What is Minimalism?: The American Perspective 1958-1968 (2004)
Mel Bochner was born on 23 August 1940 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. He was married to Lizbeth Marano. He died on 12 February 2025 in Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA.
He studied art at the Carnegie Institute of Technology, graduating in 1962, and later described his education as a combination of Beaux Arts studies and a "Bauhaus kind of model.".