Born in New York NY, 1955
BFA with Honors at the Rhode Island School of Design in Providence RI, 1972 – 1975
MFA at the Yale University of New Haven CT, 1976 – 1978
Lives and works in New York NY and Reykjavik, Iceland
Solo Exhibitions
2013
Hauser & Wirth, Zurich, Switzerland
Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, Germany
Goetz Collection, Munich, Germany
2012
Sammlung Goetz, Munich, Germany
Galleria Raffaella Cortese, ‘Mirosław Bałka e Roni Horn’, Milan, Italy
Xavier Hufkens, ‘Selected Drawings 1984 – 2012’, Brussels, Belgium (Travelling Exhibition)
Hauser & Wirth, ‘Selected Drawings 1984 – 2012’, Zurich, Switzerland (Travelling Exhibition)
2011
i8 Gallery, Reykjavik, Iceland
Hauser & Wirth, ‘Roni Horn. Recent Work’, London, England
Hamburger Kunsthalle, ‘Photographien / Photographic Works’, Hamburg, Germany
FLAG Art Foundation, ‘Double Mobius’, New York NY
Andrea Rosen Gallery, ‘The Wedding (the Walker Evans Polaroid Project) with Roni Horn’, New York NY
2010
Rat Hole Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Kukje Gallery, Seoul, Korea
Centre of Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Poland
Kunsthaus Bregenz, ‘Well and Truly’, Bregenz, Austria
ICA – Institute of Contemporary Art, ‘Roni Horn aka Roni Horn’, Boston MA (Travelling Exhibition)
Hauser & Wirth, New York NY
2009
Tate Modern, ‘Roni Horn aka Roni Horn’, London, England (Travelling Exhibition)
Collection Lambert, ‘Roni Horn aka Roni Horn’, Avignon, France (Travelling Exhibition)
Whitney Museum of American Art, ‘Roni Horn aka Roni Horn’, New York NY (Travelling Exhibition)
The Common Guild, ‘The tiniest piece of mirror is always the whole mirror’, Glasgow, Scotland
2008
CAC – Centro de Arte Contemporàneo, Malaga, Spain
Xavier Hufkens, Brussels, Belgium
Circulo de Bellas Artes (Photo España), Madrid, Spain
Rathole Gallery, ‘This is me, this is you’, Tokyo, Japan
Hauser & Wirth London, London, England
Overbeck Gesellschaft, ‘Portrait of an Image (with Isabelle Huppert)’, Lübeck, Germany
Gagosian Gallery, Los Angeles CA
2007
Kukje Gallery, Seoul, Korea
Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, ‘A KIND OF YOU’, Melbourne, Australia
Reykjavik Art Museum, ‘MY OZ’, Iceland
Stykkisholmur Library, ‘Vatnasafn / Library of Water’, Stykkishólmur, Iceland (long-term installation)
Xavier Hufkens, Brussels, Belgium
2006
Hauser & Wirth, ‘Portrait of an Image’ / ‘Drawings. Roni Horn, Louise Bourgeois’, Zurich, Switzerland
Safn, ‘Relaxness’, Reykjavik, Iceland
‘Roni Horn: Angie and Emily Dickinson’, Inverleith House Edinburgh, Scotland / Museion Bolzano, Italy
2005
Matthew Marks Gallery, ‘Portrait of an Image (with Isabelle Huppert)’, New York NY
2004
Hauser & Wirth London, ‘Rings of Lispector (Agua Viva)’, London, England
Art Institute of Chicago, ‘Some Thames’, Chicago IL
Folkwang Museum, ‘Roni Horn. In der Sammlung’, Essen, Germany
Reykjavik Art Museum, ‘Her, Her, Her and Her’, Iceland
Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, ‘Roni Horn. Dessins / Drawings / Disegni’, Venice, Italy (Travelling Exhibition)
2003
Xavier Hufkens, Brussels, Belgium
University of Akureyri, ‘Some Thames’, Iceland (Permanent Installation)
Raffaella Cortese, Milan, Italy
Centre Pompidou / Galerie d’ Art Graphique, ‘Roni Horn. Dessins / Drawings / Disegni’, Paris, France (Travelling Exhibition)
Fotomuseum Winterthur, ‘If on a Winter’s Night…Roni Horn…’, Winterthur, Switzerland
i8 Galleri, ‘This is Me, This is You’, Reykjavik, Iceland
Galerie Hauser & Wirth & Presenhuber, Zurich, Switzerland
2002
Matthew Marks Gallery, ‘Clowndoubt’, 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, Iceland
Museo Serralves, ‘Some Thames’, Porto, Portugal
Galerie Hauser & Wirth & Presenhuber, Zurich, Switzerland
Galerie Yvon Lambert, ‘Cabinet Of’, Paris, France
Jablonka Galerie, Cologne, Germany
Xavier Hufkens, Brussels, Belgium
2000
Lannan Foundation and Site Santa Fe, Santa Fe NM
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York NY
Castello di Rivoli, Turin, Italy
National Gallery of Iceland, Reykjavík, Iceland
1999
CAPC – Musée d’art contemporain de Bordeaux Entrepôt, France
Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France
Raffaella Cortese, Milan, Italy
Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen / Staatsgalerie moderner Kunst, ‘PI’, Munich, Germany
Matthew Marks Gallery, New York NY
Zugspitze, Munich, Germany
Jablonka Galerie, Cologne, Germany
1998
Xavier Hufkens, Brussels, Belgium
Patrick Painter Inc., Los Angeles CA
Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Basel, Switzerland
Galleri Stefan Andersson AB, Umea, Sweden
De Pont Museum of Contemporary Art, ‘You are the Weather’, Tilburg, Netherlands (Travelling Exhibition)
1997
Institut für Moderne Kunst in der SchmidtBank-Galerie, ‘You are the Weather’, Nuremberg, Germany (Travelling Exhibition)
Matthew Marks Gallery, ‘Untitled (Flannery) and Pooling You’, New York NY
Ingólfsstræti 8, Reykjavík, Iceland
Raffaella Cortese, Milan, Italy
Jablonka Galerie, Cologne, Germany
Fotomuseum Winterthur, Winterthur, Switzerland
Bahnhof Ost, ‘Yous in You’, Basel, Switzerland (Permanent Installation, completed 2000)
Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, ‘Earths Grow Thick: Works after Emily Dickinson’, Seattle WA (Travelling Exhibition)
1996
Wexner Center for the Arts, ‘Earths Grow Thick: Works after Emily Dickinson’, Columbus OH (Travelling Exhibition)
Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley College, ‘Earths Grow Thick: Works after Emily Dickinson’, Wellesley MA (Travelling Exhibition)
Matthew Marks Gallery, ‘Five Installations’, New York NY
Galerie Ghislaine Hussenot, Paris, France
Deutscher Wetterdienst München, ‘You are the Weather’, Munich, Germany (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, Germany
Sammlung Goetz, ‘Felix Gonzalez-Torres & Roni Horn’, Munich, Germany
Kunsthalle Basel, ‘Making Being Here Enough. Installations, Drawings’, Basel, Switzerland (Travelling Exhibition)
Kestner Gesellschaft, ‘Making Being Here Enough. Installations, Drawings’, Hanover, Germany (Travelling Exhibition)
Museum für Gegenwartskunst, ‘Drawings’, Basel, Switzerland
Alfonso Artiaco Gallery, Naples, Italy
1994
Texas Gallery, Houston TX
The Baltimore Museum of Art, ‘Inner Geography’, Baltimore MD (Travelling Exhibition)
List Visual Arts Center, MIT, ‘Inner Geography’, Cambridge MA (Travelling Exhibition)
Yale University Art Gallery, ‘Inner Geography’, New Haven CT (Travelling Exhibition)
DePont Foundation for Contemporary Art, Tilburg, Netherlands
Matthew Marks Gallery, New York NY
1993
Jablonka Galerie, Cologne, Germany
Kunstmuseum Winterthur, ‘Rare Spellings: Selected Drawings 1985-1992’, Winterthur, Switzerland (Travelling Exhibition)
Gemeentemuseum, ‘Rare Spellings: Selected Drawings 1985-1992’, The Hague, Netherlands (Travelling Exhibition)
Secession, ‘Rare Spellings: Selected Drawings 1985-1992’, Vienna, Austria (Travelling Exhibition)
Kölnischer Kunstverein, ‘Rare Spellings: Selected Drawings 1985-1992’, Cologne, Germany (Travelling Exhibition)
2nd Floor, Reykjavík, Iceland
Mary Boone Gallery, New York NY
Matthew Marks Gallery, New York NY
Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles CA
1992
Galerie Annemarie Verna, Zurich, Switzerland
New Museum for Living Art, Reykjavík, Iceland
Jablonka Galerie, Cologne, Germany
1991
Mary Boone Gallery, New York NY
Westfälischer Kunstverein / Städtisches Museum Abteiberg, ‘Things Which Happen Again’, Münster / Mönchengladbach, Germany
1990
Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles CA
Paula Cooper Gallery, New York NY
Temporary Contemporary of The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles CA
Leo Castelli, New York NY
1989
Paula Cooper Gallery, New York NY
Galerie Annemarie Verna, Zurich, Switzerland
Jay Gorney Modern Art, New York NY
1988
Winston Gallery, Washington DC
Detroit Institute of Arts, ‘Pair Objects I, II, III’, Detroit MI (Travelling Exhibition)
Galerie Lelong, ‘Pair Objects I, II, III’, New York NY (Travelling Exhibition)
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, France
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 / Kunstforum / Kunstraum, Munich, Germany
1980
Kunstraum, Munich, Germany
Clocktower, Institute for Art and Urban Resources, New York NY
1978
Yale University, New Haven CT
Group Exhibitions
2013
Culturgest, ‘Tell It To My Heart: Collected by Julie Ault’, Basel, Switzerland (Travelling Exhibition)
Die Photographische Sammlung/SK Stiftung Kultur Köln, ‘AGES. Porträts vom Älterwerden’, Cologne, Germany (Travelling exhibition)
Oberösterreichische Landesmuseum / Landesgalerie Linz, ‘‘AGES. Porträts vom Älterwerden’, Linz, Austria (Travelling exhibition)
Kunstmuseum Basel, ‘Tell It To My Heart: Collected by Julie Ault’, Basel, Switzerland
Hamburger Kunsthalle / Gallery of Contemporary Art, ’15 Years of the Gallery of Contemporary Art’, Hamburg, Germany
Museo del Palacio de Bellas Artes, ‘Paisaje 1969 – 2013’, Mexico City, Mexico
2012
Storm King Art Center, ‘Light and Landscape’, Mountainville NY
Kunsthalle Wien, ‘Parallelwelt Zirkus / The Circus as a Parallel Universe’, Vienna, Austria
Kunsthalle Recklinghausen, ‘Für Hund und Katz ist auch noch Platz. Fotografien aus der DZ BANK Kunstsammlung’, Recklinghausen, Germany
Punta della Dogana, ‘In Praise of Doubt’, Venice, Italy
Margo Leavin Gallery, ‘Drawn’, Los Angeles CA
Fotomuseum Winterthur, ‘Von Horizonten / On Horizons’, Winterthur, Switzerland
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, ‘Dark Matters’, Washington DC
2011
Osthaus Museum, ‘Nature – Contemporary Art from the Collection of the Altana Kulturstiftung’, Hagen, Germany
Schauwerk, ‘Light-Sensitive – Contemporary Photography from the Schaufler Collection’, Sindelfingen, Germany
Ellipse Foundation Art Centre, ‘The Last First Decade’, Cascais, Portugal
MACBA Museu d’Art Contemporani, ‘Volume! Works from the Collections of La Caixa Foundation and MACBA’, Barcelona, Spain
Kuckei + Kuckei, ‘Text’, Berlin, Germany
Reykjavik Art Museum. Hafnarhus, ‘Faster and Slower Lines – From the Collection of Pétur and Ragna Róbertsdóttir’, Reykjavik, Iceland
Deichtorhallen Hamburg – Sammlung Falckenberg, ‘ATLAS. How to carry the world on one’s back?’, Hamburg, Germany (Travelling Exhibition)
Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, ‘Circa 1986’, Peekskill NY
Kunstmuseum St. Gallen, ‘Through the looking Brain – A Swiss Collection of Conceptual Photography’, St. Gall, Switzerland (Travelling Exhibition)
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Arts, ‘If you lived here, you’d be home by now’, Annandale-on-Hudson NY
Kunstmuseum, ‘Through the looking Brain – A Swiss Collection of Conceptual Photography’, Bonn, Germany (Travelling Exhibition)
Reykjavik Art Museum, ‘Perspectives – On the Borders of Art and Philosophy’, Reykjavik, Iceland
Fundación Barrié, ‘The Dwelling Life of Men. Photographs from the Martin Z. Margulies Collection’, A Coruña, Spain
ZKM Museum für neue Kunst, ‘ATLAS. How to carry the world on one’s back?’, Karlsruhe, Germany (Travelling Exhibition)
The Art Institute of Chicago, ‘Contemporary Collecting: The Judith Neisser Collection’, Chicago MI
Punta della Dogana, Francois Pinault Foundation, ‘In Praise of Doubt’, Venice, Italy
Galerie de L’Uqam, ‘Le Mois de la Photo à Montréal. Lucidité. Vues de l’intérieur / Lucidity. Inward views’, Montréal, Canada
Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, ‘Series of Portraits: A Century of Photographs’, Hamburg, Germany
Reykjavik Art Museum, ‘Without Destination’, Reykjavik, Iceland
Neue Galerie, ‘Personal Tempest’, Innsbruck, Austria
Museum de Hallen, ‘He Disappeared into Complete Silence: Re-reading a single artwork by Louise Bourgeois’, Haarlem, Netherlands
Vanderbilt University Fine Arts Gallery, ‘Wide Angle: Photography and its influence on contemporary art – A Selection’, Nashville TN
Fisher Landau Center for Art, ‘Unforgettable: Selections from the Emily Fisher Landau Collection’, Long Island City NY
Gallery of Modern Art, ‘Hertie Querty’, Glasgow, Scotland
Murray Guy, ‘Vision is elastic. Thought is elastic’, New York NY
2010
Collection Lambert, ‘I believe in Miracles. 10th Anniversary of the Lambert Collection’, Avignon, France
Institut Valencia d’Art Modern, ‘Compass in Hand: Selections from the Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection’, Valencia, Spain
Guggenheim Museum, ‘Haunted: Contemporary Photography/Video/Performance’, Bilbao, Spain (Travelling Exhibition)
Castello di Rivoli, ‘EXHIBITION EXHIBITION’, Turin, Italy
Tucson Museum of Art, ‘Thanks for being with us: Contemporary Art from the Douglas Nielsen Collection’, Tucson AZ
Museo Reina Sofía, ‘‘ATLAS. How to carry the world on one’s back?’, Madrid, Spain (Travelling Exhibition)
Mart Rovereto Museo di Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto, ‘Languages and Experimentations. Young artists in a contemporary collection’, Rovereto, Italy
The Art Institute of Chicago, ‘Contemporary Collecting: Selections from the Donna and Howard Stone Collection’, Chicago IL
Lille Métropole Musée d’Art Contemporain et d’Art Brut, ‘Habiter poétiquement le monde. Exposition inaugurale’, Lille, France
Palais des Arts et du Festival Dinard, ‘Hope! Une exposition d’art contemporain sur l’espoir’, Dinard, France
Gwangju Biennale Hall, Gwangju Museum of Art, ’10.000 Lives’, The Eighth Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju, Korea
The Luckman Fine Art Complex, California State University, ‘Not Cooperative’, Los Angeles CA
Folkwang Museum, ‘Presentation of the Collection. 20th and 21st Century’, Essen, Germany
The Museum of Contemporary Art, ‘Collection: MOCA’s First Thirty Years’, Los Angeles CA
The Museum of Modern Art, ‘Pictures by Women: A History of Modern Photography’, New York NY
Musei Bolzano, ‘Che cosa sono le nuvole? Works from the Enea Righi Collection’, Bolzano Italy
Galleria d’Arte Moderna, ‘THE PRIVATE MUSEUM’, Bergamo, Italy
Katonah Museum of Art, ‘Drawn / Taped / Burned: Abstraction on Paper’, Katonah NY
Gallery of Modern Art, ‘Unsettled Objects’, Glasgow, Scotland
2009
Museo Cantonale d’Arte, ‘Look at me. Faces and Gazes in Art 1969 – 2009’, Lugano, Switzerland
Yale University Art Gallery, ‘Continuous Present’, New Haven CT
Collection Lambert, ‘Retour de Rome. De la Villa Médicis à la Collection Lambert en Avignon’, Avignon, France
Schaulager, ‘Holbein to Tillmans. Prominent Guests from the Kunstmuseum Basel’, Basel, Switzerland
Grande Halle, ‘Rencontres d’ Arles 2009’, Arles, France
Yvon Lambert, ‘Espèces d’ Espaces (Species of Spaces)’, New York NY
MoMA Museum of Modern Art, ‘Compass in Hand: Selections from The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection’, New York NY
Abright-Knox Art Gallery, ‘Wall Rockets: Contemporary Artists and Ed Ruscha’, Buffalo NY (Travelling Exhibition)
Thomas Dane Gallery, ‘Double Object’, London, England
Centre Georges Pompidou, ‘elles@centrepompidou’, Paris, France
Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, ‘Isabelle Huppert: Woman of many Faces’, Beijing, China
New Mexico Museum of Art, ‘Manmade: Notions of Landscape from the Lannan Collection’, Santa Fe NM
Guggenheim Museum, ‘Paired, Gold: Felix Gonzalez-Torres and Roni Horn’, New York NY
Altana Kunstsammlung im Sinclair Haus, ‘An die Natur III’, Bad Homburg, Germany (Travelling Exhibition)
2008
Museum für Gegenwartskunst, ‘Collection Selection’, Basel, Switzerland
Cheim & Read, ‘The Sum of its Parts’, New York NY
Artists Space, ‘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, Scotland
Deutsche Guggenheim, ‘True North’, Berlin, Germany
Terme di Diocleziano, ‘Cose mai viste’, Rome, Italy
Folkwang Museum, ‘Zeichnung als Prozess / Drawing as Process’, Essen, Germany
Villa Medici, ‘The Grand Tour. Exhibition of the Collection Lambert en Avignon at the Villa Medici in Rome’, Rome, Italy
Montserrat College of Art Gallery, ‘Many Kinds of Nothing’, Beverly MA
Museum Frieder Burda, ‘An die Natur. ALTANA Kunstsammlung’, Baden-Baden, Germany (Travelling Exhibition)
Galleria Alessandra Bonomo, ‘Mental Drawings’, Rome, Italy
Zwirner & Wirth, ‘Quiet Politics’, New York NY
Chapelle de l’Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, ‘Academia. Qui es-tu?’, Paris, France
i8 Gallery, ‘pleinairism’, Reykjavik, Iceland
MoMA – The Museum of Modern Art, ‘Elements and Unknowns’, New York NY
FLAG Art Foundation, ‘Wall Rockets: Contemporary Artists and Ed Ruscha’, New York NY (Travelling Exhibition)
Museu de Serralves, ‘Lines, Grids, Stains, Words’, Porto, Portugal (Travelling Exhibition)
Museum Wiesbaden, ‘Lines, Grids, Stains, Words’, Germany (Travelling Exhibition)
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. Künstlerpublikationen mit Blick aufs Wasser’, Bremen, Germany
The Institute of Modern Art, ‘Grey Water’, Brisbane, Australia
YUAG Yale University Art Gallery, ‘Art for Yale: Acquisitions for a New Century’, New Haven CT
Xavier Hufkens, ‘Richard Artschwager / Louise Bourgeois / Roni Horn / Raymond Pettibon’, Brussels, Belgium
Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, ‘Japan und der Westen. Die erfüllte Leere und der moderne Minimalismus’, Wolfsburg, Germany
MoMA – The Museum of Modern Art, ‘Lines, Grids, Stains, Words’, New York NY (Travelling Exhibition)
Castello di Rivoli, ‘From the Earth to the Moon’, Turin, Italy
Museum Kunstpalast, ‘Die Kunst zu Sammeln’, Dusseldorf, Germany
Fotomuseum Winterthur, ‘Towards A New Ease – Set 4 from the Collection of the Fotomuseum Winterthur’, Winterthur, Switzerland
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, Germany
Z33, ‘The Suspended Moment’, Hasselt, Belgium
Kunstmuseum Bonn, ‘The Guggenheim: Contemporary Art. Matthew Barney, Douglas Gordon, Anna Gaskell, Roni Horn, Inigo Manglano-Ovalle, u.a.’, Bonn, Germany
Sean Kelly Gallery, ‘PURE’, New York NY
Krannert Art Museum, ‘Facade’, Champaign IL
Collection Lambert, ‘J’embrasse pas’, Avignon, France
MoMA – The 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 Shapes of Space’, New York NY
La Huerta de San Vicente. Casa-Museo Federico Garcia Lorca, ‘Everstill’, Granada, Spain
2006
Pallazo delle Arti Napoli, ‘Dedica- Vent’anni con Alfonso Artiaco’, Italy
Galerie Patrick Seguin, ‘Galerie Patrick Seguin invites Hauser & Wirth’, Paris, France
Hessel Museum of Art / CCS Galleries Bard College, ‘Wrestle’, Annandale-on Hudson NY
MoMA – The 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, Brazil
Galerie Stampa, ‘Medium Fotografie’, Basel, Switzerland
Collection Lambert. Musée d’Art Contemporain, ‘Le Paradoxe du Comédien. Les Figures de l’Acteur’, Avignon, France
MARCO – Museo d’Arte Contemporànea, ‘O Momento Suspendido. Colección H&F’, Vigo, Spain
Museo di Fotografia Contemporanea, ‘III Naturale’, Cinisello Balsamo, Italy
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, Switzerland
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
Forum Caixa, ‘Coleccion Fundacion’, Barcelona, Spain
Hessel Museum of Art / CCS Galleries Bard College, ‘Over Sight’, Annandale-on-Hudson NY
Collection Lambert, ‘Theorema’, Avignon, France
Deutsche Guggenheim, ‘Douglas Gordon’s The Vanity of Allegory’, Berlin, Germany
Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, ‘Water, Water Everywhere… ‘, Scottsdale AZ
Whitney Museum of American Art, ‘Landscape’, New York NY
MoMA – 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, Belgium
Dazibao, Centre de photographies actuelles, ‘Offwhite: Carte Grise à Geneviève Cadieux’, Montréal, Canada
CRAC Alsace – Centre Rhénan d’Art Contemporain, ‘Le Temps Suspendu’, Altkirch, France
Galleria Sottopasso della Stua, ‘Cromosoma X’, Genova, Italy
Art Gallery & Museum. The Royal Royal Pump Rooms, ‘Taking In Water’, Royal Leamington Spa, England
Lewis Glucksman Gallery, ‘Through the Looking Glass’, Cork, Ireland
Camden Arts Centre, ‘An Aside. Selected by Tacita Dean’, London, England (Travelling Exhibition)
The Fruitmarket Gallery, ‘An Aside. Selected by Tacita Dean’, Edinburgh, Scotland (Travelling Exhibition)
The Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, ‘An Aside. Selected by Tacita Dean’, Swansea, England (Travelling Exhibition)
Andrea Rosen Gallery, ‘Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Roni Horn’, New York NY
Galleria Raffaella Cortese, ‘Ocean 11212-W’, Milan, Italy
Lora Reynolds Gallery, ‘Suspended Narratives’, Austin TX
2004
Reykjavik Arts Festival 2004, Reykjavik, Iceland
European Kunsthalle, ‘Für die Konstruktion des Unmöglichen’, Cologne, Germany
Centre National du Jeu de Paume, ‘L’Ombre du Temps’, Paris, France
Pinakothek der Moderne, ‘Fotografie und Video: Bill Viola, Gary Hill, Roni Horn’, Munich, Germany
Cheim and Read, ‘I am the Walrus’, New York NY
Les Abattoirs, Centre d’art Contemporain, ‘In Extremis’, Toulouse, France
Galleria Raffaella Cortese, ‘Cavebirds ‘, Milan, Italy
Museum of Contemporary Art, ‘Soft Edge’, Chicago IL
Institute of Contemporary Art, ‘The Big Nothing’, Philadelphia PA
Le Printemps de Settembre, Toulouse, France
Musée Malraux, ‘Vague II Hommages et Digressions’, Le Havre, France
La Casa Encendida, ‘Memoria y Paisaje. Memory and Landscape’, Madrid, Spain
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, France
Neues Museum in Nürnberg, ‘Sand in der Vaseline. Künstlerbücher 1980 bis 2002’, Nürnberg, Germany
Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, ‘Lei – Donne nelle Collezioni Italiane’, Turin, Italy
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, Switzerland
2003
Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt, ‘Sand in der Vaseline. Künstlerbücher 1980 bis 2002’, Darmstadt, Germany (Travelling Exhibition)
Grimm / Rosenfeld, ‘Game over’, Munich, Germany
The Power Plant, ‘Stretch’, Toronto, Canada
La Biennale die Venezia, ‘L Esposizione Internazionale d’Arte’, Venice, Italy
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, Germany
Fondazione Italiana per la Fotografia, ‘In Natura – X Biennale Internazionale di Fotografia’, Turin, Italy
The National Museum of Art, ‘A Perspective on Contemporary Art: Continuity / Transgression’, Osaka, Japan
2002
Jablonka Galerie, ‘Living Room’, Cologne, Germany
Kunsthalle Basel, ‘Kleine Kleinigkeit’, Basel, Switzerland
PAC Padiglione d’Arte Contemporanea, ‘Everyday Utopias’, Milan, Italy
Weatherspoon Art Museum at: University of North Carolina, ‘Art on Paper 2002’, Greensboro NC
Air de Paris, ‘Transformer II’, Paris, France
Neues Museum Weserburg, ‘Ars Photographica’, Bremen, Germany
Galeria Helga de Alvear, ‘Text Message’, Madrid, Spain
Casa Museo Luis Barragan, ‘The Air is Blue’, Mexico City, Mexico
Kaiser Wilhelm Museum, ‘Sand in der Vaseline. Künstlerbücher 1980 bis 2002’, Krefeld, Germany (Travelling Exhibiiton)
Centre des Arts Saidye Bronfman, ‘Au Regard du Paysage’, Montreal, Canada
Fundació Joan Miró, ‘Limits of Perception’, Barcelona, Spain
MoMA – The Museum of Modern Art, ‘Tempo’, New York NY
Museum Lambert. Musée d’Art Contemporain, ‘Photographer to Photograph’, Avignon, France
Art Gallery of York University, ‘Regarding Landscape’, Toronto, Canada
Sammlung Hauser & Wirth, ‘The House of Fiction’, St. Gallen, Switzerland
Yale University Art Gallery, ‘Between Language and Form’, New Haven CT
2001
The Photographer’s Gallery, ‘The Citibank Photography Prize 2001’, London, England
Matthew Marks Gallery, ‘Tenth Anniversary Exhibition: 100 Drawings and Photographs’, New York NY
Contemporary Arts Museum, ‘The Inward Eye: Transcendence in Contemporary Art’, Houston TX
Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki, ‘The 1st Auckland Triennial, Bright Paradise’, Auckland, New Zealand
2000
Palais des Beaux Arts, ‘Voici’, Brussels, Belgium
Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, ‘Recent Acquisitions’, Paris, France
Ikon Gallery, ‘Lost’, Birmingham, England
Museum für Moderne Kunst, ‘Szenenwechsel XVII’, Frankfurt, Germany
Barbara Gladstone Gallery, ‘Drawing 2000’, New York NY
Matthew Marks Gallery, ’100 Drawings and Photographs’, New York NY
Kunsthaus Zürich, ‘Recent Acquisitions’, Zurich, Switzerland
1998
11th Sydney Biennale, ‘Everyday’, Australia
Matthew Marks Gallery, ‘Maverick’, New York NY
Mary Boone Gallery, ‘View 2’, New York NY
1997
Kunstverein Hamburg, ‘Fast Forward’, Hamburg, Germany
La Biennale di Venezia, ‘ XLVII Esposizione Internazionale d’Arte’, Venice, Italy
Centre d’ Art Contemporain du Domaine de Kerguehennec, ‘Density of the Unimaginable Museum’, Bignan, France
Galerie Nächst St. Stephan, Vienna, Austria
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 Geprges Pompidou, ‘From Beuys to Trockel. Contemporary Drawings from the Kunstmuseum Basel’, Paris, France
MoMA – The Museum of Modern Art, ‘Thinking Print’, New York NY
Matthew Marks Gallery and Fraenkel Gallery, ‘Open Secrets’, San Francisco CA
MoMA – 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, Brazil
Firth Gallery, ‘Drawings’, London, England
Firth Gallery, ‘Photographs’, London, England
1993
Kunsthalle Basel, ‘21st Century’, Switzerland
ICA – Institute of Contemporary Art, ‘Drawn in the 90’s’, Boston MA (Travelling Exhibition)
Illingworth Kerr Gallery / Alberta College of Art, ‘Drawn in the 90’s’, Calgary, Canada (Travelling Exhibition)
Huntsville Museum of Art, ‘Drawn in the 90’s’, Huntsville AL (Travelling Exhibition)
1992
DePont Foundation for Contemporary Art, Tilburg, Netherlands
Centre d’ Art Contemporain du Domaine de Kerguehennec, ‘A Second Thought about Landscape Photography’, Bignan, France
documenta IX, Kassel, Germany
Katonah Museum of Art, ‘Drawn in the 90’s’, New York NY
Rubin Spangle Gallery, ‘Untitled’, New York NY
Anders Tornberg Gallery, ‘All Words Suck’, Lund, Sweden
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, Switzerland
Aargauer Kunsthaus, ‘Drawings’, Aarau, Switzerland
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, Germany
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 (Travelling Exhibition)
Carnegie-Mellon University Art Gallery, ‘AVA’, Pittsburgh PA (Travelling Exhibition)
Pamela Auchincloss Gallery, ‘Works on Paper’, New York NY
1987
Galerie Maeght Lelong, New York NY
Thomas Segal Gallery, Boston MA
Düsseldorfer Kunsthalle, ‘Similia-Dissimilia’, Dusseldorf, Germany (Travelling Exhibition)
Wallach Art Center, ‘Similia-Dissimilia’, New York NY (Travelling Exhibition)
Leo Castelli Gallery, ‘Similia-Dissimilia’, New York NY (Travelling Exhibition)
Hirschl and Adler Modern, ‘Lead’, New York NY
1986
La Biennale di Venezia, ‘XLII Esposizione Internazionale d’Arte’, Venice, Italy
Chris Middendorf Gallery, Washington DC
Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston MA
Diane Brown Gallery, New York NY
1985
Gallery Shimada Yamaguchi, Japan
Jatta Vondran, Dusseldorf, Germany
Alfred Kren Gallery, New York NY
Lorence-Monk Gallery, New York NY
Burnett Miller Gallery, Los Angeles CA
1984
La Biennale di Venezia, ‘XLI Esposizione Internazionale d’Arte’, Venice, Italy
Barbara Braatten Gallery, New York NY
1983
Kunstraum, Munich, Germany
1980
La Biennale di Venezia, ‘XL Esposizione Internazionale d’Arte’, Venice, Italy
Hayden Gallery, ‘The Material Object’, Cambridge MA
Awards and Grants
2011
Aspen Award for Art
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, Iceland
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
2009
The University of Guelph & The School of Fine Art and Music, ‘Shenkman Lecture in Contemporary Art. Roni Horn’, March 11, 2009, Canada
2008
Library of Water, ‘Roni Horn Weekend. 1 Year of Library of Water’, May 23-25, 2008, Reykjavik, Iceland
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, France
2004
Artangel, ‘Roni Horn: Wonderwater (Alice Offshore)’, Reading / Performance by Anne Carson, Hélène Cixous, John Waters (live), Louise Bourgeois (video), November 2, 2004, London, England
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, England
Art Institute Chicago, ‘Saying Water’, May 25, 2004, Chicago, IL
La Casa Encendida, ‘Saying Water’, March 30, 2004, Madrid, Spain
2003
Casa Museo Luis Barragan, ‘Saying Water’, November 2, 2003, Mexico City, Mexico
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, England
