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Barbara Chase-Riboud
Barbara Chase-Riboud combines cast metal with hanging fibres in sculpture and explores historical memory in writing. Her work crosses forms without treating one as secondary to another.
Early life
Philadelphia
Began art classes as a child.
Training
Studied at Temple University and Yale, with a formative period in Rome.
Career
- 1961
Paris
Settled in France while continuing an international practice.
- 1969
Malcolm X series
Began sculptural tributes combining bronze and fibre.
- 1979
Novel publication
Published Sally Hemings.
- 2022
Museum retrospective
A major exhibition at the Pulitzer Arts Foundation surveyed her sculpture.
Selected work
Malcolm X steles
Abstract monuments with metal and suspended textile elements.
Sally Hemings
A historical novel centring the enslaved woman connected to Thomas Jefferson.
Valide
A novel set within Ottoman court history.
Beyond work
Poetry
Published poetry as well as fiction.
Correspondence
Her letters to her mother became the memoir I Always Knew.
Sources & photo credit
Life, career and references ↗Career and work — pulitzerarts.org ↗Photo: Nikitag94. CC BY-SA 4.0 · Original image. Cropped and displayed in monochrome.
