Born in 1955, New York, US
Lives and works in New York, US and Reykjavik, Iceland
Education
1976 M.F.A., Yale University, New Haven, US
1972 B.F.A. with Honors, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, US
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2024 Roni Horn, Hauser & Wirth, Menorca, Spain Roni Horn - The Detour of Identity, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, Denmark Roni Horn, Hauser & Wirth, New York, US Roni Horn. Give Me Paradox or Give Me Death, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany
2023 Roni Horn, Kukje Gallery, Seoul, Korea An Elusive Red Figure..., Hauser & Wirth, Zurich, Switzerland Recent Drawings, Xavier Hufkens, Brussels, Belgium Roni Horn, Winsing Arts Foundation, Taipei, Taiwan Roni Horn: Me paraliza la esperanza, Centro Botín, Santander, Spain Roni Horn: A dream dreamt in a dreaming world is not really a dream, ... but a dream not dreamt is, HE Art Museum, Foshan, China
2022 Roni Horn. Bird, Taka Ishii Gallery (complex665), Tokyo, Japan Roni Horn: Sweet Is The Swamp With Its Secrets, Hauser & Wirth, Monaco, France
2021 Roni Horn: When You See Your Reflection in Water, Do You Recognize the Water in You?, Pola Museum of Art, Hakone, Japan A Rat Surrendered Here, Chateau La Coste, Le Puy-Sainte-Réparade, France You are the Weather, Kunsthaus Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany Gold Field, installation at The Menil Collection, Houston, US Roni Horn: Recent Work, Hauser & Wirth, New York, US
2020 Roni Horn: You are the Weather, Fondation Beyeler, Basel, Switzerland Roni Horn, i8 Gallery, Reykjavik, Iceland Roni Horn, The University Museum of Contemporary Art at UMass Amherst, Amherst, US
2019 Roni Horn, Peder Lund, Oslo, Norway Air Burial (permanent installation), Ekebergparken Park, Oslo, Norway Roni Horn: When I Breathe, I Draw, Menil Collection, Houston, US Roni Horn @Cubo Garutti, Museion, Bolzano, Italy Portrait of an Image (public installation), Aker Brygge & Oslo Central Station, Oslo, Norway
2018 Roni Horn, Hauser & Wirth, Hong Kong Wits’ End Sampler, Menil Collection, Houston, US Roni Horn, kurimanzutto, Mexico City, Mexico Roni Horn. Wits’ End Sampler | Recent Drawings, Hauser & Wirth, Zurich, Switzerland Remembered Words, Kukje Gallery, Seoul, Korea Roni Horn. PI, Pinakothek der Moderne Kunst, Munich, Germany
2017 Selected Gifts, (1974-2015), Rat Hole Gallery, Tokyo, Japan Roni Horn, Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas, US Roni Horn, Hauser & Wirth, New York, US Roni Horn, Glenstone, Potomac, US Air Burial (permanent installation), Cairngorm National Park in Scotland, Cairngorms, Scotland
2016 The Selected Gifts, Fondation Beyeler, Basel, Switzerland Roni Horn, de Pont Museum, Tilburg, The Netherlands Roni Horn, Foundation Beyeler, Basel, Switzerland
2015 Butterfly to Oblivion Fondation Vincent van Gogh, Arles, France Butterfly Doubt, Hauser & Wirth, London, UK Roni Horn, Galleria Raffaella Cortese, Milan, Italy
2014 Roni Horn – Water Teller, Peder Lund Gallery, Oslo, Norway Roni Horn: Drawings, Vigeland Museum, Oslo, Norway Everything was sleeping as if the universe were a mistake, Caixa Forum, Madrid, Spain Everything was sleeping as if the universe were a mistake, Fundació Juan Miró, Barcelona, Spain Roni Horn, Kukje Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2013 Everything was sleeping as if the universe were a mistake, Hauser & Wirth, New York, US Roni Horn, Hauser & Wirth, Zürich, Switzerland Portrait of an Image, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
2011 The Wedding (the Walker Evans Polaroid Project) with Roni Horn, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York, US Double Mobius, FLAG Art Foundation, New York, US Roni Horn: Photographien, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany Roni Horn: Recent Work, Hauser & Wirth, London, UK a.k.a., i8 Gallery, Reykjavik, Iceland Roni Horn: Some Thames, Galerie de l’UQAM Université du Québec à Montréal, Montreal, Canada
2010 Roni Horn, Centre of Contemporary Art – Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Poland Roni Horn, Hauser & Wirth, New York, US Roni Horn aka Roni Horn, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, USA (travelling Exhibition) Roni Horn, Kukje Gallery, Seoul, Korea Well and Truly, Kunsthaus Bregenz, Bregenz, Austria
Rat Hole Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2009 Roni Horn aka Roni Horn, Tate Modern, UK; Collection Lambert, Avignon, France; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, US The tiniest piece of mirror is always the whole mirror, The Common Guild, Glasgow, Scotland Paired, Gold: Felix Gonzalez-Torres and Roni Horn, Guggenheim Museum, New York, US
2008 Roni Horn, CAC – Centro de Arte Contemporàneo, Malaga, Spain
Circulo de Bellas Artes (Photo Espana), Madrid, Spain Roni Horn, Gagosian Gallery, Los Angeles, US Roni Horn, Hauser & Wirth, London, UK Portrait of an Image (with Isabelle Huppert), Overbeck Gesellschaft, Lübeck, Germany This is me, this is you, Rathole Gallery, Tokyo, Japan Roni Horn, Xavier Hufkens, Brussels, Belgium
2007 A KIND OF YOU, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne, Australia Roni Horn, Kukje Gallery, Seoul, Korea My Oz, Reykjavik Art Museum, Iceland Vatnasafn / Library of Water, Stykkishólmur, Iceland (permanent installation) Roni Horn, Xavier Hufkens, Brussels, Belgium
2006 Portrait of an Image / Drawings - Roni Horn, Louise Bourgeois, Hauser & Wirth, Zurich, Switzerland Sculptures, Drawings and Photographs, James Kelly Contemporary, Santa Fe, US Roni Horn: Angie and Emily Dickinson, Inverleith House Edinburgh, Scotland; Museion Bolzano, Italy Relaxness, Safn, Reykjavik, Iceland
2005 Portrait of an Image (with Isabelle Huppert), Matthew Marks Gallery, New York, US
2004 Some Thames, Art Institute of Chicago, US Roni Horn. In der Sammlung, Folkwang Museum, Essen, Germany Drawings, Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, Venice, Italy (travelling Exhibition) Rings of Lispector (Agua Viva), Hauser & Wirth London, London, UK Her, Her, Her and Her, Reykjavik Art Museum, Iceland
2003 Roni Horn – Drawings, Centre Pompidou / Galerie d’ Art Graphique, Paris, France If on a Winter’s Night…Roni Horn…, Fotomuseum Winterthur, Winterthur, Switzerland
Galerie Hauser & Wirth & Presenhuber, Zurich, Switzerland This is Me, This is You, i8 Galleri, Reykjavik, Iceland Roni Horn: Cabinet of, Raffaella Cortese, Milan, Italy Some Thames, University of Akureyri, Iceland (permanent installation)
Xavier Hufkens, Brussels, Belgium
2002 Blah, Blah, Blah - Part 1, Dia Center for the Arts, New York, US Blah, Blah, Blah - Part 2, Dia Center for the Arts, New York, US Clowndoubt, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York, US
2001
Galerie Hauser & Wirth & Presenhuber, Zurich, Switzerland Cabinet Of, Galerie Yvon Lambert, Paris, France Part I and Part II, Dia Art Foundation, New York, US Still Waters (The River Thames, For Example), i8 Galleri, Reykjavik, Iceland Key and Cues, Jablonka Galerie, Cologne, Germany Some Thames, Museo Serralves, Porto, Portugal Roni Horn, Xavier Hufkens, Brussels, Belgium
2000 Roni Horn, Castello di Rivoli, Turin, Italy
Lannan Foundation; Site Santa Fe, Santa Fe, US
National Gallery of Iceland, Reykjavík, Iceland Still Water (The River Thames, for Example), Timothy Taylor Gallery, London, UK
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, US
1999 PI, Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen / Staatsgalerie moderner Kunst, Munich, Germany Still Water, CAPC – Musée d’art contemporain de Bordeaux Entrepot, France PI, Jablonka Galerie, Cologne, Germany Pi, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York, US Events of Relation, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, France Roni Horn, Raffaella Cortese, Milan, Italy
Zugspitze, Munich, Germany
1998 You are the Weather, De Pont Museum of Contemporary Art, Tilburg, The Netherlands
Galleri Stefan Andersson AB, Umea, Sweden
Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Basel, Switzerland
Patrick Painter Inc., Los Angeles, US Roni Horn, Xavier Hufkens, Brussels, Belgium Roni Horn: Pooling You, Jablonka Galerie, Cologne, Germany
1997 Yous in You, Bahnhof Ost, Basel, Switzerland (permanent installation, completed 2000) Earths Grow Thick: Works after Emily Dickinson, Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, US Roni Horn - You are the Weather, Fotomuseum Winterthur, Winterthur, Switzerland
Ingólfsstræti 8, Reykjavík, Iceland You are the Weather, Institut für Moderne Kunst / Schmidt Bank-Galerie, Nuremberg, Germany Roni Horn: You are the Weather, Jablonka Galerie, Cologne, Germany Untitled (Flannery) and Pooling You, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York, US
Raffaella Cortese, Milan, Italy
i8 Gallery, Reykjavik, Iceland
1996 Earths Grow Thick: Works after Emily Dickinson, Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, US; Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley College, Wellesley, US You are the Weather, Deutscher Wetterdienst München, Munich, Germany (permanent installation)
Galerie Ghislaine Hussenot, Paris, France Five Installations, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York, US
1995
Alfonso Artiaco Gallery, Naples, Italy New Installations, Jablonka Galerie, Cologne, Germany Making Being Here Enough. Installations, Drawings, Kunsthalle Basel, Switzerland; Kestner Gesellschaft, Hanover, Germany Gurgles, Sucks, Echoes, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York, US Drawings, Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Basel, Switzerland Felix Gonzalez-Torres & Roni Horn, Sammlung Goetz, Munich, Germany Currents 61: Roni Horn, St. Louis Museum of Art, St. Louis, US
1994 Inner Geography, The Baltimore Museum of Art, US; List Visual Arts Center, MIT, Cambridge Massachussetts, US; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, US
DePont Foundation for Contemporary Art, Tilburg, The Netherlands Roni Horn: Drawings, Books, Photographic Suites, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York, US
Texas Gallery, Houston, US
1993
2nd Floor, Reykjavík, Iceland Rare Spellings: Selected Drawings 1985-1992, Kunstmuseum Winterthur, Winterthur, Switzerland; Gemeentemuseum, The Hague, The Netherlands; Secession, Vienna, Austria; Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne, Germany
Jablonka Galerie, Cologne, Germany
Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, US
Mary Boone Gallery, New York, US
Matthew Marks Gallery, New York, US
1992
Galerie Annemarie Verna, Zurich, Switzerland Roni Horn, Jablonka Galerie, Cologne, Germany
The Living Art Museum, Reykjavík, Iceland
1991
Mary Boone Gallery, New York, US For A Here And A There, Städtisches Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach, Germany Things Which Happen Again, Westfälischer Kunstverein, Münster, Germany
1990
Leo Castelli, New York, US
Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, US
Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, US
Temporary Contemporary / The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, US
1989
Galerie Annemarie Verna, Zurich, Switzerland
Jay Gorney Modern Art, New York, US
Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, US
1988 Things that Happen Again, Chinati Foundation, Marfa, US (permanent installation) Pair Objects I, II, III, Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, US; Galerie Lelong, New York, US
Mario Diacono Gallery, Boston, US
Susanne Hilberry, Birmingham, US
Winston Gallery, Washington D.C., US
1987
Galerie Maeght Lelong, New York, US
Galerie Maeght Lelong, Paris, France
1986
Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, New York, US
Burnett Miller Gallery, Los Angeles, US
1985
Burnett Miller Gallery, Los Angeles, US
Galerie Maeght Lelong, New York, US
1980
Clocktower, Institute for Art and Urban Resources, New York, US
1978
Kunstraum, Munich, Germany
Yale University, New Haven, US
Selected Group Exhibitions
2024 If not now, when?, Museum Beelden aan Zee, The Hague, The Netherlands In the House of the Trembling Eye: an exhibition staged by Allison Katz, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, US The Swimmer, The FLAG Art Foundation, New York, US HOLLYWOOD DREAM BUBBLE: Ed Ruscha’s Influence in Los Angeles and Beyond, The Hole, Los Angeles, US Shanshui: Echoes and Signals, M+, Hong Kong Turner’s Sublime Legacy, Grimaldi Forum, Monaco Sky Gazing, ARoS Aarhus Art Museum, Aarhus, Denmark
2023 Collection Exhibition: Y/OUR Nature, Hoam Museum of Art, Yongin, Korea
Everything Gets Lighter, Museo Jumex, Mexico City, Mexico Dialektik der Präsenz Eine Ausstellung von Hans Dieter Huber, Kunststiftung DZ BANK, Frankfurt, Germany Kafka: 1924, Museum Villa Stuck, Munich, Germany This Is Me, This Is You. The Eva Felten Photography Collection, Museum Brandhorst, Munich, Germany Collection Exhibition: Y/OUR Nature, Hoam Museum of Art, Yongin, Korea Time, Kunsthaus Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland Anthropocene Aesthetics, Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College, Ohio, US Counter-Flows, Batalha Centro de Cinema, Porto, Portugal THE MIND’S EYE. Images of Nature from Claude Monet to Otobong Nkanga, Fondation Beyeler, Riehen, Switzerland Louise Bourgeois. Imaginary Conversations, The National Gallery Oslo, Oslo, Norway River of Rebirth, Z33 House for Contemporary Art, Hasselt, Belgium Good Object / Bad Object, Ackland Art Museum, North Carolina, US
2022 Anniversary Exhibition - Special Guest Duane Hanson, Foundation Beyeler, Basel, Switzerland making being here enough, KOLUMBA Kunstmuseum des Erzbistums Köln, Cologne, Germany Les Fabriques du cœur et leur usage, Musée des Arts Contemporains du Grand-Hornu (MAC'S), Grand-Hornu, Belgium Viermalvier / Fourtimesfour, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany ¡Mírame!: Retratos y otras ficciones en la Colección «la Caixa» de Arte Contemporáneo, Naves de Gamazo, Santander, Spain Artists' Conquest: Inside – Outside, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Dresden, Germany The Double: Identity and Difference in Art Since 1900, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., US Manifesta 14 Prishtina, Manifesta, Prishtina, Kosovo Phraseology, Bass Museum of Art, Florida, US Following Water (Dem Wasser Folgen), Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Following Water, Bielefeld, Germany Where Words Falter: Art and Empathy, Tang Museum, New York, US Sea Lava Circle: Works from the Pétur Arason & Ragna Róbertsdóttir Collection, i8 Gallery, Reykjavik, Iceland Chromophilia, Hauser & Wirth, Zurich, Switzerland A Century of the Artist’s Studio: 1920 – 2020, Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK girls girls girls, Lismore Castle Arts, Lismore, Ireland A Decade of Acquisitions of Works on Paper – Part II, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, US Félix González-Torres / Roni Horn, Bourse de Commerce - Pinault Collection, Paris, France From Monet to Richter, Pola Museum of Art, Kanagawa, Japan Seventy Years of The Second Sex, Hauser & Wirth, Zurich, Switzerland Welcoming people people. Gherdëina Biennale ∞ meets Museion, Museion, Bolzano, Italy Bringing to Light, Towner Eastbourne, Eastbourne, UK
2021 On the Basis of Art. 150 Years of Women at Yale, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven CT, US To Moscow! To Moscow! To Moscow!, V-A-C Foundation, Moscow, Russia After all, a collection is only human, Museum Dhondt-DhaenensVilla Vandenbussche, Tielt, Belgium View From Here: Recent Acquisitions, LACMA Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, US Dependent Objects, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, US Nothing is Lost: Art and Matter in Transformation, Galleria d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea (GAMeC), Bergamo, Italy Map and Territory: Environmental Art from the Panza Collection, Hauser & Wirth, St. Moritz, Switzerland Nature Culture, Fondation Beyeler, Basel, Switzerland Influx from Eastern Europe, Kunsthaus Zug, Zug, Switzerland Living with Art: Dialogues with the Agnes & Frits Becht Collection, Kunstmuseum Winterthur, Winterthur, Switzerland
2020 Crossing Borders. Collecting for the Future, Kupferstich-Kabinett, Dresden, Germany My Generation: The Jablonka Collection, Albertina Museum, Vienna, Austria Art for Animals. A Change in Perspective for Human Beings, Kunst-und Kulturstiftung Opelvillen Rüsselsheim, Rüsselsheim am Main, Germany Winterreise, Xavier Hufkens, Brussels, Belgium Silent Vision - Images of Calm and Quiet, Fondation Beyeler, Basel, Switzerland To form a More Perfect Union, Hauser & Wirth, New York, 69th Street, New York, US (In)finite Resources, Städtische Galerie Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, Germany Artists for New York, Hauser & Wirth, New York, US
2019 Once.Again., J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, US One hundred drawings, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York, US The Shape of Time. Highlights of the Centre Pompidou Collection, Vol. 1, West Bund Museum, Shanghai, China Danh Vo. Untitled, The South London Gallery, London, UK Collection Ensemble, University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor MI, US Luogo e Segni, Palazzo Grassi, Punta della Dogana, Venice, Italy Joint is Out of Time, Galleria Nazionle d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Rome, Italy
2018 LAND_SCOPE. Photographic Works from Roni Horn to Thomas Ruff, Münchner Stadtmuseum, Munich, Germany Could be (an Arrow), Museo Jumex, Mexico City, Mexico 25 Years! Shared Histories, Shared Stories, Fotomuseum Winterthur, Winterthur, Switzerland Space Shifters, Hayward Gallery, Southbank Centre, London, UK Tables, Carpets & Dead Flowers, Hauser & Wirth, Zürich, Switzerland Other Hats - Icelandic Printmaking, The National Gallery of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland Dancing With Myself, Palazzo Grassi – Punta della Dogana, Venice, Italy Picasso-Gorky-Warhol. Sculpture and Works on Paper. Hubert LooserCollection, Kunsthalle Krems, Krems an der Donau, Austria That Obscure Object of Desire, Fortes D’Aloia & Gabriel, Sao Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Exchanges, The Whitworth Art Gallery, The University of Manchester, Manchester, UK I Still Believe In Miracles - Works from Selvaag Art, Astrup Fearnley Museet, Oslo, Norway Tacita Dean: STILL LIFE, The National Gallery, London, UK Selves and Others. Gifts to the Collection from Carla Emil and RichSilverstein, SFMoMA, San Francisco, US One Day at a Time: Manny Farber and Termite Art, MOCA – Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, US The Land We Live In - The Land We Left Behind, Hauser & Wirth, Somerset, UK
2017 J’aime Avignon, Collection Lambert, Avignon, France Animals, Charles Riva Project, Brussels, Belgium ReView, De Pont at 25, De Pont Museum, Tilburg, The Netherlands Ex Situ. Samples of Lifeforms, Copenhagen Contemporary, Copenhagen, Denmark Serialities, Hauser & Wirth, New York, US Proof of Life / Lebenszeichen, Weserburg, Bremen, Germany The Photographic – Part I, S.M.A.K., Ghent, Belgium Calder to Kelly: The American Collection, Kunstmuseum Winterthur, Winterthur, Switzerland Panza di Biumo Collection. The Matter of Form, Museo d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Trento e Rovereto, Italy Behind the Screen – An Art Tribute to Isabelle Huppert, Michael Fuchs Galerie, Berlin, Germany Artist’s Books: The Collection, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany Gray Matters, Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, US Other Hats: Icelandic Printmaking, International Print Center New York, New York, US 7 X SPACE X TIME, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, Denmark Visions of Nature, Kunst Haus Wien, Vienna, Austria Restless Gestures: Works from the Hubert Looser Collection, National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design Norway, Oslo, Norway
2016 On Paper: Finding Form, Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, US House of Commons, Portikus, Frankfurt am Main, Germany SPLIT. Mirror. Light. Reflection, Schauwerk Sindelfingen, Sindelfingen, Germany Animality, Marian Goodman Gallery, London, UK First Light: A Decade of Collecting at the ICA, The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, UK Dancing with Myself. Self-portrait and Self-invention. Works from the Pinault Collection, Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany Inside – Contemporary Artists and Writers in Reading Prison, Reading Prison, Reading, UK Kingdom – Flora, Fauna, Fable, Reykjavík Art Museum, Reykjavik, Iceland Nature Based, Kröller-Müller Museum,Otterlo, The Netherlands Au Coeur. Territoire de l’enfance, Collection Lambert, Avignon, France I still believe in miracles, Inverleith House, Edinburgh, Scotland Collected, Pier 24 Photography, San Francisco, US
Galerie Hussenot, Paris, France Invisible Adversaries, CCS Bard Hessel Museum, Annandale-on-Hudson, US Don’t Look Back: The 1990s at MOCA, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, US Collection 13: Toward a New Museum of Contemporary Art, CA2M, Madrid, Spain
2015 Salon d’Hiver, Hauser & Wirth, Zurich, Switzerland Tempo al Tempo. Art from Anno Domini to Roni Horn, Roman Road, London, UK Drawing. THE BOTTOM LINE, S.M.A.K., Ghent, Belgium Visual Leader 2015, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, Germany Faux Amis, Simon Lee, London, UK Opening the Box: Unpacking Minimalism, The George Economou Collection, Athens, Greece Altered Appearances, Fisher Landau Center for Art, New York, US Space Between, FLAG Art Foundation, New York, US Tension and Freedom, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon, Portugal By the Book, Sean Kelly Gallery, New York, US This is a Portrait If I Say So: Re-imagining Representation in American Art, 1912-Today, Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, US Selections from the Kramarsky Collection, David Zwirner, New York, US America Is Hard To See, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, US Faces – Between Figures, Portraits and Masks, Neues Museum, Nuremberg, Germany The Blue of Distance, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, US Slip of the Tongue, Punta della Dogana, Venice, Italy Choice Works, Mana Contemporary, Jersey City, US Faces – Between Figures, Portraits and Masks, Staatliches Museum für Kunst und Design in Nürnberg, Nuremburg, Germany In Girum Imus Nocte et Consumimur Ingi, Jumex Collection, Mexico City, Mexico Silence out loud, Museum Kranenburgh, Bergen, Norway Thirty Nine Years, Susanne Hilberry Gallery, Ferndale, US Maisons Fragiles, Hauser & Wirth, London, London, UK Das Fotobuch und seine Autoren, Swiss National Library, Bern, Switzerland Drawing Redefined, DeCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln, UK Hamburg Triennial of Photography, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany Tension and Freedom, CAM Centro de Arte Moderna, Lisbon, Portugal
2014 Picture Ballot! Monolithic Water, Kunsthaus Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland Theatre of the Mind, Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, US Beyond and Between, Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea Playing by heart, Kolumba. Art Museum of the Archdiocese of Cologne, Cologne, Germany The hidden picture. Collecting art at ING, Cobra Museum of Modern Art, Amstelveen, The Netherlands Ladies First! Women artists from the Schaufler Collection, Schauwerk Sindelfingen, Sindelfingen, Germany Performance. Contemporary Photography from the Douglas Nielsen Collection, Center for Creative Photography, Tucson, US La disparation des lucioles, Collection Lambert, Avignon, France TRAME. Copper Crossing in contemporary art, design, technology and architecture, Triennale di Milano, Milan, Italy À Corps Perdu, L’Espace de l’Art Concret, Mouans-Sartoux, France LUB Collection Showcase. New Acquisitions from Ai Weiwei to Zobernig, Kunsthaus Bregenz, Bregenz, Austria Beneath the Ground: From Kafka to Kippenberger, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen K21, Düsseldorf, Germany Pure Water. The Most Valuable Resource of the World, Lentos Kunstmuseum, Linz, Austria You imagine what you desire, 19th Biennale of Sydney, Sydney, Australia MODA Curates, Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery, Columbia University, New York, US On The Road, Santo Domingo de Bonaval, Santiago de Compostela, Spain David Altmejd, Roni Horn, Didier Vermeiren, Danh Vo, Xavier Hufkens, Brussels, Belgium View From Above, Rebecca Camhi Gallery, Athens, Greece Pink, Spazio -1 Collezione Giancarlo E Danna Olgiati, Lugano, Switzerland
2013 Macho Man, Tell It To My Heart: Collected by Julie Ault, Artists Space, New York, US; Culturgest, Artists Space, New York, US; Lisbon, Portugal; Kunstmuseum Basel, Switzerland Elemental, Boden Art Center, Boden, Sweden Colección Helga de Alvear. El Arte del Presente, Centro Cibeles de Cultura y Ciudadani, Madrid, Spain 93, 20th anniversary exhibition, Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea, Santiago de Compostela, Spain Personal, political, mysterious, FLAG Art Foundation, New York, US Pro Choice, Fri Art. Centre d’Art de Fribourg / Kunsthalle Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany The Distaff Side, The Granary, Sharon, US 15 Years of the Gallery of Contemporary Art, Hamburger Kunsthalle / Gallery of Contemporary Art, Hamburg, Germany Elemental, Havremagasinet – Boden Art Center, Boden, Sweden Ages. Portraits of growing older, Landesgalerie Linz, Linz, Austria Paisaje 1969 – 2013, Museo del Palacio de Bellas Artes, Mexico City, Mexico Tell It To My Heart: Collected by Julie Ault, Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Basel, Switzerland AGES. Porträts vom Älterwerden, Oberösterreichische Landesmuseum / Landesgalerie Linz, Linz, Austria
Die Photographische Sammlung/SK Stiftung Kultur Köln, Cologne, Germany Prima Materia, Punta della Dogana / Francois Pinault Foundation, Venice, Italy Zeichen. Sprache. Bilder. Schrift in der Kunst seit den 1960er Jahren, Städtische Galerie, Karlsruhe, Germany Prima Materia, Punta della Dogana / Francois Pinault Foundation, Venice, Italy 15 Years of the Gallery of Contemporary Art, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany Paisaje 1969 – 2013, Museo del Palacio de Bellas Artes, Mexico City, Mexico
2012 Von Horizonten / On Horizons, Fotomuseum Winterthur, Winterthur, Switzerland Dark Matters, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C., US Viewpoint. A closer look at showing, Huis Marseille – Museum voor fotografie, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Für Hund und Katz ist auch noch Platz. Fotografien aus der DZ BANKKunstsammlung, Kunsthalle Recklinghausen, Recklinghausen, Germany Parallelwelt Zirkus / The Circus as a Parallel Universe, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria
Drawn Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, US In Praise of Doubt, Punta della Dogana, Venice, Italy Light and Landscape, Storm King Art Center, Mountainville, US Print/Out, MoMA Museum of Modern Art, New York, US Her, Rolla Foundation, Bruzella, Switzerland The Dwelling Life of Man, Kunsthal KAdE,Amersfoort, The Netherlands Pink Caviar, Louisiana Museum,Copenhagen, Denmark
2011 Nature – Contemporary Art from the Collection of the Altana Kulturstiftung, Osthaus Museum, Hagen, Germany Light-Sensitive – Contemporary Photography from the Schaufler Collection, Schauwerk, Sindelfingen, Germany The Last First Decade, Ellipse Foundation Art Centre, Cascais, Portugal Volume! Works from the Collections of La Caixa Foundation and MACBA, MACBA Museu d’Art Contemporani, Barcelona, Spain Text, Kuckei + Kuckei, Berlin, Germany Faster and Slower Lines – From the Collection of Pétur and Ragna Róbertsdóttir, Reykjavik Art Museum – Hafnarhus, Reykjavik, Iceland ATLAS. How to carry the world on one’s back?, Deichtorhallen Hamburg – Sammlung Falckenberg, Hamburg, Germany; ZKM Museum für neue Kunst, Karlsruhe, Germany Circa 1986, Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Peekskill, US Through the looking Brain – A Swiss Collection of Conceptual Photography, Kunstmuseum St. Gallen, Switzerland; Kunstmuseum Bonn, Germany If you lived here, you’d be home by now, CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Arts, Annandale-on-Hudson, US Perspectives – On the Borders of Art and Philosophy, Reykjavik Art Museum, Iceland The Dwelling Life of Men. Photographs from the Martin Z. Margulies Collection, Fundación Barrié, A Coruna, Spain Contemporary Collecting: The Judith Neisser Collection, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, US In Praise of Doubt, Punta della Dogana, Francois Pinault Foundation, Venice, Italy Le Mois de la Photo à Montréal. Lucidité. Vues de l’intérieur / Lucidity. Inward views, Galerie de L’Uqam, Montréal, Canada Series of Portraits: A Century of Photographs, Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg, Germany Without Destination, Reykjavik Art Museum, Iceland Personal Tempest, Neue Galerie, Innsbruck, Austria He Disappeared into Complete Silence: Re-reading a single artwork by Louise Bourgeois, Museum de Hallen, Haarlem, The Netherlands Wide Angle: Photography and its influence on contemporary art – A Selection, Vanderbilt University Fine Arts Gallery, Nashville, US Unforgettable: Selections from the Emily Fisher Landau Collection, Fisher Landau Center for Art, Long Island City, US Hertie Querty, Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow, Scotland Vision is elastic. Thought is elastic, Murray Guy, New York, US
2010 I believe in Miracles. 10th Anniversary of the Lambert Collection, Collection Lambert, Avignon, France Compass in Hand: Selections from the Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection, Institut Valencia d’Art Modern, Valencia, Spain Haunted: Contemporary Photography/Video/Performance, Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao, Spain EXHIBITION EXHIBITION, Castello di Rivoli, Turin, Italy Thanks for being with us: Contemporary Art from the Douglas Nielsen Collection, Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, US ATLAS. How to carry the world on one’s back?, Museo Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain Languages and Experimentations. Young artists in a contemporary collection, Mart Rovereto Museo di Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto, Rovereto, Italy Contemporary Collecting: Selections from the Donna and Howard Stone Collection, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, US Habiter poétiquement le monde. Exposition inaugurale, Lille Métropole Musée d’Art Contemporain et d’Art Brut, Lille, France Hope! Une exposition d’art contemporain sur l’espoir, Palais des Arts et du Festival Dinard, Dinard, France 10.000 Lives, Gwangju Biennale Hall, Gwangju Museum of Art, The Eighth Gwangju Biennale, Korea Not Cooperative, The Luckman Fine Art Complex, California State University, Los Angeles, US Presentation of the Collection. 20th and 21st Century, Folkwang Museum, Essen, Germany Collection: MOCA’s First Thirty Years, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, US Pictures by Women: A History of Modern Photography, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, US Che cosa sono le nuvole? Works from the Enea Righi Collection, Musei Bolzano, Bolzano, Italy THE PRIVATE MUSEUM, Galleria d’Arte Moderna, Bergamo, Italy Drawn / Taped / Burned: Abstraction on Paper, Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, US Unsettled Objects, Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow, Scotland
2009 Look at me. Faces and Gazes in Art 1969 – 2009, Museo Cantonale d’Arte, Lugano, Switzerland Continuous Present, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, US Retour de Rome. De la Villa Médicis à la Collection Lambert en Avignon, Collection Lambert, Avignon, France Holbein to Tillmans. Prominent Guests from the Kunstmuseum Basel, Schaulager, Basel, Switzerland Rencontres d’ Arles 2009, Grande Halle, Arles, France Espèces d’ Espaces (Species of Spaces), Yvon Lambert, New York, US Compass in Hand: Selections from The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection, MoMA Museum of Modern Art, New York, US Wall Rockets: Contemporary Artists and Ed Ruscha, Abright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, US Double Object, Thomas Dane Gallery, London, UK elles@centrepompidou, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France Isabelle Huppert: Woman of many Faces, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China Manmade: Notions of Landscape from the Lannan Collection, New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fe, US Paired, Gold: Felix Gonzalez-Torres and Roni Horn, Guggenheim Museum, New York, US An die Natur III, Altana Kunstsammlung im Sinclair Haus, Bad Homburg, Germany
2008 Collection Selection, Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Basel, Switzerland The Sum of its Parts, Cheim & Read, New York, US Nina in Position, Artists Space, New York, US The Complexity of the Simple, L&M Arts, New York, US Always begins by Degrees, The Common Guild, Glasgow, Scotland True North, Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin, Germany Cose mai viste, Terme di Diocleziano, Rome, Italy Zeichnung als Prozess / Drawing as Process, Folkwang Museum, Essen, Germany The Grand Tour. Exhibition of the Collection Lambert en Avignon at the Villa Medici in Rome, Villa Medici, Rome, Italy Many Kinds of Nothing, Montserrat College of Art Gallery, Beverly, US An die Natur. ALTANA Kunstsammlung, Museum Frieder Burda, Baden-Baden, Germany Mental Drawings, Galleria Alessandra Bonomo, Rome, Italy Quiet Politics, Zwirner & Wirth, New York, US Academia. Qui es-tu?, Chapelle de l’Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris, France Pleinairism, i8 Gallery, Reykjavik, Iceland Elements and Unknowns, MoMA – The Museum of Modern Art, New York, US Wall Rockets: Contemporary Artists and Ed Ruscha, FLAG Art Foundation, New York, US Lines, Grids, Stains, Words, Museu de Serralves, Porto, Portugal; Museum Wiesbaden, Germany
2007 Water, The Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts, St. Louis, US Equal, That Is, To The Real Itself, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, US Im Fluss. Künstlerpublikationen mit Blick aufs Wasser, Neues Museum Weserburg, Bremen, Germany Grey Water, The Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australia Art for Yale: Acquisitions for a New Century, YUAG Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, US Richard Artschwager / Louise Bourgeois / Roni Horn / Raymond Pettibon, Xavier Hufkens, Brussels, Belgium Japan und der Westen. Die erfüllte Leere und der moderne Minimalismus, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Germany Lines, Grids, Stains, Words, MoMA – The Museum of Modern Art, New York, US From the Earth to the Moon, Castello di Rivoli, Turin, Italy Die Kunst zu Sammeln, Museum Kunstpalast, Dusseldorf, Germany Towards A New Ease – Set 4 from the Collection of the Fotomuseum Winterthur, Fotomuseum Winterthur, Winterthur, Switzerland Repeated Performances: Roni Horn and Ragnar Kjartansson, Hessel Museum of Art - Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, US Pure, Sean Kelly Gallerie, New York, US Paint it Blue, Neues Museum Weserburg Bremen, Bremen, Germany The Suspended Moment, Z33, Hasselt, Belgium The Guggenheim: Contemporary Art. Matthew Barney, Douglas Gordon, Anna Gaskell, Roni Horn, Inigo Manglano-Ovalle, u.a, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn, Germany Façade, Krannert Art Museum, Champaign, US J’embrasse pas, Collection Lambert, Avignon, France Works from Multiplex: Directions in Art, 1970 to Now, MoMA – The Museum of Modern Art, New York, US Sculpture, James Kelly Contemporary, Santa Fe, US The Shapes of Space, Guggenheim Museum, New York, US Everstill, La Huerta de San Vicente. Casa-Museo Federico Garcia Lorca, Granada, Spain
2006 Dedica- Vent’anni con Alfonso Artiaco, Pallazo delle Arti Napoli, Italy Galerie Patrick Seguin invites Hauser & Wirth, Galerie Patrick Seguin, Paris, France Wrestle, Hessel Museum of Art / CCS Galleries Bard College, Annandale-on Hudson, US Against the Grain: Contemporary Art from the Edward R. Broida Collection, MoMA – The Museum of Modern Art, New York, US Time Frame, P.S.1. Contemporary Art Center – MoMA, New York, US Helga de Alvear. Concepts for a Collection, Exhibition Centre of Centro Cultural de Belém, Brazil Medium Fotografie, Galerie Stampa, Basel, Switzerland Le Paradoxe du Comédien. Les Figures de l’Acteur, Collection Lambert. Musée d’Art Contemporain, Avignon, France O Momento Suspendido. Colección H&F, MARCO – Museo d’Arte Contemporànea, Vigo, Spain III Naturale, Museo di Fotografia Contemporanea, Cinisello Balsamo, Italy See into Liquid, Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver, US Photo Books Now, San Francisco Center for the Book, San Francisco, US Recent Drawings: Robert Gober, Roni Horn, Jasper Johns, Ellsworth Kelly, Brice Marden, Ken Price, Charles Ray, Terry Winters, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York, US Plane / Figure, Kunstmuseum Winterthur, Winterthur, Switzerland Artists for Chinati, Phillips de Pury & Company, New York, US Skin is a Language, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, US Responding to Kahn: A Sculptural Conversation, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, US
2005 Isabelle Huppert: La Femme aux Portraits, P.S.1. Contemporary Art Center – MoMA, New York, US Zoo Story, Fisher Landau Center for Art, Long Island City, US Looking at Words. The Formal Presence of Text in Modern and Contemporary Works on Paper, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York, US Coleccion Fundacion, Forum Caixa, Barcelona, Spain Over Sight, Hessel Museum of Art / CCS Galleries Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, US Theorema, Collection Lambert, Avignon, France Douglas Gordon’s The Vanity of Allegory, Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin, Germany Water, Water Everywhere…, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, US Landscape, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, US Drawing from the Modern 1975-2005, MoMA – The Museum of Modern Art, New York, US Le Tableau des Eléments, MAC’s-Musée des Arts Contemporains du Grand-Hornu, Grand-Hornu, Belgium Offwhite: Carte Grise à Geneviève Cadieux, Dazibao, Centre de photographies actuelles, Montréal, Canada Le Temps Suspendu, CRAC Alsace – Centre Rhénan d’Art Contemporain, Altkirch, France Cromosoma X, Galleria Sottopasso della Stua, Genova, Italy Taking In Water, Art Gallery & Museum. The Royal Royal Pump Rooms, Royal Leamington Spa, UK Through the Looking Glass, Lewis Glucksman Gallery, Cork, Ireland An Aside. Selected by Tacita Dean, Camden Arts Centre, London, UK; The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland; The Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea, UK Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Roni Horn, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York, US Ocean 11212-W, Galleria Raffaella Cortese, Milan, Italy Suspended Narratives, Lora Reynolds Gallery, Austin, US
2004
Reykjavik Arts Festival, Reykjavik, Iceland Für die Konstruktion des Unmöglichen, European Kunsthalle, Cologne, Germany L’Ombre du Temps, Centre National du Jeu de Paume, Paris, France Fotografie und Video: Bill Viola, Gary Hill, Roni Horn, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, Germany I am the Walrus, Cheim and Read, New York, US In Extremis, Les Abattoirs, Centre d’art Contemporain, Toulouse, France Cavebirds, Galleria Raffaella Cortese, Milan, Italy Soft Edge, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, US The Big Nothing, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, US
Le Printemps de Settembre, Toulouse, France Vague II Hommages et Digressions, Musée Malraux, Le Havre, France Memoria y Paisaje. Memory and Landscape, La Casa Encendida, Madrid, Spain Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, US Singular Forms. Sometimes Repeated: Art from 1651 to the Present, Guggenheim Museum, New York, US A Fripon. Fripon et Demi, Collection Lambert en Avignon, Avignon, France Sand in der Vaseline. Künstlerbücher 1980 bis 2002, Neues Museum in Nürnberg, Germany Lei – Donne nelle Collezioni Italiane, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, Italy Beyond Tradition: Permanent Collection Photographs, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, US Fresh: Works on Paper, James Kelly / Contemporary, Santa Fe, US Schriftbilder/Bilderschrift, Galerie von Bartha, Basel, Switzerland
2003 Sand in der Vaseline. Künstlerbücher 1980 bis 2002, Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt, Germany Game over, Grimm / Rosenfeld, Munich, Germany Stretch, The Power Plant, Toronto, Canada
La Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy Capp Street Project: 20th Anniversary Exhibition, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, US
Selected Awards
2011
Aspen Award for Art
2001
The Citibank Private Bank Photography Prize (Short-listed)
1998
Sculpture Award, Sculpture Center, New York, US
Alpert Award in the Arts, Los Angeles, US
1996
Engelhard Foundation Artist Residency, Bequia, Iceland
1990
NEA Artist’s Fellowship, Washington D.C., US
Guggenheim Fellowship, New York, US
1988
AVA 7, Awards in the Visual Arts, North Carolina, US
1986
NEA Artist’s Fellowship, Washington D.C., US
1984
NEA Artist’s Fellowship, Washington D.C., US
1983
Humanities Development Grant, Colgate University, Hamilton, US
1978
Ford Foundation Grant, New Haven, US
Alice Kimball Travelling Fellowship, from Yale University, New Haven CT1990
Artist-in-Residence Grant, New York State Council on the Arts, New York, US