Barbara chase riboud biography of albert

Among her many achievements, Chase-Riboud is also :

~ The first American woman to visit the People's Republic of China after the Revolution (1965)

~ The first American woman to have a personal exhibition at a major American museum (The University Museum, Berkeley)

~ the first living American woman to have a personal exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of New York,

( the Paul Klee gallery, 1999)

~A dual citizen of France and the United States, the French government knighted Chase-Riboud in March, 1996.

In 1998, she was commissioned to create the African Burial Ground Memorial sculpture for the U.S.

Federal building in New York.

She feels that this historic monument, entitled Africa Rising, is a culmination of her varied accomplishments in history, literature, poetry and sculpture.

In 1999 and 2000, Chase Riboud completed the century with several major museum personal exhibitions including

The Metropolita Museum in