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.
I noticed that most of her paintings include simple objects. Her simplicity makes it look more beautiful.
the list of her awards are:
I noticed that most of her paintings include simple objects. Her simplicity makes it look more beautiful.
- 1961 Fellowship to Yale University Summer Session
- 1968 Cassandra Foundation Award
- 1971 & 1976 Artist’s Fellowship from National Endowment for the Arts
- 1980 Guggenheim Fellowship
- 1996 American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Art
- 1997 Skowhegan Medal for Painting[
- 1997 John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Fellowship
- 2000-2001 Coutts Contemporary Art Foundation Award
- 2004 Elected into the National Academy of Design
- 2006 RISD Athena Award for Excellence in Painting
- 2008 Awarded the $10,000 Carnegie Prize
- 2009 Roswitha Haftmann Prize
- 2009 Fellow Award in the Visual Arts from United States Artists
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