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Works of art
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| Self-Portrait Woodcut", 47 Color Handprinted Woodcut in the Ukiyo-e Style with 39 Blocks on Shiramine Paper, 37 x 30 inches |
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| Contessa Gallery |
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| "Self-Portrait Screenprint", Screenprint in 187 Color, 74 1/2 x 57 3/4 inches |
| 2007 |
| Contessa Gallery |
Biography
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Self-Portrait, 2004. Courtesy by "white8 Galerie Dagmar Aichholzer, Villach"
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1940
Born in Monroe, WA (US)
Raised in the state of Washington, Close demonstrated a precocious talent as a draftsman from an early age. In 1964, he received his M.F.A. from Yale University, where he served as an assistant to the master printer, Gabor Peterdi. By 1970 he had captured the attention of the art world with a series of nine-foot-high, hyper-realistically painted canvases of himself and his friends. Since then his art has focused on larger-than-life images of the human face. Reflecting the artist's fascination with reality, illusion, and forms of visual perception, these "heads"—as Close calls them—are typically conceived as a series of gridded abstractions that, when assembled in the eye of the viewer, coalesce into a representational whole.
Since 1972 printmaking has been an integral part of Close's artistic output. However, far from serving as a mechanical means to replicate his painted work, his prints—even more labor-intensive and time-consuming than his canvases—have been an important proving ground for his artistic activity as a whole. As Close has asserted, "Virtually everything that has happened in my unique work can be traced back to the prints."
Lives and works in New York, NY (US)
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Public exhibitions 142 
until 3.8.
The Shape of Time
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN 
Solo shows 30
2007
Chuck Close: Family and Others
White Cube, London (England)
Chuck Close Prints
Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR
Chuck Close - Self-Portrait/Scribble/Etching Portfolio, 2000
Picker Art Gallery at Colgate University, Hamilton, NY
Chuck Close - Paintings 1968 - 2006
Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst, Aachen
Chuck Close Prints: Process and Collaboration
Boise Art Museum BAM, Boise, ID
CHUCK CLOSE - Pinturas: 1968-2006
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía MNCARS, Madrid
Chuck Close Prints - Process and Collaboration
Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach
2006
Chuck Close Prints: Process and Collaboration
MMoCA - The Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Madison, WI
Chuck Close - Self-Portraits 1967 – 2005
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
Chuck Close
Galerie Xippas - Athens, Athens
Chuck Close prints. Process collaboration
The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, TX
Chuck Close - Self-Portraits 1967 – 2005
The High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA
Chuck Close Prints - Process and Collaboration
Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach
2005
Chuck Close - Self-Portraits 1967-2005
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
Chuck Close - Self-Portraits 1967-2005
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art - SFMOMA, San Francisco, CA
Chuck Close
Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, MA
2004
No Boundaries
Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO
Chuck Close Prints - Process and Collaboration
Knoxville Museum of Art, Knoxville, TN
Chuck Close - Prints, rocess and Collaboration
MAM - Miami Art Museum, Miami, FL
Chuck Close Prints: Process and Collaboration
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, NY
2003
Chuck Close Prints: Process and Collaboration
Blaffer Gallery - The Art Museum of the University of Houston, Houston, TX
Chuck Close
White Cube, London (England)
2002
Chuck Close - New Paintings / Chuck Close - New Daguerreotypes
PaceWildenstein, New York City, NY
2001
Chuck Close - Self Portraits 1967-2001
Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2000
Chuck Close
Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA
Chuck Close
Galerie Daniel Blau, Munich
1999
Chuck Close - Photographs
White Cube, London (England)
1998
Chuck Close
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC
Chuck Close
Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago - MCA Chicago, Chicago, IL
Chuck Close
MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY
Group shows 111
2008
Paintings, Drawings, and Sculpture
John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
The Human Touch: Selections from the RBC Dain Rauscher Collection
Rochester Art center, Rochester, MN
For the Spirit - From the UBS Art Collection
Mori Art Museum, Tokyo
Genesis – Die Kunst der Schöpfung
Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern
2007
The Missing Peace: Artists Consider the Dalai Lama
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
1-2-3 - The Collection in Focus
Ludwig Museum - Museum of Contemporary Art - Budapest, Budapest
Contemporary, Cool and Collected
Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, NC
In Focus - The Nude
The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA
Contemporary and Cutting Edge
Bruce Museum of Arts and Science, Greenwich, CT
Photography Portfolio I & II
CCP - Centre for Contemporary Photography, Fitzroy, VIC
All the More Real: Portrayals of Intimacy and Empathy
Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, NY
What Is Painting? - Contemporary Art from the Collection
MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY
Chuck Close/Bob Holman
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, ON
StereoVision
University of South Florida Contemporary Art Museum, Tampa, FL
Diagnose (Kunst)
Museum im Kulturspeicher, Würzburg
News on Paper
 Galerie Burkhard Eikelmann • Düsseldorf, Dusseldorf
Stichwort Gegenwart - Zwölf Kapitel der Sammlung Ludwig
Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst, Aachen
Unter Sternen - Aus der Sammlung Willy Michel
museum franz gertsch, Burgdorf
Not For Sale
P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island
FRAMED - The Art of the Portrait
Art Gallery of Hamilton, Hamilton, ON
An Adventure in the Arts: Selections from the Permanent Collection of the Guild Hall Museum
Gulf Coast Museum of Art, Largo, FL
Mr. President
University Art Museum , Albany, NY
A Portrait of America - The Nation and Ohio (Youngstown)
The Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH
2006
Winter Group Show
The Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston, MA
Home: Living with Contemporary Art
Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art - iMOCA, Indianapolis, IN
Diagnose [Kunst] - Die Medizin im Spiegel der zeitgenössischen Kunst
Kunstmuseum Ahlen, Ahlen
the human touch - selections from the rbc dain rauscher art collection
Rockford Art Museum, Rockford, IL
Over Under Sideways Down, Backwards Forwards Square
Irvine Contemporary, Washington, DC
New Frontiers - American Art Since 1945
The Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH
Eretica
† Civica Galleria dArte Moderna, Palermo, Palermo
Review - 25 Jahre Österreichische Ludwig Stiftung
Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig - MUMOK , Vienna
Figures of the Player, the Paradox of the Actor
Collection Lambert, Avignon
The Expanded Eye. Sehen - entgrenzt und verflüssigt
Kunsthaus Zürich, Zurich
The Missing Peace
Fowler Museum at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
Summer Group Show
The Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston, MA
Le mouvement des images
Centre Pompidou - Musée National d´Art Moderne, Paris
Likeness - Portraits of Artists by Other Artists
Contemporary Art Center of Virginia, Virginia Beach, VA
Great American Drawings
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Crown Point Press - The Art of Etching
The de Young Museum, San Francisco, CA
Self Portrait Renaissance to Contemporary
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW
Contemporary Master Prints
Jerald Melberg Gallery, Charlotte, NC
Drawn, Exposed, and Impressed - Recent Works on Paper from the Cleveland Museum
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Selected Works
John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2005
Pollock To Pop: Americas Brush With Dalí
Salvador Dalí Museum, St. Petersburg, FL
De la comtesse De Castiglione à Cindy Sherman
† Galerie de France, Paris
The Fluidity of Time - Selections from the MCA Collection
Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago - MCA Chicago, Chicago, IL
From Darkroom to Digital - Photographic Variations
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Atelier Adamson - David Adamson and his friends
Sungkok Art Museum, Seoul
Highlights
John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
The Figurative Impulse - Works from the UBS Art Collection
Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico, Santurce
Chuck Close - Franz Gertsch
museum franz gertsch, Burgdorf
Group Show
The Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston, MA
Summer Exhibition 2005
Royal Academy of Arts, London (England)
Likeness - Portraits of Artists by Other Artists
Dalhousie Art Gallery, Halifax, NS
Atelier David Adamson
Maison Européene de la Photographie, Paris
Chuck Close/Franz Gertsch
Galerie Michael Haas, Berlin
Chuck Close, Franz Gertsch
Galerie Haas & Fuchs, Berlin
Color/Pattern/Grid
Austin Museum of Art - AMOA, Austin, TX
Picasso to Pop
Contessa Gallery, Cleveland, OH
Logical Conclusions
PaceWildenstein, New York City, NY
Figuratively Speaking
MAM - Miami Art Museum, Miami, FL
Contemporary Voices: Works from the UBS Art Collection
MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY
2004
White Christmas
 white8 Galerie Dagmar Aichholzer, Villach
About Face - Photographic Portraits from the Collection
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Printed light - photographic vision and the modern print
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, ACT
Off the Wall: Works from the JPMorgan Chase Collection
Bruce Museum of Arts and Science, Greenwich, CT
Pop Art & Minimalismus - The Serial Attitude
Albertina, Vienna
Likeness - Portraits of Artists by Other Artists
CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, CA
Best Friends - Portraits of Sydney and Frances Lewis
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA
Exhibiting Signs of Age
Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, ME
Neue Editionen
Edition Schellmann, Munich
Legally Represented
Polk Museum of Art, Lakeland, FL
An International Legacy - Selections from Carnegie of Art
Nevada Museum of Art NMA, Reno, NV
2003
Embracing the Present - The UBS Art Collection
Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ
Einbildung - Das Wahrnehmen in der Kunst
Kunsthaus Graz, Graz
Sommerausstellung 2003 - 20 zeitgenössische Künstler
white8 Galerie Dagmar Aichholzer, Villach
Hyperréalismes USA - 1965-1975
Musée dArt Moderne et Contemporain (MAMCS), Strasbourg
Family Ties - International contemporary artists interpret family
Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA
Embracing the Present - The UBS Art Collection
Austin Museum of Art - AMOA, Austin, TX
Flesh Tones - 100 Years of the Nude
Robert Mann Gallery, New York City, NY
Ameri©an Dre@m: A Survey
Ronald Feldman Fine Arts Inc, New York City, NY
Contemporary Prints and Photographs from the Bruce Brown Collection
Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, ME
2002
Rags to Riches - 25 Years of Paper Art from Dieu Donné Papermill
Heckscher Museum of Art, Huntington, NY
Mask or Mirror? A Play of Portraits
Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA
The Human Factor: Figuration in American Art 1950-1995
Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita, KS
Nach der Wirklichkeit III - Painting on the move
Kunsthalle Basel, Basel
From Twilight to dawn
Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville, TN
Under Pressure - Prints from Two Palms Press
University of Massachusetts - Amherst Fine Arts Center, Amherst, MA
2001
Rotating Group Exhibition
Jim Kempner Fine Art, New York City, NY
Points of Departure II: Connecting with Contemporary Art
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art - SFMOMA, San Francisco, CA
Landfall Press - 1970 - 2000
H&R Block Artspace at Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO
Artists Photographing Artists
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Acquisitions In Contemporary Art
The Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH
Rotating Group Show
Jim Kempner Fine Art, New York City, NY
Digital: Printmaking Now
Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY
Print Matters. New Works and Modern Treasures
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA
Lost & Found - Rediscovering Early Photographic Processes
USC Fisher Gallery - University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
2000
Media Metaphor - The 46th Biennial Exhibition
The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
About Faces
Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, CA
TOP IN POP
Galerie Döbele GmbH - Dresden, Dresden
Art at Work: Forty Years of the Chase Manhattan Collection
Queens Museum of Art, Queens, NY
Visage Painting and the Human Face in 20th Century Art
NMWA The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo
1999
Masterprints
Galerie nächst St. Stephan - Rosemarie Schwarzwälder, Vienna
Head to Toe - Impressing the Body
University of Massachusetts - Amherst Fine Arts Center, Amherst, MA
The American Century - Art & Culture 1900-2000 Part II
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City, NY
Lineamente International - Von der Linie zur Zeichnung
Lentos Kunstmuseum Linz, Linz
ROTE LIEBE - Leinwände - Arbeiten auf Papier - Photographien
Raab Galerie, Berlin
Face to Face to Cyberspace
Foundation Beyeler, Riehen
Foreword
Art Museum of the Americas, Washington, DC
Printmaking 1960-1990
Davison Art Center, Middletown
Art at Work - Forty Years of the Chase Manhattan Collection
Contemporary Arts Museum • Houston, Houston, TX
Dealer Directory 35
Austria
Georg Kargl Fine Arts, Vienna
white8 Galerie Dagmar Aichholzer, Villach
Canada
Galerie de Bellefeuille, Montreal, QC
Mira Godard Gallery, Toronto, ON
Equinox Gallery, Vancouver, BC
France
Galerie Xippas - Paris, Paris
Germany
Galerie Michael Haas, Berlin
Galerie Haas & Fuchs, Berlin
KunstTachometer BERLIN, Berlin
Raab Galerie, Berlin
Greece
Galerie Xippas - Athens, Athens
Italy
Gabrius Printstore, Milan
Spain
Boza Editor, Barcelona
KunstTachometer PALMA DE MALLORCA, Palma de Mallorca
USA
Rosenbaum Contemporary, Boca Raton, FL
The Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston, MA
Richard Gray Gallery - Chicago, Chicago, IL
Contessa Gallery, Cleveland, OH
Jonathan Novak Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
Danziger Projects, New York City, NY
Richard Gray Gallery - New York, New York City, NY
Max Lang Gallery, New York City, NY
Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York City, NY
Jean-Yves Noblet Contemporary Print, New York City, NY
Pace Prints, New York City, NY
PaceWildenstein, New York City, NY
Two Palms, New York City, NY
Magnolia Editions, Oakland, CA
Works on Paper, Inc. WP Editions, Philadelphia, PA
Crown Point Press, San Francisco, CA
Meyerovich Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Bobbie Greenfield Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
IKON Ltd, Santa Monica, CA
Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, WA
Adamson Gallery, Washington, DC
Public collections 50
Austria
Albertina, Vienna
Belgium
SMAK Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Gent
Canada
National Gallery of Canada - Musée des beaux-arts du Canada, Ottawa, ON
Colombia
Biblioteca Luis Ángel Arango - Museo de Arte del Banco de la República, Santafé de Bogota
Denmark
Museet for Samtidskunst, Roskilde
France
BnF Site Richelieu, Paris
Germany
Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst, Aachen
Städtische Galerie Erlangen, Erlangen
Städel Museum, Frankfurt/Main
Hungary
Ludwig Museum - Museum of Contemporary Art - Budapest, Budapest
Iran
Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art, Tehran
Italy
Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice
Korea (Republic)
National Museum of Contemporary Art Korea, Seoul
Switzerland
Fotomuseum Winterthur, Winterthur
United Kingdom
Tate Britain, London (England)
USA
Akron Art Museum, Akron, OH
The High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA
Austin Museum of Art - AMOA, Austin, TX
Boise Art Museum BAM, Boise, ID
MFA - Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, MA
MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, MA
Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, NC
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago - MCA Chicago, Chicago, IL
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, TX
Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO
Polk Museum of Art, Lakeland, FL
Kresge Art Museum, Lansing, MI
University of Kentucky Art Museum (UK Art Museum), Lexington, KY
MOCA Grand Avenue, Los Angeles, CA
MMoCA - The Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Madison, WI
MAM - Miami Art Museum, Miami, FL
Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, NY
MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City, NY
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA
Saint Louis Art Museum, Saint Louis, MO
Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art - SFMOMA, San Francisco, CA
Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA
Daum Museum of Contemporary Art, Sedalia, MO
Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, NY
Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, FL
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC
Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, ME
The Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH
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