Chuck Close   Biography 1940 born in Monroe, WA 1958-60 Everett Junior College, Everett, WA 1958-62 University of Washington, Seattle, B.A. 1962-64 Yale University School of Art and Architecture, New Haven, CT 1964-65 Fulbright Grant, Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Vienna, Austria 1965 University of Washington, Seattle, WA 1966 The American Academy in Rome, Italy 1973 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship 1991 Skowhegan Medal for Painting 1992 American Academy and Institute of Arts, New York 2000 Awarded National Medal of Arts, Washington, D.C. lives and works in New York Exhibitions (summary) 1971 County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, USA Jim Kempner Fine Art, New York, NY 1975 Gloria Art Museum, Austin 1979 Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France 1980 Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA 1997 Basilico Fine Arts, New York Lehmann Maupin Gallery, New York Karen McCready Fine Art, New York Bravin Post Lee Gallery, New York Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York Pace Wildenstein, Mac Gill, Los Angeles, Beverly Hills, CA 1998 Museum of Modern Art, New York Will Barnet Selects from the Collection, National Academy Museum, New York 1999 Trans Hudson Gallery, New York White Cube, London Raab Galerie, Berlin Foundation Beyeler, Riehen Art Museum of the Americas, Washington 2000 Galerie Daniel Blau, Munich, Germany Art & Culture 1900-2000, Whitney Museum, New York The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco Galerie Döbele GmbH- Dresden, Germany 2001 San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco C & M Arts, New York The Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco USC Fisher Gallery- University of Southern California, Los Angeles 2002 Pace Wildenstein, New York Kunsthalle Basel 2003 Phoenix Art Museum Musee’ d`Art Moderne et Contemporain, Strasbourg White Cube, London "Sommerausstellung 03", Galerie Dagmar Aichholzer, Villach 2004 Edition Schellmann, Munich, Germany Denver Art Museum, Denver Knoxville Museum of Art, Knoxville The Institute of Chicago, Chicago National Gallery of Australia, Canberra Albertina, Vienna, Austria Nevada Museum of Art The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York "White Christmas", white8 Galerie, Villach 2005 Royal Academy of Arts, London Galerie Michael Haas, Berlin KUNSTKÖLN, white8 Galerie, Villach Miami Art Museum, Miami MoMA-Museum of Modern Art, New York 2006 Walker Art Center, Minneapolis San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco The Art Institute of Chicago Galerie de France, Paris  2007 KIAF 07, Seoul, Korea, white8 cornice - Venice International Art Fair, white8 2008 "Fotorealism", white8/VIENNA A Couple of Ways of Doing Something, Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA Iconic Heroes, Barbara Davis Gallery, Houston, TX 2009 Contemporary Tapestries, Turner Carroll Gallery, Santa Fe, NM Maquettes and Multi-Part Work, Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York, NY Chuck Close - Oliviero Toscani, white8/VIENNA Gallery, Vienna, A 2010 Recent Works, Contessa Gallery, Cleveland, OH !PORTRAITS!, Max Lang, New York, NY Corpus, Nicholas Metivier Gallery, Toronto, Canada Collections (summary) Albertina, Vienna, Austria Stedelijk Musem voor Actuele Kunst, Gent National Gallery of Canada- Musee des Beaux-Arts du Canada, Ottawa Museet for Samtidskunst, Roskilde Teheran Museum of Contemporary Art, Teheran Boise Art Museum BAM, Boise, ID MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, MA Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth MOCA GRAND AVENUE, Los Angeles Miami Art Museum, Miami Milwaukee Art Museum Walker Art Center, Minneapolis The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Whitney Museum of American Art, New York Saint Louis Art Museum San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington Yale University Art Gallery, Yale University, New Haven, CT Wexner Center for the Visual Arts, Ohio State University, Columbus Tate Gallery, London, England Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York Seattle Art Museum Philadelphia Museum of Art The National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark Chase Manhattan Bank Collection, New York Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York Art exhibitions 1972 Documenta Kassel 1993 Biennale Venedig 1995 Biennale Venedig 1977 Documenta Kassel Untitled (Kate), 2008