Jenny Holzer
(Born 1950)
Jenny Holzer was born in Gallipolis, Ohio in 1950 and graduated from Ohio University in Athens in 1972. Holzer established herself in New York in 1977 and began developing a particular style rooted in language and its ability to challenge cultural, social, and artistic notions of our time. Holzer’s work has been created in a wide variety of mediums. She is widely known for her large-scale, public displays such as billboard advertisements, projections on buildings and other architectural structures, as well as illuminated electronic displays. Her controversial texts can also be found in small everyday objects such as posters and T-shirts. Holzer’s texts are usually grouped in series that address different topics that including pain, religion, politics, death and violence amongst others. Her text-based work is deeply influenced by Conceptual art but is imbued with a personal component. In many cases, this personal element is reflected by Holzer’s choice of medium, such as her texts inscribed in park benches, lead plaques or sarcophagi.
Jenny Holzer has exhibited extensively throughout the United States and Europe. Recent solo exhibitions of her work have been held in institutions such as the Fondation Beyeler in Riehen/Basel and the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York in 2009, and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago in 2008. She has also participated in exhibitions in major institutions such as the Stedelijk Museum, Den Bosch in The Nederlands, the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa, and the Museum of Modern Art in New York; and her work is in multiple permanent installations in sites all over the world. Jenny Holzer was the first woman to represent the United States in the Venice Biennale in 1990 (she received the Golden Lion that year), and her work has been featured in multiple publications. Jenny Holzer lives and works in Hoosick Falls, New York.
Jenny Holzer was recently selected to create a permanent wall piece for the Louvre Abu Dhabi as part of the museum's contemporary art commissions program. She was also commissioned by the Steering Committee to create a permanent project for the Transbay Transit Center in San Francisco.
EDUCATION
1977 MFA | Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
1976-77 | Independent Study Program, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
1972 BFA | Ohio University, Athens, OH
1970-71 | University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
1968-70 | Duke University, Durham, NC
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2020
IT'S CRUCIAL TO HAVE AN ACTIVE FANTASY LIFE, Kukje Gallery, Seoul, Korea
Jenny Holzer: Text Works, Krakow Witkin Gallery, Boston, MA
2019
Jenny Holzer: Tutta la verità, Bergamo, Italy
Jenny Holzer: Thing Indescribable, Guggenheim Bilbao, Spain
FOR YOUR: Jenny Holzer, Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea
Jenny Holzer: The Power of Words, Marks Art Gallery, College of the Desert, Palm Desert, CA
2018
Artist Rooms: Jenny Holzer, Tate Modern, London, UK
Belligerent: Works by Jenny Holzer, Printed Matter, New York
2017
SOFTER: Jenny Holzer, Blenheim Palace, Woodstock, England
Jenny Holzer, Hauser & Wirth, Zürich, Switzerland
2016
Softer Targets, Hauser & Wirth Somerset, Bruton, England
War Paintings, Museo Correr, Venice, Italy
2015
Softer Targets, Hauser & Wirth Somerset, Bruton, United Kingdom
Jenny Holzer, Museo Correr, Venice, Italy
2014
Jenny Holzer: Dust Paintings, Cheim & Read, New York
For Wilshire Boulevard Temple, Wilshire Boulevard Temple, Los Angeles
Du, Talanx Headquarter, Hannover, Germany
I Stay (Ngaya ngalawa), 8 Chifley Building, Sydney, Australia
2013
Light Stream, Pearl Lam Galleries, Hong Kong
2012
THE FUTURE PLEASE, L&M Arts, Los Angeles
Sophisticated Devices, Sprüth Magers, London, England
Endgame, Sprüth Magers, Berlin, Germany
Endgame, Skarstedt, New York
2011
Jenny Holzer, Kukje Gallery, Seoul, South Korea
Jenny Holzer, Art Stations Foundation, Poznan, Poland
2010
Retro, Skarstedt, New York
TOP SECRET, Galerie Yvon Lambert, Paris, France
Jenny Holzer, DHC/ART Foundation for Contemporary Art, Montreal, Canada
Artist Rooms: Jenny Holzer, Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland
Jenny Holzer, BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, England
2009
Jenny Holzer, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne, Australia
Jenny Holzer, Foundation Beyeler, Basel, Switzerland
Jenny Holzer: PROTECT PROTECT, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
2008
Jenny Holzer: PROTECT PROTECT, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
Like Truth, Diehl + Gallery One, Moscow, Russia
DETAINED, Sprüth Magers, London, UK
2007
PROJECTIONS, Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, North Adams, MA
Highly Sensitive, Sprüth Magers, Cologne, Germany
SECRET, Sprüth Magers, Munich, Germany
Nothing Follows, Galerie Yvon Lambert, Paris, France
2006
Jenny Holzer XX, MAK, Vienna, Austria
Archive, Cheim & Read, New York
Night Feed, Yvon Lambert, New York
For Novartis, Novartis Pharma AG, Basel, Switzerland
For 7 World Trade, 7 World Trade Center, New York
2005
Jenny Holzer, Sprüth Magers Lee, London, UK
For Karlstad, Stora Torget, Karlstad, Sweden
2004
Jenny Holzer, Kukje Gallery, Seoul, South Korea
Jenny Holzer, Galerie Yvon Lambert, Paris, France
Jenny Holzer: Truth Before Power, Kunsthaus Bregenz, Bregenz, Austria
2003
Mönchehaus Museum, Goslar, accompanied by light projections in Goslar, Germany
2002
Protect Me From What I Want: The Multiples and Editioned Works of Jenny Holzer, Printed Matter, Inc., New York
Oh, Monika Sprüth Philomene Magers, Munich, Germany
2001
Cheim & Read, New York
Festival d’Automne à Paris, Chapelle Saint-Louis de la Salpêtrière, accompanied by light projections in Paris, France
CAPC, Musée d’art contemporain de Bordeaux, Bordeaux, accompanied by light projections in Arcachon and Bordeaux, France
Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin, accompanied by light projections in Berlin, Germany
2000
Galeria Luisa Strina, São Paulo, Brazil
Fundacion Proa, Buenos Aires, accompanied by light projections in Buenos Aires, Argentina
1999
Jenny Holzer: Proteja–Me do Que Eu Quero, Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil, Rio de Janeiro, accompanied by light projections in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Jenny Holzer: The Living Series, Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle, Munich, Germany
Jenny Holzer: Blue, Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
1998
Jenny Holzer: Blue, Galerie Yvon Lambert, Paris, France
Jenny Holzer: Blue, Monika Sprüth Galerie, Cologne, Germany
Blue, Instituto Cultural Itaú, São Paulo, Brazil
1997
Jenny Holzer: Lustmord, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, Texas
Jenny Holzer: Lustmord, Kunstmuseum des Kantons Thurgau, Kartause Ittingen, Warth, Switzerland
1996
Jenny Holzer: From the Laments Series, 1989, Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, Massachusetts
1995
Lustmord, Monika Sprüth Galerie, Cologne, Germany
1994
Jenny Holzer, Art Tower Mito, Contemporary Art Center, Mito, traveled to Art Gallery Atrium, Fukuoka, Japan
Lustmord, Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York, New York
Jenny Holzer: The Venice Installation, from the Collection of Mort and Marlene Meyerson, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas
1993
Da Wo Frauen Sterben, Bin Ich Hellwach, Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany
Street Art: Jenny Holzer, Centre for Contemporary Art, Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Russia
Jenny Holzer, Ydessa Hendeles Art Foundation, Toronto, Canada
1990
XLIV Biennale di Venezia, Esposizione Internazionale d’Arte Moderna, United States Pavilion, Venice, Italy. Traveled to Städtische Kunsthalle, Düsseldorf, Germany; Louisiana Museum, Humlebaek, Denmark; Albright–Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York; and Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, New York
1989
Jenny Holzer: Laments 1988–89, Dia Art Foundation, New York
Ydessa Hendeles Art Foundation, Toronto, Canada
1988
Jenny Holzer: Signs/Under a Rock, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, United Kingdom
Jenny Holzer: Signs and Benches, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, New York
Hoffman Borman Gallery, Santa Monica, California
1987
Jenny Holzer: Under a Rock, Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
Jenny Holzer: Signs, Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, Iowa. Traveled to Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, Colorado; Artspace, San Francisco, California; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois; and List Visual Arts Center at the MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts
"Options 30, Jenny Holzer, San Francisco, California
1986
Under a Rock, Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York, New York
Galerie Crousel–Hussenot, Paris, France
Monika Sprüth Galerie, Cologne, Germany
1985
Concentrations 10: Jenny Holzer, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas
1984
Jenny Holzer und Barbara Kruger, Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, Switzerland
Jenny Holzer: Truisms and Inflammatory Essays, Amelie A. Wallace Gallery, State University of New York College at Old Westbury, Old Westbury, New York
Galerie’t Venster–Jenny Holzer–Lady Pink, Rotterdam Kunststichting, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
1983
Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York
Investigations 3: Jenny Holzer, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
1982
Plaques for Buildings: Thirty Texts from the Living Series, Cast in Bronze by Jenny Holzer and Peter Nadin, Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York
Jenny Holzer–Peter Nadin: Living, Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris, France
1981
Living (with Peter Nadin), Le Nouveau Musée, Villeurbanne, France
Eating Friends (with Peter Nadin), Artists Space, New York
Living (with Peter Nadin), Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle, Munich, Germany
1979
Printed Matter Windows, Printed Matter, New York
Fashion Moda Window, Fashion Moda, New York
1978
Franklin Furnace, New York
Jenny Holzer Painted Room: Special Project PS1, MoMA PS1, Long Island City, New York
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2021
CAFAM Techne Triennial, CAFA Art Museum, Beijing, China
New Time: Art and Feminisms in the 21st Century, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, CA
2020
i'm yours: Encounters with Art in Our Times, Institue of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA
On Everyone's Lips: From Pieter Bruegel to Cindy Sherman, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, Germany
To Form a More Perfect Union, Hauser & Wirth, New York
Spring of Democracy, Asia Cultural Center, Gwangju, Korea
Some Day is Now: Women, Art and Social Change, New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, CT
Artists for New York, Hauser & Wirth, New York
Reading Art, Burnaby Art Gallery, Burnaby, BC, Canada
Push the Limits, Fondazione Merz, Turin, Italy
2019
FICTION, Bold Tendencies, London, UK
BEYOND THE STREETS, BEYOND THE STREETS, New York
Lust auf mehr - Neues aus der Sammlung Würth zur Kunst nach 1960, Kunsthalle Würth, Schwäbisch Hall, Germany
2018
Remote Castration, LAXART, Los Angeles, CA
MoMA at NGV: 130 Years of Modern and Contemporary Art, Melbourne, Australia
Für Barbara, Schloss Derneburg Museum, Derneburg, Germany
Bronze Age c. 3500 BC - AD 2018, Firstsite, Colchester, UK
Beyond the Streets, Werkartz, Los Angeles, CA
2017
Age of Terror: Art Since 9/11, Imperial War Museum, London, UK
The American Dream. Pop to Present., The British Museum, London, UK
2016
Eau de Cologne, Sprüth Magers, Los Angeles, CA
Creatures, The Broad, Los Angeles, CA
Mother Iode, CSS Bard Hessel Museum, Annandale on Hudson, NY
Phoenix Rising: The Valley Collects, Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ
More than Words, Westport Arts Center, Westport, CA
An der Oberfläche (On the Surface), Lehmbruck Museum, Duisburg, Germany
Human Condition, Former Los Angeles Metropolitan Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA
In Silence, Pearl Lam Galleries, Singapore
The Female Gaze, Part Two: Women Look at Men, Cheim & Read, New York, NY
Loss. In Memory of Babi Yar, PinchukArtCentre, Kiev, Ukraine
2015
NO MAN’S LAND: Women Artists from the Rubell Family Collection, Rubell Family Collection, Miami, FL
No Longer / Not Yet, Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai, China
Black Sun, Foundation Beyeler, Basel, Switzerland
Eau de Cologne, Sprüth Magers, Berlin, Germany
Dismaland, Tropicana, Weston-super-Mare, UK
America is Hard to See, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
2014
Objects and Fictions, Senior & Shopmaker Gallery, New York
The Progress Trap, Dutch Electronic Art Festival, Rotterdam, Netherlands
No Problem: Cologne/New York 1984-1989, David Zwirner, New York
Take It or Leave It: Institution, Image, Ideology, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, California
Projeto Parede: O Corredor e Seu Proprio Corredor, Museo D’Arte Moderna de Sao Paolo, Brazil
Pop Culture: Selections from the Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation, Boca Museum of Art, Florida
Variations in Abstraction, Skarstedt, New York
2013
The Dark World, Summerhall, Edinburgh
Zeicchen. Sprache. Bilder – Schrift in der Kunst Seit den 1960s Jahren, Städtische Galerie Karlsruhe
Gli Anni Settana. Arte a Roma, Palazzo delle Esposizinoi, Rome, Italy
Xerography, Firsite, Colchester, United Kingdom
Silent, Avlskarl Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark
Independents, V1 Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark
Art, Two Points, The Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
Light Show, Hayward Gallery, London, United Kingdom
2012
Elles: Women Artists from the Centre Pompidou, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, Washington
Art and press Kunst. Wahreit. Wirklighkeit, ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany
Bye Bye American Pie, MALBA, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Art and press Kunst. Wahreit. Wirklighkeit, Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin, Germany
Domination, Hegemony, and the Panopticon Works from the Farook Collection, Traffic, Dubai, UAE
2011
In the End was the Word, Ursula Blickle Stiftung, Kraichtal,
Postmodernism: Style and Subversion, 1970 to 1990, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, United Kingdom
The Deconstructive Impulse: Women Artists Reconfigure the Signs of Power, 1973-1990, The Nasher Museum of Art, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina. Traveled to Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase College, New York
Geheimgesellschaften: Wissen Wagen Wollen Schweigen, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, Germany
Off the Wall, The Serravales Museum of Contemporary Art, Porto, Portugal
Sympathy for the Devil, Vanhaerents Art Collection, Brussels, Belgium
Selections: Morris, Trockel, Holzer & Pink, Sprüth Magers, Berlin, Germany
2010
The Right to Protest, Museum on the Seam, Jerusalem, Israel
Street and Studio: From Basquiat to Seripop, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria
Sexuality and Transcendence, Pinchuk Art Center, Kiev, Ukraine
2009
Beg Borrow and Steal, The Rubell Family Collection Museum, Miami, Florida
We are the World: Figures and Portraits, Fisher Landau Center for Art, Long Island City
2008
Blasted Allegories – Werke aus der Sammlung Ringier, Lucerne Kunstmuseum, Luzern, Germany
Modern and Contemporary Prints, Osborne Samuel, London, United Kingdom
Martin Museum of Terrestrial Art, Barbican, London, United Kingdom
Kölnskulptur 4, Skulpturenpark Köln, Cologne, Germany
2007
Im Wort, Kunsthalle Göppingen
Multiplex: Directions in Art, 1970 to Now, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
2006
Memento Mori, Mireille Mosler Ltd., New York
Into Me/Out of Me, Kunst-Werke Berlin, Germany
Eros in der Kunst der Moderne, Foundation Beyerler, Basel, Switzerland
Surprise Surprise, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, United Kingdom
Mondi Possibili, Sprüth Magers, Cologne, Germany
Do the Right Bling, Stedelijk Museum, S-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands
Singapore Biennale, Singapore
For 7 World Trade, Cheim & Read, New York
2005
Superstars: From Warhol to Madonna, Kunstforum & Kunsthalle, Vienna, Austria
Looking at Words, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York
Flashback – Eine Revision der Kunst der 80er Jahre, Museum fur Gegenwartskunst, Basel, Switzerland
Big Bang – Destruction and Creation in 20th Century Art, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
Color/Pattern/Grid, Austin Museum of Art, Texas
Contemporary Voices: Works from the UBS Collection, Museum of Modern Art, New York
Contemporary Voices, Fondation Beyeler, Basel, Switzerland
Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
Jenny Holzer: Sol Lewitt: Sol Lewitt on the Roof: Splotches, Whirls and Twirls, Iris B. and Gerald Cantor Roof Garden, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
2004
East Village USA, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York
Hot Pink, Sprüth Magers, Munich, Germany
Visions of America, Kunsthaus Klosterneuberg, Vienna, Austria
Love/Hate: From Magritte to Cattelan: Masterpieces from the Collection of the Museum of Contemporary Art, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois
2003
Shadow and Light, Sprüth Magers, Salzburg, Austria
20th Anniversary Show, Sprüth Magers, Cologne, Germany
Talking Pieces: Text und Bild in der Neuren Kunst, Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen, Germany
Poeme/Image, Kunsthaus Schloss Wendlinghausen
2002
Formen der Gewalt, Galerie Gabriele Rivet, Cologne, Germany
2001
Kölnskulptur 3, Skulpturenpark Köln, Cologne, Germany
2000
Kölnskulptur 2, Skulpturenpark Köln, Cologne, Germany
Around 1984: A Look at Art in the Eighties, MoMA P.S. 1, Long Island City, New York
Couples, Cheim & Read, New York
The Intuitive Eye: Selections from the Frederick R. Weisman Collection, FIT, Los Angeles, California
The End: An Independent Vision of Contemporary Culture, Exit Art, New York
Illuminations: Art from Two Milennia, Museet for Samtidskunst, Oslo, Norway
Let’s Entertain: Life’s Guilty Pleasures, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota
1999
Un Musée en Apparartement: Une Exposition de Toutes les Gravures, Multiples et Photographies, Publiés par Parkett, Cetnre d’Art Contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland
Art in America, Ash Fine Art, New York
The American Century: Art and Culture 1900-2000 Part II, 1950-2000, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Memory Opens Its Doors: Contemporary Art at the Lenbachhaus, Städtische Galerie im Lenbacchaus, Munich, Germany
Urban Mythologies: The Bronx Represented Since the 1960s, Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York
Jenny Holzer/Sol Lewitt, The Bathhouse, Kyoto, Japan
1998
Louise Bourgeois, Jenny Holzer, Helmut Lan, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria
Read My Lips, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
Beyond Belief, Modern Art and the Religious Imagination, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia
1997
On the Edge: Contemporary Art from the Werner and Elaine Dannheisser Collection, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Kölnskulptur 1, Skulpturenpark Köln, Cologne, Germany
Kunst Fur Freud, Sigmund Freud Museum, Foundation for the Arts, Vienna, Austria
The Elaine Dannheisser Collection, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Alternating Currents, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
One Line Drawing, Ubu Gallery, New York
The Age of Modernism: Art in the Twentieth Century, Martin-Gropius Bau, Berlin
1996
Thinking Print: Books to Billboards, 1980-95, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Views from Abroad: European Perspectives on American Art II, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Biennale di Firenze: Il Tempo e la Moda, Florence, Italy
1995
Jahreswechsel 1995-96, Leccesse-Sprüth
Feminin-Masculin: Le Sexe de l’Art? Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
Temporarily Possessed: The Semi-Permanent Collection, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York
1994
The Institute of Cultural Anxiety: Works from the Collection, ICA, London, United Kingdom
Gewalt/Geschafte, Neue Gesellschaft fur Bildende Kunst, Berlin, Germany
Welt-Moral: Moralvorstellungen in der Kunst Heute, Kunsthalle, Basel, Switzerland
1993
Eau de Cologne 83-93, Galerie Monika Sprüth, Cologne, Germany
Double Take – Collective Memory & Current Art, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria
Virtual Reality: An Emerging Medium, Guggenheim Museum Soho, New York
American Art in the Twentieth Century: Painting and Sculpture 1913-1993, Martin Gropius-Bau, Berlin, Germany
1992
Ars Pro Domo, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany
Allegories of Modernism: Contemporary Drawing, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
1991
Act-Up Benefit Art Sale, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York
Devil on the Stairs: Looking Back at the Eighties, ICA – University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
Contemporary Art from the Collection of Jason Rubell, The Nasher Museum of Art, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina
1990
High and Low: Modern Art & Popular Culture, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Art & Pub: Art et Publicite 1890-1990, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
The Decade Show: Frameworks of Identity in the 1980’s, Museum of Contemporary Hispanic Art, New York
1989
Scripta Manent – Verba Volant, Galerie Monika Sprüth, Cologne
Making Their Mark: Women Artists Move Into the Mainstream, Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati; New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans; Denver Art Museum, Denver; Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia
Image World: Art and Media Culture, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
A Forest of Signs: Art in the Crisis of Representation, MOCA, Los Angeles, California
1988
Committed to Print: An Exhibition of Recent American Printed Art with Social and Political Themes, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
L’Epoque, La Mode, La Morale, La Passion, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
Social Engagement: Women’s Video in the ‘80s, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
1987
Eau de Cologne, Monika Sprüth Galerie, Cologne, Germany
Künstler der Galerie, Monika Sprüth Galerie, Cologne, Germany
Documenta 8, Kassel, Germany
1986
Barbara Kruger and Jenny Holzer, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
Keith Haring – Jenny Holzer, Am Hof, Vienna, Austria
1985
Eau de Cologne,Monika Sprüth Galerie, Cologne, Germany
Ecrans Politiques, Musée dArt Contemporain, Montréal, Quebec
Secular Attitudes, Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California
The Human Condition: Biennial III, Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California
A Decade of New Art, Artist’s Space, New York
1984: Women in New York, Gallerie Engstrom, Stockholm, Sweden
1983
Biennial, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
1984 – A Preview, Ronald Feldman Gallery, New York
1982
Documenta 7, Kassel, Germany
1980
Issue: Social Strategies by Women Artists, ICA, London, United Kingdom
1979
Artwords and Bookworks: An International Exhibition of Recent Artists’ Books and Ephemera, Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
SELECTED PERMANENT INSTALLATIONS
2019 Selections from Truisms, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Gwacheon, South Korea
2018 For Philadelphia, Comcast Technology Center, Philadelphia, PA
2018 White Light, Salesforce Transit Center, San Francisco, CA
2018 The Waging of Peace, United States Embassy, London, UK
2017 For the Louvre Abu Dhabi, Louvre Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
2017 An Incomplete History of Protest: Selections from the Whitney's Collection, 1940-2017, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
2016 For Ibiza, Can Soleil, Sant Josep de sa Talaia, Spain
2015 For Qualcomm, Qualcomm Headquarters, San Diego, CA
2015 For the Garden, Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park, Grand Rapids MI
2014 I STAY (Ngaya ngalawa), 8 Chifley Square, Sydney, Australia
2014 Du, Talanx AG, Hanover, Germany
2013 Cliff Sappho, Ekeberg Sculpture and Heritage Park, Oslo, Norway
2012 For the FDA, FDA Headquarters, Silver Spring, MD
2012 Kind of Blue, Modern Art Museum of Forth Worth, Forth Worth TX
2011 715 Molecules, Williams College Science Quad, Williamstown, MA
2009 VEGAS, MGM Mirage City Center, Las Vegas, NV
2007 For SAAM, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC
2007 For Busan, Gwangalli Beach, Busan, South Korea
2007 For MCASD, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, San Diego, CA
2006 For Elizabeth, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie NY
2006 For 7 World Trade, 7 World Trade Center, New York NY
2005 For Pittsburgh, David L. Lawrence Convention Center, Pittsburgh PA
2005 For Paula Modersohn-Becker, Paula Modersohn-Becker Museum, Bremen, Germany
2003 125 YEARS, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
2002 Palais de Justice de Nantes, Installation for Nantes Courthouse, Nantes, France
2002 Installation for Telenor, Telenor Headquarters, Fornebu, Norway
2002 Installation for Neue Nationalgalerie, New National Gallery, Berlin, Germany
2001 Garden Bench, The Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice, Italy
1999 Blacklist, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California
1999 Goerdeler Monument, City of Leipzig, Germany
1999 Installation for Reichstag, Bundestag, Berlin, Germany
1999 Installation for the Sacramento U.S. Courthouse, United States Federal Courthouse, Sacramento, California
1997 Installation for the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Museo Guggenheim Bilbao, Spain
1997 Oskar Maria Graf Memorial, Literaturhaus München, Munich, Germany
1997 Ceiling Snake, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany
1995 Erlauf Peace Monument, Town of Erlauf, Austria
1994 Black Garden, Städtische Galerie, Nordhorn, Germany
1991 Installation for the Foster Gallery, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts
1991 Installation for Aachen, Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst, Aachen, Germany
SELECTED AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS
2019 Jesse L. Rosenberger Medal for Outstanding Achievement in the Creative and Performing Arts, The University of Chicago, Chicago IL
2016 Officier de l’ordre des Arts et des Lettres, Ministère de la Culture, France
2016 Royal Academy of Arts, London, England
2014 Asher B. Durand Award, Brooklyn Museum, New York NY
2011 Outstanding Contributions to the Arts Award, Americans for the Arts, Washington, D.C.; New York
2011 American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Cambridge, NA
2011 Medal of Distinction, Barnard College, New York
2010 LA MOCA Award for Distinguished Women in the Arts, Los Angeles, CA
2009 Honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts, Smith College, Northampton, MA
2009 Honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts, Montserrat College of Art, Beverly, MA
2006 Urban Visionaries Award, The Cooper Union, New York
2005 Honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts, New School University, New York
2004 Public Art Network Award, Americans for the Arts, Washington, D.C; New York
2004 Resident in Visual Arts, American Academy Rome, Italy
2003 Honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
2002 Kaiserring, City of Goslar, Germany
2002 Chevalier de L’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, La Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication, France
1996 Crystal Award, World Economic Forum, Geneva
1994 Honorary Doctorate of Arts, Ohio University, Athens, Ohio
1994 Skowhegan Medal for Installation, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, ME
1990 Leone d’Oro, XLIV Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy
