James Turrell
Born, 1943, Los Angeles, California
Education
BA Psychology, Pomona College, 1965. Art Graduate Studies, University of California, Irvine, 1965-1966. MA Art, Claremont Graduate School, 1973
Solo Exhibitions
2023
Works 1984 – 2023, Häusler Contemporary Zürich
2022
James Turrell: Elemental, Pace Gallery, Geneva
James Turrell: After Effect, Pace Gallery, 540 West 25th Street, New York
Aftershock, Copenhagen Contemporary, Kopenhagen, Denmark
2021
James Turrell: Skyspace, Posada Ayana, Maldonado, Uruguay
James Turrell: Into the Light, MASS MoCA, North Adams, Massachusetts
James Turrell: C.A.V.U. / Skyspace, MASS MoCA, North Adams, Massachusetts
2020
James Turrell, Pace Gallery, 340 Royal Poinciana Way, Palm Beach
James Turrell, Pace Gallery, 6 Burlington Gardens, London
2019
James Turrell: Passages of Light, Fundación Jumex, Mexico City
James Turrell: Yukaloo, Asia Society, Hong Kong
2018
Depth Perception: James Turrell, Lévy Gorvy Gallery, New York
James Turrell: The Substance of Light, Museum Frieder Burda, Baden-Württemberg
James Turrell: It Becomes Your Experience, Musée d’Arts de Nantes, France
James Turrell, Kayne Griffin Corcoran, Los Angeles
James Turrell: Ganzfeld “Aural,” Jüdisches Museum, Berlin
2017
James Turrell, Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, North Adams
James Turrell: Immersive Light, Long Museum, Shanghai
2016
James Turrell: Light Reignfall, Los Angeles County Museum of Art
James Turrell, Pace Prints, New York
James Turrell: 67 68 69, Pace Gallery, 32 East 57th Street and 534 West 25th Street, New York
James Turrell, Pace Palo Alto, California
2015
James Turrell, Kayne Griffin Corcoran, Los Angeles
LightScape: James Turrell at Houghton, Houghton Hall, Norfolk, United Kingdom
James Turrell: From the Guggenheim, Aten Reign, Häusler Contemporary
2014
James Turrell: A Retrospective, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
James Turrell from the Guggenheim, Hiram Butler Gallery, Houston
James Turrell: Prints and Process, Pace Prints, New York
James Turrell: Light Spaces, Israel Museum, Jerusalem
James Turrell, Pace London, 6 Burlington Gardens
2013
James Turrell: Tall Glass, Häusler Contemporary, Lustenau, Austria
James Turrell: Gard Blue, Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas, Lawrence
James Turrell, Galerie Almine Rech, Paris
James Turrell: A Retrospective, Los Angeles County Museum of Art Traveled to: Israel Museum, Jerusalem, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra Concurrent with: James Turrell: The Light Inside, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston and James Turrell, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York (Catalogue)
James Turrell: Sooner Than Later, Roden Crater, Kayne Griffin Corcoran, Los Angeles
James Turrell: Roden Crater and Autonomous Structures, Pace Gallery, 32 East 57th Street, New York
2012
James Turrell: Trace Elements: Light into Space, Fine Arts Center, Colorado Sprints
James Turrell: Six Holograms, Hiram Butler Gallery, Houston
2011
James Turrell: Licht, Körper, Häusler Contemporary, Zurich
James Turrell: Present Tense, Kayne Griffin Corcoran, Santa Monica
James Turrell, Garage Center for Contemporary Culture, Moscow
2010
James Turrell, Gagosian Gallery, London
James Turrell, Almine Rech Gallery, Brussels
2009
James Turrell: The Wolfsburg Project, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg
James Turrell: Large Holograms, PaceWildenstein, 534 West 25th Street, New York
James Turrell: Autonomous Structures, Griffin Contemporary, Santa Monica
James Turrell: Land and Light: From Gurfa Caves to Roden Crater, Galleria d’arte moderna, Complesso monumentale di Sant’Anna, Palermo, Italy,
James Turrell: Geometry of Light, Zentrum für Internationale Lichtkunst, Unna, Germany
James Turrell: The Roden Crater: Sculpture and Photographs, Häusler Contemporary Munich
2008
James Turrell, Oroom Gallery, Seoul, Total Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul and Musée Shuim, Seoul
James Turrell, Beyond the Light, Villa and Collection Panza, Varese, Italy
James Turrell: Light Works 2002–2007, Baldwin Gallery, Aspen
2007
Geometries of Light: The Roden Crater Project by James Turrell, University IUAV of Venezia, Italy
James Turrell at Pomona College, Pomona College Museum of Art, California
James Turrell: Orca Blue, Albion Gallery, London
James Turrell: Light Leadings, PaceWildenstein, 534 West 25th Street, New York
James Turrell, The Tall Glass, Häusler Contemporary, Zurich
2006
James Turrell, Musée de Grenoble, France,
James Turrell: A Life in Light, Louise T. Blouin Institute, London
James Turrell: New Work, Griffin, Santa Monica
James Turrell: Alta White, Musée national d’art moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
2005
James Turrell, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Underground Gallery, Wakefield, Yorkshire, United Kingdom
James Turrell: Light Projections 1968 and Light Works 2005, PaceWildenstein, 32 East 57th Street, New York
James Turrell: Transformative Space, Alan Koppel Gallery, Chicago
2004
James Turrell, James Corcoran Gallery, Los Angeles
James Turrell, IVAM Institut Valencià d’Art Modern, Spain
James Turrell: Early Light Works, Griffin Contemporary, Santa Monica
James Turrell: Projection Works 1967–69, Albion, London
James Turrell, Galerie Almine Rech, Paris
James Turrell: Autonomous Structures, William Griffin Gallery, Santa Monica
2003
James Turrell: New Holograms, Baldwin Gallery, Aspen
James Turrell, PaceWildenstein, 534 West 25th Street, New York
James Turrell, Kunsthaus Zug, Switzerland
James Turrell: The Light Within, Haines Gallery, San Francisco
James Turrell: Light and Land, Sonoma County Museum, Santa Rosa
James Turrell: Knowing Light, Henry Art Gallery, Seattle
2002
James Turrell: Into the Light, Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh
James Turrell, Michael Hue-Williams Fine Art, London
James Turrell, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
James Turrell, Galerie Almine Rech, Paris
2001
James Turrell, Hausler Kulturemanagement, Munich
James Turrell, Haus Konstruktiv, Zurich
James Turrell, Harley Baldwin Gallery, Aspen,
James Turrell, Galerie Valentina Moncada, Rome
James Turrell: Infinite Light, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art
2000
James Turrell à Paris, Espace Electra, Paris
1999
James Turrell, Zumtobel Staff, Zurich
James Turrell: Hi Test, Gallerie Almine Rech, Paris
James Turrell: Cross Cut, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Kansas
James Turrell: Elliptic Ecliptic, Tremenheere, Penzance, Cornwall, United Kingdom
James Turrell: Arcus, Newlyn Art Gallery, Newlyn, Penzance, Cornwall, United Kingdom
1998
James Turrell: The Other Horizon, MAK – Austrian Museum of Applied Arts / Contemporary Art, Vienna
James Turrell: Lapsed Quaker Ware, AD Gallery, New York
James Turrell, Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York
James Turrell, Center for Contemporary Art, Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw
James Turrell, Museet for Samtidskunst, Oslo
James Turrell: Light Work, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach
James Turrell: Spirit and Light, The Brown Foundation Gallery, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston
James Turrell, Michael Hue-Williams Fine Art, London
James Turrell à Paris, Fondation Électricité de France, Espace Electra, Paris,
James Turrell: Between Blue, Stark Gallery, New York
1997
James Turrell: Where Does the Light in Our Dreams Come From? The Museum of Modern Art, Urawa, Japan, Traveled to: Nagoya City Museum 1998; Setagaya Art Museum, Tokyo,
James Turrell, Kunsthaus Bregenz, Austria
1996
James Turrell, Stroom, The Hague
James Turrell: ‘Arcus’, 1989 & ‘Porter – Powell’, 1967, Michael Hue-Williams Fine Art, London
1995
James Turrell, Art Tower Mito, Japan
James Turrell, Städtische Galerie, Goppingen, Germany
James Turrell, Fia Art Network, Index Gallery, Osaka
James Turrell: Red Shift, Galerie Jule Kewenig, Frechen-Bachen, Germany
James Turrell, Portside Gallery, Yokohama
James Turrell: Drawings, Hiram Butler Gallery, Houston
1994
James Turrell, Crawford Municipal Art Gallery, Cork, Ireland
James Turrell, National Sculpture Foundry, Cork, Ireland
James Turrell, Aspen Art Center
James Turrell, Magasin 3, Stockholm
James Turrell: Roden Crater: Realizing a Vision, Lisa Sette Gallery, Phoenix
James Turrell, Barbara Gladstone Gallery
1993
James Turrell: Drawing from Space, Knoedler & Co., New York
James Turrell: Gas Works: A Ganzfeld Sphere, Henry Moore Sculpture Trust, Halifax, United Kingdom
James Turrell, Marian Locks Gallery, Philadelphia
James Turrell, Butler Gallery, Kilkenny, Ireland
James Turrell: Light Projects from the Sixties, Anthony D’Offay Gallery, London
Air Mass: James Turrell, Hayward Gallery, London
James Turrell, Ace Gallery, Los Angeles
1992
James Turrell, Fundación “la Caixa”, Madrid,
James Turrell, Fuel Gallery, Seattle
James Turrell: Works 1967–1992, Henry Art Gallery, Seattle. Traveled to: Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia
James Turrell: Light/Sky Installation, Claremont/Pitzer Colleges, California
James Turrell, Weisser Raum, Hamburg
James Turrell: Perpetual Cells, Belvedere, Royal Gardens of Prague Castle, Prague
James Turrell, Confort Moderne, Poitiers, France
James Turrell: Perpetual Cells, Wiener Secession, Vienna
James Turrell, Fundacio Espai Poblenou, Barcelona, June 1992.
James Turrell: The Irish Sky Garden, Turske Hue-Williams Gallery, London
James Turrell, Stroom, The Hague
James Turrell: Perceptual Cells, Kunstverein Düsseldorf
James Turrell, Gallery Cora Holzl, Düsseldorf
James Turrell, Isy Brachot Gallery, Brussels
James Turrell, Musée d’Art Contemporain, Lyon, France
1991
James Turrell, Indianapolis Museum of Art
James Turrell, Turske & Turske, Zurich
James Turrell: First Light, Hiram Butler Gallery, Houston
James Turrell, Carpenter Center, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts
James Turrell, Anthony d’Offay Gallery, London
Museo Guggenheim: Las Últimas Vanguardies: James Turrell: Next Breath Arte Norteamericano 1940–1970, Universidad Internacional Menedez y Pelayo, Santander, Spain
James Turrell, Centro Cultural Arte Contemperaneo, Mexico City
James Turrell, Turske & Turske, Zurich
James Turrell, Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt
James Turrell: Heavy Water, Confort Moderne, Poitiers, France
James Turrell, Change of State, Friedman Guinness Gallery, Frankfurt
James Turrell, Lisa Sette Gallery, Scottsdale
James Turrell, Galerie Froment & Putman, Paris
James Turrell, Williams College Art Museum, Williamstown, Massachusetts
James Turrell: Works from the “Afrum” and “Aperture” Series, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence
James Turrell: First Light and Catso White, Kunstmuseum, Bern
1990
James Turrell, La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art
James Turrell: Long Green, Turske & Turske, Zurich
James Turrell, Stuart Regan Gallery, Los Angeles
First Light: Twenty Etchings by James Turrell, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
James Turrell, Stein-Gladstone Gallery, New York
James Turrell, P.S. 1, Long Island City, New York
‘Frito, Misto,’ & ‘Pleiades’: Three Installations by James Turrell, Boulder Art Center, Colorado
James Turrell, Newport Harbor Art Museum, California
1989
James Turrell, Ace Gallery, Los Angeles
James Turrell, Un peu plus près du ciel, Galerie Froment & Putman, Paris
James Turrell: A la levee du soir, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nîmes, France
James Turrell, Security Pacific Gallery, Costa Mesa, California
James Turrell, Florida State University Gallery and Museum, Tallahassee,
1988
James Turrell, Coconino Center for the Arts, Flagstaff
James Turrell, Jean Bernier-Eliades Gallery, Athens
James Turrell: Roden Crater, Museum of Northern Arizona, Flagstaff
James Turrell, Roger Ramsay Gallery, Chicago
1987
James Turrell: Light and Space, Lannan Museum, Lakeworth, Florida
James Turrell, University Art Gallery, University of California, Riverside
James Turrell, Kunstahalle Basel
James Turrell, Phoenix Art Museum
James Turrell, Yvon Lambert Galerie, Paris
1986
James Turrell, Center for Contemporary Arts, Santa Fe
James Turrell, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York
James Turrell: The Roden Crater Project, University of Arizona Museum of Art, Tucson
1985
Occluded Front: James Turrell: Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
James Turrell: Aerial Stereos, Karl Bornstein Gallery, Santa Monica
James Turrell: Deep Sky (Portfolio of Seven Aquatints), Marian Goodman Gallery, New York Traveled to: Roger Ramsay Gallery, Chicago
1984
James Turrell, Bernard Jacobson Gallery, Los Angeles
James Turrell: Roden Crater: Drawings from Aerial Survey, Marian Locks Gallery, Philadelphia
James Turrell: Light Spaces, Capp Street Project, San Francisco
James Turrell, Flow Ace Gallery, Los Angeles
1983
James Turrell: Three Installations, Musee d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris
James Turrell: Jida – Space and Light Installation, University of Delaware Art Gallery, Newark, Delaware
James Turrell, Mattress Factory Museum, Pittsburgh
James Turrell: Laar – Installation, Flow Ace Gallery, Venice
James Turrell, Batten: An Installation, Hayden Gallery, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston
1982
James Turrell: Two Spaces, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem,
James Turrell: Four Light Installations, Center for Contemporary Art, Seattle
1981
James Turrell, Portland Center for Visual Arts, Oregon
1980
James Turrell, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York
James Turrell: Light and Space, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
James Turrell: Iltar – Light Installation, University of Arizona Museum of Art, Tucson
James Turrell: Avaar – Light Installation, Herron Gallery, Herron School of Art, Indiana University, Indianapolis
1977
James Turrell, Heiner Friedrich Gallery, Cologne
1976
James Turrell: Light Space (Ambient Light), ARCO Center for Visual Art, Los Angeles
James Turrell: Light Projections and Light Spaces, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
1970
James Turrell: Light Spaces, Main and Hill Studio, Santa Monica
1969
James Turrell: Light Spaces, Main and Hill Studio, Santa Monica
1968
James Turrell, Aimery Langois-Meurine, Geneva
James Turrell: Light Projections (Xenon Source), Main and Hill Studio, Mendota Hotel, Santa Monica
1967
James Turrell: Light Projections, Pasadena Art Museum, California