Jenny Holzer

Jenny Holzer  lives in upstate New York. She earned her BFA in 1972 from Ohio University in Athens and her MFA in 1977 from the Rhode Island School of Design in Providence, followed by the Independent Study Program at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York.

The many individual exhibitions of her work include Jenny Holzer: Projections (2007–08) at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art in North Adams; Jenny Holzer: Lustmord (1997) at the Contemporary Arts Museum in Houston; and Jenny Holzer (1989) at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York. Holzer’s work also has been shown in many group exhibitions over the past thirty years, including Meanwhile, in Baghdad (2008) at the Renaissance Society of the University of Chicago and MoHigh & Low: Modern Art and Popular Culture (1990) organized by the Museum of Modern Art in New York, which also traveled to museums in Chicago and Los Angeles. In 1990, Holzer was the first woman to represent the united States at the Venice Biennale, where she was awarded the Golden Lion grand prize.

Holzer has completed dozens of permanent commissions around the world, including LED installations for the Museum of Contemporary Art in San Diego (2007) and, in collaboration with James Carpenter, the 7 World Trade Center building in New York (2006).