Jaume Plensa (b. 1955, Barcelona, Spain) is internationally renowned as one of today’s leading contemporary sculptors best known for his large-scale public installations. For more than forty years, the artist has created meditative sculptures, drawings, and environments that make manifest a sense of spirituality and an atmosphere of introspection. Working across materials as varied as stone, steel, glass, wood, light, water, video, language, and sound, Plensa’s practice invites viewers to ruminate on their fundamental relations to space, to silence, to beauty, and to a shared humanity.
Plensa’s first solo exhibition at GRAY was presented in the gallery’s Chicago location in 1996. Since then his work has been the subject of more than a dozen monographic and group exhibitions at the galleries spaces in Chicago and New York, as well as featured in off site exhibitions such as the Venice Biennale in 2015 and in permanent commissions such as Water’s Soul along the Hudson River and Crown Fountain in Chicago’s Millennium Park. Today, Plensa’s sculptures for public space can be viewed in cities across the world, including Singapore, Seoul, Dubai, Los Angeles, San Diego, Miami, Bangkok, Shanghai, Tokyo, London, and Nice.
Solo museum exhibitions of Plensa’s works have been presented at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Yorkshire, England; Joan Miró Foundation, Barcelona, Spain; Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas, Texas; Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain; MAMC–Musée d’art moderne et contemporain Saint-Étienne Métropole, Saint-Étienne, France; and at the Max Ernst Museum Brühl des LVR, Brühl, Germany, among many others.
Plensa’s work is held in institutional collections around the world, including The Art Institute of Chicago, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, FLAG Art Foundation, Fondation Paribas, Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Gardens, Fundación Joan Miró, Harvard University, Mori Art Museum, Reina Sofía, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, National Museum of Korea, Pérez Art Museum Miami, Philadelphia Museum of Art, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, among many others. The artist has received numerous national and international awards, including honorary doctorates from Notre Dame University and the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, as well as the Velazquez Prize awarded by the Spanish Cultural Ministry. Plensa lives and works in Barcelona.
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