BORN: Bronx, New York, 1942

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2006 Made to produce a spark, Museo D' Arte Contemporanea, Milan, Itlay X Y and Z, Bawag foundtion, Vienna
2005 Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, New York
2004 PRIMARY SECONDARY TERTIARY, Davis Museum, Wellesley College
COVERED BY CLOUDS/CUBIERTO POR NUBES, Tamayo Museum, Mexico City, Mexico
Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao, Spain
Drift, (film project with John Baldessari and Juliao Sarmento), Fundacao Centro Cultural de Belem, Lisbon, Portugal
Tamayo Museum, Mexico City, Mexico
2003 PRIMARY SECONDARY TERTIARY, Kunstverein Ruhr, Essen, Germany
ANY GIVEN TIME, Synagogue Stommeln, Pulheim-Stommeln, Germany
2002 IGNOTI NULLA CUPIDO, Alfonso Artiaco, Naples, Italy
UNTIL IT IS, Wexner Center for the Arts ,Columbus, Ohio
LAWRENCE WEINER: A BASIC ASSUMPTION, The Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, Alabama
2001 LAWRENCE WEINER, Brigitte March, Stuttgart, Germany
PER SE/POR SI MISMO, Palacio de Cristal y Biblioteca
MNCARS, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain
2001-00 BENT AND BROKEN SHAFTS OF LIGHT, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Germany
2000 Moved Pictures (film festival), Künstlerhaus, Vienna, Austria
Au Même Moment/At The Same Time, Marian Goodman Gallery, Paris, France
NACH ALLES/AFTER ALL, Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin, Germany
Some Moved Pictures of Lawrence Weiner Selected by Barbara Clausen,
Transmission Gallery, Glasgow, Scotland; Henry Moore Foundation External Programmes at Dean Clough, Halifax, Nova Scotia
Time + Place, Inverleith House, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Edinburgh, Scotland
NACH ALLES / AFTER ALL: Project Drawings by Lawrence Weiner, The Lobby Gallery, Deutsche Bank, New York, New York
1999 A Basic Assumption & Five Figures of Structure, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, New York
Project Gallery at CCA Kitakyushu, Kitakyushu, Japan
Projet Spécifique (with Anne Brégeaut), École Régionale des Beaux-Arts de Nantes (LA GALERIE), Nantes, France
1998 Auf den Wind Geschrieben, Nuremberg Kunsthalle, Nuremberg, Germany
Dirty Eyes (performance with Ned Sublette), Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria
Films & Videos, Kunstbunker Forum für Zeitgenössische Kunst, Nuremberg, Germany
1997 Towards Motion, Canary Wharf, London, England
The Passage of Time, Wynick/Tuck Gallery, Toronto, Ontario.
1996 Second Floor Exhibition Space, Reykjavik
1995 Some Things Brought to Hand: The Multiples of Lawrence Weiner, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York.
Holstebro KunstmuseumTo Build A Square in the Rhineland, Museum Ludwig, Wolfgang Hahn Prize, Cologne (permanent work inaugurated 11 Aug.).
Between the Pyrenees & the Mediterranean Sea, Fundacio Espai Poblenou, Barcelona.
(OBRAS) In The Stream, Ivam Centre Julio Gonzales, Valencia, Spain.
Kunstmuseum St. Gallen, Switzerland.
Learn to Read Art, Lawrence Weiner/The Books, The New York Public Library.
1995 Galerie Dorothea van der Korlen, Mainz, Germany.
Leo Castelli Gallery.
Kunsthof WBK, Zurich.
1994 Philadelphia Museum of Art.
Stadtische Kunstsammlungen, Chemnitz, Germany.
Jablonka Galerie, Cologne.
Over Hill & Dale, Galerie Mai 36, Zurich.
Hotel De Ville, Cluny.
Stadtische Kunstsammlungen, Chemnitz, Germany.
Konrad Fischer, Dusseldorf.
The Films & Videos of Lawrence Weiner, Schule und Museum fur Gestaltung, Zurich.
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
Collection Public Freehold, New York.
1993 Texas Gallery, Houston.
Galerie Micheline Szwajcer, Antwerp.
La Nouveau Musee, Villeurbanne.
Galleria Primo Piano, Rome.
Stadtische Galerie, Nordhorn.
1992 Quelques choses..., CAPC/Musee d'art contemporain, Bordeaux.
Galerie Roger Paihas, Mareseille.
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco.
1991 Stuart Regen Gallery, Los Angeles
Displacement, CAPC/Muess d'art contemporain, Bordeaux.
Galerie Ascan Crone, Hamburg.
Displacement, Dia Centre for the Arts, New York.
1991 Galleri Susanne Ottesen, Copenhagen.
Institute of Contemporary Arts, London.
The Weight of It All, Galerie Marga Paz, Madrid.
Art & Project, Slootdorp, The Netherlands
1991 Leo Castelli Gallery, New York.
1990 Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.
Marian Goodman Gallery, New York.
Stuart Regen Gallery, Los Angeles.
Joods Historisch Museum, Amsterdam.
Galerie Anselm Dreher, Berlin.
Joblonka Galerie, Cologne.
Le Nouveau Musee, Villeurbanne.
1989 Galerie Micheline Szwajcer, Antwerp.
Christian Stein, Milano.
Marian Goodman Gallery, New York.
Anthony D'Offay Gallery, London.
Ydessa Hendeles Art Foundation, Toronto.
Galerie Ascan Crone, Hamburg.
Galerie Brigitte March, Stuttgart.
Galerie Le GAll et Peyroulet, Paris.
Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris.
Galerie Hubert Winter, Vienna.
Portikus, Frankfurt am Main.
Konrad Fischer Gallery, Dusseldorf.
Gallery Senda, Hiroshima.
1988 Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam.
Galerie Pietro Sparta, Chagny.
Stalke Galeri, Kobenhavn.
Galleria Primo Piano, Rome.
1988 Galerie Mai 36, Luzern.
Museum Haus Esters, Krefeld.
Anthony D'Offay Gallery, London.
Le Magasin, Grenoble.
1987 Jean Bernier, Athens.
Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam.
Daneil Templon Gallery, Paris.
Le Magasin, Grenoble, France.
Exposorium Vrije Universite, Amsterdam, Holland.
Chicago Arts Club, Chicago.
1986 Micheline Szwajcer, Belgium.
Marian Goodman Gallery, New York.
Leo Castelli Gallery, New YOrk.
SUNY at Old Westbury, New York.
Pier Art Centre, Stremness, Orkney, Scotland.
Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland.
AIR Gallery, London.
Orchard GAllery, Derry, North Ireland.
Anthony d'Offay Gallery, London.
1985 Art & Project Gallery, Amsterdam.
Konrad Fischer Gallery, Dusseldorf.
Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris.
Le Coin du Miroir, Dijon, France.
City Thoughts, Amsterdam.
ARC/Musee d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris.
Musee St. Pierre, Art Contemporain, Lyon, France.

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2006 100 Artists See God, sponsored by Independent Curators International, Curated by John Baldessari and Meg Cranston, Albright College Freedman Art Gallery, Reading, Pennsylvania; Cheekwood Museum of Art, Nashville, Tennessee
Collection Automne - Hiver, 2ème Partie, capcMusée d'art Contemporain, Bordeaux, France
Public Space/Two Audiences, works from the Annick and Anton Herbert Collection, Museu d'art Comtemporani de Barcelona, Spain
2005 The Painted Word: Language as Image in Modern Art, Lafayette College, Easton, Pennsylvania
Strictement confidentiel. À partir de la collection de Marc et Joseé Gensollen, Centre International d'Art et du Paysage de I'Île Vassivière, Vassivière, France
Weathervane, Ottawa Art Gallery, Ottawa, Canada
Horizon, Museion, Bolzano, Italy
2004 Before the End, The Swiss Institute, New York
Artists' Favorites, ICA London, England
Infinite Possibilities, Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley College, Wellesley, Massachusetts
Intra-Muros, Musee d'Art Moderne et D'Art Contemporain, Nice, France
Richter, Weiner, Whiteread, Guggenheim Bilbao, Bilboa, Spain
Reflecting the Mirror, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, New York
Not Done, MUHKA(Museum van Hadendaagse Kunst Antwerpen), Antwerp, Belgium
Manifesta 5, Donostia-San Sebastian, Spain
Incommunicado, City Art Center, Edinburgh, Scotland
The Snow Show, Finland
2004 Behind the Facts (Interfunktionen 1968-75), Fundacio Joan Miro, Barcelona, Spain
A Minimal Future: Art as Object 1958-1968, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California
2004-03 De Verbeelding, Zeewolde, the Netherlands
100 Artists See God, sponsored by Independent Curators International, traveling to Naples Museum of Art, Naples Florida; The Jewish Museum, San Francisco, California; Memorial Art Gallery, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York
2003 A Sculpture Show, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, New York
Over WIJ/About We, Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
Out of Place, Harewood House, Leeds, England
Feast/Hospitality, Aarhus Kunstmuseum, Aarhus, Denmark
Rituals, Berlin Academy of Fine Arts, Berlin, Germany
Dia: Beacon, Beacon, New York, permanent installation
Incommunicado, Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, Norwich, England; City Art Centre, Edinburgh, Scotland
Utopia Station Poster Project, Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany
Partners, Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany
2nd Biennale d'Art Contemporain de Lyon: Et tous ils changent le monde, Lyon, France
Family Likenesses, Institute of Visual Culture, Cambridge, England
2002-03 Comer o no Comer (To Eat or Not to Eat), Salamanca 2002, Centro deArte de Salamanca, Spain
2002 Water--Sand--Space New Sharjah Arat Museum, Sharjah, United Arab Emigrates
The Speck Collection, K21, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Dusseldorf, Germany
Shelter IVAM, Valencia, Spain
Sans Commune Mesure: Image et Texte dans l'Art Actuel, Musee d'Art Moderne Lille Metropole, Villeneuve d'Asco, France
Les Annees 70: l'Art en Cause, capc Musee d'Art Contemporain, Bordeaux, France
2001 A Minimal Future? Art as Object 1958-, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California
Rolling Stones Adored with Starlight, Wien, Austria
Lawrence Weiner: PER SE, Franz West: In and Out, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain
Nothing, Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art, Sunderland, England
2001-00 Many Colored Objects Placed Side by Side to Form a Row of Many Colored Objects: Works from the Collection of Annick and Anton Herbert, Casino Luxembourg-Forum d’art contemporain, Luxembourg
2001-99 Global Conceptualism: Point of Origin 1950’s-1980’s, Queens Museum, Queens, New York; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota; Miami Art Center, Miami, Florida; List Visual Art Center, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts; Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia
2000 Cildo Miereles (The Southern Cross) and Lawrence Weiner (As Far as the Eye Can See), Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne, Germany
Get Together-Kunst als Teamwork, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria
Teatro Botanico, Museo Civico di Catania, Catania, Italy
The Work Shown in this Space is a Response to the Existing Conditions and/or Work Previously Shown Within the Space III, Neuger Riemschneider, Berlin, Germany
La Frontière, Recit d’Expériences (one of several exhibitions collectively entitled Réseau Galleries/ Multilangages de l’Art), Institut d’Art Contemporain-Fonds Régional d’Art Contemporain Rhône-Alps, Villeurbanne, France/Collège de Prévessin-Moëns (Ain), Academie de Lyon, France
TransAct - Platform for Transitional Activities in the Cultural Field (A cycle of artworks, performances and published public announcements protesting political events in Austria. Lawrence Weiner’s contribution: advertisement in Der Standard's Kultur section, February 19), Museum in Progress in cooperation with Art Pool, Vienna, Austria
2000 Shoot: Moving Pictures by Artists, Malmö Konsthall/The Cinema Spegeln/Restaurant Hipp, Malmö, Sweden; Living Art Museum (as part of Kyikar Myndir show), Reykjavik, Iceland
Never Exhibited: Works from the Marieluise Hessel Collection, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York
Copyright/Copywrong, École Régionale des Beaux-Arts de Nantes, France
Two by Two for Aids and Art (benefit auction for Dallas Museum of Art/American Foundation for AIDS Research), Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas
Dust and Dirt, De Witte Zaal in cooperation with SMAK, Ghent, Belgium
Die Natur der Dinge, NRW-Forum Kultur und Wirtschaft, Düsseldorf, Germany
Pure (one of several simultaneous exhibitions around U.K., collectively entitled On the Frac Track: A Selection of International Art from the Collection of Fonds Régional d'Art Contemporain (FRAC) Nord-Pas de Calais), Maidstone Library Gallery, Maidstone, England
Under the Apple Tree, Galleria Massimo de Carlo, Milan, Italy
A Tribute to Robert Hopper, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, West Yorkshire, England
From Here to There - Passageways at Solitude, Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart, Germany
Multiple Configurations: Displaying the Contemporary Portfolio, Busch-Reisinger Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts
In the Mirror of Space and Time, Listasafns ASÍ, Reykjavik, Iceland
Árátta, Listasafn Kópavogur, Reykjavik, Iceland
Présumés Innocents: l’Art Contemporain et l’Enfance, Musée d'Art Contemporain de Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France
l'Oeuvre Collective, les Abattoirs, Toulouse, France
Arteast 2000+ The Art of Eastern Europe in Dialogue with the West, from the 1960s to the Present, Moderna Galerija Ljubljana, Slovenia
(E Così Via)(And So On): 99 Artisti Della Collezione Marzona, Galleria Comunale d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Rome, Italy
Collection Lambert en Avignon: Rendez-vous #1, Hôtel de Caumont, Avignon, France
Wallpapers (NSCAD benefit), Art Gallery of Nova Scotia and Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Halifax, Nova Scotia
Orbis Terrarum: Ways of Worldmaking, Museum Plantin-Moretus, Antwerp, Belgium
Proposals from Halifax: An Exhibition of Selected Typescripts, Flyers, Posters, Catalogues, Books, Mailers and Postcards of a Conceptual Nature Produced from 1969 to 1999 by Affiliates of the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design (NSCAD), Library and Archives-National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario
Stanze, Museo d'Arte Moderna, Bolzano, Italy
Tempus Fugit, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri
L'exotisme sans partage, Musee d'Art Contemporain, Lyon, France
1999 Barry Leva, Kirsten Ortwed and Lawrence Weiner, Malmö Kunsthall, Malmö, Sweden
Chronos & Kairos, Museum Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany
The American Century: Art and Culture (1950-2000), Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York
Tatsächlich, Neues Museum Weserburg, Bremen, Germany
Tel Aviv Museum of Art (installation for inauguration of new wing), Tel Aviv, Israel
Unconvention, Centre for Visual Arts, Cardiff, Wales
Millennium Messages, Heckscher Museum of Art, Long Island, New York
Minimal-Maximal, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
Circa 1968, The Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art, Oporto, Portugal
1998 Wynick/Tuck Gallery at Art Chicago 1998
Breaking Ground, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, New York
Dessins à l’école, École Nationale des Beaux-Arts, Dijon, France
P.S.1/Institute for Art and Urban Resources, Long Island City, New York
Rendez-vous: Masterpieces from the Centre Georges Pompidou and the Guggenheim Museum, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, New York
1998 Wat Van Waarde Is…, The Loevestein Castle and the Gorcums Museum, Gorinchem, The Netherlands
MINIMAL-MAXIMAL, Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, Baden-Baden, Germany
Jardin d’artiste: de mémoire d’arbre, Musée Zadkine, Paris, France
Le cercle, le ring, Maison Levanneur, Chatou, France
Poemes a petite vitesse, Musee d'Art Contemporain, Lyon, France
1997 Kunst in Kontorhaus Mitte, Kontorhaus Mitte, Berlin.
Oceans & Galaxies, Karen McCready Contemporary Art, New York.
1995 1965-1975: Reconsidering the Object of Art, MoCA, Los Angeles.
Biennial 4, Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts, Istanbul.
Sniper's Nest: Art that has lived with Lucy Lippard, Centre for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, New York.
Vancouver 1965-75: Context and Influences, Vancouver Art Gallery and Leonowens Gallery, Halifax.
Art Metropole, Toronto.
Revolution in Contemporary Art, The Art of the Sixties, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo.
Mai 36 Galerie, Zurich.
capc Musee d'art contemporain, Bordeaux.
Trust, Tramway, Glasgow.
Abstand und Nahe, Galerie Bugdahn und Kaimer, Dusseldorf.
Degrees of Abstraction: From Morris Louis to Robert Mapplethorpe, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
Duck Not On a Pond, Rochdale Canal, Manchester, England.
Drawings Structures Relations, I.C. Gallery, New York.
Take Me (I'm yours), Serpentine Gallery, London.
Where Is Abel, Thy Brother? Zacheta Gallery, National Gallery of Contemporary Art, Warsaw.
Whitney Biennial, New York.
Kopfbahnhof/Terminal, Deutsche Bundesbahn, Hauptbahnhof, Leipzig.
ARS 95 Helsinki, Museum of Contemporary Art/Finnish National Gallery.
Emblem Exhibition, Yale University.
Museum Boymans van Beuningen, Rotterdam.
Brigitte March Galerie, Stuttgart.
Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne.
The 30th Anniversary of the Israel Museum, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York.
1994 Galerie Pietro Sparta, Chagny, France.
Marian Goodman Gallery, New York.
1994 Rosebud, Stadtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich.
Dialogues, Museum of Hasselt, Belgium.
The NSCAD Connection 1967-73, Halifax, Canada.
Wide White Space, Palais des Beaux Arts, Brussels
Installations: Selections from the Permanent Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles.
International Print Society Crakow, Poland.
1993 Out of Sight, Out of Mind, Lisson Gallery, London.
American Art in the Twentieth Century, Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin; Royal Academy of Arts, London.
As Long as It Lasts, Witte de With, Rotterdam.
New Works on Paper, Anthony d'Offay Gallery, London.
1992 Platzverfuhrung, Ditzingen.
1991 Wanderlieder, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam.
Stuart Regen Gallery Los Angeles.
Tre Opere, Primo Piano, Rome.
1991
This Land..., Marian Goodman Gallery, New York.
Solaris, Mai 36 Galerie, Luzern.
Art Conceptual de Annes 70 a Aujourd d'hui, Galerie Rudiger Scottle, Paris.
1990 Galerie Maier-Hahn, Dusseldorf.
1989 Marian Goodman Gallery, New York.
Ydessa Hendeles Art Foundation, Toronto.
American Fine Art, New York.
1988 Marian Goodman Gallery, New York.
Gallery Lelong, New York.
Gallery Hubert Winter, Vienna.
Art Metropole, Toronto.
Musee d'Art Contemporain, Bordeaux.
1987 Marian Goodman Gallery, New York.
Museo d'Arte Contemporanea, Turin.
Leo Castelli Gallery, New York.
Grand Palais, France.
Franciose Lambert, Milan.
1986 P.S. 1, Long Island City, New York.
Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven.
Spectrum, Concoran Museum, Washington D.C.
1985 National Library, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris.
Leo Castelli Gallery, New York.
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam.

GRANTS & AWARDS

Skowhegan Medal for Painting/Conceptual Art, Skowhegan, Maine, 1999
Wolfgang Hahn Prize, Ludwig Museum, Cologne, Germany, 1995
John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship, New York, New York, 1994
Arthur Kopcke Prize, Arthur Kopcke Memorial Fund, Copenhagen, Denmark, 1991
Singer Prize, Singer Museum, Laren, The Netherlands, 1988
National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, Washington, D.C., 1983
Stichting De Appel, Amsterdam, and the State Film Board of the Netherlands, production of film, "Plowmans Lunch," 1982
National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, Washington, D.C., 1976
72nd American Exhibition, Art Institute of Chicago, prize, Chicago, Illinois, 1976
DAAD, Berlin,Germany, 1975-76 (for production of film, "A Second Quarter")

COLLECTIONS

The Art Gallery of Ontario Toronto, ON
Vancouver Art Gallery Vancouver, BC
The Public Art Fund New York, NY
World Trade Center Zurich, Switzerland
World Wildlife Fund Zurich, Switzerland
Museum Ludwig Cologne, Germany
The Henry Moore Trust Halifax, England
Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Citicorp Plaza Los Angeles, California