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.[1][2][3]

Ian van Coller
Born1970 (age 5556)
Known forPhotography and Visual Art
AwardsGuggenheim Fellowship
Websitewww.ianvancoller.com

Van Coller also is a recipient of a 2018 Guggenheim Fellowship. His first monograph, Interior Relations, was published in 2011 by Charles Lane Press in New York.[4]

His current artistic focus is on environmental matters, specifically climate change and deep time.[5][6][7]

Exhibitions (selection)

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Solo

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  • 2022: Naturalists of the Long Now, Blue Sky Gallery, Portland, Oregon[8][9]
  • 2022: Ian Van Coller: The Last Glacier, Passages Bookshop, Portland, Oregon[10]
  • 2022: Svalbard, JDC Fine Art, Gleneden Beach, Oregon[11]
  • 2021: Naturalists of the Long Now, Brigham Young University-Idaho, Rexburg[12]
  • 2020: Ancient Lands, Recent Expeditions, JDC Fine Art, Gleneden Beach, Oregon[13]
  • 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[14]
  • 2015: The Last Glacier, SFO Museum, San Francisco, California[15]
  • 2011: Makarapa and Vuvuzela,  Art Association of Jackson Hole, Jackson Hole, Wyoming[16]
  • 2001: Mining Africa, Lisa Sette Gallery, Scottsdale, Arizona[17]
  • 2001: Acclimatization Chamber, The Print Center, Philadelphia

Group

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  • 2024: Poetics of Dissonance, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, Arizona[18]
  • 2023: Fifth National Climate Assessment Exhibition, online exhibition[19]
  • 2022: The National: Best Contemporary Photography 2022, Fort Wayne Art Museum, Indiana[20]
  • 2021: Future Past, 2019 Critical Mass Top 50, Center for Photographic Art, Carmel, California[21]
  • 2020: Anthropocene, Tbilisi History Museum, Tbilisi, Georgia[22]
  • 2019: Terra Nostra-The Age of the Anthropocene, Photaumnales, Hauts-de-France, France[23]
  • 2018: Our Anthropocene: Eco Crises, curated by Gary van Wyk, Center for Book Arts, New York[24]
  • 2017: Collections in Conversation: Photobooks at the Arts and Beineke Libraries, Yale University[25]

Bibliography (selection)

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  • Ian van Coller’s Haptic Sublime, Ben Read, Osmos Magazine, 2024[26]
  • The Transparency of Time, Airborne Wind Energy Conference, 2024
  • The Victorian Ecologist, by Kristen French, Nautilus Magazine, 50th Anniversary Issue, 2023[1]
  • The Last Glacier: Making art in a changing landscape, Cory Walsh, The Missoulian, Montana, 2022[27]
  • Fast Time, MIT Technology Review Magazine, 2021[28]
  • Images of the West: The Last Glacier. Essay by Nancy M. Mahoney, Big Sky Journal, Bozeman Montana, 2020[29]
  • Our Anthropocene: Eco Crises, curated by Gary van Wyk, Center for Book Arts, New York City, 2018[30]

References

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  1. 1 2 "College of Arts and Architecture | Montana State University". sfp.montana.edu. Retrieved 2025-05-05.
  2. "'Make Scientists Artists Again:' Photographer Ian van Coller on Reimagining Glacier Retreat – State of the Planet". 2022-07-12. Retrieved 2025-05-05.
  3. "A matter of time". Montana State University. Retrieved 2025-05-05.
  4. "Interior Relations by Sindiwe Magona: VeryGood (2011) | Opalick". www.abebooks.com. Retrieved 2025-05-05.
  5. Corp, Pelmorex (2025-01-11). "Breakthrough Antarctic ice extraction 'an enormous victory': Researcher says". The Weather Network. Retrieved 2025-05-05.
  6. "Artist creates massive book on vanishing glaciers by Carol Schmidt". UW ART. 2018-01-26. Retrieved 2025-05-08.
  7. "Ian van Coller". Catalyst: Interviews. 2018-09-12. Retrieved 2025-05-05.
  8. "Ian van Coller". Blue Sky, Oregon Center for the Photographic Arts. 2022-05-31. Retrieved 2025-05-05.
  9. ArtFacts. "Ian van Coller: Naturalists of the Long Now | Exhibition". ArtFacts. Retrieved 2025-05-05.
  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. Archived from the original on 2023-09-29. Retrieved 2025-05-05.
  11. "Ian van Coller: Svalbard | Exhibitions | MutualArt". www.jdcfineart.com. Retrieved 2025-05-05.
  12. "Earth Week: Ian van Coller: Naturalists of the Long Now". LENSCRATCH. 2024-04-22. Retrieved 2025-05-05.
  13. "jdc Fine Art— Contemporary Art Gallery Exhibition— Ian Van Coller Gallery Exhibition | Ancient Lands, Recent Expeditions". jdc Fine Art. 2020-03-03. Retrieved 2025-05-05.
  14. "About". Schneider Gallery. Retrieved 2025-05-05.
  15. "Ian van Coller: The Last Glacier | SFO Museum". www.sfomuseum.org. Retrieved 2025-05-05.
  16. "Ian van Coller: Makarapa and... | Exhibitions | MutualArt". www.artassociation.org. Retrieved 2025-05-05.
  17. "Ian Van Coller | CV". Axis Gallery. 2019-10-15. Retrieved 2025-05-05.
  18. "poetics of dissonance". SMoCA. 2024-05-06. Retrieved 2025-05-11.
  19. Art × Climate Gallery (Report). U.S. Global Change Research Program, Washington, DC. 2023-11-14. Archived from the original on November 14, 2023.
  20. "The National: Best Contemporary Photography 2022". FWMoA. Retrieved 2025-05-11.
  21. "Future Past: Photolucida's Critical Mass Top 50 Group Exhibition, CFPA ~ Carmel, CA". Jennifer Garza-Cuen. 2021-07-14. Retrieved 2025-05-11.
  22. "Ian Teh, NASA/Curiosity, Ian van Coller, Daniel&Geo Fuchs, David Klammer". kolga.ge. Retrieved 2025-05-11.
  23. "Photaumnales Festival". September 19, 2019.
  24. "OUR ANTHROPOCENE: ECO CRISES". Retrieved 2025-05-11.
  25. "Photobooks at the Arts & Beinecke Libraries / Yale University". lsv.arlisna.org. Retrieved 2025-05-11.
  26. "OSMOS Magazine Issue 27". OSMOS. Retrieved 2025-05-05.
  27. Walsh, Cory (2022-10-02). "The Last Glacier: Making art in a changing landscape". The Missoulian. Retrieved 2025-05-08.
  28. "This photographer-scientists collaboration shows the speed of climate change". MIT Technology Review. Retrieved 2025-05-08.
  29. Douger (2020-08-05). "Images of the West: The Last Glacier". Big Sky Journal. Retrieved 2025-05-08.
  30. Wyk, Gary van (2018-03-27). Our Anthropocene: Eco Crises. Lulu.com. ISBN 978-1-387-69324-5.
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