Born in New York, 1955
BFA with Honors at the Rhode Island School of Design in Providence RI, 1972-75
MFA at the Yale University in New Haven CT, 1976-78
Lives and works in New York and Reykjavik
Solo Exhibitions
2009
Tate Modern, ‘Roni Horn aka Roni Horn’, London/UK [travels to: Collection Lambert en Avignon, Avignon/FR, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York NY and other venues]
2008
CAC Malaga, Malaga/ES
Xavier Hufkens, Brussels/BE
Circulo de Bellas Artes (Photo España), Madrid/ES
Rathole Gallery, ‘This is me, this is you’, Tokyo/JP
Hauser & Wirth, ‘Bird’, London/UK
Overbeck Gesellschaft, ‘Portrait of an Image (with Isabelle Huppert)’, Luebeck/DE
Gagosian Gallery, Los Angeles CA
2007
Kukje Gallery, Seoul/KR
Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, ‘A KIND OF YOU’, Melbourne/AU
Reykjavik Art Museum, ‘MY OZ’, Reykjavik/IS
Stykkisholmur Library, ‘Vatnasafn / Library of Water’, Stykkisholmur/IS (long-term installation)
Xavier Hufkens, Brussels/BE
2006
Hauser & Wirth, ‘Portrait of an Image’, Zurich/CH
Safn, ‘Relaxness’, Reykjavik/IS
Inverleith House, Edinburgh/UK and Museion Bolzano/IT, ‘Angie and Emily Dickinson’
2005
Matthew Marks Gallery, ‘Portrait of an Image (with Isabelle Huppert)’, New York NY
2004
Hauser & Wirth, ‘Rings of Lispector (Agua Viva)’, London/UK
Art Institute of Chicago, ‘Some Thames’, Chicago IL
Folkwang Museum, ‘Roni Horn. In der Sammlung’, Essen/DE
Reykjavik Art Museum, ‘Her, Her, Her and Her’, Reykjavik/IS
2003
Xavier Hufkens, Brussels/BE
University of Akureyri, ‘Some Thames’, Akureyri/IS (Permanent Installation)
Raffaella Cortese, Milan/IT
Centre Georges Pompidou, ‘Roni Horn Dessins/Drawings/Disegni’, Paris/FR [travelled to: Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, Venice/IT, 2004]
Fotomuseum Winterthur, ‘If on a Winter’s Night. Roni Horn’, Winterthur/CH [travelled to: i8 Galleri, ‘This is Me, This is You’, Reykjavik/IS]
Galerie Hauser & Wirth & Presenhuber, Zurich/CH
2002
Matthew Marks Gallery, ‘Clown Doubt’, New York NY
Dia Center for the Arts, ‘Blah, Blah, Blah, part 2’, New York NY
Dia Center for the Arts, ‘Blah, Blah, Blah, part 1’, New York NY
2001
i8 Galleri, Reykjavik/IS
Museo Serralves, ‘Some Thames’, Porto/PT
Hauser & Wirth & Presenhuber, Zurich/CH
Yvon Lambert, ‘Cabinet Of’, Paris/FR
Jablonka Galerie, Cologne/DE
Xavier Hufkens, Brussels/BE
2000
Lannan Foundation and Site Santa Fe, Santa Fe NM
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York NY
Castello di Rivoli, Turin/IT
National Gallery of Iceland, Reykjavík/IS
1999
Capc Musée d’art contemporain, Bordeaux/FR
Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris/FR
Raffaella Cortese, Milan/IT
Haus der Kunst, Munich/DE
Matthew Marks Gallery, New York NY
Zugspitze, Munich/DE
Jablonka Galerie, Cologne/DE
1998
Xavier Hufkens, Brussels/BE
Patrick Painter Inc., Los Angeles CA
Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Basel/CH
Galleri Stefan Andersson AB, Umea/SE
1997
Institut für Moderne Kunst in der SchmidtBank-Galerie, ‘You are the Weather’, Nuremberg/DE [travelled to: De Pont Foundation for Contemporary Art, Tilburg/NL]
Matthew Marks Gallery, ‘Untitled (Flannery) and Pooling You’, New York NY
Ingólfsstræti 8, Reykjavík/IS
Raffaella Cortese, Milan/IT
Jablonka Galerie, Cologne/DE
Fotomuseum Winterthur, Winterthur/CH
Bahnhof Ost, ‘Yous in You’, Basel/CH (Permanent Installation, completed 2000)
1996
Wexner Center for the Arts, ‘Earths Grow Thick: Works after Emily Dickinson’, Columbus OH [travelled to: Davis Museum & Cultural Center, Wellesley MA; Henry Street Gallery, Seattle WA]
Matthew Marks Gallery, ‘Five Installations’, New York NY
Galerie Ghislaine Hussenot, Paris/FR
Deutscher Wetterdienst München, ‘You are the Weather’ Munich/DE (Permanent Installation at the German Meteorological Service: Helene Weber Allee 21-23)
1995
Matthew Marks Gallery, ‘Gurgles, Sucks, Echoes’ New York NY
St. Louis Museum of Art, ‘Currents 61: Roni Horn’, St. Louis MO
Jablonka Galerie, Cologne/DE
Sammlung Goetz, ‘Felix Gonzalez-Torres & Roni Horn’, Munich/DE
Kunsthalle Basel, ‘Making Being Here Enough. Installations, Drawings’, Basel/CH [travelled to: Kestner Gesellschaft, Hanover/DE]
Museum für Gegenwartskunst, ‘Drawings’, Basel/CH
Alfonso Artiaco Gallery, Naples/IT
1994
Texas Gallery, Houston TX
The Baltimore Museum of Art, ‘Inner Geography’, Baltimore MD [travelled to: List Visual Arts Center, MIT, Cambridge MA; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven CT]
DePont Foundation for Contemporary Art, Tilburg/NL
Matthew Marks Gallery, New York NY
1993
Jablonka Galerie, Cologne/DE
Kunstmuseum Winterthur, ‘Rare Spellings: Selected Drawings 1985-1992’, Winterthur/CH [travelled to: Gemeentemuseum, The Hague /NL; Secession, Vienna/AT; Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne/DE
2nd Floor, Reykjavík/IS
Mary Boone Gallery, New York NY
Matthew Marks Gallery, New York NY
Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles CA
1992
Galerie Annemarie Verna, Zurich/CH
New Museum for Living Art, Reykjavík/IS
Jablonka Galerie, Cologne/DE
1991
Mary Boone Gallery, New York NY
Westfälischer Kunstverein, Münster/DE
Landesmuseum, Münster/DE (Courtyard Installation)
Städtisches Museum Abteiberg, Moenchengladbach/DE
1990
Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles CA
Paula Cooper Gallery, New York NY
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles CA
Leo Castelli, New York NY
1989
Paula Cooper Gallery, New York NY
Galerie Annemarie Verna, Zurich/CH
Jay Gorney Modern Art, New York NY
1988
Winston Gallery, Washington DC
Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit MI
Susanne Hilberry, Birmingham MI
Mario Diacono Gallery, Boston MA
Chinati Foundation, ‘Things that Happen Again’, Marfa TX (Permanent Installation)
1987
Galerie Maeght Lelong, New York NY
Galerie Maeght Lelong, Paris/FR
1986
Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase NY
Burnett Miller Gallery, Los Angeles CA
1985
Burnett Miller Gallery, Los Angeles CA
Galerie Maeght Lelong, New York NY
1983
Glyptothek, Munich/DE
Kunstforum, Lenbachhaus Museum, Munich/DE
Kunstraum, Munich/DE
1980
Kunstraum, Munich/DE
Clocktower, Institute for Art and Urban Resources, New York NY
1978
Yale University, New Haven CT
Group Exhibitions
2009
Yale University Art Gallery, ‘Continuous Present’, New Haven/CT
2008
Museum für Gegenwartskunst, ‘Collection Selection’, Basel/CH
Cheim & Read, ‘The Sum of its Parts’, New York NY
Artists Space NY, ‘Nina in Position’, New York NY
L & M Arts, ‘The Complexity of the Simple’, New York NY
The Common Guild, ‘Always begins by Degrees’, Glasgow/UK
Deutsche Guggenheim, ‘True North’, Berlin/DE
Terme di Diocleziano, ‘Cose mai viste’, Rome/IT
Folkwang Museum, ‘Zeichnung als Prozess/Drawing as Process’, Essen/DE
Villa Medici, ‘The Grand Tour. Exhibition of the Collection Lambert en Avignon at the Villa Medici in Rome’, Rome/IT
Montserrat College of Art Gallery, ‘Many kinds of Nothing’, Beverly MA
ALTANA Kultur Stiftung, ‘An die Natur. ALTANA Kunstsammlung’, Bad Homburg/DE
Galleria Alessandra Bonomo, ‘Mental Drawings’, Rome/IT
Zwirner & Wirth, ‘Quiet Politics’, New York NY
Chapelle de lÈ`cole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, ‘Academia. Qui es-tu?’, Paris/FR
i8 Gallery, ‘pleinairism’, Reykjavik/IS
Museum of Modern Art, ‘Elements and Unknowns’, New York NY
Flag Art Foundation, ‘Wall Rockets: Contemporary Artists and Ed Ruscha’, New York NY
2007
The Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts, ‘Water’, St. Louis MO
Marian Goodman Gallery, ‘Equal, That Is, To The Real Itself’, New York NY
Neues Museum Weserburg, ‘Im Fluss’, Bremen/DE
The Institute of Modern Art, ‘Grey Water’, Brisbane/AU
YUAG Yale University Art Gallery, ‘Art for Yale: Aquisitions for a New Century’, New Haven CT
Xavier Hufkens, ‘Richard Artschwager / Louise Bourgeois / Roni Horn / Raymond Pettibon’, Brussels/BE
Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, ‘Japan und der Westen. Die erfüllte Leere und der moderne Minimalismus’, Wolfsburg/DE
Museum of Modern Art, ‘Lines, Grids, Stains, Words’, New York NY [travelled to: Museu de Serralves, Porto/PT; Museum Wiesbaden, Wiesbaden/DE)
Castello di Rivoli, ‘From the Earth to the Moon’, Turin/IT
Museum Kunst Palast, ‘Die Kunst zu Sammeln’, Dusseldorf/DE
Fotomuseum Winterthur, ‘Towards A New Ease – Set 4 from the Collection of the Fotomuseum Winterthur’, Winterthur/CH
Hessel Museum of Art. Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, ‘Repeated Performances: Roni Horn and Ragnar Kjartansson’, Annandale-on-Hudson NY
Sean Kelly Gallerie, ‘Pure’, New York NY
Neues Museum Weserburg Bremen, ‘Paint it Blue’, Bremen/DE
Z33, ‘The Suspended Moment’, Hasselt/BE
Kunstmuseum Bonn, ‘”The Guggenheim”. Matthew Barney, Douglas Gordon, Anna Gaskell, Roni Horn, Inigo Manglano-Ovalle, u.a.’, Bonn/DE
Sean Kelly Gallery, ‘PURE’, New York NY
Krannert Art Museum, ‘Facade’, Champaign IL
Collection Lambert en Avignon, ‘J’embrasse pas’, Avignon/FR
Museum of Modern Art, ‘Works from Multiplex: Directions in Art, 1970 to Now’, New York NY
James Kelly Contemporary, ‘Sculpture’, Santa Fe NM
Guggenheim Museum, ‘The Guggenheim Collection’, New York NY
La Huerta de San Vicente. Casa-Museo Federico Garcia Lorca, ‘Everstill’, Granada/ES
2006
Pallazo delle Arti Napoli, ‘Dedica- Vent’anni con Alfonso Artiaco’, Naples/IT
Galerie Patrick Seguin, ‘Galerie Patrick Seguin invites Hauser & Wirth’, Paris/FR
Hessel Museum of Art / CCS Galleries Bard College, ‘Wrestle’, Annandale-on Hudson NY
Museum of Modern Art, ‘Against the Grain: Contemporary Art from the Edward R. Broida Collection’, New York NY
P.S.1. Contemporary Art Center – MoMA, ‘Time Frame’, New York NY
Exhibition Centre of Centro Cultural de Belém, ‘Helga de Alvear. Concepts for a collection’, Belém/BR
Hauser & Wirth, ‘Drawings. Roni Horn, Louise Bourgeois’, Zurich/CH
Galerie Stampa, ‘Medium Fotografie’, Basel/CH
Fondation Beyeler, ‘EROS’, Basel/CH
Collection Lambert en Avignon, Musée d’Art contemporain, ‘Le paradoxe du comédien. Les Figures de l’acteur’, Avignon/FR
MARCO, ‘O Momento Suspendido. Colección H&F’, Vigo/ES
Museo di Fotografiea Contemporanea, ‘III Naturale’, Cinisello Balsamo/IT
Museum of Contemporary Art, ‘See into liquid’, Denver CO
San Francisco Center for the Book ‘Photo Books Now’, San Francisco CA
Matthew Marks Gallery, ‘Recent Drawings: Robert Gober, Roni Horn, Jasper Johns, Ellsworth Kelly, Brice Marden, Ken Price, Charles Ray, Terry Winters’, New York NY
Kunstmuseum Winterthur, ‘Plane/Figure’, Winterthur/CH
Phillips de Pury & Company, ‘Artists for Chinati’, New York NY
Whitney Museum of American Art, ‘Skin is a Language’, New York NY
Yale University Art Gallery, ‘Responding to Kahn: A sculptural Conversation’, New Haven CT
2005
P.S.1. Contemporary Art Center – MoMA, ‘Isabelle Huppert: La Femme Aux Portraits’, New York NY
Fisher Landau Center for Art, ‘Zoo Story’, Long Island City NY
Andrea Rosen Gallery, ‘Looking at Words. The Formal Presence of Text in Modern and Contemporary Works on Paper’, New York NY
La Caixa, ‘Coleccion Fundacion’, Barcelona/ES
Hessel Museum of Art / CCS Galleries Bard College, ‘Over Sight’, Annandale-on-Hudson NY
Collection Lambert en Avignon, ‘Theorema’, Avignon/FR
Deutsche Guggenheim, ‘Douglas Gordon’s The Vanity of Allegory’, Berlin/DE
Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, ‘Water, Water Everywhere… ‘, Scottsdale AZ
Whitney Museum of American Art, ‘Landscape’, New York NY
The Museum of Modern Art, ‘Drawing from the Modern 1975-2005’, New York NY
MAC’s-Musée des Arts Contemporains du Grand-Hornu, ‘Le Tableau des Eléments’, Grand-Hornu/BE
Dazibao, Centre de photographies actuelles, ‘Offwhite: Carte grise à Geneviève Cadieux’, Montréal/CA
Crac Alsace – Centre Rhenan d’Art Contamporain, ‘Le temps suspendu’, Altkirch/FR
Galleria Sottopasso della Stua, ‘Cromosoma X’, Genova/IT
Art Gallery & Museum. The Royal Royal Pump Rooms, ‘Taking In Water’, Royal Leamington Spa/UK
Lewis Glucksman Gallery, ‘Through the Looking Glass’, Cork/IE
Camden Arts Centre, ‘An Aside. Selected by Tacita Dean’, London/UK [travelled to: The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh/UK; The Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea/UK ]
Andrea Rosen Gallery, ‘Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Roni Horn’, New York NY
Galleria Raffaella Cortese, ‘Ocean 11212-W’, Milan/IT
2004
Reykjavik Arts Festival 2004, Reykjavik/IS
European Kunsthalle, ‘Für die Konstruktion des Unmöglichen’, Cologne/DE
Centre National du Jeu de Paume, ‘L’Ombre du temps’, Paris/FR
Pinakothek der Moderne, ‘Fotografie und Video: Bill Viola, Gary Hill, Roni Horn’, Munich/DE
Cheim and Read, ‘I am the Walrus’, New York NY
Les Abattoirs, Centre d’art Contemporain, ‘In Extremis’, Toulouse/FR
Galleria Raffaella Cortese, ‘Cavebirds ‘, Milan/IT
Museum of Contemporary Art, ‘Soft Edge’, Chicago IL
Institute of Contemporary Art, ‘The Big Nothing’, Philadelphia PA
Le Printemps de Settembre, Toulouse/FR
Musée Malraux, ‘Vague II Hommages et digressions’, Le Havre/FR
La Casa Encendida, ‘Memoria y Paisaje. Memory and Landscape’, Madrid/ES
Whitney Museum of American Art, ‘Whitney Biennial’, New York NY
Guggenheim Museum, ‘Singular Forms. Sometimes Repeated: Art from 1651 to the Present’, New York NY
Collection Lambert en Avignon, ‘A Fripon. Fripon et demi’, Avignon/FR
Neues Museum in Nürnberg, ‘Sand in der Vaseline. Künstlerbücher 1980 bis 2002’, Nuremberg/DE
Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, ‘Lei – Donne nelle collezioni italiane’, Turin/IT
San Jose Museum of Art, ‘Beyond Tradition: Permanent Collection Photographs’, San Jose CA
James Kelly/Contemporary, ‘Fresh: Works on Paper’, Santa Fe NM
Galerie von Bartha, ‘Schriftbilder/Bilderschrift’, Basel/CH
2003
Grimm/Rosenfeld, ‘Game over’, Munich/DE
The Power Plant, ‘Stretch’, Toronto/CA
50th Venice Biennale, Venice/IT
CCA Wattis. Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, ‘Capp Street Project: 20th Anniversary Exhibition’, San Francisco CA
The Cleveland Museum of Art, ‘Drawing Modern. Works from the Agnes Gund Collection’, Cleveland OH
D’Amelio Terras, ‘Stacked’, New York NY
Museum Morsbroich, ‘Talking Pieces’, Leverkusen/DE
Fondazione Italiana per la Fotografia, ‘In Natura – X Biennale internazionale di Fotografia’, Turin/IT
Neues Museum Weserburg, ‘ars photographica’, Bremen/DE
The National Museum of Art, ‘A Perspective on Contemporary Art: Continuity/Transgression’, Osaka/JP
2002
Jablonka Galerie, ‘Living Room’, Cologne/DE
Kunsthalle Basel, ‘Kleine Kleinigkeit’, Basel/CH
PAC Padiglione d’Arte Contemporanea, ‘Everyday Utopias’, Milan/IT
Weatherspoon Art Museum at: University of North Carolina, ‘Art on Paper 2002’, Greensboro NC
Air de Paris, ‘Transformer II’, Paris/FR
Galeria Helga de Alvear, Künstlerbücher 1980 bis 2002’Text Message’, Madrid/ES
Casa Museo Luis Barragan, ‘The Air is Blue’, Mexico City/MX
Kaiser Wilhelm Museum, ‘Sand in der Vaseline. Künstlerbücher 1980 bis 2002’, Krefeld/DE [travelled to: Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt/DE, Neues Museum Nürnberg/DE]
Centre des Arts Saidye Bronfman, ‘Au Regard du Paysage’, Montreal/CA
Fundació Joan Miró, ‘Limits of Perception’, Barcelona/ES
The Museum of Modern Art, ‘Tempo’, New York NY
Collection Lambert en Avignon, Musée d’artcontemporain, Künstlerbücher 1980 bis 2002 ‘Photographier to photograph’, Avignon/FR
Art Gallery of York University, ‘Regarding Landscape’, Toronto/CA
Sammlung Hauser & Wirth, ‘The House of Fiction’, St. Gall/CH
Yale University Art Gallery, ‘Between Language and Form’, New Haven CT
2001
The Photographer’s Gallery, ‘The Citibank Photography Prize 2001’, London/UK
Matthew Marks Gallery, ‘Tenth Anniversary Exhibition: 100 Drawings and Photographs’, New York NY
Contemporary Arts Museum, ‘The Inward Eye’, Houston TX
Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki, ‘The 1st Auckland Triennial, Bright Paradise’, Auckland/NZ
2000
Palais des Beaux Arts, ‘Voici’, Brussels/BE
Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, ‘Recent Acquisitions’, Paris/FR
Ikon Gallery, ‘Lost’, Birmingham/UK
Museum für Moderne Kunst, ‘Szenenwechsel XVII’, Frankfurt/DE
Barbara Gladstone Gallery, ‘Drawing 2000’, New York NY
Contemporary Arts Museum, ‘The Inward Eye’, Houston TX
Matthew Marks Gallery, ’100 Drawings and Photographs’, New York NY
Kunsthaus Zürich, ‘Recent Acquisitions’, Zurich/CH
1998
11th Sydney Biennale, ‘Everyday’, Sydney/AU
Matthew Marks Gallery, ‘Maverick’, New York NY
Mary Boone Gallery, ‘View 2’, New York NY
1997
Kunstverein Hamburg, ‘Fast Forward’, Hamburg/DE
XLVII La Biennale di Venezia, Venice/IT
Centre d’ Art Contemporain du Domaine de Kerguehennec, ‘Density of the Unimaginable Museum’, Bignan/FR
Galerie Nächst St. Stephan, Vienna/AT
Hessel Museum of Art / CCS Galleries Bard College, ‘Sleight of Mind: The Angle of a Landscape’ [with Gabriel Orozco], Reinbeck NY
1996
Brooke-Alexander Gallery, ‘Artist’s Books’, New York NY
Centre Pompidou, ‘From Beuys to Trockel. Contemporary Drawings from the Kunstmuseum Basel’, Paris/FR
The Museum of Modern Art, ‘Thinking Print’, New York NY
Matthew Marks Gallery and Fraenkel Gallery, ‘Open Secrets’, San Francisco CA
The Museum of Modern Art, ‘Recent Acquisitions’, New York NY
1995
Beaver College Art Gallery, ‘Word for Word’, Glenside PA
Margo Leavin Gallery, ‘Untitled (Reading Room)’, Los Angeles CA
Matthew Marks Gallery, ‘Summer 1995’, New York NY
Paula Cooper Gallery, ‘Corners’, New York NY
Matthew Marks Gallery, ‘Works on Paper’, New York NY
University Art Museum, ‘In a Different Light’, Berkeley CA
1994
Margo Leavin Gallery, ‘Photography’, Los Angeles CA
Galeria Luisa Strina, ‘Das Américas’, São Paulo/BR
Firth Gallery, ‘Drawings’, London/UK
Firth Gallery, ‘Photographs’, London/UK
1993
Kunsthalle Basel, ‘21st Century’, Basel/CH
I.C.A., ‘Drawn in the 90’s’, cur. Joshua Smith [travelled to: Illingworth Kerr Gallery/Alberta College of Art, Calgary, Alberta/CA; Huntsville Museum of Art, Huntsville AL]
1992
DePont Foundation for Contemporary Art, Tilburg/NL
Centre d’ Art Contemporain du Domaine de Kerguehennec, ‘A Second Thought About Landscape Photography’, Bignan/FR
Documenta IX, Kassel/DE
Katonah Museum of Art, ‘Drawn in the 90’s’, cur. Joshua Smith [curating for I.C.A.], New York NY
Rubin Spangle Gallery, ‘Untitled’, New York NY
Anders Tornberg Gallery, ‘All Words Suck’, Lund/SE
1991
Whitney Museum of American Art, ‘Whitney Biennial’, New York NY
1990
Baltimore Museum of Fine Arts, ‘Sculptor’s Drawings’, Baltimore MD
Annemarie Verna Gallery, ‘Quotations’, Zurich/CH
Aargauer Kunsthaus, ‘Drawings’, Aarau/CH
Whitney Museum of American Art, ‘Recent Drawings’, New York NY
Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles CA
1989
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, ‘AVA’, Richmond VA
Daniel Weinberg Gallery, ‘A Decade of American Drawing’, Los Angeles CA
‘Prospect 89’, Frankfurt/DE
Anne Plumb Gallery, ‘Non-representation’, New York NY
1988
Susanne Hilberry Gallery, Detroit MI
Zola Lieberman Gallery, Chicago IL
Lang-O’Hara Gallery, ‘The Inscribed Image’, New York NY
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, ‘AVA’, Los Angeles CA
Pamela Auchincloss Gallery, ‘Works on Paper’, New York NY
Carnegie-Mellon University Art Gallery, ‘AVA’, Pittsburgh PA
1987
Galerie Maeght Lelong, New York NY
Thomas Segal Gallery, Boston MA
Düsseldorf Kunsthalle, ‘Similia-Dissimilia’, Dusseldorf/DE [travelled to: Wallach Art Center, New York NY; Leo Castelli Gallery, New York NY]
Hirschl and Adler Modern, ‘Lead’, New York NY
1986
42. Biennale Venice, Venice/IT
Chris Middendorf Gallery, Washington DC
Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston MA
Diane Brown Gallery, New York NY
1985
Gallery Shimada Yamaguchi/JP
Jatta Vondran, Dusseldorf/DE
Alfred Kren Gallery, New York NY
Lorence-Monk Gallery, New York NY
Burnett Miller Gallery, Los Angeles CA
1984
41. Biennale Venice, Venice/IT
Barbara Braatten Gallery, New York NY
1983
Kunstraum, Munich/DE
1980
39. Biennale Venice, Venice/IT
Hayden Gallery, ‘The Material Object’, Cambridge MA
Awards and grants
2001
The Citibank Private Bank Photography Prize (Short-listed)
1998
Sculpture Award, Sculpture Center, New York NY
Alpert Award in the Arts, Los Angeles CA
1996
Engelhard Foundation Artist Residency, Bequia/IS
1990
NEA Artist’s Fellowship, Washington DC
Guggenheim Fellowship, New York NY
1988
AVA 7, Awards in the Visual Arts, North Carolina NC
1986
NEA Artist’s Fellowship, Washington DC
1984
NEA Artist’s Fellowship, Washington DC
1983
Humanities Development Grant, Colgate University, Hamilton NY
1978
Ford Foundation Grant, New Haven CT
Alice Kimball Travelling Fellowship, from Yale University, New Haven CT
Lectures and broadcasts
2008
Library of Water, ‘Roni Horn Weekend. 1 year of Library of Water’, May 23-25, 2008, Reykjavik/IC
2005
Public Art Fund, New School for Social Research, November 7, 2005, New York NY
Palais de Tokyo, with Helene Cixous, November 19, 2005, Paris/FR
2004
Artangel, ‘Roni Horn: Wonderwater (Alice Offshore)’, Reading/Performance by Anne Carson, Hélène Cixous, John Waters (live), Louise Bourgeois (video), November 2, 2004, London/UK
The Whitney Museum of American Art, ‘Roni Horn: Wonderwater (Alice Offshore)’, Reading/Performance by Anne Carson, Hélène Cixous, John Waters (live), Louise Bourgeois (video), May 5, 2004, New York NY
Harvard University, ‘Saying Water’, December 10, 2004, Cambridge/UK
Art Institute Chicago, ‘Saying Water’, May 25, 2004, Chicago IL
La Casa Encendida, ‘Saying Water’, March 30, 2004, Madrid/ES
2003
Casa Museo Luis Barragan, ‘Saying Water’, November 2, 2003, Mexico City/MX
CCAC Wattis Institute, ‘Saying Water’, San Francisco CA
2001
The Whitney Museum of American Art, ‘Saying Water’, September 2001, New York NY
The Tate Modern, ‘Saying Water’, London/UK