Louise Bourgeois Song of the Blacks and Blues 1989-1996
Louise Bourgeois The Ladders 2006
Louise Bourgeois The Sky is the Limit 2008
Biography
1911
Born in Paris, France
1932 - 1935
Studies at the Sorbonne, Paris, France
1936 - 1937
Studies at the École du Louvre, Paris, France
1936 - 1938
Studies at the École des Beaux-Arts, Paris, France
1937 - 1938
Pupil of Fernand Léger
1938
Emigrates to the USA, New York
1980
Award for Outstanding Achievement in the Visual Arts from Women’s Caucus for Art
1981
Elected Fellow of American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Boston, MA
1983
Elected Member of American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, NY
1983
Named Officier de L’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, by Jack Lang, French Minister of Culture
1987
Gold Medal of Honor for Excellence in Art, National Arts Club, New York
1987
Named Fellow for Life at Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
1989
“Distinguished Artist Award for Lifetime Achievement”, College Art Association
1989
“Neptune Award for the Arts”, Snug Harbor, Staten Island, NY
1991
Lifetime Achievement Award, International Sculpture Center, Washington D.C. (first recipient)
1991
Awarded the Grand Prix National de Sculpture by the French Ministry of Culture
1993
Mayor’s Awards for Art & Culture, New York City
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
1997
National Medal of Arts presented by President Clinton at the White House
1998
Academician of the National Academy, New York, Sculpture Class
1999
Awarded the Golden Lion, for a living master of contemporary art, by La Biennale di Venezia
1999
Praemium Imperiale Award in the sculpture category from the Japan Art Association
2003
2002/3 Wolf Prize in the Arts (Painting and Sculpture), Wolf Foundation, Israel
2006
National Organization For Women, Washington D.C. “The 2006 Intrepid Award”
Lives and works in New York
Exhibitions
2010
Hans Bellmer – Louise Bourgeois: Double Sexus, Sammlung Scharf-Gerstenberg, Nationalgalerie, Berlin; Gemeentemuseum, Den Haag, Netherlands
2009
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC, USA (solo)
2009
Louise Bourgeois. A Stretch of Time, Galerie Karsten Greve Köln, Cologne, Germany
2008
Centre Pompidou, Paris, France (solo)
2008
Louise Bourgeois, Museo Nazionale di Capodimonte, Naples, Italy (solo)
2007 - 2008
Bourgeois in Boston, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA (solo)
2007 - 2008
Seduced: Art and Sex from Antiquity to Now, Barbican Centre, London
2007 - 2008
Louise Bourgeois: Retrospective, Tate Modern, London; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Hirshhorn Museum & Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C. (solo)
2007
Xavier Hufkens Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
2007
After the Revolution: Woman Who Transformed Contemporary Art, Dorsky Gallery, Long Island City, NY, USA
2007
Louise Bourgeois, Fernando Sánchez Castillo, Jan Svenungsson, The WANAS Foundation, Knislinge, Sweden
2007
52nd International Art Exhibition, Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
2007
All the More Real, Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, NY, USA
2007
Louise Bourgeois: Abstraction, Kukje Gallery, Seoul, Korea (solo)
2007
Louise Bourgeois, Storm King Art Center, Mountainville, NY, USA (solo)
2007
Space: Places of Art, Akademie Der Kunste, Berlin-Mitte, Germany
2007
30th Anniversary Exhibition, Decades 1980-1990, Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, IL, USA
2007
Wack! Art and the Feminist Revolution, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA, USA; National Women's Museum, Washington D.C.; PS1, New York, NY
2007
Pure, Sean Kelly, New York, NY
2007
Timer: Intimacy, La Triennale di Milano, Milan, Italy
2007
Airs de Paris, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
2006
Louise Bourgeois, Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany (solo)
2005
Sublimation, Hauser & Wirth London, London (solo)
2005
Stitches in Time, Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami, FL, USA (solo)
2005
Wifredo Lam Centre, Havana, Cuba (solo)
2005
51st International Art Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy
2005
Permanent Instability, Istanbul Modern, Istanbul, Turkey
2004
La Femme: Métamorphose de la modernité, Fundació Joan Miro, Barcelona, Spain
2004
Disparities and Deformations, Site Santa Fe's 5th International Biennal, Santa Fe, NM, USA
2004
Louise Bourgeois, Daros Collection, Zurich, Switzerland (solo)
2003
Louise Bourgeois, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, cur. Julie Sylvester Cabot, Humlebaek, DK, USA (solo)
2003
Louise Bourgeois. Installation at Inauguration of Dia: Beacon, Dia Center for the Arts, New York, NY (solo)
2003
Louise Bourgeois. The Insomnia Drawings, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY (solo)
2003
Happiness. A Survival Guide for Art and Life, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
2003
Louise Bourgeois and James Lee Byars, Musée National d’art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
2002
Documenta XI, Kassel, Germany
2002
The House of Fiction, Sammlung Hauser & Wirth, St. Gallen, Switzerland
2002
Surrealism. Desire Unbound, Tate Modern, London; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
2002
Louise Bourgeois. Works in Marble, Galerie Hauser & Wirth, Zurich, Switzerland (solo)
2002
Louise Bourgeois. Le Jour La Nuit Le Jour, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France (solo)
2001
Louise Bourgeois, Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Bilbao, Spain (solo)
2001
Louise Bourgeois, The State Hermitage Museum, cur. Julie Sylvester Cabot, St. Petersburg, Russia (solo)
2001
Vital Forms: American Art and Design in the Atomic Age 1940-1960, Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York, NY
2001
Rodin to Baselitz. The Torso in Modern Sculpture, Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany
2000
Agents of Change, 12th Biennale of Sidney, cur. Harald Szeemann, Fumio Nanjo [et al.], Sidney, Australia
2000
Louise Bourgeois, Tate Modern, London (solo)
2000
Louise Bourgeois. Neue Arbeiten/Recent Works, Galerie Hauer & Wirth, Zurich, Switzerland (solo)
1999
Louise Bourgeois. Memoria y arquitectura, Museo Nacional, Centro de Arte Reina Sofìa, Madrid, Spain (solo)
1999
Louise Bourgeois, Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany (solo)
1999
The American Century. Art & Culture. 1950-2000, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
1999
Hirshhorn Museum/Sculpture Garden, ‘Regarding Beauty. A View of the Late 20th Century‘, Washington DC
1999
dAPERTutto, XLVIII Esposizione Internazionale d’arte, Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy
1999
Looking for a Place, SITE, Santa Fe, NM, USA
1998
Mirror Images. Women, Surrealism and Self-Representation, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco CA, USA
1998
Wounds. Between Democracy and Redemption in Contemporary Art, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
1998
XXIV Sao Paulo Biennial, Sao Paulo, Brazil
1998
Louise Bourgeois. Recent Work, Serpentine Gallery, London (solo)
1998
Past Tense. Louise Bourgeois, The Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada (solo)
1998
Louise Bourgeois: Topiary, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY (solo)
1996
‘Louise Bourgeois. Der Ort des Gedächtnisses Skulpturen, Environments und Zeichnungen. 1946-1995, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, Germany (solo)
1996
Red Room, Galerie Hauser & Wirth, Zurich, Switzerland (solo)
1995
Louise Bourgeois. Sculptures, environnements, dessins. 1938-1995, Musée d’Art moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France (solo)
