BORN 1911 Paris, France

EDUCATION

1932-35 Sorbonne, Paris

1936-37 Ecole du Louvre

1936-38 Ecole des Beaux-Arts

1936-37 Atelier Bissiere

1937-38 Academie de la Grande Chaumiere

1938 Fernand Leger

1939-40 Vaclav Vytlacil

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2008 

Museo Nazionale di Capodimonte, Naples, Italy “Louise Bourgeois” 

2007-2008

Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA “Bourgeois in Boston”  (3/27/07-3/2/08)

Tate Modern, London, England “Louise Bourgeois: Retrospective” (10/9/07-1/20/08).  Traveled to the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France (2/19/08-6/2/08); Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY (7/1/08-10/1/08); Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA (10/1/08-1/1/09); Hirshhorn Museum & Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C. (2/5/09-5/15/09)

2001-2002

Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Bilbao, Spain “Louise Bourgeois” (10/2/01-4/21/02)

Cheim & Read, New York, NY “Louise Bourgeois: New Work” (11/20/01-1/5/02)

Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, MA "Louise Bourgeois: Sleepwalking" (11/24/01-8/31/02)

2001

Galerie Karsten Greve, Paris "Louise Bourgeois" (2/10/01-3/31/01)

C&M Arts, New York, NY “Louise Bourgeois: The Personages”  (4/12/01-6/9/01)

Akademie Der Bildenden Kunste Wien, Vienna, Austria “Louise Bourgeois: Reconstruction of the Past”(4/24/01-5/27/01).  Traveled to the Kunstraum Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria (6/6/01-9/29/01)

Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery, Columbia University, New York, NY  “Louise Bourgeois: Illustrated Books” (4/25/01-6/9/01)

Blumarts, New York, NY “Louise Bourgeois and Yayoi Kusama”  (6/5/01-9/15/01)

Rockefeller Center, New York, NY "Louise Bourgeois: Spiders” (6/21/01-9/4/01), organized in association with the Public Art Fund.  

Musée d’Art Américain, Giverny “Louise Bourgeois: Livres Illustrés” (9/11/01-11/30/01)

Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, MA “75th Anniversary Sculpture: Louise Bourgeois” (inauguration of large outdoor sculpture  commission on 10/6/01 in front of the school’s art museum)

2000-2001

Grafiska Sallskapet, Stockholm, Sweden "Louise Bourgeois" (4/29/00-

  5/17/00). 

  Traveled to Norrköpings Konstmuseum, Norrköping, Sweden (6/7/00-

  9/10/00); Göteborgs Konstmuseum, Göteborg, Sweden (9/30/00-1/7/01) 

Galerie Lelong, Paris, France “Louise Bourgeois: Prints 1990-2000” (9/21/00-10/28/00)

  Kappatos Gallery, Athens, Greece “Louise Bourgeois” (10/4/00-11/25/00) 

Tate Modern, London, England “Louise Bourgeois: The Insomnia Drawings”

(12/00-5/01)

2000

National Museum of Contemporary Art, Korea

1999

Museo Nacional Centro de Arte - Reina Sofia, Madrid

“Topiary, 1998,” Piece Unique, Paris

Galerie Karsten Greve, Koln

Galerie Karsten Greve, Cologne, Germany

1998

Musée d’Art Contemporain, Bordeaux, France

“Topiary,” Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

1997-98

Chicago Arts Club, Chicago

1997

Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama, Japan

Xavier Hufkens Gallery, Brussels.

Centro Cultural Banco Cultural do Brasil, Rio de Janeiro

Prada Foundation, Milan, Italy

1996

Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA

1995-96

National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne; (travels to: Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, The Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, England)

MARCO, Monterrey, Mexico, (travels Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporaneo, Seville, Spain; Museo Rufino Tamayo, Mexico City)

1995

Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France

1994-96

"The Locus of Memory", (travelled to The Brooklyn Museum, New York; The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; Galerie Rudolfinum, Prague, Czech Republic: Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris; Deichtorhallen, Hamburg; Musée d'Art Contemporain de Montréal)

1994-95

Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY

1993 American Pavilion, Venice Biennale, Italy

1987-89 The Taft Museum, Cincinnati, OH; (travelled to The Art Museum at Florida International University, Miami, FL; Laguna Gloria Art Museum, Austin, TX; Gallery of Art, Washington University, St. Louis, MO; Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY )

1987 “Paintings from the 1940’s,” Robert Miller Gallery, New York

Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA

1985 Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, England

1982 “Bourgeois Truth,” Robert Miller Gallery, New York

Museum of Modern Art, New York, (travelled to Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL; Akron Art Museum, Akron, OH)

Selected Group Exhibitions:

2000 Tate Gallery, London

"The Likeness of Being: Contemporary Self-Portraits by 50 Women," DC Moore

Gallery, New York, NY

1999-2000 Whitney Museum of American Art, New York "The American Century:

Art & Culture, 1950-2000"

"Regarding Beauty: A View of the Late 20th Century," Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington DC 1997

“Whitney Biennial,” Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

1996 “Body in Contemporary Art,” Gagosian Gallery, New York

1995 "Revolution in Contemporary Art: “The Art of the Sixties”, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo

"Rights of Passage,” The Tate Gallery, London

1993 Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice, "Drawing the Line Against AIDS",

under the aegis of the 45th Venice Biennale. Reinstalled

at the Guggenheim Museum Soho, New York

"The Elusive Object: Recent Sculpture From The Permanent Collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art” The Whitney Museum of American Art, Stamford, CT

1992 "From Brancusi to Bourgeois: Aspects of the Guggenheim Collection,” Guggenheim Museum Soho, New York

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York

“Documenta IX,” Kassel, Germany

1991 “Art of the Forties,” Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY

1989 “Magiciens de la Terre,” Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France

1987 “La Femme et le Surréalisme,” Musée Cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne, Switzerland

1986 Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA

1984-85 “Primitism,” Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY

1976 Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY

1975 “Sculpture: American Sculpture,” National Collection of Fine Arts, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.

1951 Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY

1945 Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY

Selected Public Collections:

Australian National Gallery, Canberra, Australia

British Museum, London, England

Brooklyn Museum, New York

Guggenheim Museum, New York

Kunstmuseum Bern, Bern, Switzerland

Hakone Open-Air Museum, Tokyo, Japan

Hirshhorn Museum, Washington D.C.

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX

Museum of Modern Art, New York

Musée d'art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, France

Musée National d'Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou

National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC

National Gallery of Victoria, Australia

Olympic Park, Seoul, Korea

Reina Sophia, Madrid

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA

Tate Gallery, London

Tokyo International Forum Art Work Project, Japan

Uffizi Museum, Florence, Italy

Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN

Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

Selected Awards:

1999 Wexner Center Honoree

Golden Lion, Board of La Biennale di Venezia, 48th International Exhibition of Art

Praemium Imperiale Award of Japan

1996 First Annual Urban Glass Awards for Innovative Use of Glass by a Non- Glass Artist.

Commission for Battery Park City Authority for the Robert F. Wagner, Jr. Park, New York

National Medal of Arts presented by President Clinton at the White House

1995 The Ueno Royal Museum, Tokyo and The Hakone Open-Air Museum, Kanagawa-ken, Japan, 1995 Biennial Award and

Purchase prize for ARCH OF HYSTERIA

Honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts, Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois

1994 NORD/LB art prize 1992

1993 Honorary Doctorate in Fine Arts (DFA) by Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, New York

Mayor's Awards for Art & Culture, New York City

Maison Francaise, New York University

1991 Lifetime Achievement Award, International Sculpture Center, Washington, DC, (first recipient)

Awarded the Grand Prix National de Sculpture by the French Ministry of Culture

1990 MacDowell Medalist, MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, New Hampshire

The Sculpture Center, New York, “The Sculpture Center Award for Distinction in Sculpture 1990”

1987 Honorary Doctorate, The New School, New York

Gold Medal of Honor for Excellence in Art, National Arts Club, New York

Named Fellow for Life at Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

1985 Skowhegan Medal for Sculpture, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, Maine