Originally from Los Angeles, James Turrell, an Arizona-based artist, is recognized as a major figure in the field of contemporary art. He has shown his work in some fifty exhibitions, over half of these one-man shows in such prestigious institutions as the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, the Israel Museum in Jerusalem, and the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam. Turrell is a recipient of both a MacArthur Foundation and Guggenheim Fellowship and has been funded by the National Endowment for the Arts and the Dia Art Foundation. His Roden Crater Project currently is supported by the Skystone Foundation.