404. Nancy Graves American, b. 1940, Shadow Series, c. 1983; oil/canvas with fiberglass sculpture protuding from the center of the image, identified on verso. Important American conceptual artist. Graves studied at Vassar College and received a fellowship in painting to the Yale–Norfolk Summer School. She studied from 1961-64 at Yale University, and then received a Fulbright–Hayes grant to study painting in Paris. In 1966 she moved to New York, where she established a studio. Her first solo exhibition was in 1968 at the Graham Gallery, and later she became the first woman artist to have a solo retrospective at the Whitney Museum of American Art. Graves’ work is founded on 20th-century conceptual discourses on art and draws on a wide range of sciences, including anatomy, anthropology, computer mapping, psychology and perception. Her curiosity for many subjects has been a consistent feature in works that include drawings, paintings, installations, sculptures and film. Her goal was to draw attention to perceptual problems of illusion and reality as well as to questions regarding the status and context of objects. Her works are held in the Wallraf-Richartz-Museum (Cologne); Museum of Fine Arts (Dallas); and the Neue Galerie (Aachen). Graves has been open in her approach and exploration of the artistic process and conceptual boundaries in art. She lives and works in New York. 10,000-15,000