Ian van Coller
Born Johannesburg, South Africa, 1970
2018 John Simon Guggenheim Fellow
Professor of Photography at Montana State University 2006-Present
Fellow at The Explorers Club since 2020
The Last Glacier Collective since 2012
Antarctic Artists and Writers Collective since 2020
Education
2004
MFA, University of New Mexico, Department of Art and Art History, Albuquerque, New Mexico, Photography
1996
BFA, Arizona State University, Department of Art and Art History, Tempe, Arizona, BFA (Summa Cum Laude)
1991
National Diploma, Technikon Natal, Durban, South Africa, Photography
Public Collections
· Amherst College, Amherst University
· Afriterra Library, Boston, Massachussetts
· Bainbridge Island Museum, Washinghton
· Birmingham Museum of Art, Alabama
· Beineke Library, Yale University
· Bowling Green State University Library Special Collections, Ohio
· BYU Rexburg, Ohio
· CalPoly Library Special Collections
· California Institute for Integral Studies, San Francisco, California
· Carleton College Library Special Collections, Northfield, Minnesota
· Colorado College Library Special Collections, Denver, Colorado
· Clemson University, Gunnin Library Special Collections, North Carolina
· Durban Art Gallery, South Africa
· The Fogg Museum, Harvard, Massachusetts
· Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Fort Wayne, Indiana
· Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, California
· Harvard Fine Arts Library, Harvard, Massachusetts
· Harvard Museums, Harvard, Massachusetts
· Hope College Kruizenga Art Museum in Holland Michigan
· Johannesburg Art Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa
· Jordan Schnitzer Family Foundation, Portland, Oregon
· Kohler Art Library, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin
· Louisiana State University Library Special Collections
· Macalaster College Library Special Collections, Saint Paul, Minnesota
· Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York
· Montana State University Library Special Collections, Bozeman, Montana
· Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe, New Mexico
· Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri
· Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, Nevada
· New Mexico State University Art Gallery, Las Crusces
· New York Public Library, New York
· Northlight Gallery, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona
· Paris Gibson Museum of Art, Great Falls, Montana
· Philadelphia Museum of Art, Pennsylvania
· Pretoria Art Museum, South Africa
· Howard and Jane Ricketts Collection, National Science and Media Museum, United Kingdom
· Robert B. Haas Family Arts Library, Yale University
· Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Arizona
· South African National Gallery (IZIKO), Cape Town, South Africa
· Stanford University Ute and Bill Bowes Art and Architecture Library
· Technikon Natal Art Gallery, Durban, South Africa
· Texas A&M University Library Special Collections
· Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography Library, Tokyo, Japan
· Trinity College, Watkinson Library Special Collection, Hartford, Connecticut
· Ulrich Museum, Wichita State University, Kansas
· United States Library of Congress, Washington D.C.
· University of Alabama, Sarah Moody Gallery of Art
· University of California, Santa Cruz
· University of California, Santa Barbara
· University of Delaware Library Special Collections
· University of Denver Special Collections, Denver, Colorado
· University of Georgia Library Special Collections, Athens, Georgia
· University of New Mexico Art Museum, Albuquerque
· University of North Texas Library Special Collections, Denton, Texas
· University of Utah, The Marriot Library Special Collections, Utah
· University of Wisconsin Special Collections Memorial Library
· University of Washington Library Special Collections, Seattle, Washington
· Washington University Libraries, Department of Special Collections, St. Louis, Missouri
Solo Exhibitions
2022
Naturalists of the Long Now, Blue Sky Gallery, Portland Oregon
Ian Van Coller: The Last Glacier, Passages Bookshop, Portland, Oregon
Svalbard, JDC Fine Art, Gleneden Beach, Oregon
2021
Naturalists of the Long Now, BYU 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, UW Milwaukee
2017
Kilimanjaro: The Last Glacier, Schneider Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
The Transparency of Ice and the Melting of Deep Time, ASWU Gallery, University of Wyoming, Laramie, Wyoming
2015
The Last Glacier, SFO Museum, San Francisco, California
2011
Makarapa and Vuvuzela, Art Association of Jackson Hole, Jackson Hole, Wyoming
2010
Interior Relations as part of Human: Nature, 2nd Singapore International Photography Festival, 2902 Gallery, Old School, Singapore
2009
Interior Relations, Blue Sky Gallery, Portland, Oregon
Interior Relations, Holter Museum of Art, Helena, Montana
Looking Forward: Portraits of South African Women, Sol Mednick Gallery, University of The Arts, Philadelphia
Outside, Looking In, Workspace Gallery, Omaha, Nebraska
2008
Interior Relations, Rayko Photo Center, San Francisco, California
Interior Relations, Month of Photography Triennial Festival Four, South African National Museum, Cape Town, South Africa
2006
Ian van Coller, The Light Factory, Charlotte, North Carolina
2005
Memorials to Innocence, Lisa Sette Gallery, Scottsdale, Arizona
Reliquaries of Memory: Remembrances of a South African Childhood, Fresno Art Museum, California
2004
Natural Africa, University of New Mexico Art Museum, Albuquerque
2003
You Travel Far, Museum of Southeast Texas, Beaumont, Texas
You Travel Far, John Sommers Gallery, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
2001
Mining Africa, Lisa Sette Gallery, Scottsdale, Arizona
Acclimatization Chamber, The Print Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
1999
The Nature of Displacement, The Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Arizona
1998
Ian van Coller: Recent Works, The Fitton Center for the Creative Arts, Hamilton, Ohio
1997
Ian van Coller: Recent Works, The Thompson Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa
1996
The Colonized Tree: Dialogues of Myths and Science, Durban Center for Photography, South Africa
Art Fairs
2025
AIPAD, The Armory, New York City
2024
AIPAD, The Armory, New York City
2022
Codex Book Fair, Passages Bookshop (Portland, Oregon), Craneway Pavillion, Richmond, California
2021
Photo London, Roland Belgrave Contemporary Photography Gallery (Brighton, UK), London
2019
Photo London, Roland Belgrave Contemporary Photography Gallery (Brighton, UK), London
Codex Book Fair, Passages Bookshop (Portland, Oregon), Craneway Pavillion, Richmond, California
2018
Photo London, Roland Belgrave Vintage Photography Gallery (Brighton, UK), London
2017
Codex Book Fair, Passages Bookshop (Portland, Oregon), Craneway Pavillion, Richmond, California
2015
Art on Paper Art Fair, Silas Finch (NYC Publisher), March 6-8, Pier 36, New York City
Group Exhibitions
2024
Poetics of Dissonance, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, Arizona
The World in Which We Live: The Art of Environmental Awareness, Richard and Carole Cocks Art Museum in Oxford, Ohio
The Last Glacier Travelling Exhibition
The Holter Museum, Helena, Montana
DeWeese Gallery, Bozeman High, Bozeman, Montana
The Schoolhouse History and Art Center, Colstrip Montana
Glacier Revisited, Bozeman Art Museum, Bozeman, Montana
2023
Fifth National Climate Assessment Exhibition, Award Winner, Online Exhibition
The Last Glacier Travelling Exhibition
Danforth Museum, Livingston Montana.
Northcut Steele Gallery, Billings, Montana.
2022
Everything Will Be Fine, Deutsches Technikmuseum, Berlin
The National: Best Contemporary Photography 2022, Fort Wayne Art Museum, Indiana
The Last Glacier, Paris Gibson Square Museum of Art, Great Falls, Montana
2021
Fauna - Wild Beasts, Sheep, and Crocodiles #2, Galerie Lichtblick, Cologne, Germany
Time in Two Directions, JDC Fine Art, Gleneden Beach, Oregon
Future Past, 2019 Critical Mass Top 50, Center for Photographic Art, Carmel, California
The Last Glacier, Hockaday Museum, Whitefish, Montana
The Last Glacier, Wisconsin Academy of Arts
Narratives of the Possible, Laramie Public Library, Wyoming
2020
Anthropocene, Tbilisi History Museum (Karvasla), Tbilisi, Georgia
FOTOBOK FESTIVAL, Oslo, Norway
The Last Glacier, Old Main Gallery, Bozeman, Montana
2019
Terra Nostra-The Age of the Anthropocene, Photaumnales, Hauts de France
Thinking of Place, Philadelphia Photo Arts Center
Petrichor, Old Main Gallery, Bozeman
2018
Artists and Their Books/ Books and Their Artists, The Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles
\’at-‘larj\ JDC Fine Art, Sand Diego, California
Our Anthropocene: Eco Crises, curated by Gary van Wyk, Center for Book Arts, New York City
2017
Bienal de Curitiba, curated by Royce Smith, Curitiba, Brazil
Drawings and Prints: Selections from the Met Collection, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City
The Incredible Kingdom of Animals – from historic to futuristic interpretations of ‘Fauna’ curated by Tina Schelhorn, Museum of Modern Art, Tbilisi Georgia – Kolga Tbilisi Photo 2017
Collections in Conversation: Photobooks at the Arts and Beineke Libraries, Yale University
Collective Thinking, For Freedoms, Aperture, New York, New York
Broken Ground: New Directions in Land Art, Florida State University Museum of Fine Arts, Tallahassee, Florida curated by Jeff Beekman
Paradise Road, The Southern Gallery, Charleston, South Carolina curated by Eliot Dudik
2016
In The Wake, The Houston Center for Photography, Houston Texas
Cycle, Desai|Matta Gallery, The Arts at CIIS, San Francisco, California
The Last Glacier, Passages Bookshop, Portland, Oregon
2015
Artists’ Books | Recent Publications | Related Works, jdc Fine Art, San Diego, California
InFocus: Photobid, 2015 Exhibition and Art Auction, Phoenix Art museum, Phoenix, Arizona
Nascent Site: Sight, Northlight Gallery, Phoenix, Arizona
Books @ Art on Paper, Silas Finch, Art on Paper Art Fair, March 6-8, Pier 36, New York City
2014
Schneider Gallery 25th Anniversary Exhibition, Schneider Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
Photo Lab, New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fe, New Mexico, Curated by Katherine Ware
Sill Life, The Center for Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins, Colorado, Curated by Rebecca Senf
Breaking Ground: Contemporary Photography at the College of William & Mary, Andrews Hall, College of William & Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia, Curated by Eliot Dudik
A Survey of Documentary Styles in Early 21st Century Photobooks,Power Plant Gallery, Duke University, North Carolina Curated by Darius Himes & Larissa Leclair
Indie Photobook Library at PPAC Art Book Fair, Philadelphia, March 29-30, 2014
2013
10×10 American Photobooks, Tokyo Institute of Photography, Tokyo, Japan
Photogravure: Master Prints from the Collection, Philadelphia Museum of Art
Behold, MSU Photo Faculty Exhibition, Helen E. Copeland Gallery, Bozeman, Montana
Becoming, 4 person exhibition with Elizabeth Fleming, Denis DeHart, and Rachel Jerome Ferraro, Washington State University, Department of Fine Arts, Pullman, Washington
One of a Kind, Rayko Photo Center, San Francisco, California
Open Show D.C. #2, Our America. Busboys and Poets, Washington D.C.
The Indie Photobook Library @ Photoville, Brooklyn Bridge Park, The Uplands of Pier 5, New York
2012
Captured by a Portrait: 20 PhotoBooks from the Indie PhotoBook Library, Guate Photo, Edificio OEG, Guatemala City Guatemala, Curated by Larissa Leclair and Leslie J. Urea
The 8th Angkor Photo Festival: Program of Slideshows, Siem Reap, Cambodia, Curated by Marco Wiegers and Eddie Marsman
A Survey of Documentary Styles in Early 21st Century Photobooks,Carte Blanche Gallery, San Francisco, California. Curated by Darius Himes & Larissa Leclair
Bozeman Survey, Emerson Cultural Center, Bozeman, Montana. Curated by Ellen Ornitz.
Identity/Representation, Student and Faculty Exhibition from the School of Film and Photography at the Helen E. Copeland Gallery
Soft Science, Illges Gallery, Corn Center for the Visual Arts, Columbus, Georgia
The Mentors Hand, The Gallery at the Creative Center for Photography, Hollywood, California
2011
Photography in the Expanded Field, Northlight Gallery, Arizona State University, Tempe, Curated by Joshua White
Selections from the Indie Photobook Library, Photographic Resource Center, Boston, Massachusetts, Curated by Larissa Leclair, Shane Lavalette and George Slade
Butte: Common and Private Spaces, Two person exhibition with Daniel Cornish, The Emerson Center for the Arts & Culture, Bozeman, Montana
Wanderlust, Lisa Sette Gallery, Scottsdale, Arizona
The Good Colony, JDC Fine Art, Art Fair San Diego, California
Repercussions: Tides and Time, Collins Art Gallery, Grand Rapids Community College, Michigan
2010
Culture and the Body, Schneider Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
The Art of Photography Show, Lyceum Theatre Gallery, San Diego, California, Curated by Natasha Egan, Associate Director and Curator of the Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago.
Flash Forward Festival, exhibition of select photography books from the Indie Photobook Library, Curated by Larissa Leclair. Toronto, Canada
FotoWeek DC, Hillyer Art Space, exhibition of select photography books from the Indie Photobook Library, Curated by Larissa Leclair. Washington, DC
Repercussions: Observations of Time and Place, Sarah Spurgeon Gallery, Central Washington University, Ellensburg, Washington
Repercussions: Observations of Time and Place, SOIL Gallery, Seattle, Washington, Curated by Alex Emmons
28th Annual Juried Membership Exhibition, Houston Center for Photography, Texas. Juried by Hannah Frieser, Director of Light Work
Perceptual Views: Landscapes in Time, Chicago Art Department , Chicago, Illinois, curated by Abraham Velazquez
Zach Mazur, Greg Sipple, Ian van Coller, and Jian Yang, Chase Gallery, Spokane City Hall, Washington
Montana State University Biennial Photography Faculty Exhibition, Helen E. Copeland Gallery, Bozeman, MT
2009
A Glance at Photography, Schneider Gallery, Chicago, Illinois (3 person exhibition)
Expanded Narrative: The Photographic Image in Mixed Media Constructions, Archer Gallery, Clark College, Vancouver, Washington
2008
New Acquisitions: The Directors Cut, University of New Mexico Art Museum, Albuquerque
Print Lovers at 30: Celebrating Three Decades of Giving, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri
Resurrection: A New Look at Old Photographic Processes, 23 Sandy Gallery, Portland, Oregon
Art for Africa: Uganda Orphans Fundraiser, Emerson Center Weaver Room Gallery, Bozeman, Montana
2007
Hey, Hot Shot! Jen Bekman Gallery, New York, New York
Contemporary Art on Paper, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Pennsylvania
Why Collect? New Acquisitions Made by the Iziko Art Department, 2005–2006, South African National Gallery (IZIKO), Cape Town
Right to Print: Segura Publishing Company, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Arizona
Photo Los Angeles, Lisa Sette Gallery, Los Angeles, California
Art and Artifice, 516 Arts, Albuquerque, New Mexico
Art and Science, Observation and Imagination, The University of New Mexico Art Museum, Albuquerque
Range of Expression II (Montana Artists), Ucross Foundation, Clearmont, Wyoming
Montana State University Biennial Photo. Faculty Exhibition, Helen E. Copeland Gallery, Bozeman, Montana
21st Annual Summer Exhibition, Lisa Sette Gallery, Scottsdale, Arizona
Memory Boards, College of Arts and Architecture Deans Gallery, Bozeman, Montana
2006
Mergers and Acquisitions, Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe, New Mexico
20th Anniversary Exhibition, Lisa Sette Gallery, Scottsdale, Arizona
Experimental Photography, The Emerson Art Center, Bozeman, Montana
2005
Romancing the Shadows, Palo Alto Art Center, California
Memory Barely Satisfies, Museum of Fine Arts: Governors Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico
Borrowed Curiosities, Emerson Art Center, Bozeman, Montana
2004
A Decade of Democracy: South African Art 1994-2004, South African National Gallery (Catalogue)
Ties that Bind, Durban Art Gallery, South Africa
Art of the African Diaspora in the Age of Globalization, Schmucker Art Gallery, Gettysburg College, Pennsylvania
Identity, Nortlight Gallery, Arizona State University, Tempe
2003
Art Chicago at Navy Pier, Lisa Sette Gallery, Ilinois
Oculus Photo Folio, Temple Gallery of Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Point of Departure: Contemporary Photographic Explorations, Magnifico Artspace, Albuquerque, New Mexico
Departure Upon Arrival―Redefining Public Space as Artspace, Albuquerque Sunport, New Mexico
Constructed Photography, Zephyr Gallery, Louisville, Kentucky
2002
Art Chicago at Navy Pier, Lisa Sette Gallery, Ilinois
CON/TEXT+I.D./OLOGY, Axis Gallery, New York, New York
Private Party, Segura Art, Mesa, Arizona
Prints from Segura, Gallery 72, Omaha, Nebraska
2001
The Fine Art of Collaboration: Segura Publishing Company 20thYear, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Arizona
The 505 Salon, John Sommers Gallery, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
2000
Sites Around the City: Art and the Environment, Modified, Phoenix, Arizona
Weather Report, The South African National Gallery, Cape Town
Urban Futures, Museum Africa, Johannesburg, South Africa
Collaborative Consciousness, Etherton Gallery, Tucson, Arizona
1999
The Original Print, Sky Harbor Airport, Phoenix, Arizona
Print/Photo: Past/Present, Northlight Gallery, Arizona State University, Tempe
1998
Prints From Segura Publishing, Quartet Gallery, New York, New York
1997
Photosynthesis, The National Gallery of South Africa (IZIKO), Cape Town, South Africa. Exhibition toured nationally in South Africa
The 8th International Biennial Print and Drawing Exhibit, Taipei, Taiwan
1996
NAACP Fund Raiser for Burned Churches Fund, Bentley Gallery, Scottsdale, Arizona
Publications
2011
Interior Relations, Monograph book published by Charles Lane Press, New York, NY. Essay by Sindiwe Magona
Bibliography
2024
Ian van Coller’s Haptic Sublime, Ben Read, Osmos Magazine. Issue Number 27 NY, NY
The Transparency of Time, Airborne Wind Energy Conference 2024, Conference Catalog Pgs 12-17
2023
The Victorian Ecologist, by Kristen French, Nautilus Magazine, 50th Anniversary Issue.
Fairy Lake Mudcore included in Whitefish Review, Into the Unknown.
Publish Your Photography Book, Third Edition. Interview with Mary Virginia Swanson for a Chapter on Artist Books.
2022
The Last Glacier: Making art in a changing landscape, Cory Walsh, The Missoulian, Montana
Artists depict the splendor and decline of glaciers, Cory Walsh, The Missoulian, Montana
Make Scientists Artists Again: Photographer Ian van Coller on Reimagining Glacier Retreat, Emily Denny, Glacier Hub Blog, Columbia Climate School, July 12 2022
2021
Fast Time, MIT Technology Review Magazine
Naturalists of the Long Now, Where The Leaves Fall, United Kingdom
2020
Images of the West: The Last Glacier. Essay by Nancy M. Mahoney, Big Sky Journal, Bozeman Montana
2019
European Photography Art Magazine, Issue Number 106
Focal Plane Magazine, Art & Science, N0. 8 Spring 2019
Mountains and Minds, Spring 2019
2018
Artists and Their Books/ Books and Their Artists, The Getty Research Institute
Our Anthropocene: Eco Crises, curated by Gary van Wyk, Center for Book Arts, New York City
2017
Broken Ground: New Directions in Land Art, Exhibition Catalog, essay by William Fox, Florida State University Museum of Fine Arts, Tallahassee, Florida
Habitare, Landscape Stories Issue #26, Online Journal (Italy) http://landscapestories.fabiosirna.com/en
2016
Blur Magazine, Fissure, Issue 48, April/May 2016
2015
Explore Big Sky, ˜The Last Glacier: An artistic collaboration, by Nancy Mahoney, pg 48, Jan. 23-Feb. 5, 2015
Mountain Outlaw, The Last Glacier Project: Interpreting a Changing Landscape, by Caitlin Styrsky, pgs 68-71, Summer 2015
2014
Breaking Ground: Contemporary Photography at the College of William & Mary, Andrews
Hall, College of William & Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia, Curated by Eliot Dudik. Exhibition catalog.
Orion Magazine, Free Range Kids, by Robert Michael Pyle, Photographs by Ian van Coller, 4 photographs used for illustration of article. Nov/Dec Issue Pages 48-55
The Telegraph, London. Commissioned portrait of Walter Kirn for the article Walter Kirn on being conned by a murderer by Richard Grant. Nov. 01, 2014
2013
Ian van Coller: Discoveries, Fotograf Magazine, Czech Republic, pgs 108 & 109
10×10 American Photobooks, Edited by Matthew Carson, Russet Lederman and Olga Yatskevich. New York: 10×10 Photobooks and bookdummypress, 2013
Death in Singapore, Financial Times, London, Commissioned images for Feb 15 Issue.
A Survey of Documentary Styles in Early 21st Century Photobooks, Exhibition Catalog, Curated by Darius Himes and Larissa Leclair
2012
Interior Relations, Sophie Balhetchet, Hotshoe International, Contemporary Photography, London, Jun/Jul Ed.
Financial Times, London, Commissioned portrait of David Quammen, October 5th, 2012
Blue Sky Gallery, Exhibition Annual Catalog for 09/10
2011
Harpers Magazine, Homeward Bound II used as an illustration for and essay by Lynn Freed, Keeping Watch: South African Past as Prologue, January, 2011
2010
Human: Nature, 2nd Singapore International Photography Festival, Singapore, Festival Catalogue
The Garden Path, Fraction Magazine, Quarterly Online Magazine, Issue #10, www.fractionmag.com
Interior Relations, Bite Magazine, Online Magazine, Curated by Daniel Cuthbert, February 2, 2010
She Runs With Wolves, On Earth Magazine, Commissioned portrait of Laurie Lyman to illustrate an article about her by Todd Wilkinson, February, 2010
2009
The Art of Photography Show, Lyceum Theatre Gallery, San Diego, California, Curated by Natasha Egan, Associate Director and Curator of the Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago, Exhibition Catalogue
2008
Emergence & Emergency, The 4th Cape Town Month of Photography, Exhibition Catalogue edited by Jenny Altschuler
Print Lovers at Thirty, The Nelson Atkins Museum of Art, Exhibition Catalogue curated by Hugh Merrill, Exhibition Catalogue
Resurrection, 23 Sandy Gallery, Portland, Oregon, Exhibition Catalogue
2007
Photography (9th Edition) by Barbara London (Author), Jim Stone (Author), John Upton (Author) Photography Text Book.
Art of the African Diaspora in the Age of Globalization by Mwangi wa Githinji and Molly Hutton in International Journal of Africana Studies: Volume 12, pgs 103-142, Academic Journal
Right to Print: Segura Publishing Company, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Curator: Cassandra Colbentz with essays by Crista Cloutier and Mark Pascale, Exhibition Catalogue
Range of Expression II: A Montana Invitational, Exhibition Catalogue, Essay by William Kitteridge, Ucross Foundation Art Gallery, Exhibition Catalogue
Going Downtown: 516 ARTS gives Albuquerque a new hub by Wolf Schneider in New Mexico Magazine pgs 29-31, March 2007, Exhibition Review
Cite de la Musique, Paris, France, program for Paris 2008 Cultural Events
2004
A Decade of Democracy: South African Art 1994-2004, edited by Emma Bedford, pgs 128-129, Book Publication accompanying exhibition.
Ties That Bind, Durban Art Gallery, South Africa, Exhibition Catalogue
Art of the African Diaspora in the Age of Globalization, Gettysburg College, Introduction by Mwangi wa Githinji and Molly Hutton, Exhibition Catalogue
2003 You Travel Far: Ian van Coller, The Museum of Southeast Texas, Essay by Geoffrey Batchen, Exhibition Catalogue
1997 Photosynthesis, The National Gallery of South Africa, Cape Town, Exhibition Catalogue
Reviews
2011
Katy Niner, Photos find South Africa at its Jubilant Best, Jackson Hole News & Guide, March 2, 2011
Aaron Wallis, Visiting Rainbow Nation, Jackson Hole weekly, March 16, 2011
2008
Reyhan Harmanci, ‘Interior Relations’: Ian van Coller’s Photos, San Francisco Chronicle, Thursday, November 6, 2008
2005
Gussie Fauntleroy, The Shape of Memory, Santa Fe Journal North, April 1, 2005
Kathryn M Davis, Memory Barely Satisfies, THE Magazine (Santa Fe) May 2005
2004
Andy Coughlan, It’s All in the Details, Spot Magazine (HCP), Winter/ Spring 2004
2003
Laurie Farrel, CON/TEXT + I.D./OLOGY, NKA: Journal of Contemporary African Art #18
Steven Robert Allen, Memories, Albuquerque Alibi, July 10-16
2001
Roberta Fallon, Printed Cheer, Philadelphia Weekly, February 7
2000
Carla Wade, Media Circus, New Times, Phoenix, Arizona, March 23
1999
Joshua Rose, Group Exhibit: Modified, New Times, Phoenix Arizona, September 03
1997
John Dawar, Photographic Exploration of African World View, Business Day, South Africa, August 1
Wilhelm van Rensberg, Brose Beelde van Afrika Geskep, Die Beeld, South Africa, August 6
1996
Richard Nilsen, 3-Artist Show Pivots on Work by Young South African, The Arizona Republic, September 15
Suzy Bell, Headless Between Two Worlds, The Mail and Guardian, South Africa, August 1, Hot Flashes, The Sunday Paper, South Africa, August 10