Louise Lawler

solo exhibitions (selected)

2017

WHY PICTURES NOW, Museum of Modern Art, New York (US) (cat.)

2015

Parasophia: Kyoto International Festival of Contemporary Culture, Kyoto (JP)

2014

Adjusted, Museum Ludwig, Cologne (DE) (cat.)

2013

Long term view, Dia Art Foundation, New York (US)

2012

(Selected). Louise Lawler, Galerie Neue Meister, Albertinum, Dresden (DE) (cat.)

2011

No Drones, Sprüth Magers, London (UK)

Fitting at Metro Pictures, Metro Pictures, New York (US)

2010

Later, Yvon Lambert, Paris (FR)

2009

Taking Place, Sprüth Magers, Berlin (DE)

2008

Sucked In, Blown Out, Obviously Indebted or One Foot in Front of the Other, Metro Pictures, New York (US)

2007

Where is the Nearest Camera?, Sprüth Magers, London (UK)

Louise Lawler: The Tremaine Pictures 1984-2007, BFAS Blondeau Fine Art Services, Geneva (CH)

Studio Guenzani (two-person exhibition with Cindy Sherman), Milan (IT)

2006

Twice Untitled and Other Pictures (looking back), curated by Helen Molesworth, Wexner Center, Ohio (US)

2005

In and Out of Place: Louise Lawler and Andy Warhol, Dia, Beacon (US)

Louise Lawler – archive fever, Museet for samtidskunst, Oslo (NO)

2004

Louise Lawler and Other Artists, Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Basel (CH)

Louise Lawler – Looking Forward, Metro Pictures Gallery, New York (US)

2003

Louise Lawler – Add to it, Portikus, Frankfurt/Main (DE)

Louise Lawler – New Walls, Yvon Lambert, Paris (FR)

Louise Lawler, BFAS Blondeau Fine Art Services, Geneva (CH)

2001

Controlled Temperature, Art & Public, Geneva (CH)

More Pictures and Other Pictures, Galerie Greta Meert, Brussels (BE)

2000

More Pictures, Metro Pictures, New York (US)

Paint, Wood, Plaster, Fabric, Glass and Other Pictures, Richard Telles Fine Art, Los Angeles (US)

More Pictures, Neugerriemschneider, Berlin (DE)

1999

The Tremaine Series, 1984, Skarstedt Fine Art, New York (US)

Hand On Her Back’ and Other Pictures, Sprüth Magers, Cologne (DE)

1997

Monochrome, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington (US)

1995

A Spot on the Wall, Munich Kunstverein, Munich; Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz, Austria; De Appel, Amsterdam

1994

Press-papiers, cartes postales, images et cannibalisme, Centre d’Art Contemporain, Geneva (CH)

External Stimulation, Metro Pictures, New York, Galleria Klemens Gasser, Bolzano, Italy; Sprüth Magers, Cologne

1993

Sprengel Museum, Hannover (DE)

1992

Louise Lawler, Galerie Isabella Kacprzak, Cologne (DE)

1991

For Sale, Metro Pictures, New York (US)

Louise Lawler, Galerie Greta Meert, Brussels (BE)

1990

Connections, Louise Lawler: The Enlargement of Attention, No One Between the Ages of 21 and 35 is Allowed, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (US)

1989

The Show Isn’t Over, Photographic Resource Center, Boston (US)

1988

Les Objets, Galerie Meert Rihoux, Brussels (BE)

1987

Projects, Louise Lawler: Enough, Museum of Modern Art, New York (US)

Louise Lawler: A serious as a circus, Galerie Isabella Kacprzak, Stuttgart (DE)

1986

What is the Same, Maison de la Culture et de la Communication de Saint Etienne (FR)

1985

Interesting, Nature Morte, New York (US)

1984

Home / Museum – Arranged for Living and Viewing, Matrix, Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut (US)

1982

Another Gallery, Anna Leonowens Gallery II, Halifax, Nova Scotia (CA)

1979

A Movie Will Be Shown Without the Picture, Aero Theater, Santa Monica; sponsored by the Foundation for Art Resources (US)

group exhibitions (selected)

2017

Unpacking, Marciano Art Foundation, Los Angeles (US)

2016

Question the Wall Itself, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis (US)

First Light: A Decade of Collecting at the ICA, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston (US)

Human Interest: Portraits from the Whitney Collection, The Whitney Museum, New York (US)

Schiff Ahoy: Contemporary Art from the Brandhorst Collection, Museum Brandhorst, Munich (DE)

No Man’s Land. Women Artists from the Rubell Family Collection, Rubell Family Collection, Miami (US)

They printed it!, Kunsthalle Zürich (CH)

2015

Greater New York, MoMa PS1, New York (US)

to expose, to show, to demonstrate, to inform, to offer, MUMOK, Vienna (AT)

After Picasso, Wexner Center for the Arts, Ohio (US)

On Pictures. Strategies of Appropriation, Kunstmuseum für Gegenwartskunst, Basel (CH)

Various small fires (working documents), LACMA, Los Angeles (US)

America is Hard to See, Whitney Museum, New York (US)

Ape Culture / Kultur der Affen, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin (DE)

PICASSO IN DER KUNST DER GEGENWART, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg (DE)

Cannibalism? On Appropriation in Art, Zacheta National Art Gallery, Warsaw (PL)

Can the Museum be a Garden?, Serralves Museum, Porto (PT)

2014

Collection Presentation, S.M.A.K., Gent (BE)

Secrets and Lies, Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego (US)

Take It or Leave It: Institution, Image, Ideology, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (US)

Codex, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco (US)

Looking forward: Gifts of contemporary art from the Patricia A. Bell collection, Montclair Art Museum, New Jersey (US)

Reinventing the Wheel: The Readymade Centenary, Monash University Museum of Art (AU)

Das Beste vom Besten. Vom riskanten Geschäft der Kunst, Kunstverein Düsseldorf (DE)

2013

The Causes of Things, CNAP Centre national des arts plastiques, Brussels (BE)

Malereien in Fotografie – Strategien der Aneignung, Städel Museum, Frankfurt/Main (DE)

This Will Have Been: Art, Love & Politics in the 1980s, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis (US)

Regarding Warhol: Sixty Artists, Fifty Years, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (US)

Elles: SAM: Singular Works by Seminal Women Artists, SAM Seattle Art Museum, Seattle (US)

Open spaces, secret places, Museum der Moderne, Salzburg (AT)

This Will Have Been: Art, Love & Politics in the 1980s, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston (US)

Honey, I rearranged the collection, Petach Tikva Museum of Art (IL)

2012

Elles: Women Artists from the Centre Pompidou, Paris, Seattle Art Museum

Regarding Warhol: Sixty Artists, Fifty Years, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (US)

open spaces | secret places, Museum der Moderne Salzburg (AT)

Painting in Photography, Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main (DE)

Histories de L’art, VOX Centre de l’image contemporaine, Montreal (CN)

Spies in the House of Art Photography, Film and Video, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (US)

This Will Have Been: Art, Love & Politics, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago; Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis (US)

2011

Museum of Desires, MUMOK, Vienna (AT)

After Images, Jewish Museum of Belgium, Brussels (BE)

Shared Intelligence: American Painting and the Photograph, The Georgia O’keeffe Museum, Santa Fe, New Mexico (US)

No Substitute, Glenstone Foundation, Potomac, Maryland (US)

The Deconstructive Impulse: Women Aritsts Reconfigure the Signs of Power, 1973-1991, Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase College, New York; Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham, North Carolina (US)

2010

Pictures by Women: A History of Modern Photography, Museum of Modern Art, New York (US)

Hyper Real, Museum Moderner Kunst, Vienna (AT)

Hareng Saur: Ensor and Contemporary Art, S.M.A.K./Museum of Fine Arts, Ghent (BE)

Untitled (Ohne Titel), Neue Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst, Berlin (DE)

Taking Place, The Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (NL)

Adaptation: Between Species, The Power Plant, Toronto (CN)

Sound & Vision, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago (US)

El Gabinete Blanco, The Jumex Collection, Mexico City (MX)

Louise Lawler, Allan McCollum, Bethan Huws, Galerie Isabella Czarnowska (vorm. Kacprzak), Berlin (DE)

2009

Where Do We Go From Here: Selections from the Jumex Collection, Bass Museum of Art, Miami (US)

Beg Borrow and Steal, The Rubell Family Collection Museum, Miami (US)

Mondernologies: Contemporary Artists Researching Modernity and Modernism, Museu d’Art Contemporani, Barcelona; Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw

See This Sound: Promises in Sound and Vision, Lentos Kunstmuseum, Linz (AT)

The Pictures Generation: 1974-1984, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (US)

Nothingness and Being, The Jumex Collection, Mexico City (MX)

The Quick and the Dead, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis (US)

2008

Political Corect, BFAS Blondeau Fine Art Services, Geneva (CH)

Metro Pictures, New York (US)

Blasted Allegories: Works from the Ringier Collection, Kunstmuseum, Luzern (CH)

The Museum as Medium, Museo de Arte Contemporánea de Vigo (ES)

Whitney Biennial 2008, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (US)

2007

Documenta 12, Aue-Pavillon, Kassel (DE)

Museum Ludwig, Cologne (US)

Held Together With Water, Sammlung Verbund, MAK, Vienna (AT)

The Ellipse Foundation: Contemporary Art Collection (PT)

Not for Sale, P.S.1, New York (US)

The 80’s: A Topography, Fundação Serralves, Porto (PT)

Sequence 1: Selections from the Collection of François Pinault, Palazzo Grassi, Venice (IT)

2006

Why Pictures Now, Museum Moderner Kunst, Vienna (AT)

An Ongoing Low-Grade Mystery, Meert-Rihoux, Brussels (BE)

Make Your Own Life: Artists In & Out of Cologne, ICA: University of Pennsylvania; The Powerplant, Toronto; The Henry Art Gallery, Seattle; MOCA, Miami (US)

2005

Museum Fever: Included Louise Lawler, National Museum of Art, Oslo (NO)

Slide Show, The Baltimore Museum of Art, Maryland (US)

Flashback: Revisiting the Art of the Eighties, Kunstmuseum Basel (CH)

2004

The Big Nothing, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia (US)

2003

Pletskud, Arken Museum for Moderne Kunst, Ishøj (DK)

The Last Picture Show: Artists Using Photography 1960-1982, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; Museo de Arte Contemporanea de Vigo, Spain; Fotomuseum Winterthur, Switzerland; Miami Art Center

Designs for Living, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles (US)

2002

Open House, Casino Luxembourg, Luxembourg (LU)

Visions from America: Photographs from the Whitney Museum of American Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (US)

Extension, Magasin 3 Stockholm Konsthall, Stockholm (SE)

2001

American Art, Galerie Rudolfinum, Centre of Contemporary Arts, Prague (CZ)

Televisions, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna (AT)

2000

rot grau (red grey), Kunsthalle Basel (CH)

Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (US)

1999

The Museum as Muse, Museum of Modern Art, New York; Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego (US)

Shelf Life, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York (US)

Triennale Exhibition: Sentiment of the Year 2000, Triennale di Milano, Italy 1997 (IT)

Collected, The Photographer’s Gallery, London (UK)

Foto Text Text Foto, Fotomuseum Winterthur, Zurich (CH)

Deep Storage/Arsenale der Erinnerung, Haus der Kunst, Munich (DE)

Nationalgalerie SMPK, Berlin; Kunstmuseum Dusseldorf im Ehrenhof, Germany; Henry Art Gallery, Seattle (US)

Moving Images, Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst, Leipzig (DE)

1996

Cultural Economies: Histories from the Alternative, The Drawing Center, New York (US)

Comme Un Oiseau, la Fondation Cartier pour l’art Contemporain, Paris (FR)

Architecture, Art, and Planning Department Centennial, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York (US)

10th Biennale of Sydney, Art Gallery of New South Wales; Artspace, New South Wales; Ivan Dougherty Gallery, (AU)

1995

The End(s) of the Museum, Fundacio Antoni Tapies, Barcelona (ES)

Passions Privees, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris (FR)

1994

Radical Scavenger(s): The Conceptual Vernacular in Recent American Art, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (US)

Die Orte der Kunst, Sprengel Museum, Hannover (DE)

4 x 1 im Albertinum, Gemäldegalerie Neue Meister, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen, Dresden (DE)

Temporary Translation(s): Sammlung Schurmann, Deichtorhallen Hamburg (DE)

1993

Louise Lawler, Cindy Sherman, Laurie Simmons, Kunsternes Hus, Oslo; Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki (FI)

The Image of the Exhibition, Hochschule für Angewandte Kunst, Vienna (AT)

The Nightshade Family, Museum Fridericianum, Kassel (DE)

The Language of Art, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna (AT)

Kontext Kunst, Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz (AT)

Songs of Retribution, Richard Anderson Gallery, New York (US)

1992

American Art of the 80s, Museo d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento (IT)

Informationsdienst, Künstlerhaus Stuttgart (DE)

1991

Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (US)

Anni Novanta, Galeria Communale d’Arte Contemporanea, Bologna (IT)

Devil on the Stairs: Looking Back on the 80s, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, California (US)

Carnegie International, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (US)

Hugo-Erfurth-Preis: Manuel Alvarex Bravo, Louise Lawler, Henk Tas, Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen (DE)

1990

The Decade Show, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York (US)

Affinities and Institutions: The Gerald S. Elliott Collection of Contemporary Art, Art Institute of Chicago (US)

Word as Image, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston (US)

1989

Photography of Invention: American Pictures of the 1980s, National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institute, Washington (US)

A Forest of Signs: Art in the Crisis of Representation, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (US)

Barbara Bloom, Marcel Broodthaers, Daniel Buren, Louise Lawler, Allan McCollum, Galerie Isabella Kacprzak, Stuttgart (DE)

Tenir L’image a distance, Musee d’Art Contemporain de Montreal (CN)

Confronting the Uncomfortable: Questioning Truth and Power, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut (US)

In Other Words, Museum am Ostwall, Dortmund (DE)

Moscow – Vienna – New York, The Vienna Festival (AT)

1988

Investigations 26: Louise Lawler, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia (US)

Five Installations, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (US)

Presi Per Incantamento, Padiglione d’Arte Contemporanea di Milano (IT)

Work by Louise Lawler and Allan McCollum and Fixed Intervals as Matter of Agreement, Le Consortium, Dijon (FR) (two-person exhibition with Allan McCollum)

1987

Maison de la Culture et de la Communication de Saint-Etienne (FR) (two-person exhibition with John Knight)

Photography and Art: Interactions Since 1946, Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Museum of Art Fort Lauderdale; Queens Museum, New York (US)

Implosion: A Postmodern Perspective, Moderna Museet, Stockholm (SE) (cat.)

1986

Damaged Goods, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York  (US)

l’oeuvre et son accrochage, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris (FR)

Art and Its Double: A New York Perspective, Fundacio Caixa de Pensions, Barcelona; Caixa de Pensions, Madrid

1985

The Art of Memory/The Loss of History, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York (US)

New York Now: Correspondences, Laforet Museum, Tokyo; traveled to (1986) Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Arts, Tochigi, Japan; Tazaki Hall Espace Media, Kobe (JP)

1984

Masking/Unmasking: Aspects of Post-Modernist Photography, The Friends of Photography, Carmel, California (US)

Ideal Settings, Diane Brown Gallery, New York (US) (two-person exhibition with Alan McCollum)

New York, Ailleurs et Autrement, ARC Musee d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris (FR)

1983

Multiple Choice, P.S. I, New York (US)

Drawings/Photographs, Leo Castelli, New York (US)

1981

Extended Photography, Secessionist Museum, Vienna (AT)

1978

Louise Lawler, Adrian Piper and Cindy Sherman are participating in an exhibition organized by Janelle Reiring at Artists Space, September 23 to October 28, 1978, Artists Space, New York (US)