Louise Bourgeois

• (1911 - 2010)
  
  Born in 1911, Paris, France

Education

• 1946                 
  Atelier 17, New York, US
  
  1938-1939        
  Art Students League with Vaclav Vytlacil, New York, US
  
  1938                 
  Atelier of Fernand Léger, Paris, France
  
  1938                 
  Académie Scandinavie with Charles Despiau, Paris, France
  
  1938                 
  Académie Julian, Paris, France
  
  1937-1938        
  Académie de la Grande Chaumière with Othon Friesz and Wlérick, Paris, France
  
  1936-1938        
  École des Beaux-Arts with Devambez and Colarossi, Paris, France
  
  1936-1937        
  Académie d‘Espagnat, Paris, France
  
  1936-1937        
  Atelier Roger Bissière de l‘Académie Ranson, Paris, France
  
  1935-1936        
  École du Louvre, Paris, France
  
  1932-1935        
  Mathematics at the Sorbonne, Paris, France
  
  1921-1927        
  Lycée Féneloan, Paris, France

Selected Solo Exhibitions

• 2021
  The Smell of Eucalyptus, Kukje Gallery, Seoul, South Korea
  Louise Bourgeois: What is the Shape of This Problem. From the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and His Family Foundation, Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art at Portland State University, Portland OR
  Louise Bourgeois. Maladie de l’Amour, Hauser & Wirth, Monaco
  Louise Bourgeois: What is the Shape of This Problem. From the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and His Family Foundation, Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art at Portland State University, Portland, US
  Louise Bourgeois: What is the Shape of This Problem. From the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and His Family Foundation, Esker Foundation, Calgary, Canada
  Louise Bourgeois: Freud’s Daughter, The Jewish Museum, New York, US
  
  2020
  Louise Bourgeois. To Unravel a Torment, Serralves Museum, Porto, Portugal 
  
  2019    
  Louise Bourgeois. To Unravel a Torment, Voorlinden, Wassenaar, The Netherlands
  Louise Bourgeois & Pablo Picasso, Hauser & Wirth, Anatomies of Desire’, Zurich, Switzerland
  Louise Bourgeois in the Rijksmuseum Gardens, Rijksmueum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
  Louise Bourgeois. My Own Voice Wakes Me Up, Hauser & Wirth, Central, Hong Kong
  Louise Bourgeois: The Eternal Thread, Song Art Museum, Beijing, China (Travelling Exhibition)
  Louise Bourgeois, Kettle's Yard, Cambridge, UK
  
  2018    
  Louise Bourgeois. Papillons Noirs, Hauser & Wirth, St. Moritz, Switzerland
  Louise Bourgeois: The Eternal Thread, Long Museum West Bund, Shanghai, China (Traveling Exhibition)
  Louise Bourgeois, ICA Miami – Institute of Contemporary Art Miami, Miami, US
  Louise Bourgeois: Spiral, Cheim & Read, New York, US
  Louise Bourgeois: To Unravel a Torment, Glenstone Museum, Potomac, US
  Louise Bourgeois: The Empty House, Schinkel Pavillon, Berlin, Germany
  Louise Bourgeois: Selection from the Collection of Jordan D. Schnitzer and His Family Foundation, Pendleton Center for the Arts, Pendleton, US
  Louise Bourgeois: Triptych for the Red Room, Galerie Lelong, Paris, France
  Louise Bourgeois: Works on Paper, Galerie Karsten Greve, Cologne, Germany
  Louise Bourgeois: The Red Sky, Hauser & Wirth, Los Angeles, US
  Louise Bourgeois: Editions, Galerie Karsten Greve, Paris, France
  Louise Bourgeois: Spiral, Cheim & Read, New York, US
  
  2017    
  Louise Bourgeois: Spiders, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, US
  Louise Bourgeois: Twosome, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel
  Louise Bourgeois – Etchings, Glasgow Print Studio, Glasgow, Scotland
  Autobiographical Series and Set of 11 Drypoints, Roe Valley Arts and Cultural Centre, Limavady, UK (Traveling exhibition)
  Louise Bourgeois: Fabric Works, Carolina Nitsch Project Room, New York, US (cont'd.)  
  Louise Bourgeois: Prints, Marlborough Gallery, New York, US
  Louise Bourgeois: An Unfolding Portrait, MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York, US
  Louise Bourgeois: Pink Days and Blue Days, Gordon Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
  Phase III expansion, Building 6: Louise Bourgeois, Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, North Adams, US
  Louise Bourgeois: Voyage Without a Destination, Studio Trisorio, Naples, Italy
  Louise Bourgeois: Holograms, Cheim & Read, New York, US
  
  2016    
  Louise Bourgeois: Turning Inwards, Hauser & Wirth, Somerset, UK
  Structures of Existence: The Cells, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, Denmark (Travelling Exhibition)
  Artist Rooms: Louise Bourgeois, Tate Modern, London, UK
  Structures of Existence: The Cells, Guggenheim Bilbao, Bilbao, Spain (Travelling Exhibition)
  
  2015    
  Louise Bourgeois: The Body in Exile (1947-1949), Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain (2015-2017)
  Structures of Existence: The Cells, Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany (Travelling Exhibition)
  Artist Rooms: Louise Bourgeois, A Woman Without Secrets, Southampton City Art Gallery, Southhampton, UK
  Louise Bourgeois: Late Work, Peder Lund, Oslo, Norway
  Louise Bourgeois: Larger Than Life, Akbank Art Center, Istanbul, Turkey
  Louise Bourgeois: Les têtes bleu et les femmes rouge, Xavier Hufkens Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
  Looking Forward Looking Back, New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fe, US
  Louise Bourgeois: No Exit, National Gallery of Art, Washington, US
  Structures of Existence: The Cells, Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia (Travelling Exhibition)
  Louise Bourgeois. I Have Been to Hell and Back, Museo Picasso Málaga, Málaga, Spain (Travelling Exhibition)
  Louise Bourgeois. I Have Been to Hell and Back, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden (Travelling Exhibition)
  Louis Bourgeois, Lund Fine Art, Oslo, Norway (Travelling Exhibition)
  
  2014    
  Louise Bourgeois: Works on Paper, Tate Modern, London, UK
  Louise Bourgeois: Suspension, Cheim & Read, New York, US
  Artist Rooms: Louise Bourgeois, A Woman without Secrets, Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art, Middlesbrough, UK (Travelling Exhibition)
  Louise Bourgeois. L’araignée et les tapisseries, Hauser & Wirth, Zurich, Switzerland
  
  2013    
  Louise Bourgeois: Editions, Galerie Karsten Greve, Cologne, Germany
  Sammlungshangung Bourgeois, Fondation Beyeler, Basel, Switzerland
  Louise Bourgeois: I Give Everything Away, Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland
  Artist Rooms Foundation: Louise Bourgeois, A Woman Without Secrets, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, Scotland (Travelling Exhibition)
  Louise Bourgeois: The Insomnia Drawings & The Late Suites, Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland
  Louise Bourgeois: Alone and Together, Faurschou Foundation, Copenhagen, Denmark (Travelling Exhibition)
  Louise Bourgeois: Petite Maman, Museo del Palacio de Bellas Artes, Mexico City, Mexico
  
  2012    
  Topiary: The Art of Improving Nature, University of Arkansas, Fine Arts Center Gallery, Fayettesville, US
  Louise Bourgeois: Personages, Kukje Gallery, Seoul, Korea
  Louise Bourgeois: Alone and Together, Faurschou Foundation, Beijing, China (Travelling Exhibition)
  The Graphic Series by Louise Bourgeois, Graphische Sammlung der ETH Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
  Louise Bourgeois, Art Gallery of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
  Louise Bourgeois: Late Work, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Bulleen, Australia
  Louise Bourgeois (2000-2010): Honni Soit Qui Mal Y Pens, Casa Encendida, Madrid, Spain
  Louise Bourgeois. The Return of the Repressed, Freud Museum, London, UK
  Louise Bourgeois: Conscious and Unconscious, Qatar Museums Authority Gallery, Doha, Qatar
  Louise Bourgeois. Passage Dangereux, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany
  
  2011    
  Louise Bourgeois. The Return of the Repressed, Museu do Arte Moderno, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (Travelling Exhibition)
  A L’infini, Fondation Beyeler, Riehen, Switzerland
  Louise Bourgeois: The Fabric Works, Cheim & Read, New York, US
  Louise Bourgeois. The Return of the Repressed, Fundación Proa, Buenos Aires, Argentina (Travelling Exhibition)
  Double Sexus: Hans Bellmer and Louise Bourgeois, Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, US (travelling exhibitions)
  Louise Bourgeois. Kona/Femme, National Gallery of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland
  Alex Van Gelder - Louise Bourgeois. ARMED FORCES, Hauser & Wirth Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
  Louise Bourgeois and Tracey Emin. Do Not Abandon Me, Royal West of England Academy, Bristol, UK (Travelling Exhibition)
  Louise Bourgeois: Mother and Child, Kunstforeningen GL Strand, Copenhagen, Denmark (Travelling Exhibition)
  Louise Bourgeois and Tracey Emin. Do Not Abandon Me, Hauser & Wirth London, London, UK (Travelling Exhibition)
  Estampes et dessins, Galerie Lelong, Paris, France
  Louise Bourgeois, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Canada
  
  2010    
  Louise Bourgeois and Hans Bellmer – Double Sexus, Gemeentemuseum, Den Hague, The Netherlands (travelling exhibitions)
  Louise Bourgeois: Mother and Child, Nordic Watercolour Museum, Skärhman, Sweden (Travelling Exhibition)
  Louise Bourgeois: The Fabric Works, Hauser & Wirth London, London, UK (Travelling Exhibition)
  Louise Bourgeois and Tracey Emin - Do Not Abandon Me, Carolina Nitsch, New York, US (Travelling Exhibition)
  Louise Bourgeois: The Fabric Works, Fondazione Emilio e Annabianca Vedova, Venice, Italy (Travelling Exhibition)
  Louise Bourgeois, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, US
  Louis Bourgeois, Museum of Cycladic Art, Athens, Greece
  Louise Bourgeois: Les Fleurs, Kukje Gallery, Seoul, Korea
  Louise Bourgeois: Moi, Eugénie Grandet..., Maison de Balzac, Paris, France
  Louise Bourgeois / Hans Bellmer, Sammlung Scharf-Gerstenberg, Berlin, Germany
  
  2009    
  Louise Bourgeois: Retrospective, The Hirshhorn Museum, Washington, US (Travelling Exhibition)
  Louise Bourgeois, Galerie Carsten Greve, Cologne, Germany
  Louise Bourgeois, Galleri Andersson / Sandström, Stockholm, Sweden
  
  2008    
  Louise Bourgeois, Museo Nazionale di Capodimonte, Naples, Italy
  La Rivière Gentille, Hauser & Wirth Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
  Recent Drawings, Inverleith House, Edinburgh, Scotland
  Louise Bourgeois: Echo, Cheim & Read, New York, US
  Louise Bourgeois: Retrospective, Tate Modern, London, UK (Travelling Exhibition)
  Louise Bourgeois: Retrospective, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, US (Travelling Exhibition)
  Louise Bourgeois: Retrospective, MOCA - Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, US (Travelling Exhibition)
  
  2007    
  Louise Bourgeois, Xavier Hufkens, Brussels, Belgium
  Louise Bourgeois. Hours of the Day, Carolina Nitsch Project Room, New York, US
  Louise Bourgeois: La Sage Femme, Espacia AV, la Region de Murcia, Murcia, Spain
  Marlborough Gallery, London, UK
  Louise Bourgeois: Retrospective, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France (Travelling Exhibition)
  Louise Bourgeois: New Work, Hauser & Wirth London, London, UK
  Kaliman Gallery, Sydney, Australia
  Bourgeois in Boston, Institute of Contemporary Arts, Boston, US
  Louise Bourgeois: Quarantania 1947/1990, Christine König Galerie, Vienna, Austria
  Louise Bourgeois: Abstraction, Kukje Gallery, Seoul, Korea
  Louise Bourgeois, Storm King Art Center, Mountainville, US
  Louise Bourgeois: Crouching Spider, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, US
  Louise Bourgeois: The Woven Child, Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, US
  Fugue, Kunstmuseum Bern, Graphisches Kabinett, Berne, Switzerland
  
  2006    
  Louise Bourgeois – Scultura e Opere Grafiche, Christine Bader, Lugano, Switzerland
  Works on Paper from the 1940s and 1950s, Peter Blum, New York, US
  Louise Bourgeois and Roni Horn: Drawings, Hauser & Wirth Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
  Louise Bourgeois. Prints & unique works on paper, Goya Contemporary, Baltimore, US
  Louise Bourgeois – Estampes et porcelaines 1996-2005, Galerie Lelong, Paris, France
  Louise Bourgeois. Print Focus: Recent Editions, Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, US
  Louise Bourgeois. Femme, Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, US
  Louise Bourgeois. La famille, Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany
  Louis Bourgeois, Butler Gallery, Kilkenny, Ireland
  Louise Bourgeois, Worcester Art Museum, The Woven Child', Worcester, US
  
  2005    
  Louis Bourgeois, Galerie Karsten Greve, Cologne, Germany
  Louise Bourgeois. Aller-Retour, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria
  Louise Bourgeois. Works on Paper and Cloth, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, US
  Louise Bourgeois. La Sage Femme, Neue Galerie im Höhmannhaus, Augsburg, Germany
  Louise Bougeois. Fabric and Paperworks, Galleri Stefan Andersson, Umeå, Sweden
  Sublimation, Hauser & Wirth London, London, UK
  Stitches in Time, Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami, US (Travelling Exhibition)
  Louis Bourgeois, Wifredo Lam Centre, Havana, Cuba
  Louis Bourgeois, Kukje Gallery, Seoul, Korea
  
  2004    
  Louise Bourgeois - Prints, Karsten Greve, Paris, France
  The Reticent Child, Cheim & Read Gallery, New York, US
  Louise Bourgeois: Stitches in Time, CAC – Centro de Arte Contemporàneo, Malaga, Spain (Travelling Exhibition)
  Louise Bourgeois. Stitches in Time, The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland (Travelling Exhibition)
  Louis Bourgeois, Daros Collection, Zurich, Switzerland
  Louis Bourgeois, Akira Ikeda Gallery Muranchi, Yokosuka, Japan
  Louise Bourgeois. Ode à l' Oubli, Peter Blum, New York, US
  Louis Bourgeois, Galerie Scheffel, Bad Homburg, Germany
  
  2003    
  A View from the Outside. Louise Bourgeois. The Reticent Child, Sigmund Freud Museum, Vienna, Austria
  Louise Bourgeois. The Early Work, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, US
  Louise Bourgeois. Geometry of Desire, Zacheta Gallery of Art, Warsaw, Poland
  Louise Bourgeois. La Sage-Femme, Paule Anglim Gallery, San Francisco, US
  Louise Bourgeois. Intimate Abstractions, Akademie der Künste, Berlin, Germany
  Louise Bourgeois, Louisiana Museum for Moderne Kunst, Humlebaek, Denmark
  New Sculptures and The Woven Drawings, Xavier Hufkens Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
  Spiders. Louise Bourgeois, Shiraishi Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
  Louise Bourgeois. Installation at inauguration of Dia: Beacon, Dia Center for the Arts, Beacon, US
  Louise Bourgeois. Maman, Frederik Meijer Gardens and Sculpture Park, Grand Rapids, US
  Galerie Karsten Greve, Cologne, Germany
  Louise Bourgeois. The Insomnia Drawings, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, US
  Louise Bourgeois: Stitches in Time, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland (Travelling Exhibition)
  Louise Bourgeois and James Lee Byars, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
  Louis Bourgeois, White Cube Gallery, London, UK
  Louise Bourgeois, Akademie der Künste, Berlin, Germany (Travelling Exhibition)
  
  2002    
  Louise Bourgeois, Helsinki City Art Museum, Helsinki, Finland
  Louise Bourgeois. Le Jour La Nuit Le Jour, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France
  Louise Bourgeois, Galería Soledad Lorenzo, Madrid, Spain
  Louise Bourgeois, Galerie Karsten Greve, Milan, Italy
  Louise Bourgeois, Kukje Gallery, Madrid, Spain
  Louise Bourgeois, Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, US
  Louise Bourgeois Spiders, Playhouse Square's Star Plaza, (organized in association with Cleveland Public Art, Inc.), Cleveland, US
  The Ace Gallery, Hamilton, Bermuda
  Louise Bourgeois, Kulturhuset, Stockholm, Sweden
  Louise Bourgeois. Recent sculptures and drawings, Beaumontpublic + Königbloc, Luxembourg, Luxembourg
  Louise Bourgeois. Childhood, Ars TEOR / Ética Fundacion, San Jose, Costa Rica
  Louise Bourgeois, Museet for Samtidskunst, Oslo, Norway
  Louise Bourgeois. Works in Marble, Hauser & Wirth Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
  Louise Bourgeois, Kunsthaus Bregenz, Bregenz, Austria (Travelling Exhibition)
  Louise Bourgeois, Bunkier Sztuki Gallery of Contemporary Art, Krakow, Poland (Travelling Exhibition)
  Louise Bourgeois. William Eggleston. Documenta XI, Cheim & Read Gallery, Kassel, Germany
  Louise Bourgeois. The Early Work, Krannert Art Museum, Champaign, US (Travelling Exhibition)
  Louise Bourgeois. The Early Work, Madison Art Center, Madison, US (Travelling Exhibition)
  Louise Bourgeois. Recent Works on Paper, David Floria Gallery, Aspen, US
  
  2001    
  Louise Bourgeois – Œuvres récentes, Galerie Karsten Greve, Paris, France
  Louise Bourgeois – The Personages, C&M Arts, New York, US
  Louise Bourgeois, Cheim & Read Gallery, New York, US
  Louise Bourgeois, Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Bilbao, Spain
  Louise Bourgeois. Reconstruction of the Past, Akademie der bildenden Künste, Vienna, Austria
  Louise Bourgeois. Passage Dangereux, Kunstraum Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria
  Louise Bourgeois, The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russian Federation Peter Blum, New York, US
  Louise Bourgeois. Spiders, Rockefeller Center / Public Art Fund, New York, US
  Louise Bourgeois. The Puritan, Galerie Fahnemann, Berlin, Germany
  Louise Bourgeois. Illustrated Books, Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery, Columbia University, New York, US
  Louise Bourgeois. Livres Illustrés, Musée d'Art Américain, Giverny, France
  75th Anniversary Sculpture: Louise Bourgeois, Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, US
  
  2000    
  Louise Bourgeois. Neue Arbeiten/Recent Works, Hauser & Wirth Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
  Louise Bourgeois and Carol Rama: Prints from 1944 to 2000, Franco Masoero, Turin, Italy
  Louise Bourgeois. Works on Paper, Galleria Karsten Greve, Milan, Italy
  Louise Bourgeois. Estampes 1990-2000, Galerie Lelong, Paris, France
  Kappatos Gallery Athens, Greece
  National Museum of Contemporary Art, Gwacheon, Korea
  Louise Bourgeois (Retrospective and installation), Tate Modern, London, UK
  Louise Bourgeois, Grafiska Sallskapet, Stockholm, Sweden (Travelling Exhibition)
  Louise Bourgeois, Norrköpings Konstmuseum, Norrköping, Sweden (Travelling Exhibition)
  Louise Bourgeois, Göteborg Museum of Art, Gothenburg, Sweden (Travelling Exhibition)
  Installation of The Welcoming Hands by Louise Bourgeois, Jardin des Tuileries, Paris, France
  
  1999    
  Louise Bourgeois. Prints 1989-1998, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, US
  Louise Bourgeois: Metamorphosis and other works on paper, Galerie Lelong, New York, US
  Wexner Prize Wall, Wexner Center for the Visual Arts, Columbus, US
  Louise Bourgeois: Metamorphosis and other works on paper, Remba Gallery, West Hollywood, US
  Louise Bourgeois: Topiary, Piece Unique, Paris, France
  Louise Bourgeois. Memoria y arquitectura, Museo Nacional, Centro de Arte Reina Sofìa, Madrid, Spain
  Louis Bourgeois, Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany
  Louise Bourgeois. Sculpture from the 1940s and Works on Paper, Jaffe-Friede & Strauss Galleries, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, US
  Louise Bourgeois. Prints 1989-1998, Maier Museum of Art, Randolph-Macon Woman's College, Lynchburg, US
  Louis Bourgeois, Galerie Karsten Greve, Cologne, Germany
  Louis Bourgeois, Galerie Paula Böttcher, Berlin, Germany
  Louis Bourgeois, Galerie Seitz-von Werder, Berlin, Germany
  Louis Bourgeois, Ernst-Museum, Budapest, Hungary
  
  1998    
  Louise Bourgeois. Recent Work, Serpentine Gallery, London, UK
  Louise Bourgeois. Obras Recentes, Centro Cultural de Belém, Lisbon, Portugal
  The Geometry of Pleasure, Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston, US
  Louise Bourgeois. Art is a Guarantee of Sanity, Wood Street Galleries, Pittsburgh, US
  Past Tense. Louise Bourgeois, The Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada
  Louise Bourgeois: Topiary, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, US
  Louise Bourgeois. New Works, Galerie Lars Bohman, Stockholm, Sweden
  Louise Bourgeois. Nyare verk, Malmö Konsthall, Malmö, Sweden
  Carte Blanche à Annee Dijan. The Drawings of Louise Bourgeois. Espace Saint-François, Lausanne, Switzerland
  Louise Bourgeois. Recent Work, CAPC - musée d'art contemporain de Bordeaux Entrepôt, Bordeaux, France
  Sacred and fatal: The Art of Louise Bourgeois, North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, US
  Present Tense: Louise Bourgeois, The Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada
  Louis Bourgeois, The Lotos Club, New York, US
  
  1997    
  Louise Bourgeois, The Arts Club of Chicago, Chicago, US
  Louise Bourgeois, Xavier Hufkens Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
  Louise Bourgeois: Blue Days and Pink Days, Prada Foundation, Milan, Italy
  Louise Bourgeois. Drawings 1947-1997, Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, US
  Louise Bourgeois. Spider, Cheim & Read, New York, US
  Louise Bourgeois. Ode à Ma Mère, The Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, US
  The Drawings of Louise Bourgeois, Centro Cultural da Light, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
  Marion Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, US
  Louise Bourgeois. Sculpture, Centro Cultural Banco Cultural do Brasil, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
  Louise Bourgeois. Dessins Récents, Galerie Karsten Greve, Paris, France
  Louise Bourgeois, Galerie Karsten Greve, Cologne, Germany
  Louise Bourgeois. Hamlet and Ophelia, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Brooklyn, US
  Louise Bourgeois. Hamlet and Ophelia, Robert Miller Gallery, New York, US
  Louise Bourgeois. Homesickness, Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama, Japan
  
  1996    
  Red Room, Hauser & Wirth Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
  Louise Bourgeois, Galerie Soledad Lorenzo, Madrid, Spain
  Louise Bourgeois. Drawings, University Art Museum, University of California, Berkeley, US (Travelling Exhibition)
  Louise Bourgeois. Drawings, The Drawing Center, New York, US (Travelling Exhibition)
  Louise Bourgeois. Drawings, The List Visual Art Center, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, US (Travelling Exhibition)
  Louise Bourgeois. Drawings, The Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada (Travelling Exhibition)
  XI. Mostra da Gravura. Mostra América (special room dedicated in honour of Louise Bourgeois), Fundacão Cultural de Curitaba/Museu da Gravura, Curitiba, Brazil
  Louis Bourgeois, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, US
  Louise Bourgeois. Arbeiten auf Papier, Galerie Karsten Greve, Cologne, Germany
  Louise Bourgeois. Der Ort des Gedächtnisses Skulpturen, Environments und Zeichnungen. 1946-1995, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, Germany
  The Locus of Memory, Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal, Montreal, Canada (Travelling Exhibition)
  Louise Bourgeois. Spiders, Baumgartner Galleries, Washington D.C., US
  Louise Bourgeois. Skulpturen und Objekte, Rupertinum, Salzburg, Austria
  Louis Bourgeois, Galerie Samuel Lallouz, Montreal, Canada
  Louise Bourgeois: The Forties and the Fifties, Gallery Josedoff / Harry Jack Gray Center, University of Hartford, Westford, US
  Louis Bourgeois, Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporaneo, Seville, Spain
  Louis Bourgeois, Museo Rufina Tamayo, Mexico City, Mexico
  Louise Bourgeois. Sculptures, ORIEL, The Arts Council of Wales Gallery, The Friary, Cardiff, UK
  The Prints of Louise Bourgeois, Bonnefanten Museum, Maastricht, The Netherlands
  
  1995    
  MARCO - Museo de Arte Contemporaneo, Monterrey, Mexico
  The Prints of Louise Bourgeois (accompanied by an exhibition of sculptures), Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, UK
  20th Century Master Drawings, Barbara Mathes Gallery, New York, US
  Louis Bourgeois, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia
  Louis Bourgeois, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia
  Louis Bourgeois, Galerie Piece Unique, Paris, France
  Louise Bourgeois. Hommage à Duras, Galerie Karsten Greve, Cologne, Germany
  Louise Bourgeois: Drawings, Galerie Karsten Greve, Paris, France
  The Locus of Memory, Galeria Rudolfinum, Prague, Czech Republic (Travelling Exhibition)
  Louise Bourgeois: Dessins pour Duras, Théâtre du Vieux Colombier, Paris, France
  Louise Bourgeois, Walker Hill Art Center, Seoul, Korea
  Mitsubishi-Jisho Artium, Fukuoka City, Japan
  Louise Bourgeois: Drawings, École Nationale des Beaux-Art de Bourges, Bourges, France
  Louise Bourgeois. Pensées-Plumes, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France (Travelling Exhibition)
  Louise Bourgeois. Pensées-Plumes, Helsinki City Art Museum, Helsinki, Finland (Travelling Exhibition)
  Louise Bourgeois. Sculptures, environnements, dessins. 1938-1995, Musée d'Art moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France
  The Prints of Louise Bourgeois, Musée du Dessin et de l'Estampe Originale, Gravelines, France
  The Prints of Louise Bourgeois, Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris, France
  
  1994    
  The Locus of Memory, The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., US (Travelling Exhibition)
  The Prints of Louise Bourgeois, Museum of Modern Art, New York, US
  Louise Bourgeois. Skulpturen und Installationen, Galerie Karsten Greve, Cologne, Germany
  Louise Bourgeois. Skulpturen, Kestner-Gesellschaft, Hanover, Germany
  The Louise Bourgeois Papers. A Promised Gift to the Archives of American Art, Archives of American Art, New York, US
  Louise Bourgeois: The Art of Assemblage, Marion Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, US
  The Red Rooms, Peter Blum, New York, US
  Louis Bourgeois, Galleria Karsten Greve, Milan, Italy
  Louise Bourgeois. Etchings, Galerie Espace, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
  Louise Bourgeois: The Personages, The Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, US
  Louis Bourgeois, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, US
  The Locus of Memory, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, US (Travelling Exhibition)
  
  1993    
  XLV Esposizione Internazionale d'Arte, La Biennale di Venezia, American Pavilion, Venice, Italy
  Louise Bourgeois, Ginny Williams Family Foundation, Denver, US
  Louise Bourgeois, Galerie Ramis Barquet, Monterrey, Mexico
  Louise Bourgeois. Personnages, 1940s, Installations, 1990s, Laura Carpenter Fine Art, Santa Fe, US
  Louise Bourgeois: Etchings' Jan Weiner Gallery, Topeka, US
  Louis Bourgeois' Linda Cathcart Gallery, Santa Monica, US
  
  1992    
  Louis Bourgeois, Galerie Karsten Greve, Paris, France
  Installation of recent acquisitions, National Gallery of Art, East Wing, Washington D.C., US
  Louise Bourgeois. Prints 1947-1991, Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston, US
  The Fabric Workshop's 15th Anniversary. Annual Benefit Honoring Louise Bourgeois and Anne d'Harnoncourt (opening of a new installation by Louise Bourgeois in collaboration with the Fabric Workshop 'She Lost it'), The Fabric Workshop, Philadelphia, US
  Louise Bourgeois. Drawings, Second Floor, Reykjavik, Iceland
  Currents 21: Louise Bourgeois, Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, US
  Louis Bourgeois, Ydessa Hendeles Art Foundation, Toronto, Canada
  Louise Bourgeois. C.O.Y.O.T.E. (installed at the museum's front entrance), Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, US
  
  1991    
  Louise Bourgeois. L'Œuvre gravée, Galerie Lelong, Zurich, Switzerland
  Louise Bourgeois. A Retrospective Exhibition, Kunstmuseum Bern, Berne, Switzerland (Travelling Exhibition)
  Louise Bourgeois. A Retrospective Exhibition, Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, The Netherlands (Travelling Exhibition)
  Louise Bourgeois. Recent Sculpture, Robert Miller Gallery, New York, US
  Louis Bourgeois, Ydessa Hendeles Art Foundation, Toronto, Canada
  
  1990    
  Bronzen der 40er und 50er Jahre, Galerie Karsten Greve, Cologne, Germany
  Louise Bourgeois: Drawings and Sculpture, Barbara Gross Galerie, Munich, Germany
  Louise Bourgeois. A Retrospective Exhibition, Fundació Tàpies, Barcelona, Spain (Travelling Exhibition)
  Louise Bourgeois. 1939-89. Skulpturen und Zeichnungen, Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna, Austria
  Louise Bourgeois: Bronze Sculpture and Drawings, Linda Cathcart Gallery, Santa Monica, US
  Louise Bourgeois: Four Decades, Ginny Williams Gallery, Denver, US
  Louise Bourgeois: Sculptures and Drawings, Monica Sprüth Galerie, Cologne, Germany
  Louise Bourgeois. 1984-89, Riverside Studios, London, UK
  Louise Bourgeois. A Retrospective Exhibition, Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich, Germany (Travelling Exhibition)
  Louise Bourgeois. A Retrospective Exhibition, Musée d'art contemporain, Lyon, France (Travelling Exhibition)
  Louise Bourgeois. Drawings, Karsten Schubert, London, UK
  
  1989    
  Louise Bourgeois: Legs, Ydessa Art Foundation, Toronto, Canada
  Louise Bourgeois. A Retrospective Exhibition, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt a. M., Germany (Travelling Exhibition)
  Louise Bourgeois. Selected Works, Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, US
  Louise Bourgeois. 100 Zeichnungen, Galerie Lelong, Zurich, Switzerland
  Recent Sculpture by Louise Bourgeois, Art Gallery of York University, North Yorkshire, UK
  Louise Bourgeois. Works from the Sixties, Dia Art Foundation, Bridgehampton, US
  Louise Bourgeois. Sculpture, American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, New York, US
  Louise Bourgeois. Works from the 50s, Sperone Westwater Gallery, New York, US
  Louise Bourgeois. Progressions and Regressions, Galerie Lelong, New York, US
  Louise Bourgeois – Sculpture, Robert Miller Gallery, New York, US
  Louise Bourgeois. Dessins 1940/86, Galerie Lelong, Paris, France
  
  1988    
  Louise Bourgeois. Work 1943-1987, Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, US
  Louise Bourgeois. Works On Paper, Museum Overholland, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
  Sculpture by Louise Bourgeois, Laguna Gloria Art Museum, Austin, US
  Louis Bourgeois, Gallery of Art, Washington University, St Louis, US
  Louise Bourgeois. Drawings 1939-1987, Robert Miller Gallery, New York, US
  
  1987    
  Louis Bourgeois, Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, US
  Louis Bourgeois, Riva Yares Gallery, Scottsdale, US
  Paintings and Drawings, Janet Steinberg Gallery, San Francisco, US
  Sculpture 1947-1955, Gallery Paul Anglim, San Francisco, US
  Louis Bourgeois, The Taft Museum, Cincinnati, US
  Louis Bourgeois, The Art Museum, Florida International University, Miami, US
  Louise Bourgeois. Paintings from the 1940s, Robert Miller Gallery, New York, US
  
  1986    
  Louise Bourgeois. Sculptures and Drawings, Texas Gallery, Houston, US
  Louis Bourgeois, Robert Miller Gallery, New York, US
  The Doris Feldmann Plaza, 'Eyes', New York, US
  
  1985
  Louis Bourgeois, Serpentine Gallery, London, UK
  Louise Bourgeois. Retrospektive 1947-1984, Galerie Maeght-Lelong, Paris, France (Travelling Exhibition)
  Louise Bourgeois. Retrospektive 1947-1984, Galerie Maeght-Lelong, Zurich, Switzerland (Travelling Exhibition)
  
  1984    
  Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles, US
  Louise Bourgeois. Sculpture, Robert Miller Gallery, New York, US
  
  1983    
  Louis Bourgeois, Daniel Weinberg Gallery, San Francisco, US
  Louise Bourgeois. Retrospective, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, US (Travelling Exhibition)
  Louise Bourgeois. Retrospective, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, US (Travelling Exhibition)
  Louise Bourgeois. Retrospective, Akron Art Museum, Akron, US (Travelling Exhibition)
  
  1982    
  Bourgeois Truth, Robert Miller Gallery, New York, US
  Louise Bourgeois. Retrospective, MOMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York, US (Travelling Exhibition)
  
  1981    
  Louise Bourgeois. Femme Maison, Renaissance Society, University of Chicago, Chicago, US
  
  1980    
  Louise Bourgeois. Sculpture: The Middle Years 1955-1970, Xavier Fourcade Gallery, New York, US
  The Iconography of Louise Bourgeois, Max Hutchinson Gallery, New York, US
  
  1979  &nbs

Selected Awards

• 2007    
  Österreichisches Ehrenzeichen für Wissenschaft und Kunst (Austrian Honour Medal for Science and Arts)
  
  2002    
  Wolf Foundation Prize in the Arts (Painting and Sculpture), Wolf Foundation, Israel
  Honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts, University of Illinois, Champaign, US
  
  2000    
  Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts, The Art Institute of Boston, US
  Honorary Member, Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Vienna, Austria
  
  1999    
  Wexner Center Honoree
  Leon d'oro, XLVIII Esposizione Internationale d'arte, Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy
  Praemium Imperiale, Award of Japan
  
  1996    
  National Medal of Arts presented by President Clinton at the White House, Washington D.C., US
  
  1995    
  Honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts, Art Institute of Chicago, US
  
  1991    
  Lifetime Achievement Award, International Sculpture Center, Washington D.C. , US (First Recipient)
  Grand Prix National de Sculpture, Ministère de la Culture, France
  
  1990    
  Edward MacDowell Medal, MacDowell Colony, New York, US
  
  1989    
  Distinguished Artist Award for Lifetime Achievement, College Art Association
  
  1987    
  Honorary Doctorate, The New School, New York, US
  Golden Medal of Honor for Excellence in Art, National Arts Club, New York, US
  
  1984    
  President's Fellows Award, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, US
  Honorary Doctorate in Fine Arts, Maryland Institute, College of Art, Baltimore, US
  Officier de l'Ordre des arts et des lettres, Ministère de la Culture, France
  
  1983    
  Selected Member of the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, New York, US
  Honorary Doctorate in Fine Arts, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, US
  
  1981    
  Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences of Boston, US
  
  1980    
  Award for Outstanding Achievement in the Visual Arts from Women's Caucus for Art
  
  1977    
  Honorary Doctorate in Fine Arts, Yale University, New Haven, US
  
  1973    
  Artist Grant, National Endowment for the Arts