Lawrence Weiner

Lawrence Weiner

(b. 1942, The Bronx, New York. Lives and works in New York and Amsterdam.)

Lawrence Weiner has exhibited at the Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona, Spain (2013), the Jewish Museum, New York (2012), the Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg (2000), the Museum Ludwig, Cologne (1995), the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis (1994), the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden (1990), and the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. (1990). An important traveling retrospective of his work was shown at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, the K21 Kunstsammlung Nordhein-Westfalen, Dusseldorf, and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2007-2008). He has participated in Documenta V (1972), VI (1977), VII (1982), and XIII (2012) the Venice Biennale (2013, 2003, 1984, and 1972) as well as the Biennale Sao Paolo in 2006. Among his many honors are the National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships (1976 and 1983), a Guggenheim Fellowship (1994), Wolfgang Hahn Prize (1995), and a Skowhegan Medal for Painting/Conceptual Art (1999). In 2013 he was awarded the Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from the Graduate Center, City University of New York.

RECENT SOLO SHOWS

2009
THE OTHER SIDE OF A CUL-DE-SAC, The Power Plant, Toronto, Ontario
2008
AS FAR AS THE EYE CAN SEE, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California; K21 Kunstsammlung Nordhein-Westfalen, Dusseldorf, Germany
THE CREST OF A WAVE, Fundació Suñol, Barcelona, Spain
2007
AS FAR AS THE EYE CAN SEE, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York
INHERENT IN THE RHUMB LINE, The National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, England

RECENT GROUP SHOWS

2009
"Text/Messages: Books by Artists," Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota
"REGIFT," Swiss Institute, New York, New York
2008
"Intervention/Decoration, Foreground," Frome, Somerset, England
Ambition d'Art, Institut d'Art Contemporain, Villeurbanne, France
"Order. Desire. Light: An exhibition of Contemporary Drawings," Irish Museum of Modern Art (IMMA), Dublin, Ireland
2007
52nd International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy
Artememoria 4, Scavi de Ostia Antica, Italy

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Lawrence Weiner Publications

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Monsters from the Deep
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Por Si Mismo
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Having Been Said
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