Artists

Jenny HOLZER

Profile

Lives and works in New York, USA
1977
MFA, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence RI, USA
1976–1977
Independent Study Program, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA
1972
BFA, Ohio University, Athens OH, USA
1970-1971
University of Chicago, Chicago IL, USA
1968-1970
Duke University, Durham NC, USA
1950
Born in Gallipolis OH, USA

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2024
"Jenny Holzer: Light Line," Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA
2019
"FOR YOU: Jenny Holzer," Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, South Korea
"Tutta la verità (The Whole Truth)," GAMeC, Palazzo della Ragione, Bergamo, Italy
"Jenny Holzer: Thing Indescribable," Guggenheim Bilbao,Bilbao, Spain
2018
"ARTIST ROOMS: Jenny Holzer," Tate Modern, London, UK
"Use What is Dominant in a Culture to Change it Quickly: Jenny Holzer’s Sentences and Sentiments from the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and His Family Foundation," PNCA – Center for Contemporary Art & Culture at Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland OR, USA
"Artist Rooms: Jenny Holze," mac birmingham, Birmingham, UK
2017
"SOFTER: Jenny Holzer at Blenheim Palace," Blenheim Art Foundation, Woodstock, UK
"Jenny Holzer," Hauser & Wirth Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
"Jenny Holzer," MASS MoCA – Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, North Adams MA, USA
2016
"ARE YOU ALIVE?," Art Projects Ibiza and Lune Rouge, Ibiza, Spain
"LOSS: In memory of Babi Yar," Pinchuk Art Centre, Kiev, Ukraine
2015
"War Paintings," Museo Correr,Venice, Italy
2014
"Jenny Holzer," Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
2013
"Jenny Holzer: Truisms," The Rooms, St. John’s, Canada
2012
"Sophisticated Devices," Sprüth Magers, London, UK
2011
"Jenny Holzer," Poznan, Art Station Foundation, Poland (accompanied by light projections)
2010
"TOP SECRET," Galerie Yvon Lambert, Paris, France
"Jenny Holzer," DHC/ART Foundation for Contemporary Art, Montreal, Canada (Traveling Exhibition)
"UK, ARTIST ROOMS: Jenny Holzer,"Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh, UK
"Jenny Holzer," BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, UK (Traveling Exhibition)
"Jenny Holzer," Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne, Australia (Traveling Exhibition)
2009
"Jenny Holzer," Fondation Beyeler, Basel, Switzerland (accompanied by light projections) (Traveling Exhibition)
"Jenny Holzer: PROTECT PROTECT," Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA (Traveling Exhibition)
2008
"Jenny Holzer: PROTECT PROTECT," Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago IL, USA, accompanied by light projections (Traveling Exhibition)
2007
"PROJECTIONS," Mass MoCA Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, North Adams, Massachusetts, USA
"Nothing Follows," Galerie Yvon Lambert, Paris, France
2006
"Jenny Holzer XX," MAK, Vienna, Austria (accompanied by light projections)
2004
"Jenny Holzer," Galerie Yvon Lambert, Paris, France (with poetry by Henri Cole)
"TRUTH BEFORE POWER," Kunsthaus Bregenz, Bregenz, Austria (accompanied by light projections)
2003
"Jenny Holzer," Goslar, Germany (accompanied by light projections)
2002
"Protect Me From What I Want: The Multiples and Editioned Works of Jenny Hozler," Printed Matter, Inc.,New York, USA
2001
"Installation for the Chapelle Saint-Louis de la Salpêtrière," Chapelle Saint-Louis de la Salpêtrière, Paris, France (accompanied by light projections)
"Jenny Holzer," Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Monterrey, Monterrey, Mexico
"Jenny Holzer," CAPC Museé d'art contemporain de Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France (accompanied by light projections)
"Jenny Holzer: OH," Neue Natioanalgalerie, Berlin, Germany (accompanied by light projections)
2000
"Jenny Holzer," Fundación Proa, Buenos Aires, Argentina (accompanied by light projections)
1999
"Jenny Holzer: Proteja-me do que eu quero," entro Cultural Banco do Brasil, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
1998
"Jenny Holzer: Lustmord," University of South Australia Art Museum, Adelaide, Australia (Traveling Exhibition)
"Jenny Holzer: Lustmord," Ian Potter Museum of Art, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia (Traveling Exhibition)
"Blue," Instituto Cultural Itaù, São Paulo, Brazil
1997
"Jenny Holzer: LUSTMORD," Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, Texas, USA (Traveling Exhibition)
1996
"Jenny Holzer: LUSTMORD," Kunstmuseum Thurgau, Warth, Switzerland
1995
"Jenny Holzer: From the Laments Series, 1989," Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, Massachusetts, USA
"Jenny Holzer," Art Tower Mito, Contemporary Art Center, Mito, Japan (Traveling Exhibition)
"Jenny Holzer," Art Gallery Artium, Fukuoka, Japan (Traveling Exhibition)
1993
"Jenny Holzer: The Venice Installation, from the Collection of Mort and Marlene Meyerson," Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas, USA
"Da wo Frauen sterben, bin ich hellwach," Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany
"Street Art: Jenny Holzer," Centre for Contemporary Art, Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Poland
"Jenny Holzer," Ydessa Hendeles Art Foundation, Toronto, Canada
1992
"Selections from the Living Series: 1980–1982," Claremont Graduate School, Claremont, California, USA (Traveling Exhibition) 
"Selections from the Living Series: 1980–1982," North Dakota Museum of Art, Grand Forks, North Dakota, USA (Traveling Exhibition)
1991
"Venice: The Venice Biennale," Louisiana Museum, Humlebaek, Denmark (Traveling Exhibition)
"Venice: The Venice Biennale," Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA (Traveling Exhibition)
1990
"XLIV Biennale di Venezia," Esposizione Internazionale d'Arte Moderna, United States Pavilion, Venice, Italy (Traveling Exhibition)
"Jenny Holzer: Laments 1988-89," Dia Art Foundation, New York, USA
"Venice: The Venice Biennale," Städtische Kunsthalle, Düsseldorf, Germany (Traveling Exhibition)
1989
"Jenny Holzer," Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA
"Jenny Holzer," Ydessa Hendeles Art Foundation, Toronto, Canada
"Jenny Holzer: Signs / Under a Rock," ICA - Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, UK
1988
"Jenny Holzer: Signs and Benches," Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, USA
1987
"Jenny Holzer: Signs," Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, Iowa, USA (Traveling Exhibition)
"Jenny Holzer: Signs," Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, Colorado, USA (Traveling Exhibition)
"Jenny Holzer: Signs," Artspace, San Francisco, California, USA (Traveling Exhibition)
"Options 30: Jenny Holzer," Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois, USA (Traveling Exhibition)
"Jenny Holzer: Signs," List Visual Arts Center at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA(Traveling Exhibition)
1984
"Concentrations 10: Jenny Holzer," Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas, USA
"Jenny Holzer and Barbara Kruger," Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, Switzerland (Traveling Exhibition)
"Jenny Holzer: Truisms and Inflammatory Essays," Amelie A. Wallace Gallery, State University of New York College at Old Westbury, New York, USA
"Galerie't Venster-Jenny Holzer-Lady Pink," Rotterdam Kunststichting, Rotterdam, Netherlands
1983
"Jenny Holzer," Le Nouveau Musée, Villeurbanne, France (Traveling Exhibition)
"Investigations 3: Jenny Holzer," Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA (accompanied by outdoor electronic sign)
"Essays, Survival Series," Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, UK
1981
"Living (with Peter Nadin)," Le Nouveau Musée, Villeurbanne, France
"Eating Friends (with Peter Nadin)," Artists Space, New York, USA
1979
"Printed Matter Window," Printed Matter, New York, USA
"Fashion Moda Window," Fashion Moda, New York, USA
1978
"Jenny Holzer Installation," Franklin Furnace, New York, USA
"Jenny Holzer Painted Room: Special Project P.S.1," Institute for Art and Urban Resources at P.S.1, New York, USA

Selected Group Exhibitions

2020
"SCAI 30th Anniversary Exhibition," SCAI PARK, Tokyo, Japan
2019
"Lust auf mehr - Neues aus der Sammlung Würth zur Kunst nach 1960," Kunsthalle Würth, Schwäbisch Hall, Germany
"FICTION," Bold Tendencies, London, UK
"BEYOND THE STREETS," BEYOND THE STREETS, New York NY, USA
2018
"Visual Language," Subliminal Projects / FACTION Art Projects, Los Angeles CA ; New York NY, USA
"Everything is Connected. Art and Conspiracy," Met Breuer, New York NY, USA
"Grafik," Harper's Books, East Hampton NY, USA
"Etel Adnan. A yellow sun A green sun a yellow sun A red sun a blue sun," MASS MoCA – Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, North Adams MA, USA
"DO I HAVE TO DRAW YOU A PICTURE?," (cur. Elisa Schaar), Heong Gallery, Downing College, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
"MoMA at NGV: 130 Years of Modern and Contemporary Art," NGV – National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia
"Für Barbara," (cur. Leo Koenig), Hall Art Foundation, Schloss Derneburg Museum, Derneburg, Germany
"Bronze Age c. 3500 BC – AD 2018," (cur. Mary Beard, Neil Wenman), Firstsite, Colchester, UK
"Brand New: Art and Commodity in the 1980s," (cur. Gianni Jetzer), Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC, USA
"Beyond the Streets," (cur. Roger Gastman), Werkartz, Los Angeles CA, USA
"In the Eye of the Beholder," Tarble Arts Center, Charleston IL, USA
"Crossroads: Carnegie Museum of Art’s Collection," Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh PA, USA
2017
"The American Dream: Pop to the Present," British Museum, London, UK
"Age of Terror: Art Since 9/11," Imperial War Museum, London, UK
"An Incomplete History of Protest: Selections from the Whitney's Collection,1940-2017," The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York NY, USA
2016
"Mother Iode," CSS Bard Hessel Museum, Annandale on Hudson NY, USA
"Phoenix Rising: The Valley Collects," Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix AZ, USA
"More than Words," Westport Arts Center, Westport CA, USA
"An der Oberfläche (On the Surface)," Lehmbruck Museum, Duisburg, Germany
2015
"NO MAN’S LAND: Women Artists from the Rubell Family Collection," Rubell Family Collection, Miami FL, USA
"Covert Operations," San José Museum of Art, San José CA, USA
"All the World’s Futures," 56th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
"America is Hard to See," Whitney Museum, New York NY, USA
"Not: The Art of Resistance," Holden Gallery, Manchester, UK
"Light Show," MCA – Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia (Traveling Exhibition)
2014
"Urban Theater: New York Art in the 1980s," Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth TX, USA
"The Progress Trap," Dutch Electronic Art Festival, Rotterdam, Netherlands
"Take It or Leave It: Institution, Image, Ideology," Hammer Museum, Los Angeles CA, USA
"Projeto Parede: O Corredor e Seu Proprio Corredor," Museo D’Arte Moderna de Sao Paolo, Sao Paolo, Brazil
"Pop Culture: Selections from the Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation," Boca Museum of Art, Boca Raton FL, USA
"Light Show," Auckland Art Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand (Traveling Exhibition) 
2013
"The Dark World," Summerhall, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
"Zeichen. Sprache. Bilder. Schrift in der Kunst seit 1960," Karlsruhe, Germany
"Gli Anni Settana. Arte a Roma," Palazzo delle Esposizinoi, Rome, Italy
"Xerography," Colchester, Firstsite, UK
"Art, Two Points," MACBA Museu d’Art Contemporani, Barcelona, Spain
"Light Show," Hayward Gallery, London, UK
2012
"Elles: Women Artists from the Centre Pompidou," Seattle Art Museum, Seattle WA, USA
"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, Germany
"Postmodernism: Style and Subversion, 1970 to 1990," Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK
"The Deconstructive Impulse: Women Artists Reconfigure the Signs of Power, 1973-1990," Nasher Museum of Art, Duke University, Durham NC (TravelingExhibition)
"The Deconstructive Impulse: Women Artists Reconfigure the Signs of Power, 1973-1990," Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase College, New York NY, USA (Traveling Exhibition)
"Wissen Wagen Wollen Schweigen," Schirn Kunsthalle, Geheimgesellschaften. Frankfurt, Germany
"Off the Wall," The Serravales Museum of Contemporary Art, Porto, Portugal
"Sympathy for the Devil," Vanhaerents Art Collection, Brussels, Belgium
2010
"The Right to Protest," Museum on the Seam, Jerusalem, Israel
"Street and Studio: From Basquiat to Séripop," Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria
"Sexuality and Transcendence," Pinchuk Art Center, Kiev, Ukraine
2009
"Beg Borrow and Steal," The Rubell Family Collection Museum, Miami FL, USA
"We are the World: Figures and Portraits," Fisher Landau Center for Art, Long Island City NY, USA
2008
"Blasted Allegories – Werke aus der Sammlung Ringier," Lucerne Kunstmuseum, Luzern, Germany
"Martin Museum of Terrestrial Art," Barbican, London, UK
"Kölnskulptur 4," Skulpturenpark Köln, Cologne, Germany
2007
"Im Wor," Kunsthalle Göppingen, Göppingen, Germany
"Multiplex: Directions in Art, 1970 to Now," Museum of Modern Art, New York NY, USA
2006
"Into Me/Out of Me," Kunst-Werke Berlin, Berlin, Germany 
"Eros in der Kunst der Moderne," Foundation Beyerler, Basel, Switzerland 
"Surprise Surprise," ICA - Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, UK
"Do the Right Bling," Stedelijk Museum, S-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands 
"Belief," Singapore Biennale, Singapore, Singapore
2005
"Superstars: From Warhol to Madonna," Kunstforum & Kunsthalle, Vienna, Austria 
"Looking at Words," Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York NY, USA
"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, Austin TX, USA
"Contemporary Voices: Works from the UBS Collection," Museum of Modern Art, New York NY, USA
"Contemporary Voices," Fondation Beyeler, Basel, Switzerland
US Pavilion Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
"Jenny Holzer: Sol Lewitt: Sol Lewitt on the Roof: Splotches, Whirls and Twirls," Roof Garden, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York NY, USA
2004
"East Village USA," New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York NY, USA
"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 IL, USA
2003
"Talking Pieces: Text und Bild in der Zeitgenössischen Kunst," Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen, Germany
"Poème/Image," Kunsthaus Schloss Wendlinghausen, Wendlinghausen, 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 PS1, Long Island City NY, USA
"Couples," Cheim & Read, New York NY, USA
"The Intuitive Eye: Selections from the Frederick R. Weisman Collection," FIT, Los Angeles CA, USA
"The End: An Independent Vision of Contemporary Culture," Exit Art, New York NY, USA (closed)
"Illuminations: Art from Two Milennia," Museet for Samtidskunst, Oslo, Norway
"Let’s Entertain: Life’s Guilty Pleasures," Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
1999
"Un Musée en Apparartement: Une Exposition de Toutes les Gravures, Multiples et Photographies, Publiés par Parkett," Centre d’Art Contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland 
"The American Century: Art and Culture 1900-2000 Part II, 1950-2000," The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York NY, USA
"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 NY, USA
"Jenny Holzer/Sol Lewitt," SCAI THE BATHHOUSE, Tokyo, Japan
1998
"Louise Bourgeois, Jenny Holzer, Helmut Lan," Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria
"Read My Lips," National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Australia
"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," Museum of Modern Art, New York NY, USA
"Kölnskulptur 1," Skulpturenpark Köln, Cologne, Germany
"Kunst Fur Freud," Sigmund Freud Museum, Foundation for the Arts, Vienna, Austria
"The Elaine Dannheisser Collection," Museum of Modern Art, New York NY, USA
"Alternating Currents," The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York NY, USA
"The Age of Modernism: Art in the Twentieth Century," Martin-Gropius Bau, Berlin, Germany
1996
"Thinking Print: Books to Billboards, 1980-95," Museum of Modern Art, New York NY, USA
"Views from Abroad: European Perspectives on American Art II," The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York NY, USA
"Il Tempo e la Moda," Biennale di Firenze, Florence, Italy
1995
"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 NY, USA
1994
"The Institute of Cultural Anxiety: Works from the Collection," ICA - Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, UK
"Gewalt/Geschafte," Neue Gesellschaft fur Bildende Kunst, Berlin, Germany
"Welt-Moral: Moralvorstellungen in der Kunst Heute," Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, Switzerland
1993
"Double Take – Collective Memory & Current Art," Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria 
"Virtual Reality: An Emerging Medium," Guggenheim Museum Soho, New York NY, USA
"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," Museum of Modern Art, New York NY, USA
1991
"Act-Up Benefit Art Sale," Paula Cooper Gallery, New York NY, USA
"Devil on the Stairs: Looking Back at the Eighties," Institute of Contemporary Arts, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia PA, USA
"Contemporary Art from the Collection of Jason Rubell," The Nasher Museum of Art, Duke University, Durham NC, USA
1990
"High and Low: Modern Art & Popular Culture," Museum of Modern Art, New York NY, USA
"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 NY, USA
1989
"Making Their Mark: Women Artists Move Into the Mainstream," Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati OH, USA (Traveling Exhibition) 
"Making Their Mark: Women Artists Move Into the Mainstream," New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans LA, USA (Traveling Exhibition)
"Making Their Mark: Women Artists Move Into the Mainstream," Denver Art Museum, Denver CO, USA (Traveling Exhibition)
"Their Mark: Women Artists Move Into the Mainstream," Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia PA, USA (Traveling Exhibition)
"Image World: Art and Media Culture," The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York NY, USA
"A Forest of Signs: Art in the Crisis of Representation," MOCA, Los Angeles CA, USA
1988
"Committed to Print: An Exhibition of Recent American Printed Art with Social and Political Themes," Museum of Modern Art, New York NY, USA
"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 NY, USA
1987
"Documenta 8," Kassel, Germany
1986
"Barbara Kruger and Jenny Holzer," The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
"Keith Haring – Jenny Holzer," Am Hof, Vienna, Austria
1985
"Ecrans Politiques," Musée dArt Contemporain, Montréal, Canada
"Secular Attitudes," Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles CA, USA
"The Human Condition: Biennial III," Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco CA, USA
"A Decade of New Art," Artist’s Space, New York NY, USA
1983
"Biennial," The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York NY, USA
1982
"Documenta 7l," Kassel, Germany
1980
"Issue: Social Strategies by Women Artists," Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, UK
"The Times Square Show," 5 Times Square, New York NY, USA
"Pleasure/Function," David Amico, Los Angeles CA, USA
1979
"Artwords and Bookworks: An International Exhibition of Recent Artists’ Institute of Contemporary Art, Books and Ephemera," Los Angeles CA, USA

Selected Awards and Memberships

2019
Jesse L. Rosenberger Medal for Outstanding Achievement in the Creative and Performing Arts, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA
2016
Officier de l’ordre des Arts et des Lettres, Ministère de la Culture, FranceRoyal Academy of Arts, London, UK
2014
Asher B. Durand Award, Brooklyn Museum, New York, USA
2011
Outstanding Contributions to the Arts Award, Americans for the Arts, Washington DC and New York, USA
American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
Medal of Distinction, Barnard College, New York, USA
2010
LA MOCA Award for Distinguished Women in the Arts, Los Angeles, California, USA
2009
Honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts, Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts, USA
Honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts, Montserrat College of Art, Beverly, Massachusetts, USA
2006
Urban Visionaries Award, Cooper Union, New York, USA
2005
Honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts, New School University, New York, USA
2004
Public Art Network Award, Americans for the Arts, Washington DC and New York, USA
2003
Resident in Visual Arts, American Academy in Rome, Italy
Honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, USA
2002
Kaiserring, City of Goslar, Germany
Chevalier de l’ordre des Arts et des Lettres, Ministère de la Culture, France
2000
Berlin Prize Fellowship, American Academy in Berlin, Germany
Honorary Doctorate of Arts, Williams College, Williamtown, USA
1996
Crystal Award, World Economic Forum, Geneva, Switzerland
1994
Honorary Doctorate of Arts, Ohio University, Athens, USA
Skowhegan Medal for Installation, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Madison, USA
1990
Leone d’Oro, Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy

Public Collections

Akron Art Museum, Akron, USA
Dallas Musuem of Arts, Dallas, USA
Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Bilbao, Spain
Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, USA
Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago, USA
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, USA
Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
Philadelphia museum, Philadelphia, USA
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, USA
Tate, London, UK
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, USA

And many others