Robert Mangold

Mangold was born in North Tonawanda, New York. He studied at the Cleveland Institute of Art in Ohio, and at the Yale University School of Art and Architecture in New Haven Connecticut, where he earned his BFA in 1961 and his MFA in 1963. Robert is married to Sylvia Plimack Mangold, who is also an artist. Since his first solo show in 1961, he has exhibited at some of the most prestigious institutions around the world, including the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, Kunsthalle Basel, and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York.

His paintings are minimalist, and he is often described as an abstract artist. Through a complex creative process, he combines simple elements to develop his own artistic language, rooted in geometry and asymmetry, expressed through both shapes and forms. With his clear and direct works, he explores various relationships, such as the interaction between shape and space, drawing and the canvas edge, and he constantly questions the relationship between the parts and the whole.