Richard Serra

Richard Serra (San Francisco, USA, 1938 – Orient, New York, 2024) was a pioneering sculptor whose monumental steel works redefined the relationship between space, material, and the viewer’s movement. He studied at the University of California, Berkeley and Santa Barbara before earning an MFA from Yale University, where he engaged deeply with painting and printmaking before transitioning to sculpture. His early experiments with industrial materials such as lead and rubber informed his later use of massive Cor-Ten steel sheets, which he bent, tilted, and arranged to create immersive spatial experiences.   Serra’s work is characterized by an emphasis on process, weight, and balance, often engaging with notions of gravity and instability. His large-scale site-specific installations challenge c...