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Louise Bourgeois (American/French, 1911-2010)
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Louise Bourgeois
Baby and Butterfly 2007
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Louise Bourgeois
Head on Fire 2000
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Louise Bourgeois
Ode à Ma Mère
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Louise Bourgeois
Self Portrait 2007
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Louise Bourgeois
Spider Woman 2005
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Louise Bourgeois
Spiral Woman 2003
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Biografie |
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1911 |
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Born in Paris, France |
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1921 - 1932 |
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Academie Fenelon, 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 - 1937 |
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Atelier Bissiere |
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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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1937 - 1938 |
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Academie de la Grande Chaumiere |
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1938 |
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Emigrated to the USA, New York, NY |
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1939 - 1940 |
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Vaclav Vytlacil |
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1977 |
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Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts Degree from Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA |
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1978 |
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G.S.A. Commission, Manchester, NH |
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1981 |
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Elected Fellow of American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Boston, MA, USA |
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1981 |
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Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts Degree, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY, USA |
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1983 |
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Elected Member of American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, New York, NY, USA |
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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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1983 |
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Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts Degree, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA, USA |
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1984 |
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President’s Fellows Award, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA |
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1984 |
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Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts Degree, Maryland Institute, College of Art, Baltimore, MD, USA |
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1984 |
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President’s Fellows Award, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI, USA |
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1985 |
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Skowhegan Medal for Sculpture, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME |
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1987 |
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Gold Medal of Honor for Excellence in Art, National Arts Club, New York, NY, USA |
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1987 |
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Named Fellow for Life at Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY, USA |
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1987 |
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Honorary Doctorate, The New School, New York, USA |
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1989 |
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Neptune Award for the Arts, Snug Harbor, Staten Island, NY, USA |
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1990 |
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MacDowell Medalist, MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, NH |
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1990 |
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The Sculpture Center Award for Distinction in Sculpture 1990, The Sculpture Center, New York, USA |
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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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1993 |
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Honorary Doctorate in Fine Arts (DFA) by Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, New York, USA |
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1993 |
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Maison Francaise, New York University, USA |
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1995 |
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The Ueno Royal Museum, Tokyo and The Hakone Open-Air Museum, Kanagawa-ken, Japan |
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1995 |
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Biennial Award and Purchase prize for ARCH OF HYSTERIA |
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1995 |
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Honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts, Art Institute of Chicago, IL, USA |
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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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1998 |
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Awarded the Golden Lion, for a living master of contemporary art,Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy |
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1999 |
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Praemium Imperiale Award in the sculpture category from the Japan |
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2000 |
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Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts, The Art Institute of Boston, USA |
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2000 |
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Honorary Member, Akademie Der Bildenden Kunste Wien, Austria |
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2001 |
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Honoree, ArtWalk, Coalition for the Homeless, New York, USA |
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2002 - 2003 |
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Wolf Prize in the Arts (Painting and Sculpture), Wolf Foundation, Israel |
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2003 |
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Honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts, University of Illinois, Champaign, IL, USA |
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2005 |
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Medal of Honor, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA, USA |
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2005 |
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Honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts, The Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, New York, USA |
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2006 |
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National Organization For Women, “The 2006 Intrepid Award”, Washington D.C., USA |
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2007 |
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The United Nations and Women Together, The "Woman Award" New York, USA |
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2008 |
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French Legion of Honor medal presented by President Sarkozy to Louise |
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2008 |
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Aragon-Goya Award, Goya Foundation, Aragon Government, Zaragoza, Spain |
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2009 |
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Inducted into National Women’s Hall of Fame, Seneca Falls, New York, USA |
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2010 |
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Died in New York, NY, USA |
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Ausstellungen |
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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
THE DAMNED, THE POSSESSED AND THE BELOVED, installation piece, unveiled on June 23rd, 2011 in Vardo, Norway |
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2010 - 2011 |
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Louise Bourgeois: Eugénie Grandet, Maison de Balzac, Paris, France |
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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 - 2009 |
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Louise Bourgeois, Museo Nazionale di Capodimonte, Naples, Italy (solo) |
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2008 |
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Centre Pompidou, Paris, France (solo)
Nature Study, Inverleith House, Royal Botanical Gardens, Edinburgh, Scotland
Louise Bourgeois: La Rivière Gentille, Galerie Hauser & Wirth, Zurich, Switzerland
Louise Bourgeois: Echo, Cheim & Read, New York, NY, USA |
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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)
Louise Bourgeois: New Work, Hauser & Wirth Colnaghi, London, UK
Louise Bourgeois: Recent Prints, Marlborough Graphics, London, UK
Louise Bourgeois: Crouching Spider", installed on Pier 14 at Embarcadero & Mission Street San Francisco Arts Commission, San Francisco, CA, USA |
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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: La Famille, Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany (solo)
Louise Bourgeois: Femme, Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, MD
Louise Bourgeois: Early Drawings, Peter Blum, New York, NY
Louise Bourgeois: Selected Prints on Fabric, Butler Gallery, The Castle, Kilkenny, Ireland
Louise Bourgeois: The Woven Child, Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA |
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2005 - 2006 |
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Louise Bourgeois: Back and Forth, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria |
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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)
Louise Bourgeois, Akira Ikeda Gallery Muranchi, Yokosuka, Japan
Drawings by Louise Bourgeois, St. Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, MO
Louise Bourgeois: The Reticent Child, Cheim & Read, New York, NY
Louise Bourgeois: Prints, Galerie Karsten Greve, Paris, France |
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2003 - 2004 |
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A View From the Outside, Louise Bourgeois: The Reticent Child, Sigmund Freud Museum, Vienna, Austria
Louise Bourgeois, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland |
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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 - 2003 |
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Louise Bourgeois: Le Jour La Nuit Le Jour, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France
Louise Bourgeois: Recent Sculptures and Drawings, Beaumontpublic, Luxembourg |
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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 - 2002 |
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Louise Bourgeois: New Work, Cheim & Read, New York, NY |
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2001 - 2002 |
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Louise Bourgeois at the Hermitage, The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia; Helsinki City Art Museum, Finland; Kulturhuset, Stockholm; Museet for Samtidskunst, Oslo, Norway |
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2001 |
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Louise Bourgeois: The Insomnia Drawings, Tate Modern, London |
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2001 |
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Spiders, Rockefeller Center, organized in association with the Public Art Fund, New York, NY |
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2001 |
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Louise Bourgeois, Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Bilbao, Spain (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. Neue Arbeiten/Recent Works, Galerie Hauer & Wirth, Zurich, Switzerland (solo)
Louise Bourgeois: Inaugural Installation of the Tate Modern Art at Turbine Hall, Tate Modern, London, England
Louise Bourgeois: The Space of Memory, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Kyungki-do, Korea
The Welcoming Hands by Louise Bourgeois, Installation, Jardin des Tuileries, Paris, France |
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1999 - 2000 |
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Louise Bourgeois: Architecture and Memory, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte - Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain |
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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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1998 |
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Louise Bourgeois, Musee d’Art Contemporain, Bordeaux, France, Foundation Belem, Lisbon, Portugal, Kunsthalle Malmo, Malmo, Sweden, Serpentine Gallery, London |
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1998 |
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Topiary, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York |
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1998 |
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Sacred and Fatal: The Art of Louise Bourgeois, North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh |
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1997 - 1998 |
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Louise Bourgeois, Yokohama Museum, Tokyo
Louise Bourgeois, The Arts Club of Chicago, IL |
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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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1993 - 1996 |
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American Pavilion, Venice Biennale, Italy, expanded exhibition The Locus of Memory travelled to The Brooklyn Museum, New York, The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, Galerie Rudolfinum, Prague, Czech Republic, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, Musée d'Art Contemporain de Montréal |
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1993 - 1996 |
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American Pavilion, Venice Biennale, Italy, An expanded exhibition "The Locus of Memory", travelled to The Brooklyn Museum, New York; The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; Galerie Rudolfinum, Prague, Czech Republic; Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris; Deichtorhallen, Hamburg; Musée d'Art Contemporain de Montréal |
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1995 |
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Drawings Retrospective, Musée National d'art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, Helsinki City Art Museum, Finland |
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1995 |
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Drawings Retrospective, Musée National d'art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France. Travelled to Helsinki City Art Museum, Finland |
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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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1994 - 1995 |
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Print Retrospective, Museum of Modern Art, New York, Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris, Musée du Dessin et de l'Estampe Originale, Gravelines, France, The Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, England, Bonnefanten Museum, Maastricht |
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1989 - 1991 |
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Louise Bourgeois: A Retrospective Exhibition, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt, West Germany, Stadtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich, West Germany, Musée d'art Contemporain, Lyon; Fondacion Tapies, Barcelona, Spain, Kunstmuseum, Berne, Kröller-Muller-Museum, Otterlo, The Netherlands |
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1987 - 1989 |
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Louise Bourgeois, The Taft Museum, Cincinnati, OH, The Art Museum at Florida International, Laguna Gloria Art Museum, Austin, TX, Gallery of Art, Washington University, St. Louis, MO, Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY |
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1982 - 1983 |
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Louise Bourgeois: Retrospective, Museum of Modern Art, New York, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL, Akron Art Museum, Akron, OH |
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