Born in 1950 in Gallipolis, Ohio.
Lives and works in Hoosick, New York

Solo Exhibitions

2005 - Jenny Holzer with poetry by Henri Cole, Sprüth Magers Lee, London.
- 51st International Exhibition: Always a Little Further, La Biennale di Venezia, Venice

2004 - Hot Pink (with Lady Pink), Monika Sprüth Philomene Magers, Munich, Germany
- Yvon Lambert, Paris, France
- "Truth Before Power" Kunsthaus, Bregenz, Austria
- Xenons projections in Vorarlberg
- Xenons projections in Goslar

2003 - Xenon for the Peggy Guggenheim, Venice, Italy
- "Jenny Holzer" Mönchehaus Museum, Goslar, Germany

2002 - "Jenny Holzer: OH", Galerie Magers, München, Germany
- "Protect Me From What I Want : The Multiples and Editioned Works of Jenny
Holzer", Printed Matter, Inc., New York

2001 - "Jenny Holzer", Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin, Germany
- "Jenny Holzer: OH", capc Musée d´art contemporain, Bordeaux, France
- "Jenny Holzer: Xenon", Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Monterrey, Mexico
- "Jenny Holzer: Xenon", Chapelle Saint-Louis de la Salpêtrière, Festival d´Automne, Paris, France
-"Jenny Holzer", Cheim & Read, New York, NY
- Xenon projections in Arcachon, France

2000 - "Jenny Holzer", Fundación Proa, Buenos Aires, Argentina
- "Jenny Holzer", Galeria Luisa Strina, São Paulo, Brazil

1999 - "Jenny Holzer: Proteja-Me do Que Eu Quero", Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- "Jenny Holzer: Lustmord", Nova Galeria, São Paulo, Brazil
- "Jenny Holzer: The Living Series", Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle, Munich, Germany
- "Jenny Holzer: Blue", Rhona Hoffmann Gallery, Chicago,
- "Jenny Holzer: The Living Series", Vaknin Schwartz Gallery, Atlanta,

1998 - "Jenny Holzer: Blue", Galerie Yvon Lambert, Paris, France
- "Jenny Holzer: Blue", Monika Sprüth Galerie, Cologne, Germany
- Jenny Holzer: Lustmord", Ian Potter Museum of Art, University of Melbourne,
Melbourne, Australia
- "Blue", Instituto Cultural Itaú, São Paulo, Brazil
- "Lustmord", University of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia

1997 - "Lustmord" Contemporary Art Museum, Houston, Texas
- "The Power of Words and Signs: The Fourth Brain", Index Gallery, Osaka, Japan
- "Jenny Holzer's The Living Series", Cheim & Read, New York
- Oskar-Maria-Graf-Denkmal, Literurhaus, Münich

1996 - "Lustmord", Kunstmuseum des Kantons Thurgau, Warth, Switzerland
- "KriegsZustand" ,Völkerschlachtdenkmal, Leipzig, Germany
- "Doppelt Haut Kunsthalle, Kiel, Germany
- "Lustmord" Galerie Rähnitzgasse der Landeshauptstadt, Dresden, Germany

1995 -"Jenny Holzer: Laments" Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, MA
- "Lustmord" Monika Sprüth Galerie, Cologne, Germany
- Allentown Art Museum, Allentown, Pensylvania
- " In Five Words or Less ", Museum of Modern Art at Heide, Melbourne

1994 - "Lustmord" Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York
- Art Tower Mito, Contemporary Art Center, Mito Japan and Art Gallery Atrium,
Fukuoka, Japan
- "Lustmord" Bergen Billedgalleri, Bergen, Norway
- Galerie Monika Sprüth, Cologne, Germany

1993 - St. Peters Church, Cologne, Germany
- "Da Wo Frauen Sterben,Bin Ich Hellwach" , Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany
- "The Living Series", Barry Whistler Gallery, Dallas, Texas
- "The Venice Installation" Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas
- MAK, Museum für angewandte Kunst, Vienna, Austria
- "Green Table", University of California, San Diego

1992 -Ydessa Hendeles Art Foundation, Toronto, Canada
- Hammond Galleries, Lancaster, Ohio
- "Selections from The Living Series: 1980-1982", The Claremont Graduate School, Claremont, California
- "Selections from The Living Series: 1980-1982", North Dakota Museum of Art,
Grand Forks

1991 - "Selections from The Living Series: 1980-1982", Laura Carpenter Fine Art, Santa Fe New Mexico
- "The Venice Installation" Louisiana Museum, Humlebaek, Denmark
- "The Venice Installation" Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York
- "The Venice Installation" Walker Art Gallery, Minneapolis
- Installation Museum Ludwig, Aachen, Germany

1990 - "The Venice Installation"Städtische Kunsthalle, Düsseldorf, Germany
- Solomon R., Guggenheim Museum, New York

1989 - "Jenny Holzer," Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
- "Laments 1988-89" Dia Art Foundation, New York
- Ydessa Hendeles Art Foundation, Toronto
- Plymouth Arts Center, Plymouth
- " Benches" Doris C. Freedman Plaza, New York

1988 - "Jenny Holzer: Signs/Under a Rock" Institute of Contemporary Art, London
- " Plaques ", The Living Series 1980-82, The Survival Series 1983-85" Interim Art Gallery, London
- "Signs and Benches" The Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, New York
- "Jenny Holzer: Signs and Benches", Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Canada
- "Jenny Holzer", Hoffman Borman Gallery, Santa Monica, California
- "Redefining the Object" Cleveland Center for Contemporary Arts, Cleveland
- "Media Post Media", Scott Hanson Gallery, New York

1987 - Outdoor Installations, Hamburg, Germany
- List Visual Arts Center at Massachussets Institute of Technology, Cambridge
- "Jenny Holzer : Under a Rock" Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago

1986 - "Electronic Sign Project ", Palladium, New York
- "Under a Rock", Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York
- "Jenny Holzer : Signs", Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, Iowa
- "Jenny Holzer : Signs", Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, Colorado
- "Jenny Holzer : Signs", Artspace, San Francisco
- "Protect Me from What I Want," outdoor/ indoor installations, Las Vegas, organized by Nevada Institute for Contemporary Art, University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
- Galerie Crousel-Hussenot, Paris, France
- "Electronic Sign Project" Palladium, New York
- Galerie Monika Sprüth, Cologne, Germany

1985 - "Selections from the Survival Series"Spectacolor Board, Times Square New York
- "Concentrations 10 : Jenny Holzer ", Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas

1984 - Seattle Art Museum, Contemporary Art Council, Seattle
-Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas
- "Jenny Holzer/Barbara Kruger" Kunsthalle, Basel, traveled to Le Nouveau Musée, Villeurbanne, France
-University Gallery, University of Massachusetts at Amherst
-Bus Shelter, 66th and Broadway, New York
- "Truisms and Inflammatory Essays" Amelie A. Wallace Gallery, University of New York, Old Westbury, Long Island
- "Lady Pink" Rotterdam Kunststichting, Galerie't Venster, Rotterdam

1983 - "Survival Series", Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York
- "Jenny Holzer with A-One, Mike Glier, and Lady Pink: Survival Series" Lisson
Gallery, London
- "Essays Survival Series"Institute of Contemporary Art, London,
- "Investigations 3: Jenny Holzer"Institute of Contemporary Art, University of
Pensylvania, Philadelphia

1982 - "Plaques for Buildings: 30 Texts from The Living Series, cast in bronze by Jenny Holzer and Peter Nadin" Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York
- "Electronic Signs"Rotterdam Kunststichting, Galerie't Venster, Rotterdam
- "Messages to the Public : Truisms",Times Square, New York
- "Poster Project"Seattle Art Museum, Seattle
- Cranbrook Museum, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan
- "Truisms" Marine Midland Bank, 140 Broadway, New York
- "Jenny Holzer - Peter Nadin: Living", Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris
- "Truisms and Inflammatory Essays"A Space, Toronto
- American Graffiti Gallery, Amsterdam

1981 - "Living " (with Peter Nadin), Museum für Kultur, Berlin
- "Living" (with Peter Nadin), Le Nouveau Musée, Villeurbanne, France
- "Eating Friends" (with Peter Nadin), Artists Space, New York

1980 - "Living" (with Peter Nadin), Rüdiger Schöttle Gallery, Munich, Germany
- "Position Papers" (with Peter Nadin), Onze Rue Clavel Gallery, Paris
- Issue : Social Strategies by Women Artists », Institute of Contemporary Arts, London

1979 - "Printed Matter Window"Printed Matter, New York
- "Manifesto Show ", 5 Bleecker Street, New York
- Fashion Moda, New York, Fashion Moda Window

1978 - "Jenny Holzer Installation" Franklin Furnace, New York
- "Jenny Holzer Painted Room" PS1, Institute for Art and Urban Resources, Long
Island City, New York

Group Exhibitions:

2000 - "Giuseppe Gabellone", Fondazione Sandretto re Rebaudengo per l'Arte, Torino, Italy
- "Rendez-Vous", Musée d'Art Contemporain, Avignon, France
- "Moving/in Museums Work", Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany
- "The Intuitive Eye: Selections from the Frederick R. Weisman Collection", Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising, Los Angeles, CA
- "Heaven's Gift", Max Protech Gallery, New York, NY
- "The Art of Eastern Europe in Dialogue with the West", 2000+Artteast Collection, Museum of Modern Art Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slowenia
- "Works in Light", Galerie Beyeler, Basel, Switzerland
- "De Léonard de Vinci à Calder: Machins/Machines", Donjon de Vez, France
- "On Language", Sean Kelly Gallery, New York, NY
- "Around 1984: A look at Art in the Eighties", P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, NY
- "Writings: Jenny Holzer & William Kennedy", The Arts Center Troy, NY
- "Sentimental", Yvon Lambert Gallery, Paris, France
- "The End: An Independent Vision of Contemporary Culture", Exit Art, NY
- "Illuminations: Art from Two Millennia", Museet for Samtidskunst, Oslo, Norway
- "Let's Entertain: Life's Guilty Pleasures", Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
- Musée national d'art moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
- "Sons et Lumieres", Museo Rufino Tamayo, exico City, Mexico
- Miami Art Museum "Couples", Cheim & Read, New York, NY

1999 - "Art in America", Ash Fine Art, New York, NY
- "Das Gästezimmer", Am Kreisel in Wolhusen, Wolhusen, Schweiz
- "Object Lessons", Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH
- "München im Kunstlicht. Ein Millenniumsprojekt von Stadt und Wirtschaft im
öffentlichen Raum", München, Germany
- "BMW Art Car Collection", BMW Group am Lenbachplatz, München, Germany
- "The American Century: Art and Culture 1900-2000, Part II, 1950-2000", Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
- "Memory Opens its Doors: Contemporary Art at the Lenbachhaus", Städtische
Galerie im Lenbachhaus, München, Germany
- "Gärten der Flora", Kunstmuseum Kloster Unser Lieben Frauen, Magdeburg,
Germany
- "STOP THE VIOLENCE!!" Akademie der bildenden Künste, Vienna, Austria
- "Text-Image", Musée des Beaux-Arts, La Choux-de-Fonds, Switzerland
- "Connected Cities": Process of Art in the Urban Network", Wilhelm Lehmbruck
Museum, Duisburg, Germany
- The Biennale of Venice, 48th International Exhibition of Contemporary Art
- "Billboard: Art on the Road", MASS MOCA, North Adams, Massachusetts
- "Comfort Zone: Furniture by Artists", Paine Webber Art Gallery, New York
- "Urban Mythologies: The Bronx Represented Since the 1960s", Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York
- "Public Art: Private Vision", Art Foundry Gallery, Sacramento, CA
- "Mehr Licht", Galerie Friebe, Lüdenscheid, Germany
- "Jenny Holzer/Sol LeWitt", The Bathhouse, Kyoto, Japan
- "The Eclectic Eye: Selections from the Frederick R. Weisman Collections", California Center for the Arts, Escondido, CA
- "Sans Titre", Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, Boulder, CO
- "Parkett. Un musée en appartement", Centre d'Art Contemporain, Genf, Switzerland

1998 - "Art words-art works!", Culturcentrum Brugge, Brugge, Belgique
- "Louise Bourgeois.Jenny Holzer. Helmut Lang", Kunsthalle Wien, Wien, Austria
- "Blue", Galerie Yvon Lambert, Paris, France

1997 - "The Electronic Muse" Washington State University, Museum of Art, Washington
- "Skulpturenweg"Städtische Galerie Nordhorn, Nordhorn, Germany
- "The Age of Modernism - Art in the 20th Century" Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin
- "Allegory" Joseph Helman Gallery, Germany
- "One-Line Drawing" Ubu Gallery, New York

1996 - "Nudo & Crudo, La sessualità e il corpo nell'arte contemporanea" Ferrari, Milano, IT
- "Art Embodied"Musées de Marseille, France
- "Mediascope"Guggenheim Museum Soho, New York
- "Thinking Print" Museum of Modern Art, New York
- "Il Tempo e la Moda" Biennale di Firenze, Italy
- "20/20: The Visionary Legacy of Doris Chanin Freedman"Albright College, Center for the Arts, Freedman Gallery, Pensylvania
- "Nowhere" Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Denmark

1995 - "A Collection: Sculptures" Caldic Collection, Rotterdam
- "Féminin-Masculin: Le Sexe de l'art"Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
- "Contemporary Drawing: Exploring the Territory" The Aspen Art Museum, Aspen
- "Body and Technology: International Technology Art" Dong Ah Gallery, Seoul, Korea
- Le Printemps de Cahors, Photographie et Arts Visuels, Boulogne, France
- "Walking and Thinking and Walking" Louisiana Museum of Contemporary Art,
Denmark
- "In Five Words or Less" Museum of Modern Art, Heide, Melbourne, Australia
- "In a Different Light" University Art Museum, Berkeley, California
- "La Galerie Est Devenue Rose"Galerie Valleix, Paris
- Stuart Collection: University of California, San Diego

1994 -"The Institute of Cultural Anxiety " Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, UK
- "Rosebud" Lenbachhaus, München, Germany
- "Sex" Adam Baumgold Fine Art, New York
- "Translucent Writings" Neuberger Museum of Art, NY
- "World-Morality", Kunsthalle Basel
- "Dialogue with the Other", Kunsthallen Brandts Klaedefabrik, Odense, Denmark
- "Time Line", Institute of Art and Urban Resources at PS1, NY
- "Black Garden" Städtische Galerie Nordhorn, Germany
- "Many Dogs run Wild" Adlercreutz-Bjorkholmen, Stockholm
- "Übersättigung und Agonie" Culturecenter 'Spielboden', Austria

1993 - "Virtual Reality: An Emerging Medium", 2 interactive VR projects, Guggenheim.NY
- "Street Art: Jenny Holzer", Center for Contemporary Art, Ujazdowski Castle,
Warschau, Poland
- "Don't Ask, Don't Tell, Don't Pursue" Fairfield University, Fairfield, Connecticut
- "The Language of Art", Kunsthalle Vienna, Austria
- "American Art in the 20th Century" Zeitgeist-Gesellschaft Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin

1992 -"c. 1980."Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York
- "Territorium Artis" Kunst und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland
- "Functional Objects By Artists and Architects, Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago
- "Beyond Just Words" Modernism Gallery, San Francisco
- "Ars Pro Domo", Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany
- "NY AIDS Polemic: Read My Lips" Tramway, Scotland
-"TransForm: BildObject Skulptur in 20. Jahrhundert", Kunsthalle and Kunstmuseum Basel, Switzerland
- "Words", Kukje Gallery, Seoul, Korea
- "Allegories of Modernism: Contemporary Drawing," Museum of Modern Art, NY
- "Cross Section" World Financial Center, NY
- "Words" Coup de Grace Gallery, NY
- "Doubletake: Collective Memory and Current Art," Hayward Gallery, London
- "Word-Images" The James Howe Gallery, Kean College of New Jersey, New Jersey
- "Neons & Signs" Galerie de Poche, Paris

1991 - "Metropolis" Walter Gropius Bau, Berlin
- "Night Lines" Centraal Museum, Utrecht, The Netherlands
- "The Words and the Images" Centraal Museum, Utrecht, The Netherlands
- "Power: It's Myths, Icons, and Structures in American Art, 1961-1991" Virginia
Museum of Fine Arts Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis
- "Devil on the Stairs: Looking Back on the Eighties" nstitute of Contemporary Art,
Philadelphia
- "Beyond the Frame: American Art 1960-1990," Serpentine Gallery, London
- Setagaya Art Museum, Tokyo
- "Compassion and Protest: Recent Social and Political Art from the Eli Broad Family Foundation Collection," San Jose Museum of Art, USA
- "The Political Arm" John Weber Gallery, NY
- "Show of Strength-A sale of works by today's outstanding women artists in support of Madre" Anne Plumb Gallery, New York
- "The Picture After the Last Picture" Galerie Metropol, Vienna, Austria,
- "Video Library" Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York,
- "Act-Up Benefit Art Sale" Paula Cooper Gallery, New York
- "In a Dream" Frankel Gallery, San Francisco
- "The Fetish of Knowledge" Real Art Ways, Connecticut
- "Speechless Text/Image Video"International Center of Photography, New York

1990 - "High & Low: Modern Art and Popular Culture," MOMA, New York
- Art Institute of Chicago and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
- "Energieen" Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
- "The Decade Show: Frameworks of Identity in the 80's" The New Museum, The
Studio Museum, and MoCHA, New York
- "Life-Size: A Sense of the Real in Recent Art" The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
- "Word as Image-American Art 1960-1990" Milwaukee Museum of Art, Milwaukee, Oklahoma City
- "Positions of Art in the 20th Century" Wiesbaden Museum, West Germany, Art
- "Affinities" The Gerald S. Elliot Collection Institute of Chicago
- "Culture and Commentary - An Eighties Perspective" Hirshhorn Museum and
Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC
- "Timespan" Fundacio Caixa de Pensions, Barcelona, Spain
- "Video Poetics" Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, California
- "Insect Politics: Body Horror/ Social Order" Hallwalls, Buffalo, New York
- "Nature (Artificielle)" La Fondation Electricite de France, Paris
- "Images of Death in Contemporary Art, "Haggerty Museum of Art, Marquette
University, Milwaukee
- "The Power of Childhood" Wessel O'Connor, Ltd., New York
- "Constructive Anger" Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston
- "Art & Publicite 1890-1990" Grande Galerie, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
- "Language in Art" Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Connecticut
- American Pavillion, 44th Venice of Biennale, Venice
- Biennale di Venezia Pavillon of the USA, Venice, Italiy

1989 - "Wittgenstein - The Play of the Unsayable" Paleis voor Schone Kunsten, Brussels
- "Image World - Art and Media Culture" Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
- "A Forest of Signs: Art in the crisis of representation" The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
- "In Other Words -Wort und Schrift in Bildern der Konzeptuellen Kunst » Museum am Ostwall, Dortmund, Germany
- "Clever Innocence - Hans-Peter Feldman, Bill Woodrow, Jenny Holzer" Galerie
Venster, Rotterdam
- "The Presence of Absence - New Installations" Albany Institute of History and Art, Albany, New York
- "Making their Mark: Women Artists Move into the Mainstream, 1970-85" Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati
- "D & S Ausstellung" Kunstverein in Hamburg, Hamburg
- "Hamburg Projekt 1989: Kunstler realisieren Arbeiten im offentlichen
Raum/Kulturbehorde Hamburg," Outdoor Electronic Installation
- "Words"Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York
- "The Presence of Absence- New Installations" Gallery 400, The University of Illinois at Chicago
- "What Does She Want?: Current Feminist Art from the First Bank Collection"
Carleton Art Gallery, Carleton College, Northfield, Minnesota,
- Coming of Age" Madison Art Center, Wisconsin
- "Genetics" Esther Schipper, Cologne
- "First Impressions: Early Prints by Forty-Six Contemporary Artists" Walker Art
Center, Minneapolis
- "International Contemporary Art: Selected Recent Acquisitions and Promised Gifts" Art Gallery of Ontario
- "Recent Acquisitions"Collett Art Gallery, Weber State College, Ogden, Utah
- "Scripta Manent" Verba Volant" Monika Spruth Galerie, Cologne
- "Golden Opportunity", Leo Castelli Gallery, New York

1988 - "Camouflage" Third Eye Centre, Glasgow
- "ROSC '88" The Guiness Hop Store and The Royal Hospital, Dublin
- "Modes of Address: Language in Art Since 1960" Whitney Museum of American Art Downtown at Federal Plaza, New York
- "Nelson Mandela 70th Birthday Tribute" Wembley Stadium, London
- "Lifelike"Lorence Monk Gallery, New York
- Australian Bienniale: From the Southern Cross, A View of World Art c.1940-88" Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
- "Sculpture at the Point" Point State Park, Three Rivers Arts Festival, Pittsburgh
- "1988: The World of Art Today" Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee
- "After Street Art" Boca Raton Museum of Art, Florida
- "The Multiple Object: European and American Sculptural Works Made in Editions" Bank of Boston, Boston
-"60s/80 s: Sculpture Parallels" Sidney Janis Gallery, New York
- "Private Works for Public Spaces" R. C. Erpf Gallery, New York
- "Committed to Print: An Exhibition of Recent American Printed Art with Social and Political Themes" The Museum of Modern Art, New York
-Temporary Public Art: Changes and Interventions Storefront for Art and Architecture, New York
- "MEDIA POST MEDIA" Scott Hanson Gallery, New York

1987 - Jeffrey Linden Gallery, Los Angeles
- "Melee" Franklin Furnace, New York
- Monika Spruth Galerie, Cologne
- "Jenny Holzer, Louise Lawler, Ken Lum" Galerie Crousel-Robelin, Paris
- "Hard Work" Fay Gold Gallery, Atlanta
- Le Case d'Arte, Milan
- "Internationell Mediakonst" U-Media, Umea, Sweden
- "At Issue: Art and Advocacy," St. Louis Gallery of Contemporary Art
- "Computers in Art" Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, New York
- "Room Enough" Suermondt-Ludwig Museum, Aachen, Germany
- "Independence Sites: Sculpture for Public Spaces" The Bourse, Philadelphia
- "20 Artists 20 Stations" The Montreal International Centre of Contemporary Art,
Montreal, Canada
- "Romance" Spirit Square Center for the Arts, Charlotte, North Carolina
- "Skulptur Projekte in Munster" Westfalisches Landesmuseum fur Kunst und
Kulturgeschichte, Munster
- "Documenta 8" Museum Fridericianum, Kassel, West Germany
- "l'epoque, la mode, la morale, la passion" Musee National d'Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
- "Word and Image" Holman Hall Art Gallery, Trenton State College, New Jersey
- "Contemporary American Artists in Print" Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven
- "Perverted by Language" Hillwood Art Gallery, C.W. Post Campus, Long Island
University, Brookville, New York
- "Resistance (Anti-Baudrillard)" White Columns, New York
- "Artist with Public Voice" Nine-One-One Contemporary Arts Center, Seattle
- "Independence States: Sculpture for Public Spaces" Only in America Festival,
Philadelphia

1986 - "Keith Haring - Jenny Holzer: Protect Me from What I Want", Vienna
- "Jenny Holzer/Barbara Kruger" Israel Museum, Jerusalem
- "Jenny Holzer/Cindy Sherman: Personae", Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati
- "Art and Its Double: A New York Perspective" Centro Cultural de la Fundacio Caixa de Pensiones, Barcelona
- "Text and Image: The Wording of American Art"Holly Solomon Gallery, New York
- "Products and Promotion: Art, Advertising, and the American Dream" San Francisco Camerawork, San Francisco
- "The First Decade" The Freedman Gallery, Albright College, Pennsylvania
- "Europa/Amerika" Museum Ludwig, Cologne
- "Sonsbeek: International Sculpture Exhibition"Arnhem
- "Memento Mori"Centro Cultural Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico
- "artware" Hannover Messe, Hannover
- "Reality Remade" Kent Fine Art, New York
- "A Different Climate" Städtische Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf

1985 - "Prospekt 86: Eine Internationale Ausstellung Aktueller Kunst" Frankfurter
Kunstverein and Kunsthalle Schirn, Frankfurt
- "Rooted Rhetoric: Una Tradizione nell'Arte Americana" Castello dell'Ovo, Naples
- "In Other Words"The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
- "Tuning In"Art Gallery, Fogelson Library Center, College of Santa Fe
- "Subversive Acts: Artists Working with the Media Politically" North Gallery,
University of New Mexico Art Museum, Albuquerque
- "Political Art Now!"Telluride Ideas Festival, Telluride, Colorado
- "Festival des Arts Electroniques" Rennes

1984 -"Dissent: The Issue of Modern Art in Boston, The Expressionist Challenge" Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston
- "The Public Art Show" Nexus Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta
- "Ecrans Politiques" Musee d'Art Contemporain de Montreal, Montreal
- "Eau de Cologne II"Galerie Monika Spruth, Cologne
-"1985 Carnegie International" Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh
- "Writing on the Wall" Islip Art Museum, East Islip, New York
- "Social Studies" Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York
- "Signs" The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York
- "Nouvelle Biennale de Paris" Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, Paris
- "Currents 7: Words in Action" Milwaukee Art Center, Milwaukee
- "Secular Attitudes" Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art
- Biennial Exhibition Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
- "Technics and Civilization" Laurie Anderson, Jenny Holzer, and Cindy
ShermanThomas Segal Gallery, Boston
- "Memento Mori" Goldie Paley Gallery, Moore College of Art, Philadelphia
- "Rain Dance" 292 Lafayette Street, New York
- Lawrence Gallery, Rosemont College, Rosemont, Pennsylvania
- Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York
- Michael Klein Gallery, New York
- "Kunst mit Eigen-Sinn" Museum Moderner Kunst/Museum des 20 Jahrhunderts,
Vienna
- "Neofest" Sushi Gallery, San Diego
- "El Arte Narrativo" P.S. 1, Long Island, Usa
- "HOLZER KRUGER PRINCE" Knight Gallery, Spirit Square Art Center, Charlotte, North Carolina
- "Content: A Contemporary Focus 1974-1984" Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture
Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
- "A Different Climate: Aspects of Beauty in Contemporary Art" Städtische Kunsthalle, DÜsseldorf
- "The Human Condition: Biennial III" San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco
- "Women of Influence" Amerika Haus, Berlin
- "The Fifth Biennale of Sydney, Australia
- "1984: Women in New York"Gallerie Engstrom, Stockholm
- "Time Line" Institute for Art and Urban Resources at P.S. 1,Long Island City, New York
- "Painting and Sculpture Today" Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis
- "New York-Ailleurs et Autrement" Musee d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris
- "Jenny Holzer, StephenPrince, Mark Stahl, Christopher Williams" De Appel,
Amsterdam, and Gewad, Ghent
- "The Revolutionary Power of Women's Laughter" Arts Cultural Resource Center, Toronto
- "Szene New York" Cologne Art Fair, Cologne
- "Night Lights" Dart Gallery, Chicago
- "Assemblages: Ten Artists Put TenObjects to Good Use" Holly Solomon Gallery, New York
- "Hunger for Words" Gallery 345, Art for Social Change, New York
- "Duke x Nine" Duke University Museum of Art, Durham, North Carolina
- "La Narrativa Internacional de Hoy" Museo Rufino Tamayo, Mexico City
- "Idea" Galerie Tanja Grunert, Stuttgart
- "American Women Artists/Part II:Younger Generation" Sidney Janis Gallery, New
- "10th Anniversary Exhibition" Artists Space, New York
- "Frontier Art" Galleria d'Arte Moderna, Bologna
- "Art as Social Conscience" Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York
- "1+1=2" Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, New York
- "Disarming Images: Art for Nuclear Disarmament" Contemporary Arts Center,
Cincinnati
- "Body Politic" Tower Gallery, New York
- "United States" Fayerweather Gallery, University of Virginia, Charlottesville
- "Sign on a Truck" outdoor installations, Grand Army Plaza and Bowling Green
Plaza, Brooklyn, New York

1983 - "WrittenImagery Unleashed in the 20th Century" Fine Arts Museum of Long Island, Hempstead, New York
- "From the Streets" Greenville County Museum of Art, South Carolina
- "Walter Dahn, Rene Daniels,Isa Genzken, Jenny Holzer, Robert Longo, Henk
Visch" Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven
- "Currents" Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston
- "Art and SocialChange, U.S.A." Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College, Ohio
- "1983 Biennial Exhibition" Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
- "Présence Discrète" Musee des Beaux-Arts de Dijon, France
- "State of the Art - The New Social Commentary" Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York
- "Urban Pulses" Pittsburgh Center for the Arts
- "The Revolutionary Power of Women's Laughter" Protetch/McNeil, New York
- "Artist/Critic"White Columns, New York
- "Persuasions" The Kitchen, New York
- "Ansatzpunkte Kritischer Kunst Heute" Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn
- Young Hoffman Gallery, Chicago
- "1984 - A Preview" Ronald Feldman Gallery, New York
- "A Pierre et Marie" 54 rue Boussingault, Paris
- "Valentine Show" Marian Goodman/Multiples, New York
- "Investigations" Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia

INSTALLATIONS

2002 - Installation for Telenor Telenor Headquarters, Fornebu, Norway,
- Wanas Wall Wanas Foundation, Knislinge, Sweden
- Serpentine : Selections from Truisms, Living, Survival, Arno, Nakanoshima Mitsui Building, Osaka, Japan.
- Installation for Agder College, Agder University College, Gimlemoen, Norway.
- Installation for Neue Nationalgalerie, Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin, Germany.

2001 - Garden Bench, The Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice.

2000 - Arno, Helmut Lang Parfumerie, New York.

1999 - Blacklist, University of Southern California, Los Angeles.
- Goerdeler Monument, City of Leipzig, Germany.
- Installation for the Reichstag, Bundestag, Berlin, Germany.
- Installation for the Sacramento U.S. Courthouse, United States Federal Courthouse, Sacramento, California.

1997 - Installation for the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Museo Guggenheim Bilbao, Spain.
- Oskar maria Graf Memorial, Literaturhaus München, Munich, Germany.
- Ceiling Snake, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany.

1995 - Installation for Schiphol, Schiphol Airport Authority, Ansterdam, Holland.
- Erlauf Peace Monument, Town of Erlauf, Austria.

1994 - Black Garden, Städtische Galerie, Nordhorn, Germany.

1991 - Installation for the Foster Gallery, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, USA.

1986 -Installations at Caesar's Palace, Thomas Mack Sports Center, Fashion Show Mall, and Micro Plus in Las Vegas

Special Projects / Commissions:

1995 -Erlauf, Austria, Peace Memorial. A vertical, hexagonal granite column with a fixed searchlight directed vertically, texts inscribed in granite paving stones, white flower and foliage plantings surrounding the column in the town's central square.
-Schiphol Airport, The Netherlands. Vertical, hanging, three-sided, tri-color LED
display programmed with various texts in English for terminal stairwell area.
-Site Santa Fe, Santa Fe, New Mexico. 12 mahogany benches with carved seats
(various texts).
-Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Toyota, Japan. Vertical, hanging, four sided, tricolour LED display programmed with various texts in both Japanese and English.
-US Court House and Federal Building, Allentown, PA. 14 granite benches inscribed with Truisms and Survival texts, placed in main entrance lobby and outside third and fourth floor court rooms. Worldwide Web project using Truisms texts in collaboration with ada' web, NY.

1994 -"The Black Garden", Nordhorn, Germany. A 3/4 acre memorial garden design
incorporating black flowers and foliage and sandstone benches inscribed with texts from the War series in English and German.

1993 -"Virtual Reality: An Emerging Medium", Guggenheim Museum, SoHo, NY. 2
interactive VR projects.
-"Lustmord" Sueddeutsche Zeitung Magazin, #46, Germany. 11/19, ill. (Gold Medal awards for both title and edition design from the Art Directors Club (ADC) of Germany.
-Awarded "Planet of Europe" by ADC of Europe.) 42nd Street Art Project. Sponsored by Creative Time, NY. Selections from Truisms and Survival Series on theatre marquees.
-Oesterreichisches Museum Fuer Angewandte Kunst, Vienna, Austria. Electronic
signage for permanent collection display.
-University of California, San Diego, CA, "Green Table," granite table with benches, 20 x 6 feet.

EDUCATION

DukeUniversity, Durham, North Carolina, 1968-1970
University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, 1970-1971
Ohio University, Athens, Ohio, Bachelor of Fine Arts, 1972
Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island, Master of Fine Arts, 1977
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, Independant Study Program, 1977

AWARDS

Honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts, Rhode Islands School of Design, Rhode Island, 2003.
Kaiserring, City of Goslar, Germany 2002.
Chevalier de L'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, La Ministre de la Culture et de la
Communication, République Française, 2002.
BZ-Kulturpreis, Berliner Zeitung, Berlin, 2001.
Berlin Prize Fellowship ; The American Academy in Berlin, Berlin, 2000.
Honorary Doctorate of Arts, William College, Williamstown, Massachusetts, 2000.
Crystal Award, World Economic Forum, Geneva, 1996.
Honorary Doctorate of Arts, University of Ohio, Athens, Ohio, 1994.
Skowhegan Medal for Installation, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Maine,1994.
Leone d'Oro, XLIV Biennale di Venezia, Venice, 1990.