Louise Bourgeois

Louise Joséphine Bourgeois (; 25 December 191131 May 2010) o daa nyɛla nuuni tuunbaŋda ŋun daa nyɛ French-American. O nyɛla ŋun daa mɛri binyɛra ka daa lahi peentira. 

Piligu biɛhigu

Bourgeois nyɛla bɛ ni daa dɔɣi so 25 December 1911, Paris, France.  O daa nyɛla sunsuuni bia bihi ata ni ka o laamba nyɛ Joséphine Fauriaux mini Louis Bourgeois.

Selected works

 Bibliography 
1982
1994
1994
1996
1998
2000
2001
2001
2008
2011
2011
2012
2015

Documentary
1987
2008

Exhibitions
1947Persistent Antagonism at San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco.
1949Untitled at Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago.
1967Untitled at National Academy of Design, New York City.
1972Number Seventy-Two at Storm King Art Center, Mountainville, New York.
1982Louise Bourgeois, at the Museum of Modern Art, New York City.
1982Eyes, marble sculpture, at Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City.
1984Nature Study: Eyes at Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York.
1987Louise Bourgeois: Sculpture 1947–1955 at Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, California.
1992Sainte Sebastienne at Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas.
1993Louise Bourgeois: Recent Work at U.S. Pavilion, 45th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy.
1993Helping Hands in permanent display at Chicago Women's Park & Gardens as of 2011, Chicago.chicagowomenspark.com Public art
1994The Prints of Louise Bourgeois at the Museum of Modern Art, New York City.
1994The Nest at San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco.
1994Louise Bourgeois: The Locus of Memory, Works 1982–1993 at the Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, and the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
1995Louise Bourgeois: The Locus of Memory, Works 1982–1993 at Galerie Rudolfinum, Prague.
1997Maman at Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City.
1999Maman at Guggenheim Museum Bilbao.
1999Granite eyeball benches and 25' bronze water fountain, at Agnes R. Katz Plaza, Pittsburgh. Sculptures are currently on permanent display.
2000Fallen Woman at , Verona.
2007Maman at Tate Modern, London.
2008Louise Bourgeois at Centre Pompidou, Paris, 5 March 2008 – 2 June 2008.
2008Louise Bourgeois Full Career Retrospective at Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York City.
2008Nature Study at Inverleith House, Edinburgh.
2008Louise Bourgeois for Capodimonte at National Museum of Capodimonte, Naples.
2009Louise Bourgeois: Moi, Eugénie Grandet, un processus d'identification at Maison de Balzac, Paris.
2010Louise Bourgeois: The Fabric Works, at Fondazione Vedova Venice. Travelling to Hauser & Wirth, London.
2010Louise Bourgeois: Mother and Child at Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, California.
2011Louise Bourgeois: À L'Infini at Fondation Beyeler, Riehen, Basel, 3 September 2011 – 8 January 2012.
2011Louise Bourgeois. The Return of the Repressed, at Fundación Proa, Buenos Aires. Travelling to Instituto Tomie Ohtake, São Paulo, and Museu de Arte Moderna, Rio de Janeiro.
2011Louise Bourgeois (1911–2010) at the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, 21 April 2011 – 18 March 2012.
2012Louise Bourgeois: Conscious and Unconscious at the Qatar Museums Gallery, Katara, Doha, Qatar, 20 January 2012 – 1 June 2012.
2012Louise Bourgeois: The Return of The Repressed at Freud Museum, London, 7 March 2012 – 27 May 2012.
2012Louise Bourgeois: Late Works at Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne, 24 November 2012 – 11 March 2013.
2013Louise Bourgeois 1911–2010 at Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, 22 June 2013 – 11 August 2013.
2014Louise Bourgeois: A Woman Without Secrets at Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art, 18 July 2014 – 12 October 2014.
2015ARTIST ROOMS: Louise Bourgeois: A Woman Without Secrets at Southampton City Art Gallery, 16 January 2015 – 18 April 2015.
2015Louise Bourgeois. Structures of Existence: the Cells at Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany, 27 February 2015 – 2 August 2015.
2015Louise Bourgeois: I Have Been to Hell and Back at Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden, 14 February 2015 – 17 May 2015.
2016Louise Bourgeois: Structures of Existence: The Cells at Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Spain, Exhibition date: 18 March 2016 – 4 September 2016.
2016Louise Bourgeois: Turning Inwards at Hauser & Wirth, Switzerland, 2 October 2016 – 1 January 2017
2017Louise Bourgeois: Human Nature: Doing, Undoing, Redoing at Kistefos Museum and Sculpture Park, Jevnaker, Norway, 21 May 2017 – 9 October 2017.
2017Louise Bourgeois: Spiders at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 7 October 2017 – 4 September 2018.
2017Louise Bourgeois: Twosome at Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel, 7 September 2017 – 17 February 2018.
2017Louise Bourgeois: An Unfolding Portrait at the Museum of Modern Art, New York City, 24 September 2017 – 28 January 2018.
2018Louise Bourgeois: The Empty House at , 21 April 2018 – 29 July 2018.
2018Louise Bourgeois: To Unravel a Torment at Glenstone Museum, Potomac, Maryland, 10 May 2017 – 1 January 2020.
2019Louise Bourgeois & Alex van Gelder at UM Museum, Seoul, South Korea, 1 October 2019 – 31 December 2019.
20191999-12-03 Abels, Carolyn, "Katz Plaza in Cultural District is Dedicated", Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (vol. 73, no. 125, p. B-1)
2021Louise Bourgeois, Freud's Daughter at Jewish Museum (Manhattan), 21 May 2021 – 12 September 2021.
2023 – Louise Bourgeois: Has the Day Invaded the Night or Has the Night Invaded the Day?, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Australia, 25 November 2023 – 28 April 2024
2024 – Louise Bourgeois: I have been to hell and back. And let me tell you, it was wonderful. Mori Art Museum, Tokyo.

Recognition
 1972: Mary Beth Edelson's Some Living American Women Artists / Last Supper (1972) 
1977: Honorary doctorate from Yale University
1981: Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
1990: Elected into National Academy of Design
1990: Edward MacDowell Medal, MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, New Hampshire
1991: Lifetime Achievement in Contemporary Sculpture Award (Hamilton, New Jersey, USA)
1997: National Medal of Arts
1999: Praemium Imperiale for lifetime achievement
1999: Golden Lion at the Venice Biennale
2003: Wolf Foundation Prize in the Arts (Jerusalem)
2005: Austrian Decoration for Science and Art
2008: National Order of the Legion of Honour
2009: ,  Collège de Pataphysique, New York, 
2009: Honored by the National Women's Hall of Fame

Collections

 US: the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.; the Museum of Modern Art in New York City and Nasher Sculpture Center; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
 Canada: National Gallery of Canada
 UK: Tate Modern in London
 France: Centre Pompidou in Paris

Kundivihira

Further reading

External links

 Louise Bourgeois in The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston: https://www.mfah.org/blogs/inside-mfah/a-confessional-sculpture-by-louise-bourgeois
Louise Bourgeois in the Museum of Modern Art online collection
Louise Bourgeois: The Complete Prints & Books, Museum of Modern Art
Louise Bourgeois at Hauser & Wirth
'My art is a form of restoration', interview with Rachel Cooke for The Observer, London, 14 October 2007
Louise Bourgeois at the Qatar National Convention Center
Louise Bourgeois: À L’Infini. Exhibition at Fondation Beyeler Exhibition and interview with curator Dr. Ulf Küster (video)
 Webcam of the sculpture "Maman" outside of the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
 Louise Bourgeois  Louise Bourgeois's Exhibition at Fundació Antoni Tàpies 6/11/1990 – 6/1/1991

Louise Bourgeois at Schinkel Pavillon Berlin
Louise Bourgeois | HOW TO SEE the artist with MoMA Chief Curator Emerita Deborah Wye
Louise Bourgeois | HOW TO SEE the artist with Sewon Kang
Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution: Oral History Interview

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