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Born 1955 New York City. Known for: Sculptor, non objective painter.
Roni Horn was born in 1955 in New York, earned her BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design and an MFA from Yale University in 1978. She teaches at the Columbia University School of the Arts and... Read full biography
Roni Horn was born in 1955 in New York, earned her BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design and an MFA from Yale University in 1978. She teaches at the Columbia University School of the Arts and lives and works in New York City. Her sculptures, installations, and photographs have been exhibited... Read full biography
Roni Horn was born in 1955 in New York, earned her BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design and an MFA from Yale University in 1978. She teaches at the Columbia University School of the Arts and lives and works in New York City. Her sculptures, installations, and photographs have been exhibited throughout the world. One of her more spectacular projects is her installation in 2007 in Stykkisholmur, a small town on the west coast of Iceland. There, at a lighthouse, she has created... Read full biography
Roni Horn was born in 1955 in New York, earned her BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design and an MFA from Yale University in 1978. She teaches at the Columbia University School of the Arts and lives and works in New York City. Her sculptures, installations, and photographs have been exhibited throughout the world. One of her more spectacular projects is her installation in 2007 in Stykkisholmur, a small town on the west coast of Iceland. There, at a lighthouse, she has created Vatnasafn/Library of Water, which is "twenty-four glass pillars filled with melted ice of twenty-four glaciers from all over Iceland, scattered across an otherwise empty room. The installation is very spare. Each column is subtly lit from above and appers to... Read full biography
Roni Horn was born in 1955 in New York, earned her BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design and an MFA from Yale University in 1978. She teaches at the Columbia University School of the Arts and lives and works in New York City. Her sculptures, installations, and photographs have been exhibited throughout the world. One of her more spectacular projects is her installation in 2007 in Stykkisholmur, a small town on the west coast of Iceland. There, at a lighthouse, she has created Vatnasafn/Library of Water, which is "twenty-four glass pillars filled with melted ice of twenty-four glaciers from all over Iceland, scattered across an otherwise empty room. The installation is very spare. Each column is subtly lit from above and appers to emanate light from within." (Fer, 173) Weather-related words in English and Icelandic are cut... Read full biography
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Art Method
- •Collage and/or Decoupage
- •Easel Painting
- •Installation Art
- •Murals: Design, Painting, Fresco, Mosaic, Glass
- •Photography as Fine Art
- •Sculpture, Three Dimensional Forms, Sculptor
Art Media
Art Style
Art Subject
- •Figure, Figurative Humans
- •Non Objective Subject
Art School
- •Columbia University Art Department, Teacher
- •Rhode Island School of Design, Student
- •Yale University School of Fine Art and Architecture, Student
Chronology
- •Late 20th Century After 1950
Added Description
- •Art Educator:Teaching, Scholarship, Workshops and/or Writing
Exhibition/Expo: Regional/National/International
- •Venice Biennale
Exhibition of Museum
- •Whitney Biennial Museum of American Art