We are elated to share news that Ian van Coller was just awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship for his ongoing series, Naturalists of the Long Now. This prestigious award is earmarked for established artists who "add to the educational, literary, artistic, and scientific power of this country [and provide] better international understanding."
Ian van Coller at the Center for Book Arts, NYC
OUR ANTHROPOCENE: ECO CRISES
through March 31, 2018
Artist's Talk & Reception Friday, March 2 at 6:30 pm
The artists in this exhibition respond to the ecological crises of our Anthropocene, which we ignore at the peril of our own ecocide.
Read moreIan van Coller at the MET
We’re excited to announce that the artist book, The Last Glacier, created by Bruce Crownover, Todd Anderson, and Ian Van Coller is now on display at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. The book was acquired by the Met in 2016, and is on view as part of Drawings and Prints: Selections from The MET Collection, in gallery 690, and is one of several pieces that address “…works by contemporary artists that deal with the environment, both natural and man-made, often in the face of rapidly shifting conditions.”
Read moreIan van Coller Recent Acquisitions + Press
We are thrilled to share recent news on represented artist, Ian van Coller: Kilimanjaro was acquired by Stanford, and The Last Glacier was acquired by The Davis Museum. In addition to this, van Coller was also featured this week in Lenscratch,
Read moreIan van Coller Exhibits work at MoFA
Ian van Coller Exhibits at MoFA
Broken Ground: New Directions in Land Art is a thoughtful exhibition curated by Jeff Beekman at Florida State University MoFA; the show includes the work of Ian van Coller; a catalog accompanies the exhibition.
Read moreIan van Coller's The Last Glacier Acquired by the MET & More
Congratulations to represented Artist Ian van Coller, who's artist books continue to gain critical attention; the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art, the U.S. Library of Congress, and the New York Public Library have all recently acquired van Coller's The Last Glacier.
Read moreOn Location: Ian van Coller at Mount Kilimanjaro
Kilimanjaro: The Last Glacier
Work in progress by Ian van Coller
Climate change has become a common buzz-word, but the layman understanding of it is both rudimentary and intangible. Ian van Coller intends to bridge the gap between art and science and transform this issue into a form we can grasp- literally. Van Coller has received funding from the Montana State University for an artist's book and photo-project on the subject- Kilimanjaro: the Last Glacier. This August (2016) van Coller will join a team of scientists and researchers funded by NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) and the National Geodetic Survey who are working to record as much significant data from the ice-sheets as possible. This project is both a reflection on climate change and the study of deep time.
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