Robert Mangold

Robert Mangold studied at the Cleveland Institute of Art and then earned his BFA in 1961 and MFA in 1963 from Yale university. Mangold is a key figure among the artists who developed Minimalism and Conceptual art in the early 1960s. His paintings, drawings, and other artworks present a rich, personal lexicon of simple forms that explore subtle relationships among form, line, color, and surface texture. From these basic building blocks, Mangold has developed a prolific body of work that subtly echoes classical and Renaissance painting while maintaining a spare and abstract vocabulary.

The many exhibitions of Mangold’s work include Correspondences: Robert Mangold / Paul Gauguin (2006) at the Musée d’Orsay in Paris; Robert Mangold (1999) at the Galician Center for Contemporary Art in Santiago de Compostela, Spain; Robert Mangold: Paintings 1971–1984 (1984–85) at the Akron Art Museum in Ohio and five additional venues, including the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo and the Contemporary Arts Museum in Houston; and Robert Mangold (1971) at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York. Mangold’s work also has been included in a large number of group exhibitions, including the 1979, 1983, 1985, and 2004 Biennial Exhibitions at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York; and the 1972, 1977, and 1982 Documenta exhibitions in Kassel, Germany.