Background
HOLZER, Jenny was born on July 29, 1950 in Gallipolis, Ohio, United States. Daughter of Richard Vomholt Holzer and Virginia Beasley Holzer.
(This elegant clothbound monograph gathers the most recent...)
This elegant clothbound monograph gathers the most recent work by the seminal language-based installation artist, Jenny Holzer. Presented to great acclaim at New York's Cheim & Read gallery this past summer, the work consists of enlarged, colorized silkscreen "paintings" of declassified and oftentimes heavily censored American military and intelligence documents that have recently been made available to the public through the Freedom of Information Act. Beautiful in their own right, the works are also haunting reminders of what really goes on behind the scenes in the American military/political power system. Documents address counter-terrorism, prisoner abuse, and even the threat of Osama Bin Laden. Some of the documents are almost completely inked out, like Colin Powell's memo on Defense Intelligence Agency reorganization. Others are spotty enough to allow readers to try to fill in the blanks. As Roberta Smith wrote in the New York Times, these are "the hardest-hitting, least hypothetical texts of Holzer's career."
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HOLZER, Jenny was born on July 29, 1950 in Gallipolis, Ohio, United States. Daughter of Richard Vomholt Holzer and Virginia Beasley Holzer.
Jenny Holzer was visiting general art courses at Duke University, Durham, NC (1968–1970), then she studied painting, printmaking and drawing at the University of Chicago, before completing her BFA at Ohio University, Athens (1972).Master of Fine Arts, Rhode Island School Design, 1977. Postgrad., Whitney Museum American Art, 1977.
In 1974, Holzer took summer courses at the Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, entering its MFA programme in 1975.
In 1976 she moved to Manhattan, participating in the Whitney Museum's independent study program and beginning her first work with language, installation and public art.Doctor of Fine Arts (honorary), Rhode Island School Design, 2003. Doctor of Fine Arts (honorary), Williams College, 2000. Doctor of Fine Arts (honorary), New School University, New York City, 2005.
include Westkunst, Cologne, Federation Republic of Germany 1981, Documenta 7, Kassel, Federation Republic of Germany 1982, Biennial—Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, International Cooperation Administration, London, Pennsylvania 1983, Kunsthalle Basel, Switzerland, Biennale of Sydney, Australia, “Content”, Hirschom Museum, Washington 1984, XIII Biennale de Paris, France, Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh 1985, Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York 1986, Louisiana Mode, Louisiana Morah, Louisiana Passion, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, Sculpture Project, Munster, Federation Republic of Germany, Brennale of Sydney, Australia, Documents 8, Kassel, Federation Republic of Germany 1987; Gallery Artist, Barbara Gladstone Gallery since 1982; BlairResident artist American Academy, Rome, 2003.
(This elegant clothbound monograph gathers the most recent...)
(Artwork by Jenny Holzer. Text by Noemi Smolik.)
(Artwork by Jenny Holzer.)
"When we finally touch the blood, when we really have it on our hands, then we are shocked," is Holzer's view.
Quotations:
"children are the most cruel of all"
"children are the hope of a future"
"Da wo Frauen sterben bin ich hellwach" (Where women die, I am wide awake)
Fellow American Academy, Berlin, 2000, American Academy Rome.
Reading, construction, riding, agriculture.
Married Michael Andrew Glier, May 21, 1984.