Stephen Prina

Born in 1954 in Galesburg, Illinois

Lives and works in Cambridge, Massachusetts and Los Angeles

Stephen Prina has held solo exhibitions at Museum of Modern Art York, New York 2025, Museo Tamayo, Mexico City 2020, Museo Madre, Naples 2017, Museum Kurhaus Kleve 2016, Kunsthalle St. Gallen 2015, Wiener Secession, Vienna 2011, Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis 2010, Bergen Kunsthall 2009, Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden 2008, The Art Institute of Chicago 2002, Frankfurter Kunstverein 2000 and The Renaissance Society at The University of Chicago, 1989, among others.

He participated in the Whitney Biennale, 2008; documenta IX, 1992; Carnegie International, Pittsburgh, 1991; Biennale of Sydney, 1990; and the Venice Biennale, 1990.

Stephen Prina’s works are held in public collections such as Tate, London; Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh; MAMCO Genève, Geneva; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; Museum of Modern Art, New York; Museum Ludwig, Cologne and Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.

He is Professor Emeritus, Department of Art, Film, and Visual Studies, Harvard University.

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String Quartet for Six Players, No. 5. 1976 – 2023

String Quartet for Six Players, No. 3. 1976 – 2023

Blind No. 26, Fifteen-foot Ceiling or Lower – to Michael Asher [Iridescent Bronze (Fine)/Iridescent Bronze (Fine), Iridescent Bronze (Fine)/Iridescent Gold Deep (Fine), Iridescent Bright Gold (Fine)/Iridescent Gold (Fine)], 2013

Blind No. 25, Fifteen-foot Ceiling or Lower – to Michael Asher [Iridescent Copper (Fine)/Iridescent Copper (Fine), Iridescent Copper (Fine), Iridescent Copper Light (Fine)], 2013

As He Remembered It, Bedrooom Category Harris Bedroom, No. 1 Harris Bedroom, No. 2 Harris Bedroom, No. 3 Hiler Bedroom, No. 4 Hiler Bedroom, No. 5, 2011

Photo: Wolfgang Tahler

The Second Sentence of Everything I Read Is You: Mourning Sex, 2005-2007

From book to film to book to room to sculpture to drawing to studio to painting (Rueben Room, American Fine Arts, Colin de Land, New York/Dom Hotel, Zimmer 101, Köln) Panel #2, 1996-2001