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Louise Bourgeois Biography
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1911 |
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Born: in Paris, France
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1932 - 1935 |
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Studied at the Sorbonne, Paris, France
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1936 - 1937 |
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Studied at the École du Louvre, Paris, France
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1936 - 1938 |
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Studied at the École des Beaux-Arts, Paris, France
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1937 - 1938 |
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Pupil of Fernand Léger
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1938 |
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Emigrated to the USA, New York, NY
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1980 |
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Received Award for Outstanding Achievement in the Visual Arts from Women’s Caucus for Art
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1981 |
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Elected Fellow of American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Boston, MA
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1983 |
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Elected Member of American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, New York, NY
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1983 |
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Named Officier de L’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, Paris, France
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1987 |
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Gold Medal of Honor for Excellence in Art, National Arts Club, New York, NY
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1987 |
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Named Fellow for Life at Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
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1989 |
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Neptune Award for the Arts, Snug Harbor, Staten Island, NY
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1991 |
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Lifetime Achievement Award, International Sculpture Center, Washington D.C. (first recipient)
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1991 |
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Awarded the Grand Prix National de Sculpture, French Ministry of Culture, Paris, France
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1993 |
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Mayor’s Awards for Art & Culture, New York, NY
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1997 |
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National Medal of Arts presented by President Clinton at the White House, Washington D.C.
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1998 |
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Academician of the National Academy, New York, NY
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1999 |
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Awarded the Golden Lion, for a living master of contemporary art,Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy
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2006 |
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National Organization For Women, Washington D.C. “The 2006 Intrepid Award”
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2010 |
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Died: in New York, NY
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| Selected Exhibitions |
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2011 - 2012
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Louise Bourgeois: À l’infini, Hommage zum 100. Geburtstag, Foundation Beyeler / Beyeler Museum AG, Riehen, Switzerland
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2011
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Louise Bourgeois: The Return of the Repressed, Fundación Proa, Buenos Aires, Argentina, The Instituto Tomie Ohtake, Sao Paulo, Brazil, Museu do Arte Moderno, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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2011
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THE DAMNED, THE POSSESSED AND THE BELOVED, installation piece, unveiled on June 23rd, 2011 in Vardo, Norway
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2010
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Otto Zitko & Louise Bourgeois Me, Myself and I Arnolfini, Bristol, UK
Hans Bellmer – Louise Bourgeois: Double Sexus, Sammlung Scharf-Gerstenberg, Nationalgalerie, Berlin; Gemeentemuseum, Den Haag, Netherlands
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2009
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Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC (solo)
Louise Bourgeois. A Stretch of Time, Galerie Karsten Greve Köln, Cologne, Germany (solo)
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2008
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Centre Pompidou, Paris, France (solo)
Louise Bourgeois, Museo Nazionale di Capodimonte, Naples, Italy (solo)
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2007 - 2008
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Bourgeois in Boston, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA (solo)
Seduced: Art and Sex from Antiquity to Now, Barbican Centre, London, UK
Louise Bourgeois: Retrospective, Tate Modern, London, UK; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA; Hirshhorn Museum & Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C. (solo)
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2007
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Pure, Sean Kelly, New York, NY
Louise Bourgeois, Storm King Art Center, Mountainville, NY (solo)
Louise Bourgeois: Abstraction, Kukje Gallery, Seoul, Korea (solo)
Xavier Hufkens Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
After the Revolution: Woman Who Transformed Contemporary Art, Dorsky Gallery, Long Island City, NY
Louise Bourgeois, Fernando Sánchez Castillo, Jan Svenungsson, The WANAS Foundation, Knislinge, Sweden
52nd International Art Exhibition, Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
All the More Real, Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, NY
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2006
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Louise Bourgeois, Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany (solo)
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2005
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Sublimation, Hauser & Wirth London, London, UK (solo)
Stitches in Time, Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami, FL (solo)
Wifredo Lam Centre, Havana, Cuba (solo)
51st International Art Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy
Permanent Instability, Istanbul Modern, Istanbul, Turkey
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2004
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La Femme: Métamorphose de la modernité, Fundació Joan Miro, Barcelona, Spain
Disparities and Deformations, Site Santa Fe's 5th International Biennal, Santa Fe, NM
Louise Bourgeois, Daros Collection, Zurich, Switzerland (solo)
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2003
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Louise Bourgeois, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, cur. Julie Sylvester Cabot, Humlebaek, DK (solo)
Louise Bourgeois. Installation at Inauguration of Dia: Beacon, Dia Center for the Arts, New York, NY (solo)
Louise Bourgeois. The Insomnia Drawings, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY (solo)
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2002
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Documenta XI, Kassel, Germany
The House of Fiction, Sammlung Hauser & Wirth, St. Gallen, Switzerland
Surrealism. Desire Unbound, Tate Modern, London; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Louise Bourgeois. Works in Marble, Galerie Hauser & Wirth, Zurich, Switzerland (solo)
Louise Bourgeois. Le Jour La Nuit Le Jour, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France (solo)
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2001
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Louise Bourgeois, Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Bilbao, Spain (solo)
Louise Bourgeois, The State Hermitage Museum, cur. Julie Sylvester Cabot, St. Petersburg, Russia (solo)
Vital Forms: American Art and Design in the Atomic Age 1940-1960, Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York, NY
Rodin to Baselitz. The Torso in Modern Sculpture, Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany
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2000
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Louise Bourgeois, Tate Modern, London, UK (solo)
Louise Bourgeois. Neue Arbeiten/Recent Works, Galerie Hauer & Wirth, Zurich, Switzerland (solo)
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1999
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Louise Bourgeois. Memoria y arquitectura, Museo Nacional, Centro de Arte Reina Sofìa, Madrid, Spain (solo)
Louise Bourgeois, Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany (solo)
The American Century. Art & Culture. 1950-2000, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Hirshhorn Museum/Sculpture Garden, ‘Regarding Beauty. A View of the Late 20th Century‘, Washington DC
Looking for a Place, SITE, Santa Fe, NM
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1998
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Louise Bourgeois. Recent Work, Serpentine Gallery, London, UK (solo)
Past Tense. Louise Bourgeois, The Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada (solo)
Louise Bourgeois: Topiary, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY (solo)
Mirror Images. Women, Surrealism and Self-Representation, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
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1996
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Louise Bourgeois. Der Ort des Gedächtnisses Skulpturen, Environments und Zeichnungen. 1946-1995, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, Germany (solo)
Red Room, Galerie Hauser & Wirth, Zurich, Switzerland (solo)
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1995
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Louise Bourgeois. Sculptures, environnements, dessins. 1938-1995, Musée d’Art moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France (solo)
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| Selected Public Collections |
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Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX
Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
The National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Brooklyn Museum, New York, NY
Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington D.C
Tate Gallery, London, UK
Storm King Art Center, Mountainville, NY
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