LAWRENCE WEINER

b. 1942, d. 2021 in The Bronx
Lived and worked in New York 

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2024

2023

Under the Sun, Amorepacific Museum of Art, Seoul, Republic of Korea

Within a Realm of Relative Form, Lisson Gallery, Beijing, China

In dialog with Lawrence Weiner, Galerie Hussenot, Paris, France

2022

ALL THE STARS IN THE SKY HAVE THE SAME FACE, Qatar Museum, Doha, Q

STARS DONT STAND STILL IN THE SKY FOR ANYBODY, Regen Projects, USA

Lawrence Weiner, Dia: Beacon, New York, NY, USA
Lawrence Weiner: THIS AS THAT BE THAT AS IT MAY, Lisson Gallery, East Hampton, USA

OUT OF SIGHT, Albertina Modern, Vienna, Austria

OUT OF SIGHT, "Messeplatz", Art Basel, Switzerland

The Language of Lawrence Weiner, Arsenale Institute for Politics of Representation, Venice, Italy
APROPOS LAWRENCE WEINER, Marian Goodman, New York, USA

2021
Lawrence Weiner, Galerie Thomas Schulte, Berlin, Germany
CLOSE TO A RAINBOW, Holstebro Kunstmuseum, Denmark

2020

Lawrence Weiner: South of the Border, Fundación Casa Wabi, Puerto Escondido, Oaxaca, Mexico

2019

Brought down to just below, Kode Kunstmuseer, Bergen, Norway

Attached by Ebb and Flow, Museo Nivola, Orani, Italy

Ach Bartleby! Ach Menschheit!, Galerie Hubert Winter, Vienna, Austria

Long Far Away, Osl Contemporary, Oslo, Norway

Often Adequate Enough, Taro Nasu, Tokyo, Japan

Swept Across, Galeria Horrach Moya, Palma de Mallorca, Spain

2018

ARTIST ROOMS: Lawrence Weiner, McManus: Dundee's Art Gallery and Museum, Tayside, UK

Otwock Sezon 7: Lawrence Weiner, Otwock Studio Projects, Otwock, Poland

In Tandem With The Sands, Dvir Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel

The Bay Of Naples, Galleria Alfonso Artiaco, Naples, Italy

Lawrence Weiner: FOLDED WAVES / VAGUES PLIÉES. Galerie Marian Goodman and Librarie Marian Goodman, Paris, France 

2017

FOREVER & A DAY (SIEMPRE Y UN DIA), Museo de la Ciudad de Mexico, Zocalo, Nezah Ualcoyotl, Mueo Tamayo, Marquesina Cervantes Sa Avedra, Mexico City, Mexico

Lawrence Weiner: Inherent Innate Tension, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, USA

Lawrence Weiner: OUT OF SIGHT, Perez Art Museum, Miami, USA

Lawrence Weiner: Inherent, Innate Tension, Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, USA

2016

Used As Other Than Itself, Galleria Alfonso Artiaco, Naples, Italy

Of Its Own Full Circle, Austrian Frederick and Lilian Kiesler Private Foundation, Vienna, Austria

Lawrence Weiner, Kunsthaus Bregenz, Bregenz, Austria

Lawrence Weiner: MADE TO BE, Regen Projects, Los Angeles, USA

Whisked Away From, OSL Contemporary Gallery, Oslo, Norway

Made Done With A Pinch Of Salt, Galerie Hubert Winter, Vienna, Austria

Cadmium & Mud & Titanium & Ferrous Oxide & So On..., Dia: Beacon, USA

After Any Given Time, Tichy Ocean Foundation, Prague, Czech Republic

2015

Within a Realm of Distance, Blenheim Palace, Oxfordshire, UK

Galleri Susanne Ottesen (with Per Kirkeby), Copenhagen, Denmark

Within Grasp, Mai 36 Galerie, Zürich, Switzerland

Rose F. Kennedy Greenway Conservancy, Boston & MIT List Center, Cambridge, USA

Becalmed Within the Embrace of a Whirlwind, Galería Horrach Moya, Palma de Mallorca, Spain

2014

Along the Shore, i8 Gallery, Reykjavík, Iceland

Some Moved Pictures of Lawrence Weiner, Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow, UK

All in Due Course, South London Gallery, UK

Text Festival, Bury Sculpture Center, Lancashire, UK

Straight Down to Below: Lawrence Weiner, Artist Rooms on Tour, Woodhorn Museum, UK

Written on the Wind: Drawings by Lawrence Weiner, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands

Crisscrossed, Cristina Guerra Contemporary Art, Lisbon, Portugal

2013

Lawrence Weiner: Written on the Wind, Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona (MACBA), Barcelona, Spain

Lawrence Weiner: The Grace Of A Gesture, Palazzo Bembo, Venice, Italy

Lawrence Weiner: On Top of the Wind, Dvir Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel

Written on the Wind: Drawings by Lawrence Weiner, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands

A Handful of Chalk, Yvon Lambert, Paris, France

Forever & A Day, ArtAids Foundation, Barcelona, Spain

Lawrence Weiner, Works 1969-73, Villa e Collezione Panza, Varese, Italy

2012

Catch as Catch Can, with Jene Highstein, Elizabeth Murray Art Wall Bowery Arts + Science, New York, USA

Just Before, Galeria Alfonso Artiaco, Naples, Italy

Ever So Much, Base, Progetti per L’Arte, Florence, Italy

Lawrence Weiner: No Tree No Branch, The Jewish Museum, New York, USA

The Drawing Center Gala 2012: Honoring Lawrence Weiner, Tribeca Rooftop, New York, USA

Around & Around High & Low, Regen Projects, Los Angeles, USA

Concentricity Per Se, Blain|Southern, Berlin, Germany

Impeded Time, Galerie Hubert Winter, Vienna, Austria

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2024

Color is the First Revelation of the World, Orange County Museum of Art, Costa Mesa, California

Almost, But Definitely!, Omstand, Arnhem

Inaugural Exhibition, Buffalo AKG Art Museum, Buffalo

Konrad Fischer Galerie, Düsseldorf

2023

Birgir Andrésson & Lawrence Weiner, i8 Gallery, Reykjavík

2022

STARS DON´T STAND STILL IN THE SKY: A Tribute to Lawrence Weiner, Regen Projects, Los Angeles, USA

Gogo: Kirsten Ortwed, Rosemarie Trockel, Lawrence Weiner, Den Frie, Copenhagen, Denmark

Sea Lava Circle: Works from the Pétur Arason and Ragna Róbertsdóttir Collection, i8 Gallery, Reykjavik, Iceland 
Pavilions, Lisson Gallery, New York, USA
Out of Sight, Art Basel, Basel, Switzerland 

2021

2019 

2017

Field Guide, Remai Museum, Saskatoon, Canada

Everything At Once, Lisson Gallery, London, UK

A New Spirit in Booking, Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, Netherlands

2016

20 Bienal de Arte Paiz, Historic Center, Guatemala City, Guatemala

With a Touch of Pink – With a Bit of Violet – With a Hint of Green: Dorothee Fischer in Memoriam, Konrad Fischer Galerie, Düsselforf, Germany

Electronic Superhighway, Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK

Encounters, Art Basel Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China

Only Lovers, Le Couer, Paris, France

This One is Smaller than This One, Postmasters, New York City, USA

Group Show | 12 Solos, Blain Southern, Berlin, Germany

In Place Of, Miguel Abreu Gallery, New York, USA

Drawing Dialogues: The Sol LeWitt Collection, The Drawing Center, New York, USA

This One is Smaller than This One, Postmasters, New York, USA

Carl Andre, Luciano Fabro, Mario Merz, Thomas Schutte, Niele Toroni, Lawrence Weiner, Gilberto Zorio, Gelrie Pietro Sparta, Chagny, France

Forty, PS1, Long Island City, USA

Piston Head II: Artists Engage the Automobile, VENUS, Los Angeles, California, USA

Au Coeur, Collection Labert En Avignon, Avignon, France

Sharing Models: Manhattanisms, Storefront for Art and Architecture, New York, USA

I still believe in miracle, Inverleith House, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK

Toujours – The Museum as Witness: A Selection of Works from the Collection of the CAPC Museum of Contemporary Art Bordeaux, The Museum of Contemporary Art Monterrey, Monterrey, Mexico

Julie Beaufils, John Cage, Lydia Gifford, Jan Groover, Yvonne Rainer, GL Rogier, Ariane Schick, Josh Tonsfeldt, Lawrence Weiner, Masha, Super Dakota, Brussels, Belgium

XEROX: La Société, La Société Bruxelloise d’Electricité, Brussels, Belgium

Kino International Film Series, ABC: Art Berlin Contemporary, Berlin, Germany

We are the centre, CSS Bard Hessel Museum, Annandale-on-Hudson, USA

Selected Text-Based Works From The Collection of Pétur Arason and Ragna Róbertsdóttir, The National Gallery of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland

Take Me (I’m Yours), The Jewish Museum, New York, USA

The Collector’s Eye, Musée d’Art Moderne et Contemporain de Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France

The Plaza, Mostn, Llandudno, Wales, UK

Wold und Kristall – Die Sammlung Dorothee und Konrad Fischer, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Dusseldörf, Germany

Time Extended: 1964-1978, Herbert Foundation, Gent, Belgium

In the Library: Selections from the Dwan Gallery and Virginia Dwan Archives, National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., USA

Developent, Okayama Art Summit, Okayama, Japan

The Storyteller, Art Projects Ibiza, Ibiza, Spain

An Imagined Museum: Works from the Centre Pompidou, Tate and MMK Collections, Museum für Moderne Kunst Frankfurt am Main, Germany

2015

I Remember the Armenian Genocide, Galerie Sobering, Paris, France

Too early, too late: Middle East and Modernity, Pinoteca Nazionale di Bologna, Bologna, Italy

A man walks into a bar..., me Collectors Room, Berlin, Germany

The Sea, Mu.ZEE, Oostende, Belgium

Driven Crusaders: Tours and Detours Around Detroit, FRAC Nord Pas de Calais, Dunkirk, France

Flying a Flag, MuMo Mobile Museum, France

Tele-Gen, Kunst Museum Bonn, Bonn, Germany

Capri, The Island of Art, Piazetta Bell Tower, Capri, Italy

Black Sun, Fondation Beyeler, Basel, Switzerland

Museum of Stones, Noguchi Museum, New York City, USA

Picassomania, Grand Palais, Paris, France

Artists and Architecture, Variable Dimensions, Pavillon de L’Arsenal, Paris, France

The Wall in Our Heads: American Artists and the Berlin Wall, Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery, Haverford College, Haverford, USA

Looking at Tomorrow: Light and Language from the Panza Collection, 1967- 1990, Albright-Knox Gallery, Buffalo, USA

Wish You Were Here?, Hestercombe Gallery, Somerset, UK

Rocks, Stones, and Dust, University of Toronto Art Centre, Toronto, Canada

The Storyteller, Art Projects Ibiza, Ibiza, Spain

Many Things Brought from One Climate to Another..., Art Gallery of Ontario, Ontario, Canada

An Imagined Museum: Works from the Centre Pompidou, Tate and MMK Collections, Tate Liverpool, Liverpool, UK

SiO2 – The Reason of Fragility: Contemporary Artists Facing Glass, National Gallery of Art, Tirana, Albania

Thirty Shades of White, Praz-Delavallade, Paris, France

This Thing Called Art, Iraq Museum of Antiquity, Baghdad, Iraq

Gift: An Exquisite Exhibition, Blue Star Contemporary Art Museum, San Antonio, USA

Seth Siegelaub: Beyond Art Conceptual Art, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam

2014

A-Z. The Marzona Collection, The Hamburger Bahnof-Museum für Gegenwart Berlin, Germany

At the Hub of Things: New Views of the Collection, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C., USA

Trocadero, Nesrin Esirtgen Collection Art Space, Istanbul, Turkey

Propaganda for Reality, Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen, Germany

Art by Telephone Recalled, La Panacee, Montpellier, France

Do It, Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, Salt Lake City, USA

I Look to You and I see Nothing, New Art Spaces, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates

Musée à Ventre pour Cause de Faillite, Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna, Austria

On the Road, Santiago de Compostela, Spain

Conceptual Art, Galerie Ronny van de Velde, Knokke-le-Zoute, Belgium

I’m Isa Genzken, The Only Female Fool, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria

Narcissus, The Image in the Pool, Fondation François Schneider, Wattwiller, France

Gorgeous USA, Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, USA

On the Road, Palacio de Gelmírez, Santiago de Compostela, Spain

Here and Elsewhere, New Museum, New York, USA

An Infinite Conversation, Museu Coleção Beraro, Lisbon, Portugal

Athena-Syntax, Royal Atheneum, Antwerp, Belgium

The Art of Our Time: Masterpieces from the Guggenheim Collections, Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao, Spain

Parkfair Terminartor, Ehrenhalle, Vienna, Austria

Fin de Siecle, Swiss Institute, New York, USA

Sufficient Force: Minimal Art, Conceptual Art, and Land Art, Kroller-Muller Museum, Otterlo, Netherlands

L’avenir /Looking Forward, Montreal Biennale, Musée d’art Contemporain de Montreal, Montreal, Canada

Artist Rooms, Woodhorn Museum, Ashington, Northumbria, UK

The Space Where I Am, Blain Southern, London, UK

Slow Learner, Timothy Taylor Gallery, London, UK

VAFA International Video Art Festival, AFA Macau, Macao, China

Crosswords 2, Galerie Jordan Seydoux, Berlin, Germany

Everyone Has a Name, Dvir Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel

Blue Times, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria

Soleil Politique, Museion, Bolzano, Italy

Unicorn Is More Than Nation, Knoll Gallery, Budapest, Hungary

Alchemy, Nest, The Hague, Netherlands

Kunst/Geschicten, Museum der Moderne, Salzburg, Austria

Friendly Takeover, Marta Herford, Herford, Germany

On the Blue Shore of Silence, Fitzroy Gallery, New York, USA

Apparent Forms, The Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston, USA

Bringing the World into the World, Queens Museum of Art, New York, USA

Love Story – The Anne & Wolfgang Titze Collection, Belvedere, Vienna, Austria

Genius Loci – Spirit of Place, Palazzo Cavalli Franchetti, Venice, Italy

ON DRAWING II, Cristina Guerra Contemporary Art, Lisbon, Portugal

Mind & Matter, Le Box, Fonds M-ARCO, Marseille, France

The Disappearance of the Fireflies, Collection Lambert, Avignon, France

Treasure of Lima: A Buried Exhibition, T-B A21, Vienna, Austria

Object Matter, Galleri Susanne Ottesen, Copenhagen, Denmark

Drowning and swallowing this text, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles, USA

Art Protects, Yvon Lambert, Paris, France

1984?, Mai 36 Galerie, Zurich, Switzerland

2013

Elemental, Boden Arts Center, Boden, Sweden

The unanswered question, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin, Germany

Works on Paper, i8 Gallery, Reykjavik, Iceland

Auf Zeit – Wandbilder Bildwaende, Kunsthalle Bielefeld; Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, Germany

Emscher Kunst, Essen, Germany

The Collection, Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Gent, The Netherlands

In Deed, Contemporary Arts Center, Vilnius, Lithuania

When Attitudes become Form: Bern 1969 / Venezia 2013, Fondazione Prada, Venice, Italy

The World turned inside out, Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam, Netherlands

Joan Jonas – Lawrence Weiner, Yvon Lambert, Paris, France

Continental Drift I & II -  Konzeptkunst in Kanada, die 1960er und 70er Jahre, Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe, Germany

Beyond the Corrupted Eye, Museum of Contemporary Art, Krakow, Poland

Something turned into a Thing, Magasin 3, Stockholm Konsthall, Stockholm, Sweden

Open Work in Latin America, New York and Beyond: Conceptualism reconsidered 1967-78, Hunter College, New York, USA

A World of wild Doubt, Kunstverein Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany

Station to Station, A Nomadic Happening, USA

Art=Text=Art: Works by Contemporary Artists from the Collection of Sally and Wynn Kramarsky, Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, New Brunswick, New Jersey

Poesie der Reduktion – Minimal, Concept, Land Art, Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna, Austria

2012

To the Moon via the Beach, Arles Amphitheatre, Arles, France Documenta 13, Kassel, Germany

Ecstatics Alphabets, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA

Desire Lines, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne, Australia

Oriental Mirages, Pomegranates and Prickly Pears, Collection Lambert, Avignon, France

Postcards from the Edge 14, Chelm & Read, New York, USA

Out of the Blue, Bortolami, New York, USA

A House of Leaves: Second Movement, David Roberts Art Foundation, London, UK

The Best of Everything, Electric Works, San Francisco, USA

First Avenue: One Way Street, Museu Serralves, Porto, Portugal

Language Games, Centro de Artes Visuales, Gelga de Alvear, Caceres, Spain

Something Turned into a Thing, Magasin 3, Stockholm, Sweden

Drop Me a Line, LG London, London, UK

Beyond Corrupted Eye: Akumulatory 2 Gallery, 1972–1990, National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, Poland

Materialising “Six Years”: Lucy R. Lippard and the Emergence of Conceptual Art, Brooklyn Musuem of Art, New York, USA

These Socks Are Not White, Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, Netherlands

Repeat to Fade, Galeria Mendes Wood, São Paulo, Brazil

An Hour of Light, Dvir Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel

When Art and Book Unbind Each Other, Centro de Arte Moderna, Lisbon, Portugal

The Sound of Fury, Galerie Hubert Winter, Vienna, Austria

Project Inc. Revisited, Churner and Churner, New York, USA

Painting in Space, Luhring Augustine Gallery, New York, USA

Alentour, Galerie Micheline Szwajcer, Antwerp, Belgium

Explosion! Painting in Action, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden

We Love You, Limoncello, London, UK

Track, Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Ghent, Belgium

ReFocus: Art of the 1970s, Museum of Contemporary Art, Jacksonville, USA

Through the Looking Glass, me Collectors Room, Berlin, Germany

Turtle Salon, Gray Area Gallery, Brighton, UK

Editions!, Grieder Contemporary, Zurich, Switzerland

The Artists’ Postcard Show, Spike Island, Bristol, UK

Traffic: Conceptual Art in Canada 1965–1980, Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery, Montreal, Canada

The Poster Show, Galerie Carlier | Gebauer, Berlin, Germany

Guggenheim Collection: The American Avant-Garde, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome, Italy

Vidéo Vintage 1963-1983, Centre Pompidou, Galerie du Musée, Paris, France

Ends of the Earth: Land Art to 1974, MOCA, Los Angeles, USA; Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany

Grid: Works on Paper from the 1960’s, Leo Castelli, New York, USA

PERMANENT INSTALLATIONS/PUBLIC PROJECTS

2022

SMASHED TO PIECES (IN THE STILL OF THE NIGHT), University of Applied Arts Vienna, Austria 

2021

AT A DISTANCE TO THE FOREGROUND, South London Gallery, London (permanent installation)

2020

ALL THE STARS IN THE SKY HAVE THE SAME FACE, The Jewish Museum, New York, USA

2019

BROUGHT DOWN TO JUST BELOW, Kode Kunstmuseer, Bergen, Norway

WITHIN A REALM OF RELATIVE FORM, Sculpture in The City, Leadenhall Building, London Hamburg University, Art History Department, Hamburg, Germany

OUT OF SITE, Public installation at the LongHouse Reserve, East Hampton, New York, USA

2018

THE STARS AT NIGHT ARE BIG AND BRIGHT,Public Installation, The Billboard Creative, Los Angeles, US Public Installation, Visual Art Commissions, New York City Center, USA

OUT OF SITE, Public installation at the Maggie Daley Park, Chicago, Illinois Public installation, Play Kortrijk - City Circuit for Contemporary Art, Kortrijk, Belgium

2010

Public installation, Basel Art Fair, Basel, Switzerland Dedication of permanent public work at the Denver Art Museum, Colorado, USA