Ian van Coller
Education
2003 MFA, University of New Mexico, Department of Art and Art History, Albuquerque, New Mexico, Photography
1996 BFA, Arizona State University, Department of Art and Art History, Tempe, Arizona, BFA (Summa Cum Laude)
1991 National Diploma, Technikon Natal, Durban, South Africa, Photography
Public Collections
Amherst College, Amherst University
Afriterra Library, Boston, Massachussetts
Bainbridge Island Museum, Washinghton
Birmingham Museum of Art, Alabama
Beineke Library, Yale University
CalPoly Library Special Collections
California Institute for Integral Studies, San Francisco, California
Clemson University, Gunnin Library Special Collections, North Carolina
Durban Art Gallery, South Africa
The Fogg Museum, Harvard, Massachusetts
Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, California
Harvard Fine Arts Library, Harvard, Massachusetts
Harvard Museums, Harvard, Massachusetts
Hope College Kruizenga Art Museum in Holland Michigan
Johannesburg Art Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa
Jordan Schnitzer Family Foundation, Portland, Oregon
Kohler Art Library, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin
Kruizenga Art Museum, Holland, Michigan
Louisiana State University Library Special Collections
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York
Montana State University Library Special Collections, Bozeman, Montana
Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe, New Mexico
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri
Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, Nevada
New Mexico State University Art Gallery, Las Crusces
New York Public Library, New York
Northlight Gallery, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Pennsylvania
Pretoria Art Museum, South Africa
Howard and Jane Ricketts Collection, National Science and Media Museum, United Kingdom
Robert B. Haas Family Arts Library, Yale University
Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Arizona
South African National Gallery (IZIKO), Cape Town, South Africa
Stanford University Ute and Bill Bowes Art and Architecture Library
Technikon Natal Art Gallery, Durban, South Africa
Texas A&M University Library Special Collections
Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography Library, Tokyo, Japan
Trinity College, Watkinson Library Special Collection, Hartford, Connecticut
Ulrich Museum, Wichita State University, Kansas
United States Library of Congress, Washington D.C.
University of Alabama, Sarah Moody Gallery of Art
University of California, Santa Cruz
University of California, Santa Barbara
University of Delaware Library Special Collections
University of Wisconsin Special Collections Memorial Library
University of New Mexico Art Museum, Albuquerque
University of North Texas Library Special Collections, Denton, Texas
University of Washington Library Special Collections, Seattle, Washington
Washington University Libraries, Department of Special Collections, St. Louis, Missouri
Solo Exhibitions
2022 Naturalists of the Long Now, Blue Sky Gallery, Portland Oregon
2022 Svalbard, JDC Fine Art, Gleneden Beach, Oregon
2021 Naturalists of the Long Now, BYU Rexburg Idaho
2020 The Oldest Ice on Earth, part of Anthropocene, Tbilisi History Museum (Karvasla), Tbilisi, Georgia
2020 Ancient Lands, Recent Expeditions, JDC Fine Art, Gleneden Beach, Oregon
2018 The Last Glacier, Arts Center Gallery, Peck School of the Arts, UW Milwaukee
2017 Kilimanjaro: The Last Glacier, Schneider Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
2017 The Transparency of Ice and the Melting of Deep Time, ASWU Gallery, University of Wyoming, Laramie, Wyoming
2015 The Last Glacier, SFO Museum, San Francisco, California
2011 Makarapa and Vuvuzela, Art Association of Jackson Hole, Jackson Hole, Wyoming
2010 Interior Relations as part of Human: Nature, 2nd Singapore International Photography Festival, 2902 Gallery, Oldschool, Singapore
2009 Interior Relations, Blue Sky Gallery, Portland, Oregon
2009 Interior Relations, Holter Museum of Art, Helena, Montana
2009 Looking Forward: Portraits of South African Women, Sol Mednick 2009 Gallery, University of The Arts, Philadelphia
2009 Outside, Looking In, Workspace Gallery, Omaha, Nebraska
2008 Interior Relations, Rayko Photo Center, San Francisco, California
2008 Interior Relations, Month of Photography Triennial Festival Four, South African National Museum, Cape Town, South Africa
2006 Ian van Coller, The Light Factory, Charlotte, North Carolina
2005 Memorials to Innocence, Lisa Sette Gallery, Scottsdale, Arizona
2005 Reliquaries of Memory: Remembrances of a South African Childhood, Fresno Art Museum, California
2004 “Natural” Africa, University of New Mexico Art Museum, Albuquerque
2003 You Travel Far, Museum of Southeast Texas, Beaumont, Texas
2003 You Travel Far, John Sommers Gallery, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
2001 Mining Africa, Lisa Sette Gallery, Scottsdale, Arizona
Acclimatization Chamber, The Print Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
1999 The Nature of Displacement, The Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Arizona
1998 Ian van Coller: Recent Works, The Fitton Center for the Creative Arts, Hamilton, Ohio
1997 Ian van Coller: Recent Works, The Thompson Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa
1996 The Colonized Tree: Dialogues of Myths and Science, Durban Center for Photography, South Africa
Awards & Honors
2018 Guggenheim Fellowship, John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, New York, Naturalists of the Long Now
2016 Vienna Photobook Festival, Lundi artist book selected as top 30
2010 Prix Pictet 3 Nominee, Nominated by Elie Domit
2010 Honorable Mention, Houston Center for Photography Fellowship, Juried by Brian Clamp
2010 Work selected for Society for Photographic Education Fundraiser Raffle (Juried and by Invitation)
2009 Nominated for The Santa Fe Prize for Photography
2008 Nominated for The Baum Award for Emerging American Photographers
2004 Van Deren Coke/ Beaumont Newhall Fellowship, New Mexico State University
2003 Brooks Scholarship to attend Anderson Ranch Workshop, New Mexico State University
1989 Ilford Scholarship, Top 1st Year Student, Technikon Natal, Durban, South Africa
Grants
2019 National Science Foundation Antarctic Artist and Writers Program Grant, Co-PI with Todd Anderson (Clemson University) Ice Core Time Capsules
2019 Montana State University Scholarship and Creativity Grant, Baffin Island: The Melting of deep Time
2019 Montana State University Faculty Excellence Grant, The Arctic Circle Artist residency
2018 Montana State University College of Arts and Architecture Block Grant, Bristlecones of the Long Now
2016 Montana State University Scholarship and Creativity Grant, Kilimanjaro: The Last Glacier
2016 Montana State University Faculty Excellence Grant, Class buyout to pursue Kilimanjaro: The Last Glacier artist book
2013 College of Arts and Architecture Block Grant, The Last Glacier collaborative book project.
2010 Montana State University Scholarship and Creativity Grant, Makarabas, an Evolution of Identity in South African Portraits of 2010 FIFA World Cup Soccer Fans
2010 MSU School of Arts and Architecture Research and Creativity Block Grant for Uptown Butte Neighborhoods, a Vernacular History
2009 Montana State University Scholarship and Creativity Grant, The Garden Path, Montana State University
Montana State University BEST Grant, Course Buyout
2007 Montana State University Scholarship and Creativity Grant, Interior Relations, Montana State University
Short Term Development Grant, Review L.A., Montana State University
2006 College of Arts and Architecture Research and Creativity Block Grant, Still Time, Montana State University
Invited Presentations
2022 Sitka Center for Art + Environment, Oregon
2022 Oregon State University, Oregon
2022 Colophon Book Club, San Francisco
2022 Durban University of Technology, South Africa
2022 University of North Texas
2022 Blue Sky Gallery, Portland, Oregon
2021 University of Denver
2021 Center for Photographic Art, Carmel, California
2021 SUNY New Palz
2021 BYU Rexburg, Idaho
2021 Sacajawea Audubon Society
2020 Princeton University
2020 UC Santa Cruz
2020 University of New Mexico
2019 Ice-Core Time Capsules, Crary Lab, McMurdo Station, Antarctica with Todd Anderson
2018 University of Wisconsin, Peck School of the Arts, Naturalists of the Long Now
2017 University of Wyoming, Laramie. Public lecture on The Transparency of Ice and the Melting of Deep Time
2014 SPE NW Regional Conference, Bellingham Washington, Ian van Coller: Image, Mark-making and Meaning
2014 University of Washington, Invited by Professor Ellen Garvens to present work and do critiques with MFA Graduate Students
2009 Holter Museum of Art, Helena, Montana
2009 Cosmopolitan Community College, Omaha, Nebraska
2005 Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe, New Mexico
2004 University of New Mexico Art Museum
2003 Magnifico Artspace, Albuquerque, NM
2003 New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, New Mexico
2003 The Art Museum of Southeast Texas, Beaumont, Texas
Lamar University, Texas
1999 The Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, Arizona
For more information, please visit www.ianvancoller.com.