James Turrell Hon RA (b. 1943)
James Turrell Hon RA (b. 1943)
Profile
Honorary RA
Born: 1943 in Los Angeles, United States
Elected Hon RA: 29 May 2002
Gender: Male
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Preferred media: Sculpture and Installation art
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My work has no object, no image and no focus. With no object, no image and no focus, what are you looking at? You are looking at you looking. What is important to me is to create an experience of wordless thought.
James Turrell
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Gallery
![James Turrell, Wedgework III]()
James Turrell, Wedgework III, 1974.
![James Turrell, Milk Run II]()
James Turrell, Milk Run II, 1997.
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![James Turrell, Amba]()
James Turrell, Amba, 1983.
![James Turrell, Breathing Light]()
James Turrell, Breathing Light, 2013.
![James Turrell, Pullen (White)]()
James Turrell, Pullen (White), 1967.
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![James Turrell, Kemo Sabe]()
James Turrell, Kemo Sabe, 2003.
![James Turrell, Spread]()
James Turrell, Spread, 1989.
![James Turrell, Stone Sky]()
James Turrell, Stone Sky, 2005.
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Selected CV: James Turrell
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Selected awards
2015 LACMA Film + Art Gala Honoree
Honorary Doctorate, Pratt
Pomona College Blaisdell Distinguished Alumni Award
American Academy in Rome
2014 Icon in the Arts Award, Artist Award, Bruce Museum
2013 National Medal of Arts
Smithsonian Archives of American Art
2011 American Academy of Arts and Letters
2008 Award of Excellence in Public Art from the City of Claremont, CA for the Pomona Skyspace
2007 Marsh Award for Public Sculpture, Public Monuments and Sculpture Association, London, England
2006 Certificate of Recognition, City of Los Angeles, California National Arts Club Medal of Honor for Art
1998 Wolf Foundation, Wolf Prize, Israel
1994 Distinguished Achievement Award, National Council of Art Administrators
1991 Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres, France
1985 “Bessie” Award, New York, for Best Collaboration with a Dance Company
1980 Arizona Commission for the Arts and Humanities, Visual Arts Fellowship
1974 Guggenheim Fellowship -
Selected publications
Occluded Front: James Turrell, Julia Brown, ed., Fellows of Contemporary Art and the Lapis Press, 1985
James Turrell: The Art of Light and Space, David Adcock, University of California Press, 1990
The Art of Light and Space, Jan Butterfield, Abbeville Press, 1993
Installation Art: A Critical History, Claire Bishop, Tate Publishing, 2005
Chichu Art Museum: Tadao Ando Builds for Walter De Maria, James Turrell, and Claude Monet, Hatje Cantz, 2005
Super Vision, Nicholas Baume, ed., Institute of Contemporary Art, 2006
Land and Light: From Gurfa Caves to James Turrell’s Roden Crater, Skira Editore, 2009
Louis Vuitton: Art, Fashion, and Architecture, Rizzoli, 2009
Phenomenal: California Light, Space, Surface, Robin Clark, ed., Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, 2011
Malevich and the American Legacy, Gagosian Gallery, 2011
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