Overview

Roni Horn (b. 1955, USA) lives and works in New York.  She graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1975. In 1978, Horn graduated with a masters in sculpture from Yale University.  Her oeuvre focuses on conceptually oriented photography, sculpture, books and drawing.  Since 1975, Horn has traveled extensively in the more remote landscapes of Iceland – these solitary experiences have long been important influences in her life and work.  Literature and Horn’s prodigious reading have had a similarly profound impact on her work across various media.  The sculpture is often paired or doubled, as are the drawings and photographs.

 

Horn’s work is included in institutional collections worldwide, including the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, Denmark; the Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul; the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; Foundation Jumex, Mexico City; the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, California; and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, among many others. 

 

Recent solo exhibitions include: Tate Modern, London; the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Centre Pompidou, Paris; Kunsthaus Bregenz, Austria; Kunsthalle Hamburg, Germany; Kunsthalle Basel, Switzerland; Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona; De Pont Foundation, Tilburg; Fondation Beyeler, Riehen, Switzerland; Glenstone Museum, Potomac, MD; Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich; The Drawing Institute at The Menil Collection, Houston, TX; the Pola Museum of Art, Hakone, Japan; Bourse de Commerce-Pinault Collection, Paris; Winsing Arts Foundation, Taipei; Centro Botín, Santander; He Art Museum, Guangdong, China; Museum Ludwig, Cologne; and the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, Denmark.  

Works
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Biography

b. 1955 in New York, USA

Lives and works in New York and Reykjavik

 

EDUCATION

 

1976 – 1978

MFA at the Yale University of New Haven CT, USA

 

1972 – 1975

BFA with Honors at the Rhode Island School of Design in Providence RI, USA

 

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

 

2024

Roni Horn, Hauser & Wirth, Menorca

The Detour of Identity, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk

Give Me  Paradox or Give Me Death, Museum Ludwig, Cologne

 

2023 

An Elusive Red Figure..., Hauser & Wirth, Zurich

Roni Horn: A dream dreamt, in a dreaming world is not really a dream... but a dream not dreamt is, He Art Museum, Foshan, Guangdong

I am paralyzed with hope, Centro Botín, Santander

Drawings, Xavieer Hufkens St-Georges, Brussels

 

2022

Roni Horn. Bird, Taka Ishii Gallery (complex665), Tokyo

Felix Gonzalez Tores / Roni Horn, Bource de Commerce, Paris

 

2021

Roni Horn: When You See Your Reflection in Water, Do You Recognize the Water in You?, Pola Art Museum, Hakone
Air Burial, (permanent installation), Hakone
Wits’ End Mash, Peder Lund, Oslo
A Rat Surrendered Here, Château La Coste, Le Puy-Sainte-Réparade

Roni Horn - You are the Weather (Books, Drawings, Photographs), Kunsthaus Göttingen, Göttingen

Gold Field, installation at The Menil Collection, Houston

Roni Horn, Recent Works, Hauser & Wirth, New York
Untitled, (permanent installation), Havøysund

 

2020

Roni Horn, i8 Gallery, Reykjavik

Roni Horn. You are the Weather, Fondation Beyeler, Riehen
Roni Horn, The University Museum of Contemporary Art at UMass Amherst, Amherst

 

2019 

Air Burial(permanent installation), Ekebergparken Park, Oslo

Roni Horn, Peder Lund, Oslo

When I Breathe, I Draw, Part I, The Menil Collection, Houston

When I Breathe, I Draw, Part II, The Menil Collection, Houston

 

 

2018 

Roni Horn, Hauser & Wirth, Hong Kong

Roni Horn, Kurimanzutto, Mexico City

Roni Horn. PI, Pinakothek der Moderne Kunst, Munich
Wits’ End Sampler | Recent Drawings, Hauser & Wirth, Zurich
Remembered Words, Kukje Gallery, Seoul

 

2017
Roni Horn, Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas
Roni Horn, Hauser & Wirth, New York
Roni Horn, Glenstone, Potomac

Air Burial, (permanent installation), Cairngorm National Park in Scotland, Cairgorms

 

2016
Roni Horn: When I Breathe, I Draw, The Menil Collection, Houston

The Selected Gifts, Fondation Beyeler, Riehen/Basel
de Pont Museum, Tilburg

 

2015
Butterfly to Oblivion, Fondation Vincent van Gogh, Arles
Butterfly Doubt, Hauser & Wirth, London
Galleria Raffaella Cortese, Milan

 

2014

Water Teller, Peder Lund Gallery, Oslo

Drawings, Vigeland Museum, Oslo

Everything was sleeping as if the universe were a mistake, Caixa Forum, Madrid

Everything was sleeping as if the universe were a mistake, Fundació Juan Miró, Barcelona

Kukje Gallery, Seoul

 

2013

Portrait of an Image, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt am Main

Everything was sleeping as if the universe were a mistake, Hauser & Wirth, New York

Hauser & Wirth, Zürich

 

2012

Sammlung Goetz, Munich

Mirosław Bałka e Roni Horn, Galleria Raffaella Cortese, Milan

Selected Drawings 1984 – 2012, Xavier Hufkens, Brussels; Hauser & Wirth, Zurich

 

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

 

2024

In the House of the Trembling Eye: an exhibition staged by Allison Katz, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen

FuturePast, Ísafjörður Art Museum, Ísafjörður

The Swimmer, The FLAG Art Foundation, New York

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

Shanshui: Echoes and Signals, M+, Hong Kong

Turner’s Sublime Legacy, Grimaldi Forum, Monaco

Sky Gazing, ARoS Aarhus Art Museum, Aarhus

 

2023 

Collection Special Exhibition, HO-AM Art Museum, Yonigin

This Is Me, This Is You. The Eva Felten Photography Collection, Museum Brandhorst, Munich

Dialektik der Präsenz Eine Ausstellung von Hans Dieter Huber, Kunststiftung DZ BANK, Frankfurt

Kafka: 1924, Museum Villa Stuck, Munich

Counter-Flows, Batalha Centro de Cinema, Porto

Everything Gets Lighter, Museo Jumex, Mexico City

The Mind's Eye: Images of Nature from Claude Monet to Otobong Nkanga, Fondation Beyeler, Riehen

Louise Bourgeois. Imaginary Conversations, The National Museum, Oslo

Good Object / Bad Object, Ackland Art Museum, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Notions of Time, Kunsthaus Zürich, Zurich

River of Rebirth, Z33, Hasselt

 

2022

VIERMAVIER / FOURTIMESFOUR, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg

"making being here enough" - place and self, KOLUMBA Kunstmuseum des Erzbistum Köln, Cologne

¡Mírame!: Retratos y otras ficciones en la Colección «la Caixa» de Arte Contemporáneo, Naves de Gamazo, Santander

Sea Lava Circle: Works from the Pétur Arason and Ragna Róbertsdóttir Collection, i8 Gallery, Reykjavik 
Manifesta 14, Prishtina
Phraseology
, The Bass Museum, Miami Beach
A Decade of Acquisitions of Works on Paper - Part II, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles

Seventy  Years of The Second Sex - A Conversation between Works and Words, Hauser & Wirth, Zurich
Bringing to Light, Towner Eastbourne, Eastbourne
Girls, Girls, Girls
Lismore Castle Arts, Co. Waterford

Chromophilia, Hauser & Wirth, Zurich

A Century of the Artist's Studio: 1920 - 2020, Whitechappel Gallery, London

Following Water, Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Bielefeld

The Double: Identity and Difference in Art Since 1900, National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.

 

2021

On the Basis of Art. 150 Years of Women at Yale, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven
To Moscow! To Moscow! To Moscow!,
GES- 2, V-A-C Foundation, Moscow

Dependent Objects, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
View From Here: Recent Acquisitions, LACMA Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles

 

2020

Crossing Borders. Collecting for the Future, Kupferstich-Kabinett, Dresden
To Form a More Perfect Union, Hauser & Wirth, New York
Art for Animals. A Change in Perspective for Human Beings, Kunst-und Kulturstiftung Opelvillen Rüsselsheim, Rüsselsheim am Main
(In)finite Resources, Städtische Galerie Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe
Artists for New York, Hauser & Wirth, New York
My Generation: The Jablonka Collection, Albertina Museum, Vienna, Austria
Silent Vision, Fondation Beyeler, Basel

WinterreiseXavier Hufkens,  Brussels

 

2019 

Once. Again, J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles

One hundred drawings, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York

The Shape of Time. Highlights of the Centre Pompidou Collection, Vol. 1, West Bund Museum, Shanghai

Danh Vo. Untitled, The South London Gallery, London

Luogo e SegniPalazzo Grassi, Punta della Dogana, Venice

Collection Ensemble, University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor

Joint is Out of TimeGalleria Nazionle d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Rome 

 

2018 

LAND_SCOPE.  Photographic Works from Roni Horn to Thomas Ruff, Müncher Stadtmuseum, Munich

Could be (an Arrow)Museo Jumex, Mexico City

25 Years! Shared Histories, Shared Stories, Fotomuseum Winterthur, Winterthur 

Space ShiftersHayward Gallery, Southbank Centre, London 

Tables, Carpets & Dead Flowers, Hauser & Wirth, Zürich

Other Hats - Icelandic PrintmakingThe National Gallery of Iceland, Reykjavik

Dancing With MyselfPalazzo Grassi – Punta della Dogana, Venice

Picasso-Gorky-Warhol. Sculpture and Works on Paper. Hubert Looser Collection, Kunsthalle Krems, Krems an der Donau

That Obscure Object of Desire, Fortes D’Aloia & Gabriel, Sao Paulo / Rio de Janeiro

Exchanges: Recent Additions to the CollectionThe Whitworth Art Gallery, The University of Manchester, Manchester

I Still Believe In Miracles - Works from Selvaag ArtAstrup Fearnley Museet, Oslo

Tacita Dean: STILL LIFEThe National Gallery, London

Selves and Others. Gifts to the Collection from Carla Emil and Rich SilversteinSFMoMA, San Francisco

One Day at a Time: Manny Farber and Termite ArtMOCA – Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles

The Land We Live In - The Land We Left BehindHauser & Wirth, Somerset

Multiply. Identify. Her, International Center of Photography, New York

 

2017 

7 X SPACE X TIME, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk

Look at me! Portraits and Other Fictions from "la Caixa" Contemporary Art Collection, Pera Museum, Istanbul

Restless Gestures. Works from the Hubert Looser Collection, Nasjonalmuseet, Oslo

J’aime AvignonCollection Lambert, Avignon

AnimalsCharles Riva Project, Brussels

ReView, De Pont at 25, De Pont Museum, Tilburg

Ex Situ. Samples of LifeformsCopenhagen Contemporary, Copenhage

SerialitiesHauser & Wirth, New York

Proof of Life / Lebenszeichen, Weserburg, Bremen
The Photographic – Part IS.M.A.K., Ghent
Calder to Kelly: The American CollectionKunstmuseum Winterthur, Winterthur,

Panza di Biumo Collection. The Matter of FormMuseo d’Arte Moderna e ContemporaneaTrento e Rovereto 
Behind the Screen – An Art Tribute to Isabelle HuppertMichael Fuchs Galerie, Berlin
Artist’s Books: The CollectionHamburger KunsthalleHamburg
Gray MattersWexner Center for the Arts, Columbus
Other Hats: Icelandic Printmaking, International Print Center New York, New York

 

2016
On Paper: Finding Form, Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore
House of Commons, Portikus, Frankfurt
SPLIT. Mirror. Light. Reflection, Schauwerk Sindelfingen, Sindelfingen, Germany
Animality, Marian Goodman Gallery, London, England 
First Light: A Decade of Collecting at the ICA, The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston MA
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, England
Kingdom – Flora, Fauna, Fable, Reykjavík Art Museum, Reykjavik, Iceland
Nature Based, Kröller-Müller Museum,Otterlo, 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 CA
Galerie Hussenot, Paris, France
Invisible Adversaries, CCS Bard Hessel Museum, Annandale-on-Hudson NY
Don’t Look Back: The 1990s at MOCA, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles CA

 

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

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

 

2014

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

 

2013

Macho Man, Tell It To My Heart: Collected by Julie Ault, Artists Space, New York, 

Elemental, Boden Art Center, Boden
Colección Helga de Alvear. El Arte del Presente, Centro Cibeles de Cultura y Ciudadani, Madrid

93, 20th anniversary exhibition, Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea, Santiago de Compostela

Personal, political, mysterious, FLAG Art Foundation, New York

Pro Choice, Fri Art. Centre d’Art de Fribourg / Kunsthalle Freiburg, Freiburg

The Distaff Side, The Granary, Sharon, Connecticut

15 Years of the Gallery of Contemporary Art, Hamburger Kunsthalle / Gallery of Contemporary Art, Hamburg
Elemental, Havremagasinet – Boden Art Center, Boden

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

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

Prima Materia, Punta della Dogana / Francois Pinault Foundation, Venice

15 Years of the Gallery of Contemporary Art, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg

Paisaje 1969 – 2013, Museo del Palacio de Bellas Artes, Mexico City

 

2012

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

 

AWARDS AND GRANTS

 

2013

The Joan Miró Prize

 

2011

Aspen Award for Art

 

2001

The Citibank Private Bank Photography Prize (Short-listed)

 

1998

Sculpture Award, Sculpture Center, New York, USA

Alpert Award in the Arts, Los Angeles, USA

 

1996

Engelhard Foundation Artist Residency, Bequia, Iceland

 

1990

NEA Artist’s Fellowship, Washington DC, USA

Guggenheim Fellowship, New York, USA

 

1988

AVA 7, Awards in the Visual Arts, North Carolina, USA

 

1986

NEA Artist’s Fellowship, Washington DC, USA

 

1984

NEA Artist’s Fellowship, Washington DC, USA

 

1983

Humanities Development Grant, Colgate University, Hamilton NY, USA

 

1978

Ford Foundation Grant, New Haven CT, USA

Alice Kimball Travelling Fellowship, from Yale University, New Haven CT, USA