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Roni Horn

American, 1955

Biography

Roni Horn

  • Born in 1955, New York, US
    Lives and works in New York, US and Reykjavik, Iceland

Education

  • 1976     M.F.A., Yale University, New Haven, US
    1972     B.F.A. with Honors, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, US

Selected Solo Exhibitions

  • 2021
    Roni Horn: When You See Your Reflection in Water, Do You Recognize the Water in You?, Pola Museum of Art, Hakone, Japan
    A Rat Surrendered Here, curated by Jerry Gorovoy, Chateau La Coste, Le Puy-Sainte-Réparade, France 
    You are the Weather, Kunsthaus Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany 
    Gold Field, installation at The Menil Collection, Houston, US 
    Roni Horn: Recent Work, Hauser & Wirth, New York, US

    2020
    Roni Horn: You are the Weather, Fondation Beyeler, Basel, Switzerland
    Roni Horn, i8 Gallery, Reykjavik, Iceland
    Roni Horn, The University Museum of Contemporary Art at UMass Amherst, Amherst, US

    2019
    Roni Horn, Peder Lund, Oslo, Norway 
    Air Burial (permanent installation), Ekebergparken Park, Oslo, Norway 
    Roni Horn: When I Breathe, I Draw, Menil Collection, Houston, US

    2018
    Roni Horn, Hauser & Wirth, Hong Kong
    Wits’ End Sampler, Menil Collection, Houston, US
    Roni Horn, kurimanzutto, Mexico City, Mexico 
    Roni Horn. Wits’ End Sampler | Recent Drawings, Hauser & Wirth, Zurich, Switzerland 
    Remembered Words, Kukje Gallery, Seoul, Korea 
    Roni Horn. PI, Pinakothek der Moderne Kunst, Munich, Germany 

    2017
    Selected Gifts, (1974-2015), Rat Hole Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
    Roni Horn, Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas, US
    Roni Horn, Hauser & Wirth, New York, US
    Roni Horn, Glenstone, Potomac, US
     
    2016
    The Selected Gifts, Fondation Beyeler, Riehen/Basel, Switzerland
    Roni Horn, de Pont Museum, Tilburg, The Netherlands


    2015
    Butterfly to Oblivion Fondation Vincent van Gogh, Arles, France
    Butterfly Doubt, Hauser & Wirth, London, UK
    Roni Horn, Galleria Raffaella Cortese, Milan, Italy


    2014
    Roni Horn – Water Teller, Peder Lund Gallery, Oslo, Norway
    Roni Horn: Drawings, Vigeland Museum, Oslo, Norway
    Everything was sleeping as if the universe were a mistake, Caixa Forum, Madrid, Spain
    Everything was sleeping as if the universe were a mistake, Fundació Juan Miró, Barcelona, Spain
    Roni Horn, Kukje Gallery, Seoul, Korea

    2013
    Everything was sleeping as if the universe were a mistake, Hauser & Wirth, New York, US
    Roni Horn, Hauser & Wirth, Zürich, Switzerland
    Portrait of an Image, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

    2012
    Mirosław Bałka e Roni Horn, Galleria Raffaella Cortese, Milan, Italy
    Selected Drawings 1984 – 2012, Xavier Hufkens, Brussels, Belgium; Hauser & Wirth, Zurich, Switzerland
    Roni Horn, Sammlung Goetz, Munich, Germany 

    2011
    The Wedding (the Walker Evans Polaroid Project) with Roni Horn, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York, US
    Double Mobius, FLAG Art Foundation, New York, US
    Roni Horn: Photographien, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany
    Roni Horn: Recent Work, Hauser & Wirth, London, UK
    a.k.a., i8 Gallery, Reykjavik, Iceland
    Roni Horn: Some Thames, Galerie de l’UQAM Université du Québec à Montréal, Montreal, Canada

    2010
    Roni Horn, Centre of Contemporary Art – Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Poland
    Roni Horn, Hauser & Wirth, New York, US
    Roni Horn aka Roni Horn, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, USA (travelling Exhibition)
    Roni Horn, Kukje Gallery, Seoul, Korea
    Well and Truly, Kunsthaus Bregenz, Bregenz, Austria
    Rat Hole Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

    2009
    Roni Horn aka Roni Horn, Tate Modern, UK; Collection Lambert, Avignon, France; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, US
    The tiniest piece of mirror is always the whole mirror, The Common Guild, Glasgow, Scotland
    Paired, Gold: Felix Gonzalez-Torres and Roni Horn, Guggenheim Museum, New York, US

    2008
    Roni Horn, CAC – Centro de Arte Contemporàneo, Malaga, Spain
    Circulo de Bellas Artes (Photo Espana), Madrid, Spain
    Roni Horn, Gagosian Gallery, Los Angeles, US
    Roni Horn, Hauser & Wirth, London, UK
    Portrait of an Image (with Isabelle Huppert), Overbeck Gesellschaft, Lübeck, Germany
    This is me, this is you, Rathole Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
    Roni Horn, Xavier Hufkens, Brussels, Belgium

    2007
    A KIND OF YOU, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne, Australia
    Roni Horn, Kukje Gallery, Seoul, Korea
    My Oz, Reykjavik Art Museum, Iceland
    Vatnasafn / Library of Water, Stykkishólmur, Iceland (permanent installation)
    Roni Horn, Xavier Hufkens, Brussels, Belgium

    2006
    Portrait of an Image / Drawings - Roni Horn, Louise Bourgeois, Hauser & Wirth, Zurich, Switzerland
    Sculptures, Drawings and Photographs, James Kelly Contemporary, Santa Fe, US
    Roni Horn: Angie and Emily Dickinson, Inverleith House Edinburgh, Scotland; Museion Bolzano, Italy
    Relaxness, Safn, Reykjavik, Iceland

    2005
    Portrait of an Image (with Isabelle Huppert), Matthew Marks Gallery, New York, US

    2004
    Some Thames, Art Institute of Chicago, US
    Roni Horn. In der Sammlung, Folkwang Museum, Essen, Germany
    Drawings, Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, Venice, Italy (travelling Exhibition)
    Rings of Lispector (Agua Viva), Hauser & Wirth London, London, UK
    Her, Her, Her and Her, Reykjavik Art Museum, Iceland 


    2003
    Roni Horn – Drawings, Centre Pompidou / Galerie d’ Art Graphique, Paris, France
    If on a Winter’s Night…Roni Horn…, Fotomuseum Winterthur, Winterthur, Switzerland
    Galerie Hauser & Wirth & Presenhuber, Zurich, Switzerland
    This is Me, This is You, i8 Galleri, Reykjavik, Iceland
    Roni Horn: Cabinet of, Raffaella Cortese, Milan, Italy
    Some Thames, University of Akureyri, Iceland (permanent installation)
    Xavier Hufkens, Brussels, Belgium

    2002
    Blah, Blah, Blah - Part 1, Dia Center for the Arts, New York, US
    Blah, Blah, Blah - Part 2, Dia Center for the Arts, New York, US
    Clowndoubt, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York, US

    2001
    Galerie Hauser & Wirth & Presenhuber, Zurich, Switzerland
    Cabinet Of, Galerie Yvon Lambert, Paris, France
    Part I and Part II, Dia Art Foundation, New York, US
    Still Waters (The River Thames, For Example), i8 Galleri, Reykjavik, Iceland
    Key and Cues, Jablonka Galerie, Cologne, Germany
    Some Thames, Museo Serralves, Porto, Portugal
    Roni Horn, Xavier Hufkens, Brussels, Belgium

    2000
    Roni Horn, Castello di Rivoli, Turin, Italy
    Lannan Foundation; Site Santa Fe, Santa Fe, US
    National Gallery of Iceland, Reykjavík, Iceland
    Still Water (The River Thames, for Example), Timothy Taylor Gallery, London, UK
    Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, US

    1999
    PI, Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen / Staatsgalerie moderner Kunst, Munich, Germany
    Still WaterCAPC – Musée d’art contemporain de Bordeaux Entrepot, France
    PI, Jablonka Galerie, Cologne, Germany
    Pi, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York, US
    Events of RelationMusée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, France
    Roni Horn, Raffaella Cortese, Milan, Italy
    Zugspitze, Munich, Germany

    1998
    You are the Weather, De Pont Museum of Contemporary Art, Tilburg, The Netherlands
    Galleri Stefan Andersson AB, Umea, Sweden
    Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Basel, Switzerland
    Patrick Painter Inc., Los Angeles, US
    Roni Horn, Xavier Hufkens, Brussels, Belgium
    Roni Horn: Pooling You, Jablonka Galerie, Cologne, Germany

    1997
    Yous in You, Bahnhof Ost, Basel, Switzerland (permanent installation, completed 2000)
    Earths Grow Thick: Works after Emily Dickinson, Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, US
    Roni Horn - You are the Weather, Fotomuseum Winterthur, Winterthur, Switzerland
    Ingólfsstræti 8, Reykjavík, Iceland
    You are the Weather, Institut für Moderne Kunst / Schmidt Bank-Galerie, Nuremberg, Germany
    Roni Horn: You are the Weather, Jablonka Galerie, Cologne, Germany
    Untitled (Flannery) and Pooling You, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York, US
    Raffaella Cortese, Milan, Italy
    i8 Gallery, Reykjavik, Iceland

    1996
    Earths Grow Thick: Works after Emily Dickinson, Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, US; Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley College, Wellesley, US
    You are the Weather, Deutscher Wetterdienst München, Munich, Germany (permanent installation)
    Galerie Ghislaine Hussenot, Paris, France
    Five Installations, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York, US

    1995
    Alfonso Artiaco Gallery, Naples, Italy
    New Installations, Jablonka Galerie, Cologne, Germany
    Making Being Here Enough. Installations, Drawings, Kunsthalle Basel, Switzerland; Kestner Gesellschaft, Hanover, Germany
    Gurgles, Sucks, Echoes, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York, US
    Drawings, Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Basel, Switzerland
    Felix Gonzalez-Torres & Roni Horn, Sammlung Goetz, Munich, Germany
    Currents 61: Roni Horn, St. Louis Museum of Art, St. Louis, US

    1994
    Inner Geography, The Baltimore Museum of Art, US; List Visual Arts Center, MIT, Cambridge Massachussetts, US; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, US
    DePont Foundation for Contemporary Art, Tilburg, The Netherlands
    Roni Horn: Drawings, Books, Photographic SuitesMatthew Marks Gallery, New York, US
    Texas Gallery, Houston, US

    1993
    2nd Floor, Reykjavík, Iceland
    Rare Spellings: Selected Drawings 1985-1992, Kunstmuseum Winterthur, Winterthur, Switzerland; Gemeentemuseum, The Hague, The Netherlands; Secession, Vienna, Austria; Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne, Germany
    Jablonka Galerie, Cologne, Germany
    Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, US
    Mary Boone Gallery, New York, US
    Matthew Marks Gallery, New York, US

    1992
    Galerie Annemarie Verna, Zurich, Switzerland
    Roni Horn, Jablonka Galerie, Cologne, Germany
    The Living Art Museum, Reykjavík, Iceland

    1991
    Mary Boone Gallery, New York, US
    For A Here And A There, Städtisches Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach, Germany
    Things Which Happen Again, Westfälischer Kunstverein, Münster, Germany

    1990
    Leo Castelli, New York, US
    Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, US
    Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, US
    Temporary Contemporary / The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, US

    1989
    Galerie Annemarie Verna, Zurich, Switzerland
    Jay Gorney Modern Art, New York, US
    Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, US

    1988
    Things that Happen Again, Chinati Foundation, Marfa, US (permanent installation)
    Pair Objects I, II, III, Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, US; Galerie Lelong, New York, US
    Mario Diacono Gallery, Boston, US
    Susanne Hilberry, Birmingham, US
    Winston Gallery, Washington D.C., US

    1987
    Galerie Maeght Lelong, New York, US
    Galerie Maeght Lelong, Paris, France

    1986
    Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, New York, US
    Burnett Miller Gallery, Los Angeles, US

    1985
    Burnett Miller Gallery, Los Angeles, US
    Galerie Maeght Lelong, New York, US

    1983
    Glyptothek / Kunstforum / Kunstraum, Munich, Germany

    1980
    Clocktower, Institute for Art and Urban Resources, New York, US

    1978
    Kunstraum, Munich, Germany
    Yale University, New Haven, US

Selected Group Exhibitions

  • 2021
    After all, a collection is only human, Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens Villa Vandenbussche, Tielt, Belgium
    View From Here: Recent Acquisitions, LACMA Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, US
    Dependent Objects, curated by Harry C. H. Choi, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, US

    2020
    My Generation: The Jablonka Collection, Albertina Museum, Vienna, Austria
    Winterreise, Xavier Hufkens, Brussels, Belgium
    Silent Vision——Images of Calm and Quiet at the Fondation Beyeler, Fondation Beyeler, Basel, Switzerland

    2019 
    Luogo e Segni, Palazzo Grassi, Punta della Dogana, Venice, Italy 
    Joint is Out of Time, Galleria Nazionle d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Rome, Italy 

    2018 
    Could be (an Arrow), Museo Jumex, Mexico City, Mexico 
    25 Years! Shared Histories, Shared Stories, Fotomuseum Winterthur, Winterthur, Switzerland 
    Space Shifters, Hayward Gallery, Southbank Centre, London, UK 
    Tables, Carpets & Dead Flowers, Hauser & Wirth, Zürich, Switzerland 
    Other Hats - Icelandic Printmaking, The National Gallery of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland 
    Dancing With Myself, Palazzo Grassi – Punta della Dogana, Venice, Italy 
    Picasso-Gorky-Warhol. Sculpture and Works on Paper. Hubert Looser CollectionKunsthalle Krems, Krems an der Donau, Austria 
    That Obscure Object of Desire, curated by Philip Larratt-Smith, Fortes D’Aloia & Gabriel, Sao Paulo / Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 
    Exchanges, The Whitworth Art Gallery, The University of Manchester, Manchester, UK 
    I Still Believe In Miracles - Works from Selvaag Art, Astrup Fearnley Museet, Oslo, Norway 
    Tacita Dean: STILL LIFE, The National Gallery, London, UK 
    Selves and Others. Gifts to the Collection from Carla Emil and Rich SilversteinSFMoMA, San Francisco, US
    One Day at a Time: Manny Farber and Termite Art, MOCA – Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, US 
    The Land We Live In - The Land We Left Behind, Hauser & Wirth, Somerset, UK 

    2017 
    J’aime Avignon, Collection Lambert, Avignon, France 
    Animals, Charles Riva Project, Brussels, Belgium 
    ReView, De Pont at 25, De Pont Museum, Tilburg, The Netherlands 
    Ex Situ. Samples of Lifeforms, Copenhagen Contemporary, Copenhagen, Denmark 
    Serialities, Hauser & Wirth, New York, US
    Proof of Life / LebenszeichenWeserburg, Bremen, Germany 
    The Photographic – Part I, S.M.A.K., Ghent, Belgium 
    Calder to Kelly: The American Collection, Kunstmuseum Winterthur, Winterthur, Switzerland

    Panza di Biumo Collection. The Matter of Form, Museo d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Trento e Rovereto, Italy 
    Behind the Screen – An Art Tribute to Isabelle Huppert, Michael Fuchs Galerie, Berlin, Germany 
    Artist’s Books: The Collection, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany 
    Gray Matters, Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, US
    Other Hats: Icelandic Printmaking, International Print Center New York, New York, US


    2016
    On Paper: Finding Form, Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, US
    House of Commons, Portikus, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
    SPLIT. Mirror. Light. Reflection, Schauwerk Sindelfingen, Sindelfingen, Germany
    Animality, Marian Goodman Gallery, London, UK 
    First Light: A Decade of Collecting at the ICA, The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, UK
    Dancing with Myself. Self-portrait and Self-invention. Works from the Pinault Collection, Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany
    Inside – Contemporary Artists and Writers in Reading Prison, Reading Prison, Reading, UK
    Kingdom – Flora, Fauna, Fable, Reykjavík Art Museum, Reykjavik, Iceland
    Nature Based, Kröller-Müller Museum,Otterlo, The Netherlands
    Au Coeur. Territoire de l’enfance, Collection Lambert, Avignon, France
    I still believe in miracles, Inverleith House, Edinburgh, Scotland
    Collected, Pier 24 Photography, San Francisco, US
    Galerie Hussenot, Paris, France
    Invisible Adversaries, CCS Bard Hessel Museum, Annandale-on-Hudson, US
    Don’t Look Back: The 1990s at MOCA, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, US


    2015
    Salon d’Hiver, Hauser & Wirth, Zurich, Switzerland
    Tempo al Tempo. Art from Anno Domini to Roni Horn, Roman Road, London, UK 
    Drawing. THE BOTTOM LINE, S.M.A.K., Ghent, Belgium
    Visual Leader 2015, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, Germany
    Faux Amis, Simon Lee, London, UK
    Opening the Box: Unpacking Minimalism, The George Economou Collection, Athens, Greece 
    Altered Appearances, Fisher Landau Center for Art, New York, US
    Space Between, FLAG Art Foundation, New York, US
    Tension and Freedom, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon, Portugal
    By the Book, Sean Kelly Gallery, New York, US
    This is a Portrait If I Say So: Re-imagining Representation in American Art, 1912-Today, Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, US
    Selections from the Kramarsky Collection, David Zwirner, New York, US
    America Is Hard To See, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, US

    Faces – Between Figures, Portraits and Masks, Neues Museum, Nuremberg, Germany
    The Blue of Distance, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, US
    Slip of the Tongue, Punta della Dogana, Venice, Italy
    Choice Works, Mana Contemporary, Jersey City, US
    Faces – Between Figures, Portraits and Masks, Staatliches Museum für Kunst und Design in Nürnberg, Nuremburg, Germany
    In Girum Imus Nocte et Consumimur Ingi, Jumex Collection, Mexico City, Mexico
    Silence out loud, Museum Kranenburgh, Bergen, Norway
    Thirty Nine Years, Susanne Hilberry Gallery, Ferndale, US
    Maisons Fragiles, Hauser & Wirth, London, London, UK
    Das Fotobuch und seine Autoren, Swiss National Library, Bern, Switzerland
    Drawing Redefined, DeCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln, UK
    Hamburg Triennial of Photography, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany
    Tension and Freedom, CAM Centro de Arte Moderna, Lisbon, Portugal


    2014
    Picture Ballot! Monolithic Water, Kunsthaus Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
    Theatre of the Mind, Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, US
    Beyond and Between, Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
    Playing by heart, Kolumba. Art Museum of the Archdiocese of Cologne, Cologne, Germany
    The hidden picture. Collecting art at ING, Cobra Museum of Modern Art, Amstelveen, The Netherlands
    Ladies First! Women artists from the Schaufler Collection, Schauwerk Sindelfingen, Sindelfingen, Germany
    Performance. Contemporary Photography from the Douglas Nielsen Collection, Center for Creative Photography, Tucson, US
    La disparation des lucioles, Collection Lambert, Avignon, France
    TRAME. Copper Crossing in contemporary art, design, technology and architecture, Triennale di Milano, Milan, Italy
    À Corps Perdu, L’Espace de l’Art Concret, Mouans-Sartoux, France
    LUB Collection Showcase. New Acquisitions from Ai Weiwei to Zobernig, Kunsthaus Bregenz, Bregenz, Austria
    Beneath the Ground: From Kafka to Kippenberger, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen K21, Düsseldorf, Germany
    Pure Water. The Most Valuable Resource of the World, Lentos Kunstmuseum, Linz, Austria
    You imagine what you desire, 19th Biennale of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
    MODA Curates, Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery, Columbia University, New York, US
    On The Road, Santo Domingo de Bonaval, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
    David Altmejd, Roni Horn, Didier Vermeiren, Danh Vo, Xavier Hufkens, Brussels, Belgium
    View From Above, Rebecca Camhi Gallery, Athens, Greece
    Pink, Spazio -1 Collezione Giancarlo E Danna Olgiati, Lugano, Switzerland


    2013
    Macho Man, Tell It To My Heart: Collected by Julie Ault, Artists Space, New York, US; Culturgest, Artists Space, New York, US; Lisbon, Portugal; Kunstmuseum Basel, Switzerland
    Elemental, Boden Art Center, Boden, Sweden
    Colección Helga de Alvear. El Arte del Presente, Centro Cibeles de Cultura y Ciudadani, Madrid, Spain

    93, 20th anniversary exhibition, Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
    Personal, political, mysterious, FLAG Art Foundation, New York, US
    Pro Choice, Fri Art. Centre d’Art de Fribourg / Kunsthalle Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany
    The Distaff Side, The Granary, Sharon, US
    15 Years of the Gallery of Contemporary Art, Hamburger Kunsthalle / Gallery of Contemporary Art, Hamburg, Germany
    Elemental, Havremagasinet – Boden Art Center, Boden, Sweden

    Ages. Portraits of growing older, Landesgalerie Linz, Linz, Austria
    Paisaje 1969 – 2013, Museo del Palacio de Bellas Artes, Mexico City, Mexico 
    Tell It To My Heart: Collected by Julie Ault, Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Basel, Switzerland
    AGES. Porträts vom Älterwerden, Oberösterreichische Landesmuseum / Landesgalerie Linz, Linz, Austria

    Die Photographische Sammlung/SK Stiftung Kultur Köln, Cologne, Germany
    Prima Materia, Punta della Dogana / Francois Pinault Foundation, Venice, Italy
    Zeichen. Sprache. Bilder. Schrift in der Kunst seit den 1960er Jahren, Städtische Galerie, Karlsruhe, Germany

    Prima Materia, Punta della Dogana / Francois Pinault Foundation, Venice, Italy
    15 Years of the Gallery of Contemporary Art, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany
    Paisaje 1969 – 2013, Museo del Palacio de Bellas Artes, Mexico City, Mexico

    2012
    Von Horizonten / On Horizons, Fotomuseum Winterthur, Winterthur, Switzerland
    Dark Matters, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C., US
    Viewpoint. A closer look at showing, Huis Marseille – Museum voor fotografie, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
    Für Hund und Katz ist auch noch Platz. Fotografien aus der DZ BANKKunstsammlung, Kunsthalle Recklinghausen, Recklinghausen, Germany
    Parallelwelt Zirkus / The Circus as a Parallel Universe, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria
    Drawn Margo Leavin Gallery,  Los Angeles, US
    In Praise of Doubt, Punta della Dogana, Venice, Italy
    Light and Landscape, Storm King Art Center, Mountainville, US
    Print/Out, MoMA Museum of Modern Art, New York, US
    Her, Rolla Foundation, Bruzella, Switzerland
    The Dwelling Life of Man, Kunsthal KAdE,  Amersfoort, The Netherlands
    Pink Caviar, Louisiana Museum,Copenhagen, Denmark


    2011
    Nature – Contemporary Art from the Collection of the Altana Kulturstiftung, Osthaus Museum, Hagen, Germany
    Light-Sensitive – Contemporary Photography from the Schaufler Collection, Schauwerk, Sindelfingen, Germany
    The Last First Decade, Ellipse Foundation Art Centre, Cascais, Portugal
    Volume! Works from the Collections of La Caixa Foundation and MACBA, MACBA Museu d’Art Contemporani, Barcelona, Spain
    Text, Kuckei + Kuckei, Berlin, Germany
    Faster and Slower Lines – From the Collection of Pétur and Ragna Róbertsdóttir, Reykjavik Art Museum – Hafnarhus, Reykjavik, Iceland
    ATLAS. How to carry the world on one’s back?, Deichtorhallen Hamburg – Sammlung Falckenberg, Hamburg, Germany; ZKM Museum für neue Kunst, Karlsruhe, Germany
    Circa 1986, Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Peekskill, US
    Through the looking Brain – A Swiss Collection of Conceptual Photography, Kunstmuseum St. Gallen, Switzerland; Kunstmuseum Bonn, Germany
    If you lived here, you’d be home by now, CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Arts, Annandale-on-Hudson, US
    Perspectives – On the Borders of Art and Philosophy, Reykjavik Art Museum, Iceland
    The Dwelling Life of Men. Photographs from the Martin Z. Margulies Collection, Fundación Barrié, A Coruna, Spain
    Contemporary Collecting: The Judith Neisser Collection, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, US
    In Praise of Doubt, Punta della Dogana, Francois Pinault Foundation, Venice, Italy
    Le Mois de la Photo à Montréal. Lucidité. Vues de l’intérieur / Lucidity. Inward views, Galerie de L’Uqam, Montréal, Canada
    Series of Portraits: A Century of Photographs, Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg, Germany
    Without Destination, Reykjavik Art Museum, Iceland
    Personal Tempest, Neue Galerie, Innsbruck, Austria
    He Disappeared into Complete Silence: Re-reading a single artwork by Louise Bourgeois, Museum de Hallen, Haarlem, The Netherlands
    Wide Angle: Photography and its influence on contemporary art – A Selection, Vanderbilt University Fine Arts Gallery, Nashville, US
    Unforgettable: Selections from the Emily Fisher Landau Collection, Fisher Landau Center for Art, Long Island City, US
    Hertie Querty, Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow, Scotland
    Vision is elastic. Thought is elastic, Murray Guy, New York, US

    2010
    I believe in Miracles. 10th Anniversary of the Lambert Collection, Collection Lambert, Avignon, France
    Compass in Hand: Selections from the Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection, Institut Valencia d’Art Modern, Valencia, Spain
    Haunted: Contemporary Photography/Video/Performance, Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao, Spain
    EXHIBITION EXHIBITION, Castello di Rivoli, Turin, Italy
    Thanks for being with us: Contemporary Art from the Douglas Nielsen Collection, Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, US
    ATLAS. How to carry the world on one’s back?, Museo Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain
    Languages and Experimentations. Young artists in a contemporary collection, Mart Rovereto Museo di Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto, Rovereto, Italy
    Contemporary Collecting: Selections from the Donna and Howard Stone Collection, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, US
    Habiter poétiquement le monde. Exposition inaugurale, Lille Métropole Musée d’Art Contemporain et d’Art Brut, Lille, France
    Hope! Une exposition d’art contemporain sur l’espoir, Palais des Arts et du Festival Dinard, Dinard, France
    10.000 Lives, Gwangju Biennale Hall, Gwangju Museum of Art, The Eighth Gwangju Biennale, Korea
    Not Cooperative, The Luckman Fine Art Complex, California State University, Los Angeles, US
    Presentation of the Collection. 20th and 21st Century, Folkwang Museum, Essen, Germany
    Collection: MOCA’s First Thirty Years, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, US
    Pictures by Women: A History of Modern Photography, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, US
    Che cosa sono le nuvole? Works from the Enea Righi Collection, Musei Bolzano, Bolzano, Italy
    THE PRIVATE MUSEUM, Galleria d’Arte Moderna, Bergamo, Italy
    Drawn / Taped / Burned: Abstraction on Paper, Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, US
    Unsettled Objects, Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow, Scotland

    2009
    Look at me. Faces and Gazes in Art 1969 – 2009, Museo Cantonale d’Arte, Lugano, Switzerland
    Continuous Present, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, US
    Retour de Rome. De la Villa Médicis à la Collection Lambert en Avignon, Collection Lambert, Avignon, France
    Holbein to Tillmans. Prominent Guests from the Kunstmuseum Basel, Schaulager, Basel, Switzerland
    Rencontres d’ Arles 2009, Grande Halle, Arles, France
    Espèces d’ Espaces (Species of Spaces), Yvon Lambert, New York, US
    Compass in Hand: Selections from The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection, MoMA Museum of Modern Art, New York, US
    Wall Rockets: Contemporary Artists and Ed Ruscha, Abright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, US
    Double Object, Thomas Dane Gallery, London, UK
    elles@centrepompidou, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
    Isabelle Huppert: Woman of many Faces, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China
    Manmade: Notions of Landscape from the Lannan Collection, New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fe, US
    Paired, Gold: Felix Gonzalez-Torres and Roni Horn, Guggenheim Museum, New York, US
    An die Natur III, Altana Kunstsammlung im Sinclair Haus, Bad Homburg, Germany

    2008
    Collection Selection, Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Basel, Switzerland
    The Sum of its Parts, Cheim & Read, New York, US
    Nina in Position, Artists Space, New York, US
    The Complexity of the Simple, L&M Arts, New York, US
    Always begins by Degrees, The Common Guild, Glasgow, Scotland
    True North, Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin, Germany
    Cose mai viste, Terme di Diocleziano, Rome, Italy
    Zeichnung als Prozess / Drawing as Process, Folkwang Museum, Essen, Germany
    The Grand Tour. Exhibition of the Collection Lambert en Avignon at the Villa Medici in Rome, Villa Medici, Rome, Italy
    Many Kinds of Nothing, Montserrat College of Art Gallery, Beverly, US
    An die Natur. ALTANA Kunstsammlung, Museum Frieder Burda, Baden-Baden, Germany
    Mental Drawings, Galleria Alessandra Bonomo, Rome, Italy
    Quiet Politics, Zwirner & Wirth, New York, US
    Academia. Qui es-tu?, Chapelle de l’Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris, France
    Pleinairism, i8 Gallery, Reykjavik, Iceland
    Elements and Unknowns, MoMA – The Museum of Modern Art, New York, US
    Wall Rockets: Contemporary Artists and Ed Ruscha, FLAG Art Foundation, New York, US
    Lines, Grids, Stains, Words, Museu de Serralves, Porto, Portugal; Museum Wiesbaden, Germany

    2007
    Water, The Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts, St. Louis, US
    Equal, That Is, To The Real Itself, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, US
    Im Fluss. Künstlerpublikationen mit Blick aufs Wasser, Neues Museum Weserburg, Bremen, Germany
    Grey Water, The Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australia
    Art for Yale: Acquisitions for a New Century, YUAG Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, US
    Richard Artschwager / Louise Bourgeois / Roni Horn / Raymond Pettibon, Xavier Hufkens, Brussels, Belgium
    Japan und der Westen. Die erfüllte Leere und der moderne Minimalismus, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Germany
    Lines, Grids, Stains, Words, MoMA – The Museum of Modern Art, New York, US
    From the Earth to the Moon, Castello di Rivoli, Turin, Italy
    Die Kunst zu Sammeln, Museum Kunstpalast, Dusseldorf, Germany
    Towards A New Ease – Set 4 from the Collection of the Fotomuseum Winterthur, Fotomuseum Winterthur, Winterthur, Switzerland
    Repeated Performances: Roni Horn and Ragnar Kjartansson, Hessel Museum of Art - Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, US
    Pure, Sean Kelly Gallerie, New York, US
    Paint it Blue, Neues Museum Weserburg Bremen, Bremen, Germany
    The Suspended Moment, Z33, Hasselt, Belgium
    The Guggenheim: Contemporary Art. Matthew Barney, Douglas Gordon, Anna Gaskell, Roni Horn, Inigo Manglano-Ovalle, u.a, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn, Germany
    Façade, Krannert Art Museum, Champaign, US
    J’embrasse pas, Collection Lambert, Avignon, France
    Works from Multiplex: Directions in Art, 1970 to Now, MoMA – The Museum of Modern Art, New York, US
    Sculpture, James Kelly Contemporary, Santa Fe, US
    The Shapes of Space, Guggenheim Museum, New York, US
    Everstill, La Huerta de San Vicente. Casa-Museo Federico Garcia Lorca, Granada, Spain

    2006
    Dedica- Vent’anni con Alfonso Artiaco, Pallazo delle Arti Napoli, Italy
    Galerie Patrick Seguin invites Hauser & Wirth, Galerie Patrick Seguin, Paris, France
    Wrestle, Hessel Museum of Art / CCS Galleries Bard College, Annandale-on Hudson, US
    Against the Grain: Contemporary Art from the Edward R. Broida Collection, MoMA – The Museum of Modern Art, New York, US
    Time Frame, P.S.1. Contemporary Art Center – MoMA, New York, US
    Helga de Alvear. Concepts for a Collection, Exhibition Centre of Centro Cultural de Belém, Brazil
    Medium Fotografie, Galerie Stampa, Basel, Switzerland
    Le Paradoxe du Comédien. Les Figures de l’Acteur, Collection Lambert. Musée d’Art Contemporain, Avignon, France
    O Momento Suspendido. Colección H&F, MARCO – Museo d’Arte Contemporànea, Vigo, Spain
    III Naturale, Museo di Fotografia Contemporanea, Cinisello Balsamo, Italy
    See into Liquid, Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver, US
    Photo Books Now, San Francisco Center for the Book, San Francisco, US
    Recent Drawings: Robert Gober, Roni Horn, Jasper Johns, Ellsworth Kelly, Brice Marden, Ken Price, Charles Ray, Terry Winters, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York, US
    Plane / Figure, Kunstmuseum Winterthur, Winterthur, Switzerland
    Artists for Chinati, Phillips de Pury & Company, New York, US
    Skin is a Language, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, US
    Responding to Kahn: A Sculptural Conversation, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, US

    2005
    Isabelle Huppert: La Femme aux Portraits, P.S.1. Contemporary Art Center – MoMA, New York, US
    Zoo Story, Fisher Landau Center for Art, Long Island City, US
    Looking at Words. The Formal Presence of Text in Modern and Contemporary Works on Paper, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York, US
    Coleccion Fundacion, Forum Caixa, Barcelona, Spain
    Over Sight, Hessel Museum of Art / CCS Galleries Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, US
    Theorema, Collection Lambert, Avignon, France
    Douglas Gordon’s The Vanity of Allegory, Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin, Germany
    Water, Water Everywhere…, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, US
    Landscape, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, US
    Drawing from the Modern 1975-2005, MoMA – The Museum of Modern Art, New York, US
    Le Tableau des Eléments, MAC’s-Musée des Arts Contemporains du Grand-Hornu, Grand-Hornu, Belgium
    Offwhite: Carte Grise à Geneviève Cadieux, Dazibao, Centre de photographies actuelles, Montréal, Canada
    Le Temps Suspendu, CRAC Alsace – Centre Rhénan d’Art Contemporain, Altkirch, France
    Cromosoma X, Galleria Sottopasso della Stua, Genova, Italy
    Taking In Water, Art Gallery & Museum. The Royal Royal Pump Rooms, Royal Leamington Spa, UK
    Through the Looking Glass, Lewis Glucksman Gallery, Cork, Ireland
    An Aside. Selected by Tacita Dean, Camden Arts Centre, London, UK; The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland; The Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea, UK
    Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Roni Horn, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York, US
    Ocean 11212-W, Galleria Raffaella Cortese, Milan, Italy
    Suspended Narratives, Lora Reynolds Gallery, Austin, US

    2004
    Reykjavik Arts Festival, Reykjavik, Iceland
    Für die Konstruktion des Unmöglichen, European Kunsthalle, Cologne, Germany
    L’Ombre du Temps, Centre National du Jeu de Paume, Paris, France
    Fotografie und Video: Bill Viola, Gary Hill, Roni Horn, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, Germany
    I am the Walrus, Cheim and Read, New York, US
    In Extremis, Les Abattoirs, Centre d’art Contemporain, Toulouse, France
    Cavebirds, Galleria Raffaella Cortese, Milan, Italy
    Soft Edge, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, US
    The Big Nothing, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, US
    Le Printemps de Settembre, Toulouse, France
    Vague II Hommages et Digressions, Musée Malraux, Le Havre, France
    Memoria y Paisaje. Memory and Landscape, La Casa Encendida, Madrid, Spain
    Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, US
    Singular Forms. Sometimes Repeated: Art from 1651 to the Present, Guggenheim Museum, New York, US
    A Fripon. Fripon et Demi, Collection Lambert en Avignon, Avignon, France
    Sand in der Vaseline. Künstlerbücher 1980 bis 2002, Neues Museum in Nürnberg, Germany
    Lei – Donne nelle Collezioni Italiane, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, Italy
    Beyond Tradition: Permanent Collection Photographs, San Jose Museum of Art,  San Jose, US
    Fresh: Works on Paper, James Kelly / Contemporary, Santa Fe, US
    Schriftbilder/Bilderschrift, Galerie von Bartha, Basel, Switzerland

    2003
    Sand in der Vaseline. Künstlerbücher 1980 bis 2002, Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt, Germany
    Game over, Grimm / Rosenfeld, Munich, Germany
    Stretch, The Power Plant, Toronto, Canada
    La Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy
    Capp Street Project: 20th Anniversary Exhibition, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, US
    Drawing Modern. Works from the Agnes Gund Collection, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, US
    Stacked, D’Amelio Terras, New York, US
     

Selected Awards

  • 2011
    Aspen Award for Art

    2001
    The Citibank Private Bank Photography Prize (Short-listed)

    1998
    Sculpture Award, Sculpture Center, New York, US
    Alpert Award in the Arts, Los Angeles, US

    1996
    Engelhard Foundation Artist Residency, Bequia, Iceland

    1990
    NEA Artist’s Fellowship, Washington D.C., US
    Guggenheim Fellowship, New York, US

    1988
    AVA 7, Awards in the Visual Arts, North Carolina, US
    1986
    NEA Artist’s Fellowship, Washington D.C., US 

    1984
    NEA Artist’s Fellowship, Washington D.C., US

    1983
    Humanities Development Grant, Colgate University, Hamilton, US

    1978
    Ford Foundation Grant, New Haven, US 
    Alice Kimball Travelling Fellowship, from Yale University, New Haven CT1990   
    Artist-in-Residence Grant, New York State Council on the Arts, New York, US

Works

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Selected Press

2021-02-19 The New York Times Style Magazine
2020-10-00 Harper's Bazaar
2018-06-00 문화+서울
2018-06-00 PUBLIC ART
2015-07-00 조선일보 Style
2015-07-00 Hauser&Wirth
2015-06-00 e-flux
2015-03-00 PUBLIC ART
2014-08-20 코리아중앙데일리
2014-07-08 미술시대
2014-07-00 Avenuel
2014-07-00 에스콰이어
2014-06-04 코리아중앙데일리
2014-06-00 월간미술
2014-06-00 Art in Culture
2014-06-00 MUINE
2014-05-31 코리아헤럴드
2014-05-27 Noblesse
2014-01-13 The Brooklyn Rail
Roni Horn explores death, rats and Emily Dickinson   pdf Wallpaper
Roni Horn Shares a Timely Record of Solitude   pdf The New York Times Style Magazine
당신은 날씨입니다   pdf Harper's Bazaar
Roni Horn's Autobiographical Landscapes   pdf ASIANA
모두 잠든 새벽에 그려나간 동그라미   pdf 매일경제
웰컴투코리아 로니 혼과 류이키 사카모토의 전시   pdf BAZAAR
“미술사에서 폄하됐지만, 드로잉은 심오”   pdf 한국일보
샤갈에 빠져볼까, 독일 산업디자인 맛볼까   pdf 한국경제
Roni Horn talks remote control in her upstate New York retreat   pdf Wallpaper
국제갤러리, 로니혼(Roni Horn) 개인전 개최   pdf 문화뉴스
개념의 아름다움 혹은 아름다운 개념미술   pdf 월간미술
동양적인 것과 서양적인 것   pdf 문화+서울
art blog   pdf PUBLIC ART
[전시영상톡]"바둑판 같은 그림 배열,혹시 미니멀리즘?" 로니혼 개인전 국제갤러리   pdf 아주경제
국제갤러리, 로니 혼(Roni Horn) 개인전 〈Remembered Words〉 개최   pdf 디자인 정글
로니 혼 개인전 '리멤버드 워즈'   pdf 연합뉴스
Review: Roni Horn and Tabaimo Share Billing with Van Gogh's Drawings in Arles   pdf BLOUIN ART INFO
Biennale di Venezia 2015   pdf 조선일보 Style
Roni Horn. Butterfly to Oblivion   pdf Hauser&Wirth
ARLES: RONI HORN ET TABAIMO POUR ACCOMPAGNER VAN GOGH   pdf La Provence
Adrian Searle encounters: Roni Horn's mysterious drawings that just won't leave you alone   pdf The Guardian
Agnes Martin, Albert Adams, Roni Horn: this week’s new exhibitions   pdf The Guardian
Van Gogh, Roni Horn, Tabaimo   pdf e-flux
Roni Horn’s ‘seductively perplexing’ work   pdf Financial Times
National Gallery of Art acquires significant works by contemporary artists   pdf The Washington Post
거장의 세대교체   pdf PUBLIC ART
Caitlin Davies on Roni Horn's From Still Water (The River Thames, for Example) 1999   pdf TATE ETC.
삼성미술관 리움 개관 10주년 기념전: 교감(交感)   pdf 미술신문
In Leeum reorganization, concepts clash to create harmony   pdf 코리아중앙데일리
로니 혼전   pdf 미술시대
You are the weather   pdf Avenuel
침묵과 의심이 필요한 순간   pdf BAZAAR
로니 혼, 기억은 다르게 적힌다   pdf 에스콰이어
그녀가 나를 보는가...내가 그녀를 보는가 로니 혼 개인전   pdf 서울경제
MUSEUMS & GALLERIES   pdf 코리아중앙데일리
작품이 말한다, 본 대로 느끼라고   pdf 경향신문
Roni Horn   pdf 월간미술
Roni Horn   pdf Art in Culture
표정으로 드러나는 내면의 변화들-로니 혼   pdf Magazine ART
EXHIBITION_모호한 심리풍경 로니 혼   pdf Neighbor
로니혼의 신작들   pdf MUINE
자연 속에 내재하는 끊임없는 흐름 <로니 혼 展>   pdf Scene Playbill
Calender-Exhibitions   pdf 코리아헤럴드
<로니 혼>전   pdf Noblesse
美 미술가 로니 혼 서울 개인전…얼굴 보고 날씨를 맞혀보세요   pdf 한국경제
로니 혼, 아주 별난 현대미술…‘당신은 날씨다’   pdf 뉴시스
<"당신은 날씨입니다"…로니 혼 개인전>   pdf 연합뉴스
자연 · 정체성 · 이원성을 탐색해온 로니 혼, 세번째 서울전   pdf 헤럴드 경제
RONI HORN with Jarrett Earnest   pdf The Brooklyn Rail