The American sculptor Robert Grosvenor has died at the age of 88.
Born in New York in 1937, Grosvenor grew up in Rhode Island and Arizona before studying art and design in Europe. Upon returning to the United States, he moved to New York where he met the sculptor Mark di Suvero who introduced him to other artists. Grosvenor started making sculpture in the 1960s. His early work was included in Primary Structure (1966) at the Jewish Museum, New York and Minimal Art (1968) at the Gemeentemuseum, the Hague alongside other key figures of minimalism including Dan Flavin, Donald Judd and Sol LeWitt.
As his career progressed, his work defied strict categorisation: at times abstract and geometric, at others playful and evocative of vehicles or architectures, and occasionally veering away from sculpture to photography and works on paper, his practice explored the complexities of spacial dynamics.
Grosvenor’s work was featured in numerous international exhibitions including Documenta 6 (1977), Documenta 8 (1987), the Biennale d’art contemporain de Lyon (2003), the Whitney Biennial (2010) and the 59th Venice Biennale (2022). It is currently on view at the Fridericianum, Kassel, through 11 January as part of a major retrospective.
