure who vacillates between the worlds of art and architecture, Frank Gehry has been anointed “the greatest architect we have today” by the godfather of modern architecture himself, Philip Johnson. Gehry’s Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain, completed in 1989, vaulted him to international fame, and his subsequent buildings have been similarly celebrated for imposing a new aesthetic of architecture: Walt Disney Concert Hall, Los Angeles, CA; Experience Music Project, Seattle, WA; Dancing House, Prague, Czech Republic, to name a few.
Using materials such as chain link fences, plywood, and corrugated metal, Gehry’s design sense has been influenced by fish and a rebellion against cold Modernism and decorative Postmodernism. He has also designed furniture, a line of jewelry, household items, and sculptures. Gehry won the Pritzker Prize for architecture in 1989, the American Institute of Architects’ Gold Medal in 1999, and the Woodrow Wilson Award for public service in 2004.
Select Permanent Collections
Brooklyn Museum, New York, NY
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA
Castello di Rivoli Museum of Contemporary Art, Torino, Italy
Guggenheim Bilbao, Basque Country, Spain
Metropolitan Museum of Art Timetable of Art History, New York, NY
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
Museum of the National Academy of Design, New York, NY
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA
Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel
Works by the Artist
