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(American, b. 1943)
Biography
James Turrell's work explores light and space by cutting holes and building rooms within the infrastructure of galleries and museums. He takes everything that is artificial about the experience of looking at art - enclosed rooms, artificial light, recirculated air, lack of physical touch - and makes it real again. His work seeks to prompt a sense of self-awareness through the environments and spaces he’s created.
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Now considered a key figure in Light Art, Turrell has received a number of prestigious awards such as Guggenheim and MacArthur Fellowships, and has exhibited in numerous solo and group exhibitions around the world. He has exhibited at Gagosian Gallery, in London, MoMA PS1, in New York, the Museum für Moderne Kunst, in Frankfurt and the Venice Biennale amongst many more.
Born in Los Angeles in 1943, Turrell studied psychology and mathematics before receiving an MFA in art from the Claremont Graduate School in California in 1966. He currently lives and works in Flagstaff, Arizona where he is working on his latest project, transforming a volcanic crater into a naked-eye observatory.