Biography and Early Career[edit]
Born in Budapest, Hungary in 1931,[2] her family survived the Nazi occupation and moved to Sweden in the mid-1940s. As a teenager, they relocated again to the United States. She has said that the repeated change in language caused her to focus on the visual arts - having "suddenly been silenced."[3] She studied painting at the New School and Columbia University in New York, and exhibited and sold some of her work.[3] She soon abandoned painting, due to the constraints of the canvas, and focused broadly on ideas she could explore in other mediums.[1] "I found its vocabulary limiting"[3]
She has since participated in more than 450 exhibitions at galleries and museums throughout the world, and has written 6 books.[4] At some point in the late 1960s-1970s, she was married and has one son, Robert T. Frankel.[5]