|
|
VIJA CELMINS
1939 Born October 25 in Riga, Latvia
1949 Comes to U.S. and settles in Indianapolis, IN
1961 Receives Fellowship to Yale University Summer Session
1962 Receives BFA from John Herron Institute, Indianapolis, IN
1962-80 Lives and works in Venice, CA
1965 Receives MFA from UCLA
1968 Receives Cassandra Foundation Award
1971 Receives Artist?s Fellowship from the NEA
1973 One-woman show at Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
1976 Receives second Artist?s Fellowship from the NEA
1980 Receives Guggenheim Fellowship
Survey Exhibition originating at the Newport Harbor Art Museum, CA
1981 Resident artist, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME
1981-85 Whitney Museum of American Art publishes, The View, by Czeslaw Milosz, with four mezzotints by Vija Celmins
1996 Receives American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Art
1997 Receives Skowhegan Medal for Painting
Receives John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Fellowship, Chicago, IL
2000 Receives Coutts Contemporary Art Foundation Award
1980-Present Lives and works in New York
EXHIBITION HISTORY
Solo Exhibitions
1965 Dickson Art Center, University of California, Los Angeles. (M.F.A. exhibition)
1966 David Stuart Galleries, Los Angeles.
1969 Riko Mizuno Gallery, Los Angeles.
1973 Riko Mizuno Gallery, Los Angeles.
"Vija Celmins Drawings," Whitney Museum of American Art, New
York. Brochure with text by Elke M. Solomon.
1975 Felicity Samuel Gallery, London.
"Complete Lithographic Works, 1970-1975," Broxton Gallery, Los
Angeles
1976 "Matrix 19," Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford. Brochure with text by
Andrea Miller-Keller
1978 Security Pacific National Bank, Los Angeles.
1979-80 "Vija Celmins: A Survey Exhibition," organized by Fellows of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles.
Newport Harbor Art Mueum, Newport Beach, CA. Traveled to Arts Club of Chicago; Hudson river Museum, Yonder, New York; and Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Catalogue with essay by Susan C. Larsen.
1983 David McKee Gallery, New York.
1988 David McKee Gallery, New York.
1990 "Vija Celmins: Drawings and Prints," Pence Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1992 McKee Gallery, New York
1992-94 "Vija Celmins," Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.
Catalogue with essays by Judity Tannenbaum, Douglas Blau, and Dave Hickey. Traveling to Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; 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, Los Angeles, CA
1995 "Vija Celmins" Fondation Cartier pour l'Art Contemporain, Paris
1996 McKee Gallery, New York
1996-97 "Vija Celmins: Works 1964-1996," organized by and exhibited at the Institute of Contemporary Art-London, traveling to the Museo Nacional de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Kunstmuseum Winterthur, Switzerland, and Museum fur Moderne kunst, Frankfurt, Germany.
1999 "Vija Celmins," Anthony d?Offay Gallery, London, England
Selected Group Exhibitions
1966 "1966 All Media All California Exhibition," San Diego Art Guild at San Diego Fine Arts Gallery. Brochure.
"Four Painter," California State College, Hayward.
"Thirteen Views of the West," Philadelphia Arts Council, Philadelphia Museum of Art.
1967 "N.Y. & L.A. Drawings of the 60?s," University of Colorado, Boulder. Traveled to University of New Mexico, Albuquerque. Catalogue with foreword by Jan von Adlmann.
1968 "Faculty '68," University of California, Irvine. Catalogue with text by Fidel A. Danieli.
"NOW, 40 California Painters," Tampa Bay Art Center, Florida. Catalogue.
1969 "Summer Show," David Stuart Galleries, Los Angeles.
"Contemporary American Drawings," Fort Worth Museum, Texas. Catalogue with essay by Peter Plagens.
1970 "The Drawing Society: California, Arizona, Nevada, and Utah," University of California, Santa Barbara. Catalogue with foreword by David Gebhard.
"Annual Exhibition: Contemporary American Sculpture," Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Catalogue.
Riko Mizuno Gallery, Los Angeles.
1970-71 "Paperworks," Museum of Modern Art, Art Lending Service, New
York.
1971 "Continuing Surrealism," La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, CA.
"Earth, Animal, Vegetable and Mineral,? La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, CA"
"Twenty-four Young Los Angeles Artists," Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Brochure with text by Jane Livingston and Maurice Tuchman.
"Tamarind: A Renaissance of Lithography," International Exhibitions Foundation, Washington, D.C. A Loan exhibition from the Tamarind Lithography Workshops. Traveled nationally, 1971-76. Catalogue with preface by Dr. E. Maurice Bloch.
1972 "California Prints," 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.
"Eighteenth National Print Exhibition," Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York. Traveled to California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco. Catalogue with text by Jo Miller.
"The Topography of Nature: The Microcosm and Macrocosm," Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. Catalogue with essay by Suzanne Delahanty.
"Drawing," Janie C. Lee Gallery, Dallas.
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. Catalogue with essay by Elke M. Solomon.
"Prints from the Permanent Collection," Pasadena Museum of Modern Art, CA.
"Separate Realities," Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Barnsdall Park. Catalogue.
"Young American Artists-Drawings and Grafics" (sic), Sweden
1974 "Seventy-First American Exhibition," Art Institue of Chicago. Catalogue with foreword by A. James Speyer.
"Contemporary American Painting and Sculpture, 1974," Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois, Champaign.
"Earth, Sea and Skky," University of California, Riverside.
"Drawings," Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles.
"Drawings," Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York. Catalogue with text by Nancy Hoffman.
1975 "A Drawing Show," Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach,
California.
"Recent Drawings," organized by American Federation of the Arts. Huntsville Museum of Art, Alabama. Traveled to Princeton University, New Jersey; Cummer Gallery of Art, Jacksonville, Florida; and State University of New York, Stony Brook. Catalogue with text by Elke M. Solomon.
"Cirrus Editions Ltd. Prints," Contemporary Graphics Center, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, California.
1976 "America 1976," Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. A Bicentennial exhibition sponsored by United States Department of the Interior. Traveled to Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford; Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts; Minneapolis Institue of Arts; Milwaukee Art Center; Fort Worth Art Museum, Texas; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; High Museum of Art, Atlanta; and Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York. Catalogue with essay by Robert Rosenblum.
"The Lyon Collection: Modern and Contemporary Works on Paper," University Art Gallery, California State University, Long Beach. Catalogue with text by Jane K. Bledsoe.
1977 "American Artists: A New Decade," Detroit Institue of Arts, Michigan. Traveled to Fort worth Art Museum, Texas; and Grand Rapids Art Museum, Michigan. Catalogue with texts by Jay Belloli and Barbara Haskell.
"Painting and Sculpture in California: The Modern Era," San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Traveled to National Collection of Fine Arts, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. Catalogue.
"30 years of American Printmaking," Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York. Catalogue with text by Gene Baro.
"Biennial Exhibition," Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.
"The Early Sixties at UCLA," Frederick S. Wight Art Galllery, University of California, Los Angeles, CA.
1978 "Three Generations: Studies in Collage," Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA.
"Works on Paper," Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA.
1979 "The Decade in Review: Selections from the 1970's," Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Brochure with text by Patterson Sims.
1981 "Contemporary American Realism," Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia. Catalogue with text by Frank H. Goodyear, Jr.
"The Contemporary American Landscape," Hirschl& Adler Contemporaries, New York. Catalogue with text by Frank H. Goodyear, Jr.
"The Image of the House in Contemporary Works on Paper," Hayden Gallery, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge,MA
1982 "Great Big Drawings," Hayden Gallery, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge. Catalogue with text by Katy Kline.
1982-83 "Drawings by Painters," Long Beach Museum of Art, CA. Traveled to Oakland Museum, CA. Catalogue with foreword by Richard Armstrong.
1983 "The American Artist As Printmaker: 23rd National Print Exhibition," Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY. Catalogue with text by Barry Walker.
"Drawings by Painters," Long Beach Museum of Art, CA; The Oakland Museum, CA
1983-84 "American Still Life, 1945-1983," Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, Texas. Traveled to Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo; Columbus Museum of Art, Ohio; Neuberger Museum, State University of New York, Purchase; and Portland Art Museum, Oregon. Catalogue with text by Linda Cathcart.
"Hassam and Speicher Fund Purchase Exhibition," American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letter, New York.
1984 "American Women Artists Part I: 20th Century Pioneers," Sidney Janis Gallery, New York. Catalogue.
"Automobile and Culture," Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA.
"Landscapes," Matthews Hamilton Gallery, Philadelphia.
"Gemini G.E.L.: Art and Collaboration," National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Catalogue with text by Ruth E. Fine.
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.
1986 "Pasadena Collects," Pasadena Art Museum, CA.
1986-87 "Public and Private: American Prints Today," Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, New York. Catalogue with text by Barry Walker.
"Individuals: A Selected History of Contemporary Art, 1945-1986," Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles.
1987-88 "Collaborative American Printmaking from Whistler to the Present," Joe and Emily Lowe Art Gallery, Syracuse, New York.
"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 School of Art Gallery, Indianapolis.
"Of Another Nature," Loughelton Gallery, New York
1989 "Making Their Mark: Women Artists Move into the Mainstream," Cincinnati Art Museum. Traveled to New Orleans Museum of Art; Denver Art Museum; and Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia. Catalogue with essays by Judith Stein and Ann-Sargent Wooster.
"L.A. Pop in the Sixties," Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, CA. Traveled to Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle; Palm Springs Desert Museum, CA; Neuberger Museum, State University of New York, Purchase; and Phoenix Art Museum, Arizona. Catalogue with essays by Anne Ayres et al.
"Boundaries: A tradition of Drawing st 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, Pennsylvania.
"The 1980s: Prints from the Collection of Joshua P. Smith," National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Catalogue with text by Charles M. Ritchie.
"Nocturnal visions in Contemporary Painting," Whitney Museum of American Art at Equitable Center, New York. Brochure with foreword by Susan Lubowsky.
"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, Los Angeles. Catalogue.
1991 "The Times, The Chronicle and The Observer," Kent Fine Art, New York. Catalogue with essay by Douglas Blau.
"The Contemporary Drawing: Existence, Passge and Dream," Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts. Catalogue with text by Susan Swoops.
"A Bestiary," Paula Cooper Gallery, New York.
"Women Artists," Miramar Gallery, Sarasota, Florida.
"Art for the Nation: Gifts in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art," National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
1991-92 "For 25 Years: Gemini G.E.L," Museum of Modern Art, New York. Brochure with text by Riva Castleman.
1992 "Selections from the Broida Collection," Palm Beach Community College Museum of Art, Florida. Brochure.
"44th Annual Academy-Institute Purchase Exhibition," American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, New York.
"Contemporary Icons: From the Sublime to the Fetishistic," Bertha and Karl Leubsdorf Art Gallery at Hunter College, New York.
1993 "Les Environs," Pamela Auchincloss Gallery, New York.
"About Nature," Cleveland for Contemporary Art, Ohio.
"Azur," Fondation Cartier pour l?Art Contemporain, Paris.
"Landscape, Myth vs. Reality," Barbara Mathes Gallery, New York.
"On Paper," Asher Foure Gallery, Los Angeles, CA.
"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 Inspiration of L.A." Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA.
"The World of Tomorrow," Thomas Solomon's Garage, Los Angeles, CA.
"Facts and Figures:Selections from the Lannan Foundation Collection," Lannan Foundation, Los Angeles, Ca.
"Fine Lines," Anthony Slayter-Ralph, Santa Barbara, CA.
"Institute of Cultural Anxiety," Institute of Contemporary Art, London, England.
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 Academy Invitational Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture," American Academy of Arts and Letters, NY.
1996 "Group Exhibition," Daniel Weinberg Gallery, San Francisco CA
"About Photography," Tokyo Metroplotan Museum of Photography, Japan.
"Views From Abroad: European Perspectrives on American Art 2," Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY.
1997 "Birth of the Cool: American Painting." Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, Germany, Travels to Kunsthaus Zurich, Switzerland.
"Scene of the Crime." The Arm and Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA.
"Sunshine & Noir: Art in L.A. 1960-1997," Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Denmark, Travels to Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Germany, Hayward Gallery, London, England, Castello di Rivoli, Turin, Italy, The Arm and Hammer Museum, Los Angeles CA.
"Views from Abroad: European Perspectives on American Art 2," Museum fur Modern Kunst, Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
"Whitney Biennial 1997,"Whitney Museum of Art, NY.
?Heaven: Public View, Private View,? P.S. 1 New York.
"Spiders and Webs," Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston, MA.
1997-98 "The Collection of the Fondation Cartie pour l?Art Contemporain," the Fondation Cartier pour l?Art Contemporain, Paris.
1998 Edward R. Broida Collection," Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando, 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.
"Speed," Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, England.
"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.
"Examining Pictures: Exhibiting Paintings." Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, England.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Publications
Pop Art, Lucy Lippard, ed., Praeger Publishers, New York, 1966.
The Painter and the Photograph, Coke van Deren, University of New Mexico Press, Alberquerque, 1972.
Sunshine Muse: Contemporary Art on the West Coast, Peter Plagens, Praeger Publishers, New York, 1974.
American Master Drawings and Watercolors, Theodore E. Stebbins, Harper & Row, New York, 1976.
Vija Celmins: A Survey Exhibition, Susan C. Larsen, organized by Betty Turnbull, Fellows of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA 1979.
The Image of the House in Contemporary Art, Charmaine Locke, University of Houston, TX 1981
Gemini, G.E.L.: Art and Collaboration, Ruth E. fine, Abbeville Press, New York, 1984.
The View, text by Czeslaw Milosz and mezzotints by Vija Celmins, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 1985.
Reviews and Articles
Rosalind G. Wholden, "Los Angeles," Arts, December 1964.
S.R. Snyder, "Los Angeles," Artforum, May 1966.
Peter Plagens, "Exhibition in Los Angeles," Artforum, March 1970.
Jane Livingston, "Four Los Angeles Artists," Art in America, September 1970 – October 1970.
Elizabeth Baker, "Los Angeles," Artnews, September 1971.
Cecile McCann, "Los Angeles Artists," Artweek, December 9, 1972.
Cara Montgomery, "West Coast Report," Arts, September 1973.
Lizzie Borden, "Art Economics and the Whitney Drawing Show," Artforum, October 1973.
Max Kozoloff, "Vija Celmins," Artforum, March 1974.
Melinda Wortz, "Drawings by California Artists," Artweek, February 15, 1975.
Fenella Crichton, "London: Vija Celmins at Felicity Samuels," Art International, June 1975.
Sarah Kent, "Vija Celmins: Drawings," Studio International, July 1975 - August 1975.
David Rush, "cirrus Editions Prints," Artweek, November 1, 1975.
Elizabeth Perlmutter, " A Hotbed of Advanced Art," Artnews, January 1976.
Melinda Wortz, "New Editions," Artnews, March 1976.
Janet Kutner, "The Visceral Aesthetic of a New Decade's Art," Arts, December 1976.
Gordon J. Hazlett, "Vija Celmins: A Reductionist by Nature," Artnews, February 1978.
Susan Larsen, "A Conversation with Vija Celmins," Journal, Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art, October 1978 to November 1978.
Suzanne Muchnic, "Fellows Get Shows on the Road," Los Angeles Times, December 24, 1979.
Roger Lewis, "Newport Art Museum Moves Up," Santa Ana Register, December 30, 1979.
William Wilson, "Vija Celmins' Expressions of Anxiety," Calendar, January 6, 1980.
Mandette Ball, "Vija Celmins: Objects and Illusions," Artweek, January 12, 1980.
Christopher Knight, "Vija Celmins, Newport Harbor Art Museum, Artforum, March 1980.
Melinda Wortz, "Autobiographical Erasers," Artnews, April 1980.
John Russell, "A Remarkable Museum Debut," New York Times, July 28, 1980.
Jan Butterfield, "Vija Cemins: A Survey Exhibition," Images and Issues, Summer 1980.
Richard Armstron, "Of Earthly Objects and Stellar Sights: Vija Celmins," Art in America, May 1981.
John Russell, "The Sea and Stars as Seen By Vija Celmins," New York Times, March 18, 1983.
Kenneth Baker, "A Landscape Bejond Reference Points,' The Christian Science Monitor, May 20, 1983.
Kennth Bker, "Vija Celmins: Drawing Without Withdrawing,: Artforum, November 1983.
Stephen Westfall, "Vija Celmins," Arts, June 1983.
Richard Armstrong, "Vija Celmins," Artforum, Summer 1983.
Kay Larson, "Prints for the Present," New York Magazine, November 28, 1983.
Carter Ratcliff, "Vija Celmins: An Art of Reclamation," The Print collector's Newsletter, January 1984 - February 1984.
Vivien Raynor, "Travelling Show of American Still Lifes is at the Neuberger," New York Times, August 19, 1984.
"Vija Celmins; Concentric Bearings A,B,C, D," Print Collector's Newsletter, May 1985 - June 1985.
"Vija Celmins and Czeslaw Milosz," Print Collector's Newsletter, January 1986 – Febrary 1986.
Michael Brenson, "Vija Celmins," New York Times, December 2, 1988.
Dennis Cooper, "New York Letter," Art Issues, February 1989.
Dennis Cooper, "Vija Celmins," Artforum, February 1989.
Erard Haggerty, "Vija Celmins," Arts, March 1989.
Ken Johnson, "vija Celmins at David McKee," Art in America, March 1989.
Peter Frank, "L.A. Pop," Contemporanea, October 1989.
Lawrence Gipe, "L.A. Pop in the Sixties,' Flash Art, October 1989.
|
