Trivia

In 1984 he had a large retrospective exhibition at the Forte di Belvedere in Florence.

Brother Gio Pomodoro (1930-2002) was also a sculpture.

Worked at the Public Works Office in Pesaro.

In 1992 he was awarded an honorary degree in Literature by Trinity College in Dublin.

In 1966 he became an artist in residence at Stanford University, and then at UC Berkeley and Mills College.

In 1963 he received the International Prize for Sculpture at the VII São Paulo Biennale.

In 1996 he was awarded the Knight of the Great Cross of the Italian Republic (Cavaliere di gran croce dell'Ordine al merito della Repubblica italiana).

Designed a controversial fiberglass crucifix for the Cathedral of St. John the Evangelist in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The piece is topped with a four-and-a-half-meter diameter crown of thorns which hovers over the figure of Christ.

Received his diploma from the Technical Institute for Surveyors in Rimini.

Attended the Art Institute in Pesaro.

In 1990 he received the Praemium Imperiale for Sculpture from the Japan Art Association.

His iconic works graces public spaces around the world such as the Vatican in Rome, the United Nations and the Guggenheim Museum in New York, UNESCO headquarters in Paris, the Universal Exhibition in Shanghai and Trinity College Dublin.

In 1964 he received the National Prize for Sculpture at the XXXII Venice Biennale.

Some of Pomodoro's Sphere Within Sphere (Sfera con Sfera) can be seen in the Vatican Museums, Trinity College, Dublin, the United Nations Headquarters and Mt. Sinai Hospital in New York, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C., Christian Theological Seminary in Indianapolis, the de Young Museum in San Francisco, Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art, American Republic Insurance Company in Des Moines, Iowa, the Columbus Museum of Art in Columbus, Ohio, the west entrance to the University of California, Berkeley campus, the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in Richmond, Virginia, the Stanford University sculpture garden, and Tel Aviv University, Israel.