05/28/2026
Ted Larsen (b. 1964, United States) is a sculptor living and working in Santa Fe, New Mexico. He holds a BA from Northern Arizona University and is a recipient of the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant.
Larsen’s practice reconsiders minimalist and modernist traditions, creating refined geometric compositions from salvaged and industrial materials. Since 2001, his work has interrogated notions of value, purity, and formalism, using repurposed steel, aluminum, and wood to question the hierarchies of “High Art” through processes of renewal and reassembly.
His work has been exhibited widely across the United States and internationally, including the New Mexico Museum of Art, The Albuquerque Museum, and the Philadelphia Museum of Art, as well as in more than 80 gallery exhibitions. Larsen has participated in residencies with the Edward F. Albee Foundation and the Asilah Arts Festival in Morocco, where he represented the United States, and has received grants from the Pollock-Krasner and Surdna Foundations.
Larsen’s sculptures are held in numerous public and corporate collections, including The Palm Springs Art Museum, The New Mexico Museum of Art, JP Morgan Chase, PepsiCo, and Reader’s Digest.
His work has been featured in Art in America, ArtNews, Sculpture Magazine, and Architectural Digest, and reviewed in The New York Times, The Philadelphia Inquirer, and The Dallas Morning News. He has also been the subject of a televised interview produced by PBS.
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TED LARSEN, Master, 2026, Salvage Steel, Marine-grade Plywood, Silicone, Encaustic Bee’s Wax, Hardware | Acier de récupération, contreplaqué de qualité marine, silicone, cire d’abeille encaustique, quincaillerie, 4.1 x 3.9 x 2.4 "
TED LARSEN, Modern History, 2026, Salvage Steel, Marine-grade Plywood, Silicone, Encaustic Bee’s Wax, Hardware | Acier de récupération, contreplaqué de qualité marine, silicone, cire d’abeille encaustique, quincaillerie, 4.1 x 3.9 x 2.4 "
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