Celmins» other
major solo exhibitions include «Vija Celmins» at the Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain, Paris (1995); «The Prints
of Vija Celmins» at The Metropolitan Museum
of Art, New York (2002); «Vija Celmins: Television and
Disaster», (1964 — 68), at the Menil Collection, Houston (2010); «Desert, Sea, and Stars» at Museum Ludwig, Cologne (2011) and «Vija Celmins; Double
Reality» at The Latvian National Art Museum, Riga, (2014).
Hung as a trio, the arrangement recalls a scene from the early aughts climate - change
disaster movie The Day After Tomorrow (2004), which shows a fictional radar image
of three
major tropical storms raging across the globe, a fiction that became a
reality this past September.