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Chuck Close    (American, 1940)

 Chuck Close - Andres (Paintings) h: 108.5 x w: 84 in / h: 275.6 x w: 213.4 cm
Chuck Close
Andres 2003
 
 Chuck Close - Herb (Paintings) h: 102 x w: 84.2 in / h: 259.1 x w: 213.9 cm
Chuck Close
Herb 2004
 
 Chuck Close - Lynda (Paintings) h: 108.5 x w: 84 in / h: 275.6 x w: 213.4 cm
Chuck Close
Lynda 2004
 
 Chuck Close - Merce (Paintings) h: 102 x w: 84 in / h: 259.1 x w: 213.4 cm
Chuck Close
Merce 2005
 
 Chuck Close - Self Portrait (Paintings) h: 102 x w: 84.5 in / h: 259.1 x w: 214.6 cm
Chuck Close
Self Portrait 2004-2005
 
 Chuck Close - Self Portrait (Paintings) h: 72 x w: 60 in / h: 182.9 x w: 152.4 cm
Chuck Close
Self Portrait 2002-2003
 

Biography
1940 Born: in Monroe, WA
1963 B.F.A. Yale University School of Art and Architecture, New Haven, CT
1964 M.F.A. Yale University School of Art and Architecture, New Haven, CT
1965 Studied at the University of Washington, Seattle, WA
1965 Fullbright Grant, Akademie der Bildenden Kunste, Vienna, Austria
1966 Resident Artist, The American Academy, Rome, Italy
1991 Receives Skowhegan Medal for Painting
1992 Elected member of the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, New York, NY
1996 Resident artist at The American Academy, Rome, Italy
1998 Elected Fellow of The American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Cambridge, MA
2000 Awarded National Medal of Arts, Washington, D.C.
Lives and works in New York, NY and Long Island, NY

Exhibitions
2013 Yes, No, Maybe - The National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
Contemporary Art - Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando, FL
Hiperrealismo: 1967-2012 - Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York City, NY
Don't Be Shy, Don't Hold Back - The Logan Collection At Sfmoma - San Francisco Museum of Modern Art - SFMOMA, San Francisco, CA
Vibrations - Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA
Photorealism Revisited - Oklahoma City Museum of Art, Oklahoma City, OK
2012 Chuck Close - Galerie Thomas Modern, Munich
Chuck Close: New Work - Adamson Gallery, Washington, DC
Chuck Close - Monterey Museum of Art, Monterey, CA
Chuck Close - Multiple Portraits - Museum der Moderne - MdM Mönchsberg, Salzburg
Chuck Close - The Pace Gallery - 534 West 25th Street, New York City, NY
white8 showrooms Chuck Close - Actual and Invented Realities Featured Prints - white8 showrooms, Villach
A Couple of Ways of Doing Something - Wichita Art Museum WAM, Wichita, KS
Chuck Close - Prints Process and Collaboration - Kunsthal Rotterdam, Rotterdam
2011 Chuck Close - Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, CA
Self-portraits on Paper - Michael Fuchs Galerie, Berlin
Chuck Close - - Galerie Haas & Fuchs - Berlin, Berlin
Chuck Close: People Who Matter to Me - Taubman Museum of Art, Roanoke, WV
2010 Drawings of the 1970s - Craig F. Starr Gallery, New York City, NY
Chuck Close: Recent Works, Contessa Gallery, Cleveland, OH (solo)
!PORTRAITS!, Max Lang, New York, NY
Corpus, Nicholas Metivier Gallery, Toronto, Canada
2009 Contemporary Tapestries, Turner Carroll Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
Chuck Close: Maquettes and Multi-Part Work (1966-2009), Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
2008 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
2007 Ludwig Forum Aachen, Aachen, Germany
Jim Kempner Fine Art, New York, NY
2006 San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
2005 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
2004 Chuck Close Prints: Process and Collaboration : The Met, New York, NY (solo)
Neue Editionen : Edition Schellmann, Munich, Germany
2003 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
2002 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)
2001 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
2000 The American Century: Art & Culture 1900-2000, Whitney Museum, New York, NY
Chuck Close: Daguerreotypes : Galerie Daniel Blau, Munich, Germany (solo)
1999 Portraits, Trans Hudson Gallery, New York, NY
1998 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
1997 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)
1993 A Print Project by Chuck Close, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY (solo)
1980 Printed Art: A View of Two Decades, Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
1979 Copie Conforme?, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
1971 Recent Work, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, USA
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