Event details
Wednesday–Saturday, August 21–September 14, 2024
12–6 pm

Dia Chelsea
537 West 22nd Street 
New York, New York

Free; no registration required.

In collaboration with Electronic Arts Intermix, Dia presents a survey exhibition of Richard Serra’s films and videos. Between 1968 and 1979, the late artist realized a body of 17 moving-image works, a selection of which will be on view in Dia Chelsea’s talk space from August 21 through September 14, 2024. To culminate the presentation, a lecture by Chrissie Iles will be held on Saturday, September 14.

All of Serra’s films and videos are in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art, New York; courtesy Electronic Arts Intermix, New York.

Richard Serra: A Film and Video Exhibition is organized by Matilde Guidelli-Guidi, curator and co-department head.

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Richard Serra was born in San Francisco in 1938. After graduating in 1961 with a degree in English from the University of California, Santa Barbara, he studied art at Yale University, New Haven, until 1964. Serra spent two years traveling Europe before settling in 1966 in New York, where he began to show his work in 1967. Alongside his sculptural practice, Serra realized a body of film and video works between 1968 and 1979. Retrospectives of Serra’s sculptures have been organized by the Museum of Modern Art, New York (1986 and 2007), and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (1998), and a comprehensive survey of his moving-image works was presented at Kunstmuseum Basel (2017). In 1997, Serra’s first Torqued Ellipses sculptures were presented at Dia Center for the Arts, New York, and have been on permanent view at Dia Beacon since 2003 along with select works spanning his career. Serra died in Orient, New York, in 2024.