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James Turrell

(American, born 1943)

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James Turrell

From Aten Reign, 2015

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Biography

Timeline

1943
Born May 6, 1943, Los Angeles, California
1961
Graduated from the Pasadena High School
1965 - 1966
Enrolled in Art Graduate Studies at the University of California in Irvine, CA, USA
1965
Earned a BA in Psychology from the Pomona College
1973
Earned a MA in Art from the Claremont Graduate School
1974
Received the Guggenheim Fellowship
1975
Received the Matching Grant from the National Endowment for the Arts
1980
Received the Visual Arts Fellowship from the Arizona Commission for the Arts and Humanities
1981
Received the Lumen Award from the New-York Section Illuminating Engineering Society with the International Association of Lighting Designers
1984
Received the Katherine T. and John D. MacArthur Foundation Fellowship

Exhibitions

2017
James Turrell Exhibitions 2017:
James Turrell, Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, North Adams, MA
James Turrell: Immersive Light, Long Museum, Shanghai, China
2016
James Turrell Exhibitions 2016:
James Turrell: Light Reignfall, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA
James Turrell, Pace Prints, New York, NY
James Turrell: 67 68 69, Pace Gallery, New York, NY
James Turrell, Pace Palo Alto, CA
2015
James Turrell Exhibitions 2015:
James Turrell, Kayne Griffin Corcoran, Los Angeles, CA
LightScape: James Turrell at Houghton, Houghton Hall, Norfolk, UK
James Turrell: From the Guggenheim, Aten Reign, Häusler Contemporary, Zurich, Switzerland
2014
James Turrell Exhibitions 2014:
Jame Turrell: A Retrospective, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Australia
James Turrell from the Guggenheim, Hiram Butler Gallery, Houston, TX
James Turrell: Prints and Process, Pace Prints, New York, NY
James Turrell: Light Spaces, Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
James Turrell, Pace London, UK
2013
James Turrell Exhibitions 2013:
A Retrospective, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA (solo exhibition)
A Retrospective, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, USA (solo exhibition)
2012
James Turrell Exhibitions 2012:
Twilight Epiphany, Skyspace, Rice University Houston, USA
Dissecting Nature, Quint Contemporary Art, La Jolla, CA
It Happened at Pomona: Art at the Edge of Los Angeles 1969-1973 (Part 3), Pomona College Museum of Art, Claremont, CA
Prints, Devin Borden Hiram Butler Gallery, Houston, TX
2011
James Turrell Exhibitions 2011:
See! Color!, der Vidar Foundation, Järna, Sweden (solo exhibition)
September 11, MoMA PS1, New York, NY, USA
Highlights of the Peter Blum Edition Archive, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Houston, TX, USA
Venice in Venice, Nyehaus, New York, NY, USA
APANI, Arsenale, Venice Biennale, Italy
Present Tense, Kayne Griffin Corcoran, Santa Monica, CA (solo exhibition)
2010
James Turrell Exhibitions 2010:
James Turrell, Gagosian Gallery, London, England (solo exhibition)
ColorForms, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC
2009
James Turrell Exhibitions 2009:
Dynamic Light Installation, Dornier Museum Friedrichshafen, Germany
The Wolfsburg Project, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Germany
James Turrell - Geometrie des Lichts, Zentrum für Lichtkunst Unna, Germany
Time & Place: Los Angeles, 1958-1968, Kunsthaus Zürich, Switzerland
2008
James Turrell Exhibitions 2008:
James Turrell, Baldwin Gallery, Aspen, CO, USA
Time & Place: Los Angeles, 1958-1968, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden

Public Collections

*Denotes permanent installation
 * 21st Century Art Museum, Kanazawa, Japan, “Blue Planet Sky, 2004” (Skyspace)
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York
ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum, Denmark (The Dome)
Arizona State University, Tempe (Skyspace)
The Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois
* Bennesse Corporation, Naoshima, Japan (Architectural work)
* Louise T. Blouin Institute, London, “Light Raiment, 2006” (Architectural lighting)
*Center for International Lichtkunst, Unna, Germany, “Third Breath, 2005” (Skyspace)
Chateau De Rochechouart, France
*Chichu Art Museum, Naoshima Island, Japan, “Open Sky, 2004” (Skyspace); “Open Field, 2000”; “Afrum, Pale Blue, 1968”
* Cheekwood Museum of Art, Memphis, “Blue Pesher, 1999” (Skyspace)
* City Hall Annex, Barcelona
* Contemporary Art Museum, Kumamoto, Japan
* Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas (Skyspace)
* De Pont Stitching Foundation, Tilburg, The Netherlands
*Engadine Hotel Castell, Zouz, Switzerland, “Piz Uter, 2005” (Skyspace)
*Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, de Young Museum, San Francisco, “3 Gems, 2005” (Skyspace)
Federal Office Building, San Francisco
Fontainebleau Hotel, Miami, “Third Eye, 2008”
Foundacion la Caixa, Madrid
Foundation Cartier, Pour L’Art Contemporain, Paris
* Franklin Park Conservatory, Columbus, “Light Raiment II, 2008” (Architectural lighting)
* Fundación NMAC, Véjer de la Frontera, Cádiz, Spain, “Second Wind, 2005–2009” (Skyspace)
Greenwich Academy, Connecticut (Architectural work)
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
*Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, “Light Reign, 2003” (Skyspace)
Hess Art Collection, Liebefel-Bern, Switzerland
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.
* Indianapolis Art Museum, Indiana
* The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, “Space that Sees, 1992” (Skyspace)
* Kawanishi Town, Niigata Prefecture, Japan, “House of Light, 2000” (Skyspace and Architectural lighting)
* Kielder Partnership, Northumberland, United Kingdom (Outdoor work)
Kilfane Gardens Trust, County Kilkenny, Ireland
Kunsthalle Mannheim, Germany, “Four Eyes, 2007” (Architectural lighting)
Kunsthaus Bregenz, Austria, “Color to White, 1997” (Architectural lighting)
*Kunstsammlung für Nordrhein und Westfalen, Dusseldorf, Germany
Lannan Foundation, Santa Fe Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Fe
Leeum, Samsung Museum of Modern Art, Seoul
* Lenbachhaus, Munich
* Live Oak Meeting, Houston, “Live Oak Friends Meeting House, 2000” (Skyspace)
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, California
* Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh
Millennium Dome, London
Ministry of Culture, Le Crestett, France
* Munich Rucksversicherung, Germany
Musée d’art contemporain, Lyon, France
Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, Quebec
Musée départemental d'art contemporain de Rochechouart, France
Museu Colecção Berardo, Lisbon
* Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt am Main
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
* The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, “The Light Inside, 2000” (Architectural lighting)
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
* MoMA PS1, Long Island City, New York, “Meeting, 1986” (Skyspace)
Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen, Belgium (Outdoor work)
Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas, “Tending Blue, 2003” (Architectural lighting)
*National Gallery of Australia, Canberra (Skyspace)
Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, California
Northern Arts, Caragill, United Kingdom (Outdoor work)
* Panza Collection, Varese, Italy
* Phoenix Art Museum, Arizona, “Mohl ip, 2008” (Tall Glass) (Largest Tall Glass ever made)
Peugeot Design Center, Velizy, France, “Ship of State, 2004” (Architectural lighting)
*Pomona College Museum of Art, Claremont, California, “Dividing the Light, 2007” (Skyspace)
Pont du Gard, Nimes, France (Architectural lighting)
* Principal Corporation, Des Moines
* Queensland Gallery of Modern Art, South Brisbane, Australia, 2017 (Architectural lighting)
*Rice University, Houston, “Twilight Epiphany”, 2012 (Skyspace)
*Salzburg Foundation, Austria, “Blue Pearl, 2006” (Skyspace)
San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla
Seattle Art Museum, Washington
* Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Arizona, “Knight Rise, 2001” (Skyspace)
Skystone Foundation, Flagstaff (Outdoor work)
* Sprengel Museum, Hanover
Stroom, Den Haag, The Netherlands (Outdoor work)
Takarazuka University, Osaka (Architectural lighting)
*Turrell Museum, Colomé, Argentina (22 works)
* University of Illinois, Chicago, “Hard Scrabble Sky, 2005” (Skyspace)
* University of Texas, Austin, “The Color Inside, 2013” (Skyspace)
Verbundnetz Gas AG, Leipzig, “Massed Light, 1997” (Architectural lighting)
*Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, “Sky Pesher, 2005” (Skyspace)
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
* Yorkshire Sculpture Park, York, United Kingdom, “Deer Shelter, 2005” (Skyspace)
* Zentrum für Internationale Lichtkunst, Unna, Germany, “Floater 99, 2001” (Shallow space) and “Third Breath, 2005” (Skyspace) (First “camera obscura” type Skyspace ever built)
Zug Railway Station, Switzerland, “Light Transport, 2003” (Architectural lighting)

Literature

2017
Ways of Seeing (exhibition catalogue). Istanbul: Arter, Space for Art, 2017: 151.
2016
Agee, William C. Modern Art in America. London and New York: Phaidon Press Limited, 2016: 312–5, illustrated; Julliard, Julie Enckell ed. Nestlé Art Collection. Zurich: JRP|Ringier Kunstverlag AG, 2016: 148–9, illustrated; Pasti, Carolina. A Life with Artists: Hannelore and Rudolph Schulhof. Texts by Richard Armstrong, Tom Freudenheim, Carol Goldberg, Suzanne Landau et al. New York: Skira Rizzoli Publication, 2016: 216, illustrated.
2015
Falconer, Morgan. Painting Beyond Pollock. London: Phaidon Press Limited, 2015: 140; LightScape: James Turrell at Houghton (exhibition catalogue). Texts by Peter Murray and David Cholmondeley. Interview with the artist by Hiram C. Butler. Norfolk, United Kingdom: Houghton Hall, 2015.
2014
Bruno, Giuliana. Surface Matters of Aesthetics, Materiality, and Media. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2014: 54, 65, illustrated; Govan, Michael and Anna Bernardini. Robert Irwin, James Turrell, Villa Panza (exhibition catalogue). Varese, Italy: Fondo Ambiente Italiano, Villa e Collezione Panza, 2014; James Turrell: A Retrospective (exhibition catalogue). Texts by EC Krupp, Lucina Ward, Simeran Maxwell, and Jaklyn Babington. Interview by Michael Govan. Canberra: National Gallery of Australia, 2014; Schmidt, Jason. Artists II. Göttingen: Steidl Verlog, 2014, illustrated.
2013
Blanton Museum of Art: 110 Favorites from the Collection. Austin: Blanton Museum of Art, The University of Texas, 2013: 88, illustrated; The Contemporary Art Masters. Japan: Bijutsu Shuppan-Sha, 2013: 182–185, illustrated; Crump, James. James Welling: Monograph (exhibition catalogue). Texts by Mark Godfrey and Thomas Seelig. New York: Aperture Foundation, 2013: 81, illustrated; De Young: Inside and Out. San Francisco: Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, 2013: 50–51, illustrated; Ferriani, Barbara and Marina Pugliese, eds. Ephemeral Monuments: History and Conservation of Installation. Text by Germano Celant. Los Angeles: Getty Publications, 2013: 47, illustrated; James Turrell (exhibition catalogue). Texts by Carmen Giménez and Nat Trotman. New York: The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, 2013; James Turrell: A Retrospective (exhibition catalogue). Texts by Michael Govan, Christine Y. Kim, Alison de Lima Greene and E.C. Krupp. Los Angeles and Munich: Los Angeles County Museum of Art; DelMonico Books, imprint of Prestel, 2013; Light Show (exhibition catalogue). Texts by Cliff Lauson, Anne Wagner, and Philip Ball. London: Hayward Publishing, 2013: 157–162, illustrated; Moving: Norman Foster on Art (exhibition catalogue). Texts by Norman Foster and Jean-Marc Prevost. London: Ivorypress Architecture, 2013: 114–115, 384, illustrated; Pasina, Irene. Luce di Interni. Milan: FrancoAngeli s.r.l., 2013: 77, 83–86, illustrated.
2012
Decade: Contemporary Collection 2002–2012 (exhibition catalogue). Texts by David Pagel and Heather Pesanti. Buffalo, New York: The Buffalo Fine Arts Academy, 2012: 339, illustrated; Diacono, Mario. Archetypes and Historicity. Paintings and Other Radical Forms 1995–2007. Milan: Silvana Editoriale, 2012: 106–116; Gielen, Denis. S.F. Art, Science & Fiction. Brussels: Musée des Arts Contmporains de la Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles au Grand-Hornu, 2012: illustrated; Klein, Kelly. Pools Reflections. New York: Rizzoli, 2012: illustrated; Tiberghien, Gilles A. Land Art. Paris: Dominique Carré éditeur, 2012: illustrated; James Turrell: Within Without. Text by Lucina Ward. Canberra: National Gallery of Australia, 2012.
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