Win Knowlton (born 1953 in Boston, Massachusetts) is an American sculptor.

Early life and education

Knowlton is the son of the sculptor

Grace Knowlton Grace Knowlton (1932 – 4 December 2020) was an American sculptor and photographer who was known for her outdoor sculptures. Her work has been exhibited at the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and other venues. Early ...

and Winthrop Knowlton, an investment banker. He received a BFA from the Parson's School of Design in New York City in 1978.

Exhibitions

Knowlton has exhibited his work widely in the United States and abroad. In 1986, he was commissioned to produce an installation for the inaugural installment of the Museum of Modern Art's Project Room series. In 2002, Knowlton had a show at MoMA/PS1, titled ''Birds, Blocks, Bamboo''.

Collections

Knowlton's work is included in the permanent collections of the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the

Brooklyn Museum The Brooklyn Museum is an art museum located in the New York City borough of Brooklyn. At , the museum is New York City's second largest and contains an art collection with around 1.5 million objects. Located near the Prospect Heights, Crown H ...

, the

National Gallery of Art The National Gallery of Art, and its attached Sculpture Garden, is a national art museum in Washington, D.C., United States, located on the National Mall, between 3rd and 9th Streets, at Constitution Avenue NW. Open to the public and free of char ...

, the Museum of Modern Art, among others.

Awards and honors

*1991

Guggenheim Fellowship Guggenheim Fellowships are grants that have been awarded annually since by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation to those "who have demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the ar ...

References

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