Vija Celmins — Biography



1938 Born in Riga, Latvia

 
1938    
Born October 25 in Riga, Latvia

1948    
Arrives in United States, New York City

1949    
Family settles in Indianapolis, IN

1961    
Fellowship to Yale University Summer Session

1962    
BFA from John Herron Institute, Indianapolis

1962-1980    
Lives and works in Venice, CA

1965    
MFA from University of California at Los Angeles

1965-1966    
Instructor, California State College, Los Angeles

1967-1972    
Instructor, University of California, Irvine

1968    
Cassandra Foundation Award

1971, 1976    
Artist's Fellowship from National Endowment for the Arts

1976-1977    
Instructor, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia

1980    
Guggenheim Fellowship

1981    
Resident artist, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Maine
Moves to New York City

1984    
Teaches at Cooper Union, New York

1987    
Teaches at Yale Graduate School, New Haven, CT

1996    
American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Art

1997    
Skowhegan Medal for Painting
John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Fellowship

2000-2001    
Coutts Contemporary Art Foundation Award

2006    
Athena Award for Excellence in Painting
Lives and works in New York City


SOLO EXHIBITIONS
1965       
Dickson Art Center, UCLA, (MFA exhibition)

1966       
David Stuart Galleries, Los Angeles

1969       
Riko Mizuno Gallery, Los Angeles

1973       
Riko Mizuno Gallery, Los Angeles
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

1975       
Felicity Samuel Gallery, London
Broxton Gallery, Los Angeles

1978       
Security Pacific National Bank, Los Angeles

1980  
Vija Celmins:  A Survey Exhibition, originating at the Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, CA:  traveled to the Arts Club of Chicago, IL; Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

1983       
Drawings and Painted Bronzes, David McKee Gallery, New York

1988       
Vija Celmins, New Paintings, David McKee Gallery, New York

1990      
Vija Celmins:  Drawings and Prints, Pence Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

1992       
Vija Celmins, New Paintings, McKee Gallery, New York

1992-1994  

Vija Celmins Retrospective, organized by the Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia: traveled to Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles

1993       
Vija Celmins - Printed Matter, University Gallery, Fine Arts Center, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

1994       
Vija Celmins - Prints, 1970-1992, Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles

1995 
Vija Celmins, Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, Paris

1996       
Night Sky Paintings & Drawings 1994-1996, McKee Gallery, New York

1996-1997  
Vija Celmins:  Works 1964-1996, organized by and exhibited at the Institute of Contemporary Art, London:  traveled to the Museo Nacional de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain; Kunstmuseum Winterthur, Switzerland; Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt, Germany

1999
Vija Celmins, Anthony d'Offay Gallery, London

2000-2001   
Vija Celmins Prints, Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles

2001   
Vija Celmins, New Paintings, McKee Gallery, New York, second place for best show in a commercial gallery, International Association of Art Critics (AICA)
Vija Celmins Drawings, Museum fur Gegenwartskunst, Basel, Switzerland

2002  
The Prints of Vija Celmins, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

2002-2003       
Vija Celmins: Works from The Edward R. Broida Collection, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Houston, TX (exhibition brochure)

2003       
Celmins Prints, Herron School of Art, Indianapolis, IN
Vija Celmins Prints, Susan Sheehan Gallery, New York

2004
The Paradise [15], Vija Celmins, The Douglas Hyde Gallery, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland

2006
Drawing Retrospective, Centre Pompidou, Paris

2007        
Vija Celmins:  A Drawing Retrospective, Hammer Galleries, UCLA


SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
1969
Contemporary American Drawings, Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, TX

1970
Annual of Contemporary American Sculpture, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

1970-1971
Paperworks, The Museum of Modern Art, Art Lending Service, New York

1971       
Continuing Surrealism, La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, CA
24 Young Los Angeles Artists, Los Angeles County Museum of Art

1972       
California Prints, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
A Survey of West Coast Art from the Permanent Collection and Loan Collections,
Pasadena Art Museum, CA
L.A., San Francisco Art Institute, CA
Eighteenth National Print Exhibition, Brooklyn Museum, NY; California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco
1973       
Ten Years of Contemporary Art Council Acquisitions, Los Angeles County Museum of Art
American Drawings 1963-1973, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Young American Artists - Drawings and Grafics (sic), Sweden (traveling exhibition)

1974   
Seventy First American Exhibition, Art Institute of Chicago, IL

1975       
A Drawing Show, Newport Harbor Art Museum , Newport Beach, CA
Recent Drawings, The Huntsville Museum of Art, AL; Princeton University, NJ; Cummer Gallery of Art, Jackonsville, FL; State University of New York, Stony Brook

1976 
America 1976, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; Wadsworth Athenaeum, Hartford, CT; Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, MA; The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, MN;Milwaukee Art Center, WI; Forth Worth Art Museum, TX; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA; The Brooklyn Museum, NY

1977  
American Artists:  A New Decade, The Detroit Institute of Arts, MI; Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, TX; Grand Rapids Art Museum, MI
Painting and Sculpture in California:  The Modern Era, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; National Collection of Fine Arts, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
30 Years of American Printmaking, The Brooklyn Museum, NY
Biennale Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, NY

1979       
The Decade in Review:  Selection of the 1970's, Whitney Museum of American Art, NY

1981  
Contemporary American Realism, Pennsylvania Academy of Art, Philadelphia
The Image of the House in Contemporary Works on Paper, Hayden Gallery, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
The Contemporary American Landscape, Hirschl and Adler Contemporary Art, New York

1983  
Drawings by Painters, Long Beach Museum of Art, CA; The Oakland Museum, CA
The American Artist as Printmaker:  23rd National Print Exhibition, Brooklyn Museum, NY

1983-1984  
American Still life 1945-1983, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX; Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY; Columbus Museum of Art, OH; Neuberger Museum, Purchase, NY; Portland Art Museum, OR
Hassam & Speicher Fund Purchase Exhibition, American Academy  and Institute of Arts & Letters, NY

1984  
American Women Artists-Part 1:  20th Century Pioneers, Sidney Janis Gallery, New York
Automobile and Culture, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Landscapes, Matthews Hamilton Gallery, Philadelphia
Gemini, G.E.L., Art and Collaboration, The New York Academy for the Sciences, New York and The National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

1985       
Focus on Realism:  Selections from the Collection of Glenn C. Janss, Boise Gallery of Art, Idaho (traveled to San Francisco Museum of Modern Art)
Fifty Artists, Fifty Printers, University of New Mexico Art Museum, Albuquerque, NM (brochure)

1986       
Pasadena Collects, Pasadena Art Museum
Public and Private:  American Prints Today, Brooklyn Museum of Art, NY

1986-1987  
Individuals:  A Selected History of Contemporary Art, 1945-1986, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles

1987-1988      
Collaborative American Printmaking from Whistler to the Present, Joe and Emily Lowe Art Gallery, Syracuse, NY
A Graphic Muse:  Prints by Contemporary American Women, Mount Holyoke College Art Museum, South Hadley, MA

1988       
Welcome Back:  Works by Contemporary Artists from Indiana, Herron Gallery, Indianapolis Center for Contemporary Art, IN
Of Another Nature, Loughelton Gallery, New York

1989   
Making Their Mark:  Women Artists Move into the Mainstream, Cincinnati Art Museum, OH;
New Orleans Museum of Art, LA; Denver Art Museum, CO; Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia
L.A. Pop in the Sixties, Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, CA (traveling exhibition)
Boundaries:  A Traditional of Drawing at Herron School of Art, Herron School of Art Gallery, Indiana University, Indianapolis
Multiples, Marc Richards Gallery, Los Angeles
Contemporary Prints And Drawings from the Mellon Bank Collection, Allegheny College, Meadville, PA
The 1980's:  Prints from the Collection of Joshua P. Smith, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

1990       
The Persistence of Vision, Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York
Home, Asher-Faure Gallery, West Hollywood, CA

1991  
The Times, The Chronicle, and The Observer, Kent Fine Art, New York (curated by Douglas Blau)
The Contemporary Drawing:  Existence Passage and the Dream, Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, MA
A Bestiary, Paula Cooper, New York
Women Artists, Miramar Gallery, Sarasota, FL
1991-1992       
For 25 Years:  Gemini G.E.L., The Museum of Modern Art, New York

1992       
Selections from the Broida Collection, Palm Beach Community College Museum of Art,FL
44th Annual Academy - Institute Purchase Exhibition, American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, New York
Elemental Nature, Midtown Payson Gallery, New York
Contemporary Icons:  From the Sublime to the Fetishistic, Bertha and Karl Leubsdorf Art Gallery at Hunter College, NY

1993       
Les Environs, Pamela Auchincloss Gallery, New York
About Nature, Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, OH
Azur, Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, Paris
Landscape, Myth vs. Reality, Barbara Mathes Gallery, New York
45th Annual American Academy Purchase Exhibition, American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York
On Paper, Asher Faure Gallery, Los Angeles
Drawings, 30th Anniversary Exhibition for the Foundation for the Performance Arts,
Leo Castelli Gallery, New York

1994      
Contemporary Master Prints, Fletcher / Priest Gallery, Worcester, MA
Love in the Ruins:  Art and the Inspiration of L.A., Long Beach Museum of Art,  CA
The World of Tomorrow, Thomas Solomon's Garage, Los Angeles
Facts and Figures:  Selections from the Lannan Foundation Collection, Lannan Foundation, Los Angeles.
Fine Lines, Anthony Slayter-Ralph, Santa Barbara, CA
Institute of Cultural Anxiety, Institute of Contemporary Art, London

1995  
About Place:  Recent Art of the Americas, Art Institute of Chicago, IL
Contemporary Drawing:  Exploring the Territory, curated by Mark Rosenthal, Aspen Art Museum, Colorado.
American Art Today:  Night Paintings, The Art Museum at Florida International University, Miami
American Academy Invitational Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture, American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York

1996       
Group Exhibition, Daniel Weinberg Gallery, San Francisco
About Photography, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Japan
Views From Abroad:  European Perspectives on American Art 2, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Museum fur Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt

1997  
Birth of the Cool:  American Painting, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, Germany:  traveled to Kunsthaus, Zurich, Switzerland
Scene of the Crime, The Armand Hammer Museum, UCLA, Los Angeles
Sunshine & Noir:  Art in L.A. 1960 - 1997, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Denmark,
Kunstmuseum, Wolfsburg, Germany; Castello di Rivoli, Turin, Italy; Armand Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
Views from Abroad:  European Perspectives on American Art 2, Museum fur Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Whitney Biennial 1997, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Heaven:  Public View, Private View, P.S. 1, New York
Spiders and Webs, Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston, MA

1997-1998  
The Collection of the Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain, Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain, Paris

1998   
The Edward R. Broida Collection, Orlando Museum of Art, FL
Terra Incognita, Neues Museum Weserburg, Bremen, Germany, Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain, Paris
Photo Image:  Printmaking 60s to 90s, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
êtrenature, Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain, Paris
Speed: Visions of an Accelerated Age, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London
Sea Change, The Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, NY
C, Elizabeth Cherry Contemporary Art, Tucson, AZ

1999 
Powder, Aspen Art Museum, CO
Flashes:  Contemporary Trends, The Cartier Collection, The Exhibition Center of the Centro Cultural de Belem, Portugal
Examining Pictures:  Exhibiting Paintings, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London; traveled to
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
Paint / Land / Beauty, Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art, Sunderland, England
La realitat i el desig, La Fundació Joan Miro, Barcelona

1999-2000  
Cosmos:  From Romanticism to the Avant-garde, The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Canada:  traveled to Centre de Cultura Contemporania de Barcelona
Regarding Beauty:  A View of the Late Twentieth Century, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C.:  traveled to Das Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany
The American Century, Art & Culture 1900-2000, Part II, 1950-2000, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

2000  
The Sea & the Sky, Beaver College Art Gallery, Glenside, PA:  traveled to Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin, Ireland
Lost, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, UK
NEW works, McKee Gallery, New York
Conceptual Realism, Rosenwald-Wolf Gallery, The University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA

2000-2001  
Celebrating Modern Art:  The Anderson Collection, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Prints and Multiples, Senior & Shopmaker Gallery, New York

2001   
Centenary Exhibition, The Whitechapel Art Gallery Centenary, London
Les années Pop: Cinéma et politique: 1956-1970, Musée National d'art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
Collaborations with Parkett: 1984 to Now, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
What Is a Print?, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Kindly Lent Their Owner, The Private Collection of Steve Martin, Bellagio Gallery of Fine Art, Las Vegas, NV
At Sea, (Contemplation) Tate Liverpool, England
Œuvres sur papier (acquisitions 1996-2001), Musée National d'art Moderne, Centre
Georges Pompidou, Galerie d'Art graphique, Paris

2001 - 2002       
EMPATHY:  Beyond the Horizon, Pori Art Museum, Finland:  traveled to College of Fine Arts, Sydney, Australia.
The Inward Eye, Transcendence in Contemporary Art, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX

2002       
Women Artists:  Their Work and Influence 1950's - 70's, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA
Time to Consider, The Arts Respond to 9.11, Deutsche Bank Lobby Gallery, New York
Painting: a passionate response, Sixteen American artists, The Painting Center, New York, NY
Whitney Biennial 2002, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
From the Observatory, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York
Insecta Magnifica, Wave Hill Glyndor Gallery, Bronx, New York
Annal Benefit, Art Resources Transfer, New York
American Standard (Para) Normality and Everyday Life, Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York
Regarding Landscape, Art Gallery at York University, Koffler Gallery and the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art.
Tempo, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Biella Print Triennial, Museo del Territorio Biellese, Italy
Living with Art, the young collectors home, Red Dot, New York
Group Print Exhibition, Richard Levy Gallery, Albuquerque, NM

2002-2003       
The Museum, the Collection, the Director and his Loves, MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
110 Years: The Permanent Collection of the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Texas

2003  
Making an Impression: Printmaking at the Herron School of Art, Herron Gallery, Indianapolis, IN
New Prints, Berthot, Celmins, Puryear, McKee Gallery, New York
For the Record: Drawing Contemporary Life, Vancouver Art Gallery, Canada
Hyperrealismes USA 1965-75, Musée d'Art Moderne et Contemporain de Strasbourg, France
Painting. From Rauschenberg to Murakami, 1964-2003, Venice Biennale, Museo Correr, Italy
Stranger in the Village: Contemporary Drawings and Photographs from The Museum of Modern Art at Guild Hall, East Hampton, New York

2003-2004  
Defying Gravity: Contemporary Art and Flight, North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh Pencil: Drawings from the Collection, The Museum of Modern Art, Queens
Happiness: A Survival Guide for Art and Life (Harmony), The Mori Art Museum, Tokyo (catalogue and exhibition guide)
The Power of Wings: A SAVy Curated Exhibition, Duke University Museum of Art, Durham, NC

2004  
The not-so-still life, San Jose Museum of Art,CA: traveled to Pasadena Museum of California Art
Art by MacArthur Fellows, Carl Solway Gallery, Cincinnati, OH
From Here to Eternity, Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland
North Fork/ South Fork: East End Art Now, The Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, New York
Off The Wall, Works from the JP Morgan Chase Collection, Bruce Museum of Arts and Science, Greenwich, CT
Summer Camp, Patricia Faure Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Living Dust, Norwich Gallery, Norwich School of Art and Design, Norfolk, UK
Contemporary Masters, Alan Koppel Gallery, Chicago, IL

2004-2005  
The Undiscovered Country, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
A Very Liquid Heaven, Tang Museum and Art Gallery, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY

2005 
Contemporary Voices, works from the UBS Art Collection, Museum of Modern Art, New York

2005-2006 
Imagined Worlds, AXA Gallery, organized by international Print Center, New York   

2006      
A Trace of A Trace of A Trace, Perry Rubenstein Gallery, New York
Celmins, Gibbs + Martin, Timothy Taylor Gallery, London
Step Into Liquid, Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver, CO
Against the Grain: Contemporary Art from the Edward R. Broida Collection, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Selections from the Collection of Edward R. Broida, National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
Plane/Figure, Kunstmuseum Winterthur, Switzerland

2006-2007 
Magritte and Contemporary Art: The Treachery of Image, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA

2007  
Under the Starry Sky, Museum Franz Gertsch, Burgdorf, Switzerland
The Painting of Modern Life, Hayward Gallery, London
      The Third Mind, Palais de Tokyo, Paris



PUBLICATIONS
Pop Art, Lucy Lippard, ed., Praeger Publishers, New York, 1966.
The Painter and the Photograph, Coke van Deren, University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque, 1972.
Sunshine Muse:  Contemporary Art on the West Coast, Peter Plagens, Praeger Publishers,
New York, 1974.
American Master Drawings and Watercolors, Theodore E. Stebbins, Harper & Row, New York, 1976.
Vija Celmins:  A Survey Exhibition, Susan C. Larsen, organized by Betty Turnbull, Fellows of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA ,1979.
The Image of the House in Contemporary Art, Charmaine Locke, University of Houston,TX, 1981.
Gemini G.E.L.:  Art and Collaboration, Ruth E. Fine, Abbeville Press, New York, 1984.
The View, text by Czeslaw Milosz and mezzotints by Vija Celmins, Whitney Museum of American Art,
New York, 1985.
Vija Celmins, with interview by Chuck Close, A.R.T. Press, published by Art Resources Transfer, Inc.,
Los Angeles, CA, 1992.
Vija Celmins, Judith Tannenbaum, with essays by Douglas Blau and Dave Hickey, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA, 1992.
Nature Through Her Eyes:  Art and Literature by Women, edited by Mary Bemis and Belinda Recio, The Nature Company, Berkeley, CA, 1994.
Vija Celmins, Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain, a collaboration for Parkett Magazine, No. 44, 1995.
Critical Terms for Art History, edited by Robert S. Nelson and Richard Shiff, The University of Chicago Press, 1996.
Vija Celmins Works 1964-96, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, DAP  (Distributed Arts Publishers), New York, NY 1996.
New Art, edited by Roxana Marcoci, Diana Murphy, and Eve Sinaiko, Harry N. Abrams, Inc.,
New York, 1997.
History of Modern Art, Fourth Edition, H.H. Arnason, edited by Marla F. Prather, Harry N. Abrams, Inc., Publishers, New York, NY, 1998.
Postcards on Photography, Naomi Salaman and Ronnie Simpson, editors, Cambridge Darkroom Gallery,
Cambridge, England, 1998.
Contemporary Women Artists, edited by Laurie Collier Hillstrom and Kevin Hillstrom, St. James Press (The Gale Group), Farmington Hills, MI, 1999.
Examining Pictures:  Exhibiting Paintings, Whitechapel Art Gallery, Cornerhouse Publications,
Manchester, UK, 1999.
La realitat i el desig, La Fundacio Joan Miro, Barcelona, Spain, 1999.
Art at Work:  40 Years of The Chase Manhattan Collection, New York, 2000.
Jonathan Fineberg, Art Since 1940: Strategies of Being, 2nd Edition, Harry N. Abrams, Inc.,
New York, 2000.
Painting as a Language:  Material, Technique, Form and Content, Jean Robertson and Craig McDaniel, Harcourt College Publishers, New York, 2000.
Treasure from the Art Institute of Chicago, Hudson Hills Press, New York, 2000.
Celebrating Modern Art:  Highlights of the Anderson Collection, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, printed and bound by Mondadori printing, Italy, 2000.
Kindly Lent Their Owner, The Private Collection of Steve Martin, essays by Steve Martin, Bellagio Gallery of Fine Art, Las Vegas, G.G. Inc., 2001.
Donna De Salvo and Matthew Gale, Giorgio Morandi, (contribution by Vija Celmins), Tate Gallery Publishing Ltd., Millbank, London, 2001.
Impossible Presence, edited by Terry Smith, Power Publications, The Power Institute, The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia, 2001.
Œuvres sur papier (acquisitions 1996-2001), Éditions du Centre Pompidou, Paris, 2001.
Vija Celmins, essay by Bill Berkson, McKee Galery, New York, 2001.
Tempo, Paulo Herkenhoff, Roxana Marcoci, Miriam Basilio, Department of Publications, The Museum of Modern Art, and D.A.P., New York, NY, 2002.
Sylvia Wolf, Michal Rovner: The Space Between, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, and Steidl Verlag, Göttingen, Germany, 2002.
Whitney, American Visionaries: Selections from the Whitney Museum of American Art, Introduction by Maxwell L. Anderson, Distributed by Harry N. Abrams, Inc., New York, 2001.
Ida Gianelli, Biella Print Triennial, 15th edition, Museo del Territorio Biellese, Italy, Realizzazione editoriale, Umberto Allemandi & C., Torino-Londra-Venezia, September 2002.
Samantha Rippner, The Prints of Vija Celmins, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 2002. 56 pages, 41 black and white illustrations, paperback.
Michael Auping, Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth 110, III Third Millennium Publishing Limited, London,
2002. Pages 37-40, 223.
art:21, Art in the Twenty-First Century, New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 2003.
Huston Paschal and Linda Johnson Dougherty, Defying Gravity: Contemporary Art and Flight, North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, Prestel Publishing Ltd., London, 2003.
American Identities: Twentieth-Century Prints from the Nancy Gray Sherrill, Class of 1954, Collection, Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA, 2004.  Pages 39, 169.
Vija Celmins, Drawings of the Night Sky, Anthony d’Offay London, text by Adrian Serle, interview with Anne Seymour, Phaidon Press, 64 pages, 2004.
The Undiscovered Country, published by the Hammer Museum, essay by Russell Ferguson, approximately 65 color plates, 120 pages, October 2004.
Vija Celmins, Lane Relyea, Robert Gober, Briony Fer, Phaidon Press Limited, London, 160 pages, 120 color, 30 black and white illustrations, 2004.
Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, on the occasion of its 20th anniversary,  Fondation Cartier pout l’art contemporain, Paris, 400 pages, October 2004.
Peter Selz, Art of Engagement: Visual Politics in California and Beyond, with an essay by Susan Landauer, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA, University of California Press, Berkeley, Los Angeles and London, 2006.  Pages54-55.
Against the Grain: Contemporary Art from the Edward R. Broida Collection, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2006.


TEACHING POSITIONS
1965-1966        
Instructor of painting and drawing, California State College, Los Angeles

1967-1972    
Instructor of painting and drawing, University of California, Irvine

1976-1977        
Instructor of painting and drawing, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia

1981        
Resident artist, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Maine

1984        
Cooper Union, New York City

1987        
Yale Graduate School, New Haven


PANEL DISCUSSIONS / LECTURES / SPECIAL PROJECTS
Alberto Giacometti: An Artist’s Panel, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, November 19, 2001.
Vija Celmins: Prints and Drawings, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, December 8, 2002.
Art:21 Art in the Twenty-First Century, Time, (Emmy-Nominated Series), Season Two, PBS, 9:00pm, September 15, 2003.  www.pbs.org/art21
Panelist, "Unpacking Happiness," symposium, Mori Art Museum, Roppongi, Tokyo, Japan, October 18, 2003.
Artists on Artists Lecture Series, "Vija Celmins on Agnes Martin," Dia Art Foundation, New York, NY,
October 4, 2004.


PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Art Institute of Chicago, IL
Baltimore Museum of Art, MD
Carnegie Institute, Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA
Centre Georges Pompidou, Musee national d'art moderne, Paris
Centro Cultural, Mexico City, Mexico
Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain, Paris
High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA
Kunstmuseum, Winterthur, Switzerland
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, TX
Mount Holyoke College Museum of Art, South Hadley, MA
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, CA
Oakland Museum of Art, Oakland, CA
Orlando Museum of Art, FL
Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York


REVIEWS AND ARTICLES
Rosalind G. Wholden, "Los Angeles," Arts, December 1964.
S.R. Snyder, "Los Angeles," ARTFORUM, May 1966.
Fidel Danieli, Vija Celmins," University of California - Irvine, exhibition catalogue, 1968.
Peter Plagens, "Exhibitions in Los Angeles," ARTFORUM, March 1970.
Jane Livingston, "Four Los Angeles Artists," Art in America, September 1970 - October 1970.
Elizabeth Baker, "Los Angeles," ARTnews, September 1971.
Cecile McCann, "Los Angeles Artists," ArtWeek, December 9, 1972.
Cara Montgomery, "West Coast Report," Arts, September 1973.
Lizzie Borden, "Art Economics and the Whitney Drawing Show," ARTFORUM, October 1973.
Max Kozloff, "Vija Celmins," ARTFORUM, March 1974.
Melinda Wortz, "Drawings by California Artists," ArtWeek, February 15, 1975.
Fenella Crichton, "London:  Vija Celmins at Felicity Samuels," Art International, June 1975.
Sarah Kent, "Vija Celmins:  Drawings," Studio International, July - August 1975.
Elke Solomon, "Vija Celmins," American Federation of the Arts, 1975.
David Rush, "Cirrus Editions Prints," ArtWeek, November 1, 1975.
Elizabeth Perlmutter, "A Hotbed of Advanced Art," ARTnews, January 1976.
Melinda Wortz, "New Editions," ARTnews, March 1976.
Janet Kutner, "The Visceral Aesthetic of a New Decade's Art," Arts, December 1976.
Gordon J. Hazlett, "Vija Celmins:  A Reductionist by Nature," ARTnews, February 1978.
Susan Larsen, "A Conversation with Vija Celmins," Journal, Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art, October - November 1978.
Suzanne Muchnic, "Fellows Get Shows on the Road," Los Angeles Times, December 24, 1979.
Roger Lewis, "Newport Art Museum Moves Up," Santa Ana Register, December 30, 1979.
William Wilson, "Vija Celmins' Expressions of Anxiety," Calendar, January 6, 1980.
Mandette Ball, "Vija Celmins:  Objects and Illusions," ArtWeek, January 12, 1980.
Christopher Knight, "Vija Celmins, Newport Harbor Art Museum, ARTFORUM, March 1980.
Melinda Wortz, "Autobiographical Erasers," ARTnews, April 1980.
Jan Butterfield, "Vija Celmins:  A Survey Exhibition," Images and Issues, Summer 1980.
John Russell, "A Remarkable Museum Debut," The New York Times, July 28, 1980.
Richard Armstrong, "Of Earthly Objects and Stellar Sights:  Vija Celmins," Art in America, May 1981.
John Russell, "The Sea and Stars as Seen by Vija Celmins," The New York Times, March 18, 1983.
Kenneth Baker, "A Landscape Beyond Reference Points," The Christian Science Monitor, May 20, 1983.
Richard Armstrong, "Vija Celmins," ARTFORUM, Summer 1983.
Stephen Westfall, "Vija Celmins," Arts, June 1983.
Kenneth Baker, "Vija Celmins:  Drawing Without Withdrawing," ARTFORUM, November 1983.
Kay Larson, "Prints for the Present," New York Magazine, November 28, 1983.
Carter Ratcliff, "Vija Celmins:  An Art of Reclamation," The Print Collector's Newsletter, January -
February 1984.
Vivien Raynor, "Traveling Show of American Still Lives Is at the Neuberger," The New York Times,
August 19, 1984.
"Vija Celmins:  Concentric Bearings A,B,C,D," The Print Collector's Newsletter, May - June 1985.
"Vija Celmins and Czeslaw Milosz," The Print Collector's Newsletter, January - February 1986.
Michael Brenson, "Vija Celmins," The New York Times, December 2, 1988.
Dennis Cooper, "New York Letter," Art issues, February 1989.
Dennis Cooper, "Vija Celmins," ARTFORUM, February 1989.
Gerard Haggerty, "Vija Celmins," Arts, March 1989.
Ken Johnson, "Vija Celmins at David McKee," Art in America, March 1989.
Peter Frank, "L.A. Pop," Contemporanea, October 1989.
Lawrence Gipe, "L.A. Pop in the Sixties," Flash Art, October 1989.
Amy Gerstler, "Vija Celmins," Art issues, November 1990.
Peter Schjeldahl, "Past Perfect," The Village Voice, January 22, 1991.
Mary Sherman, "Rose exhibit brings drawings back into light," The Boston Herald, March 22, 1991.
Nancy Stapen, "Drawings at Brandeis ask profound questions," The Boston Globe, March 22, 1991.
Christopher Knight, "Vija Celmins' Picture Planes," Art issues, No. 21, January - February 1992.
Roberta Smith, "Seeing Infinity in Little Dots of White," The New York Times, March 6, 1992.
Peter Schjeldahl, "The Dearth of Painting," The Village Voice, March 25, 1992.
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Richard Kalina, "Vija Celmins at McKee," Art in America, September 1992.
Edward Sozanski, "2 in exile from their homelands and mainstream," The Philadelphia Inquirer, Sunday, November 22, 1992.
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Scott Gutterman, Art & Antiques, February 1993.
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Lynne Cooke, "Philadelphia and Seattle," Burlington Magazine, March 1993.
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Sarah Pierce, "Space and Time:  An Interview with Vija Celmins," Q / A Journal of Art, Spring 1993.
Jerry Saltz, "Let Us Now Praise Artist's Artists," Art & Auction, April 1993.
Steven Litt, The Plain Dealer, (Cleveland) April 3, 1993.
Amy Sparks, "Plumbing Nature," The Cleveland Free Times, April 21, 1993.
Christophe Domino, "Quand l'art se met au bleu," Beaux Arts, June 1993.
Mary Abbe, Minneapolis Star Tribune, June 10, 1993.
Susan Morgan, "A Small Piece of the Universe," Mirabella, July 1993.
Roberta Smith, "The Act of Seeing the Act of Creation," The New York Times, September 17, 1993.
Brooks Adams, "Visionary Realist," Art in America, October 1993. (cover)
Jed Perl, "A Closer Look," Vogue, October 1993.
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"Art:  Passing Through," The New Yorker, October 4, 1993.
Francisco Calvo Serraller, "El Pop domina la temporada neoyorquina," El Pais, October 18, 1993.
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Christopher Knight, "It's Called Art Not Politics," Los Angeles Times Calendar Magazine,
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Suzanne Lummis, "Under Currents:  Vija Celmins Ripples Dry Realism With Watery Abstracts at MOCA,"
Dowtown News, December 27, 1993.
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Ralph Rugoff, "A Thousand Points of Magic," Los Angeles Weekly, January 28, 1994.
Klaus Kertess, "Seeing Stars," Elle Decor, February 1994.
Maureen Sherlock, "About Place:  Recent Art in the Americas," TRANS-Premier Issue, 1995.
Eric Suchére, "Vija Celmins," ArtPress, December 1995.
David Bonetti, "Weinberg Gallery shows how it’s done," San Francisco Examiner, April 6, 1995.
George Melrod, "Openings," Arts & Antiques, February 1996.
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Arturo Silva, “‘Another’ art exhibition at TMMP goes beyond traditional boundaries," The Japan Times, April 14, 1996.
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Nancy Princenthal, "Vija Celmins at David McKee," Art in America, July 1996.
Simon Grant, "Exhibitions," The Guardian - London, October 26, 1996.
Martin Coomer, Attitude - London, November 1996.
Richard Shiff, "Realism of Low Resolution," Apollo, November 1996.
William Feaver, "Women's Work," The Observer - London, November 10, 1996.
Adrian Searle, "Stripped to the Core," London, November 12, 1996.
Richard Dorment, "Perfection in the Everyday," The Daily Telegraph, London, November 13, 1996.
Martin Coomer, "Bare Necessities," Time Out - London, November 13-20, 1996.
Lesley Garner, "Art / Exhibitions," Daily Express -  London, November 15, 1996.
Dominic Lutyens, "Vija Celmins," What's On In London, November 27, 1996.
Frank Whitford, "Vija Celmins," Sunday Times - London, December 1, 1996.
Richard Cork, "Dangerous Whispering," The Times - London, December 3, 1996.
"El Centro Reina Sofia muestra los cielos noturnos de las artist Lituana Vija Celmins," ABC,
January 20, 1997.
"Vija Celmins expone 'cuadros impasibles'," El Pais, Madrid, January 21, 1997.
"Vija Celmins exhibe en el Reina Sofia sus imagenes de la realidad," El Mundo, January 21, 1997.
J.A. Alvarez Reyes, "'Outsider' del arte de su tiempo," Diario, Madrid, January 21, 1997.
"Vija Celmins de lo contidiano a lo cosmico," Bellas Artes, January 24-30, 1997.
"Others On Stage At the Whitney Show," The New York Times, March 9, 1997.
Adrian Mebold, "Die Liebe zu Staub und Graphite," Der Sandbote, April 4, 1997.
"Neue Malerei aus den USA," Der Zurcher Oberlander, April 17, 1997.
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John Berger, "Penelope als Malerin," Tages Anzeiger, April 18, 1997.
Adrian Mebold, "Sehnsucht nach den Sternen," Der Sandbote, April 19, 1997.
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Annelise Zwez, "Aus Allen Bildren fuhrt ein Elektrokabel," Aargauer Zeitung, April 23, 1997.
"Gegenstande in Lebensgrosse," Elgger Zeitung, April 26, 1997.
Annelise Zwez, "Ein Stuck Unendlichkeit greidbar machen," Berner Zeitung, April 26, 1997.
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Joachim Scwitzler, "Gleich unter Gleichen," Bischofszell Nachrichten, April 30, 1997.
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Sabine B. Vogel, "Die Oberflache der Sterne," Kunst - Bulletin, May 1997.
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Aniele Bellucci, "Kuns," Annabelle, May 16, 1997.
Gerhard Mack, "Als stunde die Zeit still," Suddeutsche Zeitung, May 20, 1997.
John Berger, "Penelope as Painter," Insight Extra, Tate, Summer 1997.
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William H. Honan, "MacArthur Foundation Chooses Grant Winners," The New York Times, June 17, 1997.
M.G. Lord, "New Visions of the Cosmos Now That It's Close at Hand," The New York Times, June 29, 1997.
Roberta Smith, "On the History of Cool, A Show is Hip to America," The New York Times, August 17, 1997.
Hajo Schiff, "Terra Incognita," Neue Bildende Kunst, June - July 1998.
Martin Coomer, "Haste of Space," Time Out - London, September 23-30, 1998.
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Amy Gerstler, "Art Attack," Los Angeles, November 1998.
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Martin Gayford, "Exsquiste Miniatures from the Great Outdoors," The Sunday Telegraph, July 4, 1999.
Sarah Kent, "Sky Writing," Time Out - London, July 14-21, 1999.
Richard Leydier, "Cosmos," Art Press issue 250, October 1999.
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Dave Hickey, "Vija Celmins," ARTFORUM, December 1999.
Keith Patrick, "Formal Dress," Contemporary Visual Arts, Issue 26, 2000.
Karl Erickson and Andrew Falkowski, "Style Representation," New Art Examiner, March 2000.
"Coutts honors contemporary art," Business Guide to Switzerland, No. 2, May - June 2000.
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Ingrid Lunden, "The man who mistook his art for an act," Bellagio Gallery, Las Vegas, The Art Newspaper, Exhibitions, No. 115, June 2001.
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Peter Schjeldahl, "Dark Star," The Art World, The New Yorker, June 4, 2001.
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"At Sea," The Gazette (Blackpool), July 12, 2001.
Dike Blair, "Vija Celmins," Time Out New York, June 14-21, 2001.
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Christopher Knight, "Mind's-eye view of nature, Vija Celmins' new prints explore the artistic side of star-gazing.," Los Angeles Times, January 24, 2003.
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Grand Street 71 "Danger", Grand Street Press, New York, NY, Spring 2003.
Carol Vogel, "20th-Century Masters Dominate Art Auction," Metro, The New York Times, Wednesday,
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Jean-Louis Pradel, "Hyper-Réalismes La Grande Illusion," Beaux-Arts Magazine-Paris, July 2003.
Philippe Dagen, "La leçon de lucidité des peintres hyperréalistes," Le Monde - Paris, August 16, 2003.
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Alicia G. Longwell, North Fork/ South Fork: East End Art Now, The Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, New York, 2004.
Jennifer Wiseman, refelcting on Vija Celmins’s Galaxy in the Tate Collection, Tate Etc., Autumn 2004.
Glen Helfand, "Vija Celmins, Phaidon," Book Review, Art on Paper, November / December 2004.
Christopher Bollen, "Vija Celmins, Artist Vija Celmins takes simple images of Spiderwebs, Waves, and Star Fields and Creates a Galaxy of Bautiful No Return," V Magazine, Winter 2004/05.
Louise Gray, “Out of Reach,” ArtReview, February 2005.
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Doug Harvey, “Attention Squared: Zen and the art of Vija Celmins,” LA Weekly, February 9-15, 2007.
Suzanne Muchnic, “Getting under the surface,” Los Angeles Times, February 11, 2007.
Rebecca Epstein, “Astral Works: Vija Celmins drawing exhibition,” Los Angeles Citybeat, February 22-28, 2007
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