For more than three decades, Turrell has used light and indeterminate space to extend and enhance perception. Turrell is the recipient of the Guggenheim and MacArthur Fellowships. His work has been the subject of more than 140 solo exhibitions worldwide since 1967. Since 1972 he has been transforming the Roden Crater, a natural cinder volcano situated in Arizona’s Painted Desert, into a large-scale artwork. His permanent installations are on view at the Guggenheim Museum in New York; the Nasher Sculpture Center in Dallas; the Museum für Moderne Kunst in Frankfurt am Main, Germany; and the Panza Collection in Varese, Italy, among others. In 2009, the James Turrell Museum officially opened at the Bodega Colomé in Salta, Argentina. Turrell has two other major projects in Houston: the Quaker Meeting House and “The Light Inside,” a site-specific, artificially-lit interior installation at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Turrell received his B.A. from Pomona College and M.F.A. from Claremont Graduate School, University of California, Irvine.
At Rice University
