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Swedish-American artist (born 1945)
Astrid Preston
Born
1945 (age 78–79)
Stockholm, Sweden
Education
University of California, Los Angeles (1967)
Occupations
Artist
painter
writer
Awards
National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship Grant in Painting (1987), Lux Art Institute artist residency (2008)
Website
Official website
Astrid Preston (born 1945) is a Latvian-American artist, painter and writer born in Stockholm, Sweden.[1] She lives in Santa Monica, California where she received a B.A. in English Literature from University of California, Los Angeles in 1967.[2] She has had solo exhibitions in Laguna Art Museum,[2] Saginaw Art Museum,[3] Wichita Falls Museum, Ella Sharp Museum and Arts College International. Articles and reviews of her works have appeared in Los Angeles Times,[4]Forbes, Art in America and Artforum. Her works are in the permanent collection of Laguna Art Museum Bakersfield Museum of Art,[5] Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Orange County Museum of Art, Long Beach Museum of Art, Hammer Museum, McNay Art Museum, Oakland Museum of California and Nevada Museum of Art.
She has been featured on the Bakersfield Museum of Art podcast "On the Edge" with Artists Don Bachardy, Gregory Wiley Edwards and Allen Ruppersberg.[6] Preston received an NEA Fellowship Grant in Painting in 1987[7] and an artist residency from Lux Art Institute in 2008.[8][9]
^Fruedenheim, Susan (9 September 1987). "Astrid Preston". Artforum. Retrieved 17 March 2024.
^ ab"Astrid Preston". Laguna Art Museum. Retrieved 17 March 2024.
^"Benny Alba, Astrid Preston and Sharon Hildebrand Paintings at Saginaw". Traditional Fine Arts Organization. 26 October 2011. Retrieved 17 March 2024.
^"Art Review : Astrid Preston's Pursuit of 'Real'". Los Angeles Times. 7 March 1986.
^"Astrid Preston's art featured in new painting exhibition "Poetics of Nature"". University of California, Los Angeles. May 3, 2018. Retrieved 17 March 2024.
^"Bakersfield Museum of Art to host discussion with 'On the Edge' artists". 4 November 2021.
^National Endowment for the Arts (1992). Generation of Fellows: Grants to Individuals From the National Endowment for the Arts. National Endowment for the Arts. ISBN 0-16-042947-1. The National Endowment for the Arts has awarded fellowship grants to over 11,000 individual artists since 1966. This report is a collection of profiles of some of these artists from various disciplines. The profile consists of brief background information on each artist and a statement written by the artist about the impact of the NEA award on their life, work and career
^"Astrid Preston: In the Studio". Lux Art Institute.
^"Astrid Preston lives in Lux". Two Coats of Paint. February 24, 2008. Retrieved 17 March 2024.
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