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. 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.
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Works in Collection
52 works
A Bestiary
Gregory Amenoff
1990
Amérique
Vija Celmins
2009-10
Beetle (plate, folio 51 verso) from A Bestiary
Vija Celmins
1990
Bikini
Vija Celmins
1968
Clipping with Pistol
Vija Celmins
1968
Concentric Bearings, D
Vija Celmins
1985
Constellation - Uccello
Vija Celmins
1983
Desert
Vija Celmins
1971
Desert from Untitled Portfolio
Vija Celmins
1975
Drypoint - Ocean Surface
Vija Celmins
1983
Flying Fortress
Vija Celmins
1966
Fragment from the portfolio The Met 150
Vija Celmins
2021
Galaxy from Untitled Portfolio, Galaxy \from Untitled Por...
Vija Celmins
1975
Gun with Hand #1
Vija Celmins
1964
House #1
Vija Celmins
1965
Jupiter Moon - Constellation
Vija Celmins
1983
Moon Surface (Surveyor I)
Vija Celmins
1971-72
Night Sky #5
Vija Celmins
1992
Ocean Surface Woodcut 1992
Vija Celmins
1992
Ocean from Untitled Portfolio
Vija Celmins
1975
Ocean: 7 Steps #2
Vija Celmins
1973
Parkett no. 44
Vija Celmins
1994
Puzzle
Vija Celmins
1965-66
Saturn Stamps
Vija Celmins
1995