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Vija Celmins

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American artist (born 1938)

United States ArtistsBorn 1938 · age 87

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Languages20

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Photos 3

Tulip Car #1 (1966) at the National Gallery of Art in 2022

Blackboard Tableau #14 (2011-2015) at the National Gallery of Art in 2022

Awards 6

2019Order of the Three Stars, 3rd Class

2009Roswitha Haftmann Award

1997MacArthur Fellows Program

1980Guggenheim Fellowship

Rome Prize

Praemium Imperiale

Connected to Vija 6

Michelangelo PistolettoAlso won Roswitha Haftmann Award

Iveta ApkalnaAlso won Order of the Three Stars, 3rd Class

Sakata Tōjūrō IVAlso won Praemium Imperiale

Sandis OzoliņšAlso won Order of the Three Stars, 3rd Class

Ellen StewartAlso won Praemium Imperiale

Jeff WallAlso won Roswitha Haftmann Award

About this person

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.

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United States