Early life Arnaldo Pomodoro was born in
Morciano,
Romagna, in the
Montefeltro area, on 23 June 1926. He experimented with objects in jewelry-style, with overlays in silver and gold.
1990s–2025 In 1990, Pomodoro received the
Praemium Imperiale for Sculpture from the Japan Art Association. The following year he was nominated the honorary member of the
Brera Academy in Milan. In 1996, a
Sfera con Sfera was installed at the
United Nations Headquarters, gifted by Italy as a reference to a new millennium. In 2014–15, Pomodoro finished one of his fundamental works –
the Pietrarubbia Group, which was started in 1975. Pomodoro was still active as of 2024 and exhibited recent work that year at his gallery, the Cortesi Gallery in Milan. Some of his
Sphere Within Sphere (
Sfera con Sfera) are on display at the public spaces including the
Mt. Sinai Hospital in New York City, 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, the
Donald M. Kendall Sculpture Gardens in Purchase, New York, and the
Tel Aviv University, Israel. ==Personal life and death==