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Jenny Holzer

Born in 1950, Gallipolis, US
Lives and works in New York, US

Education

1977         Independent Study Program, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, US
                 Master of Fine Arts, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, US
1972         Bachelor of Fine Arts, Ohio University, Athens, US
1970-71    University of Chicago, Chicago, US
1968-70   Duke University, Durham, US

Selected Solo Exhibitions

Selected Group Exhibitions

2021
New Time: Art and Feminisms in the 21st Century, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, US
Jeder Mensch ist ein Künstler. Kosmopolitische Übungen mit Joseph Beuys, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Dusseldorf, Germany
New York in the 80s: Selections from the Barry Blinderman Collection, Western Exhibitions, Chicago,US

2020 
i’m yours: Encounters with Art in Our Times, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, US
On Everyone’s Lips: From Pieter Bruegel to Cindy Sherman [In aller Munde. Von Pieter Bruegel bis Cindy Sherman], Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, Germany
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, US
States of Mind: Art and American Democracy, Moody Center for the Arts, Rice University, Houston, US
Push the Limits, Fondazione Merz, Turin, Italy
HEART – 100 Artists. 1 Mission, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn, Germany (Travelled to: Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg; Berlinische Galerie, Berlin, Germany)
Just Connect, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, US
I Reflect What You Are: From Nan Goldin to Roni Horn; Intimacy in the Collection Lambert [Je refléterai ce que tu es... De Nan Goldin à Roni Horn: L’intime dans la Collection Lambert], Collection Lambert en Avignon, Avignon, France
In Focus: Statements, Copenhagen Contemporary, Copenhagen, Denmark
Echt und falsch, Bingen am Rhein, Skulpturen-Triennale Bingen 2020, Bingen, Germany
(Self) Portraits: Made by Artists for Parkett since 1984, Parkett Space Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland
Spring Selection, Carolina Nitsch Contemporary Art, New York, US
Persuasive Prints, CU Art Museum, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, US
Not in So Many Words [Niet met zoveel woorden], Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, The Netherlands
Utopias, The Whitworth, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK
Fierce Women, Moss Arts Center, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, US

2019       
Inaugural exhibition, Rubell Museum, Miami, US
Looking at Words: A Poetry of Shape, Baker Museum, Naples, US
Theater of Operations: The Gulf Wars 1991–2011, MoMA PS1, New York, US
Direct Message: Art, Language, and Power, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, US
Ekphrasis: Writing in Art [Ekphrasis. L’écriture dans l'art / Ekphrasis. Het schrift in de kunst], Villa Empain, Brussels, Germany
Otherwise Obscured: Erasure in Body and Text, Franklin Street Works, Stamford, US
HERE: Ann Hamilton, Jenny Holzer, Maya Lin, Wexner Center for the Arts, Ohio State University, Columbus, US
Maskulinitäten. Eine Kooperation von Bonner Kunstverein, Kölnischem Kunstverein und Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf, Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn, Germany
Art Purposes: Object Lessons for the Liberal Arts, Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, US
heart@geneva 2019, Palais de Justice, Geneva, Switzerland
Up for more: News from the Würth Collection on art since 1960, Kunsthalle Würth, Schwäbisch Hall, Germany
FICTION, Bold Tendencies, London, UK
BEYOND THE STREETS, BEYOND THE STREETS, New York, US
Fragments of a Crucifixion, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, US

2018  
Visual Language, Subliminal Projects / FACTION Art Projects, Los Angeles / New York, US
Everything is Connected. Art and Conspiracy, Met Breuer, New York, US
Grafik, Harper's Books, East Hampton, US
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, US  
DO I HAVE TO DRAW YOU A PICTURE?, Heong Gallery, Downing College, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
Remote Castration, LAXART, Los Angeles, US
MoMA at NGV: 130 Years of Modern and Contemporary Art, NGV – National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia
Für Barbara, Hall Art Foundation, Schloss Derneburg Museum, Derneburg, Germany
Bronze Age c. 3500 BC – AD 2018, Firstsite, Colchester, UK
Beyond the Streets, Werkartz, Los Angeles, US
Brand New: Art and Commodity in the 1980s, Hirshhorn Museum, Washington D.C., US
In the Eye of the Beholder, Tarble Arts Center, Charleston, US
Crossroads: Carnegie Museum of Art's Collection, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, US

2017       
Age of Terror: Art Since 9/11, Imperial War Museum, London, UK
The American Dream. Pop to the Present, The British Museum, London, UK
An Incomplete History of Protest: Selections from the Whitney's Collection, 1940-2017, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, US
                
2016    
Mother Iode, CSS Bard Hessel Museum, Annandale on Hudson, US
Phoenix Rising: The Valley Collects, Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, US
More than Words, Westport Arts Center, Westport, US
An der Oberfläche (On the Surface), Lehmbruck Museum, Duisburg, Germany
Human Condition, Former Los Angeles Metropolitan Medical Center, Los Angeles, US
Three Centuries of American Art from the National Gallery of Art, National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C, US.; traveling to National Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic

2015       
Flying over the Abyss, Contemporary Art Center of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece
No Longer/ Not Yet, Minsheng Museum, Shanghai, China
Black Sun, Fondation Beyeler, Basel, Switzerland
Doubling, Wanås Konst, Knislinge, Sweden
Public Works: Artists’ Interventions 1970–Now, Mills College Art Museum, Oakland, US
Women’s Work: Feminist Art from the Collection, Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, US Piercing the Veil, Simmons & Simmons, London, UK
All the World's Futures, 56th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
Dismaland, Tropicana, Weston-super-Mare, UK
Apartés 2015, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France
I Dropped the Lemon Tart, Lisa Cooley Gallery, New York, US
Identity XI, curated by Bradley McCallum, NCA / Nichido Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
Forensics: The Anatomy of Crime, Wellcome Collection, London, UK
Books Beyond Artists: Words and Images, Ivorypress Space, Madrid, Spain
Store/Fronts Façades, National Gallery of Canada at the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, Toronto, Canada
40 Years / 40 Artists, University Museum of Contemporary Art, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, US
Not: The Art of Resistance, Holden Gallery, Manchester School of Art, Manchester, UK
Adventures of the Black Square: Abstract Art and Society 1915–2015, Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK
The Noing uv It, Bergen Kunsthall, Bergen, Norway  

2014               
Post Conflict, organized by Bradley McCallum as Artist in Residence with the Coalition for the International Criminal Court, Kinz + Tillou Fine Art, Brooklyn, US
Words Tend to be Inadequate, Pearl Lam Galleries, Shanghai, China
Goethe Dialogues, Goethe-Institut Barcelona, Spain
Covert Operations: Investigating the Known Unknowns, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, Arizona / San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, US
Urban Theater: New York in the 1980s, Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Texas, US
Drawn to Language, The Children’s Museum of Art, New York, US
Fractured Narratives: A Strategy to Engage, Cornell Fine Arts Museum, Rollins College, Winter Park, Florida / David Owsley Museum of Art, Ball State University, Muncie, US
Power, Memory, People – Memorials of Today, KØS Museum for kunst i det offentlige rum, Køge, Denmark
The Appearance of Clarity: Works in Black and White, Helen Day Art Center, Stowe, Vermont, US
The Disasters of War, 1800–2014, Musée du Louvre-Lens, Lens, France
The Progress Trap, Dutch Electronic Arts Festival (DEAF), Rotterdam, The Netherlands
The Disappearance of Fireflies, Collection Lambert en Avignon, SainteAnne Prison, Avignon, France
No Problem: Cologne/New York 1984–1989, David Zwirner, New York, US
The Grand Cyper: Hip Hop, Iran & Syria, curated by Julie Ashcraft, Rush Arts Gallery, New York, US
The Real Estate Show Was Then: 1980, James Fuentes, New York, US
The Last Brucennial, presented by The Bruce High Quality Foundation and Vito Schnabel, 837 Washington Street, New York, US
Take It or Leave It: Institution, Image, Ideology, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, US
Silence Unbound: The Artist’s Lexicon in the Making, Center for Book Arts, New York, US
In These Great Times, Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo, Norway  

2013       
The Dark Would, Summerhall, Edinburgh, Scotland
Play Things, New York Public Library Print Gallery, New York, US
Zeichen. Sprache. Bilder. Schrift in der Kunst seit den 1960er Jahren, Städtische Galerie Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, Germany
Language Games: An Introduction to the Art of our Times, curated by José Jiménez, Centro de Artes Visuales Fundación Helga de Alvear, Cáceres, Spain
Pop Culture: Selections from the Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation, MANA Contemporary, Jersey City, New Jersey / Boca Museum of Art, Boca Raton, US
Bill T. Jones / Arnie Zane Dance Company 30th Anniversary Exhibition, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, US
Xerography, Firstsite, Colchester, UK
Silent, Avlskarl Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark
Art, Two Points. Barcelona Lives Contemporary Art, Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain  
Sign, Image, Object, 21er Haus, Vienna, Austria  
From Gesture to Language, Rockbund Art Museum, Shanghai, China
Beg Borrow and Steal, Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Springs, US
Light Show, Hayward Gallery, London,United Kingdom /Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, Auckland, New Zealand; Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Sydney; Sharjah Art Foundation, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates; and Benaki Museum, Pireos Street Annexe, Athens, Greece
Merci Mercy, Vladimir Restoin Roitfeld, New York, US

2012       
Plane Text, Miami Beach, US
The Female Gaze: Women Artists Making Their World, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, US
Enlightened: Electric Light as the Fairy of Art, Artipelag Konsthall, Gustavsberg, Sweden
Language Games: An Introduction to the Art of Our Times, Centro de Artes Visuales Fundación Helga de Alvear, Cáceres, Spain
Wall Text, Logan Center for the Arts, University of Chicago, Chicago, US
Elles: Women Artists from the Centre Pompidou, Paris, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, Washington Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju, Korea  
Children of Artists from Runge to Richter, from Dix to Picasso, Kunsthalle Emden, Emden Germany
Times Square Show Revisited, Bertha and Karl Leubsdorf Art Gallery, New York, US
Time Capsule, Age 13 to 21: The Contemporary Art Collection of Jason Rubell, Nasher Museum of Art, Duke University, Durham, US
Art Drive! The BMW Art Car Collection 1975–2010 (part of the London 2012 Festival), Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, UK
Summer Group Show, Skarstedt Gallery, New York, US
Raw Materials, Bristol Museum and Art Gallery, Bristol, UK
Common Ground, City Hall Park, New York, organized by Public Art Fund, New York, US
Una mirada múltiple: Selecciones de la Colección Ella FontanalsCisneros, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Havana, Cuba
25 Years of Talent, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, US
Stuck Up: A Selected History of Alternative and Popular Culture Told through Stickers, New Bedford Art Museum, New Bedford, US
Töten, Kunstpalais, Erlangen, Germany
Bye Bye American Pie, Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires (MALBA), Buenos Aires, Argentina  
ARTandPRESS, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin, Germany  
The Armory Show 2012, Pier 92 and Pier 94, New York, US
The Fashion Moda Stores, 1982: Selections from Documenta 7, Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase College, State University of New York, Purchase, US
Postmodernismo: Stile e Sovversione 1970–1990, Museo di Arte Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto, Rovereto, Italy
Bremerhaven – Berlin – Aichach, Zweigstelle Berlin, Berlin, Germany
This Will Have Been: Art, Love & Politics in the 1980s, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago/ Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; and Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, US
Domination, Hegemony and the Panopticon: Works from the Farook Collection, Traffic, Dubai
Spelling the Image, Marc Jancou Contemporary, New York, US
The Deconstructive Impulse: Women Artists Reconfigure the Signs of Power, 1973–1991, Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Houston, US
This Will Have Been: Art, Love & Politics in the 1980s, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, US
Bye Bye American Pie, MALBA- Fundación Costantini, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Spelling the Image, Marc Jancou Contemporary, New York, US

2011       
The Women in Our Life: A Fifteen Year Anniversary Exhibition, Cheim & Read, New York, US
Art, Access & Decay: New York 1975-1985, Subliminal Projects, Los Angeles, US
Mannerism and Modernism: The Kasper Collection of Drawings and Photographs, The Morgan Library & Museum, New York, US
The Value of Water, The Cathedral of St. John the Divine, New York, US

2010       
Behind the Light, Nathan A. Bernstein & Co., Ltd., New York, US
ANGUISH, The Memphis College of Art, Memphis, US
IN CONTEXT: A 2010 INITIATIVE, Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg, Republic of South Africa
Your History is Not Our History: New York in the 1980s, Haunch of Venison, New York, US
A Torrent of Words: Contemporary Art and Language, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, US
fKRIEG / INDIDUUM, Ausstellungshalle Für Zeitgenössische Kunst Münster ZKM, Muenster, Germany

2009-10  
Under Control, Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois, Champaign, US
LES FEMMES, McClain Gallery, Houston, US

2009       
Abstractions by Gallery Artists, Cheim & Read, New York, US
The Female Gaze: Women Look at Women, Cheim & Read, New York, US
Close Encounters: Acts of a Social Imagination, The Nathan Cummings Foundation, New York, US
Untitled (History Painting): Painting and Public Life in the 21st Century, University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, US
Marble, Gagosian Gallery, New York, US
Just What Are They Saying, curated by Beth Rudin DeWoody, Jonathan Ferrara Gallery, New Orleans, US
Diana and Actaion-The Forbidden Sight of Nudity, Museum Kunst Palast, Dusseldorf, Germany Liberties Under Fire: The ACLU of Utah at 50, Salt Lake Art Center, Salt Lake City, US
Turning Point: The Demise of Modernism and Rebirth of Meaning in American Art, Brigham Young University, Provo, US

2008     
Colab Redux, Brooke Alexander Editions, New York, US
Kavalierstart 1978-1982 Aufbruch in die Kunst der 80er, Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen, Germany
La collection formidable Monsieur Ledoux, Pavillon Vendôme, Aix en Provence, France
West of Rome presents: Women in the City, various locations in Los Angeles, Los Angeles, US
Other than yourself, Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Madrid, Spain
EYESORE, V1 Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark
The Sum of its Parts, Cheim & Read, New York, US
Martian Museum of Terrestrial Art, Barbican Art Gallery, London, UK

2007       
Meanwhile, in Baghdad, The Renaissance Society, The University of Chicago, Chicago, US
Pretty Baby, Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, US
IM WORT, Kunsthalle Göppingen, Göppingen, Germany
Strange Events Permit Themselves the Luxury of Occurring: selected by artist Steven Claydon, Camden Arts Centre, London, UK
I am as you will be, Cheim & Read, New York, US
Think with the Senses -- Feel with the Mind. Art in the Present Tense, LII Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy
Esposizione Internazionale d’Arte, Padiglione Italia, LII Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy
Panic Attack! Art in the Punk Years, Barbican Art Gallery, London, UK
The Price of Everything…, The Art Gallery, CUNY Graduate Center, New York, US
The Contemporary Art Collection of the Sigmund Freud Museum, Vienna in Moscow, Stella Art Foundation in Moscow, Russia / Sigmund Freud Foundation in Vienna, Austria
Freud and Contemporary Art, Yapı Kredi Sermet Çifter Exhibition Hall, Istanbul, Turkey

2006       
Art Metropole: The Top 100, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Canada
WORD, Deborah Colton Gallery, Houston, US
Into Me/Out of Me, PS 1 Contemporary Art Center, New York, US
Downtown Show, Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, US
A Brighter Day, James Cohan Gallery, New York, US
Surprise, Surprise, ICA, London, UK
Do the Right Bling, Stedelijk Museum, s'hertogenbosch, The Netherlands
The Missing Peace: Artists Consider the Dalai Lama, Loyola University Museum of Art, Chicago / Rubin Museum of Art, New York, US
Little Private Governments, University Gallery, University of Essex, Colchester, UK
Visionaire 47 Taste, Visionaire Gallery, New York, US

2005       
L’Art De Vivre, Lehmann Maupin, New York, US 
Contemporary Voices: Works From the UBS Art Collection, Museum of Modern Art, New York, US
Lichtkunst aus Kunstlicht, Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechologie Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, Germany
Flashback: Revisiting the Art of the 80s, Museum für Gegenwartskunst Basel, Basel, Switzerland
Faszination Kunst: Kunstmuseen in Sachsen-Ahalt, Kunstmuseum Kloster Unser Lieben Frauen Magdeburg, Magdeburg, Germany
Modified, The Arts Center of the Capital Region, Troy, New York, US
Drawing from the Modern, 1975-2005, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, US
“…ein ring von unschätzbaren wert.” Ausgewählte preisträger des kaiserrings goslar, Museum Franz Gertsch, Burgdorf, Germany
Down the Garden Path: The Artist’s Garden After Modernism, Queens Musuem of Art, New York, US
Big Bang: Creation and Destruction in 20th Century Art, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
51st Biennale di Venezia, Esposizione Internazionale d’Arte Moderna, Venice, Italy
La main dans la main, Kunstgebäude Schlosshof Bodenburg, Bodenburg, Germany
Atelier Adamson, Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris, France
Collection2, Château d’Arenthon, Fondation pour l’Art Contemporain Claudine et Jean-Marc Salomon, Annecy, France
Logical Conclusions: 40 Years of Rule-Based Art, Pace Wildenstein, New York, US
Inside Out Loud: Visualizing Women’s Health in Contemporary Art, Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, US

2004       
East Village USA, New Museum of Contemporary Art/Chelsea, New York, US
Immersion, Boston Art Institute, Boston, US
Stadtlicht-Lichtkunst, Stiftung Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum, Duisburg, Germany
Perspectives@25: A Quarter Century of New Art in Houston, Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Houston, US
Visions of America: Contemporary Art from the Essl Collection and the Sonnabend Collection, Sammlung Essl – Kunst der Gegenwart, Vienna, Austria
ein-leuchten, Museum der Moderne Salzburg Mönchsberg, Salzburg, Austria
Some Things Happening: Twenty-Five Years of Herron Gallery Exhibitions, Indiana State Museum, Indianapolis, US
Reflections, Stadhuisplein, Tongeren, Belgium
The Voice of Art: An exhibition on the occasion of the 60th Session of the Human Rights Commission of the United Nations, Palais des Nations, Geneva, Switzerland
Transmit + Transform, Santa Fe Art Institute, Santa Fe, US
Pop/Concept: Highlights from the Permanent Collection, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, US

2003       
Air, James Cohan Gallery, New York, US
Readings, Tina Kim Fin Art, New York, US
Crimes and Misdemeanors: Politics in U.S. Art of the 1980s, Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, US
A Clear Vision – Photographic Works of the F.C. Gundlach Collection, The International House of
Photography, Hamburg, Germany
Salzburg - Shadow and Light, Sprüth Magers Lee, London, UK
Eshigo-Tsumari Art Triennial, Eshigo-Tsumari, Japan
American Tableaux: Many Voices, Many Stories, Miami Art Museum, Miami, US
S(how), Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, US
Micro Políticas II, Arte y Cotidianidad (1989-1980), Espai D’Art Contemporani de Castelló, Castellón de la Plana, Spain
Visual Poetics: Art and the World, Miami Art Museum, Miami, US
Sanctuary, Contemporary Art and Human Rights, Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow, Scotland
Ameri©an Dre@m: A Survey, Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York, US
Our Mutual Friend, Bloomberg SPACE, London, UK
On The Wall Contemporary Wallpaper, Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design and The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Providence, US
Banquet: Metabolism and Communication, Palau de la Virreina, Barcelona, Spain
Rendez–Vous No. 4, Collection Lambert en Avignon, Avignon, France

2002       
Total Überzogen, Edith-Russ-Haus für Medienkunst, Oldenburg, Germany
A History of Happiness - Melbourne Festival Visual Arts Program, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne, Australia
Sans Commune Mesure: Image et Texte dans l’Arte Actuel, Musée d’Art Moderne Lille Métropole, Villeneuve d’Ascq, France / Centre National de la Photographie, Paris, France / Le Fresnoy, Studio National, Tourcoing, France
Gloria, White Columns, New York, US
Public Affairs: Von Beuys bis Zittel – Das Offentliche in der Kunst, Kunsthaus Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland
Email Art, The Center of Attention, London, UK
Multiformity: Multiples from the MCA Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, US
Wall Street Rising, Art Downtown, Michigan, US
Kunst Köln 2002, KölnMesse GmbH, KUNSTKÖLN, Köln, Germany
The Passions of the Good Citizen, Apexart, New York, US
Vapor, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, US
The Armory Show 2002: The International Fair of New Art, Piers 88 and 90, New York, US
Tancat per obres: Els artistses s’apropien l’arquitectura, Collegi d’Arquitectes de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain
Expect: Art, Sean Kelly Gallery, New York, US
Mensaje de Texto (Text Message), Galeria Helga de Alvear, Madrid, Spain

2001-02  
Rendez-Vous 3, Musée d’Art Contemporain: Collection Lambert en Avignon, Avignon, France

2001       
Rendez–Vous No. 3, Musée d’Art Contemporain, Avignon, France
Telling Tales: Narrative Impulses in Recent Art, Tate Liverpool, Liverpool, UK
The Inward Eye: Transcendence in Contemporary Art, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, US
Sculpture Contemporaine; Oeuvres de la Collection Frac Rhône–Alpes, Institut d’art contemporain, Vielleurbanne, France
American Tableaux, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, US
Signs of the Times: Jesse Howard, Jenny Holzer, Jack Pierson, H&R Block Artspace at the Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas, US
The Lenore and Burton Gold Collection of 20th Century Art, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, US
American Art from the Goetz Collection, Munich, Galerie Rudolfinum, Prague, Czech Republic
Blondies and Brownies, Das Aktionsforum Praterinsel, Munich, Germany

2000
Kölnskulptur 2, Skulpturenpark Köln, Cologne, Germany
Around 1984: A Look at Art in the Eighties, MoMA PS1, Long Island City, US
Couples, Cheim & Read, New York, US
The End: An Independent Vision of Contemporary Culture, Exit Art, New York, US
lluminations: Art from Two Milennia, Museet for Samtidskunst, Oslo, Norway
Let’s Entertain: Life's Guilty Pleasures, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, US

1999
Un Musée en Apparartement: Une Exposition de Toutes les Gravures, Multiples et Photographies, Publiés par Parkett, Centre d’Art Contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland
Art in America, Ash Fine Art, New York, US
The American Century: Art and Culture 1900-2000 Part II, 1950-2000, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, US
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, US
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, Australia
Beyond Belief, Modern Art and the Religious Imagination, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia

1997
Kölnskulptur 1, Skulpturenpark Köln, Cologne, Germany
Kunst Fur Freud, Sigmund Freud Museum, Foundation for the Arts, Vienna, Austria
Alternating Currents, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, US
The Age of Modernism: Art in the Twentieth Century, Martin-Gropius Bau, Berlin, Germany

1996
Thinking Print: Books to Billboards, 1980-95, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, US
Views from Abroad: European Perspectives on American Art II, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, US
Il Tempo e la Moda, Biennale di Firenze, Florence, Italy

1995
Feminin-Masculin: Le Sexe de l’Art?, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France

1994
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, US
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, US

1991
Act-Up Benefit Art Sale, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, US
Devil on the Stairs: Looking Back at the Eighties, Institute of Contemporary Arts, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, US

1990
High and Low: Modern Art & Popular Culture, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, US
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, US

1989
Making Their Mark: Women Artists Move Into the Mainstream, Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, US (Travelled to  New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, Denver Art Museum, Denver, and Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, US)
Image World: Art and Media Culture, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, US
A Forest of Signs: Art in the Crisis of Representation, MOCA, Los Angeles, US

1988
Committed to Print: An Exhibition of Recent American Printed Art with Social and Political Themes, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, US
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, US

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 Politique, Musée d'Art Contemporain, Montréal, Canada
Secular Attitudes, Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, US
The Human Condition: Biennial III, Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, US
A Decade of New Art, Artist’s Space, New York, US

1983
Biennial, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, US

1982
Documenta 7, Kassel, Germany

1980
Issue: Social Strategies by Women Artists, ICA - Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, UK

1979
Artwords and Bookworks: An International Exhibition of Recent Artists’ Books and Ephemera, Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, US

Selected Public Installations

2019
Selections from Truisms, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Gwacheon, Korea (Inaugurated in conjunction with FOR YOU: Jenny Holzer)

2018
For Philadelphia, Comcast Technology Center, Philadelphia, US
White Light, Salesforce Transit Center, San Francisco, US
The Waging of Peace, United States Embassy, London, UK

2017
For the Louvre Abu Dhabi, Louvre Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, UAE

2016
For Ibiza, Can Soleil, Sant Josep de sa Talaia, Spain

2015
For Qualcomm, Qualcomm Headquarters, San Diego, US
For the Garden, Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park, Grand Rapids, US

2014
I STAY (Ngaya ngalawa), 8 Chifley Square, Sydney, Australia
Du, Talanx AG, Hanover, Germany

2013
Cliff Sappho, Ekeberg Sculpture and Heritage Park, Oslo, Norway

2012
For the FDA, FDA Headquarters, Silver Spring, US
Kind of Blue, Modern Art Museum of Forth Worth, Forth Worth, US

2011
715 Molecules, Williams College Science Quad, Williamstown, US

2009
VEGAS, MGM Mirage City Center, Las Vegas, US

2007
For SAAM, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C., US
For MCASD, Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, US

2006
For Novartis, Novartis Pharma AG, Basel, Switzerland
For Elizabeth, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, US
For 7 World Trade, 7 World Trade Center, New York, US

2005
For Karlstad, Stora torget, Karlstad, Sweden
For Pittsburgh, David L. Lawrence Convention Center, Pittsburgh, US
For Paula Modersohn-Becker, Paula Modersohn-Becker Museum, Bremen, Germany

2003
125 YEARS, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, US
For Schlosspark Rheder, Schlosspark Rheder, Brakel, Germany (Inaugurated in conjunction with Xenon for Schlosspark Rheder)
Nature Walk, Echigo-Tsumari Art Field, Tōkamachi, Japan
Helmut Lang – Milan, Helmut Lang Milan, Milan, Italy
Installation for Nantes Courthouse, Palais de Justice, Nantes, France

2002
Installation for Telenor, Telenor Headquarters, Fornebu, Norway
Serpentine, Nakanoshima Mitsui Building, Osaka, Japan
Inscription for Grotta Verde di Pradis, Grotta Verde di Pradis, Clauzetto, Italy
Installation for Agder College, Agder University College, Gimlemoen, Norway
Installation for Neue Nationalgalerie, Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin, Germany

2001
Garden Bench, Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice, Italy

1999
BLACKLIST, Fisher Museum of Art, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, US
Memorial for Goerdeler, Neues Rathaus, Leipzig, Germany
Installation for the Reichstag Building, Reichstag Building, Bundestag, Berlin, Germany
Installation for the U.S. Courthouse and Federal Building, United States Federal Courthouse, Sacramento, US

1997
Installation for Bilbao, Museo Guggenheim Bilbao, Bilbao, Spain
Literaturhaus München, Oskar Maria Graf Memorial, Munich, Germany
Ceiling Snake, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany

1995
Erlauf Peace Monument, Erlauf, Austria
Installation for Schiphol Airport, Amsterdam Airport Schiphol, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

1994
Black Garden, Nordhorn, Germany

1993
Selections from the Living Series, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, US

1991
Installation for Aachen, Ludwig Forum for International Art, Aachen, Germany

Selected Projects

2019
VIGIL, Rockefeller Center, Creative Time, New York, US

2015
In the Garden, New York Botanical Garden, New York, US

2011
For Krakow, Wawel Royal Castle, Krakow, Poland

2010       
For Frankfurt, Alte Nikolaikirche and Römer Römberg, Oct. 4–12; Dreikönigskirche, Oct. 4–6; Literaturhaus, Oct. 7–8; St. Katharinenkirche, Oct. 9–10, 2010; Portikus, Oct. 11–12

2009       
For Prague, National Museum, Prague, Czech Republic, April 29–May 6
For Siena, sms contemporanea, Siena, Italy, Feb. 28–May 24

2008       
Projection for Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Oct. 29–31; Lyric Opera and 2 N. Riverside Drive, Nov. 1.; Tribune Tower, Nov. 2; Merchandise Mart, Nov. 3
For the Guggenheim, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, permanent installation. Inauguration Sept. 22

2007       
For the Capitol, projected from the Kennedy Center onto the Potomac River and Roosevelt Island, September 13–16
For Toronto, Drake Hotel, June 8; waterfront silos, June 9; MaRS Building, June 10
For the Academy, American Academy in Rome and the Fontana dell-Acqua Paola, May 21; Piazza Tevere, May 22; Teatro di Marcello, May 23; Castel Sant’Angelo, May 24
For Busan, Gwangalli Beach, Korea, permanent installation. Inauguration April 5
For Milan, Hangar Bicocca, Mar. 28; Piazza della Scala, Mar. 29, 2007; Castello Sforzesco, Mar. 30; Stazione Centrale, Mar. 31.
For San Diego, Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, and Santa Fe Depot, Jan. 19; MCASD La Jolla, Jan. 20; Scripps Pier, Jan. 21; San Diego Museum of Art, Jan.22
For Naples, Piazza del Plebiscito, Dec. 16, 2006–Jan. 7

2006       
For RISD (Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island), 15 Westminster Street, RISD, Oct. 7– 8 and 10; Providence City Hall, Oct. 7 and 9–10
For Singapore, city hall, Sept. 1. For Vienna, Rathaus, May 5; Präsidentschaftskanzlei, May 7; Parlament, May 8; Staatsoper, May 9; Stock-im-Eisen-Platz 3, May 10; Obere Donaustrasse 97-99, May 11; MAKDepot of Contemporary Art (CAT), May 12; Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, May 13; Vienna Airport Tower, May 17–24
For London, London City Hall, Apr. 7; St. Paul’s Church, Apr. 8; Senate House, Apr. 9; Barbican Centre, Apr. 10 and 12–14; Somerset House, Apr. 11
For Dublin, Dublin Castle, Mar. 29; Gate Theatre, Mar. 30; Liffey River and Clarence Hotel, Mar. 31; Mansion House, Apr. 1; Trinity College and Bank of Ireland, Apr. 2; General Post Office, Apr. 3

2005       
For the City (New York), Rockefeller Center, Sept. 29–Oct. 2; Bobst Library, New York, University, Oct. 3–5; The New York Public Library, Oct. 6–9

2004       
Xenon for Miami, Miami Freedom Tower, Dec. 1–5
Xenon for D.C., 1515 14th Street Arts Building, Oct. 30–31; Gelman Library, George Washington University, Nov. 1
For New York City, Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine, Oct. 26; Bethesda Fountain, Oct. 27; 515 Greenwich Street, Oct. 28; Hotel Pennsylvania, Oct. 28–29; The Cooper Union, Oct. 29
Xenon for Bregenz (Bregenz, Austria), Kunsthaus Bregenz, June 11–12; Feldkirch Schattenburg, June 13; Hohenems Steinbruch, June 14; Vermunt Stausee, June 15; Alte Pfarrkirche zum heiligen Nikolaus, Lech, June 16; Kanisfluh, June 17; Bregenzer Festspiele, June 18
Xenon for Torino (Torino, Italy), Teatro Carignano, Nov. 8, 2003–Jan. 11, 2004; Piazza Castello Nov. 6, 2004– Jan. 16, 2005 and Nov. 11, 2005–March 19, 2006

2003       
Xenon for the Peggy Guggenheim, Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice, Italy, Sept. 2–6
Xenon for Cannes, Palais de Festival and Le Port et le Suquet, May 14–25
Xenon for Liverpool, Tate Liverpool, Mar. 19–23

2001       
Xenon for Paris, Pyramide du Louvre, Nov. 1; Colonnade du Louvre, Nov. 2; Seine and Pont-Neuf (depuis Le Pont des Arts), Nov. 3; Eglise Saint-Eustache, Nov. 3; Panthéon, Nov. 4
Xenon for Monterrey (Monterrey, Mexico), Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Monterrey, July 15 and 19–20; Oficinas e Parque, July 16; Biblioteca Magna Raul Rangel Frias, July 17; La Huasteca, July 18 and 22; Loma Larga, July 21
Xenon for Bordeaux, Dune du Pyla, May 26; Porte Caillau, May 28; Place du Palais, May 28; Place de Parlement, May 29; Cinéma Utopia, May 29; Place Camille Jullian, May 29; Saint Michel, May 30; Opéra de Bordeaux, May 30; Place de la Victoire, May 31; Garonne, quais des Chartones, May 31; Cinéma Utopia, June 1
Xenon for Berlin, Neue Nationalgalerie, Jan. 27 and Feb. 1–3, 2001; Matthäikirche, Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin (Kulturforum) and Kammersmusiksaal der Philharmonie, Feb. 1–3; Bundeskanzleramt (Neubau) and Museumshöfe, Feb. 4; Berliner Rathaus and Altes Museum, Feb. 5; Grand Hyatt Berlin and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Feb. 6; Pergamonmuseum and Bodemuseum, Feb. 7; DG-Bank, DaimlerChrysler Services AG and Jüdisches Museum, Feb. 8

2000       
Xenon for BALTIC, BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, UK, Oct. 25 and 28; Castle Keep, Newcastle, Oct. 26; Tuxedo Princess, Gateshead, Oct. 27
Xenon for Buenos Aires, Planetario de la Ciudad de Buenos Aires Galileo-Galilei and Parque de  Palermo, Apr. 30; Centro Cultural Recoleta, May 1; Facultad de Derecho de la Universidad de Buenos Aires, May 2; La Boca and Fundación Proa, May 3; Teatro Colón, May 4
Xenon for Oslo and Lillehammer, Museet for Samtidskunst, Oslo, Jan. 22–27, Jan. 31–Feb. 3, and Feb. 7–10; Oslo Rådhus, Jan. 28–30 and Feb. 11–13; Universitetet i Oslo, Feb. 4–6; Nordster and Lysgaardsbakkene, Lillehammer, Feb. 5

1999       
Xenon for Venice, Fondazione Cini, June 9–13
Xenon for Rio de Janeiro, Centro Cultural Banco de Brasil, May 5; Pão de Açucar, May 8; Arpoador Beach and Leme Beach, May 9 

1998       
Xenon for Rome, Spanish Steps, July 16

1996     
Xenon for Florence, Arno riverbank and facing buildings, Sept. 20–22

Selected Awards

2019
Jesse L. Rosenberger Medal for Outstanding Achievement in the Creative and Performing Arts, The University of Chicago, Chicago, US

2016
Officier de l’ordre des Arts et des Lettres, Ministère de la Culture, France
Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK

2014
Asher B. Durand Award, Brooklyn Museum, New York, US

2011
Outstanding Contributions to the Arts Award, Americans for the Arts, Washington, D.C. / New York, US
American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Cambridge, US
Medal of Distinction, Barnard College, New York, US

2010
LA MOCA Award for Distinguished Women in the Arts, Los Angeles, US

2009
Honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts, Smith College, Northampton, US
Honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts, Montserrat College of Art, Beverly, US

2006
Urban Visionaries Award, The Cooper Union, New York, US

2005
Honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts, New School University, New York, US

2004
Public Art Network Award, Americans for the Arts, Washington, D.C./ New York, US
Resident in Visual Arts, American Academy Rome, Sept. 15, 2003–Jan. 15

2003
Honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, US

2002
Kaiserring, City of Goslar, Germany

2000
Chevalier de L’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, La Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication, France
Berlin Prize Fellowship, The American Academy in Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Honorary Doctorate of Arts, Williams College, Williamstown, US

1996
Crystal Award, World Economic Forum, Geneva, Switzerland

1994
Honorary Doctorate of Arts, Ohio University, Athens, US
Skowhegan Medal for Installation, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, US

1990
Leone d’Oro, XLIV Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy