(b. 1943, Berck-sur-Mer, France. Lives and works in Malakoff, France.)
Annette Messager studied at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs, Paris. She received the Golden Lion for Best National Participation at the 51st Venice Biennale (French Pavilion, 2005). In 1995 the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and New York's Museum of Modern Art co-organized her first major American retrospective. She has had solo exhibitions at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Strasbourg (2012), the Centre Pompidou, Paris (2007), the Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris (2004) and the Reina Sofia (1999). She also exhibited in the Biennale de Paris (1977), Documenta VI (1977) and XI (2002), the Biennale of Sydney (1979, 1984, and 1990), the Venice Biennale (1980, 2003, and 2005), and the Biennale d'Art Contemporain de Lyon in 2000.
RECENT SOLO SHOWS
2012
Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, New York
Annette Messager: Black Continents, Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Strasbourg
2010
Annette Messager, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Monterrey, Mexico
Annette Messager, Multimedia Complex of Actual Arts, Moscow, Russia
Annette Messager, Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, Poland
2009
The Messengers, Haywood Gallery, London, England
2008
Annette Messager, EMMA Museum of Modern Art, Espoo, Finland; National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, South Korea; Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
2007
Annette Messager, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
RECENT GROUP SHOWS
2013
Women Take Over, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle
Ressources poetiques, Les Abattoirs de Toulouse, Toulouse, France
2012
Sous-Vent (collection), K21, Düsseldorf, Germany
Of Toys and Men, Helsinki Art Museum, Helsinki, Finland
Les Maitres du Désordre, Musée du Quai Branly, Paris
La danse du Scalp for Cheveux chéris : Frivolités et Trophées, Musée du Quai Branly, Paris
2011
El intervalo luminoso: The D.Daskalopoulos Collection, Museo Guggenheim de Arte Moderno y Contemporáneo, Bilbao, Spain
You Have Been There, Galerie Marian Goodman, Paris
Light Years: Conceptual Art and the Photograph, 1964–1977, The Art Institute
of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Tour de France/Florida: Contemporary Artists from France in Florida's Private Collections, Frost Art Museum, Miami, FL
2010
elles@centrepompidou, artistes femmes dans les collections du Centre Pompidou, Centre Pompidou – Musée National d’Art Moderne, Paris, France
Haunted: Contemporary Photography/Video/Performance, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
Sexuality and Transcendence, Pinchuk Art Centre, Kiev, Ukraine
Desire and Vice: The Seven Deadly Sins from Dürer to Nauman, Kunstmuseum Bern, Bern, Switzerland
2009
Silences: A view by Marin Karmitz, Musée d'Art Moderne et Contemporain de Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France; Museu Colecçao Berardo, Lisbon, Portugal
elles@centrepompidou, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
2008
The Puppet Show, ICA, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia; Santa Monica
Museum of Art, Santa Monica, California; The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, Hawaii; Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, Texas; The Frye Art Museum, Seattle, Washington
2007 WACK!, Art and the Feminist Revolution, The Geffen Contemporary at
MOCA, Los Angeles; Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC; PS 1, Long Island City, New York