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Roni Horn

Biography

Born

New York NY, 1955

Education

BFA with Honors at the Rhode Island School of Design in Providence RI, 1972 – 75

MFA at the Yale University of New Haven CT, 1976 – 78

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2025

De Pont Museum, 'Pair Field', Tilburg, Netherlands
Dia Beacon, 'Roni Horn', Beacon NY

2024

Hauser & Wirth, 'Roni Horn', Menorca, Spain

Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, 'Roni Horn: The Detour of Identity', Humlebæk, Denmark 

Hauser & Wirth, 'Roni Horn', New York NY
Museum Ludwig, 'Roni Horn. Give Me Para­dox or Give Me Death', Cologne, Germany

Selected Group Exhibitions

2025

LUMA Arles, 'Dance with Daemons', Arles, France

2024

Aspen Art Museum, 'In the House of the Trembling Eye: an exhibition staged by Allison Katz', Aspen CO
The FLAG Art Foundation, 'The Swimmer', New York NY

The Hole, 'HOLLYWOOD DREAM BUBBLE: Ed Ruscha’s Influence in Los Angeles and Beyond', Los Angeles CA

M+, 'Shanshui: Echoes and Signals', Hong Kong

Grimaldi Forum, 'Turner’s Sublime Legacy', Monaco

ARoS Aarhus Art Museum, 'Sky Gazing', Aarhus, Denmark

Awards and Grants

2015

LEAD Award, Lead Academy, Berlin/Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany

2013

The Joan Miró Prize, Barcelona, Spain

Lectures and Broadcasts

2020

UMass Amherst, University Museum of Contemporary Art, ‘Roni Horn in Conversation with Dr. Julie Birgham-Grette and Williams Daniels, moderated by Shona Macdonald’, 30 January 2020, Amherst MA

2017

Guggenheim Museum, ‘Glenstone in Conversation: An Examination of Contemporary Museum Architecture at the Guggenheim’, Panel on the topic of ‘Context as Content’ with Roni Horn, Danh Vo, Thomas Phifer and Elizabeth Diller, moderated by Paul Goldberger, 18 November 2017, New York NY

Glenstone, ‘Conversation with Jeanette Winterson’, 9 September 2017, Potomac MD Hauser & Wirth, ‘Conversation with Nancy Spector’, 23 May 2017, New York NY

Exhibitions Curated by Roni Horn

2017

Clyfford Still Museum, 'Artists Select: Roni Horn', Denver CO

2016

Hauser & Wirth, 'Felix Gonzalez-Torres' (Curated by Julie Ault and Roni Horn), London, England (Three part exhbition)

Andrea Rosen Gallery, 'Felix Gonzalez-Torres' (Curated by Julie Ault and Roni Horn), New York NY (Three part exhbition)

Massimo De Carlo, 'Felix Gonzalez-Torres' (Curated by Julie Ault and Roni Horn), Milan, Italy (Three part exhbition)

Bibliography

Monographs

2024

Gorovoy, Jerry (ed.), 'Roni Horn. The Detour of Identity', Humlebaek: Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, 2024, ill. (exh. cat.)

Lescaze, Zoë, Dziewior, Yilmaz, Maerkle, Andrew (et al.), 'Roni Horn. Give Me Paradox or Give Me Death', Cologne: Museum Ludwig, 2024, ill. (exh. cat.) 

2023

Shu, Shaw, Fer, Briony, Li, Zhou (et al.), 'Roni Horn. A dream dreamt in a dreaming world is not really a dream . . . but a dream not dreamt is', Shunde: He Art Museum, 2023, ill. (exh. cat.)
De Naverán, Isabel, Machado, Carmen Maria, Rodríguez Muñoz, Bárbara, 'Roni Horn: Me paraliza la esperanza', Santander: Centro Botín, 2023, ill. (exh. cat.)

Artist’s Books & Writings

2025

Horn, Roni, 'A Dream not Dreamt', Göttingen: Steidl, 2025, ill.

2022

Horn, Roni, 'Remembered Words', Gottingen: Steidl, 2022, ill.

Selected Publications

2024

Yoko, Iwasaki, Nami, Yamabana (eds.), 'Selected Works from the Collection of the Pola Museum of Art', Hakone: Pola Museum of Art, Pola Art Foundation, 2024, pp. 166-169, ill.
___, 'Turner, le sublime héritage, en dialogue avec des artistes contemporains', Monaco: Grimaldi Forum Monaco, London: Tate, 2024, pp. 180-185, ill. (exh. cat.)
Pinfield, Eleanor (ed.), 'Alexandre da Cunha: Sunset, Sunrise, Sunset', Bielefeld: Kerber Verlag, 2022, p. 20, ill.
Buchmann, Sabeth, Buck, Matthias, Dogtas, Gürsoy (et al.), 'Modell Kunstraum. 50 Jahre Kunstraum München', Munich: Verlag Kunstraum München, 2024, pp. 159-160, ill.

Murphy, Maia, Clark, Olivia, Flint, Charlotte (eds.), 'Great Women Sculptors', New York: Phaidon, 2024, p. 145, ill.
Buhrs, Michael, Marr, Anne, Pereña, Helena (eds.), 'Kafka: 1924', Cologne: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther and Franz König, Munich: Museum Villa Stuck, 2024, pp. 396-397, ill. (exh. cat.)
Rolls-Bentley, Gemma, 'Queer Art: From Canvas to Club and the Spaces Between', London: Francis Lincoln, 2024, p. 118, ill.
Hunegs, Simon (ed.), Moffitt, Evan (et al.), 'Vitamin TXT: Words in Contemporary Art', London: Phaidon Press, 2024, pp. 114-117, ill.

2023

Schwarz, Dieter (ed.), 'Linie und Farbe. Licht und Raum. Sammlung Hackenberg', Bonn: VG Bild-Kunst Bonn, 2023, pp. 238-241, ill.
Phillips, Lisa, Giorno, John, 'Colección Jumex: Todo se vuelve nás ligero. Everything Gets Lighter', Mexico City: Fundación Jumex Arte Contemporáneo, 2023, p. 50, ill. (exh. cat.)
Bayer-Wermuth, Monika (ed.), 'This is Me, This is You. The Eva Felten Photography Collection', Munich: Museum Brandhorst, 2023, pp. 235-239, ill. (exh. cat.)
Byrd, Antawan I., Siegel, Elizabeth, Fuldner, Carl, 'The Art Institute of Chicago Field Guide to Photography and Media', Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 2023, pp. 36, 40, ill.

Aubart, François, Bourriaud, Nicolas, Delorme, Jean-Baptiste (et al.), 'A Story of Art. Yvon Lambert, a Collection a Donation, a Venue', Paris: Centre National des Arts Plastiques/Collection Lambert/Editions Dilecta, 2023, pp. 306-309, 429, ill. (exh. cat.)

Selected Press

2025

Lengua, 'Being With Trees has its Benefits but Language isn’t One of Them' [interview], in: Middle Plane Magazine, London, no. 10, Spring/Summer 2025, pp. 66-87, ill.

2024

Wolthers, Louise, 'Curator Louise Wolthers on this year’s most infectious shows in Sweden and Denmark', on: kunstkritikk.com, 10 December 2024, ill.
Noisé magazine, pp. 18-71, ill.

Lowry, Alexis, 'Roni Horn writes to Hélène Cixous, 2003', in: Ursula Magazine, New York, Fall/Winter 2024, pp. 20-21, ill.  
noisé Magazine, no. 04, Fall/Winter 2024, cover, ill. 

Herbert, Martin, 'Roni Horn: The Retrospective as a Conceptual Act', on: artreview.com, 16 July 2024, ill.
Walton, Millie, 'Roni Horn’s retrospective reflects her "refusal to fit into the mould of social expectations"', on: wallpaper.com, 12 July 2024, ill.
Avventuroso, Alessio, 'Roni Horn Hauser & Wirth / Menorca' [review], on: flash---art.com, 4 July 2024, ill.
Loos, Ted, 'In One Artist, A Galleryful of Styles', in: The New York Times, Arts & Leisure section, 21 April 2024, pp. 14-15, ill.

Audiovisuals

2015

The Monocle Arts Review, 'Art: Kathelen Fox-Davies, Episode 96', London, 13 July 2015

2009

The Guardian Culture Podcast, 'Art podcast: Private view with Adrian Searle – Roni Horn, London, February 2009

Own Publications

2019

Horn, Roni, 'Roni Horn. Remembered Words. A Specimen Concordance’, Göttingen: Steidl, 2019

2007

Horn, Roni, 'Weather Reports You', London/Goettingen: Artangel/Steidl, 2007, p. 195, ill.

Horn, Roni, 'Herdubreid at Home. The Herdubreid paintings of Stefan V. Jonsson aka Storval', Göttingen: Steidl Verlag, 2007

Own Articles

2020

___, 'The Cold Blood of Iceland', on: theparisreview.org, 30 November 2020

___, '"Island Zombie: Iceland Writings" by Roni Horn', on: hauserwirth.com/ursula

2002

Horn, Roni, 'Islandi glatad - til varnar vedrun', in: Morgunbladid, Reykjavík, 9 November 2002, pp. 42-43

Horn, Roni, 'One Hundred Waterfalls. Five Hundred Jobs', in: Morgunbladid, Reykjavík, 27 July 2002, pp. 30-31

Horn, Roni, 'Iceland's Difference'. (No. 1: 'Sérkenni Islands'), in: Lesbók Morgunbladidsins/Morgunbladid, Reykjavík, 6 April, 2002, p. 16 (weekly article on the same page: no. 2: April 13, no. 3: April 27, no. 4: May 4, no. 5: 11 May 2002, no. 6: 18 May 2002, no. 7: 25 May 2002, no. 8: 1 June 2002, no. 9: 8 June 2002, no. 10: 15 June 2002, no. 11: 22 June 2002, no. 12: 29 June 2002, no. 13: 29 August 2002, no. 14: 31 August 2002, no. 15: 7 September 2002, no. 16: 14 September 2002, no. 17: 21 September 2002, no. 18: 28 September 2002, no. 19: 5 October 2002, no. 20: 12 October 2002, no. 21: 19 October 2002, no. 22: 26 October 2002)

Book Design and Misc.

Details Magazine: photography of Matthew Barney, New York NY, March 2003, pp. 254-256

Photographed by Juergen Teller for Marc Jacobs, New York NY, 2003

Laxness, Halldor, 'Halldor Laxness: Collected Works' (11 Volume boxed set - special edition), Göttingen: Steidl Verlag, 2002.