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Vija Celmins

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Vija Celmins
Artist's Name: Vija Celmins
Preferred medium: drawing
birth year: 1938
Nationality: LV
City: New York

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American artist Vija Celmins was born in 1938 in Riga (Latvia), and lives and works in New York. This will be her first-ever drawing retrospective. It will feature about 60 drawings spanning the period from 1968 to 2006, many of which have never been on view in Europe before. Celmins invariably draws from photographs. If WWII-related themes were central to her early works, the late 1960s saw her focus shift to nature. The sea, the desert, night skies and - more recently - spider webs have permeated her work since. After showing in Paris, this exhibition will move on to the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, where Celmins lived from 1962 to 1981. (Museum of Fine Arts, Houston)

important exhibitions from Vija Celmins

Exhibition Location City Country Date
Vija Celmins Museum Ludwig Köln DE 15.04.2011
Louisiana - on paper: Vija Celmins Humlebæk DK 01.09.2011
Louisiana - on paper: Vija Celmins Louisiana Museum of Modern Art Humlebaek DK 08.09.2011
Vija Celmins: Television and Disaster, 1964-1968 Menil Collection Houston US 19.11.2010
A Drawings Retrospective UCLA Hammer Museum Los Angeles US 28.01.2007
Vija Celmins l'Oeuvre dessiné Centre Pompidou - Musée National d´Art Moderne Paris FR 25.10.2006
Building and Breaking the Grid, 1962-2002 Whitney Museum of American Art New York US 01.09.2005
Under the Big Black Sun: California Art 1974-1981 The Museum of Modern Art - Grand Avenue - MOCA Los Angeles US 01.10.2011
Against the Grain: Contemporary Art from the Edward R. Broida Collection MoMA - Museum of Modern Art New York US 03.05.2006
Multiplicity Smithsonian American Art Museum Washington US 01.11.2011

Galleries representing
Vija Celmins:

Barbara Krakow Gallery
Barbara Mathes Gallery
Brand X Projects, Inc.
Carolina Nitsch Contemporary Art
Cirrus Gallery
Greg Kucera Gallery
Jim Kempner Fine Art
Lora Reynolds Gallery
McKee Gallery

Collections representing
Vija Celmins

Centre Pompidou - Musée National d´Art Moderne
Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, LACMA
MCASD - Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego
MIT List Visual Arts Center
MoMA - Museum of Modern Art
Orange County Museum of Art - OCMA
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, SFMOMA
Tate Britain
The Art Institute of Chicago
The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth
The Museum of Modern Art - Grand Avenue - MOCA
UBS Art Collection