Bourgeois, Louise

Louise Bourgeois
Paris, 1911

French-born American sculptor, painter and printmaker and one of the best known female sculptors of her time.

Louise Bourgeois initially studied studied mathematics at the Sorbonne in Paris before turning to studio arts. In 1938, after marrying Robert Goldwater, an American art historian, critic and curator, she moved to New York, where she enrolled in the Art Students League and studied painting for two years under Václav Vytlacil.

Bourgeois’s work was first exhibited at the Brooklyn Museum Print Exhibition in 1939. During World War II she also collaborated with Joan Miró, André Masson and other European expatriate artists in New York.

  Selected Solo Exhibitions:
  2007, Tate Modern, 'Louise Bourgeois: Retrospective', London/GB, traveling to Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
  2006, Kunsthalle Bielefeld, 'Louise Bourgeois', Bielefeld/D
  2005, Hauser & Wirth London, 'Sublimation', London GB
  2005, Museum of Contemporary Art, 'Stitches in Time', North Miami FL
  2005, Wifredo Lam Centre, Havana CU
  2004, Daros Collection, 'Louise Bourgeois', Zürich/CH
  2003, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, 'Louise Bourgeois', cur. Julie Sylvester Cabot, Humlebaek/DK
  2003, Dia Center for the Arts, 'Louise Bourgeois. Installation at Inauguration of Dia: Beacon', New York NY
  2003, The Whitney Museum of American Art, 'Louise Bourgeois. The Insomnia Drawings', New York NY
  2002, Galerie Hauser & Wirth, 'Louise Bourgeois. Works in Marble', Zurich/CH
  2002, Palais de Tokyo, 'Louise Bourgeois. Le Jour La Nuit Le Jour [film and sound installation]', Paris/F
  2001, Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, 'Louise Bourgeois', Bilbao/E
  2001, The State Hermitage Museum, 'Louise Bourgeois', cur. Julie Sylvester Cabot, St. Petersburg/RUS
  2000, Tate Modern, ‘Louise Bourgeois‘ [retroscpective and installation], London/GB
  2000, Galerie Hauer & Wirth, ‘Louise Bourgeois. Neue Arbeiten/Recent Works‘, Zurich/CH
  1999, Museo Nacional, Centro de Arte Reina Sofìa, ‘Louise Bourgeois. Memoria y arquitectura‘, Madrid/ E
  1999, Kunsthalle Bielefeld, ‘Louise Bourgeois‘, Bielefeld/D
  1998, Serpentine Gallery, ‘Louise Bourgeois. Recent Work‘, London/GB
  1998, The Art Gallery of Ontario, ‘Past Tense. Louise Bourgeois‘, Toronto/CDN
  1998, The Whitney Museum of American Art, ‘Louise Bourgeois: Topiary‘, New York NY
  1996, Deichtorhallen, ‘Louise Bourgeois. Der Ort des Gedächtnisses Skulpturen, Environments und Zeichnungen. 1946-1995‘, Hamburg/D
  1996, Galerie Hauser & Wirth, ‘Red Room‘, Zurich/CH
  1995, Musée d'Art moderne de la Ville de Paris, ‘Louise Bourgeois. Sculptures, environnements, dessins. 1938-1995‘, Paris/F
  Selected Group Exhibitions:
  2005, La Biennale di Venezia, 51st International Art Exhibition, Venice IT
  2005, Istanbul Modern,'Permanent Instability, Istanbul TR
  2004, Fundació Joan Miro, 'La Femme: Métamorphose de la modernité', Barcelona ESP
  2004, Site Santa Fe's 5th International Biennal, 'Disparities and Deformations, Santa Fe NM
  2003, Mori Art Museum, 'Happiness. A Survival Guide for Art and Life', Tokyo/J
  2003, Musée National d'art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, 'Louise Bourgeois and James Lee Byars', Paris/F
  2002, 'documenta XI', Kassel/D
  2002, Sammlung Hauser & Wirth, 'The House of Fiction', St. Gallen/CH
  2002, Tate Modern, 'Surrealism. Desire Unbound', London [traveled to Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York NY
  2001, Brooklyn Museum of Art, 'Vital Forms: American Art and Design in the Atomic Age, 1940-1960', New York
  2001, Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, 'Rodin to Baselitz. The Torso in Modern Sculpture', Stuttgart/D
  2000, 12th Biennale of Sidney, ‘Agents of Change‘, cur. Harald Szeemann, Fumio Nanjo [et al.], Sidney/AUS
  1999, The Whitney Museum of American Art, ‘The American Century. Art & Culture. 1950-2000‘, New York NY
  1999, Hirshhorn Museum/Sculpture Garden, ‘Regarding Beauty. A View of the Late 20th Century‘, Washington DC
  1999, XLVIII Esposizione Internazionale d'arte, Biennale di Venezia, 'dAPERTutto', Venice/I
  1999, SITE, 'Looking for a Place. The third International SITE Santa Fe Biennial', Santa Fe NM
  1998, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, ‘Mirror Images. Women, Surrealism and Self-Representation‘, San Francisco CA
  1998, Moderna Museet, ‘Wounds. Between Democracy and Redemption in Contemporary Art‘, Stockholm/S
  1998, XXIV Sao Paulo Biennial, Sao Paulo/BR

Museums and Collections:

Metropolitan Museum of Art New York, U.S.
National Gallery of Art Washington D.C, U.S.
Guggenheim Museum New York, U.S.
Museum of Modern Art New York, U.S.
Albright-Knox Art Gallery Buffalo, New York, U.S.
Cleveland Museum of Art Ohio, U.S.
Corcoran Gallery of Art Washington D.C., U.S.
Dia:BeaconBeacon, New York, U.S.
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden Washington D.C., U.S.
Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art Missouri, U.S.
National Gallery of Australia Canberra, Australia
National Gallery of Canada Ottawa, Canada.
National Museum of Women in the Arts Washington D.C., U.S.
Tate GalleryLondon, U.K.
University Art Museum Albany, New York, U.S.
Walker Art Center Minnesota, U.S.
Whitney Museum of American Art New York, U.S.

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