Louise Lawler

Born in 1947 in Bronxville, New York
Lives in New York City
/ Education /
Attended Cornell University (BFA 1969)
/ Solo Shows /
2005 Kunstverein Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
In and Out of Place, Dia Art Foundation, New York, USA
2004 Not there and other work, Sprüth Magers Lee, London, UK
Kunstmuseum Basel, Switzerland
Looking Forward, Metro Pictures, New York, USA
2003 Selected Works 1980-2000, BFAS Blondeau Fine Art Services, Geneva,
Switzerland
Probably Not in the Show, Portikus, Frankfurt, Germany
New Walls, Yvon Lambert, Paris, France
Add to It, Portikus, Frankfurt, Germany
2001 More Pictures and Other Pictures, Galerie Meert Rihoux, Brussels, Belgium
Dunn-Rite and Other Pictures, Studio Guenzani, Milan, Italy
Controlled Temperature, Art & Public, Geneva, Switzerland
2000 Richard Telles Fine Art, Los Angeles, California, USA
Neugerriemschneider, Berlin, Germany
Metro Pictures, New York, NY, USA
1999 Hand On Her Back and Other Pictures, Monika Sprüth Galerie, Cologne, Germany
The Tremaine Series,1984, Skarstedt Fine Art, New York, USA
Jürgen Becker, Hamburg, Germany
1998 Pictures That May or May Not Go Together, Gallery Larsen, Stockholm, Sweden
1997 Monochrome, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C. (broch.)
Farbe, Wände, Bilder, Monika Sprüth Galerie, Cologne, Germany
Metro Pictures, New York, NY, USA
1996 It Could Be Elvis and Other Pictures, Galerie Six Friedrich, Munich, Germany
S.L Simpson Gallery, Toronto
1995 A Spot on the Wall, Munich Kunstverein, Germany (cat.)
1994 Centre d'Art Contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland
External Stimulation, Galleria Klemens Gasser, Bolzano, Italy; Monika Spruth
Galerie, Cologne, Germany
Studio Guenzani, Milan, Italy
Metro Pictures, New York, NY, USA
1993 Sprengel Museum, Hannover, Germany
1992 Galerie Isabella Kacprzak, Cologne, Germany
1991 Metro Pictures, New York, NY, USA
Galerie Meert Rihoux, Brussels
1990 À Vendre, Yvon Lambert Paris, France
The Enlargement of Attention, No One Between the Ages of 21 and 35 is Allowed,
Connections: Louise Lawler, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, USA
1989 The Show Isn't Over, Photographic Resource Center, Boston, USA
Metro Pictures, New York, NY, USA
1988 Vous Avez Déjà Vu Ça, Galerie Yvon Lambert, Paris, France
Accrochage I, Galerie Meert Rihoux, Brussels
1987 Metro Pictures, New York, NY, USA
The Big Top Is Up, Kuhlenschmidt/Simon, Los Angeles, USA
Enough, Projects: Louise Lawler, The Museum of Modern Art, New York (brochure)
As Serious As A Circus, Isabella Kacprzak, Stuttgart, Germany
1986 What is the Same, Maison de la Culture et de la Communication de Saint Etienne,
France
1985 Interesting, Nature Morte, New York, USA
1984 Home/Museum - Arranged for Living and Viewing, Matrix, The Wadsworth
Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut, USA
1982 Another Gallery, Anna Leonowens Gallery II, Halifax, Nova Scotia
An Arrangement of Pictures, Metro Pictures, New York, USA
1981 Jancar/Kuhlenschmidt, Jancar/Kuhlenschmidt Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
1979 A Movie Will Be Shown Without the Picture, Aero Theater, Santa Monica, USA
(sponsored by the Foundation for Art Resources)
/ Group Shows /
2007 Make Your Own Life: Artists In and Out of Cologne, Museum of Contemporary Art -
North Miami (MOCA), Miami, USA
Shandyismus. Autorschaft als Genre, Wiener Secession, Vienna, Austria
THE 1980s - A TOPOLOGY, Museu Serralves - Museu de Arte Contemporânea,
Porto, Portugal
RISS/LÜCKE/SCHARNIER A , Galerie nächst St. Stephan - Rosemarie
Schwarzwälder, Vienna, Austria
The Gold Standard P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island, USA
Shiny Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, USA
2006 Make Your Own Life - Artists In & Out of Cologne, The Power Plant, Toronto, USA
Why Pictures Now, MUMOK Museum Moderner Kunst - Stiftung Ludwig Wien,
Vienna, Austria
An Ongoing Low-Grade Mystery, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, USA
Make Your Own Life - Artists In and Out of Cologne, ICA-Institute of Contemporary
Art, Philadelphia, Philadelphia, USA
Medium Fotografie Stampa, Basel, Switzerland
2005 Accrochage 19_05_05-23_7_05, BFAS Blondeau Fine Art Services, Geneva,
Switzerland
The Last Picture Show: Artists Using Photography, 1960 - 1982, Miami Art Central,
Miami, Florida, USA
Atlantic & Bukarest, Kunstmuseum Basel, Switzerland
Atlantic & Bukarest, Museum Fur Gegenwartkunst, Basel, Switzerland
Coleccion de Fotografia Contemporanea de Telefonica, MARCO, Museo de Arte
Contemporanea de Vigo, Vigo, Spain
The Ectasy of Things, Museo di Fotografia Contemporanea, Cinisello Balsamo, Italy
The Ectasy of Things, Spazio Oberdan, Milan, Italy
Jetzt und 10 Jahre davor, KW Kunst-Werke Berlin e.V. Institute for Contzmporary
Art, Berlin, Germany
100 Artists See God, ICA Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, UK
D'une image qui ne serait pas du semblant - La photographie écrite. 1950- 2005,
Passage de Retz, Paris, France
Minimal Artists try to make something look like Nothing and Conceptual Artists try to
make nothing look like Something, or is It the other Way Round, Yvon Lambert,
Paris, France
2004 Louise Lawler and Others, Kunstmuseum fur Gegenwartskunst Basel, Switzerland
The Big Nothing, Institute of Contemporary Art, (ICA) Philadelphia, USA
Le temps d'un été, Le village Royal, Paris, France
The Last Picture Show: Artists Using Photography, 1960 - 1982, MARCO, Museo
de Arte Contemporanea de Vigo, Vigo, Spain
Everything Is Connected, he, he, he, Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo
Norway
New York 80's, Le Case d'Arte, Milan, Italy
A Clear Vision, Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
The Last Picture Show: Artists Using Photography, 1960 - 1982, Walker Art Center,
Minnesota, USA
Uses of the Image: Photography, Film and Video in the Jumex Collection, Malba,
Coleccion Costantini, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Minimal artists try to make something look like nothing and conceptual artists try to
make nothing look like something, or is it the other way around?, Yvon Lambert
Gallery, New York, USA
2003 20th Anniversary Show, Galerie Spruth Magers
Photographier to Photograph, Collection Lambert, Avignon, France
2002 Open House, Casino Luxembourg, Luxembourg (cat.)
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 (broch.)
Life, Death, Love, Hate, Pleasure, Pain, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago,
USA (cat.)
Im Rausch der Dinge, Fotomuseum Winterthur, Winterthur, Switzerland
2001 American Art, Galerie Rudolfinum, The Centre of Contemporary Art, Prague,
Czech Republic (cat.)
Body Double: Figures of Figures, Des Moines Art Center, Iowa, USA
Televisions, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria (cat.)
2000 rot grau, (red grey), Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, Switzerland
Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA (cat.)
1999 The Museum as Muse, Museum of Modern Art, New York; Museum of
Contemporary Art, San Diego, USA (cat.)
Shelf Life, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY,
USA
Moving Images, Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst, Leipzig, Germany
Triennale Exhibition: Sentiment of the Year 2000, Triennale di Milano, Milan, Italy
1997 Collected, The Photographer's Gallery, London, UK
Foto Text Text Foto, Fotomuseum Winterthur, Switzerland
Deep Storage/Arsenale der Erinnerung, Haus der Kunst, Munich National Galerie
SMPK, Berlin, Germany; Kunstmuseum Dusseldorf im Ehrenhof; Henry Art Gallery,
Seattle, USA (cat.)
1996 Cultural Economies: Histories from the Alternative, The Drawing Center, New York,
USA
Fixed Intervals (two-person exhibition with Allan McCollum), John Weber Gallery,
New York, USA
Art at Home: Ideal Standard Life, Spiral Garden, Tokyo, Japan
Comme Un Oiseau, la Fondation Cartier pour l'art Contemporain, Paris, France
Architecture, Art, and Planning Department Centennial, Herbert F. Johnson Museum
of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA
10th Biennale of Sydney, Art Gallery of New South Wales; Artspace; and Ivan
Dougherty Gallery, Australia (cat.)
1995 The End(s) of the Museum, Fundacio Antoni Tapies, Barcelona, Spain (cat.)
Passions Privées, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, France
1994 Radical Scavenger(s): The Conceptual Vernacular in Recent American Art, Museum
of Contemporary Art, Chicago, USA
Die Orte der Kunst, Sprengel Museum, Hannover, Germany
The Century of the Multiple: From Duchamp to the Present, Deichtorhallen,
Hamburg, Germany
4 x 1 im Albertinum, Gemaldegalerie Neue Meister, Staatliche Kunstammlungen
Dresden, Germany (cat.)
Temporary Translation(s): Sammlung Schurmann, Deichtorhallen Hamburg,
Germany (cat.)
1993 Louise Lawler, Cindy Sherman, Laurie Simmons, Kunsternes Hus, Oslo; Museum of
Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland(cat.)
The Image of the Exhibition, Hochschule für Angewandte Kunst, Vienna
The Nightshade Family, Museum Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany
The Language of Art, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna
Kontext Kunst, Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz, Austria
1992 Yvon Lambert Collection, Musée d'Art Moderne, Villeneuve d'Ascq, France
Selected Works From the Early Eighties, K-Raum Daxer, Munich, Germany
American Art of the 80's, Museo d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento, Italy
(cat.)
Informationsdienst, Kunstlerhaus Stuttgart, Germany
1991 Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA (cat.)
Anni Novanta, Galeria Communale d'Arte Contemporanea, Bologna, Italy
Devil on the Stairs: Looking Back on the 80s, Institute of Contemporary Art,
Philadelphia, Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, California, USA
Carnegie International, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, USA
1990 The Decade Show, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, USA
Affinities and Institutions: The Gerald S. Elliot Collection of Contemporary Art, The
Art Institute of Chicago, USA
Word as Image, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, Texas, USA
1989 Photography of Invention: American Pictures of the 1980's, National Museum of
American Art, Smithsonian Institute, Washington, D.C.
A Forest of Signs: Art in the Crisis of Representation, The Museum of Contemporary
Art, Los Angeles, USA (cat.)
Tenir L'image a distance, Musee d'Art Contemporain de Montreal
Wittgenstein, Wiener Secession, Vienna, Austria
Confronting the Uncomfortable: Questioning Truth and Power, Yale University Art
Gallery, New Haven, USA
In Other Words, Museum am Ostwall, Dortmund, Gemany
Moscow - Vienna - New York, The Vienna Festival, Vienna, Austria
1988 Investigations 1988, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania,
Philadelphia, USA
Five Installations, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California, USA
Presi Per Incantamento, Padiglione d'Arte Contemporanea di Milano
Le Consortium, Dijon, France (two-person exhibition with Allan McCollum)
L'Objet de l'Exposition
Modes of Address: Language in Art Since 1960, Whitney Museum of American Art,
New York, USA
1987 Maison de la Culture et de la Communication de Saint-Etienne, France, (two-person
exhibition with John Knight)
Photography and Art: Interactions Since 1946, Los Angeles County Museum of Art;
Museum of Art Fort Lauderdale; Queens Museum, New York, USA
Eau de Cologne, Monika Spruth Galerie, Cologne, Germany
Implosion: A Postmodern Perspective, Moderna Museet, Stockholm (cat.)
Daniel Buchholz, Cologne, Germany
1986 The Real Big Picture, Queens Museum, New York, USA
Damaged Goods, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, USA
L'oeuvre et Son Accrochage, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
Art and Its Double: A New York Perspective, Fundacio Caixa de Pensions,
Barcelona, Spain Exhibition traveled to La Caixa de Pensions, Madrid, Spain (cat.)
1985 The Art of Memory/The Loss of History, The New Museum of Contemporary Art,
New York, USA
New York Now: Correspondences, Laforet Museum, Tokyo., Japan. Exhibit traveled
to (1986) Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Arts, Tochigi; Tazaki Hall Espace
Media, Kobe, Japan
1984 Masking/Unmasking: Aspects of Post-Modernist Photography, The Friends of
Photography, Carmel, California, USA
Ideal Settings, Diane Brown Gallery, New York, USA (two-person exhibition with
Alan McCollum)
New York, Ailleurs et Autrement, ARC Musee d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris,
France
1983 Multiple Choice, P.S. I, New York, USA
Drawings/Photographs, Leo Castelli, New York, USA
1981 Photo, Metro Pictures, New York, USA
Extended Photography, Secessionist Museum, Vienna, Austria
1980 Amalgam, Castelli Graphics, New York, USA
1978 Louise Lawler, Adrian Piper & Cindy Sherman Have Agreed to Participate in an
Exhibition Organized by Janelle Reiring at Artists Space, September 23 through
October 28, 1978, Artists Space, New York, USA (cat.)
/ Selected Bibliography /
1982 Benjamin Buchloh, Allegorical Procedures: Appropriation and Montage in Contemporary Art,
Artforum, September, pp. 48-9
Roberta Smith, Didacticism, Material and Immaterial, Village Voice, December 21, pp. 113
Guy Bellavance, Dessaisissement et Reappropriation: du 'photographique' dans l'art
americaine, Parachute, December/February 1982/83, pp. 9-17
A Picture Is No Substitute For Anything, Wedge, no 2, fall, pp. 58-67
1983 Stephen F. Eisenman, Louise Lawler, Arts Magazine, January, pp. 41
Therese Lichtenstein, Louise Lawler, Arts Magazine, February, pp. 5
Claude Gintz, A Pierre et Marie, Cover, Spring, pp. 6
An Arrangement of Pictures, October, no. 26, Fall, pp. 3-16
1984 Louise Lawler, Arrangements of Pictures, October 26, pp. 3-6
Louise Lawler Matrix 77, Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut
Kate Linker, Eluding Definition, Artforum, December, pp. 66
Therese Lichtenstein, Louise Lawler/Alan McCollum, Arts, December, pp. 34
Dan Cameron, Four Installations: Francesc Torres, Merle Ukeles, Louise Lawler/Alan
McCollum and Todt, Arts Magazine, December, pp. 66-70
1985 Jeanne Silverthorne, Louise Lawler, Metro Pictures, Artforum, April, pp. 89
Andrea Fraser, In and Out of Place, Art in America, June, pp. 122-9
1986 Kate Linker, Rites of Exchange, Artforum, November, pp. 99-100
Art and Its Double: A New York Perspective , essay by Dan Cameron, Fundacio Caixa
de Pensions, Barcelona
Project, Artforum, November, pp. 101
Arranged for Living, File Magazine, Toronto, December 25, #26, pp. 36-47, (and back
cover)
John Russell, Louise Lawler, The New York Times, 30 January, pp. C22
1987 Louise Lawler des lieux ou des oeuvres d'art ont ete installees, ArtPress, Paris, No. 113,
pp. 18-9
Jan Avgikos, Louise Lawler, Metro Pictures, C Magazine, Toronto, Summer, pp. 69-70
Jack Bankowsky, Spotlight: Louise Lawler, Flash Art, April, pp. 86
Cora Rosevear, Projects: Louise Lawler, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
(brochure)
Des lieux ou des oeuvres d'art ont ete installees, Art Press, no. 113, pp. 18-9
Parachute, cover, no. 46, March/April/May
Jean Fisher, Louise Lawler, Artforum, April, pp. 121-2
Implosion: A Postmodern Perspective, essays by Lars Nittve, Germano Celant, Kate
Linker, Craig Owens, Moderna Museet, Stockholm
Johannes Meinhardt, Louise Lawler: As Serious as a Circus, Kunstforum,
October/November
1988 Claudia Hart, Louise Lawler, Museum of Modern Art, Artscribe, London, January/
February, pp. 70-1
Project For Flash Art, Flash Art, November/December, pp. 93-4
Patrick Javauet, Knight, Lawler: les lecons d'une confrontation Maison de la Culture et de la
Communication, ArtPress, Paris, January, pp. 70-1
Alfred Durante, Louise Lawler, Arts Magazine, April, pp. 93
Louise Lawler, Project for Flash Art, Flash Art, November/December 1988 pp. 93-4
1989 A Forest of Signs: Art in the Crisis of Representation, essays by Ann Goldstein and
Howard Singerman, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, Published by the
MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Joshua Decter, Louise Lawler, Flash Art, October, pp. 127-8
Ken Johnson, Louise Lawler at Metro Pictures, Art in America, November, pp. 191
Louise Lawler Kunstforum, November/December
Robert Storr, Louise Lawler: Unpacking the White Cube, Parkett. No 22, pp. 105-8
1990 Fred Fehlau, Louise Lawler Doesn't Take Pictures, Artscribe, May, pp. 62-5 (cover
illustration)
Peter Barr, Deconstructing. Louise Lawler at the MFA, Art New England, December
1990/ January 1991
1991 Jean-Pierre Criqui, Louise Lawler. Critique d'art, Art Press, Jan., pp. 42-6
Roberta Smith, Art in Review: Louise Lawler, New York Times, May 31, pp. C26
Johannes Meinhardt, The Places of Art-The Photography of Louise Lawler, Hugo-Erfurth-
Preis, Museus Morsbroch, Levarkusen, pp. 26-9
1992 Maria Schneider, Louise Lawler, Metropolis, February 1992
Johannes Meinhardt, Erhellung der Situation. Louise Lawler Situierungen und Fotographien
von Situierungen, Kunstbulletin, No. 2 1992
1993 Berta Sichel, Louise Lawler, Poliester, Fall, Vol II, No 7, pp. 32-4
Louise Lawler, Cindy Sherman, Laurie Simmons, edited by Asmund Thorkildsen,
Kunstnernes, Oslo
On the Museum's Ruins, a publication by Douglas Crimp with photographs by Louise
Lawler. Cambridge: MIT Press
1994 Ingrid Periz, Louise Lawler, Art + Text, vol. 49, pp. 82
Martha Buskirk, Interviews with Sherrie Levine, Louise Lawler, and Fred Wilson, October,
vol. 70, pp. 104-8
Abigail Solomon-Godeau, 'The Label Show': Contemporary Art and the Museum, Art in
America, October, pp. 51-5
Tory Dent, Alreadymade 'Female' Louise Lawler, Parachute, No.76, Oct/Nov/ Dec, pp. 20-4
Peter Doroshenko, A Part of the Picture, Grand Street, Winter, Vol. 13, No. 3, pp. 225-33
Grand Street, vol. 13 no. 3, Winter, cover and pp. 225-32
Louise Lawler, For Sale, essay by Dietmar Elger, Thomas Weski, Reihe Cantz, Leipzig
1995 Manfred Hermes, Louise Lawler-Monika Spruth, Flash Art, March-April, Vol. 28, No. 181,
pp. 108
The End(s) of the Museum, Fundacio Antoni Tapies, Barcelona
1996 Rosalind Krauss, Louise Lawler: Souvenir Memories, Aperture, #145, pp. 36-9,(cover
illustration)
Jurassic Technologies Revenant, (for 10th Biennale of Sydney)
1997 Rose Lee Goldberg, Louise Lawler's Art Lessons, Mirabella, February, pp.20 Martha
Schwendener, Louise Lawler, Time Out New York, March 6-13, pp. 44
Helen Molesworth, Louise Lawler: Metro Pictures, New York, Frieze, May, pp. 73-4
Alexander Alberro, Louise Lawler: Metro Pictures, Artforum, Summer, 1997, pp. 135-6
George Baker, Paint, Walls, Pictures: Something Always Follows Something Else. She
Wasn't Always a Statue, Texte zur Kunst, #26, pp. 88-93
Loiuse Lawler, Monochrome, essay by Phyllis Rosenzweig, the Hirschorn Museum and
Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.
1998 Emotion, essays by Daniel Birnbaum, Carl Freedamn, Iwona Blazwick Deichtorhallen,
Hamburg
A Spot on the Wall, edited by Hedwig Saxenhuber, essays by Rosalind Krauss, Helmut
Draxler, Claudia Jottes, Oktagon, Cologne (cat.)
1999 Roberta Smith, Louise Lawler: Skarstedt Fine Art, The New York Times, April 23, pp. E35
Art at the Turn of the Millennium, ed. by Burkhard Riemschneider & Uta Grosenick,
Taschen, pp. 302-5
Frazer Ward, Critical Mass, Frieze, Summer, pp. 56-7
The Museum As Muse, intro by Kynaston McShine, Museum of Modern Art, New York, pp.
142-3
Andrea Kroksnes, Louise Lawler: Specters of Modernism, Parkett, no. 57, pp. 156-61
Helen Molesworth, Louise Lawler at Skarstedt Fine Arts, Documents, pp. 59-62
2000 David Pagel, Beauty, Through the Eye of Its Beholder, Los Angeles Times, February 18,
pp. 34
Margaret Sundell, Louise Lawler; Metro Pictures, Artforum, April, pp. 140-1
Irina Alimanestianu, Louise Lawler at Richard Telles Fine Art, Art Issues, Summer #63, pp.
52
Louise Lawler: An Arranagement of Pictures, essay by Johannes Meinhardt, interview
with Louise Lawler by
Douglas Crimp, Assouline, Paris and New York
Sabeth Buchmann, Auf Den Zweiten Blick, Texte zur Kunst, September, pp. 200-7
Pierre Leguillon, Le Début d'une Histoire et La Fin d'une Autre, Art Press (Spécial), no. 21,
pp. 120-5
Modern Contemporary: Art at MoMA Since 1980, Kirk Varnedoe, Paola Antonelli, Joshua
Siegel (ed.), Museum of Modern Art, New York, pp. 220
Bruce Hainley, Best of 2000, Artforum, December, pp. 132, (pp. 110-1 illustration)
2001 Bruce Hainley, Louise Lawler, frieze, January-February, pp. 102, (pp. 97 illustration)
Johannes Meinhardt, Erhellende Konstellation, Kunstforum, January-March, pp. 230-49
Art Now, Burkhard Riemschneider and Uta Grosenick ed., Taschen, Cologne, pp. 94-5
American Art, Galerie Rudolfinum, The Centre of Contemporary Art, Prague, Czech
Republic
Women Artists, Uta Grosenick ed., Taschen, Cologne, pp. 300-5
Art and Artifact- The Museum as Medium, James Putnam, Thames & Hudson, London
Televisions, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria, pp. 67
American Visionaries, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, pp. 175
2002 Photography Transformed, essay by Klaus Kertess, Harry N. Abrams, New York, pp. 128,
239
Open House, essay by Adam Budak, Casino Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Visions from America: Photographs from the Whitney Museum of American Art,
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, pp. 213
Extension, Magasin 3 Stockholm Konsthall, Stockholm, Sweden
Conceptual Art, Peter Osborne (ed.), Phaidon Press, London, pp. 179
2003 Birgit Pelzer, Interpositions. The Work of Louise Lawler, Exit, no. 9, pp. 50-79, (cover
illustration)
2004 The Big Nothing Institute of Contemporary Art, ICA, Philadelphia
- Selected Publications and Printed Materials by the Artist -
1972 Untitled, publication in collaboration with Joanne Caring, The Roseprint Detective Club:
New Yor
1978 Untitled, Red/Blue, book, New York
Untitled, Black/White, book with text by Janelle Reiring, New York
1981 Passage to the North, a structure by Lawrence Weiner and photographs by Louise Lawler,
Tongue Press, New York
1982 Louise Lawler, Arrangements of Pictures, matchbooks, Metro Pictures, New York
De Appel, back cover, no 1, Amsterdam
Documenta 7: A Story, stationary and envelopes
1983 A MOVIE WILL BE SHOWN WITHOUT THE PICTURE, poster, Franklin Furnace and
Lawrence Weiner, New York
Art and Auction, cover, February
Borrowed Time, matchbooks, Baskerville & Watson Gallery, New York
Leo Castelli Gallery, gift certificates, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York
1984 Art After Modernism: Rethinking Representation, selection and arrangement of photos
in collaboration with Brian Wallis, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York,
and David R. Godine, Boston
1986 Printed Matter 10th Anniversary Catalog, cover photo, Printed Matter, New York
(1986/1987)
1987 De Appel, Amsterdam, no. 2, pp. 27, and (cover, back cover)
Margo Leavin Gallery Gift Certificates, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles
A MOVIE WILL BE SHOWN WITHOUT THE PICTURE, Picture This, films chosen by
artists and poster, Hallwalls, Buffalo/New York, pp. 63-9
Enough/Projects Louise Lawler, pamphlet and flyer, The Museum of Modern Art, New
York
1988 Inserts, project by Group Material, advertising supplement to The New York Times, May 5
1990 Recognition Maybe, May not be Useful, a cover for Artscribe, May
1991 This Takes the Cake, Squid In Its Own Ink, The Cheese Stands Alone, matchbooks,
Carnegie International, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh
1995 Portrait, Matchbooks, Gramercy Park Festival, Gramercy Park Hotel, New York
1999 The Museum as Muse, napkin, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
/ Museums and Public Collections /
Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, Ohio
Art Museum, Princeton University
Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
Cincinnati Art Museum
Fondation Cartier, Paris
Goetz Collection, Munich
Israel Museum, Tel Aviv
Kunsthalle Hamburg
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Magasin 3 Konsthall, Stockholm
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Moderna Museet, Stockholm
Museet for Samtidskunst in Oslo (Museum of Contemporary Art)
Museum Boymans-van Beuningen Rotterdam
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Museum of Modern Art, New York
Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst, Ghent
Queens Museum, New York
Seattle Art Museum
Sprengel Museum, Hannover
Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart
Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
Weisman Foundation, Los Angeles
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut