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b. 1943
James Turrell’s work involves explorations in light and space that speak to viewers without words, impacting the eye, body, and mind with the force of a spiritual awakening. “I want to create an atmosphere that can be consciously plumbed with seeing,” says the artist, “like the wordless thought that comes from looking in a fire.” Informed by his studies in perceptual psychology and optical illusions, Turrell’s work allows us to see ourselves “seeing.” Whether harnessing the light at sunset or transforming the glow of a television set into a fluctuating portal, Turrell’s art places viewers in a realm of pure experience. Situated near the Grand Canyon and Arizona’s Painted Desert is Roden Crater, an extinct volcano the artist has been transforming into a celestial observatory for the past thirty years. Working with cosmological phenomena that have interested man since the dawn of civilization and have prompted responses such as Stonehenge and the Mayan calendar, Turrell’s crater brings the heavens down to earth, linking the actions of people with the movements of planets and distant galaxies. His fascination with the phenomena of light is ultimately connected to a very personal, inward search for mankind’s place in the universe. The recipient of several prestigious awards such as Guggenheim and MacArthur Fellowships, Turrell lives in Arizona.
James Turrell: Present Tense, Kayne Griffin Corcoran, Santa Monica
Garage Center for Contemporary Culture, Moscow
Gagosian Gallery, London
Almine Rech Gallery, Brussels
James Turrell: The Wolfsburg Project, Kunstmuseum, Wolfsburg
James Turrell: The Roden Crater: Sculpture and Photographs, Häusler Contemporary, Munich
James Turrell: Geometry of Light, Zentrum für Internationale Lichtkunst, Unna
James Turrell: Large Holograms, PaceWildenstein, New York
James Turrell: Light Works 2002–2007, Baldwin Gallery, Aspen
Pomona College Museum of Art, Claremont
James Turrell: The Tall Glass, Häusler Contemporary, Zurich
James Turrell: Light Leadings, PaceWildenstein, New York
James Turrell: Orca Blue, Albion Gallery, London
James Turrell: A Life in Light, Louise T Blouin Institute, London
James Turrell: Alta White, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
James Turrell: New Work, Griffin, Santa Monica
Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Underground Gallery, Wakefield
James Turrell: Transformative Space, Alan Koppel Gallery
James Turrell: Light Projections 1968 and Light Works 2005, PaceWildenstein, New York
James Turrell: Early Light Works, Griffin Contemporary, Santa Monica
Galerie Almine Rech, Paris
James Turrell: New Holograms, Baldwin Gallery, Aspen
PaceWildenstein, New York
James Turrell: Light and Land, Sonoma County Museum, Santa Rosa
James Turrell: Projection Works 1967–69, Albion, London
James Turrell: The Light Within, Haines Gallery, San Francisco
James Turrell: Skyspace and New Work, Henry Art Gallery, Seattle
James Turrell: Into the Light, Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh
Michael Hue-Williams Fine Art, London
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Galerie Almine Rech, Paris
Hausler Kulturemanagement, Munich
Haus Konstruktiv, Zurich
Harley Baldwin Gallery, Aspen
Galerie Valentina Moncada, Rome
Galerie Valentina Moncada, Rome
James Turrell: Hi Test, Gallerie Almine Rech, Paris
James Turrell: Cross Cut, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City
James Turrell: Elliptic Ecliptic, Penzance, Cornwall
James Turrell: The Other Horizon, MAK, Vienna
Center for Contemporary Art, Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw
Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach
James Turrell: Lapsed Quaker Ware, AD Gallery, New York
Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York
Museet for Samtidskunst, Oslo
Michael Hue-Williams Fine Art, London
James Turrell: Between Blue, Stark Gallery, New York
Stroom, The Hague
Michael Hue-Williams Fine Art, London
James Turrell: Drawings, Hiram Butler Gallery, Houston
James Turrell: To Be Sung, The Marstall, (ATEM), Munich
Portside Gallery, Yokohama
James Turrell, Fia Art Network, Index Gallery, Osaka
Städtische Galerie, Goppingen
Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York
James Turrell: Roden Crater: Realizing a Vision, Lisa Sette Gallery, Phoenix
Galerie Froment & Putman, Paris
Magasin 3, Stockholm
Aspen Art Center, Colorado
Ace Gallery, Los Angeles
Hayward Gallery, London
Anthony D’Offay Gallery, London
Marian Locks Gallery, Philadelphia
Knoedler Gallery, New York
Musée d’Art Contemporain, Lyon
Isy Brachot Gallery, Brussels
Gallery Cora Holzl, Dusseldorf
James Turrell: Perceptual Cells, Kunstverein Düsseldorf
Sprengel Museum, Hanover
Stroom, The Hague
Fundacio Espai Poblenou, Barcelona
Turske Hue-Williams Gallery, London
Confort Moderne, Poitiers
Fuel Gallery, Seattle
The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
Centro Cultural Arte Contemperaneo, Mexico City
James Turrell: First Light, Hiram Butler Gallery
Carpenter Center, Harvard University, Cambridge
Anthony d’Offay Gallery, London
Turske & Turske, Zurich
James Turrell, Change of State, Friedman Guinness Gallery, Frankfurt
Lisa Sette Gallery, Scottsdale
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana
Galerie Froment & Putman, Paris
James Turrell: First Light, Kunstmuseum, Bern
James Turrell: Three Installations, Boulder Art Center, Boulder
P.S. 1, Long Island City
Stein-Gladstone Gallery, New York
James Turrell: Twenty Etchings, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Stuart Regan Gallery, Los Angeles
Security Pacific Gallery, Costa Mesa
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nîmes
Roger Ramsay Gallery, Chicago
Center for Contemporary Arts, Santa Fe
Museum of Northern Arizona, Flagstaff
Jean Bernier Gallery, Athens
Yvon Lambert Galerie, Paris
Phoenix Art Museum, Arizona
Kunstahalle, Basel
Marian Goodman Gallery, New York
Center for Contemporary Arts, Santa Fe
James Turrell: Occluded Front, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Marian Goodman Gallery, New York
Roger Ramsay Gallery, Chicago
Karl Bornstein Gallery, Santa Monica, California
Bernard Jacobson Gallery, Los Angeles
Marian Locks Gallery, Philadelphia
James Turrell: Light Spaces, Capp Street Project, San Francisco
Flow Ace Gallery, Los Angeles
Flow Ace Gallery, Venice
Hayden Gallery, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston
James Turrell: Two Spaces, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
James Turrell: Four Light Installations. Center for Contemporary Art, Seattle
Portland Center for Visual Arts, Portland
Leo Castelli Gallery, New York
University of Arizona Museum of Art, Tucson
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Heiner Friedrich Gallery, Cologne
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
Main and Hill Studio, Santa Monica
Aimery Langois-Meurine, Geneva
James Turrell: Light Projections, Main and Hill Studio, Mendota Hotel, Santa Monica
James Turrell, Pasadena Art Museum, Pasadena
Phenomenal: California Light, Space, Surface, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, San Diego
Exhibition of Work by Newly Elected Members and Recipients of Honors and Awards, American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York
See! Colour!, Kulturhuset, Järna
Malevich and the American Legacy, Gagosian Gallery, New York
Suprasensorial: Experiments in Light, Color and Space, The Geffen
Contemporary at Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
50 Years at Pace, The Pace Gallery, New York
Wall Installations, William Griffin Gallery, Santa Monica
Wall and Floor, Galerie Almine Rech, Paris
Primary Atmospheres: Works from California 1960–1970, David Zwirner, New York
The Third Mind: American Artists Contemplate Asia, 1860–1989, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
West Coast Minimalism, Foundation 20 21/Nyehaus, New York
Color into Light: Selections from the MFAH Collection, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Full House: The Kouri Collection and American Minimalist Adventures, Kiasma Art Museum, Helsinki
Summer Exhibition: Peter Wegner, James Turrell, Keith Sonnier, Griffin, Santa Monica
Collecting Collections: Highlights of the Permanent Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
SoCal: Southern California Art of the 1960s and 70s from LACMA’s Collection, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles
Carl Andre, Mark Grotjahn, John McCracken, James Turrell, Galerie Almine Rech, Paris
Artempo: Where Time Becomes Art, Palazzo Fortuny, Venice
Light Time and Three Dimensions, PaceWildenstein, New York
To Be Continued–Art Created for Magasin 3, Stockholm
Super Vision, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston
Los Angeles 1955–1985: Naissance d’Une Capitale Artistique, Centre national d’art et de culture Georges Pompidou, Paris
Invisible Might: Works from 1965 to 1971, Nyehaus, New York
Cosmic Wonder, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco
Take Two-Worlds and Views: Contemporary Art from the Collection, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Sets, Series, and Suites: Contemporary Prints, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Design Is Not Art: Functional Objects From Donald Judd to Rachel Whiteread, Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, New York
Singular Forms (Sometimes Repeated): Art from 1951 to the Present, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
James Turrell + Hedi Slimane, Galerie Almine Rech, Paris
CAT—Heaven’s Gift, VITRA Design Museum, Berlin
Vertu Event (previously known as Nokia), Guggenheim Soho, New York
Moon and Architecture, INAX Gallery 1, Tokyo
Devices of Wonder, The Getty Museum, Los Angeles
Collaborations with Parkett: 1984 to Now, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
On the Sublime: Mark Rothko, Yves Klein, James Turrell, Deutsche Guggenheim Berlin
Open Ends, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Art Light, Galerie Beyeler, Basel
Changing Perceptions: The Panza Collection at the Guggenheim Museum, Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao
Regarding Beauty, Haus der Kunst, Munich
Inventional, Angles Gallery, Santa Monica
Dream Machines, Camden Arts Centre, London
Waxing Poetic: Encaustic Art in America, Knoxville Museum of Art, Kentucky
The American Century: Art and Culture 1900-2000 (Part II), Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Eclipse, Michael Hue-Williams Fine Art, London
Re-Structure, Grinnell College Art Gallery, Bucksbaum Center for the Arts, Iowa
Another Arizona: A State-Wide Juried Exhibition, Arizona State University, Tempe
Sunshine & Noir, Art in Los Angeles 1960-1997, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk
Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York
The Age of Modernism, Art in the 20th Century, Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin
Lux Lumen, La Fundació Joan Miro, Barcelona
Maps, Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York
10 Year Anniversary. Lisa Sette Gallery, Scottsdale
Galerie Michele Chomette, Paris
Elsewhere, Galerie Froment and Putman, Paris
The Incident II, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London
Northern Lights, The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh
Foundation Cartier; a Collection, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taiwan
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Contemporary Drawing: Exploring the Territory, Aspen Art Museum, Colorado
After Art: Rethinking 150 Years of Photography, Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle
10 Years Parkett 63 Artists’ Editions, New York
Sculpture, Anthony d’Offay Gallery, London
Percept/Image/Object, The Lannan Foundation, Los Angeles
Landscape as Metaphor, Visions of America in the Late 20th Century, Denver Art Museum, Denver
Gemini Editions Limited Collection, Recent Prints and Sculpture, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Painting and Sculpture: Recent Acquisitions, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Prints of Darkness, Straus Gallery, Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge
Mediale, Kunsthalle, Hamburg
Amerikanische Kunst Im 20 Jahrhundert, Martin-Gropius Bau, Berlin
Differentes Natures, La Defense, Paris
American Art of the 20th Century, Royal Academy of Art, London
Gallery Froment & Putman, Paris
Stein Gladstone, New York
Geneve Musée d’Art et d’Histoire, Geneva
Dalsheimer Gallery, Baltimore
Galerie Cora Holzl, Dusseldorf
Whitney Museum at Equitable Center, New York
Turske & Turske, Zurich
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Karl Bornstein Gallery, Santa Monica
Espace Electra, Paris
Turske & Turske, Zurich
The Innovators / Entering the Sculpture, Ace, Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles
Departures: Photography 1924–1989, Hirschl & Adler Modern, New York
Peter Blum Edition, Lorence-Monk Gallery, New York
The 1980’s: Prints from the Collection of Joshua P. Smith, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Pomona College Alumni Exhibition, Montgomery Gallery, Claremont
New Sculpture/Six Artists, Saint Louis Art Museum, Missouri
Viewpoints, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
Public and Private: American Prints Today, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
Skyspace I, Arte Ambientale, Rimini
70’s into 80’s: Printmaking Now, Museum of Fine Arts, The Lois and Michael Torf Gallery, Boston
Burnett Miller Gallery, Los Angeles
Public and Private: American Prints Today, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh
A Southern California Collection, Cirrus, Los Angeles
Individuals: A Selected History of Contemporary Art, 1945–1986, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Amerikanische Zeichnungen 1930-1980, The Menil Collection, Stadelsches
Kunstinstitute und Stadtische Galerie, Frankfurt
Cucchi-Fischl-Kruger-Stalder-Turrell, Lorence-Monk Gallery, New York
Severe Clear, Radcliff Dance Studio, Radcliff College, Cambridge
Projects: World Fairs, Waterfronts, Parks and Plazas, Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago
The Interactive Arts: Art & Architecture, Welton Becket Associates, Santa Monica
ARS, 1983: Fine Arts Academy of Finland, Art Museum of the Ateneum, Helsinki
Selections from the Chase Manhattan Bank Art Collection, David Wintonn Bell Gallery, Brown University, Providence
Drawing Distinctions, American Drawings of the Seventies, Stadtisch Galerie Im Lembachhaus, Munich
An Invitational Drawing and Watercolor Exhibition, Los Angeles County Art Gallery, Barnsdall Park
California Perceptions: Light and Space, Selections from the Wortz Collection, Visual Arts Center, California State University, Fullerton
3D Into 2D: Drawing for Sculpture, The New York Cultural Center, New York
Art and Technology Show, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1968–1969, Los Angeles
Art and Technology, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles