92. VIJA
CELMINS
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2009-10
5-plate,
7-color aquatint with CNC engraving, spit bite, drypoint and graphite pencil,
wood, and glass printed on Hahnemühle Copperplate bright white paper Edition 22
with 8 artist proofs Image: 24 1/2 x 18 1/4 inches 62 x 46.5 cm
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Suspended
Plane,1966 oil on canvas 16 x 27 inches 40.6 x 68.6 cm Private Collection
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#5, 1999 charcoal on paper 22 x 25 1/2 inches 55.9 x 64.8 cm Private Collection
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BIO & STEPS
Born:
1938 Born October 25
in Riga, Latvia
1948 Arrives
in United States, New York City
1949 Family
settles in Indianapolis, IN
Nowadays:
Lives
and works in New York City
Studies:
1961 Fellowship to
Yale University Summer Session
1962 BFA
from John Herron Institute, Indianapolis
1962-1980 Lives
and works in Venice, CA
1965 MFA
from University of California at Los Angeles
1965-1966 Instructor,
California State College, Los Angeles
1967-1972 Instructor,
University of California, Irvine
1968 Cassandra
Foundation Award
1971 & 1976 Artist’s
Fellowship from National Endowment for the Arts
1976-1977 Instructor,
California Institute of the Arts, Valencia
1980 Guggenheim
Fellowship
1981 Resident
artist, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Maine
Moves to New York City
1984 Teaches
at Cooper Union, New York
1987 Teaches
at Yale Graduate School, New Haven, CT
1996 American
Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Art
1997 Skowhegan
Medal for Painting
John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Fellowship
2000-2001 Coutts
Contemporary Art Foundation Award
2006 Athena
Award for Excellence in Painting
2008 Awarded
the Carnegie Prize
2009 Roswitha
Haftmann Prize
Honored at the International Print Center New
York Spring Benefit
2013 Receives
honorary Doctor of Fine Arts degree from Indiana University
Themes and
style:
Galán was part of the second generation of Mexican
neo-Expressionist artists during the late 1980s and 1990s. Galán’s paintings
were heavily influenced by Surrealist, self-analyzing themes found in the works
of Frida Kahlo (Mexican, 1907–1954). He explores his own identity and
narcissism using symbolism, humor, and sarcasm.
Techniques:
Her work
is developed in paintings, drawings and prints.
Exhibitions
1965 Dickson Art
Center, UCLA, MFA exhibition
1966 David Stuart
Galleries, Los Angeles, CA
1969 Riko Mizuno
Gallery, Los Angeles
1973 Riko Mizuno
Gallery, Los Angeles
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
1975 Felicity Samuel
Gallery, London, England
Broxton Gallery, Los Angeles
1978 Security Pacific
National Bank, Los Angeles
1980 * Vija Celmins: A Survey Exhibition,
originating at the Newport Harbor Art Museum,
Newport Beach, CA: traveled to the Arts Club of Chicago, IL;
Hudson River Museum,
Yonkers, NY; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
1983 Drawings and
Painted Bronzes, David McKee Gallery, New York
1988 Vija Celmins, New
Paintings, David McKee Gallery, New York
1990 Vija Celmins:
Drawings and Prints, P*ence Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1992 Vija Celmins, New
Paintings, McKee Gallery, New York 1969 * Contemporary American Drawings, Modern
Art Museum of Fort Worth, TX
1992-1994 * Vija Celmins Retrospective, organized by
the Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia:
traveled to Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington,
Seattle; Walker Art Center,
Minneapolis, IL; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York;
Museum of Contemporary
Art, Los Angeles
1993 Vija Celmins –
Printed Matter, University Gallery, Fine Arts Center, University of
Massachusetts, Amherst
1994 Vija Celmins –
Prints, 1970-1992, Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles
1995 * Vija Celmins, Fondation Cartier pour
l’art contemporain, Paris
1996 Night Sky
Paintings & Drawings 1994-1996, McKee Gallery, New York
1996-1997 * Vija Celmins: Works 1964-1996, organized
by and exhibited at the Institute of
Contemporary Art, London: traveled to the Museo Nacional de
Arte Reina
Sofia, Madrid, Spain; Kunstmuseum Winterthur, Switzerland;
Museum für Moderne Kunst,
Frankfurt, Germany
1999 Vija Celmins,
Anthony d’Offay Gallery, London
2000-2001 * Vija Celmins Prints, Cirrus Gallery, Los
Angeles
2001 * Vija Celmins, New Paintings, McKee
Gallery, New York, second place for best show in a
commercial gallery, International Association of Art Critics
(AICA
Vija Celmins Drawings, Museum fur Gegenwartskunst, Basel,
Switzerland
2002 * The Prints of Vija Celmins, The
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
2002-2003 Vija
Celmins: Works from The Edward R. Broida Collection, Museum of Fine Arts
Houston, TX (exhibition brochure)
2003 Celmins Prints,
Herron School of Art, Indianapolis, IN
Vija Celmins Prints, Susan Sheehan Gallery, New York
The Paradise [15], Vija Celmins, The Douglas Hyde Gallery,
Trinity College, Dublin,
Ireland
2006-2007 * Vija Celmins: A Drawing Retrospective,
Centre Pompidou, Paris: traveled to The Hammer
Museum, UCLA, Los Angeles
2010 * Vija Celmins:
New Paintings, Objects, and Prints, McKee Gallery, New York
* Vija Celmins:
Television and Disaster, 1964-68, Menil Collection, Houston
2011 * Wüste Meer und
Sterne (Desert, Sea, and Stars), Ludwig Museum, Cologne. Travels to
Louisiana Museum, Humlebæk, Denmark
Vija Celmins: Prints and Works on Paper, Senior and Shopmaker
Gallery, New York
2012 Artist Rooms: Vija Celmins, Tate Britain, London
2014 * Vija Celmins, The Latvian National Art
Museum, Riga, Latvia
2014-2015 Vija
Celmins: Intense Realism, Saint Louis Art Museum, MO
2015 Vija Celmins:
Selected Prints, Gemini G.E.L. at Joni Moisant Weyl Project Space, New York
Selected Gropu Exhibitions:
1970 * Annual of Contemporary American
Sculpture, Whitney Museum of
American Art, New York
1970-1971 Paperworks,
The Museum of Modern Art, Art Lending Service, New York
1971 Continuing
Surrealism, La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, CA
24 Young Los Angeles Artists, Los Angeles County Museum of
Art
1972 California
Prints, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
A Survey of West Coast Art from the Permanent Collection and
Loan Collections,
Pasadena Art Museum, CA
L.A., San Francisco Art Institute, CA
* Eighteenth
National Print Exhibition, Brooklyn Museum, NY; California Palace of the
Legion of Honor, San Francisco
1973 Ten Years of
Contemporary Art Council Acquisitions, Los Angeles County Museum of Art
* American
Drawings 1963-1973, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Young American Artists – Drawings and Grafics (sic), Sweden
(traveling exhibition)
1974 * Seventy First American Exhibition, Art
Institute of Chicago, IL
1975 A Drawing Show,
Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, CA
* Recent
Drawings, The Huntsville Museum of Art, AL; Princeton University, NJ; Cummer
Gallery of Art, Jackonsville, FL; State University of New
York, Stony Brook
1976 * America 1976, Corcoran Gallery of Art,
Washington, D.C.; Wadsworth Athenaeum,
Hartford, CT; Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, MA; The Minneapolis
Institute of Arts, MN;
Milwaukee Art Center, WI; Forth Worth Art Museum, TX; San
Francisco Museum of
Modern Art; High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA; The Brooklyn
Museum, NY
1977 * American Artists: A New Decade, The
Detroit Institute of Arts, MI; Modern Art Museum of
Fort Worth, TX; Grand Rapids Art Museum, MI
Painting and Sculpture in California: The Modern Era, San
Francisco Museum of Modern
Art; National Collection of Fine Arts, Smithsonian
Institution, Washington, D.C.
30 Years of American Printmaking, The Brooklyn Museum, NY
* Biennale
Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
1979 The Decade in
Review: Selection of the 1970′s, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
1981 * Contemporary American Realism,
Pennsylvania Academy of Art, Philadelphia
* The Image of
the House in Contemporary Works on Paper, Hayden Gallery,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
* The
Contemporary American Landscape, Hirschl and Adler Contemporary Art, New York
1983 * Drawings by Painters, Long Beach Museum
of Art, CA; The Oakland Museum, CA
* The American
Artist as Printmaker: 23rd National Print Exhibition, Brooklyn Museum, NY
1983-1984 * American Still life 1945-1983,
Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX; Albright-Knox
Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY; Columbus Museum of Art, OH;
Neuberger Museum, Purchase,
NY; Portland Art Museum, OR
Hassam & Speicher Fund Purchase Exhibition, American
Academy and Institute of Arts
& Letters, New York
1984 * American Women Artists-Part 1: 20th
Century Pioneers, Sidney Janis Gallery, New York
Automobile and Culture, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los
Angeles
Landscapes, Matthews Hamilton Gallery, Philadelphia
* Gemini, G.E.L.,
Art and Collaboration, The New York Academy for the Sciences, New
York and The National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
1985 Focus on Realism:
Selections from the Collection of Glenn C. Janss, Boise Gallery of Art, Idaho.
Traveled to San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Fifty Artists, Fifty Printers, University of New Mexico Art
Museum, Albuquerque, NM (brochure)
1986 Pasadena
Collects, Pasadena Art Museum
* Public and
Private: American Prints Today, Brooklyn Museum of Art, NY
1986-1987 * Individuals: A Selected History of
Contemporary Art, 1945-1986, Museum of
Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
1987-1988 Collaborative
American Printmaking from Whistler to the Present, Joe and Emily Lowe Art
Gallery, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
* A Graphic Muse:
Prints by Contemporary American Women, Mount Holyoke College Art
Museum, South Hadley, MA
1988 Welcome Back:
Works by Contemporary Artists from Indiana, Herron Gallery,
Indianapolis Center for Contemporary Art, IN
Of Another Nature, Loughelton Gallery, New York
1989 * Making Their Mark: Women Artists Move
into the Mainstream, Cincinnati Art Museum,
OH; New Orleans Museum of Art, LA; Denver Art Museum, CO;
Pennsylvania Academy
of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia
* L.A. Pop in the
Sixties, Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, CA
Boundaries: A Traditional of Drawing at Herron School of Art,
Herron School of Art
Gallery, Indiana University, Indianapolis
Multiples, Marc Richards Gallery, Los Angeles
Contemporary Prints And Drawings from the Mellon Bank
Collection, Allegheny College,
Meadville, PA
* The 1980′s:
Prints from the Collection of Joshua P. Smith, National Gallery of Art,
Washington, D.C.
1990 The Persistence
of Vision, Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York
* Home,
Asher-Faure Gallery, West Hollywood, CA
1991 * The Times, The Chronicle, and The Observer,
Kent Fine Art, New York
(curated by Douglas Blau)
* The
Contemporary Drawing: Existence Passage and the Dream, Rose Art Museum,
Brandeis University, MA
A Bestiary, Paula Cooper, New York
Women Artists, Miramar Gallery, Sarasota, FL
1991-1992 For 25
Years: Gemini G.E.L., The Museum of Modern Art, New York
1992 Selections from
the Broida Collection, Palm Beach Community College Museum of Art, FL
44th Annual Academy – Institute Purchase Exhibition, American
Academy and Institute of
Arts and Letters, New York
Elemental Nature, Midtown Payson Gallery, New York
* Contemporary
Icons: From the Sublime to the Fetishistic, Bertha and Karl Leubsdorf Art
Gallery, Hunter College, New York
1993 Les Environs,
Pamela Auchincloss Gallery, New York
* About Nature, Cleveland
Center for Contemporary Art, OH
* Azur, Fondation
Cartier pour l’art contemporain, Paris
Landscape, Myth vs. Reality, Barbara Mathes Gallery, New York
45th Annual American Academy Purchase Exhibition, American
Academy of Arts and
Letters, New York
On Paper, Asher Faure Gallery, Los Angeles
Drawings, 30th Anniversary Exhibition for the Foundation for
the Performance Arts,
Leo Castelli Gallery, New York
1994 Contemporary
Master Prints, Fletcher / Priest Gallery, Worcester, MA
* Love in the
Ruins: Art and the Inspiration of L.A., Long Beach Museum of Art, CA
The World of Tomorrow, Thomas Solomon’s Garage, Los Angeles
Facts and Figures: Selections from the Lannan Foundation
Collection, Lannan
Foundation, Los Angeles.
Fine Lines, Anthony Slayter-Ralph, Santa Barbara, CA
* Institute of
Cultural Anxiety, Institute of Contemporary Art, London
1995 * About Place: Recent Art of the Americas,
Art Institute of Chicago, IL
* Contemporary
Drawing: Exploring the Territory, curated by Mark Rosenthal, Aspen Art
Museum, Colorado.
* American Art
Today: Night Paintings, The Art Museum, Florida International University,Miami
* American
Academy Invitational Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture, American Academy
of Arts and Letters, New York
1996 Group Exhibition,
Daniel Weinberg Gallery, San Francisco
* About
Photography, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Japan
Views From Abroad: European Perspectives on American Art 2,
Whitney Museum of
American Art, New York; Museum fur Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt,
Germany
1997 * Birth of the Cool: American Painting,
Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, Germany; Kunsthaus,
Zurich, Switzerland
* Scene of the
Crime, The Armand Hammer Museum, UCLA, Los Angeles
* Sunshine &
Noir: Art in L.A. 1960 – 1997, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Denmark;
Kunstmuseum, Wolfsburg, Germany; Castello di Rivoli, Turin,
Italy; Armand Hammer
Museum, Los Angeles
* Views from
Abroad: European Perspectives on American Art 2, Museum fur Moderne
Kunst, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
* Whitney
Biennial 1997, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Heaven: Public View, Private View, P.S. 1, New York
Spiders and Webs, Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston, MA
1997-1998 * The Collection of the Fondation Cartier
pour l’art contemporain, Fondation Cartier pour
l’art contemporain, Paris
1998 * The Edward R. Broida Collection, Orlando
Museum of Art, FL
* Terra
Incognita, Neues Museum Weserburg, Bremen, Germany, Fondation Cartier pour
l’art contemporain, Paris
* Photo Image:
Printmaking 60s to 90s, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
êtrenature, Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, Paris
* Speed: Visions
of an Accelerated Age, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London
* Sea Change, The
Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, NY
C, Elizabeth Cherry Contemporary Art, Tucson, AZ
1999 * Powder, Aspen Art Museum, CO
* Flashes:
Contemporary Trends, The Cartier Collection, The Exhibition Center of the
Centro Cultural de Belem, Portugal
* Examining
Pictures: Exhibiting Paintings, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London; Museum of
Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
Paint / Land / Beauty, Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art,
Sunderland, England
• La realitat i el
desig, La Fundació Joan Miro, Barcelona
1999-2000 * Cosmos: From Romanticism to the
Avant-garde, The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts,
Montreal: Centre de Cultura Contemporania de Barcelona
* Regarding
Beauty: A View of the Late Twentieth Century, Hirshhorn Museum and
Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.:
traveled to Das Haus der
Kunst, Munich, Germany
* The American
Century, Art & Culture 1900-2000, Part II, 1950-2000, Whitney
Museum of American Art, New York
2000 * The Sea & the Sky, Beaver College
Art Gallery, Glenside, PA: traveled to Royal
Hibernian Academy, Dublin, Ireland
* Lost, Ikon
Gallery, Birmingham, UK
NEW works, McKee Gallery, New York
Conceptual Realism, Rosenwald-Wolf Gallery, The University of
the Arts, Philadelphia
2000-2001 * Celebrating Modern Art: The Anderson
Collection, San Francisco Museum of
Modern Art, CA
Prints and Multiples, Senior & Shopmaker Gallery, New
York
2001 * Centenary Exhibition, The Whitechapel
Art Gallery Centenary, London
* Les années Pop:
Cinéma et politique: 1956-1970, Musée National d’art Moderne, Centre
Georges Pompidou, Paris
Collaborations with Parkett: 1984 to Now, The Museum of
Modern Art, New York
What Is a Print? The Museum of Modern Art, New York
* Kindly Lent
Their Owner, The Private Collection of Steve Martin, Bellagio Gallery of Fine
Art, Las Vegas, NV
At Sea, Tate Liverpool, England
* Œuvres sur
papier (acquisitions 1996-2001), Musée National d’art Moderne, Centre
Georges Pompidou, Galerie d’Art graphique, Paris
2001-2002 EMPATHY:
Beyond the Horizon, Pori Art Museum, Finland: traveled to College of Fine
Arts, Sydney, Australia
* The Inward Eye,
Transcendence in Contemporary Art, Contemporary Arts Museum,
Houston, TX
2002 Women Artists:
Their Work and Influence 1950′s – 70′s, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco
Time to Consider, The Arts Respond to 9.11, Deutsche Bank
Lobby Gallery, New York
Painting: a passionate response, Sixteen American artists,
The Painting Center, New York
* Whitney
Biennial 2002, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
From the Observatory, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York
Insecta Magnifica, Wave Hill Glyndor Gallery, Bronx, New York
Annal Benefit, Art Resources Transfer, New York
* American
Standard (Para) Normality and Everyday Life, Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New
York
Regarding Landscape, Art Gallery at York University, Koffler
Gallery and the Museum of
Contemporary Canadian Art, Toronto
* Tempo, The
Museum of Modern Art, New York
* Biella Print
Triennial, Museo del Territorio Biellese, Italy
Living with Art: The Young Collectors Home, Red Dot, New York
Group Print Exhibition, Richard Levy Gallery, Albuquerque, NM
2002-2003 The
Museum, the Collection, the Director and his Loves, MMK Museum für Moderne
Kunst, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
* 110 Years: The
Permanent Collection of the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Modern
Art Museum of Fort Worth, Texas
2003 * Making an Impression: Printmaking at the
Herron School of Art, Herron Gallery,
Indianapolis, IN
New Prints, Berthot, Celmins, Puryear, McKee Gallery, New
York
* For the Record:
Drawing Contemporary Life, Vancouver Art Gallery, Canada
* Hyperrealismes
USA 1965-75, Musée d’Art Moderne et Contemporain de Strasbourg, France
Painting. From Rauschenberg to Murakami, 1964-2003, Venice
Biennale, Museo Correr, Italy
Stranger in the Village: Contemporary Drawings and
Photographs from The Museum of
Modern Art at Guild Hall, East Hampton, New York
2003-2004 * Defying Gravity: Contemporary Art and Flight,
North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh
Pencil: Drawings from the Collection, The Museum of Modern
Art, Queens
* Happiness: A
Survival Guide for Art and Life (Harmony), The Mori Art Museum, Tokyo
The Power of Wings: A SAVy Curated Exhibition, Duke University
Museum of Art, Durham, NC
2004 * The Not-So-Still Life, San Jose Museum
of Art,CA traveled to Pasadena Museum of California Art
Art by MacArthur Fellows, Carl Solway Gallery, Cincinnati, OH
From Here to Eternity, Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland
* North Fork/
South Fork: East End Art Now, The Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, New York
* Off The Wall,
Works from the JP Morgan Chase Collection, Bruce Museum, Greenwich, CT
Summer Camp, Patricia Faure Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
* Living Dust,
Norwich Gallery, Norwich School of Art and Design, Norfolk, UK
Contemporary Masters, Alan Koppel Gallery, Chicago, IL
2004-2005 * The Undiscovered Country, Hammer Museum,
Los Angeles
* A Very Liquid
Heaven, Tang Museum and Art Gallery, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY
2005 * Contemporary Voices, works from the UBS
Art Collection, Museum of Modern Art, New York
2005-2006 * Imagined Worlds, AXA Gallery, organized
by International Print Center, New York
2006 A Trace of A
Trace of A Trace, Perry Rubenstein Gallery, New York
Celmins, Gibbs + Martin, Timothy Taylor Gallery, London
Step Into Liquid, Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver, CO
Against the Grain: Contemporary Art from the Edward R. Broida
Collection, The Museum of
Modern Art, New York
Selections from the Collection of Edward R. Broida, National
Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
McKee Gallery, New York
* Plane/Figure,
Kunstmuseum Winterthur, Switzerland
2006-2007 * Magritte and Contemporary Art: The
Treachery of Image, Los Angeles County Museum of Art
2007 * Under the Starry Sky, Museum Franz
Gertsch, Burgdorf, Switzerland
The Painting of Modern Life, Hayward Gallery, London
The Third Mind, Palais de Tokyo, Paris
Early Signs, McKee Gallery, New York
2007-2008 Structures
and Surfaces, Sean Kelly Gallery, New York
2008 * Here’s The Thing: The Single Object
Still Life, Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY
* Attention to
Detail, Curated by Chuck Close, Flag Art Foundation, New York
* Sand: Memory,
Meaning, and Metaphor, Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, NY
* to:Night, contemporary
representations of the night, Hunter College Art Galleries, New York
* Print Lovers at
30: Celebrating Three Decades of Giving, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art,
Kansas City, MO
2008-2009 * Life on Mars: 55th Carnegie
International, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA
* Time and Place:
Los Angeles 1957-1968, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sewden
Artist’s Choice: Vik Muniz, Rebus, Museum of Modern Art, New
York
2009 Artist Rooms,
Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh
* Mark Wallinger
curates The Russian Linesman, The Hayward Gallery London
Artists and the Natural World, McKee Gallery, New York
Starry Messenger: Galileo’s Vision in 21st Century Art.
Louisiana Art & Science Museum,
Baton Rouge, LA
2010 * Seductive Subversion: Women Pop Artists
1958–68, organized by and exhibited at The Rosenwald-Wolf Gallery at The
University of the Arts, Philadelphia; traveled to the Brooklyn Museum of Art,
New York
Another Green World, Carriage Trade Gallery, New York
The Grenfell Press: Thirty Years of Collaboration, Knoedler
Project Space, New York
Vija Celmins, Joe Scanlan: Recent Works, Jan Mot, Brussels
Painting and Sculpture: Foundation for Contemporary Arts
Benefit Exhibition, Lehmann Maupin, New York
Water, Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University,
New Brunswick, NJ
Galaxy & Cosmos, Jason McCoy Inc., New York
* The World as
Poem, Lille métropole musée d’art moderne d’art contemporain et d’art brut,
France
Collecting Biennials, Whitney Museum of American Art, NY
2011 Selected
Histories: 20th-Century Art from the SFMOMA Collection, Los Angeles, CA
First-Hand Evidence: Vija Celmins, Robert Gober, Brice
Marden, Bruce Nauman, Gemini
G.E.L. at Joni Moisant Weyl, New York
* Venice in
Venice: Glow & Reflection: Venice California Art from 1960 to the Present,
presented by Foundation 20 21, in celebration of Pacific
Standard Time, Palazzo Contarini
Dagli Scrigni, Dorsoduro 1057/D, Venice, Italy
Globalissimo, 601 Artspace, New York
* Pacific Standard Time: State of Mind: New California Art,
circa 1970, Berkeley Museum of Art,
CA: travels to Orange County Museum
* Pacific Standard Time: Crosscurrents in LA Painting And
Sculpture 1945-1970, Getty
Museum, Los Angeles
Wander, Labyrinthine Variations, Centre Pompidou-Metz, France
Mondes Inventés Mondes Habités, Mudam Luxembourg
* Pacific
Standard Time: Under the Big Black Sun, Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art,
CA
Pacific Standard Time: Best Kept Secret: UCI and the
Development of Contemporary Art in
Southern California, 1964-1971, Laguna Art Museum, CA
Once Emerging, Now Emerging: Livin’ L.A., Cirrus Gallery, Los
Angeles, CA
Print by Print: Series from Dürer to Lichtenstein, Baltimore
Museum of Art, MD
2012 * Lifelike,
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN; Travels to: New Orleans Museum of Art,
Louisiana; Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA; Blanton Museum of Art,
University of Texas at Austin, TX
Printin’, The Museum of Modern Art, NY
Intimate Immensity: The Susan and Larry Marx Collection,
Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
EST-3: Southern California in New York, Los Angeles Art from
the Beth Rudin DeWoody Collection, Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, NY
* Surface/Infinity: Vija Celmins, Brice Marden, Agnes Martin,
Craig F. Starr Gallery, New York
* Explorateurs:
Œuvres du Centre national des arts plastiques, Musée de l’abbaye de
Sainte-Croix, Les Sables d’Olonne, France
* Regarding
Warhol: Sixty Artists, Fifty Years, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Drawings from Los Angeles in the 1960s and 1970s: The Marmor
Collection, Iris & B. Gerald
Cantor Center for Visual Arts at Stanford University,
Stanford, CA
2013 Out of the
Ordinary, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.
The Pop Object: The Still Life Tradition in Pop Art,
Acquavella Galleries, New York
In Cloud Country: Abstracting from Nature – From John
Constable to Rachel Whiteread, Harewood House, Terrace Gallery & State
Rooms, Leeds, UK
* The Distaff Side, The Granery, Sharon, CT
2013-2015 * Damage
Control: Art and Destruction Since 1950, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden,
Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC; Travels to: Musée d’Art Moderne
Grand-Duc Jean, Mudam, Luxembourg and Kunsthaus Graz, Austria
2014 * POP: Pop Art Myths, Museo
Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid, Spain
* Chapter 1:
Listening to Silence and Whispers / Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama Triennale,
Japan
In her own words:
“Most of the changes in the work occur
when I have had some kind of an experience that has been like a little
awakening experience—usually out in life, and I’ve forgotten all about it—and
then somehow it creeps into the work. I don’t know how to say that. You know, I
think actually the night skies came out of the pencil—pushing the pencil so
hard and getting in love with the black. The ocean came from (maybe) walking my
dog on the beach all the time and beginning to think of this giant surface. And
thinking about my own surfaces on the work. The desert—I used to roam around.”
Representative
Galleries:
Susan SHeehan
John Berggruen
For
more Information:
http://www.art21.org/texts/vija-celmins/interview-vija-celmins-building-surfaces