Carol Bove

Born in Geneva, Switzerland and raised in Berkeley , California, Carol Bove is among the foremost contemporary artists working today. Known for her large-scale steel sculptures and eclectic installations, her work consistently challenges the boundaries of formal contemporary abstraction. After completing her education at New York University, and subsequent artist in residency at Yale University in 2010, Bove began to experiment with and re-institute architectural and sculptural practices, playing with a variety of materials ranging from steel, glass and bronze to found objects including rocks and shells. Today, Carol Bove’s body of work consists of immense steel sculptures, combining new and found elements into sleek assemblages painted in luxurious, brilliant colors. An artist of exceptional craftsmanship, Bove’s work carries a tension between heavy and fragile, demanding and delicate, all the while imbued with symbolic and conceptual meaning.

Four of Bove’s sculptures were recently installed in the façade niches at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 2021, an installation entitled Carol Bove: The séances aren’t helping. The artists profound body of work has been featured in numerous group exhibitions, among them the the 58th Venice Biennale (2019); the 57th Venice Biennale (2017); documenta 13, Kassel, Germany (2012); the 54th Venice Biennale (2011); and the Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2008). Her work is also included in the permanent collections of Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas; Fonds régional d’art contemporain (FRAC) Nord-Pas de Calais, Dunkirk, France; Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston; The Museum of Modern Art, New York; Princeton University Art Museum, New Jersey; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, Connecticut; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; and the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut.