Richard Nonas Biography, Age, Height, Wife, Net Worth and Family

Nonas produced permanent public art works for the Museum of Grenoble, Transi West (for 36 Albanians …), 1994; the North Dakota Museum of Art, Granite. In the early 1990s the North Dakota Museum of Art commissioned Nonas to design a sculpture garden and specimen peony garden for the museum. In 2012, at the abandoned village, Vière et les Moyennes Montagnes, Digne-les-Bains, France, he created a permanent installation.

He was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in 1974.

His work has been compared to that of Richard Serra, Joel Shapiro, and Dorothea Rockburne. His work has been exhibited internationally. He created a 300-foot-long installation in the U.S. at MassMoca in a one-person exhibition, Richard Nonas: The Man in the Empty Space. His work was featured in the 1973 Whitney Biennial. Courtney Fiske has written that Nonas treated “space as a material”, in that each work is intended to be a “blunt insertion into the viewer’s surrounds. His approach to minimalism not only includes serialiity, but also maintain a sense of self-containment and timelessness.” Joyce Beckenstein writing for the magazine Sculpture, described Nonas’ studio as a “Wunderkammer piled high with artifacts and relics as well as past and in-progress works….with the unexpected surprises of an archaeological dig.

Nonas’ Post-minimalist sculptural practice addressed notions of space, place, and deep time. His work from the 1970s involves experimentation with modes of presentation as well as material experimentation in which he used granite curbstones, linear wooden beams, and other raw materials. This work has been described as “talismanic objects” that create impressions of spiritual, emotional, and philosophical notions and meanings.

Richard Nonas (January 3, 1936 – May 11, 2021) was an American anthropologist and post-minimalist sculptor. He lived and worked in New York City.