Elyn Zimmerman

Place: Philadelphia

Born: 1945

Biography:

Elyn Zimmerman is an American sculptor born on December 16, 1945 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She is known for her large scale, site specific projects and environmental art. Zimmerman has exhibited drawings and photographs since graduating with an MFA in painting and photography at University of California, Los Angeles in 1972. Her teachers included Robert Heineken, Robert Irwin, and Richard Diebenkorn. In the mid 1970s, Zimmerman created a number of temporary, site-specific installations for museum and gallery exhibitions. Her permanent sculpture works, beginning in the 1980s, range from studio pieces and private commissions, to large scale projects for civic, university and corporate sites. She was most recently awarded the 2016 Isamu Noguchi Award alongside Tadao Ando.