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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