Laudatio
  

Lawrence Weiner
Photo © Moved Pictures Archive, NYC




1942
Born in New York City (Bronx)

Lives and works in New York and Amsterdam




1999
Skowhegan Medal for Painting/Conceptual Art, Skowhegan, Maine

1995
Wolfgang Hahn Prize, Ludwig Museum, Cologne

1994
John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship, New York, New York

1991
Arthur Kopcke Prize, Arthur Kopcke Memorial Fund, Copenhagen, Denmark

1988
Singer Prize, Singer Museum, Laren, The Netherlands

1983
National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, Washington, D.C.

1982
Stichting De Appel, Amsterdam, and the State Film Board of the
Netherlands, production of film, ‘Plowmans Lunch’

1976
National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, Washington, D.C.
72nd American Exhibition, Art Institute of Chicago, prize, Chicago, Illinois

1975–76
DAAD, Berlin, Germany, 1975-76 (for production of film, ‘A Second Quarter’)

 

2014
‘All in Due Course’, South London Gallery, London
‘Written on the Wind, Drawings by Lawrence Weiner’, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam

2013
‘The Grace of A Gesture’, Written Art Foundation & the 55th Venice Biennale, Palazzo Bembo, Venice
‘Written on the Wind, Drawings by Lawrence Weiner’, MACBA, Barcelona

2011
‘A Syntax of Dependency’, Museum of Contemporary Art, Antwerp

2010
‘As To be In Plain Sight’, Denver Art Museum, Denver
‘Bolted to the Ground’, House of Art, Budweis

2009
‘The Other Side of A Cul-de-Sac’, The Power Plant, Toronto

2008
‘To Allow the Light’, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing
‘As far as the eye can see’, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf
‘Forever & A Day / Siempre Y un dia’, Centro de Arte Contemporáne (CAC), Malaga
‘TheCrest of a Wave’, Fundació Suñol, Barcelona
‘Complete Films and Videos’, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

2007
‘As far as the eye can see’, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
‘We remain ships at Sea/Not at all ducks on a pond/sail on’, Haus der Kunst, Munich
‘Inherent in the Rhumb Line’, National Martime Museum Greenwich, London

2006
‘Printed Works’, Van Abbe Museum, Eindhoven
‘(Lo & Behold) (Mira & Ve)’, The Wolfsonian, Miami Beach
‘Made to produce a spark – fatta per produrre una scintilla’, Museo d’arte contemporanea, Castello di Rivoli, Turin

2004
‘Covered by Clouds, Museo Tamayo Arte Contemporáneo, México
‘Primary Secondary Teritiary, Davis Museum, Wellesley College, Massachusetts
Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao, Spain

2003
Kunstverein Ruhr im Forum Kunst & Architektur, Essen

2002
‘At this Time on this Place’, Regen Projects, Los Angeles
‘Until it is’, Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus

2000
‘Bent & Broken Shafts of Light’, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg

1999
‘Out of the Blue’, Regen Projects, Los Angeles
‘Lost & Found’, Ascan Crone, Hamburg

1996
‘Some Things Brought to Hand’, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam
Second Floor Exhibition Space, Rejkjavik

1995
Städtische Kunstsammlung Chemnitz, Chemnitz
‘Von Punkt zu Punkt’, Kunstmuseum St. Gallen, St. Gallen

1994
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis

1993
Lehnbachhaus München, Munich
Städtische Galerie Nordhorn, Nordhorn
‘Specific & General Works’, Le Nouveau Musee, Villeurbanne
The Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin

1991
ICA London, London
DIA Foundation, New York
Palais des Beaux-Arts, Bruxelles
CAPC, Musee d'art contemporain, Bordeaux

1990
‘Books 1968-1989’, Portikus, Frankfurt and Le Nouveau Musee, Villeurbanne