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.
*1993*Helping Hands* in permanent display at Chicago Women's Park & Gardens as of 2011, Chicago.
*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

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## 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
**[http://www.moma.org/bourgeoisprints 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
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*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