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Early life unacceptable education

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Chuck Close 

Born 1940 in Monroe, Washington.  
Lives and works in New York.  

Solo exhibitions (selection) 
* Catalogue published 

1967 
University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts, Art Gallery, January 8–February 1, 1967 

1970 
Bykert Gallery, New York, February 28–March 28, 1970. 

1971 
*Chuck Close: Recent Work, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California, September 21–
November 14, 1971. 

1971–1972 
Chuck Close: Recent Work, Bykert Gallery, New York, December 4, 1971–January 5, 1972. 

1972 
*Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois, February 5–March 19, 1972. 

1973 
Akron Art Museum, Akron, Ohio, March 31–May 6, 1973. 
Chuck Close: Recent Work, Bykert Gallery, New York, October 20 November 15, 1973. 
Projects 11: Chuck Close/Lilliana Porter, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, January 13–February 
28, 1973. 

1975 
Bykert Gallery, New York. 
The Portland Center for the Visual Arts, Portland, Oregon." 
Chuck Close: Keith, Organized by Parasol Press, Ltd., New York. Traveled to: Mint Museum of Art, 
Charlotte, North Carolina, January 5–February 2, 1975; Ball State University Art Gallery, Muncie, Indiana; 
Phoenix Art Museum, Arizona, June 1–29, 1975; The Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minnesota, July 18–
August 31, 1975. 

1975–1976 

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Chuck Close

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1940, Monroe, Washington – 2021, Oceanside, New York

EDUCATION

1962

University of Washington, Seattle, B.A.

1963

Yale University School of Art and Architecture, New Haven, B.F.A.

1964

Yale University School of Art and Architecture, New Haven, M.F.A.

Selected public collections

• The Ackland Art Museum, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
• Akron Art Museum, Ohio
• Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York
• Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College, Ohio
• American Medical Association Collection, Washington, D.C.
• Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto
• The Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois
• The Art Museum, Princeton University, New Jersey
• Austin Museum of Art, Texas
• Ball State University Museum of Art, Muncie, Indiana
• The Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, Ohio
• Carnegie Institute, Museum of Art, Pittsburgh
• Centre Pompidou, Paris
• Chase Manhattan Bank Collection, New York
• The Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
• Cornell Fine Arts Museum, Rollins College, Winter Park, Florida
• Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas
• Daum Museum of Contemporary Art, Sedalia, Missouri
• Davidson College, North Carolina
• Dayton Art Institute, Ohio
• Denver Art Museum, Colorado
• Des Moin