Biography
1938 | Born in Riga, Latvia | |
1961 | Fellowship to Yale University Summer Session | |
1962 | Bachelor of Fine Arts from John Herron Art Institute, Indianapolis, USA | |
1965 | Master of Fine Arts from University of California at Los Angeles | |
1969 | Vija Celmins, Riko Mizuno Gallery, Los Angeles | |
1970-71 | Group exhibition, Paperworks at The Museum of Modern Art, New York | |
1973 | Drawings, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York | |
1976 | MATRIX 19: Vija Celmins, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford | |
1980 | Guggenheim Fellowship | |
1983 | Drawings and Painted Bronzes, McKee Gallery, New York | |
1992-93 | Retrospective exhibition, Vija Celmins at Institute of Contemporary Art, Pennsylvania | |
1995 | Vija Celmins, Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, Paris American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Art |
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1996-97 | Works 1964–1996, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London. Traveled to Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid; Kunst Museum Winterthur, Switzerland; and Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt | |
1997 | John D. And Catherine T. MacArthur Fellowship, USA | |
2002 | The Prints of Vija Celmins, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York | |
2003 | Venice Biennale | |
2003-04 | Group exhibition, Happiness: A Survival Guide for Art and Life at Mori Art Museum, Tokyo | |
2006-07 | First drawing retrospective at Centre Pompidou, Paris. Traveled to Hammer Museum, Los Angeles | |
2008 | Carnegie Prize | |
2009 | Roswitha Haftmann Prize | |
2010-11 | Television and Disaster 1964–1966, The Menil Collection, Houston. Traveled to Los Angeles County Museum of Art | |
2011 | Desert, Sea, and Stars, Museum Ludwig, Cologne. Traveled to Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, Denmark | |
2013 | Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts degree from Indiana University | |
2014 | Yokohama Triennale Double Reality, Latvian National Museum of Art, Riga |
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2016 | Gold Medal in Graphic Art of American Academy of Art and Letters | |
2017 | Vija Celmins, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York | |
2018-20 | Retrospective exhibition, To Fix the Image in Memory at San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Traveled to Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto; and The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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2021 | Great Immigrants, Carnegie Corporation of New York | |
2023 | A major two-person show with Gerhard Richter, Double Vision at the Hamburger Kunsthalle, Germany |