Mel Bochner
Melvin Simon Bochner was an American conceptual artist. He is considered to be one of the founders of Conceptual Art, and credited with reshaping the canon of contemporary art. Bochner's 1966 exhibition, “Working Drawings And Other Visible Things On Paper Not Necessarily Meant To Be Viewed As Art,” is cited as one of the first conceptual art exhibitions in the world.
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- Born in
- Pittsburgh
- Educated at
- Carnegie Mellon College of Fine ArtsCarnegie Mellon School of Art
- Awards
- 🏆 Rome Prize🏆 Guggenheim Fellowship
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1940
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