Born in 1947 in Bronxville, New York; lives in New York City
Attended Cornell University (BFA 1969)

Selected One-person Exhibitions:

2006
"Louise Lawler: Looking Back," curated by Helen Molesworth, Wexner Center, Ohio
2005
"In and Out of Place: Louise Lawler and Andy Warhol," Dia, Beacon
2004
Metro Pictures, New York (and 1982, 1987, 1989, 1991, 1994, 1997, 2000)
"Not There," Sprüth Magers Lee, London
"Louise Lawler and Others," Museum for Gugenwartskunst, Kunstmuseum Basel, Switzerland (cat.)
2003
"Probably Not in the Show," Portikus, Frankfurt
"Add to It," Portikus, Frankfurt
"New Walls," Galerie Yvon Lambert, Paris (and 1988, 1990)
2001
"Dunn-Rite and Other Pictures," Studio Guenzani, Milan
"Controlled Temperature," Art & Public, Geneva
Galerie Meert Rihoux, Brussels (and 1988, 1991)
2000
"More Pictures," Neugerriemschneider, Berlin
1999
"The Tremaine Series, 1984," Skarstedt Fine Art, New York
Monika Sprüth Galerie, Cologne (and 1997)
1997
"Monochrome," Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C. (broch.)
1995
"A Spot on the Wall," Munich Kunstverein, Munich; Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz, Switzerland; De Appel, Amsterdam (catalogue)
1994
"Press-papiers, cartes postales, images et cannibalisme," Centre d'Art Contemporain, Geneva
"External Stimulation," Galleria Klemens Gasser, Bolzano, Italy; Monika Spruth Galerie, Cologne
1993
Sprengel Museum, Hannover
1990
"Connections, Louise Lawler: The Enlargement of Attention, No One Between the Ages of 21 and 35 is Allowed," Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
1989
"The Show Isn't Over," Photographic Resource Center, Boston
1987
"Projects, Louise Lawler: Enough," Museum of Modern Art, New York (brochure)
1986
"What is the Same," Maison de la Culture et de la Communication de Saint Etienne, France
1985
"Interesting," Nature Morte, New York
1984
"Home/Museum - Arranged for Living and Viewing," Matrix, Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut
1982
"Another Gallery," Anna Leonowens Gallery II, Halifax, Nova Scotia
1979
"A Movie Will Be Shown Without the Picture," Aero Theater, Santa Monica; sponsored by the Foundation for Art Resources

Selected Group Exhibitions:

2006
Meert-Rihoux, Brussels
"Make Your Own Life: Artists In & Out of Cologne," ICA: University of Pennsylvania; The Powerplant, Toronto; The Henry Art Gallery, Seattle; MOCA, Miami
2005
"Museum Fever: Included Louise Lawler", National Museum of Art, Oslo
"Slide Show," The Baltimore Museum of Art, Maryland (cat.)
"Flashback: Revisiting the Art of the Eighties," Kunstmuseum Museum for Gegenwartskunst, Basel (cat.)
2004
"The Big Nothing," Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia (cat.)
2003
"Pletskud," Arken Museum for Moderne Kunst, Skøvej, Germany
"The Last Picture Show: Artists Using Photography 1960-1982," Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; Museo de Arte Contemporanea de Vigo, Spain; Fotomuseum Winterthur, Switzerland; Miami Art Center (cat.)
"Designs for Living," Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles
2002
"Open House," Casino Luxembourg, Luxembourg (cat.)
"Visions from America: Photographs from the Whitney Museum of American Art," Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (cat.)
"Extension," Magasin 3 Stockholm Konsthall, Stockholm, Sweden (broch.)
"Life, Death, Love, Hate, Pleasure, Pain," Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (cat.)
2001
"American Art," Galerie Rudolfinum, Centre of Contemporary Arts, Prague (cat.)
"Televisions," Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna (cat.)
2000
"rot grau" (red grey), Kunsthalle Basel
"Whitney Biennial," Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (cat.)
1999
"The Museum as Muse", Museum of Modern Art, New York; Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego (cat.)
"Shelf Life," Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York
"Triennale Exhibition: Sentiment of the Year 2000," Triennale di Milano, Italy
1997
"Collected," The Photographer's Gallery, London
"Foto Text Text Foto," Fotomuseum Winterthur, Zurich, Switzerland
"Deep Storage/Arsenale der Erinnerung," Haus der Kunst, Munich Nationalgalerie SMPK, Berlin, Germany; Kunstmuseum Dusseldorf im Ehrenhof, Germany; Henry Art Gallery, Seattle (cat.)
"Moving Images," Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst, Leipzig, Germany (cat.)
1996
"Cultural Economies: Histories from the Alternative," The Drawing Center, New York
"Comme Un Oiseau," la Fondation Cartier pour l'art Contemporain, Paris
"Architecture, Art, and Planning Department Centennial," Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York
"10th Biennale of Sydney," Art Gallery of New South Wales; Artspace, New South Wales; Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Australia (cat.)
1995
"The End(s) of the Museum," Fundacio Antoni Tapies, Barcelona (cat.)
"Passions Privees," Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris (cat.)
1994
"Radical Scavenger(s): The Conceptual Vernacular in Recent American Art," Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
"Die Orte der Kunst," Sprengel Museum, Hannover, Germany
"4 x 1 im Albertinum," Gemaldegalerie Neue Meister, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen, Dresden, Germany (cat.)
"Temporary Translation(s): Sammlung Schurmann," Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Germany (cat.)
1993
"Louise Lawler, Cindy Sherman, Laurie Simmons," Kunsternes Hus, Oslo; Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland (cat.)
"The Image of the Exhibition," Hochschule für Angewandte Kunst, Vienna, Austria
"The Nightshade Family," Museum Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany (cat.)
"The Language of Art," Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria
"Kontext Kunst," Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz, Germany (cat.)
1992
"American Art of the 80s," Museo d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento, Italy (cat.)
"Informationsdienst," Kunstlerhaus Stuttgart, Germany
1991
"Whitney Biennial," Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (cat.)
"Anni Novanta," Galeria Communale d'Arte Contemporanea, Bologna, Italy
"Devil on the Stairs: Looking Back on the 80s," Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, California
"Carnegie International," Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (cat.)
"Hugo-Erfurth-Preis: Manuel Alvarex Bravo, Louise Lawler, Henk Tas," Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen, Germany (cat.)
1990
"The Decade Show," New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York
"Affinities and Institutions: The Gerald S. Elliott Collection of Contemporary Art," Art Institute of Chicago
"Word as Image," Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston
1989
"Photography of Invention: American Pictures of the 1980s," National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institute, Washington, D.C.
"A Forest of Signs: Art in the Crisis of Representation," Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (cat.)
"Tenir L'image a distance," Musee d'Art Contemporain de Montreal
"Confronting the Uncomfortable: Questioning Truth and Power," Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut
"In Other Words," Museum am Ostwall, Dortmund, Germany
"Moscow - Vienna - New York," The Vienna Festival, Austria
1988
"Investigations 26: Louise Lawler," Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
"Five Installations," Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
"Presi Per Incantamento," Padiglione d'Arte Contemporanea di Milano, Italy
"Work by Louise Lawler and Allan McCollum and Fixed Intervals as Matter of Agreement," Le Consortium, Dijon, France (two-person exhibition with Allan McCollum)
1987
Maison de la Culture et de la Communication de Saint-Etienne, France, (two-person exhibition with John Knight) (cat.)
"Photography and Art: Interactions Since 1946," Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Museum of Art Fort Lauderdale; Queens Museum, New York
"Implosion: A Postmodern Perspective," Moderna Museet, Stockholm (cat.)
1986
"Damaged Goods," New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York
"l'oeuvre et son accrochage," Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
"Art and Its Double: A New York Perspective, " Fundacio Caixa de Pensions, Barcelona; Caixa de Pensions, Madrid (cat.)
1985
"The Art of Memory/The Loss of History," New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York
"New York Now: Correspondences," Laforet Museum, Tokyo; traveled to (1986) Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Arts, Tochigi, Japan; Tazaki Hall Espace Media, Kobe, Japan
1984
"Masking/Unmasking: Aspects of Post-Modernist Photography," The Friends of Photography, Carmel, California
"Ideal Settings," Diane Brown Gallery, New York (two-person exhibition with Alan McCollum)
"New York, Ailleurs et Autrement," ARC Musee d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris
1983
"Multiple Choice," P.S. I, New York
"Drawings/Photographs," Leo Castelli, New York
1981
"Extended Photography," Secessionist Museum, Vienna

Museum and Public Collections:

Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, Ohio
Art Museum, Princeton University
Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
Cincinnati Art Museum
Fondation Cartier, Paris
Goetz Collection, Munich
Guggenheim Museum, New York
Israel Museum, Tel Aviv
Kemper Art Museum, Washington University, St. Louis
Kunsthalle Hamburg
Kunstmuseum Basel
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Magasin 3 Konsthall, Stockholm
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Moderna Museet, Stockholm
Museet for Samtidskunst in Oslo (Museum of Contemporary Art)
Museum Boymans-van Beuningen Rotterdam
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Museum of Modern Art, New York
Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst, Ghent
Queens Museum, New York
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco
Seattle Art Museum
Sprengel Museum, Hannover
Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart
Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
Weisman Foundation, Los Angeles
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut