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 Most exhibitions in: |
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| USA | 79 |
| France | 11 |
| United Kingdom | 9 |
| Japan | 4 |
| Switzerland | 3 |
| Most exhibitions held at: |
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McKee Gallery, USA |
7 |
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UCLA Hammer Museum, USA |
4 |
Biography: 
25.10.1938 Born in Riga (US/*LV)
Awards 2008 The Carnegie Prize 2008
2009 Roswitha Haftmann Prize
Lives and works since 1980 in New York, NY (US)
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Public exhibitions 118
until 5.4.2010
until 17.12.
Solo shows 11
2007
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| Oceans Deserts Galaxies: Prints by Vija Celmins - Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
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| A Drawings Retrospective - UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA |
2006
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| Vija Celmins - Centre Pompidou - Musée National d´Art Moderne, Paris |
2002
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| Vija Celmins: Works from The Edward R. Broida Collection - MFAH - Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Houston, TX |
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| The Prints of Vija Celmins - The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, NY |
2001
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| Vija Celmins - New Paintings - McKee Gallery, New York City, NY |
2000
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| Vija Celmins - Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
1995
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| Vija Celmins - Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain, Paris |
1993
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| Vija Celmins Retrospective - Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA |
1980
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| Vija Celmins - The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC |
1979
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| The Art of Vija Celmins - Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach |
Group shows 105
2009
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| In Their Own Right: Contemporary Women Printmakers - The McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, TX |
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| Women’s Work: Contemporary Women Printmakers from the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and his family foundation - San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA |
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| Mark Wallinger curates the russian linesman - Hayward Gallery, London (England) |
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| Hot Spots - Rio de Janeiro / Milano - Torino / Los Angeles - Kunsthaus Zürich, Zurich |
2008
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| Time & Place: Los Angeles 1957-1968 - Moderna Museet, Stockholm |
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| "Infinite Light" in "to:Night" - The Bertha & Karl Leubsdorf Art Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Art Since the 1960s: California Experiments - Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach |
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| SAND: Memory, Meaning and Metaphor - Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, NY |
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| Landscope - Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac - Paris, Paris |
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| Life on Mars, the 55th Carnegie International - Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburg, PA |
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| Attention to Detail - FLAG Art Foundation, New York City, NY |
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| For the Spirit - From the UBS Art Collection - Mori Art Museum, Tokyo |
2007
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| Recent Acquisitions : From the Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts - UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA |
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| If Everybody had an Ocean: Brian Wilson, une exposition - CAPC - Musée d'art contemporain, Bordeaux |
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| Early Signs: Celmins, Puryear, Youngblood - McKee Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| De-Natured: Works from the Anderson Collection - San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA |
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| The Painting of Modern Life - Hayward Gallery, London (England) |
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| Major Prints - John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA |
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| The third mind - Carte blanche a Ugo Rondinone - Palais de Tokyo, Paris |
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| Drawings, Watercolors and Gouaches: From Toulouse-Lautrec to Freud - Acquavella Galleries, Inc., New York City, NY |
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| Extra-Ordinary: The Everyday Object in American Art - Austin Museum of Art - AMOA, Austin, TX |
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| What Is Painting? - Contemporary Art from the Collection - MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY |
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| Summer Group Show - McKee Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| If Everybody had an Ocean: Brian Wilson: An Art Exhibition - Tate St. Ives, St. Ives, Cornwall (England) |
2006
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| A Show of Prints - James Kelly Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM |
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| Altered, Stitched & Gathered - P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island |
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| Winter Group Show - The Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston, MA |
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| Nothing and everything - Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, CA |
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| Magritte and Contemporary Art: The Treachery of Images - Los Angeles County Museum of Art - LACMA, Los Angeles, CA |
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| Infinity in Finite Things - Western Project, Culver City, CA |
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| Small Sculptures - Matthew Marks Gallery - 523 West 24th Street, New York City, NY |
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| Plane/Figure - Amerikanische Kunst aus Schweizer Sammlungen - Kunstmuseum Winterthur, Winterthur |
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| Selections from the Collection of Edward R. Broida - The National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC |
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| The Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture - 60 Years - Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, ME |
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| Vija Celmins, Liz Deschenes, Zoe Leonard - Tracy Williams, Ltd, New York City, NY |
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| Collection of the Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain - MOT Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo |
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| Celmins, Gibbs + MArtin - Timothy Taylor Gallery, London (England) |
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| Great American Drawings - The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL |
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| The Trace Of A Trace Of A Trace - Perry Rubenstein Gallery - 527 West 23 Street, New York City, NY |
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| Drawings - McKee Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| see into Liquid - Museum of Contemporary Art , Denver, Denver, CO |
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| Presses, Pop, and Pomade: American Prints Since the Sixties - The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Poughkeepsie, NY |
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| Selected Works - John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA |
2005
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| In Line - Jessica Bradley Art + Projects, Toronto, ON |
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| Vantage Point - Selections from the Gary Bettis Collection - Boise Art Museum BAM, Boise, ID |
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| Marine - Paintings of the Sea - Crane Kalman Gallery, London (England) |
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| Building and Breaking the Grid - Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City, NY |
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| Recent Acquisitions - From the Grunwald Center - UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA |
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| Major Prints - John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA |
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| Eye on Water - Mount Holyoke College Art Museum, South Hadley, MA |
2004
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| The Undiscovered Country - UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA |
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| Living Dust - The Gallery at Norwich University , Norwich (England) |
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| Works and Days - Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk |
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| An International Legacy - Selections from Carnegie of Art - Nevada Museum of Art NMA, Reno, NV |
2003
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| Happiness - A Survival Guide for Art and Life - Mori Art Museum, Tokyo |
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| Hyperréalismes USA - 1965-1975 - Musée d'Art Moderne et Contemporain (MAMCS), Strasbourg |
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| Exodus - between promise and fulfilment - Kettle's Yard, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire (England) |
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| 50th International Art Exhibition Venice Biennale / Biennale di Venezia - La Biennale di Venezia, Venice |
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| Not Exactly Photographs - Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, CA |
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| McKee Gallery Print Show - McKee Gallery, New York City, NY |
2002
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| Regarding Landscape - mocca - Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, Toronto, ON |
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| Summer - James Cohan Gallery - New York, New York City, NY |
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| Parallels and Intersections - Art/Women/California, 1950-2000 - San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA |
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| Images of Nature - MFA - Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, MA |
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| Insecta Magnifica - Wave Hill, New York City, NY |
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| Whitney Biennial 2002 - Whitney Biennial, New York City, NY |
2001
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| The Inward Eye - Transcendence in Contemporary Art - Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Houston, TX |
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| The proper meaning - Zwirner & Wirth, New York City, NY |
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| Szenenwechsel XX - Museum für Moderne Kunst (MMK), Frankfurt/Main |
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| De Artaud ... à Twombly - Centre Pompidou - Musée National d´Art Moderne, Paris |
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| Empatia - Empathy - Porin Taidemuseo / Pori Art Museum, Pori |
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| Landscapes - Griffin Contemporary, Santa Monica, CA |
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| Vija Celmins - Toba Khedoori - Museum für Gegenwartskunst - Emanuel Hoffmann-Stiftung, Basel |
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| On Paper II - Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburg, PA |
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| The Universe: Contemporary Art & The Cosmos - Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA |
2000
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| New - McKee Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Group Show - McKee Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| The Sea and the Sky - RHA Gallagher Gallery - Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin |
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| Exposition. Elysian Fields. Une proposition du Purple Institute - Centre Pompidou - Musée National d´Art Moderne, Paris |
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| Group Show - James Cohan Gallery - New York, New York City, NY |
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| Cosmos - From Goya to De Chirico from Friedrich to Kiefer - Palazzo Grassi - Francois Pinault Foundation, Venice |
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| The Sea & The Sky - Arcadia University Art Gallery , Glenside, PA |
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| Lost - Ikon Gallery, Birmingham (England) |
1999
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| Permanent Collection - The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, TX |
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| Reality and Desire - Fundación Joan Miró, Barcelona |
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| Examining Pictures - Exhibition of 56 artists links generations of painters - Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago - MCA Chicago, Chicago, IL |
1998
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| Etre nature - Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain, Paris |
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| ALBUM - A selection from the Fondatión Cartier pour l’Art Contemporain - Fundación Joan Miró, Barcelona |
1997
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| A Lasting Legacy: Selections From The Lannan Foundation Gift - The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, Los Angeles, CA |
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| Whitney Biennial 1997 - Whitney Biennial, New York City, NY |
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| Ornament and Landscape: On the Nature of Artifice - Apexart, New York City, NY |
1996
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| American Contemporary Prints - Wako Works of Art, Tokyo |
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| Vija Celmins - Zoe Leonard - Jorge Pardo - Joe Scanlan - Galerie Micheline Szwajcer, Antwerp |
1994
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| Out of This World - Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Houston, TX |
1993
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| Azur - Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain, Paris |
1990
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| L.A. Pop in the Sixties - Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ |
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| L.A. Pop in the Sixties - Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, NY |
1989
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| L.A. Pop in the Sixties - Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Springs, CA |
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| L.A. Pop in the Sixties - Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA |
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| L.A. Pop in the Sixties - Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach |
1983
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| American Still Life: 1945–1983 - Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Houston, TX |
1981
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| California, sense of individualism - L.A. Louver Gallery, Venice, CA |
| Dealer Directory 16 |
Canada
| | Equinox Gallery, Vancouver, BC
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Japan
| | Galerie Sho Contemporary Art, Tokyo
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Spain
USA
| | The Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston, MA
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| | Alan Koppel Gallery, Chicago, IL
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| | Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
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| | Gemini G.E.L. at Joni Moisant Weyl, New York City, NY
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| | Jim Kempner Fine Art, New York City, NY
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| | Barbara Mathes Gallery, New York City, NY
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| | McKee Gallery, New York City, NY
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| | Carolina Nitsch, New York City, NY
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| | Senior & Shopmaker Gallery, New York City, NY
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| | Works on Paper, Inc. WP Editions, Philadelphia, PA
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| | Greenfield Sacks Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
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| | Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, WA
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Public collections 19
Australia
| | Queensland Art Gallery / Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, QLD
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Canada
| | The Nickle Arts Museum, Calgary, AB
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France
| | Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain, Paris
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| | Centre Pompidou - Musée National d´Art Moderne, Paris
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United Kingdom
| | Tate Britain, London (England)
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USA
| | MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, MA
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| | The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
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| | Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA
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| | The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, TX
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| | Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego - MCASD La Jolla, La Jolla, CA
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| | Los Angeles County Museum of Art - LACMA, Los Angeles, CA
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| | MOCA Grand Avenue, Los Angeles, CA
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| | MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY
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| | Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach
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| | Norton Simon Museum of Art, Pasadena, CA
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| | San Francisco Museum of Modern Art - SFMOMA, San Francisco, CA
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| | Daum Museum of Contemporary Art, Sedalia, MO
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| | Sweet Briar College Art Gallery, Sweet Briar, VA
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| | Harwood Museum of Art, Taos, NM
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