Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, pavillon Pierre Lassonde
Whether they depict starry skies or spider webs, Vija Celmins’s hyperrealist drawings are attempts to grasp the universe’s immensity, one detail at a time.
Vija Celmins, Untitled (Large Night Sky), 2016
Vija Celmins
(Riga, Latvia)
Born in 1938 in Riga, Lithuania, Vija Celmins completed a bachelor’s degree at the John Herron Art Institute in Indianapolis in 1962 and a master’s degree in fine arts from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), in 1965. Since then, she has had solo exhibitions of her work at the Secession Building in Vienna, Austria, the Tate Britain in London, UK, and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. She has also taken part in group exhibitions at Documenta 14 in Kassel, Germany, and the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. A winner of both the Carnegie and Roswitha Haftmann awards, Celmins now lives and works in New York City.
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Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, pavillon Pierre Lassonde
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