Louise Bourgeois

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

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

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