Vija Celmins
Vija Celmins | |
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| Born | Vija Celmiņa October 25, 1938 |
| Nationality | American |
| Education | John Herron School of Art UCLA |
| Known for | Painting, Graphic art, Printmaking |
| Movement | Abstract, Minimalism, Photorealism |
| Awards | Guggenheim Fellowship, National Endowment for the Arts, American Academy of Arts and Letters, Carnegie Prize, MacArthur Fellowship |
Vija Celmins (/ˈvijə ˈsɛlmənz/ VEE-yə SEL-məns; Latvian: Vija Celmiņa; Latvian pronunciation: [ˈvija ˈt̪͡s̪ɛlmiɲa]; born October 25, 1938) 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.