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Chuck Close Biography
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1963 |
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B.F.A. Yale University School of Art and Architecture, New Haven, CT
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1964 |
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M.F.A. Yale University School of Art and Architecture, New Haven, CT
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1965 |
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Studied at the University of Washington, Seattle, WA
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1965 |
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Fullbright Grant, Akademie der Bildenden Kunste, Vienna, Austria
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1966 |
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Resident Artist, The American Academy, Rome, Italy
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1991 |
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Receives Skowhegan Medal for Painting
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1992 |
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Elected member of the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, New York, NY
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1996 |
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Resident artist at The American Academy, Rome, Italy
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1998 |
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Elected Fellow of The American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Cambridge, MA
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2000 |
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Awarded National Medal of Arts, Washington, D.C.
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Lives and works in New York, NY and Long Island, NY
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| Selected Exhibitions |
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2010
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Chuck Close: Recent Works, Contessa Gallery, Cleveland, OH (solo)
!PORTRAITS!, Max Lang, New York, NY
Corpus, Nicholas Metivier Gallery, Toronto, Canada
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2009
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Contemporary Tapestries, Turner Carroll Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
Chuck Close: Maquettes and Multi-Part Work (1966-2009), Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
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2008
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Chuck Close: Recent Prints, William Shearburn Gallery, Saint Louis, MO (solo)
A Couple of Ways of Doing Something, Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA
Iconic Heroes, Barbara Davis Gallery, Houston, TX
Turning Heads, Dawson Cole Fine Art, Laguna Beach, CA
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2007
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Ludwig Forum Aachen, Aachen, Germany
Jim Kempner Fine Art, New York, NY
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2006
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San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
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2005
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Chuck Close: Recent Paintings, The Pace Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK
Chuck Close: A Couple of Ways of Doing Something. Prints, Daguerreotypes, & Holograms, Adamson Gallery/ Adamson Editions, Washington, DC (solo)
Chuck Close/ Franz Gertsch, Galerie Michael Haa, Berlin, Germany
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2004
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Chuck Close Prints: Process and Collaboration : The Met, New York, NY (solo)
Neue Editionen : Edition Schellmann, Munich, Germany
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2003
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Hyperrealismes USA, 1965-1975 : Strasbourg CMAM, Strasbourg, France
From Rags to Riches: Twnety-five Years of Paper Art from Dieu Donné Papermill, organized by Dieu Donné Papermill, New York. Traveled to Kresge Art Museum, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI; Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD;Heckscher Museum of Art, Huntington, NY;Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Indiana, IN
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2002
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Recent Paintings : Pace Wildenstein, New York, NY
Chuck Close: Portraits, The American Academy, Rome, Italy (solo)
Chuck Close Prints, The Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase College, State University of New York, NY (solo)
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2001
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Chuck Close, Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA (solo)
Points of Departure : San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
Chuck Close Self-Portraits, 1967-2001, Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, CA (solo)
About Faces, C&M Arts, New York, NY
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2000
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The American Century: Art & Culture 1900-2000, Whitney Museum, New York, NY
Chuck Close: Daguerreotypes : Galerie Daniel Blau, Munich, Germany (solo)
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1999
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Portraits, Trans Hudson Gallery, New York, NY
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1998
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Chuck Close, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY (solo)
The Artist's Eye: Will Barnet Selects from the Collection, National Academy Museum, New York, NY
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1997
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Project Painting, Basilico fine Arts, New York, NY;Lehmann Maupin Gallery, New York, NY
Systematic, Karen McCready Fine Art, New York, NY
In-Form, Bravin Post Lee Gallery, New York, NY
Photorealism's Greatest Hits, Louis K. Meiel Gallery, New York, NY
Chuck Close: Large-Scale Photographs, PaceWildensteinMacGill, Los Angeles, Beverly Hills, CA (solo)
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1993
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A Print Project by Chuck Close, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY (solo)
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1980
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Printed Art: A View of Two Decades, Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
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1979
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Copie Conforme?, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
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1971
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Recent Work, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, USA
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| Selected Public Collections |
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Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
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Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C.
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J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
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Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
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Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
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The National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
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Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
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| Links to further information |
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