Ian Van Coller

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.

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.

His current artistic focus is on environmental matters, specifically climate change and deep time.

Exhibitions (selection)

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

Group

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

Bibliography (selection)

Ian van Coller’s Haptic Sublime, Ben Read, Osmos Magazine, 2024 The Transparency of Time, Airborne Wind Energy Conference, 2024 The Victorian Ecologist, by Kristen French, Nautilus Magazine, 50th Anniversary Issue, 2023 Fast Time, MIT Technology Review Magazine, 2021 Images of the West: The Last Glacier. Essay by Nancy M. Mahoney, Big Sky Journal, Bozeman Montana, 2020 Our Anthropocene: Eco Crises, curated by Gary van Wyk, Center for Book Arts, New York City, 2018