Exhibitions

2012 - 2013

This Will Have Been: Art, Love & Politics, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago; Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis

2012

Spies in the House of Art Photography, Film and Video, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Histories de L’art, VOX Centre de l’image contemporaine, Montreal

Spies in the House of Art Photography, Film and Video, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Histories de L’art, VOX Centre de l’image contemporaine, Montreal

Louise Lawler, Galerie Neue Meister, Albertinum, Dresden (solo)

2011 - 2012

The Deconstructive Impulse: Women Aritsts Reconfigure the Signs of Power, 1973-1991, Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase College, New York; Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham, North Museum of Art, Purchase College, New York; Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, Contemporary Arts Museum Houston

No Drones, Sprüth Magers, London (solo)

Fitting at Metro Pictures, Metro Pictures, New York (solo)

The World Belongs To You, Palazzo Grassi, Venice

After Images, Jewish Museum of Belgium, Brussels

Shared Intelligence: American Painting and the Photograph, The Georgia O’keeffe Museum, Santa Fe, New Mexico

2011

No Substitute, Glenstone Foundation, Potomac, Maryland

Museum of Desires, MUMOK, Vienna

2010 - 2011

Taking Place, The Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam

Hyper Real, Museum Moderner Kunst, Vienna

Pictures by Women: A History of Modern Photography, Museum of Modern Art, New York

Later, Yvon Lambert, Paris (solo)

El Gabinete Blanco, The Jumex Collection, Mexico City

Adaptation: Between Species, The Power Plant, Toronto

Untitled (Ohne Titel), Neue Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst, Berlin

Sound & Vision, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago

2010

Hareng Saur: Ensor and Contemporary Art, S.M.A.K./Museum of Fine Arts, Ghent

2009 - 2010

See This Sound: Promises in Sound and Vision, Lentos Kunstmuseum, Linz

See This Sound: Promises in Sound and Vision, Lentos Kunstmuseum, Linz

Mondernologies: Contemporary Artists Researching Modernity and Modernism, Museu d’Art Contemporani, Barcelona; Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw

Beg Borrow and Steal, The Rubell Family Collection Museum, Miami

Where Do We Go From Here: Selections from the Jumex Collection, Bass Museum of Art, Miami

The Pictures Generation: 1974-1984, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Sprüth Magers, Berlin (solo)

2009

Nothingness and Being, The Jumex Collection, Mexico City

The Quick and the Dead, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis

2008

Sucked In, Blown Out, Obviously Indebted or One Foot in Front of the Other, Metro Pictures, New York (solo)

Whitney Biennial 2008, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

The Museum as Medium, Museo de Arte Contemporánea de Vigo, Spain

Blasted Allegories: Works from the Ringier Collection, Kunstmuseum, Luzern

Metro Pictures, New York

Political Corect, BFAS Blondeau Fine Art Services, Geneva

2007 - 2008

Where is the nearest camera?, Sprüth Magers, London (solo)

Documenta 12, Aue-Pavillon, Kassel

Edit! Photography and Film in the Ellipse Collection, The Ellipse Foundation: Contemporary Art Collection, Portugal

Held Together With Water, Sammlung Verbund, MAK, Vienna

Museum Ludwig, Cologne

No Official Estimate, Yvon Lambert, Paris

2007

Metro Pictures, New York

The Tremaine Pictures 1984-2007, BFAS Blondeau Fine Art Services, Geneva

Sequence 1: Selections from the Collection of François Pinault, Palazzo Grassi, Venice

The 80’s: A Topography, Fundação Serralves, Porto, Portugal

Not for Sale, P.S. 1, New York

Studio Guenzani, Milan

2006

Twice Untitled and Other Pictures (looking back), curated by Helen Molesworth, Wexner Center, Ohio

Galerie Greta Meert, Brussels, Belgium (solo)

2005

Louise Lawler, National Museum of Art, Oslo

In and Out of Place: Louise Lawler and Andy Warhol, Dia, Beacon

2004

Looking Forward, Metro Pictures, New York

Louise Lawler and Others, Museum for Gugenwartskunst, Kunstmuseum Basel, Switzerland

The Big Nothing, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia

Not There, Sprüth Magers Lee, London (solo)

2003

Selected Works 1980-2000, 5 Rue de la Muse, Geneva, Switzerland; Pletskud, Arken Museum for Moderne Kunst, Skøvej, Germany; The Last Picture Show: Artists Using Photography 1960-1982, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN; (cat.); Designs for Living, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles

Selected Works 1980-2000, 5 Rue de la Muse, Geneva; Probably Not in the Show, Portikus, Frankfurt; New Walls, Yvon Lambert, Paris; Add to It, Portikus, Frankfurt (solo)

2002

Open House, Casino Luxembourg, Luxembourg; Visions from America: Photographs from the Whitney Museum of American Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (cat.); Extension, Magasin 3 Stockholm Konsthall, Stockholm, Sweden; Life, Death, Love, Hate, Pleasure, Pain, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago

More Pictures and Other Pictures, Galerie Meert Rihoux, Brussels; Dunn-Rite and Other Pictures, Studio Guenzani, Milan; Controlled Temperature, Art & Public, Geneva (solo)

2001

American Art, Galerie Rudolfinum, The Centre of Contemporary Art, Prague, Czech Republic (cat.); Body Double: Figures of Figures, Des Moines Art Center, Iowa; Televisions, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria

2000

Paint, Wood, Plaster, Fabric, Glass and Other Pictures, Richard Telles Fine Art, Los Angeles; More Pictures, Neugerriemschneider, Berlin (solo)

Rot grau, (red grey) Kunsthalle Basel, Basel "Whitney Biennial," Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (cat.)

Galerie Meert Rihoux, Brussels

1999

The Museum as Muse, Museum of Modern Art, New York; Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego (cat.); Shelf Life, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York; Triennale Exhibition: Sentiment of the Year 2000, Triennale di Milano, Milan

Hand On Her Back, and Other Pictures, Monika Sprüth Galerie, Cologne; The Tremaine Series,1984, Skarstedt Fine Art, New York; An Exhibition of Photographs by Louise Lawler From 1985 through 1993 Selected and Installed by Jürgen Becker, Jürgen Becker, Hamburg (solo)

1998

Pictures That May or May Not Go Together, Gallery Larsen, Stockholm (solo)

Collected, The Photographer's Gallery, London; Foto Text Text Foto, Fotomuseum Winterthur, Switzerland; Deep Storage/Arsenale der Erinnerung, Haus der Kunst, Munich Nationalgalerie SMPK, Berlin, Germany; Kunstmuseum Dusseldorf im Ehrenhof; Henry Art Gallery, Seattle (cat.); Moving Images, Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst, Leipzig

1997

Monochrome, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C. (brochure with text by Phyllis Rosenzweig); Farbe, Wände, Bilder, Monika Sprüth Galerie (solo)

1996

Cultural Economies: Histories from the Alternative, The Drawing Center, New York; Fixed Intervals (two-person exhibition with Allan McCollum), John Weber Gallery, New York; Art at Home: Ideal Standard Life, Spiral Garden, Tokyo; Comme Un Oiseau, la Fondation Cartier pour l'art Contemporain, Paris; Architecture, Art, and Planning Department Centennial, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York; 10th Biennale of Sydney, Art Gallery of New South Wales; Artspace; and Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Australia

It Could Be Elvis and Other Pictures, Galerie Six Friedrich, Munich S.L Simpson Gallery, Toronto (solo)

1995

A Spot on the Wall, Munich Kunstverein, Germany (solo)

The End(s) of the Museum, Fundacio Antoni Tapies, Barcelona; Passions Privees, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris

1994

Radical Scavenger(s): The Conceptual Vernacular in Recent American Art, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; Die Orte der Kunst, Sprengel Museum, Hannover; The Century of the Multiple: From Duchamp to the Present, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg; 4 x 1 im Albertinum, Gemaldegalerie Neue Meister, Staatliche Kunstammlungen Dresden (cat.); Temporary Translation(s): Sammlung Schurmann, Deichtorhallen Hamburg

Press-papiers, cartes postales, images et cannibalisme, Centre d'Art Contemporain, Geneva; External Stimulation, Galleria Klemens Gasser, Bolzano, Italy; Monika Spruth Galerie, Cologne; Studio Guenzani, Milan (and 2001) (solo)

Galerie Meert Rihoux, Brussels

1991

Galerie Meert Rihoux, Brussels, Belgium (solo)

1988

Galerie Meert Rihoux, Brussels