# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/vija-celmins
# Generated: 2026-08-12T20:17:50.685Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/vija-celmins"
name: "Vija Celmins"
slug: "vija-celmins"
description: "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. 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."
tagline: "American artist (born 1938)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/F20230912ES-0605_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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  slug: "artists"
profileType:
  name: "Artist"
  slug: "artist"
birthDate: "1938-10-25"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           16.24068
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump