Born in 1936 in Malden, Massachusetts, United States, Frank Stella lives and works in New York. First influenced by abstract expressionism, he finally rejects its lyricism. Frank Stella is one of the leading figures in minimalist painting of the 1960s, dedicating himself to the relationship between form and color.

Creator of "cut-out canvases", the shape of which emerges from classical geometry, the three-dimensionality of his paintings evolves to lead him to make real sculptures in the 1980s.