Frank Stella studied art history and painting at the Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts, and later graduated from Princeton University with a B.A. degree in history.

Stella has lived and worked in New York for the past 40 years, producing a varied body of work that includes paintings, prints, reliefs, sculpture, and, more recently, public art and architecture.

Coming to prominence in the late 1950s and early 1960s as one of America's great abstract painters, Stella's early works presented flat geometric designs that evolved into a looser style with elements of collage, as well as three-dimensional canvases. Since the late 1980s, Stella has increasingly turned his attention to sculpture and art for public places, often working on a massive scale.

Frank Stella’s work is found in many major museum collections, including:

Guggenheim Museum, New York
National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York