Vija Celmins
Latvian-American visual artist / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Vija Celmins (pronounced VEE-ya SELL-muns;[1] Latvian: Vija Celmiņa, pronounced TSEL-meen-ya) 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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Born | Vija Celmiņa (1938-10-25) October 25, 1938 (age 85) |
Nationality | American |
Education | John Herron School of Art UCLA |
Known for | Painting, Graphic art, Printmaking |
Movement | Abstract, Minimalism, Photorealism |
Awards | Guggenheim Fellowship, National Endowment for the Arts, American Academy of Arts and Letters, Carnegie Prize, MacArthur Fellowship |