Education
1957
New York City Public School System, New York, NY, USA
Influential conceptual artist Lawrence Weiner is known for his language-based sculpture and works pursuing inquiries into language and a radical redefinition of the artist/viewer relationship. Considering language to be a sculptural material and believing that a construction in language can function as sculpture as adequately as a fabricated object, Weiner's works operate beyond the specificity and constraints of traditional presentation, inspiring artists like Barbara Kruger and Felix Gonzalez-Torres.
Lawrence Weiner was born in New York in 1942 and passed away in New York in 2021. He was the subject of solo museum exhibitions at Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (2013), MACBA, Barcelona (2013), The Jewish Museum, New York (2012), Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2007). His work has been collected by prestigious public and private collections worldwide.
The only art I’m interested in is the art I don’t understand right away. If you understand it right away it really has no use except as nostalgia.
New York City Public School System, New York, NY, USA
Wolf Prize, Jerusalem, Israel
Aspen Award for Art honoree, Aspen, CO, USA
Roswitha Haftmann Prize, Zurich, Switzerland
Wolfgang Hahn Prize, Ludwig Museum, Cologne
John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship, New York, NY, USA
Singer Prize, Singer Museum, Laren, The Netherlands
Amorepacific Museum of Art, Seoul, South Korea
Galerie Marian Goodman, Paris, France
Qatar Museum, Doha, Qatar
Museo Novecento, Florence, Italy
Regen Projects, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Art Basel, Basel, Switzerland
Albertina Modern, Vienn, Austria
Mai 36, Zürich, Switzerland
Marian Goodman Gallery, New York
Arsenale Institute for Politics of Representation, Venice, Italy
Kerlin Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
Galerie Thomas Schulte, Berlin, Germany
Holstebro Kunstmuseum, Denmark
All The Stars In The Sky Have The Same Face, The Jewish Museum, New York, NY, USA
Tracce / Traces, MACRO, Rome, Italy
On View, Regen Projects, Los Angeles, CA, USA
South Of The Border, Fundación Casa Wabi, Puerto Escondido, Oaxaca, Mexico
Long Ago Far Away, OSL Contemporary, Oslo, Norway
KODE, Bergen, Norway
Attached By Ebb & Flow, Museo Nivola, Orani, Italy
Often Adequate Enough, Taro Nasu Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Just In Time, Galerie Hubert Winter, Vienna, Austria
Alfonso Artiaco, Naples, Italy
Galerie Marian Goodman, Paris, France
In Tandem With The Sands, Dvir Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
Water & Some Of Its Forms, Taro Nasu Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Forever & A Day (Siempre Y Un Dia), Museo de la Ciudad de Mexico, Zocalo, Nezah Ualcoyotl; Museo Tamayo, Marquesina Cervantes Sa Avedra, Mexico City, Mexico
Inherent Innate Tension, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Out Of Sight, Pérez Art Museum, Miami, FL, USA
Inherent, Innate Tension, Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI, USA
Used As Other Than Itself, Galleria Alfonso Artiaco, Naples, Italy
Of Its Own Full Circle, Austrian Frederick and Lilian Kiesler Private Foundation, Vienna, Austria
Kunsthaus Bregenz, Bregenz, Austria
Made to Be, Regen Projects, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Whisked Away From, OSL Contemporary Gallery, Oslo, Norway
Made Done With a Pinch of Salt, Galerie Hubert Winter, Vienna, Austria
Cadmium & Mud & Titanium & Ferrous Oxide & So On…, Dia:Beacon, NY, USA
After Any Given Time, Tichy Ocean Foundation, Prague, Czech Republic
Within a Realm of Distance, Blenheim Palace, Oxfordshire, UK
Galleri Susanne Ottesen (with Per Kirkeby), Copenhagen, Denmark
Within Grasp, Mai 36 Galerie, Zürich, Switzerland
Rose F. Kennedy Greenway Conservancy, Boston & MIT List Center, Cambridge, MA, USA
Becalmed Within the Embrace of a Whirlwind, Galería Horrach Moya, Palma de Mallorca, Spain
Along the Shore, i8 Gallery, Reykjavic, Iceland
Some Moved Pictures of Lawrence Weiner, Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow, UK
All in Due Course, South London Gallery, London, UK
Straight Down to Below: Lawrence Weiner, Woodhorn Museum, Ashington, UK
Written on the Wind: Drawings by Lawrence Weiner, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Somewhere, Mendes Wood DM and Galeria Luisa Strina, São Paulo, Brazil
Bury Sculpture Center, Bury Art Museum, Lancashire, UK
Crisscrossed, Cristina Guerra, Lisbon, Portugal
The Grace of A Gesture, Palazzo Bembo, collateral event of the 55th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
Forever and a Day, Art Aids Foundation, Barcelona, Spain
Written on the Wind, Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
Works 1969–73, Villa e Collezione Panza, Varese, Italy
Finding a Place to Put What, Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
Be that as it may, Lisson Gallery, London, UK
Galleria Giorgio Persano, Turin, Italy
Galerie Hubert Winter, Vienna, Austria
Concentricity per se, Blain Southern, Berlin, Germany
Regen Projects, Los Angeles, CA, USA
A Syntax of Dependency, Museum of Contemporary Art, Antwerp, Belgium
Altered to Suit, Electronic Arts Intermix, New York, NY, USA
Us Them It, 10 Downing Street, New York, NY, USA
Specific Object Presents Lawrence Weiner’s Published Work from the JeanNoel Herlin Archive, Susan Inglett Gallery, New York, NY, USA
As to Be in Plain Sight, Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO, USA
Works, Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester, UK
House of Art, Budweis, Czech Republic
i8 Gallery, Reykjavik, Iceland
Cristina Guerra Contemporary Art, Lisbon, Portugal
Dicht Bij, Basis voor Aktuelle Kunst, Utrecht, Netherlands
Cul de Sac, The Power Plant, Toronto, Canada
A Bit of Matter and a Little Bit More, Argos Centre for Art and Media, Brussels, Belgium
Yvon Lambert, Paris, France
At the Level of the Sea, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Placed on the Tip of a Wave, Regen Projects, Los Angeles, CA, USA
One in Front (Sea) Two if in Back (Land), Newlyn Art Gallery, Penzance, Cornwall, UK
Galerie Hubert Winter, Vienna, Austria
Galerie Micheline Szwajcer, Antwerp, Belgium
To Allow the Light, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China
Offsides, Lisson Gallery, London, UK
As Far as the Eye Can See, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, USA
Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany
Para Site, Hong Kong, China
The Die Is Cast, Galerie Cristina Guerra, Lisbon, Portugal
Inherent in the Rhum Line, National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, UK
Nicht Weit Vom Stamm, Konrad Fischer Galerie, Berlin, Germany
Printed Works, Van Abbe Museum, Eindhoven, Netherlands
Lo and Behold (Mira y ve), The Wolfsonian, Miami Beach, FL, USA
Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg, Austria
Within a Realm of Relative Form, Lisson Gallery, London, UK
Posters, Bury Art Museum, Lancashire, UK
Regen Projects, Los Angeles, CA, USA
i8, Reykjavik, Iceland
Knokke Beach Drawings, Patrick De Brock, Knokke, Belgium
Covered by Clouds, Museo Tamayo Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico City, Mexico
With All Due Intent (com toda a intencao), Cristina Guerra Contemporary Art, Lisbon, Portugal
Moved pictures and Safn Introduce Recent Cartoons of Lawrence Weiner, Safn Reykjavik, Reykjavik, Iceland
Setting the Stage, Galleri Sussanne Ottesen, Copenhagen, Denmark
Artist Books, Galerie rose Marie, Malmö, Sweden
Statements, L’Ancien College des Jesuites, Reims, France
Le Destin la Destinee, Yvon Lambert, Paris, France
Primary Secondary Tertiary, Forum Kunst & Architekture, Essen, Germany
The Wrong Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Parfois l’horizon c’est plus comme un verbe pas encore comme un nom, Emmetrop & Transpalette, Bourges, France
Any Given Time, Stadt Stommeln Synagogue, Stommeln, Germany
All This Time on This Place, Regen Projects, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Galerie Roger Pailhas, Marseille, France
Just One Time, Klosterfelde, Berlin, Germany
Until It Is, Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH, USA
In one end and out the other, Gandy Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic
University of Klagenfurt, Klagenfurt, Austria
Die Tiroler Landesmuseum, Innsbruck, Austria
Towards the End of the Beginning, Cristina Guerra Contemporary Art, Lisbon, Portugal
Wave after Wave, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Preparations for the Opera, Konrad Fischer Galerie, Dusseldorf, Germany
There are those things that move outside of motion, De Verbeelding, Zeewolde, The Netherlands
Ignoti Nulla Cupido, Alfonso Artiaco, Naples, Italy
A Basic Assumption, Birmigham Museum of Art, Birmigham, AL, USA
For Better or for Worse, Galerie Erna Hecey, Luxembourg
Brigitte March Galerie, Stuttgart, Germany
Wordscapes, Galeria Andre Viana, Porto, Portugal
Por Si Mismo, Palacio de Cristal, Madrid, Spain
For Any Given Time, Galleria Gianluca Collica, Italy
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
Museum Moderner Kunst, Vienna
Wiener Festwochen, Vienna
University of Klagenfurt, Klagenfurt
Anton and Annick Herbert Collection, Ghent
SMAK - Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Ghent
Middelheim Openluchtmuseum, Antwerp
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto
Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Halifax
Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver
Ydessa Hendeles Foundation, Toronto
City of Ballerup
City of Hostebro
Gentofte Kommunes Kunstbibliotek, Hellerup
Stadtisches Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen
Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen
Castell Zuoz, Switzerland Centre Pompidou, Paris
City of Chagny, France
City of Paris, les Tuilleries
City of Villeurbanne, Place Mendez-France
FRAC Nord Pas de Calais, Dunkirk
FRAC Bourgogne, Dijon
FRAC Rhone-Alpes, Lyon
Musée d’art contemporain de Bordeaux, Bordeaux
Musée de Toulon, Toulon
Musée Saint Pierre, Art Contemporain, Lyon
City of Cologne/Museum Ludwig, Cologne
Deitchtorhallen, Hamburg
Deutsche Bank, Frankfurt am Main
Egidio Marzona Collection, Bielefeld
Hamburg Harbor
Krefelder Kunst Museen, Haus Esters
Kunstmuseum Winterthur, Winterthur
Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg
Kunstverein Museum Schloss Morsbroich, Leverkusen
Mainburg Railway Station, Mainburg
Museum fur Modern Kunst, Frankfurt am Main
Salzhaus Sindelfingen, Sindelfingen
Sprengel Museum, Hanover
Stadtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich
Venloer Strasse 21, Cologne
University of Akureyri, Akureyri
Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin
City of Gennazzno
Villa di Versegnis
Panza di Biumo Collection, Varese
Rieper AG (factory building), Vintl, Bozen
Israel Museum, Jerusalem
Moderna Galerija Ljubjana, Ljubjana
City of Barcelona, Place Mistral
Guggenheim Bilbao, Bilbao
Artcake, Switzerland
City of Biele, Tabula Rasa
Cosmorex Collection, Schaffhausen
Hotel Furkablick, Furka
Kunsthof Zürich, Zurich
Musée de Beaux-Arts, La Chaux-de-Fonds
World Wildlife Fund, Zurich
World Trade Center, Zurich
Boymans-van Beuningen Museum, Rotterdam
City of Eindhoven, De Rode Loper
De Vleeshaal, Middelburg, Netherlands
Federal Courthouse Sint Annadal, Maastricht
Haags Gemeentemuseum, The Hague
Haags Hogeschool, The Hague
Kroller-Moller Museum, Otterlo
Marin Visser Collection, Rotterdam
Spui, Universiteit van Amsterdam, Amsterdam
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven
British Museum, London
Henry Moore Foundation, Leeds
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Carnegie Institute of Fine Art, Pittsburgh, PA
Chase Manhattan Bank Collection, New York, NY
Dannheiser Foundation, New York, NY
Dia Beacon, Beacon, NY
488 Greenwich Avenue, New York, NY
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
New York Public Library, New York, NY
Poets Walk, Citicorp Plaza, Los Angeles, CA
Public Art Fund/Con Edison, New York, NY
Sol LeWitt Collection, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, CT
Solomon R. Guggenheim Musuem, New York, NY
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
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