Ian Van Coller
Ian van Coller (born 1970) is South African American visual artist and academic. He has been a professor of photography at Montana State University since 2006. Van Coller also is a recipient of a 2018 Guggenheim Fellowship.
Ian Van Coller
- Name
- Ian van Coller
- Born
- 1970
- Known for
- Photography and Visual Art
- Awards
- Guggenheim Fellowship
- Occupation
- photographer
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Ian van Coller (born 1970) is South African American visual artist and academic. He has been a professor of photography at Montana State University since 2006. Van Coller also is a recipient of a 2018 Guggenheim Fellowship.
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Ian Van Coller (born 1970) is a photographer. The photographer was born in Johannesburg. Ian Van Coller worked for Montana State University.
Works by the photographer are held at Print Collection. Ian Van Coller received Guggenheim Fellowship.
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His first monograph, Interior Relations, was published in 2011 by Charles Lane Press in New York. His current artistic focus is on environmental matters, specifically climate change and deep time.
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• Name — Ian van Coller • Born — 1970 • Known for — Photography and Visual Art • Awards — Guggenheim Fellowship • Website — www.ianvancoller.com
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• 2022: Naturalists of the Long Now, Blue Sky Gallery, Portland, Oregon • 2022: Ian Van Coller: The Last Glacier, Passages Bookshop, Portland, Oregon • 2022: Svalbard, JDC Fine Art, Gleneden Beach, Oregon • 2021: Naturalists of the Long Now, Brigham Young University-Idaho, Rexburg • 2020: Ancient Lands, Recent Expeditions, JDC Fine Art, Gleneden Beach, Oregon • 2018: The Last Glacier, Arts Center Gallery, Peck School of the Arts, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee • 2017: Kilimanjaro: The Last Glacier, Schneider Gallery, Chicago, Illinois • 2015: The Last Glacier, SFO Museum, San Francisco, California • 2011: Makarapa and Vuvuzela, Art Association of Jackson Hole, Jackson Hole, Wyoming • 2001: Mining Africa, Lisa Sette Gallery, Scottsdale, Arizona • 2001: Acclimatization Chamber, The Print Center, Philadelphia
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Group
• 2024: Poetics of Dissonance, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, Arizona • 2023: Fifth National Climate Assessment Exhibition, online exhibition • 2022: The National: Best Contemporary Photography 2022, Fort Wayne Art Museum, Indiana • 2021: Future Past, 2019 Critical Mass Top 50, Center for Photographic Art, Carmel, California • 2020: Anthropocene, Tbilisi History Museum, Tbilisi, Georgia • 2019: Terra Nostra-The Age of the Anthropocene, Photaumnales, Hauts-de-France, France • 2018: Our Anthropocene: Eco Crises, curated by Gary van Wyk, Center for Book Arts, New York • 2017: Collections in Conversation: Photobooks at the Arts and Beineke Libraries, Yale University
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• Ian van Coller’s Haptic Sublime, Ben Read, Osmos Magazine, 2024 • The Transparency of Time, Airborne Wind Energy Conference, 2024 • The Victorian Ecologist, by Kristen French, Nautilus Magazine, 50th Anniversary Issue, 2023 • The Last Glacier: Making art in a changing landscape, Cory Walsh, The Missoulian, Montana, 2022 • Fast Time, MIT Technology Review Magazine, 2021 • Images of the West: The Last Glacier. Essay by Nancy M. Mahoney, Big Sky Journal, Bozeman Montana, 2020 • Our Anthropocene: Eco Crises, curated by Gary van Wyk, Center for Book Arts, New York City, 2018 *
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- 1.College of Arts and Architecture Montana State University. sfp.montana.edu.
- 2.'Make Scientists Artists Again:' Photographer Ian van Coller on Reimagining Glacier Retreat – State of the Planet. 2022-07-12.
- 3.A matter of time. Montana State University.
- 4.Interior Relations by Sindiwe Magona: VeryGood (2011) Opalick. www.abebooks.com.
- 5.Corp, Pelmorex. Breakthrough Antarctic ice extraction 'an enormous victory': Researcher says. The Weather Network. 2025-01-11.
- 6.Artist creates massive book on vanishing glaciers by Carol Schmidt. UW ART. 2018-01-26.
- 7.Ian van Coller. Catalyst: Interviews. 2018-09-12.
- 8.Ian van Coller. Blue Sky, Oregon Center for the Photographic Arts. 2022-05-31.
- 9.ArtFacts. Ian van Coller: Naturalists of the Long Now Exhibition.
- 10.www.bibliopolis.com. ROMO Rocky Mountain National Park : The Last Glacier by Ian van Coller, Todd Anderson, Bruce Crownover on Passages Bookshop. Passages Bookshop.
- 11.Ian van Coller: Svalbard Exhibitions MutualArt. www.jdcfineart.com.
- 12.Earth Week: Ian van Coller: Naturalists of the Long Now. LENSCRATCH. 2024-04-22.
- 13.jdc Fine Art— Contemporary Art Gallery Exhibition— Ian Van Coller Gallery Exhibition Ancient Lands, Recent Expeditions. jdc Fine Art. 2020-03-03.
- 14.About. Schneider Gallery.
- 15.Ian van Coller: The Last Glacier SFO Museum. www.sfomuseum.org.
- 16.Ian van Coller: Makarapa and. Exhibitions MutualArt. www.artassociation.org.
- 17.Ian Van Coller CV. Axis Gallery. 2019-10-15.
- 18.poetics of dissonance. SMoCA. 2024-05-06.
- 19.U.S. Global Change Research Program, Washington, DC. Art × Climate Gallery. 2023-11-14.
- 20.The National: Best Contemporary Photography 2022. FWMoA.
- 21.Future Past: Photolucida's Critical Mass Top 50 Group Exhibition, CFPA ~ Carmel, CA. Jennifer Garza-Cuen. 2021-07-14.
- 22.Ian Teh, NASA/Curiosity, Ian van Coller, Daniel&Geo Fuchs, David Klammer. kolga.ge.
- 23.Photaumnales Festival. September 19, 2019.
- 24.OUR ANTHROPOCENE: ECO CRISES.
- 25.Photobooks at the Arts & Beinecke Libraries / Yale University. lsv.arlisna.org.
- 26.OSMOS Magazine Issue 27. OSMOS.
- 27.Walsh, Cory. The Last Glacier: Making art in a changing landscape. The Missoulian. 2022-10-02.
- 28.This photographer-scientists collaboration shows the speed of climate change. MIT Technology Review.
- 29.Douger. Images of the West: The Last Glacier. Big Sky Journal. 2020-08-05.
- 30.Wyk, Gary van. Our Anthropocene: Eco Crises. Lulu.com. 2018-03-27. 978-1-387-69324-5.
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