Carl Andre was born in Quincy, Massachusetts in 16th September 1935. He studied at the Phillips Academy, moving afterwards to New York. In the city, he met fundamental artists as Frank Stella.

His sculptural work follows the lines of minimalism, and evidence a high delicate formal subtlety. Thus, through a meditated combination of modular elements, Carl Andre explores the limits of sculpture and space, transforming heavy materials – stone, steel, plumb, wood or marble – into light profiles.