Vija Celmins

short biography

Vija Celmins (b. 1939, Riga / Latvia) based in New York, creates subtle renderings of the physical world like oceans, houses, spider's webs, and night skies. She studied at the John Herron School of Art in Indiana, at Yale University, and at UCLA.

paintings, sculptures, drawings, and prints

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collection/s

Centre Pompidou Paris Crystal Bridges, Bentonville Fondation Cartier, Paris Harwood Museum of Art, Taos LACMA - Los Angeles County Museum of Art MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge / MA ° Modern, Fort Worth Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach Sweet Briar College Art Gallery Tate Modern, London UBS Art Gallery, New York

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galleries

Adam Baumgold Gallery, New York Alan Koppel Gallery, Chicago Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston Barbara Mathes Gallery, New York Gemini G.E.L. at Joni Moisant Weyl, New York Gemini G.E.L. Los Angeles Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle Levy Gallery McKee Gallery, New York Senior & Shopmaker Gallery, New York Sho, Tokyo

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11. Oct 22. Jan 2023
Joan Didion: What She Means The Hammer Museum, Los Angeles

24. Sep 12. Jan 2020
Vija Celmins The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
24. Mar 15. Dec
Luogo e Segni Punta della Dogana, Venice
22. Feb 30. Jun
Lust der Täuschung. Von antiker Kunst bis zur Virtual Reality Ludwig Forum, Aachen

15. Dec 31. Mar 2019
Vija Celmins. To Fix the Image in Memory SFMOMA San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
17. Nov 27. Jan 2019
WEST BY MIDWEST MCA Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
17. Oct 17. Oct
One Day at a Time: Manny Farber and Termite Art MOCA The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles

05. Dec 15. Apr 2018
Art and Space Guggenheim Bilbao
29. Sep 14. Jan 2018
STERNE. Kosmische Kunst von 1900 bis heute LENTOS Kunstmuseum, Linz
10. Jun 17. Sep
documenta 14 Kassel documenta Kassel
20. May 30. Jul
Gray Matters Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus
08. Apr 16. Jul
documenta 14 Athens documenta Athens
10. Feb 22. Apr
Vija Celmins Matthew Marks Gallery, New York
22. Jan 13. Aug
Primary Structures. MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt

30. Jul 09. Jan 2017
The Universe and Art Mori Art Museum, Tokyo
10. Feb 15. Jul
Small Is Beautiful. SELECTED WORKS & BOOKS FROM THIRTY YEARSYork Parkett New York

20. Nov 31. Jan 2016
VIJA CELMINS Wiener Secession
01. May 27. Sep
America Is Hard to See Whitney Museum, New York
15. Apr 12. Jun
Off Canvas: Drawing Acquavella Galleries, New York
11. Mar 26. Apr
AND 601 Artspace, New York

14. Nov 15. Feb 2015
Damage Control - Art and Destruction Since 1950 Kunsthaus Graz / Universalmuseum Joanneum / Alte Galerie
19. Oct 14. Jun 2015
Boom She Boom - Werke aus der Sammlung MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt
06. Sep 04. Jan 2015
The Avant-Garde Collection Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach
12. Jul 12. Oct
Damage Control: Art and Destruction Since 1950 MUDAM Musée d´Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, Luxemburg

21. Jun 17. Aug
Reticulate McKenzie Fine Art, New York

10. Nov 10. Nov 2013
Lifelike New Orleans Museum of Art
08. Jul 10. Nov
Explorers Musée de l´Abbaye Sainte-Croix, Ville des Sables d´Olonne
23. Jun 29. Sep
Lifelike Blanton Museum of Art, Austin
24. May 19. Sep
Pink Caviar - New acquisitions 2009–2011 Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk
15. Mar 10. Jun
Pacific Standard Time: Kunst in Los Angeles Gropius Bau, Berlin
25. Feb 27. May
Lifelike Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
24. Feb 26. May
Lifelike Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego

08. Oct 15. Jan 2012
Mondes inventés, Mondes habités MUDAM Musée d´Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, Luxemburg
12. Sep 05. Mar 2012
ERRE, variations labyrinthiques Centre Pompidou-Metz
15. Apr 17. Jul
Vija Celmins Museum Ludwig Köln
11. Mar 29. May
Kompass - Zeichnungen aus dem Museum of Modern Art New York Gropius Bau, Berlin
11. Jan 22. May
WORKS FROM PARKETT COLLECTION montehermoso Vitoria-Gasteiz

08. Dec 15. Jan 2011
GALAXY & COSMOS Jason McCoy, New York
18. Nov 20. Feb 2011
Vija Celmins: Television and Disaster Menil Collection, Houston
31. Oct 27. Feb 2011
Die Natur der Kunst Kunst Museum Winterthur
15. Oct 09. Jan 2011
Seductive Subversion: Women Pop Artists, 1958-1968 Brooklyn Museum
13. Jul 03. Oct
Drawings and Prints: Selections from the Permanent Collection The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
19. Feb 22. Aug
Radical Conceptual MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt
16. Jan 28. Nov
Collecting Biennials Whitney Museum, New York

25. Oct 05. Apr 2010
1969 MoMA PS1, Long Island City
18. Jul 20. Sep
Mark Wallinger Curates: The Russian Linesman Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea
04. Apr 16. Aug
Women’s Work: Contemporary Women Printmakers San José Museum of Art
18. Feb 04. May
Mark Wallinger Curates: The Russian Linesman Hayward Gallery, London

04. Oct 06. Jan 2009
Time & Place: Los Angeles, 1958-1968 Moderna Museet Stockholm
11. Jun 26. Jul
Landscope Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris
09. May 28. Jun 2009
Mark Wallinger Curates: The Russian Linesman Leeds Art Gallery
03. May 11. Jan 2009
Carnegie International 2008 Carnegie International, Pittsburgh
15. Feb 18. May
How Artists Draw Menil Collection, Houston
06. Feb 04. May
The Painting of Modern Life Castello di Rivoli, Turin °

17. Nov 09. Mar 2008
If Everybody had an Ocean CAPC Contemporary Art Museum Bordeaux
16. Nov 03. Jan 2008
The Third Mind, Carte blanche à Ugo Rondinone Palais de Tokyo, Paris
10. Nov 21. Dec
Celmins, Puryear, Youngblood: Early Signs McKee Gallery, New York
04. Oct 30. Dec
The Painting of Modern Life Hayward Gallery, London
25. Aug 04. Nov
Extra-Ordinary The Contemporary Austin
07. Jul 17. Sep
What Is Painting MOMA - The Museum of Modern Art, New York
26. May 23. Sep
If Everybody Had an Ocean Tate St Ives
11. May 12. Aug
The David Whitney Bequest Menil Collection, Houston
04. May 04. Nov
UBS Openings: Drawings Tate Modern, London
24. Feb 24. Jun
Unter Sternen Museum Franz Gertsch, Burgdorf
28. Jan 22. Apr
Vija Celmins The Hammer Museum, Los Angeles

14. Dec 28. Jan 2007
Altered, Stitched & Gathered MoMA PS1, Long Island City
30. Nov 27. Jan 2007
Nothing and everything Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco °
19. Nov 04. Mar 2007
Magritte and Contemporary Art LACMA - Los Angeles County Museum of Art
25. Oct 12. Feb 2007
Vija Celmins Centre Pompidou Paris
26. Aug 03. Dec
Plane/Figure Kunst Museum Winterthur
24. Aug 12. Nov
Collection of Edward R. Broida National Gallery of Art, Washington °
28. Jun 04. Aug
Vija Celmins / Liz Deschenes / Zoe Leonard Tracy Williams, New York
03. May 10. Jul
Against the Grain: Contemporary Art from the Edward R. Broida Collection MOMA - The Museum of Modern Art, New York
18. Mar 19. Jun
Great American Drawings The Art Institute of Chicago
08. Mar 17. Jul
LOS ANGELES 1955-1985 Centre Pompidou Paris
27. Jan 28. May
See Into Liquid MCA Denver .

01. Sep 08. Jan 2006
Building and Breaking the Grid Whitney Museum, New York

03. Oct 16. Jan 2005
The Undiscovered Country The Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
30. Sep 30. Oct
Living Dust Norwich Gallery
21. May 14. Jul
Vija Celmins Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin

18. Oct 18. Jan 2004
Happiness - A Survival Guide for Art and Life Mori Art Museum, Tokyo
27. Jun 07. Oct
Hyperréalismes USA 1965-1975 MAMCS - Musée d´Art Moderne et Contemporain, Strasbourg °
26. Apr 27. Jul
Horizonte Museum Franz Gertsch, Burgdorf

16. Nov 09. Feb 2003
Vija Celmins Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
08. Mar 26. May
Whitney Biennial 2002 Whitney Biennial, New York

28. Sep 03. Mar 2002
Szenenwechsel XX MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt
27. Jun 24. Sep
De Artaud à Twombly Centre Pompidou Paris
16. Jun 16. Sep
Empatia / Empathy Pori Art Museum

08. Nov 21. Dec
New McKee Gallery, New York
23. Sep 27. Jan 2001
Vija Celmins - Prints Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles
01. Jul 27. Aug
The Sea and the Sky Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin
24. May 24. Jul
Elysian Fields Centre Pompidou Paris
26. Mar 23. Jul
Cosmos Palazzo Grassi, Venice
16. Feb 02. Apr
Lost IKON Birmingham
12. Feb 01. May
Beauty now Haus der Kunst, München '

23. Sep 07. Nov
Reality and Desire Joan Miró Foundation, Barcelona
24. Jul 19. Sep
Examining Pictures MCA Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
23. Jun 29. Jul
Vija Celmins Anthony d´Offay Gallery, London

17. May 20. Sep
Etre nature Fondation Cartier, Paris

18. Jun 07. Sep
Birth of the Cool - Amerikanische Malerei von Georgia O’Keeffe bis Christopher Wool Kunsthaus Zürich
28. Feb 01. Jun
Whitney Biennial 1997 Whitney Biennial, New York
14. Feb 11. May
Birth of the Cool - Amerikanische Malerei von Georgia O’Keeffe bis Christopher Wool Deichtorhallen Hamburg & Sammlung Falckenberg

09. Jul 19. Aug
L.A. Pop in the Sixties Phoenix Art Museum
08. Apr 17. Jun
L.A. Pop in the Sixties Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase

17. Nov 14. Jan 1990
L.A. Pop in the Sixties Palm Springs Art Museum
20. Sep 05. Nov
L.A. Pop in the Sixties Henry Art Gallery, Seattle
20. Apr 09. Jul
L.A. Pop in the Sixties Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach

artist / curator

Vija Celmins

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