Jenny Holzer b. 1950

Media employed in Holzer’s practice vary. Writing is programmed into electronic signs; printed on posters and t–shirts; carved in stone benches, floors, and sarcophagi; cast as bronze and aluminum plaques; or etched on silver. Further, her statements have appeared on billboards, movie marquees, automobiles, in news magazines, and on websites, as well as being projected onto facades, walls, water, and mountainsides. Holzer’s recent use of text ranges from silk-screened paintings of declassified government memoranda detailing prisoner abuse, to poetry and prose in a 65-foot wide wall of light in the lobby of 7 World Trade Center, New York.

Holzer’s work has been shown in exhibitions worldwide, including Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, and Fondation Beyeler, Basel, Switzerland.