Vija Celmins
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| Gender | Female |
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| Age | 87 |
| Date of birth | October 25,1938 |
| Zodiac sign | Scorpio |
| Born | Riga |
| Latvia | |
| Artworks | Untitled (Ocean) |
| To Fix the Image in Memory | |
| Web #3 | |
| Periods | Modern art |
| Photorealism | |
| Minimalism | |
| Contemporary art | |
| Known for | Painting |
| Graphic arts | |
| Printmaking | |
| Graphic art | |
| Job | Painter |
| Sculptor | |
| Visual Artist | |
| Education | University of California, Los Angeles |
| Herron School of Art and Design | |
| Indiana University - Purdue University Indianapolis | |
| Herron School of Art | |
| UCLA | |
| Books | Vija Celmins, a survey exhibition |
| Vija Celmins & Eliot Weinberger | |
| Vija Celmins: Television and Disaster, 1964-1966 [gallery Guide] | |
| A work of imagination | |
| Desert, sea & stars | |
| American Art | |
| Vija Celmins: Drawings of the Night Sky | |
| Awards | MacArthur Fellowship |
| Guggenheim Fellowship for Creative Arts, US & Canada | |
| Guggenheim Fellowship | |
| American Academy of Arts and Letters | |
| Carnegie Prize | |
| MacArthur Foundation | |
| Movement | Abstract |
| Minimalism | |
| Photorealism | |
| Works | Untitled |
| To Fix the Image in Memory | |
| Suspended Plane | |
| Explosion at Sea | |
| Heater | |
| Nationality | American |
| On view | Newfields |
| The Art Institute of Chicago | |
| Date of Reg. | |
| Date of Upd. | |
| ID | 630874 |
Vija Celmins Life story
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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