
Vija Celmins
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Gender | Female |
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Age | 86 |
Date of birth | October 25,1938 |
Zodiac sign | Scorpio |
Born | Riga |
Latvia | |
Artworks | Untitled (Ocean) |
To Fix the Image in Memory | |
Web #3 | |
Periods | Modern art |
Photorealism | |
Minimalism | |
Contemporary art | |
Known for | Painting |
Graphic arts | |
Printmaking | |
Graphic art | |
Job | Painter |
Sculptor | |
Visual Artist | |
Education | University of California, Los Angeles |
Herron School of Art and Design | |
Indiana University - Purdue University Indianapolis | |
Herron School of Art | |
UCLA | |
Books | Vija Celmins, a survey exhibition |
Vija Celmins & Eliot Weinberger | |
Vija Celmins: Television and Disaster, 1964-1966 [gallery Guide] | |
A work of imagination | |
Desert, sea & stars | |
American Art | |
Vija Celmins: Drawings of the Night Sky | |
Awards | MacArthur Fellowship |
Guggenheim Fellowship for Creative Arts, US & Canada | |
Guggenheim Fellowship | |
American Academy of Arts and Letters | |
Carnegie Prize | |
MacArthur Foundation | |
Movement | Abstract |
Minimalism | |
Photorealism | |
Works | Untitled |
To Fix the Image in Memory | |
Suspended Plane | |
Explosion at Sea | |
Heater | |
Nationality | American |
On view | Newfields |
The Art Institute of Chicago | |
Date of Reg. | |
Date of Upd. | |
ID | 630874 |
Vija Celmins Life story
Vija Celmins 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. Her earlier work included pop sculptures and monochromatic representational paintings.