Lawrence Weiner

Born 1942 in New York, USA. Lives and works in New York and Amsterdam.

Selected solo exhibitions include Lawrence Weiner: Dicht Bij, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; Lawrence Weiner: Dicht Bij, BAK, Utrecht; Lawrence Weiner: As far as the eye can see, K21 Kunstsammlung im Ständehaus, Düsseldorf; Lawrence Weiner, Konrad Fischer Galerie, Berlin (all 2008); Lawrence Weiner 1960 – 2007: As Far As The Eye Can See, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2007); Drift (film project with John Baldessari and Juliao Sarmento), Fundação Centro Cultural de Belém, Lisbon (2004); and Bent and broken shafts of light, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg (2001). Recent group exhibitions include Wall Rockets: Contemporary Artists and Ed Ruscha, FLAG Art Foundation, New York; Text/Messages: Books by Artists, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; and The End, The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh (all 2009); Order. Desire. Light: An exhibition of Contemporary Drawings, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin; Todas as Histórias, Fundação de Serralves – Museu de Arte Contemporânea, Porto (both 2008). Weiner received several awards including the Skowhegan Medal for Painting/Conceptual Art (1999), the Wolfgang Hahn Prize (1995), the John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship (1994) and the Arthur Kopcke Prize of the Arthur Kopcke Memorial Fund (1991).

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