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Artist
Jenny Holzer
b. 1950, Gallipolis, Ohio, USA · American · Based in Hoosick Falls, New York, USA
- MFA, Rhode Island School of Design (1977)
- BFA, Ohio University (1972)
- LED Text Sculptures
- Public Projections
- Carved Marble Benches
- Redaction Paintings
Jenny Holzer has used language in public space since the late 1970s, moving from pasted Truisms posters to LED signs, stone benches, projections and declassified government documents. Her texts alternate between aphorism, testimony, warning and bureaucratic language.
Text; LED; projection; installation
Gallery Representation
Objects
Jenny Holzer
Inflammatory Essays (twelve works)
1979
Encountered via MULTIPLE, Berlin.
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No longer available from MULTIPLE. Archived for reference.
Artist Films
Jenny Holzer in "Protest" - Season 4 - "Art in the Twenty-First Century" | Art21
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Whitney Focus presents Jenny Holzer: PROTECT PROTECT
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Installation of Jenny Holzer's "For Chicago" - Whitney Museum
Whitney Museum of American ArtOfficial source ↗ (opens in a new window)
Major Works
- 1977–79Truisms
- 1979–82Inflammatory Essays
- 1983–85Survival Series
- 1983–85Protect Me From What I Want
- 1989Laments
- 2007Blue Purple Tilt
- 1996 onwardXenon Projections
- 2000sRedaction Paintings
- 1989For the Guggenheim
- 2018IT IS GUNS
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