New York, 1942 – 2021.
During his career he participated in four Documenta editions and as many Venice Biennales. His numerous awards and honours include two National Endowments for the Arts Fellowships (1976 and 1983), a Guggenheim Fellowship (1994), the Wolfgang Hahn Prize (1995), the Skowhegan Medal for Painting/Conceptual Art (1999), the Roswitha Haftmann Foundation Prize (2015), the Wolf Prize and the Aspen Award for Art (2017). In 2022, the Arsenale in Venice hosted a major retrospective of his work. Works by the artist appear in the collections of the British Museum, London; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Museum of Modern Art, New York; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; Art Institute, Chicago; National Gallery of Art, Washington; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; Tate Modern, London.
Selected recent solo exhibitions:
2023
Lawrence Weiner: Under the sun, Amorepacific Museum of Art, Seoul
2022
The Language of Lawrence Weiner, Arsenale Institute for Politics of Representation, Venice
2021
Lawrence Weiner, Galerie Thomas Schulte, Berlin
Close to a rainbow, Holstebro Kunstmuseum, Holstebro, Denmark
2020
Lawrence Weiner: South of the Border, Fundación Casa Wabi, Puerto Escondido, Oaxaca, Mexico
2019
Attached by Ebb & Flow, Museo Nivola, Orani, Italy
Just in time, Galerie Hubert Winter, Wien
Whisked away from, OSL Contemporary, Oslo
2018
Folded Waves Vagues Pliées, Galerie Marian Goodman, Paris
Piles Of Used Marble Breaking The Water, Galleria Alfonso Artiaco, Naples
Artist Rooms Lawrence Weiner, The Mcmanus, Dundee, Scotland
In Tandem With The Sands, Dvir Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
Water & Some Of Its Forms, Taro Nasu Gallery, Tokyo
2017
Forever & a day (Siempre y un día), Museo de la Ciudad de México; Plaza de la Constitucion – Zócalo; Nezahualcoyotl; Museo Tamayo; Marquesina Cervantes Saavedra
Lawrence Weiner: Inherent Innate Tension, Milwaukee Art Museum, Wisconsin
Lawrence Weiner: OUT OF SIGHT, Perez Art Museum, Miami
Lawrence Weiner: Inherent Innate Tension, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York
2016
Used As Other Than Itself, Galleria Alfonso Artiaco, Naples
Of Its Own Full Circle, Austrian Frederick and Lillian Kiesler Private Foundation, Wien
Kunsthaus Bregenz, Bregenz, Austria
Lawrence Weiner: MADE TO BE, Regen Projects, Los Angeles
Whisked away from, OSL Contemporary Gallery, Oslo
2015
Within a Realm of Distance, Blenheim Palace, Oxfordshire
Within Grasp, Mai 36 Galerie, Zurich
Rose F. Kennedy Greenway Conservancy, Boston & MIT List Center, Cambridge
Within a realm of distance, Blenheim Art Foundation, Blenheim Palace, Woodstock
Becalmed Within the Embrace of a Whirlwind, Galería Horrach Moya, Palma de Mallorca
2014
Along the Shore, i8 Gallery, Reykjavik
Some Moved Pictures of Lawrence Weiner, GoMA Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow
All in Due Course, South London Gallery, London
Straight Down to Below: Lawrence Weiner, Woodhorn Museum, Ashington
Somewhere, Mendes Wood DM and Galeria Luisa Strina, São Paulo
CRISSCROSSED, Cristina Guerra, Lisbon
2013
MENS REA Galleria Giorgio Persano, Turin
Written on the wind, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Amsterdam
Written on the wind, MACBA Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona, Barcelona
2012
Lawrence Weiner: NO TREE NO BRANCH, The Jewish Museum, New York
Be that as it may, Lisson Gallery, London
Impeded Time, Galerie Hubert Winter, Wien
Concentricity per se, Blain Southern, Berlin
Regen Projects, Los Angeles
2011
A Syntax of Dependency, Museum of Contemporary Art, Antwerp
Altered to Suit, Electronic Arts Intermix, New York
2010
Lawrence Weiner in the House of Art, České Budějovice
Works, Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester
i8 Gallery, Reykjavik
Cristina Guerra Contemporary Art, Lisbon
Dicht Bij, Basis voor Actuele Kunst, Utrecht
2009
As to Be in Plain Sight, Denver Art Museum, Denver
Cul de Sac, The Power Plant, Toronto
A Bit of Matter and a Little Bit More, Argos Centre for Art and Media, Brussels
Yvon Lambert, Paris
At the Level of the Sea, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York
Placed on the Tip of a Wave, Regen Projects, Los Angeles
One in Front (Sea) Two if in Back (Land), Newlyn Art Gallery, Penzance, Cornwall
Galerie Hubert Winter, Wien
Galerie Micheline Szwajcer, Antwerp
2008
Offsides, Lisson Gallery, London
2007
To Allow the Light, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing
Lawrence Weiner: As Far As The Eye Can See, Whitney Museum of American Art, travels to Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Cristina Guerra, Lisbon
Haus der Kunst, Munich
Para Site, Hong Kong
Inherent in the Rhumb Line, National Maritime Museum, Greenwich
2006
Corpo, concetto e sogno, Castello di Rivoli, Turin
If Silence Was, Alfonso Artiaco, Naples
Have & Take Give & Get, Cereal art, Philadelphia
2005
Lawrence Weiner, Bawag Foundation, Wien
Lawrence Weiner, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg
Within A Realm of Relative Form, Lisson Gallery, London
Lawrence Weiner, Regen Projects, Los Angeles
Sheltered from the forces that be, Giorgio Persano Gallery, Turin