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Birth Name:

Vija Celmins

Female

Birth Date:

Tue, Oct 25, 1938

Time of Birth:

03:40 PM

Place of Birth:

Riga, Riga, Latvia

Age:

85

Zodiac Sign:

Scorpio

Astrology Data:

Sun

1°

Sco

29'

Moon

27°

Sco

47'

Asc

6°

Pis

2'

MC

23°

Sag

1'

About Vija Celmins

Vija Celmins (pronounced VEE-ya SELL-muns; Latvian: Vija Celmiņa, pronounced TSEL-meen-ya) is a 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, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London and the Centre Pompidou, Paris.

Link to Wikipedia biography

External Links:

• Biography, interviews, essays, artwork images and video clips from PBS series Art:21 -- Art in the Twenty-First Century - Season 2 (2003)

• Artcyclopedia page

• Vija Celmins at Matthew Marks Gallery, New York

• Vija Celmins at the National Gallery of Art

• Celmins at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

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Astrological aspects and planetary data / tags for Vija Celmins: Sun 1 Scorpio, Moon 27 Scorpio, Mercury 11 Scorpio, Venus 4 Sagittarius, Mars 0 Libra, Jupiter 22 Aquarius, Saturn 13 Aries, Uranus 16 Taurus, Neptune 22 Virgo, Pluto 1 Leo, Asc 6 Pisces, Mc 23 Sagittarius, Sun Trine Ascendant, Moon Conjunct Venus, Sun Square Pluto, Mercury Quincunx Saturn, Moon Trine Pluto, Sun Semi Sextile Mars, Moon Sextile Mars, Moon Sesquiquadrate Saturn, Venus Trine Pluto, Venus Square Ascendant, Mars Sesquiquadrate Uranus, Mars Sextile Pluto, Jupiter Quincunx Neptune, Jupiter Sextile Midheaven, Neptune Square Midheaven

Categories related to Vija Celmins: Living people, 20th-century American women artists, American women painters, 21st-century American women artists, New York, October 25 births, MacArthur Fellows, 20th-century American printmakers, American women printmakers, Members of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, 1938 births, People from Sag Harbor, National Academy of Design members, Artists from Riga, Artists from Indianapolis, Herron School of Art and Design alumni, Latvian emigrants to the United States, Latvian World War II refugees