Hamptons International Film Festival (HIFF) announced it is welcoming Vija Celmins, a world-renowned artist and longtime Sag Harbor resident, as its featured poster artist. The 33rd annual festival will run as an expanded 11-day event from October 3 – 13, 2025.
HamptonsFilm shared the poster art for the 2025 festival, continuing the 33-year tradition of featuring artwork from local Hamptons artists. This year’s poster features the internationally acclaimed artist Vija Celmins’ piece “Ocean”: 1975, © Vija Celmins, Courtesy Matthew Marks Gallery.
Vija Celmins has long been admired for her meticulous renderings of natural imagery, including ocean waves, desert floors, and night skies. Her paintings, sculptures, drawings, and prints depict scenes that are too vast or mercurial to be fixed in the mind’s eye. Her work has been featured in major institutions including MoMA, the Whitney, and the Centre Pompidou, and has had more than 40 solo exhibitions and retrospectives, and her awards include a Guggenheim Fellowship, a MacArthur Fellowship, and the Carnegie Prize. Vija is currently the subject of a comprehensive solo exhibition featuring a selection of her paintings, drawings, and sculptures spanning from the 1960s to the present day, at the Fondation Beyeler in Basel, Switzerland.
“Vija Celmins is a celebrated visual artist known for her intricate drawings of oceans, stars, and desert landscapes. Her minimal, contemplative yet daring work mirrors the spirit of the films we champion at HIFF and reflects the natural beauty of the Hamptons. Having been inspired by Vija’s art for many many years, I am deeply proud and grateful to her for sharing her extraordinary work with us as the 2025 HIFF poster artist,” said Toni Ross, local East End artist and HIFF co-founder and founding Chairman of the Board.
