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Vija Celmins

American artist · United States · On the map · Artists · Born 1938 · age 88

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.

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A life in dates

2019Order of the Three Stars, 3rd ClassAward2009Roswitha Haftmann AwardAward1997MacArthur Fellows ProgramAward1980Guggenheim FellowshipAward1938Born25 October 1938

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Awards

Order of the Three Stars, 3rd Class2019
Roswitha Haftmann Award2009
MacArthur Fellows Program1997
Guggenheim Fellowship1980
Rome Prize
Praemium Imperiale

About this person

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.

Country
United States
Category
Artists
Type
Artist
Status
Living
Dates
Born 1938 · age 88