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.^[1][2][3]

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

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]