Jenny Holzer took part in the Centre of Attention Email Art exhibition.
JENNY HOLZER'S WORK IN EMAIL ART
BIOGRAPHY
Since the late 1970s, when her aphoristic Truisms and her Inflammatory Essays were first posted anonymously around New York, Jenny Holzer's work has sought to reformulate many of the givens of traditional art, especially in the context of public spaces. Writing is the basis of Holzer's practice. Although most of Holzer's content is original, on occasion, she works with historic or archival sources (for example, in her several commissioned permanent memorial works). To date she has written thirteen series: Truisms (1977-79), Inflammatory Essays (1979-82), Living (1980-82), Survival (1983-85), Under a Rock (1986), Laments (1989) Mother and Child (1990), War (1992), Lustmord (1993-95), Erlauf (1995), Arno (1996), Blue (1998), and OH (2001).
Holzer employs her texts singly or in combination in her permanent works, installations and xenon projections. Media employed in Holzer's practice vary. Writing is programmed into electronic signs; printed on posters and t-shirts; carved in sandstone benches, marble floors and granite sarcophagi; cast as bronze plaques; or etched on silver. Further, her statements have appeared on billboards, movie marquees, automobiles, in news magazines, and on websites, as well as being projected onto facades, walls, water and mountainsides by laser or with xenon.
Holzer's work has been shown in exhibitions and projects worldwide, including Times Square, New York (1982), Dia Art Foundation, New York (1989), Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York (1989), 44th Venice Biennale (1990), Art Tower, Mito, Japan (1994), Centre National d'Art et de la Culture Georges Pompidou, Paris (1996), Museum of Modern Art, New York (1997), Instituto Cultural Itau, Sao Paolo, Brazil (1998), Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (1999), Oslo Museum of Contemporary Art, Norway (2000), and Neue Nationalgalerie Berlin, Germany (2001). In addition, she has executed permanent installations for institutions such as MAK, Vienna (1993), Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Japan (1995), Hamburger Kunsthalle, Germany (1996), Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Spain (1997), and Bundestag, Berlin (1999), as well as created memorials including, Black Garden, Nordhorn, Germany, (1994), Peace Monument, Erlauf, Austria (1995), Goerdeler Memorial, City of Leipzig (1999), and BLACKLIST, University of Southern California, Los Angeles (1999).
Holzer was born on July 29, 1950, in Gallipolis, Ohio. After attending high school in Ohio and Florida, she enrolled in Duke University's liberal arts program in 1968 and later attended the University of Chicago from 1970 to 1971. In 1972, Holzer completed her undergraduate work at Ohio University, Athens, with a bachelor's degree in fine arts. In 1975, she entered the master of fine arts program at the Rhode Island School of Design. During her MFA studies, completed in 1977, Holzer moved to New York City to participate in the Whitney Museum's Independent Study Program, and began her first series of public art texts. Holzer received the Leone d'Oro grand prize for best pavilion at the 44th Venice Biennale in 1990, the Skowhegan Medal for Installation from the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, in 1994, the Crystal Award from the World Economic Forum, in 1996 and a Berlin Prize Fellowship from the American Academy in Berlin, 2000. Ohio University awarded her an honorary Doctorate of Arts in 1994 and Williams College awarded her an honorary Doctorate of Arts in 2000. Jenny Holzer lives and works in Hoosick, New York.
She is represented by Cheim and Read, New York; Spruth Magers, Cologne / Munich / London; and Galerie Yvon Lambert, Paris.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2007 “Secret”,
Monika Sprüth Philomene Magers, Munich, Germany
2007 “Jenny Holzer”, Galeria Javier Lopez, Madrid, Germany
2007 “Nothing Follows”, Yvon Lambert, Paris, France
2007 “Recent Works”, The Contemporaray Museum, Honolulu, HI
2006 “Jenny Holzer: For London Barbican Centre”, Barbican Art
Gallery, Silk Street, London, GB
2006 “Jenny Holzer XX”, MAK - Österreichisches Museum für
angewandte Kunst Wien, Vienna,, Austria
2006 “Night Feed”, Yvon Lambert, New York City, NY
2006 “Jenny Holzer.Archive”, Cheim & Read, New York City,
NY
2006 “Jenny Holzer”, SCAI the Bathhouse, Tokyo, Japan
2006 “Jenny Holzer”, Australian Center for Contemporary Art,
Melbourne, Australia
2004 Hot Pink (with Lady Pink), Monika Sprüth Philomene Magers, Munich,
Germany
2004 Jenny Holzer with poetry by Henri Cole, Galerie Yvon Lambert, Paris,
France
2004 TRUTH BEFORE POWER, Kunsthaus Bregenz, Bregenz, Austria
2004 Accompanied by xenon projections in Vorarlberg,
2003 Jenny Holzer, Mönchehaus Museum, Goslar, Germany
2003 Accompanied by xenon projections in Goslar,
2002 "Jenny Holzer: OH", Galerie Magers, München, Germany
2002 Protect Me From What I Want: The Multiples and Editioned Works of
Jenny Holzer, Printed Matter, Inc., New York, NY
2001 "Jenny Holzer", Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin, Germany
2001 "Jenny Holzer: OH", capcMusée d´art contemporain,
Bordeaux, France
2001 "Jenny Holzer: Xenon", Museo de Arte Contemporáneo,
Monterrey, Mexico
2001 "Jenny Holzer: Xenon", Chapelle Saint - Louis de la Salpêtrière,
Festival d´Automne, Paris, France
2001 "Jenny Holzer", Cheim & Read, New York, NY
2000 "Jenny Holzer", Fundación Proa, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2000 "Jenny Holzer", Galeria Luisa Strina, São Paulo,
Brazil
1999 "Jenny Holzer: Proteja-Me do Que Eu Quero", Centro Cultural
Banco do Brasil, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
1999 "Jenny Holzer: Lustmord", Nova Galeria, São Paulo,
Brazil
1999 "Jenny Holzer: The Living Series", Galerie Rüdiger
Schöttle, München, Germany
1999 "Jenny Holzer: Blue", Rhona Hoffmann Gallery, Chicago,
IL
1999 "Jenny Holzer: The Living Series", Vaknin Schwartz Gallery,
Atlanta, GA
1998 "Jenny Holzer: Blue", Galerie Yvon Lambert, Paris, France
1998 "Jenny Holzer: Blue", Monika Sprüth Galerie, Köln,
Germany
1998 Jenny Holzer: Lustmord", Ian Potter Museum of Art, University
of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
1998 "Blue", Instituto Cultural Itaú, São Paulo,
Brazil
1998 "Lustmord", University of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia
1997 "The Power of Words and Signs: The Fourth Brain", Index
Gallery, Osaka, Japan
1997 "Jenny Holzer: Lustmord", Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston,
TX
1997 "Jenny Holzer's The Living Series", Cheim & Read, New
York, NY
1996 "Jenny Holzer: Lustmord", Kunstmuseum des Kantons Thurgau,
Kartause Ittingen, Warth, Schweiz
1996 "Jenny Holzer: Lustmord", Galerie Rähnitzgasse, Dresden,
Germany
1995 "Jenny Holzer: From the Laments Series, 1989", Williams
College Museum of Art, Williamstown, Massachusetts
1995 "Lustmord", Monika Sprüth Galerie, Köln, Germany
1994 "Jenny Holzer", Art Tower Mito, Contemporary Art Center,
Mito, Japan
1994 "BLACK GARDEN", Städtische Galerie Nordhorn, Nordhorn,
Germany
1994 "Lustmord", Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York, NY
1994 "Lystmord: Jeg Er Vå På Stedet Hvor Kvinner Dør",
Bergen Billedgalleri, Bergen, Norwegen
1993 "Jenny Holzer: The Venice Installation", Dallas Museum
of Art, Dallas, TX
1993 "The Living Series", Barry Whistler Gallery, Dallas, TX
1993 "Da Wo Frauen Sterben, Bin Ich Hellwach", Haus der Kunst,
München, Germany
1993 "Street Art: Jenny Holzer", Center for Contemporary Art,
Ujazdowski Castle, Warschau, Poland
1992 "Jenny Holzer", Ydessa Hendeles Art Foundation, Toronto,
Canada
1991 "Selections from the Living Series. 1980-1982", Laura Carpenter
Fine Art, Santa Fe, Argentina
1990 United States Pavilion, XLIV Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy
1990 Städtische Kunsthalle, Cologne, Germany
1990 Louisiana Museum, Humlebaek, Denmark
1990 Albright-Knox Art Gallery installations, Daktronics electric signs
Pilot Field, and billboards in various locations in Buffalo, and by texts
aired on PBS Channels 17 and 23, Buffalo, NY
1990 Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
1989 “Jenny Holzer”, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
City, NY
1989 “Jenny Holzer: Laments 1988–89”, Dia Art Foundation,
New York City, NY
1989 “Jenny Holzer”, Ydessa Hendeles Art Foundation, Toronto,
Canada
1988 “Jenny Holzer: Signs/Under a Rock”. Accompanied by outdoor
installations, organized by the Artangel Trust, London, Institute of Contemporary
Arts, London, GB
1988 Metrovision electronic sign, Shaftesbury Square, Belfast, Northern
Ireland
1988 Zakks electronic sign, Bradbury Place, Belfast, Northern Ireland
1988 Maiden Spectacolor electronic sign, Piccadilly Circus, London, GB
1988 Mayavision video monitors, Leicester Square underground station,
London, GB
1988 “Plaques”, “The Living Series 1980–82”,
“The Survival Series 1983–1985”, Interim Art Gallery, London,
GB
1988 “The Survival Series 1983–1985”, , London, GB
1988 “Jenny Holzer”, The Brooklyn Museum, New York City, NY
1988 “Jenny Holzer”, Hoffman Borman Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1987 “Jenny Holzer: Under a Rock”, Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago,
IL
1986 “Jenny Holzer: Signs”, Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines,
IA
1986 Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, CO
1986 Artspace accompanied by outdoor installations, electronic sign, Showplace
Square, and Sony JumboTRON video sign and monochrome electronic sign,
Candlestick Park, San Francisco, CA
1986 Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
1986 as Options 30, “Jenny Holzer”, and List Visual Arts Center.Accompanied
by outdoor installation, painted billboard, Massachusetts Institute of
Technology.Central Square, Cambridge, MA
1986 “Electronic Sign Project”, Palladium, New York City, NY
1986 “Keith Haring–Jenny Holzer”, Am Hof, Vienna, Austria
1986 “Jenny Holzer”, Monika Sprüth Galerie, Cologne, Germany
1986 “Under a Rock”, Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York City,
NY
1986 “Jenny Holzer”, Galerie Crousel-Hussenot, Paris, France
1984 “Jenny Holzer”, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX
1984 “Jenny Holzer”, Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, Switzerland
1984 “Jenny Holzer”, Le Nouveau Musée, Villeurbane, France
1984 “Jenny Holzer: Truisms and Inflammatory Essays”, Amelie
A. Wallace Gallery State University of New York College at Old Westbury,
Old Westbury, NY
1984 "Jenny Holzer-Lady Pink”, Rotterdam Kunststichting Galerie't
Venster, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
1983 Jenny Holzer, Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York City, NY
1983 Investigations 3: “Jenny Holzer.”, Institute of Contemporary
Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
1983 Accompanied by outdoor installation, electronic sign with incandescent
bulbs, News Stand Restaurant Center Square, Philadelphia, PA
1983 “Essays”, “Survival Series”, Institute of Contemporary
Arts, London, GB
1982 Plaques for Buildings: Thirty Texts from the Living Series, Cast
in Bronze by Jenny Holzer and Peter Nadin”, Barbara Gladstone Gallery,
New York City, NY
1982 “Jenny Holzer - Peter Nadin: Living”, Galerie Chantal Crousel,
Paris, France
1981 “Living” (with Peter Nadin), Museum für (Sub) Kultur,
Berlin, Germany
1981 “Living” (with Peter Nadin), Le Nouveau Musée, Villeurbane,
France
1981 “Eating Friends” (with Peter Nadin), Artists Space, New
York City, NY
1981 “Living” (with Peter Nadin), Rüdiger Schöttle
Galerie, Munich, Germany
1981 “Texts Positions” (with Peter Nadin), Galerie Onze Rue
Clavel, Paris, France
1979 “Printed Matter Windows”,Included audiotape, Printed Matter
New York, New York City, NY
1978 “Jenny Holzer Installation”, Included audiotape, Franklin
Furnace, New York City, NY
1978 “Jenny Holzer Painted Room: Special Project P.S. 1”, Institute
for Art and Urban Resources at P.S. 1, New York City, NY
SELECTED GROUP SHOWS
2007 “The
1980s – A Topology”, Museu de Arte Contemporanea, Porto, Portugal
2007 “On /Off”, Casino Luxembourg – Forum d'art contemporain,
Luxembourg, Luxembourg
2007 “Into Me/ Out of Me”, Kunst-Werke Berlin, Berlin, Germany
2007 “Art in Motion”, Long March Foundation, Peking, China
2006 “Branding. Das Kunstwerk zwischen Authentizität und Aura,
Kritik und Kalkül”, Centre Pasqu Art Kunsthaus d'art Seevorstadt,
Biel, Switzerland
2006 “Venus en Perigorg”, , Perigueux, France
2006 “Do the Right Bling”, Stedelijk Museum's-Hertogenbosch,
Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands
2006 “THE DOWNTOWN SHOW”, New York University - Grey Art Gallery,
New York City, NY
2006 Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, PA
2006 Museum of Art, Austin, TX
2006 “Busy Going Crasy”, La Maison Rouge, Paris, France
2006 “Singapore Biennale 2006”, Singapour, Singapour
2006 “Temenos El Duchamp...”, Galeria GAM, Mexico City, Mexico
2006 “Surprise, Surprise”, ICA Instutute of Contemporary Arts,
London, GB
2006 “Watch Out”, Beaumontpublic, Luxembourg, Luxembourg
2006 “A Brighter Day”, James Cohan Gallery, New York City, NY
2006 “The Unquiet World”, Australian Center of Contemporary
Arts, New York City, NY
2006 “Out of Line:drawings from the Collection of Sherry and Joel
Mallin”, HerbertF. Johnson Museum of Art, Ithaca, NY
2006 “Broken Surface”, Galerie Sabine Knust, Munich, Germany
2006 “AUTO-NOM-MOBILE”, Kasseler Kunstverein e.V. Fridericianum,
Kassel, Germany
2006 “For 7 World Trade”, Cheim & Read, New York City, NY
2005 Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach, Germany
2005 “Flashback”, Kunstmuseum Basel, Basel, Switzerland
2005 “Lichtkunst aus Kunstlicht”, ZKM / Museum für Neue
Kunst, Karlsruhe, Germany
2005 “Contemporary Voices”, Fondation Beyeler, Basel, Switzerland
2005 “La Collection II / III”, Musée d´Art Contemporain,
Marseille, France
2005 “Superstars”, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria
2005 “Flashback”, Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Basel, Switzerland
2005 “Lecon Zero”, Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris, France
2005 “Down the Garden Path”, Queens Museum of Art, Queens, NY
2005 “Big Bang”, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
2005 “51. Biennale Venedig 2005”, Biennale Venedig, Venice,
Italy
2005 “La main dans la main”, Kunstverein Bad Salzdetfurth, Bodenburg,
Germany
2005 Bidibidobidiboo, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, Italy
2005 , “Jenny Holzer. For Paula Modersohn-Becker”, Paula Modersohn–Becker
Museum, Bremen, Germany
2005 “Twice Told”, Decorative Arts Center of Ohio, Lancaster,
OH
2005 Jenny Holzer: Sol LeWitt: Sol LeWitt on the Roof: Splotches, Whirls
and Twirls”, The Iris B. and Gerald Cantor Roof Garden Metropolitan
Museum of Art, New York City, NY
2005 , “Jenny Holzer / Lady Pink “HOT PINK””, Sprüth
Magers Galerie, Cologne, Germany
2005 “Contemporary Voices”, Museum of Modern Art, New York City,
NY
2005 “Jenny Holzer”, Sprüth Magers Lee, London, GB
2005 “Inside Out Loud”, Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, St.
Louis, MO
2004 Galeria Javier López, Madrid, Spain
2004 Kunstsammlungen Böttcherstraße, Bremen, Germany
2004 Paula Modersohn-Becker Museum, Bremen, Germany
2004 “doublebind. Kunst-kinder-karriere.”, Museum im Roselius-Haus,
Bremen, Germany
2004 “Duisburger Akzente 2004”, Duisburger Akzente Festivalbüro,
Duisburg, Germany
2004 “FLIRTS. Kunst und Werbung / Arte e pubblicità”,
MUSEION – Museum für moderne und zeitgenössische Kunst,
Bozen, Italy
2004 2.Biennale Meran, Biennale Meran, Meran, Italy
2000 "Giuseppe Gabellone", Fondazione Sandretto re Rebaudengo
per l'Arte, Torino, Italy
2000 "Rendez-Vous", Musée d'Art Contemporain, Avignon,
France
2000 "Moving/in Museums Work", Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg,
Germany
2000 "The Intuitive Eye: Selections from the Frederick R. Weisman
Collection", Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising, Los Angeles,
CA
2000 "Heaven's Gift", Max Protech Gallery, New York, NY
2000 "The Art of Eastern Europe in Dialogue with the West",
2000+Artteast Collection, Museum of Modern Art Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slowenia
2000 "Works in Light", Galerie Beyeler, Basel, Switzerland
2000 "De Léonard de Vinci à Calder: Machins/Machines",
Donjon de Vez, Vez, France
2000 "On Language", Sean Kelly Gallery, New York, NY
2000 "Around 1984: A look at Art in the Eighties", P.S.1 Contemporary
Art Center, New York, NY
2000 "Writings: Jenny Holzer & William Kennedy", The Arts
Center Troy, New York, NY
2000 "Sentimental", Yvon Lambert Gallery, Paris, France
2000 "The End: An Independent Vision of Contemporary Culture",
Exit Art, New York, NY
2000 "Illuminations: Art from Two Millennia", Museet for Samtidskunst,
Oslo, Norway
2000 "Let's Entertain: Life's Guilty Pleasures", Walker Art
Center, Minneapolis
2000 Musée national d'art moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris,
France
2000 "Sons et Lumieres", Museo Rufino Tamayo, exico City, exico
2000 Miami Art Museum "Couples", Cheim & Read, New York,
NY
1999 "Art in America", Ash Fine Art, New York, NY
1999 "Das Gästezimmer", Am Kreisel in Wolhusen, Wolhusen,
Schweiz
1999 "Object Lessons", Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH
1999 "München im Kunstlicht. Ein Millenniumsprojekt von Stadt
und Wirtschaft im öffentlichen Raum", , München, Germany
1999 "BMW Art Car Collection", BMW Group am Lenbachplatz, München,
Germany
1999 "The American Century: Art and Culture 1900-2000, Part II, 1950-2000",
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
1999 "Memory Opens its Doors: Contemporary Art at the Lenbachhaus",
Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, München, Germany
1999 "Gärten der Flora", Kunstmuseum Kloster Unser Lieben
Frauen, Magdeburg, Germany
1999 "StOP THE VIOLENCE!!!, STOP NASILJU!!!,NDAL DHUNËS!!!",
Akademie der bildenden Künste, Wien, Austria
1999 "Text-Image", Musée des Beaux-Arts, La Choux-de-Fonds,
Schweiz
1999 "Connected Cities": Process of Art in the Urban Network",
Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum, Duisburg, Germany
1999 La Biennale di Venezia, Venzia, 48th International Exhibition of
Contemporary Art "Billboard": Art on the Road", MASS MoCA,
North Adams, Massachusetts, NE
1999 "Comfort Zone: Furniture by Artists", Paine Webber Art
Gallery, New York, NY
1999 "Urban Mythologies: The Bronx Represented Since the 1960s",
Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York, NY
1999 "Public Art: Private Vision", Art Foundry Gallery, Sacramento,
CA
1999 "Mehr Licht", Galerie Friebe, Lüdenscheid, Germany
1999 "Jenny Holzer/Sol LeWitt", The Bathhouse, Kyoto, Japan
1999 "The Eclectic Eye: Selections from the Frederick R. Weisman
Collections", California Center for the Arts, Escondido, CA
1999 "Sans Titre", Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, Boulder,
CO
1999 "Parkett. Un musée en appartement", Centre d'Art
Contemporain, Genf, Switzerland
1998 "art words-art works!", Culturcentrum Brugge, Brugge, Belgique
1998 "Louise Bourgeois. Jenny Holzer. Helmut Lang", Kunsthalle
Wien, Wien, Austria
1998 “Read My Lips”, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra,
Australia
1998 “Beyond Belief: Modern Art and the Religious Imagination”,
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia
1998 “la Caixa”“Espejismos de la postfotografía
ciberespacio”, Centre Cultural de la Fundación, Barcelona,
Spain
1998 “After Eden: Garden Varieties in Contemporary Art”, Middlebury
College Museum of Arts, Middlebury, VT
1998 “Installation for Ohio University”, Ohio University, Athens,
OH
1998 “Installation for the U.S. Courthouse and Federal Building”,
Sacramento, General Services Administration (GSA), Sacramento, CA
1998 “Installation for Flur-Nord”, Schweitzerische Bankgesellschaft
UBS, Zurich, Switzerland
1997 “Künst für Freud”, Foundation for the Arts, Sigmund
Freud Museum, Vienna, Austria
1997 “The Elaine Dannheisser Collection”, The Museum of Modern
Art, New York City, NY
1997 “Alternating Currents”, Whitney Museum of American Art,
New York City, NY
1997 “Alternating Currents”, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose,
CA
1997 ”Check-In!”, Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Basel, Switzerland
1997 “One Line Drawing”, Ubu Gallery, New York City, NY
1997 “Public Service and Other Announcements”, Philadelphia
Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA
1997 “The Age of Modernism: Art in the Twentieth Century”, Martin-Gropius-Bau,
Berlin, Germany
1997 “Allegory”, Joseph Helman Gallery, New York City, NY
1997 Installation for Köln Sculpture Garden”, Köln Sculpture
Garden, Cologne, Germany
1997 “Installation for Münchener Rück”, München
Rückversicherungs-Gesellschaft, Munich, Germany
1997 “Installation for Zürich”, Kunsthaus Zürich,
Zurich, Switzerland
1997 “Installation for the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao”, Guggenheim
Museum Bilbao, Bilbao, Spain
1997 “Oskar Maria Graf Memorial”, Literaturhaus, Munich, Germany
1997 “Art at the Leipzig Exhibition Center (Part II)”, Leipzig
Messe GmbH (Trade Fair Center), Leipzig, Germany
1996 Mike Glier: Garden Court (with benches by Jenny Holzer), Williams
College Museum of Art, Williamstown, MA
1996 P.P.O.W., New York City, NY
1996 “Views from Abroad:European Perspectives on American Art 2”organized
with Museum für Moderne Kunst Frankfurt, Whitney Museum of American
Art, New York City, NY
1996 “Biennale di Firenze: Il Tempo e la Moda”, Biennale di
Firenze, Florence, Italy
1996 Achenbach Kunsthandel, Dusseldorf, Germany
1996 Accompanied by xenon projection, Arno river and texts on taxi hoods
throughout the city., Guggenheim Museum SoHo, New York City, NY
1996 Thinking Print: Books to Billboards, 1980–95”, The Museum
of Modern Art, New York City, NY
1996 “Mediascape”, Guggenheim Museum SoHo, New York City, NY
1996 “Sex and Crime: Von den Verhältnissen der Menschen”,
Feb. 18–May 12, 1996, Sprengel Museum Hannover, Hannover, Germany
1996 “Ceiling Snake”, Kunsthalle Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
1996 “Installation at the Schipol Airport Authority”, Schiphol
Airport Authority, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
1996 “Installation for the Leipzig Messe”, Leipzig Messe GmbH
(Trade Fair Center), Leipzig, Germany
1995 “Laughter Ten Years After”, Center for the Arts Wesleyan
University, Middletown, CT
1995 Houghton House Gallery, New York City, NY
1995 Hobart and William Smith Colleges, New York City, NY
1995 , Geneva, Switzerland
1995 Beaver College Art Gallery, Glenside, PA
1995 “Fémininmasculin: Le sexe de l’art”, Grande
Galerie, Center Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
1995 “Temporarily Possessed: The Semi-Permanent Collection”,
The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York City, NY
1995 “Allentown Benches: Selections from the Truisms and Survival
Series”, United States Courthouse GSA Allentown, Allentown, PA
1995 Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Toyota, Japan
1995 Installation , “Erlauf Peace Monument”, outdoor installation,
, Erlauf, Austria
1994 “The Institute of Cultural Anxiety: Works from the Collection”,
Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, GB
1994 “Gewalt/Geschäfte”, Neue Gesellschaft für Bildende
Kunst, Berlin, Germany
1994 “Tradition and Invention: Contemporary Artists Interpret the
Japanese Garden”, Sogetsu Plaza, Sogetsu Kaikan, Tokyo, Japan
1994 “Welt-Moral: Moralvorstellungen in der Kunst heute”, Kunsthalle
Basel, Basel, Switzerland
1994 “Lenbachhaus Installation”, Lenbachhaus, Munich, Germany
1994 “Black Garden, outdoor installation”, Black Garden, Nordhorn,
Germany
1993 Virtual Reality: An Emerging Medium”, Guggenheim Museum SoHo,
New York City, NY
1993 “Forty-second Street Art Project”, Times Square, New York
City, NY
1993 “American Art in the Twentieth Century: Painting and Sculpture
1913–1993”, Martin Gropius–Bau, Berlin, Germany
1993 Royal Academy of Arts and the Saatchi Gallery, London, GB
1993 “The Empire Style and Biedermeier Permanent Collection Installation”,
Österreichisches Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Vienna, Austria
1993 Green Table, outdoor installation, University of California, San
Diego, CA
1993 Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
1992 “Functional Objects by Artists and Architects”, Rhona Hoffman
Gallery, Chicago, IL
1992 “Beyond Just Words”, Modernism, San Francisco, CA
1992 “Doubletake: Collective Memory and Current Art”, Hayward
Gallery, London, GB
1992 Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria
1992 “Allegories of Modernism: Contemporary Drawing”, The Museum
of Modern Art, New York City, NY
1991 Act-Up Benefit Art Sale, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York City, NY
1991 “Speechless Text/Image Video”, International Center of
Photography, New York City, NY
1991 “Devil on the Stairs: Looking Back on the Eighties”, Institute
of Contemporary Art University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
1991 Contemporary Art from the Collection of Jason Rubell”, Duke
University Museum of Art, Durham, NC
1991 “The Political Arm”, organized by Washington University
Gallery of Art, John Weber Gallery, Saint Louis, MO
1991 “Video Library”, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York City, NY
1991 “Installation for the Foster Gallery”, Museum of Fine Arts,
Boston, MA
1991 “The Buffalo Installation”, Albright–Knox Art Gallery,
Buffalo, NY
1991 “Installation for Aachen”, Ludwig Museum, Aachen, Germany
1990 “Art & Pub: Art et Publicité 1890-1990”, Grande
Galerie, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
1990 , “High & Low: Modern Art and Popular Culture”, The
Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY
1990 The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
1990 Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
1990 The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York City, NY
1990 The Studio Museum in Harlem, Harlem, NY
1990 “The Decade Show: Frameworks of Identity in the 1980’s”,
Museum of Contemporary Hispanic Art, New York City, NY
1989 Image World: Art and Media Culture, Whitney Museum of American Art,
New York City, NY
1989 A Forest of Signs: Art in the Crisis of Representation”, The
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
1988 Australian Biennale: “From the Southern Cross, A View of World
Art c. 1940–88”, Art Gallery of New South Wales and Pier 2/3,
Sydney, Australia
1988 National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia
1988 “Committed to Print: An Exhibition of Recent American Printed
Art with Social and Political Themes”, The Museum of Modern Art,
New York City, NY
1988 “Jenny Holzer: Signs and Benches”, Brooklyn Museum of Art,
Brooklyn, NY
1988 “Documenta 8”, Museum Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany
1988 “Jenny Holzer”, Hoffman Borman Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1988 “L’Epoque, La Mode, La Morale, La Passion”. Accompanied
by outdoor installation “Sign on a Truck, Diamond Vision Mobile 2000
video sign”, Musée National d’Art Moderne, Center Georges
Pompidou, Paris, France
1988 “Social Engagement:Women’s Video in the ‘80s”,
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City, NY
1986 “Jenny Holzer/Barbara Kruger”, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem,
Israel
1986 International Sculpture Exhibition, Sonsebeck, The Netherlands
1986 “In Other Words” Accompanied by outdoor installation, electronic
sign, Dupont Circle, Washington D.C. Catalogue, The Corcoran Gallery of
Art, Washington, DC, DC
1986 “Tuning In”, Art Gallery, Fogelson Library Center, College
of Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM
1986 Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe, NM
1985 “Dissent: The Issue of Modern Art in Boston, The Expressionist
Challenge”,” Revolt in Boston, Fear vs. Freedom”, “As
Found”, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA
1985 “Ecrans Politiques”, Musée d’Art Contemporain
de Montréal, Montréal, Canada
1985 “Social Studies”, Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York City,
NY
1985 “Secular Attitudes”, Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary
Art, Los Angeles, CA
1985 “The Human Condition:Biennial III”, San Francisco Museum
of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
1985 “A Decade of New Art”, Artists Space, New York City, NY
1985 “1984: Women in New York”, Gallerie Engström, Stockholm,
Sweden
1985 “Time Line”, Institute for Art and Urban Resources at P.S.
1, New York City, NY
1983 “1983 Biennial Exhibition”, Whitney Museum of American
Art, New York City, NY
1983 “1984–A Preview”, Ronald Feldman Gallery, New York
City, NY
1983 “The Revolutionary Power of Women’s Laughter'”, Protetch/McNeil,
New York City, NY
1983 Arts Cultural Resource Center, Toronto, Canada
1982 “Jenny Holzer, Lee, Aron Fink”, American Graffiti Gallery,
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
1982 “Nine Women Artists”, University Art Gallery, State University
of New York at Binghamton, Binghamton, NY
1981 “Public Address”, Annina Nosei Gallery, New York, NY
1981 “Crimes of Compassion”, Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, VA
1980 , “Issue: Social Strategies by Women Artists”, Institute
of Contemporary Arts, London, GB
1979 “Manifesto Show”, 5 Bleecker Street, New York City, NY
1979 “Artwords and Bookworks: An International Exhibition of Recent
Artists’ Books and Ephemera”., Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary
Art, Los Angeles, CA
1979 Artists Space, New York City, NY
1979 Herron School of Art, Indianapolis, MN
1979 Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, LA
1979 “Short Video Tapes”, Anthology Film Archives, New York
City, NY
updated September 2007