Richard Nonas was born in 1936 and died in 2021 in New York.

A professional anthro- pologist, he dedicated himself to sculpture from the 1970s onwards. He has frequently exhibited in America and abroad. His artworks are included in many collections in the United States such as the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum; the Whitney Museum of American Art, and the MoMA of New York; the Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art in Ridgefield, Connecticut; the Museum of Contemporary Art of Los Angeles; the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C.; in Italy at the Collection Panza in Varese; in Sweden at the Moderna Museet in Stockholm; and in Switzerland, at the MAMCO in Geneva. In 2019, he will present solo exhibitions at the Gassendi Museum in Dignes-les-Bains, France, and at the Stadtpark Gallery in Krems, Austria. Richard Nonas’ work is also represented in the United States by the Fergus McCaffrey Gallery in New York, in Italy by the P420 Gallery in Bologna, and in Austria by the Hubert Winter Gallery in Vienna.