Jenny Holzer
Born 1950 in Gallipolis, Ohio.
Lives and works in Hoosick, New York.
education
1977 Whitney Museum of American Art, New York,
Independent Study Program
1977 Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island,
Master of Fine Arts,
1972 Ohio University, Athens, Ohio, Bachelor of Fine Arts
1970-71 University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
1968-70 Duke University, Durham, North Carolina
solo shows
2008 Jenny Holzer: PROTECT PROTECT -
Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago - MCA
Chicago, Chicago, IL
2008 Jenny Holzer, Schellmann Sprüth Magers -
Sprüth Magers Berlin, Berlin
2008 Jenny Holzer - For the Guggenheim -
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York City, NY
2008 DETAINED - Sprüth Magers London, London (England)
2007 Jenny Holzer - Projections -
Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art - MASS
MoCA, North Adams ,MA
2007 Jenny Holzer - The Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston, MA
2007 Jenny Holzer - Monika Sprüth Philomene Magers, Munich (closed)
2007 Jenny Holzer - Yvon Lambert - Paris, Paris
2007 Jenny Holzer - beaumontpublic, Luxembourg
2007 Jenny Holzer - The Museum of Sketches for Public Art -
Skissernas museum – Arkiv för dekorativ konst, Lund
2006 Jenny Holzer - The Contemporary Museum Honolulu, Honolulu, HI
2006 Jenny Holzer - SCAI the Bathhouse, Tokyo
2006 Jenny Holzer - ACCA - Australian Center for Contemporary Art, Melbourne, VIC
2006 Jenny Holzer - XX - Museum für angewandte Kunst (MAK), Vienna
2006 Jenny Holzer - Cheim & Read, New York City, NY
2006 Jenny Holzer - Yvon Lambert - New York, New York City, NY
2005 Jenny Holzer, Lady Pink
Monika Sprüth Philomene Magers, Cologne (closed)
2005 No title - Sprüth Magers London, London (England)
2005 Jenny Holzer - Simon Lee Gallery, London (England)
2004 Jenny Holzer - Kukje Gallery, Seoul
2004 Jenny Holzer - Yvon Lambert - Paris, Paris
2004 Jenny Holzer - Truth Before Power - Kunsthaus Bregenz, Bregenz
2002 Jenny Holzer
- Monika Sprüth Philomene Magers, Munich (closed)
2002 Jenny Holzer - Project for the National Gallery - Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin
2001 Jenny Holzer - Cheim & Read, New York City, NY
2001 Jenny Holzer - Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Monterrey MARCO,
Monterrey, NL
2001 Jenny Holzer OH, Installation pour la Grande Nef de l’Entrepôt -
CAPC - Musée d'art contemporain, Bordeaux
2000 Jenny Holzer - Galeria Luisa Strina, São Paulo
2000 Jenny Holzer - Fundación PROA, Buenos Aires
1999 Jenny Holzer: Blue - Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, IL
1998 Jenny Holzer. Lustmord - The Ian Potter Museum of Art, Melbourne, VIC
1998 Lustmord - Jenny Holzer - The Anne & Gordon Samstag Museum of Art,
Adelaide, SA
1997 Jenny Holzer: LUSTMORD - Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Houston, TX
1997 Jenny Holzer: The Living Series 1980 – 1982 - Cheim & Read, New York City, NY
1996 Jenny Holzer - LUSTMORD - Kunsthaus Dresden, Dresden
1994 Jenny Holzer: Black Garden - Städtische Galerie Nordhorn, Nordhorn
1993 Jenny Holzer: Under A Rock - ASU Art Museum -
Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe, AZ
1990 Jenny Holzer - Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Dusseldorf
1987 Jenny Holzer: Under a Rock - Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, IL
1984 Jenny Holzer - FRAC - Rhône-Alpes, IAC - Institute d`art contemporain, Villeurbanne
1981 Jenny Holzer - FRAC - Rhône-Alpes, IAC - Institute d`art contemporain, Villeurbanne
selected group exhibitions
2008 ARTEAST 2000 - Umetnostna Galerija Maribor, Maribor
2008 The Prisoner's Dilemma: Selections from the Ella Fontanals-
Cisneros Collection - CIFO - Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation, Miami, FL
2008 Happy Together, an american dream - Centre d’Art Bastille - CAB, Grenoble
2008 Espèces d'espace - MAGASIN-
Centre National d’art Contemporain de Grenoble, Grenoble
2008 Anatomie | les peaux du dessin - collection Florence et Daniel Guerlain -
FRAC - Picardie, Amiens
2008 Close Encounters: Facing the Future - The Katzen Arts Center at American University, Washington, DC
2008 The Sum of Its Parts - The Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston, MA
2008 Cancelled, Erased & Removed, A Group Show - Sean Kelly Gallery,
New York City, NY
2008 The Murakami-Collection - Kunsthalle Faust, Hannover
2008 Girls and Company: Feminist Works from MMoCA’s
Permanent Collection - MMoCA - The Madison Museum of
Contemporary Art, Madison, WI
2008 Blasted Allegories - Werke aus der Sammlung Ringier -
Kunstmuseum Luzern, Luzern
2008 Le Grand Tour - Académie de France à Rome - Villa Médicis, Rome
2008 Modern and Contemporary Prints - OSBORNE SAMUEL, London (England)
2008 Everything Vs. Nothing - Franklin Parrasch Gallery, New York City, NY
2008 Martian Museum of Terrestrial Art - Barbican, London (England)
2008 War Stories - Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston, MA
2008 Person Of The Crowd: The Contemporary Art Of Flânerie -
Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, NY
2008 Art Metropole: The Top 100 - MSVU Art Gallery, Halifax, NS
2008 Eyesore - V1 Gallery, Copenhagen
2008 The Sum of its Parts - Cheim & Read, New York City, NY
2007 Im Wort - Kunsthalle Göppingen, Göppingen
2007 Strange Events Permit Themselves the Luxury of Occurring -
Camden Arts Centre, London (England)
2007 The Missing Peace: Artists Consider the Dalai Lama -
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
2007 Multiplex: Directions in Art, 1970 to Now - MoMA -
Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY
2007 Meanwhile, in Baghdad... - The Renaissance Society at
The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
2007 La parola nell'arte. Ricerche d'avanguardia nel '900.
Dal Futurismo ad oggi attraverso le Collezioni del Mart - MART-
Museo d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto, Rovereto
2007 RAW - MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY
2007 The Missing Peace: Artists Consider the Dalai Lama -
Emory Visual Arts Gallery, Atlanta, GA
2007 Autumn Reading - Roger Björkholmen Galleri, Stockholm
2007 The Murakami Collection - GdK Galerie der Künste Berlin, Berlin
2007 Outside the Box - Cornerhouse, Manchester (England)
2007 Art Protects - Yvon Lambert - Paris, Paris
2007 Göteborg International Biennial for Contemporary Art 2007 -
Göteborg International Biennial for Contemporary Art, Göteborg
2007 Sign Language - Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA
2007 Not Closed - beaumontpublic, Luxembourg
2007 Leck mich! - Neues Museum Weserburg Bremen, Bremen
2007 Mark Making - The Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston, MA
2007 52nd International Art Exhibition Venice Biennale /
Biennale di Venezia - La Biennale di Venezia, Venice
2007 Panic Attack! - Art in the Punk Years - Barbican, London (England)
2007 Into Me, Out of Me - MACRO Future, Rome
2007 Commemorating 30 Years Part II: 1981-1990 -
Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, IL
2007 Editions & Multiples - Margarete Roeder Gallery, New York City, NY
2007 Not Afraid of the Dark - Hangar Bicocca | spazio d’arte contemporanea, Milan
2007 PURE - Sean Kelly Gallery, New York City, NY
2007 The Missing Peace: Artists Consider the Dalai Lama -
The Rubin Museum of Art (RMA), New York City, NY
2007 Fondation Beyeler: EROS in der Kunst der Moderne -
BA-CA Kunstforum Wien, Vienna
2007 Lessons in Learning: Art and Aducation from the Artists Book Collection -
Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago - MCA Chicago, Chicago, IL
2007 ART IN MOTION - Chinese Contemporary Art Meets The BMW Art Cars -
Long March Foundation, Beijing
2006 On/Off - Casino Luxembourg - Forum d'art contemporain, Luxembourg
2006 Winter Group Show - The Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston, MA
2006 Memento Mori - Mireille Mosler Ltd., New York City, NY
2006 INTO ME / OUT OF ME - Kunst-Werke Berlin e.V. -
KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin
2006 Radical NY! The Downtown show: the New York art scene,
1974-1984 and abstract expresionism: 1940-1960 -
Austin Museum of Art - AMOA, Austin, TX
selected awards & fellowships
2004 Resident in Visual Arts, American Academy Rome
2003 Honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts, Rhode Island School of Design,
Providence, Rhode Island
2002 Kaiserring, City of Goslar, Germany
2002 Chevalier de L’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres,
La Ministre de la Culture et de la Communication, République Française
2001 BZ–Kulturpreis, Berliner Zeitung, Berlin
2000 Berlin Prize Fellowship, The American Academy in Berlin, Berlin
2000 Honorary Doctorate of Arts, Williams College, Williamstown, Massachusetts
1996 Crystal Award, World Economic Forum, Geneva
1994 Honorary Doctorate of Arts, University of Ohio, Athens, Ohio
1994 Skowhegan Medal for Installation,
Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Maine
1990 Leone d’Oro, XLIV Biennale di Venezia, Venice, 1990.