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- Birth nameMelvin Simon Bochner
- Mel Bochner was born on August 23, 1940 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. He was married to Lizbeth Marano. He died on February 12, 2025 in Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA.
- SpouseLizbeth Marano(? - February 12, 2025) (his death, 2 children)
- 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.".
- He came to New York around 1964. His first job in the city was as a guard at the Jewish Museum, though he only lasted about a year before being fired for falling asleep behind a Louise Nevelson sculpture. At night, he honed his painting practice.
- His work has since been surveyed many times over, including at the Yale University Art Gallery, which gave him a retrospective in 1995.
- One of the key artists associated with the Conceptualist movement during the 1960s and '70s.
- His pieces are held in several major museum collections, including the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
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