For more than thirty years, Jenny Holzer has presented her astringent ideas, arguments and sorrows in public places and international exhibitions, including 7 World Trade Center, the Reichstag, the Venice Biennale, the Guggenheim Museums in New York and Bilbao and the Whitney Museum of American Art. Her medium, whether formulated as a T-shirt, as a plaque, or as an LED sign, is writing, and the public dimension is integral to the delivery of her work.

Starting in the 1970s with the New York City posters, and up to her recent light projections on landscape and architecture, her practice has rivaled ignorance and violence with humor, kindness and courage. Holzer received the Leone d'Oro at the Venice Biennale in 1990 and the Crystal Award from the World Economic Forum in 1996. She holds honorary degrees from Ohio University, Williams College, the Rhode Island School of Design, The New School and Smith College. She received the Barnard Medal of Distinction in 2011.

Holzer lives and works in New York.

Exhibitions

2017 Softer: Jenny Holzer Blenheim Palace, Woodstock, UK
2012 The Future Please L&M Gallery, Los Angeles, US
2012 SOPHISTICATED DEVICES Sprüth Magers, London, UK
2012 Endgame Sprüth Magers, Berlin, DE
2012 Endgame Skarstedt Gallery, New York, USA
2011 Jenny Holzer Kukje Gallery, Seoul, KR
2011 Jenny Holzer Art Stations Foundation, Poznan, PL
2011 For Krakow Art Boom Festival, Krakow, PL
2011 Jenny Holzer Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin, DE
2010 TOP SECRET Galerie Yvon Lambert, Paris, FR
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Galleries

Sprüth Magers Berlin London
Cheim & Read
Galerie Yvon Lambert