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Barry Le Va

Barry Le Va
Born Birth date 1941
Long Beach, California
Nationality American
Education Otis Art Institute of LA County, Los Angeles , BA, 1964, MFA 1967; Los Angeles College of Art & Design, 1963; California State University, Long Beach,1960-63
Known for Sculpture, Installation art
Movement Process art
Awards Guggenheim Fellowship for Sculpture, 1974

Barry Le Va (born 1941) is a contemporary American sculptor and installation artist. Trained in his native California, he works and lives in New York City. Le Va is among the leading figures of post-studio and process art of the late 1960s. His abstract sculptures, installations, drawings, and editioned works are featured in major art collections around the world.

Le Va attended California State University, Long Beach from 1960 to 1963, continuing his studies at Los Angeles College of Art & Design, and at the Otis Art Institute of LA County, Los Angeles, where he received a Master of Fine Arts (MFA) degree in 1967.

In 1968, Le Va was awarded a Young Talent Grant from the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. He worked as an instructor at Minneapolis College of Art & Design from 1968 to 1970, and taught advanced sculpture at Princeton University from 1973 to 1974. From 1976 he taught graduate-level classes in sculpture at Yale University,

In 1974, Le Va received a Guggenheim Fellowship for Sculpture, and in 1976, received a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship.

Le Va's pioneering scatter pieces on the floor, started in 1966, made him one of the first of the so-called Process artists. In 1969, he started to create works with cleavers embedded in walls or floors. More recently, he has produced monumental abstract works and site-specific installations.

Le Va's first solo exhibitions were held in 1969 at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts and at the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis. Since then, Le Va has exhibited his work across the United States, as well as Canada, Europe and Israel.


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