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Vija Celmins

(American/Latvian, born 1938)

Vija Celmins

Untitled (Web 4), 2002

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Vija Celmins

Night Sky 3, 2002

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Vija Celmins

Night Sky 2 (Reversed), 2002

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Vija Celmins

Drypoint - Ocean Surface (Second State), 1985

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Biography

Timeline

1938: Born in Riga, Latvia
1962: Bachelor of Fine Arts: John Herron Institute, Indianapolis, IN
1965: MFA, University of California, Los Angeles
1980: Guggenheim Fellowship
1981: Resident Artist, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture
1984: Taught at Cooper Union, New York, NY
1987: Taught at Yale Graduate School, New Haven, CT
1996: American Academy of Arts and Letters, Award in Art
1997: John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Fellowship
2000 - 2001: Coutts Contemporary Art Foundation Award
: Currently lives and works in New York, NY

Exhibitions

2011: Vija Celmins: Desert, Sea and Stars, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany
Prints And Works On Paper, Senior & Shopmaker Gallery, New York, USA
2009: Time & Place: Los Angeles, 1958-1968, Kunsthaus Zürich, Switzerland
2008: Time & Place: Los Angeles, 1958-1968, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
2007: Vija Celmins: A Drawing Retrospective, Hammer Galleries, UCLA, Los Angeles, USA
Under the Starry Sky, Museum Franz Gertsch, Burgdorf, Switzerland
The Painting of Modern Life, Hayward Gallery, London, England
The Third Mind, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France
Magritte and Contemporary Art: The Treachery of Image, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, USA
2006: Selections from the Collection of Edward R. Broida, National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
McKee Gallery, New York, USA
Plane/Figure, Kunstmuseum Winterthur, Switzerland
Drawing Retrospective, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
A Trace of A Trace of A Trace, Perry Rubenstein Gallery, New York, USA
Celmins, Gibbs + Martin, Timothy Taylor Gallery, London, England
Step Into Liquid, Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver, USA
Against the Grain: Contemporary Art from the Edward R. Broida Collection, Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
Imagined Worlds, AXA Gallery, New York, USA
2005: A Very Liquid Heaven, Tang Museum and Art Gallery, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, USA
Contemporary Voices, works from the UBS Art Collection, Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
The Undiscovered Country, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, USA
2004: Vija Celmins, Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
2003: Celmins Prints, Herron School of Art, Indianapolis, USA
Vija Celmins Prints, Susan Sheehan Gallery, New York, USA
2002: The Prints of Vija Celmins, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA
2001: Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Basel, Switzerland
McKee Gallery, New York, USA
1999: Anthony d’Offay Gallery, London, England
1997: Vija Celmins Works 1964-1996, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia Madrid, Spain
Survey exhibition, Institute of Contemporary Art, London, England
1996: McKee Gallery, New York, USA
1995: Vija Celmins, Fondation Cartier pour l'Art Contemporain Paris, France
About Place: Recent Art of the Americas, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, USA
Contemporary Drawing: Exploring the Territory, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, USA
American Art Today: Night Paintings, Art Museum at Florida International University, Miami, USA
American Academy Invitational Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture, American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, USA
Group Exhibition, Daniel Weinberg Gallery, San Francisco, USA
1994: Love in the Ruins: Art and Inspiration of L.A., Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, USA
The World of Tomorrow, Thomas Solomon's Garage, Los Angeles, USA
Facts and Figures: Selections from the Lannan Foundation Collection, Lannan Foundation, Los Angeles, USA
Fine Lines, Anthony Slayter-Ralph, Santa Barbara, USA
Institute of Cultural Anxiety, Institute of Contemporary Art, London, England
Vija Celmins - Prints, 1970-1992, Cirrus, Los Angeles, USA
Vija Celmins Retrospective, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, USA
1993: Vija Celmins - Printed Matter, University Gallery, Fine Arts Center, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA
1992: McKee Gallery, New York, USA
1990: Vija Celmins: Drawings and Prints, Pence Gallery, Santa Monica, USA
1988: McKee Gallery, New York, USA
1983: McKee Gallery, New York, USA
1973: Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA
1965: Dickinson Art Center, UCLA, Los Angeles, USA

Literature

: Vija Celmins: A Survey Exhibition (exh. cat., intro. S. C. Larsen; Newport Beach, CA, Harbor A. Mus.; Chicago, IL, A. Club; Yonkers, NY, Hudson River Mus.; Washington, DC, Corcoran Gal. A.; 1980)
: W. W. Bartman, ed.: Vija Celmins (Interviewed by Chuck Close) (New York, 1992)

Vija Celmins

(American/Latvian, born 1938)

Vija Celmins

Vija Celmins

Vija Celmins

Vija Celmins

Biography

Timeline

Exhibitions

Literature

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