Born in Gallipolis, Ohio, Jenny Holzer has established a reputation for her installation sculpture, especially stone benches with carved text inscriptions. Her intention has been for the primordial... Read full biography
Born in Gallipolis, Ohio, Jenny Holzer has established a reputation for her installation sculpture, especially stone benches with carved text inscriptions. Her intention has been for the primordial form of the granite to convey the idea one is among ruins. Jenny Holzer was raised in Lancaster, Ohio... Read full biography
Born in Gallipolis, Ohio, Jenny Holzer has established a reputation for her installation sculpture, especially stone benches with carved text inscriptions. Her intention has been for the primordial form of the granite to convey the idea one is among ruins. Jenny Holzer was raised in Lancaster, Ohio and eventually settled in Hoosick Falls, New York. In 1968, she attended Duke University and studied under abstract artist Vernon Pratt. In 1972, she earned a BFA from Ohio University at Athens, and... Read full biography
Born in Gallipolis, Ohio, Jenny Holzer has established a reputation for her installation sculpture, especially stone benches with carved text inscriptions. Her intention has been for the primordial form of the granite to convey the idea one is among ruins. Jenny Holzer was raised in Lancaster, Ohio and eventually settled in Hoosick Falls, New York. In 1968, she attended Duke University and studied under abstract artist Vernon Pratt. In 1972, she earned a BFA from Ohio University at Athens, and in 1977, received an MFA degree from the Rhode Island School of Design. That same year, she was a fellow in the Whitney Museum's Art Independent Study Program. She began her series of "Truisms," words from different texts transferred onto paper and... Read full biography
Born in Gallipolis, Ohio, Jenny Holzer has established a reputation for her installation sculpture, especially stone benches with carved text inscriptions. Her intention has been for the primordial form of the granite to convey the idea one is among ruins. Jenny Holzer was raised in Lancaster, Ohio and eventually settled in Hoosick Falls, New York. In 1968, she attended Duke University and studied under abstract artist Vernon Pratt. In 1972, she earned a BFA from Ohio University at Athens, and in 1977, received an MFA degree from the Rhode Island School of Design. That same year, she was a fellow in the Whitney Museum's Art Independent Study Program. She began her series of "Truisms," words from different texts transferred onto paper and pasted onto the side street walls and fences of Manhattan. From these projects, she began her signature work, which is stone benches with... Read full biography
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About Jenny Holzer: Books
Books & Publications (53)
Publications based on askART research. List may not be comprehensive.
The Last Art College: Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, 1968-1978
2012
Kennedy, Garry Neill
455 pages (color)
Art Metropole: The Top 100 (National Gallery of Canada) (Exhibition catalog)
2006
Scott, Kitty et al
137 pages
The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005
2005
AskART.com Inc. - Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
479 pages
Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition
2005
Davenport, Ray
2,421 pages
Who's Who in American Art, 2004 2003 - 2004 (25th Edition)
2004
McGowan, Alison C (Editor)
1,512 pages
Landmarks: Sculpture Commissions for the Stuart Collection
2002
Beebe, Mary; Robert Storr
264 pages (color)
Art at the Turn of the Millennium
1999
Larsen, Lars et all
561 pages (color)
American Visions The Epic History of Art in America
1997
Hughes, Robert
635 pages (color)
Visual Arts in the 20th Century
1997
Lucie-Smith, Edward
400 pages (color)
Who's Who in American Art, 1997-1998
1997
Marquis Who's Who
1,515 pages
Icons of Art The 20th Century
1997
Tesch, Jurgen/E Hollmann
216 pages (color)
Accents on Artists A fact-filled pronunciation guide. Over 800 artist’s names you should know…
1996
Barbara and Peter Toohil
363 pages (color)
The Dakis Joannou Collection
1996
Deitch, Jeffrey
302 pages (color)
Art of the Postmodern Era From the Late 1960s to the Early 1990s
1996
Sandler, Irving
636 pages (color)
Art Since 1940 Strategies of Being
1995
Fineberg, Jonathan
496 pages (color)
North American Women Artists of the Twentieth Century A Biographical Dictionary
1995
Heller, Jules and Nancy G. Heller
612 pages
Art Today
1995
Lucie-Smith, Edward
512 pages (color)
Who's Who in American Art, 1993-1994, 20th Edition (American Federation of Arts)
1993
Bowker R R
1,473 pages
Culture or Trash? A Provocative View of Contemporary Painting (etc)
1993
Gardner, James
227 pages
American Art in the 20th Century Painting and Sculpture 1913-1993 (Exhibition catalog)
1993
Joachimides, Christos (others)
490 pages (color)
Dictionary of the Avant-Gardes
1993
Kostelanetz, Richard
246 pages
Contemporary Art 1965-1990
1992
Kurtz, Bruce D
256 pages (color)
Allegories of Modernism Contemporary Drawing (Exhibition catalog)
1992
Rose, Bernice
128 pages (color)
Jenny Holzer The Venice Installation (Exhibition catalog)
1991
Auping, Michael
86 pages (color)
Power:Its Myths and Mores in American Art 1961-1991 (Exhibition catalog)
1991
Day, Holliday T
159 pages (color)
Explorations The Visual Arts since 1945
1991
Hoffman, Katherine
400 pages (color)
Devil on the Stairs Looking Back on the Eighties (Exhibition catalog)
1991
Storr, Robert/J Tannenbaum
96 pages (color)
Art Since Mid Century 1945 to the Present
1991
Wheeler, Daniel
344 pages (color)
Affinities and Intuitions Gerald S Elliott Collection of Contemporary Art
1990
Benezra, Neal (editor)
312 pages (color)
Word As Image American Art 1960-1990 (Exhibition catalog)
1990
Bowman, Russell/Dean Sobel
172 pages (color)
Women, Art, and Society
1990
Chadwick, Whitney
384 pages (color)
Culture and Commentary An Eighties Perspective
1990
Halbreich, Kathy
195 pages (color)
Mixed Blessings New Art in a Multicultural America
1990
Lippard, Lucy R
279 pages (color)
Pop Art A Continuing History
1990
Livingstone, Marco
271 pages (color)
American Women Sculptors: A History of Women Working in Three Dimensions
1990
Rubinstein, Charlotte Streifer
638 pages
High and Low Modern Art/Popular Culture (Exhibition catalog)
1990
Varnedoe, Kirk/Adam Gopnik
460 pages (color)
First Impressions Early Prints by Forty-six Contemporary Artists (Exhibition catalog)
1989
Armstrong, Elizabeth
149 pages (color)
Art in Place Fifteen Years of Acquisition (Exhibition catalog)