Bruce Beasley in his studio. Photograph: courtesy of the artist.
Born in Los Angeles in 1939, Bruce Beasley attended Dartmouth College from 1957-59, and the University of California, Berkeley, from 1959-62. Bursting into the art world in 1962 at the height of the abstract sculpture movement, he has since been exhibited worldwide in a great number of solo and group exhibitions, receiving international acclaim. He has worked on numerous commissions, and his work is in the permanent collections of 37 art museums, including the Museum of Modern Art, NY, the National Museum of American Art, Washington, DC, the Musée d'Art Moderne, Paris, the Stadtische Kunsthalle, Mannheim, Germany, and the National Art Museum of China in Beijing.