biografia di James TURRELL (1943)
Personal data
Birth : 1943 - Los Angeles CA California, United States
Sex : M
Nationality/Affiliation : United States
Address
Flagstaff AZ Arizona, United StatesRepresentatives
Baldwin Gallery – 209 South Galena Street – Aspen CO, United States
Galerie Almine Rech – 127 rue du Chevaleret – Paris, France
Education
1965 : Pomona College (BA) – 333 N. College Way – Claremont CA, United States
1965 – 1966 : UCI University of California at Irvine (Art Graduate Studies) – Irvine CA, United States
1973 : Claremont Graduate School (MA Art) – 251 East Tenth Street – Claremont CA, United States
Professional data
Work and Life
1968:First Group Exhibition in Aerial Skywriting Pieces, Pasadena, CA, USA
1967:First Solo Exhibitionin Pasadena Art Museum, CA, USA
Lives and works in Flagstaff, AZ, USA
Work
Categorie and medium
Painting : Acrylic - Mixed media - Oil/canvas 
Print-Multiple : Aquatint - Engraving - Etching 
Sculpture-Volume : Installation - Light installation 
Photography : Photograph 
Drawing-Watercolor : Felt pen - Gouache - Ink - Mixed media/paper - Pencil 
Audiovisual-Multimedia : Works
| Roden Crater: View from West | |
| Date of creation : 2000 | |
| Red Eye | |
| Date of creation : 1992 Medium : Light installation Technical data : red and blue fluorescent tubes Size : 350 x 900 x 100 cm | |
| The Wait | |
| Date of creation : 1989 Medium : Installation Process : projection Size : 400 x 600 x 450 cm | |
Solo Exhibitions (Selected)
Solo exhibitions
2006
New York
Griffin Contemporary – Santa Monica CA, United States
05/20/2006 – 08/26/2006
2005
Light projection / Light works
Pacewildenstein – New York NY, United States
09/2005
2004
Galerie Almine Rech – Paris, France
11/13/2004 – 12/23/2004
Galerie Almine Rech – Paris, France
09/14/2004 – 11/06/2004
2003
After green
Haines Gallery – San Francisco CA, United States
2003 – 01/31/2004
New Holograms
Baldwin Gallery – Aspen CO, United States
12/26/2003 – 01/24/2004
Light and Land
Sonoma County Museum – Santa Rosa CA, United States
06/21/2003 – 01/04/2003
2002
The Mattress Factory – Pittsburgh PA, United States
05/2002
Ace Gallery LA – Los Angeles CA, United States
2002
Michael Hue-Williams Fine Art – London, United Kingdom
05/21/2002 – 06/15/2002
Espace II – Galerie Almine Rech – Paris, France
04/10/2002 – 07/27/2002
Galerie Almine Rech – Paris, France
03/09/2002 – 04/13/2002
2001
Scottsdale Center for the Arts – Scottsdale AZ, United States
2001
Baldwin Gallery – Aspen CO, United States
08/09/2001 – 09/30/2001
2000
Espace Electra Fondation EDF – Paris, France
2000
MFAH The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston – Houston TX, United States
2000
1999
Galerie Almine Rech – Paris, France
1999
Cross Cut
Nelson Atkins Museum of Art – Kansas City MO, United States
1999
Newlyn Gallery – Newlyn, Penzance, Wales (United Kingdom)
1999
1998
Where Does the Light in our Dreams come from
Nagoya City Art Museum – Nagoya, Japan
1998
OCMA Orange County Museum Of Art, NewPort Beach – Newport Beach CA, United States
1998
Where Does the Light in our Dreams come from
Setagaya Art Museum – Tokyo, Japan
1998
Barbara Gladstone Gallery – New York NY, United States
1998
Michael Hue-Williams Fine Art – London, United Kingdom
1998
Spirit and Light
Contemporary Arts Museum – Houston TX, United States
1998
The Other Horizon
Austrian Museum of Applied Arts – Vienna, Austria
1998
1997
Milk Run / Grade A (1996)
Stroom HCBK – The Hague, Netherlands
1997
Where Does the Light in our Dreams come from
Museum of Modern Art – Saitama, Japan
1997
KUB Kunsthaus Bregenz – Bregenz, Austria
1997
1996
Michael Hue-Williams Fine Art – London, United Kingdom
1996
Castello di Rivoli – Museo d’Arte Contemporanea – Turin TO, Italy
1996
1995
Installations
Magasin 3 – Stockholm, Sweden
1995
Galerie Jule Kewenig – Frechen, Germany
1995
Hiram Butler Gallery – Houston TX, United States
1995
1994
Galerie Froment & Putman – Paris, France
1994
AAM Aspen Art Museum – Aspen CO, United States
1994
Lisa Sette Gallery – Phoenix AZ, United States
1994
Aarhus Kunstmuseum – Aarhus, Denmark
1994
Barbara Gladstone Gallery – New York NY, United States
1994
Group Exhibitions (Selected)
Art shows / fairs
2006
Frieze Art Fair
Regent’s Park – London, United Kingdom
10/12/2006 – 10/15/2006
Represented by : Galerie Almine Rech – 127 rue du Chevaleret – Paris, France
2004
FIAC Foire Internationale d’Art Contemporain, n°31
Paris Expo – Porte de Versailles – Paris, France
10/21/2004 – 10/25/2004
Represented by : Albion – 8 Hester Road – London, United Kingdom
Art 35 Basel
Messe Basel – Basel BS, Switzerland
06/16/2004 – 06/21/2004
Represented by : Kewenig Galerie – Kewenig Galerie Appellhofplatz 21 – Cologne, Germany
2003
Art Basel Miami Beach
Miami Beach Convention Center – Miami Beach FL, United States
12/04/2003 – 12/07/2003
Represented by : Pacewildenstein – 32 East 57th Street – New York NY, United States
Art Chicago 2003
Navy Pier’s Festival Hall – Chicago IL, United States
05/09/2003 – 05/12/2003
Represented by : Lisa Sette Gallery – 4142 North Marshall Way – Scottsdale AZ, United States
The Armory Show 2003
Piers 88 & 90 – New York NY, United States
03/07/2003 – 03/10/2003
Represented by : Galerie Almine Rech – 127 rue du Chevaleret – Paris, France
2002
Art Basel Miami Beach
Miami Beach Convention Center – Miami Beach FL, United States
12/05/2002 – 12/08/2002
Represented by : Parkett Editions – 2nd floor 155 Avenue of the Americas – New York NY, United States
The Armory Show 2002
Piers 88 & 90 – New York NY, United States
02/22/2002 – 02/25/2002
Represented by : Galerie Almine Rech – 127 rue du Chevaleret – Paris, France
ART2002 – The 14th London Contemporary Art Fair
Business Design Centre – London, United Kingdom
01/16/2002 – 01/20/2002
Represented by : Michael Hue-Williams Fine Art – 15 & 21 Cork Street – London, United Kingdom
2001
Art Basel Miami Beach: cancelled
Miami Beach Convention Center – Miami Beach FL, United States
12/13/2001 – 12/16/2001
Represented by : Jiri Svestka Gallery – Jungmannova 30 – Prague, Czech Republic
Art 32 Basel
Messe Basel – Basel BS, Switzerland
06/13/2001 – 06/18/2001
Represented by : Barbara Gladstone Gallery – 515 West 24th Street – New York NY, United States
ArtBrussels – 19th Contemporary Art Fair
Brussels Expo – Brussels, Belgium
04/20/2001 – 04/24/2001
Represented by : Jiri Svestka Gallery – Jungmannova 30 – Prague, Czech Republic
The Armory Show 2001
Piers 88 & 90 – New York NY, United States
02/23/2001 – 02/26/2001
Represented by : Galerie Almine Rech – 127 rue du Chevaleret – Paris, France
AIPAD Photography Show
New York NY, United States
02/16/2001 – 02/18/2001
Represented by : Lisa Sette Gallery – 4142 North Marshall Way – Scottsdale AZ, United States
Photo L.A The 10th Los Angeles Photographic Print Exposition
Santa Monica Civic Auditorium – Santa Monica CA, United States
01/18/2001 – 01/21/2001
Represented by : Lisa Sette Gallery – 4142 North Marshall Way – Scottsdale AZ, United States
ART2001 – The 13th London Contemporary Art Fair
Business Design Centre – London, United Kingdom
01/17/2001 – 01/21/2001
Represented by : Michael Hue-Williams Fine Art – 15 & 21 Cork Street – London, United Kingdom
2000
photo L.A. 2000 – 9th Los Angeles Photographic Print Exposition
Santa Monica Civic Auditorium – Santa Monica CA, United States
01/20/2000 – 01/23/2000
Represented by : Lisa Sette Gallery – 4142 North Marshall Way – Scottsdale AZ, United States
1999
Art Cologne, n° 33
Cologne, Germany
11/07/1999 – 11/14/1999
Represented by : Michael Hue-Williams Fine Art – 15 & 21 Cork Street – London, United Kingdom
1998
ARCO – Feria Internacional de Arte Contemporáneo, n°17
Parque Ferial Juan Carlos I – Madrid, Spain
1998
Represented by : Michael Hue-Williams Fine Art – 15 & 21 Cork Street – London, United Kingdom
Group exhibitions
2005
Expérience de la durée – 8ème Biennale d’Art Contemporain de Lyon
Lyon, France
09/12/2005 – 12/31/2005
2004
De leur temps, collections privées Françaises
Musée des Beaux-Arts – Tourcoing, France
10/06/2004 – 12/06/2004
DESIGN – ART: Functional Objects from Donald Judd to Rachel Whiteread
Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum – New York NY, United States
09/10/2004 – 02/27/2005
Climats, cyclothymie des paysages
Centre national d’art et de paysage – Vassivière, France
07/10/2004 – 10/10/2004
Systèmes de l’art concret
Château de Mouans Sartoux – Mouans-Sartoux, France
06/27/2004 – 10/10/2004
Brainstorming, topographie de la morale
Centre national d’art et de paysage – Vassivière, France
03/20/2004 – 06/27/2004
2003
Pantachronismes
Musée des Moulages – Lyon, France
09/16/2003 – 11/22/2003
2002
Zwischenzeit
MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst – Frankfurt, Germany
03/11/2002 – 09/01/2002
2001
Electrify Me!
Friedrich Petzel Gallery – New York NY, United States
2001
Fables du lieu
Le Fresnoy Studio national des Arts Contemporains – Tourcoing, France
2001
EGOFUGAL : Fugue from Ego for the Next Emergence – 7th International Istanbul Biennial
Istanbul, Turkey
09/22/2001 – 11/17/2001
2000
New Millenium Experience
Millenium Dome – London, United Kingdom
2000 – 2001
Venice/Venezia, Arte Californiana della Collezione Panza al Museo Guggenheim
Peggy Guggenheim Collection – New York NY, United States
2000
1999
Les fauves et la critique
Fondazione Palazzo Bricherasio – Turin TO, Italy
02/05/1999 – 05/09/1999
1998
Sunshine & Noir; Art in L.A. 1960-1997
Castello di Rivoli – Museo d’Arte Contemporanea – Rivoli TO, Italy
05/08/1998 – 08/23/1998
1997
Lux Lumen
Fundació Joan Miró – Barcelona, Spain
1997
The Age of Modernism, Art in the 20th Century
Martin-Gropius-Bau – Berlin, Germany
1997
Sunshine & Noir. L.A. Art 1960-1997
Louisiana Museum for Moderne Kunst – Humlebæk, Denmark
05/16/1997 – 09/07/1997
1996
From Figure to Object : a Century of sculptor’s drawings
Frith Street Gallery – London, United Kingdom
1996
Northern Lights
Fruitmarket Gallery – Edinburgh, Scotland (United Kingdom)
1996
Contemplation: Five Installations
Des Moines Art Center – Des Moines IA, United States
1996
Um Fontana
Schirn Kunsthalle – Frankfurt, Germany
1996
1995
Exploring the Territory
AAM Aspen Art Museum – Aspen CO, United States
1995
10 Years Anniversary
Lisa Sette Gallery – Scottsdale AZ, United States
1995
1994
L’architecte est sur les lieux – Collections du FRAC Centre
Musée des Beaux Arts – Chartres, France
1994
Inspired by Nature
Neuberger Museum of Art – Purchase NY, United States
1994
Landscape as Metaphor
Denver Art Museum – Denver CO, United States
1994
Percept/Image/Object
Lannan Foundation – Los Angeles CA, United States
1994
Landscape as Metaphor
Columbus Museum – Columbus OH, United States
1994
Painting and Sculpture: Recent Acquisitions
MoMA Museum of Modern Art – New York NY, United States
1994
Starlight
Aarhus Kunstmuseum – Aarhus, Denmark
1994
Prints of Darkness
Fogg Art museum – Cambridge MA, United States
1994
1993
American Art of the 20th Century
Martin-Gropius-Bau – Berlin, Germany
1993
Azure
Martin-Gropius-Bau – Jouy-en-Josas, France
1993
Medicale
Hamburger Kunsthalle – Hamburg, Germany
1993
American art of the 20th Century
Royal Academy of Arts – London, United Kingdom
1993
1990
Un choix minimal dans la collection Panza
Musée d’Art Moderne de la ville de Paris – Paris, France
1990
1989
The 1980s: Prints from the Collection of Joshua P. Smith
National Gallery of Art – Washington DC, United States
1989
The Innovators / Entering the Sculpture
ACE Contemporary Exhibitions – Los Angeles CA, United States
1989
1988
Viewpoints
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum – New York NY, United States
1988
Pomona College Alumni Exhibition
Pomona College – Claremont CA, United States
1988
New Sculpture
Saint Louis Art Museum – Saint Louis MO, United States
1988
1987
Stations
CIAC Centre International d’Art Contemporain – Montréal QC, Canada
1987
1986
Public and Private: American Prints Today
RISD Rhode Island School of Design – Rhode Island NY, United States
1986
The 100 days of Contemporary art, Montreal ’86, Lumières: Perception-Projectione
CIAC Centre International d’Art Contemporain – Montréal QC, Canada
1986
Public and Private: American Prints Today
Carnegie Museum of Art – Pittsburgh PA, United States
1986
Public and Private: American Prints Today
Walker Art Center – Minneapolis MN, United States
1986
Individuals: A Selected History of Contemporary Art 1945-1986
MOCA Museum of Contemporary Art at California Plaza – Los Angeles CA, United States
1986
Directions 1986
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden – Washington DC, United States
1986
Public and Private: American Prints Today
BMA Brooklyn Museum of Art – Brooklyn, New York NY, United States
1986
Poetics of Space
MOCA Museum of Contemporary Art at California Plaza – Santa Fe NM, United States
1986
Photomosaics: The Landscape Reconstructed
Photographic Ressource Center – Boston MA, United States
1986
1985
Art + Architecture + Landscape: The Clos Pegase Design Competition
SFMOMA San Francisco Museum of Modern Art – San Francisco CA, United States
1985
Cinquante ans de dessins américains: 1930-1980, The Menil Collection
ENSBA Ecole nationale supérieure des Beaux-arts – Paris, France
1985
1984
Projects: World fairs, Waterfronts, Parks and Palzas
Rhona Hoffman – Chicago IL, United States
1984
1981
Drawing Distinctions, American Drawings of the Seventies
Kunsthalle Basel – Basel BS, Switzerland
1981
Drawing Distinctions, American Drawings of the Seventies
Louisiana Museum for Moderne Kunst – Humlebæk, Denmark
1981
1980
An Invitational Drawing and Watercolor Exhibition
LACMA Los Angeles County Museum of Art – Los Angeles CA, United States
1980
Bibliography (Selected)
On the artist
Books
2002
Art Tomorrow
Publisher: Editions Terrail – Paris, France
Author: Lucie-Smith Edward – London, United Kingdom
2002
ISBN : 2879392497
2001
art : 21 – Art in the Twenty-first century
Publisher: Harry N. Abrams Inc. – 100 Fifth Avenue – New York NY, United States
2001
ISBN : 0810913976
1994
Collection 1992, Musée d’Art Contemporain de Lyon
Publisher: Ville de Lyon – 1 place de la Comédie – Lyon, France
Author: Bertolotti Isabelle
1994
ISBN : 290646144X
1992
Collection 1990, Musée d’Art Contemporain de Lyon
Publisher: Ville de Lyon – 1 place de la Comédie – Lyon, France
Author: Bertolotti Isabelle
1992
Exhibition catalogues
2001
7th International Istanbul Biennial
Istanbul, Turkey
2001
ISBN : 9757383227
Periodicals
2001
HERZOG Samuel & KLADLER Kurt – Zu dunkel, zu hell, zu blau, zu schön
in: Kunst-Bulletin n° 12 p. 30
Zürich ZH, Switzerland
12/2001
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