Early life and education
Joel Shapiro grew up in Sunnyside, Queens, New York. He graduated from Bayside High School (Bayside, NY) in 1959, at which time the school’s yearbook awarded him the title of ''Man'' ''About Town''. When he was twenty two he lived in India for two years while in the Peace Corps.Klein, Michele Gerber http://bombsite.com/issues/109/articles/3332 '' BOMB Magazine'' Fall 2009, Retrieved July 25, 2011 He received a B.A. in 1964 and an M.A. in 1969 fromWork and inspiration
While serving his Peace Corp time in India, Shapiro saw many Indian art works, and has said that "India gave me the sense of … the possibility of being an artist." In India "Art was pervasive and integral to the society", and he has said that "the struggle in my work to find a structure that reflects real psychological states may well use Indian sculpture as a model." His early work, which also drew inspiration from Greek art, is characterized by some by its small size, but Shapiro has discounted this perception, describing his early works as, "all about scale and the small size was an aspect of their scale". He described scale as "A very active thing that's changing and altering as time unfolds, consciously or unconsciously," and, "a relationship of size and an experience. You can have something small that has big scale." In these works he said that he was trying "to describe an emotional state, my own longing or desire". He also said that during this early period in his career he was interested in the strategies of artists Robert Morris, Richard Serra, Carl Andre, and Donald Judd. By the 1980s, Shapiro began to explore larger and life-size forms in pieces that were still reminiscent of Indian and Greek sculpture but also inspired by the early modernist works byWorks in collections
United States
California
* ''Untitled'', 1978, San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla * ''Untitled'', 1974, Gersh, Philip & Beatrice, Los Angeles * ''Untitled'', 1988, Gersh, Philip & Beatrice, Los Angeles * ''Untitled'', 1981, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles * ''Untitled'', 1979, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles * ''Untitled'', 1982, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles * ''Untitled'', 1975, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles * ''Untitled'', 1988, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, San Francisco * ''Untitled'', 1982-1985, J. Paul Getty Museum, Los AngelesDistrict of Columbia
* '' Untitled'', 1989, National Gallery of Art, Washington * ''Untitled'', 1974, National Gallery of Art, Washington * ''Untitled'', 1975, National Gallery of Art, Washington * ''Untitled'', 1975, National Gallery of Art, Washington * ''Untitled'', 1983, National Gallery of Art, Washington * ''Untitled'', 1986, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington * '' Loss and Regeneration'', 1993, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, WashingtonFlorida
* ''Untitled'', 1996, Boca Raton Museum of Art, Boca Raton * ''Untitled'', 1988, Boca Raton Museum of Art, Boca Raton * ''Up/Over'', 2007, Norton Museum of Art, West Palm BeachIllinois
* ''Untitled'', 1984, Elliott, Gerald S., Chicago * ''Untitled (Arching Figure)'', 1985, Elliott, Gerald S., Chicago * ''Untitled (for G.S.E.)'', 1987, Elliott, Gerald S., Chicago * ''Untitled'', 1981, Governors State University, University ParkIndiana
* ''Untitled'', 1984, David Owsley Museum of Art, IndianaIowa
* ''Untitled'', 2003, Principal Riverwalk, Des Moines * ''Untitled'', 1985, Pappajohn Sculpture Park, Des MoinesMaine
* ''Untitled'', 1984, Colby College, Museum of Art, WatervilleMaryland
* ''Untitled'', 1985, Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore * ''Untitled'', 1970, Baltimore Museum of Art, BaltimoreMassachusetts
* ''Untitled'', 1990, Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, CambridgeMichigan
* ''Untitled'', 1975, Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit * ''Untitled'', 1985, Detroit Institute of Arts, DetroitMinnesota
* ''Untitled'', 1975, Minneapolis Institute of Art (Mia), MinneapolisMissouri
* ''Untitled'', 1984, St. Louis Art Museum, St. Louis * ''Untitled'', 1991, Nelson-Atkins Museum, Kansas CityNebraska
* ''Untitled'', 1984, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery and Garden,New York
* ''Seven Elements'', 2001–2003, Albany Institute of History and Art, Albany * ''Untitled'', 1988, Museum of Modern Art, NYC * ''Untitled'', 1988, Museum of Modern Art, NYC * ''Untitled (house on shelf)'', 1974, Museum of Modern Art, NYC * ''Untitled'', 1994, Sony Plaza, NYC - Donated by Sony Corporation of America to Storm King Art Center on April 19, 2016 * ''Untitled (House on Field)'', 1976, Whitney Museum of American Art, NYC * ''Untitled'', 1978, Whitney Museum of American Art, NYC * ''Untitled'', 1981, Whitney Museum of American Art, NYC * ''Untitled'', 2000, Rockefeller University, New York * ''Untitled'', 2004–2005, Albany Academy for Girls, Albany, NYNorth Carolina
* ''Untitled'', 1990, North Carolina Museum of Art * ''Untitled'', 1995, Davidson College, Van Every/ Smith GalleriesOhio
* ''Untitled'', University of Cincinnati Galleries, Ohio * ''Untitled'', 1977, Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, Ohio * ''Untitled'', 1989, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OhioPennsylvania
* ''Untitled maquette'', 1984, CIGNA Museum and Art Collection, Philadelphia * ''Untitled'', 1984, CIGNA Museum and Art Collection, PhiladelphiaTexas
* ''Untitled'', 1975, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas * ''Untitled'', 1975, Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas * ''Untitled'', 1984, Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas * ''Untitled'', 1985–87, Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas * ''Untitled'', 1986, Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas * ''Untitled'', 1986, Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas * ''Untitled'', 1996–99, Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas * ''Untitled'', 1977, Fort Worth Art Museum, Fort Worth * ''Untitled'', 1977, Fort Worth Art Museum, Fort Worth * '' Untitled'', 1990,Washington
* ''Untitled'', 1980–81, Western Washington University Public Sculpture Collection, Bellingham, Washington * ''Untitled'', 1980–81, Restricted Owner, Seattle, Washington * ''Untitled'', 1990,Wisconsin
* ''Untitled'', 1987, Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WisconsinInternational collections
Australia
* ''Untitled (chair)'', 1974, Australian National Gallery, CanberraCanada
* ''Conjunction'', 1999, Embassy of the United States of America, OttawaDenmark
* Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek Note: Joel Shapiro's sculpture name is unknown in the Denmark section, so the name of the sculpture isn't there.Germany
* ''Untitled'', 1999, Köln Skulpture Park, CologneIsrael
* ''Untitled'', 1991, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv * ''Untitled'', 1996, Billy Rose Art Garden,Italy
* ''Untitled'', 1993, Peggy Guggenheim collection, VeniceNetherlands
* ''Untitled'', 1999, Beeldenroute Westersingel, RotterdamSweden
* ''Untitled'', 1979, Moderna Museet, Stockholm * ''Untitled'', 1982, Moderna Museet, StockholmUnited Kingdom
* ''Untitled'', 1978, Tate Gallery, London * ''Untitled'', 1984, Tate Gallery, LondonReferences
Further reading
* Marshall, Richard and Smith, Robert. (1982) ''Joel Shapiro''. Whitney Museum of American Art.External links