Vija Celmins Artist

Vija Celmins is an important 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, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, and Centre Pompidou, Paris.

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Birth date	October 25, 1938
Birth place	Latvia , Riga
Nationality	United States

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Award	Carnegie Prize National Endowment for the Arts John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation American Academy of Arts and Letters Guggenheim Fellowship
Field of work	Printmaking Graphic arts Painting
Influenced by	Chuck Close Gerhard Richter Jasper Johns Giorgio Morandi
training at	University of California Los Angeles Herron School of Art and Design