Chuck CLOSE
Born in 1940, Monroe, Washington, USA.
Lives and works in New York, USA.
Studies and Grants (selection)
2000
Awarded National Medal of Arts, Washington, USA.
1998
Elected Fellow of The American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.
1992
Elected member of the American Academy and Institut of Arts and Letters, New York, USA.
1991
Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture Medal, USA.
1990
International Center for Photography Annual Infinity Award for Art, USA.
1973
National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, USA.
1966
Resident Artist, The American Academy, Rome, Italy.
1965
Fullbright Grant, Akademie der Bildenden Kunste, Vienna.
1964
M.F.A. Yale University School of Art and Architecture, New Haven, Connecticut, USA.
1963
B.F.A. Yale University School of Art and Architecture, New Haven, Connecticut, USA.
Selected Exhibitions
2010
Galerie Xippas, Paris, France.
Realism--The Adventure of Reality, Kunsthalle Emde, Germany. Travels to Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung, Munich, Germany June 11- September 5
2009
Chuck Close: A Couple Of Ways Of Doing Something, Louisiana Art and Science Museum
Baton Rouge, Louisiana: Palmer Museum of Art, Penn State University Park, Austin Museum of Art Austin, Texas, USA.
2008
Chuck Close: Seven portraits, The State Hermitage Museum, Winter Palace, St. Petersburg, Rusia
Chuck Close: Self Portrait / Scribble / Etching Portfolio 2000, Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, ME, USA.
Close Prints: Process and Collaboration, Sungkok Art Museum, Seoul, Korea
Chuck Close: A Couple Of Ways Of Doing Something, Tacoma Art Museum, Washington: Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago.
2007
Chuck Close : From the collection of Sherry Mallin, Nassau County Museum, Roslyne harbor, New York, USA
Chuck Close : Pinturas 1968 – 2006, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain
The Odyssey Continues : Masterworks from the New Orleans Museum of Art and from Private New Orleans Collection, Wildenstein, New York, USA
Winter group show, Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston, USA
LeWitt x 2 : Structure and Line / Selections from the LeWitt Collection, Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Wisconsin, USA. Travelling exhibition : Miami Art Museum, Florida, USA ; Weatherspoon Art Museum, The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, USA ; Augustin Museum of Art, Texas, USA
Mr. President, University Art Museum, New York, USA
2006
Le Mouvement des images, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
New Frontiers – American Art Since 1945, The Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, USA
The Shape of Time, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, USA
Review – 25 Jahre Osterrelchische Ludwig Stiftung, Museum Moderner Kunst, Stiftung Ludwig, Vienne, Austria
Chuck Close Prints : Process and Collaboration, The Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Madison, USA. Travelling exhibition : Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, California, USA ( January 28 – April 22) ; Boise Art Museum, Idaho, USA (May 12 – August 11) ; Portland Art Museum, Oregon, USA (October 6, 2007 – January 6, 2008) ; Colby Museum of Art, Waterville, Maine, USA (February 3 – April 27, 2008) ; Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, USA (May – July 2008).
Chuck Close – Self Portraits 1967 – 2005, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, USA
Figures de l’acteur, le paradoxe du comédien, Collection Lambert en Avignon, Avignon, France
The Expanded Eye. Sehen – entgrenzt und verflüssigt, Kunsthaus, Zurich, Switzerland
Likeness – Portraits of Artists by Other Artists, Contemporary Art Center of Virginia, USA
Great American Drawings, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, USA
Crown Point Press – The Art of Etching, The Young Museum, San Francisco, USA
Drawn, exposed, and Impressed – Recent Works on paper from the Cleveland Museum, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, USA
2005
Chuck Close – Self Portraits 1967 – 2005, Walker Art Center, Mineapolis, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, USA
From Darkroom to Digital – Photographic Variations, The Art Institute of Chicago, USA
Summer Exhibition 2005, Royal Academy of Arts, London, Great-Britain
Chuck Close / Franz Gertsch, Galerie Michael Haas, Berlin, Germany
Logical Conclusions, PaceWildenstein, New York, USA
Figuratively Speaking, Miami Art Museum, Miami, USA
Contemporary Voices : Works from the UBS Art Collection, Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
The Fluidity of Time – Selections from the MCA Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, USA
2004
Chuck Close Prints: Process and Collaboration, The Met, New York, USA
Exhibiting Signs of Age, Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, USA
Best Friends – Portraits of Artists by Other Artists, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, USA
Pop Art & Minimalismus – The Serial Attitude, Albertina, Vienne, Austria
Printed light – photographic vision and the modern print, National Gallery of Australia, Camberra, Australia
About Face – Photographic Portraits from the Collection, The Art Institute of Chicago, USA
No Boundaries, Denver Art Museum, Denver, USA
2003
Hyperrealismes USA, 1965-1975, CMAM, Strasbourg, France
2002
Recent Paintings, Pace Wildenstein, New York, USA
2001
Points of Departure, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, USA
About Faces, C&M Arts, New York, USA
Chuck Close : Self Portraits 1967-2001, Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, USA
2000
The American Century: Art & Culture 1900-2000, Whitney Museum, New York, USA
Chuck Close: Daguerreotypes, Daniel Blau Gallery, Munich, Germany
1999
Portraits, Trans Hudson Gallery, New York, USA
Chuck Close, White Cube, London, Great-Britain
1998
Chuck Close : A retrospective, Museum of Modern, New York, USA
Chuck Close : Prints 1978-1997, Georg Kargl Gallery, Vienna, Austria
The Artist's Eye: Will Barnet Selects from the Collection, National Academy Museum, New York, USA
1997
Project Painting, Basilico fine Arts, New York, USA
Systematic, Karen McCready Fine Art, New York, USA
In-Form, Bravin Post Lee Gallery, New York, USA
Photorealism's Greatest Hits, Louis K. Meiel Gallery, New York, USA
Chuck Close: Large-Scale Photographs, PaceWildensteinMacGill, Los Angeles, USA
1994
Chuck Close Retrospective, Staatliche Kunsthalle, Baden Baden, Germany
1993
Venice Biennale, Italy
1991
The Pace Gallery, New York, USA
1980
Printed Art : A view of two decacdes, Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
1979
Copie conforme ?, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
1977
Documenta Kassel, Germany
Whitney Museum of American Art Biennale, USA
1971
Recent work, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, USA
Public Collections
Australian National Gallery, Camberra, Australia
S.M.A.K Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Gent, Belgium
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Museet for Samtidskunst, Roskilde, Danemark
Musée National d’Art Moderne, Paris, France
Ludwig Forum für International Kunst, Aachen, Germany
Staatliche Museum, Berlin, Germany
Tate Gallery, London, Great-Britain
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York, USA
Miami Art Museum, Miami, USA
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, USA
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
The National Gallery of Art, Washington, USA
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, USA
Withney Museum of American Art, New York, USA
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Books and Catalogues (selection)
2006
Lyle Rexer, Chuck Close, A couple of ways of doing something, Aperture, Paris
2005
Martin Friedman, Close reading : Chuck Close and the Artist Portrait, Harry N. Abrams, New York
Chuck Close, Siri Engberg, Madeleine Grynsztejn, Chuck Close : Self-Portraits, 1967-2005, Walker Art Center, San Francisco
Robert Rosenblum, Chuck Close : recent paintings, PaceWildenstein, New York
2003
Terrie Sultan, Chuck Close Prints : Process and Collaboration, Princeton University Press, Princeton
Imagination : perception in art, Kunsthaus, Graz
Hypperéalismes USA 1965 – 1975, Musées de Strasbourg, Strasbourg
2002
Kirk Varnedoe, Chuck Close : recent works, Pace-Wildenstein, New York
Chuck Close, recent work, White Cube, London
Demetrio Paparoni, Chuck Close : daguerreotypes, A. Cetti Serbelioni, Milano
2001
Abbild : recent portraiture and depiction, Wien New York : Springer
Journeys into the self, artists’self-images, Sammlung Essl, Klosterneuburg
Rags to riches : 25 years of paper, Dieu Donné Papermill, New York
2000
Is seeing believing ? : the real, the surreal, the unreal in contemporary photography, North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh
1999
Ernst Beyeler, Markus Brüderlin, Reinhold Hohl, Face to face to cyberspace, Fondation Beyeler, Basel
1998
Robert Storr, Kirk Varnedoe, Deborah Wye, Chuck Close, Museum of Modern Art, New York
1997
Chuck Close, Dave Hickey, Joanne Kesten, The portraits speak : Chuck Close in conversation with 27 of his subjects, A.R.T. Press, New York
Birth of the cool : American painting from Georgio O’Keeffe to Christopher Wool, Ostfildern Cantz, New York
1996
John Guare, Chuck Close life and work 1988-1995, Thames & Hudson, New York
1994
Chuck Close : Retrospektive, Baden Baden, Staatliche Kunsthalle
1993
Arthur Danto, Chuck Close : recent works, Pace Gallery, New York
1991
Chuck Close : head-on, the modern portrait, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
1988
Chuck Close : New paintings, The Pace Gallery, New York
1979
Copie conforme ?, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
Press articles (selection)
2007
" Guide Exposition – Gros plan", L’express, March 15, p. 88
2004
David Reed, "The Morning After", Artforum, March, p. 210
2002
Carroll Dunham, "Road Fool", Artforum, October, p. 136
2001
Jerry Saltz, "Wall Power", The Village Voice, January 30, p. 69
2000
Lilly Wel, "Watching the Skies", Art in America, April, pp. 128-133
1996
Paul Gardner, "Pleasure, Pain and Protocol", ARTnews, March