Vija Celmins
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Vija Celmins is a painter, printmaker, draftsperson, and artist born in Riga in 1938. She holds citizenship in the United States and Latvia and speaks English and Latvian. Her professional work focuses on painting and visual arts, and she has resided and worked in New York City. Celmins was educated at Indiana University – Purdue University Indianapolis.
Her artistic contributions are held in the collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, Museum of Modern Art, Tate, and National Gallery of Art. She participated in documenta 14 and is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Celmins has received the Guggenheim Fellowship, the MacArthur Fellows Program award, and the Praemium Imperiale.
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It sits within the topics 1938 births, 20th-century American painters and 20th-century American printmakers.
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- Latvia
- Place of birth
- Riga
- Occupation
- visual artist
- Languages spoken
- Latvian
- Award
- Praemium Imperiale
- Participant in
- documenta 14
- Field of work
- visual arts
- Image
- F20230912ES-0605 (cropped).jpg
- Work location
- New York City
- Residence
- New York City
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- date of birth
- 1938-10-25
- copyright representative
- Vija Celmins
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- Vija Celmins
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