Vija Celmins

Vija Celmins
Born
Vija Celmiņa

(1938-10-25) October 25, 1938 (age 86)
Riga, Latvia
NationalityAmerican
EducationJohn Herron School of Art
UCLA
Known forPainting, Graphic art, Printmaking
MovementAbstract, Minimalism, Photorealism
AwardsGuggenheim Fellowship, National Endowment for the Arts, American Academy of Arts and Letters, Carnegie Prize, MacArthur Fellowship

Vija Celmins (pronounced VEE-ya SELL-muns;[1] Latvian: Vija Celmiņa, pronounced TSEL-meen-ya; born October 25, 1938) is a Latvian American visual artist best known for photo-realistic paintings and drawings of natural environments and phenomena such as the ocean, spider webs, star fields, and rocks.[2][3][4] Her earlier work included pop sculptures and monochromatic representational paintings. Based in New York City, she has been the subject of over forty solo exhibitions since 1965, and major retrospectives at the Museum of Modern Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London and the Centre Pompidou, Paris.

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  2. ^ "UCLA Hammer Gallery". Archived from the original on 2009-07-03. Retrieved 2013-01-26.
  3. ^ "National Gallery". Archived from the original on 2012-05-16. Retrieved 2013-01-26.
  4. ^ Great women artists. Phaidon Press. 2019. p. 94. ISBN 978-0714878775.