CHUCK CLOSE Biography 1940 Born in Monroe, WA on July 5 1963 B.F.A. Yale University School of Art and Architecture, New Haven, Connecticut, USA 1964 M.F.A. Yale University School of Art and Architecture, New Haven, Connecticut, USA 1965 University of Washington, Seattle, WA 1965 Fullbright Grant, Akademie der Bildenden Kunste, Vienn 1966 Resident Artist, The American Academy in Rome, Italy 2000 Awarded National Medal of Arts, Washington, D.C. USA Selected Exhibitions 2017 Chuck Close: Selection from the Collections of Jordan D. Scnitzer and his Family Foundation, Pendleton Center for the Arts, Pendleton, Oregon 2016 Chuck Close: Photographs, NSU Art Museum Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Traveled to Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle; Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia Chuck Close: Fingerprint Paintings and Drawings, 1978-86, Craig F. Starr Gallery, New York 2015 Chuck Close: Red Yellow Blue, Pace Gallery, 534 West 25 th Street, New York Chuck Close Prints, Schack Art Center, Everett, Washington. Chuck Close Photographs, Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, New York. Traveled to: University Museum of Contemporary Art, University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Chuck Close, Merchant House, Amsterdam. Chuck Close: Face Forward, From the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and his Family Foundation, Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art, Pepperdine University, Malibu, California. Traveled to: Schneider Museum of Art, Southern Oregon University. 2014 Chuck Close, Alan Avery Art Company, Atlanta. Chuck Close: Nudes 1967 2014, Pace Gallery, 534 West 25 th Street, New York. (Catalogue) 2013 Chuck Close: About Face, Westport Arts Center, Connecticut. Chuck Close: Radical Innovator, Contessa Gallery, Cleveland. Chuck Close and his Turnaround Arts Kids, Housatonic Museum of Art, Bridgeport, Connecticut. Chuck Close: Tapestries, Blue Sky Gallery, Portland. Closer: The Graphic Art of Chuck Close, Bruce Museum, Greenwich, Connecticut. Chuck Close: Important Works on Paper from the Past Forty Years, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco. Chuck Close, Guild Hall Museum, East Hampton, New York. Chuck Close: Photo Maquettes, Eykyn Maclean, New York.
2012 Chuck Close, Galerie Thomas Modern, Munich. Chuck Close: New Works, Adamson Gallery, Washington, D.C.. Chuck Close: Works on Paper 1975 2012, From the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and His Family Foundation, Monterey Museum of Art, California. Traveled to: Oklahoma City Museum of Art. Chuck Close, Pace Prints, New York. Chuck Close, Pace Gallery, 534 West 25 th Street, New York. Chuck Close and Crown Point Press: Prints and Processes, M.H. de Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco. 2011 Chuck Close: Photographs, Prints and Tapestries, A Selection 1978 2010, Galerie de Bellefeuille, Montreal. Chuck Close, Blum and Poe, Los Angeles. Chuck Close: Self-Portraits in Edition, Steven Vail Fine Arts Project Room, Des Moines 2010 Chuck Close: Drawings of the 1970s, Craig F. Starr Gallery, New York. Chuck Close: People Who Matter to Me, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond. Chuck Close: Polaroids, Xippas Gallery, Athens. Chuck Close: Polaroids, Galerie Xippas, Paris. Chuck Close: Portraits, Robert and Frances Fullerton Museum of Art, California State University, San Bernardino. Chuck Close, Pace Prints, New York. Look Close: Works on Paper by Chuck Close, Louis K. Meisel, New York. 2009 Chuck Close: A Couple Of Ways Of Doing Something, Louisiana Art and Science Museum Baton Rouge, Louisiana: Palmer Museum of Art, Penn State University Park, Austin Museum of Art Austin, Texas. Paintings and Tapestries 2005-2009, Pace Wildenstein, New York Maquettes and Multi-Part Work (1966-2009), Pace/ MacGill Gallery, New York 2008 Nicholas Metivier Gallery, Toronto, Ontario Chuck Close: Seven portraits, The State Hermitage Museum, Winter Palace, St. Petersburg. Chuck Close: Self Portrait / Scribble / Etching Portfolio 2000, Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, ME. Chuck Close Prints: Process and Collaboration, Sungkok Art Museum, Seoul, Korea. Chuck Close: A Couple Of Ways Of Doing Something, Tacoma Art Museum, Washington: Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago. 2007 Chuck Close: Prints, Process And Collaboration, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA. Chuck Close: Pinturas, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid. Chuck Close Prints: Process and Collaboration, Boise Art Museum, Boise, ID. Chuck Close: Portraits 1969-2006, Ludwig Forum fur Internationale Kunst, Aachen. Chuck Close: Self Portrait / Scribble / Etching Portfolio 2000, Picker Art Gallery, Colgate University, Hamilton, NY. Chuck Close: Family and Others, White Cube Gallery, Mason s Yard. Chuck Close Prints: Process and Collaboration, Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR.
Chuck Close & Bob Holman: A Couple of Ways of Doing Something, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto. 2005 2006 Chuck Close: Self Portraits 1967 2005, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, California, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York. 2005 Chuck Close: Face to Face, Jerald Melberg Gallery, Charlotte, North Carolina. Chuck Close: Recent Paintings, PaceWildenstein, 534 West 25th Street, New York. 2004 Chuck Close: Drawings, Photographs, Prints, Craig F. Starr Associates, New York. 2003 2008 Chuck Close Prints: Process and Collaboration, Blaffer Gallery, University of Houston; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Miami Art Museum; Knoxville Museum of Art,; Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, North Carolina; Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, Massachusetts; Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Texas; Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Wisconsin; Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, California; Boise Art Museum, Idaho; Portland Art Museum, Oregon; Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, Maine; and Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond. 2002 2003 Chuck Close: New Paintings, PaceWildenstein, 534 West 25th Street, New York. Chuck Close - Daguerrotypes, Pace/McGill, New York. Chuck Close - Recent Paintings, White Cube, London. Clark Fine Art, Southampton, New York. Daguerreotype to Digital. Texas Gallery, Houston. 2002 Pace/Prints, New York. Chuck Close ritratti, American Academy in Rome. Chuck Close: New Editions, Pace/Prints, New York. 2001 Chuck Close: Self Portraits 1967 2001, Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco. Worcester Art Museum, Massachusetts, December 9. 2000 Chuck Close: Recent Paintings, PaceWildenstein, 142 Greene Street, New York PaceWildensteinMacGill, New York Chuck Close: Paintings of Agnes/Prints and Drawings, Harwood Museum of Art, University of New Mexico, Taos Daguerreotypien, Galerie Daniel Blau, Munich 1999 Photographs by Chuck Close, White Cube, London 1998 1999 The Museum of Modern Art, New York: Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C; Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA; Hayward Gallery, London
1998 Chuck Close: Translations, Akus Gallery, Eastern Connecticut State University, Edition Works, The Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, Ohio Prints 1978 1997, Georg Kargl Gallery, Vienna Focus: Chuck Close Editioned Works, The Museum of Modern Art, New York Self Portraits, The Martin Weinstein Gallery, Minneapolis Chuck Close: Prints, Virginia Lynch Gallery, Tiverton, Rhode Island 1997 Large Polaroids, Galerie Daniel Blau, Munich Henry Art Gallery, Seattle Chuck Close: Large Scale Black and White Photographs, PaceWildenstein, Los Angeles 1996 1997 Chuck Close: A Personal Portrait, Works and Papers, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, New York 1996 Chuck Close: Large Scale Black and White Photographs, PaceWildensteinMacGill, New York 1995 1996 Chuck Close: Alex/Reduction Block, Lannan Foundation, Los Angeles Chuck Close Recent Paintings, PaceWildenstein Los Angeles: PaceWildenstein, New York 1995 Chuck Close: The Graphics, Dean Jensen Gallery, Milwaukee, WI Chuck Close Recent Editions: Alex Chuck Lucas, Pace Editions 1994 Chuck Close: 8 peintures récentes, Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain, Paris Chuck Close: Visible and Invisible Portraits, Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, Taiwan Chuck Close: Retrospektive, Staatliche Kunsthalle, Baden Baden, Germany: Kunstbau Lenbachhaus, Munich 1993 A Print Project by Chuck Close, The Museum of Modern Art, New York Chuck Close Editions, Pace Editions, New York Chuck Close Recent Works, The Pace Gallery, 142 Greene Street, New York Chuck Close: Portraits, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, Virginia 1991 Chuck Close: Large Color Polaroid Photographs, William Twigg Smith Gallery, The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, Hawaii Chuck Close Up Close, Guild Hall Museum, East Hampton, New York Chuck Close: Recent Paintings, The Pace Gallery, New York 1989 1990 Chuck Close: Works on Paper from the Collection of Sherry Hope Mallin, Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, Connecticut Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois: The Friends of Photography, Ansel Adams Center, San Francisco, California 1989 Chuck Close Editions. A Catalogue Raisonné and Exhibition, The Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, Ohio
1988 Chuck Close: Photographs, Fendrick Gallery, Washington Chuck Close: A Survey, Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York Chuck Close: Prints and Photographs, Pace Editions, New York Chuck Close: New Paintings, The Pace Gallery, New York 1987 Chuck Close Drawings, 1974 1986, The Pace Gallery, New York Chuck Close Large Scale Self Portraits, Pace MacGill Gallery Chuck Close: Photographs, The Pace Gallery, New York 1986 Chuck Close: Maquettes, Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York Chuck Close: Recent Work, The Pace Gallery, New York Chuck Close: New Editions, Pace Editions, New York 1985 Chuck Close: Works on Paper, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, Texas Chuck Close: Large Scale Photographs, Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, California Chuck Close, Fuji Television Gallery, Tokyo Chuck Close: Photographs, Pace/ MacGill Gallery, New York 1984 1985 Chuck Close: Paper Works, Herbert Palmer Gallery, Los Angeles, California: Spokane Center of Art, Cheney, Washington, April 5 May 12, 1984; Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee; Columbia Museum, Columbia, South Carolina 1983 Chuck Close: Recent Work, The Pace Gallery, New York Chuck Close: Recent Editions, Pace Editions, New York 1982 1983 Chuck Close: Paperworks, Richard Gray Gallery, Chicago: John Stoller Gallery, Minneapolis; Jacksonville Art Museum, Jacksonville, Florida; Greenberg Gallery, St. Louis 1982 Chuck Close. Matrix/Berkeley 50,University Art Museum UCA, Berkeley, California Chuck Close: Photographs, California Museum of Photography, University of California, Riverside, California 1981 Etchings, Lithographs and Handmade Paper, Pace Editions, New York 1980 1981 Close Portraits, The Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota: St. Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, Missouri; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois; Whitney Museum of American Art 1979 Chuck Close: Copie/Conforme? Musée national d'art moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris Kunstraum München, Munich, Germany Chuck Close: Recent Work, The Pace Gallery, New York
1977 1978 Chuck Close/Matrix 35, Wadsworth Athenaeum, Hartford, Connecticut 1977 Chuck Close: Recent Work, The Pace Gallery, New York 1976 Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, Maryland 1975 1976 Chuck Close: Dot Drawings 1973 75, Laguna Gloria Art Museum, Austin, Texas: the Texas Gallery, Houston; Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; The Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati 1975 Bykert Gallery, New York. The Portland Center for the Visual Arts, Portland, Oregon." Chuck Close: Keith, Organized by Parasol Press, Ltd., New York: Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, North Carolina; Ball State University Art Gallery, Muncie, Indiana; Phoenix Art Museum, Arizona; The Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minnesota 1973 Akron Art Museum, Akron, Ohio Chuck Close: Recent Work, Bykert Gallery, New York Projects 11: Chuck Close/Lilliana Porter, The Museum of Modern Art, New York 1972 Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois 1971 1972 Chuck Close: Recent Work, Bykert Gallery, New York 1971 Chuck Close: Recent Work, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California 1970 Bykert Gallery, New York 1967 University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts, Art Gallery SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS The Ackland Art Museum, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Akron Art Museum, Ohio Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College, Ohio American Medical Association Collection, Washington, D.C.
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto The Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois Princeton University Art Museum, New Jersey Austin Museum of Art, Texas Ball State University Museum of Art, Muncie, Indiana Blanton Museum of Art, The University of Texas, Austin The Broad Art Foundation, Santa Monica The Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, Ohio Carnegie Institute, Museum of Art, Pittsburgh Centre Pompidou, Paris Chase Manhattan Bank Collection, New York The Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio Cornell Fine Arts Museum, Rollins College, Winter Park, Florida Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas Essl Museum Kunst der Gegenwart, Klosterneuburg, Austria Daum Museum of Contemporary Art, Sedalia, Missouri Davidson College, North Carolina Dayton Art Institute, Ohio Denver Art Museum, Colorado Des Moines Art Center, Iowa The Equitable Life Assurance Society, New York The Foundation for Art and Preservation in Embassies (FAPE), The Lee Kimche McGrath Original Print Collection, Washington, D.C. The Gelco Collection, Eden Prairie, Minnesota George Eastman House, International Museum of Photography and Film, Rochester, New York Georgia Museum of Art, University of Georgia, Athens Hedendaagse Kunst, Utrecht, The Netherlands High Museum of Art, Atlanta Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Japan Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
Kresge Art Museum, Michigan State University, East Lansing Kunsthaus, Zurich Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek Ludwig-Forum für Internationale Kunst, Aachen, Germany Madison Art Center, Wisconsin Media of Modern Art Contemporary, Fukuoka, Japan The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Milwaukee Art Museum, Wisconsin The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minnesota Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Texas The Mount Holyoke College Art Museum, South Hadley, Massachusetts Musée national d art moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, Rotterdam Museum moderner Kunst, Palais Liechtenstein, Vienna Museum of Art, Inc., Fort Lauderdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Ludwig Museum Budapest, Hungary Museum of Fine Arts, Boston The Museum of Modern Art, New York The Museum of Modern Art, Wakayama, Japan National Academy of Design, New York National Gallery of Australia, Canberra The National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. The National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C. National Portrait Gallery, London Neue Galerie, Aachen, Germany Ohara Museum of Art, Okayama, Japan Osaka City Museum, Japan PaineWeber Group, Inc., New York Palmer Museum of Art, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park The Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, New York Philadelphia Museum of Art, Pennsylvania
PieperPower Companies, Inc., Milwaukee Princeton University Art Museum, New Jersey Reynolda House Museum of American Art, Winston-Salem, North Carolina San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, California Saint Louis Art Museum, Missouri Seattle Art Museum, Washington Smart Museum of Art, the University of Chicago, Illinois Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York Staatliche Museen, Berlin Sydney and Frances Lewis Foundation, Washington, D.C. Tate Gallery, London The Toledo Museum of Art, Ohio The Tokushima Modern Art Museum, Japan Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond Walker Art Center, Minneapolis Wexner Center for the Visual Arts, Ohio State University, Columbus Whitney Museum of American Art, New York Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, Massachusetts Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut