Sol LeWitt is a minimalist and conceptual American artist of the 20th century.^E century.

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After studying Fine Arts at Syracuse University (New York), LeWitt traveled to Europe, where he became familiar with masters of painting before serving in the army during the Korean War. After the conflict, he worked as a graphic designer in the office of the Chinese architect Ieoh Ming Pei, a collaboration that allowed him to put his artistic ideas into shape. In the 1950s, living in New York, he became a graphic designer for the newspaper Seventeen.

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Inspired by American minimal art, he evolved towards a more conceptual artistic practice. His famous sculptures Structures, based on fundamental geometric elements such as the cube or the square, are organized in a network and can be combined with each other. LeWitt thus redefines our relationship with sculpture and explores a new form of spatial and mental perception of the work.

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His recognition was completed by the first retrospective dedicated to him at the Museum of Modern Art in New York in 1978-1979.