Louise Bourgeois

1911 Born in Paris, France
1932 - 1935 Studies at the Sorbonne, Paris, France
1936 - 1937 Studies at the École du Louvre, Paris, France
1936 - 1938 Studies at the École des Beaux-Arts, Paris, France
1937 - 1938 Pupil of Fernand Léger
1938 Emigrates to the USA, New York
1980 Award for Outstanding Achievement in the Visual Arts from Women’s Caucus for Art
1981 Elected Fellow of American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Boston, MA
1983 Elected Member of American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, NY
1983 Named Officier de L’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, by Jack Lang, French Minister of Culture
1987 Gold Medal of Honor for Excellence in Art, National Arts Club, New York
1987 Named Fellow for Life at Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
1989 “Distinguished Artist Award for Lifetime Achievement”, College Art Association
1989 “Neptune Award for the Arts”, Snug Harbor, Staten Island, NY
1991 Lifetime Achievement Award, International Sculpture Center, Washington D.C. (first recipient)
1991 Awarded the Grand Prix National de Sculpture by the French Ministry of Culture
1993 Mayor’s Awards for Art & Culture, New York City
1995 The Ueno Royal Museum, Tokyo and The Hakone Open-Air Museum, Kanagawa-ken, Japan, 1995 Biennial Award and Purchase prize for ARCH OF HYSTERIA
1997 National Medal of Arts presented by President Clinton at the White House
1998 Academician of the National Academy, New York, Sculpture Class
1999 Awarded the Golden Lion, for a living master of contemporary art, by La Biennale di Venezia
1999 Praemium Imperiale Award in the sculpture category from the Japan Art Association
2003 2002/3 Wolf Prize in the Arts (Painting and Sculpture), Wolf Foundation, Israel
2006 National Organization For Women, Washington D.C. “The 2006 Intrepid Award”
Lives and works in New York

2008 Museo Nazionale di Capodimonte, Naples, Italy “Louise Bourgeois” (solo)
2007 - 2008 Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA “Bourgeois in Boston” (solo)
2007 - 2008 Barbican Centre, London, England “Seduced: Art and Sex from Antiquity to Now”
2007 - 2008 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; Hirshhorn Museum & Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C. (solo)
2007 Xavier Hufkens Gallery, Brussels, Belgium “Richard Artschwager, Louise Bourgeois, Roni Horn, Raymond Pettibon”
2007 Dorsky Gallery, Long Island City, NY “After the Revolution: Woman Who Transformed Contemporary Art”
2007 The WANAS Foundation, Knislinge, Sweden “Louise Bourgeois, Fernando Sánchez Castillo, Jan Svenungsson”
2007 Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy “52nd International Art Exhibition”
2007 Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, NY "All the More Real"
2007 Kukje Gallery, Seoul, Korea “Louise Bourgeois: Abstraction” (solo)
2007 Storm King Art Center, Mountainville, NY “Louise Bourgeois” (solo)
2007 Akademie Der Kunste, Berlin-Mitte, Germany "Space: Places of Art"
2007 Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, IL “30th Anniversary Exhibition, Decades 1980-1990”
2007 Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles "Wack! Art and the Feminist Revolution". Traveled to the National Women's Museum, Washington D.C.; PS1, New York, NY
2007 Sean Kelly, New York, NY "Pure"
2007 La Triennale di Milano, Milan, Italy “Timer: Intimacy”
2007 Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France "Airs de Paris"
2006 Kunsthalle Bielefeld, 'Louise Bourgeois', Bielefeld/D (solo)
2005 Hauser & Wirth London, 'Sublimation', London GB (solo)
2005 Museum of Contemporary Art, 'Stitches in Time', North Miami FL (solo)
2005 Wifredo Lam Centre, Havana CU (solo)
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
2004 Daros Collection, 'Louise Bourgeois', Zürich/CH (solo)
2003 Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, 'Louise Bourgeois', cur. Julie Sylvester Cabot, Humlebaek/DK (solo)
2003 Dia Center for the Arts, 'Louise Bourgeois. Installation at Inauguration of Dia: Beacon', New York NY (solo)
2003 The Whitney Museum of American Art, 'Louise Bourgeois. The Insomnia Drawings', New York NY (solo)
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
2002 Galerie Hauser & Wirth, 'Louise Bourgeois. Works in Marble', Zurich/CH (solo)
2002 Palais de Tokyo, 'Louise Bourgeois. Le Jour La Nuit Le Jour [film and sound installation]', Paris/F (solo)
2001 Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, 'Louise Bourgeois', Bilbao/E (solo)
2001 The State Hermitage Museum, 'Louise Bourgeois', cur. Julie Sylvester Cabot, St. Petersburg/RUS (solo)
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
2000 Tate Modern, ‘Louise Bourgeois‘ [retroscpective and installation], London/GB (solo)
2000 Galerie Hauer & Wirth, ‘Louise Bourgeois. Neue Arbeiten/Recent Works‘, Zurich/CH (solo)
1999 Museo Nacional, Centro de Arte Reina Sofìa, ‘Louise Bourgeois. Memoria y arquitectura‘, Madrid/ E (solo)
1999 Kunsthalle Bielefeld, ‘Louise Bourgeois‘, Bielefeld/D (solo)
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
1998 Serpentine Gallery, ‘Louise Bourgeois. Recent Work‘, London/GB (solo)
1998 The Art Gallery of Ontario, ‘Past Tense. Louise Bourgeois‘, Toronto/CDN (solo)
1998 The Whitney Museum of American Art, ‘Louise Bourgeois: Topiary‘, New York NY (solo)
1996 Deichtorhallen, ‘Louise Bourgeois. Der Ort des Gedächtnisses Skulpturen, Environments und Zeichnungen. 1946-1995‘, Hamburg/D (solo)
1996 Galerie Hauser & Wirth, ‘Red Room‘, Zurich/CH (solo)
1995 Musée d’Art moderne de la Ville de Paris, ‘Louise Bourgeois. Sculptures, environnements, dessins. 1938-1995‘, Paris/F (solo)