ARTISTS
Chuck Close was born 1940 in Monroe,Washington. In 1962 he received his B.A. from the University of Washington, Seattle, and in 1964 his M.F.A from Yale University, New Haven. After a Fulbright grant in Vienna he worked as an art teacher at the University of Massachusetts. A spinal artery collapse in 1988 left Close almost completely paralyzed. He lives and works in New York.
Solo Exhibitions (Selection)
2010
Chuck Close: Portraits,Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond,Virginia
Chuck Close: Prints: Process and Collaboration, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale
2009/10
Familiar faces: Chuck Close in Ohio Collections, Akron Art Museum, Ohio.
Faces, Chuck Close and Contemporary Portraiture, Nevada Museum of Art, Nevada
2008
Chuck Close: Seven Portraits, The State Hermitage Museum,Winter Palace, St. Petersburg
2007
Chuck Close: Portaits 1996-2006, Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst, Aachen
2003/10
Chuck Close Prints: Process and Collaboration: Bluffer Gallery, University of Houston; travelled to: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Knoxville Museum of Art; Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth,Texas; Boise Art Museum, Idaho; Portland Art Museum,Oregon; Sungkok Museum of Art, Seoul; San Jose Museum of Art, California; Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art,Arihona; Corcoran Gallery of Art,Washington
1998/99
Travelling exhibition:The Museum of Modern Art, New York; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington; Seattle Art Museum, Seattle; Hayward Gallery, London
1997
Chuck Close, Large Polaroids 1984-1995, Galerie Daniel Blau, Munich
1993
A Print Project by Chuck Close,The Museum of Modern Art, New York “6th Annual Infinity Award of Art”, International Centre of Photography Travelling exhibition:Art Institute of Chicago;The Friends of Photography, Ansel Adams Cent
1984/85
Chuck Close, Paper Works: Herbert Palmer Gallery, Los Angeles; Spokane Center of Art, Cheney,Washington; Milwaukee Art Museum; Columbia Museum, South Carolina
1980/81
Close Portraits, travelling exhibition:The Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; St. Louis Art Museum, Missouri; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago;Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
1976
Baltimore Museum of Art, Maryland
1975
Chuck Close: Keith: travelled to Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, North Carolina; Phoenix Art Museum,Arizona;The Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minnesota
1972
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
1970
Bykert Gallery,NewYork
Literature (Selection)
Christopher Finch, Chuck Close: Life, Munich, 2010
Christopher Finch, Chuck Close: Work, Munich, 2007
Chuck Close: Pinturas 1968/2006, ed. by. Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid 2007
Martin Friedman, Close Reading: Chuck Close and the Art of the Self-Portrait. New York,2005