Chuck Close Biography

Well-known American contemporary artist, Chuck Close is one of the most important names in American HYPERREALISM.

Trained at the Yale University School of Art and Architecture, this New York-based artist is the recipient of the National Medal of Arts.

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

2004
- Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
- Chuck Close Prints: Process and Collaboration, Miami Art Museum

2002
- Recent Paintings, Pace Wildenstein, New York
- Prints, Neuberger Museum of Art at Purchase College, State University of New York, Purchase
- Chuck Close ritratti ("Portraits"), The American Academy, Rome

2001
- Self Portraits 1967-2001, Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco

2000
- The Worcester Museum of Art, MA
- Photographic Works, The Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH
- Daguerreotypes, Galerie Daniel Blau, Munich
- Self Portraits, David Adamson Gallery, Washington, D.C.
- Recent Paintings, PaceWildenstein Gallery, New York
- Portraits and Nudes, Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York
- Recent Prints at Pace Prints, Pace Prints, New York

1999
- White Cube, London

1998
- Traveling exhibition, A Retrospective, originating at the Museum of Modern Art, New York
- Prints 1978-1997, Georg Kargl Gallery, Vienna

1996
- A Personal Portrait, Works, and Papers, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, New York

1993
- A Print Project by Chuck Close, Museum of Modern Art, New York

1989
- Editions: A Catalogue Raisonné and Exhibition, Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH

1988
- Prints and Photographs, Pace Editions, New York

1981
- Etchings, Lithographs and Handmade Paper, Pace Editions, New York

1980
- Traveling retrospective exhibition, Close Portraits, originates at Walker Arts Center, Minneapolis

1979
- Copie/Conforme? Musée National d'Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris

1975
- Traveling exhibition, Chuck Close: Dot Drawings 1973-75, originating at Laguna Gloria Art Museum, Austin

SELECTED COLLECTIONS

- Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York
- American Medical Association Collection, Washington, D.C.
- The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago
- The Art Museum, Princeton University, NY
- Australian National Gallery, Canberra
- Carnegie Institute, Museum of Art, Pittsburgh
- Chase Manhattan Bank Collection, New York
- The Cleveland Museum of Art, OH
- The Equitable Life Assurance Society, New York
- High Museum of Art, Atlanta
- Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
- International Museum of Photography at George Eastman House, Rochester, New York
- Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
- Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, TX
- Musée National d'Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
- The Museum of Modern Art, New York
- The National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
- The National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario
- PaineWebber Group, Inc., New York
- Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia
- Seattle Art Museum, Seattle
- Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
- Tate Gallery, London, England
- Walker Arts Center, Minneapolis
- Wexner Center for the Visual Arts, Ohio State University, Columbus
- Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
- Yale University Art Gallery, Yale University, New Haven, CT