(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 won first prize in the Kodak Photography International competition in 1964. 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 Museo de Arte Moderno in Buenos Aires (1999) and the Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris (2004). 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. She won the Golden Lion Award at the 2005 Venice Biennale.
RECENT SOLO SHOWS
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
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
