Ian van Coller

Ian van Coller
Born	1970
Nationality	South African
Known for	Photography and Visual Art
Awards	Guggenheim Fellowship
Website	www.ianvancoller.com

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]}

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)

Solo

• 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

• 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)

• 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

1. "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.

External links

• Official website