Barbara Kruger
Artist Page
Born in Newark, New Jersey, 1945.
Education: Syracuse University,
Syracuse, New York, 1965.
Parsons School of Design,
NYC, NY, 1966.
Lives in New York City and Los Angeles, California.
Selected Solo Shows
1980
P.S. 1, Long Island City, New York.
1983
Institute of Contemporary Art, London, England.
1984
Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, Switzerland.
Nouveau Musee, Lyon, France.
Crousel/Hussenot Galerie, Paris, France.
1985
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California.
Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut.
Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, Texas.
1986
University Art Museum, University of California, Berkeley, California.
Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois, Champaign, Illinois.
1987
Mary Boone Gallery, NYC, NY.
1988
National Art Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand.
1989
Mary Boone Gallery, NYC, NY.
1990
Duke University Museum of Art, Durham, North Carolina.
Kolnischer Kunstverein, Koln, Germany.
1991
Mary Boone Gallery, NYC, NY.
1992
Magasin, Centre National d'Art Contemporain, Grenoble, France.
1994
Mary Boone Gallery, NYC, NY.
1996
Museum of Modern Art at Heide, Melbourne, Australia.
1997
Mary Boone Gallery, NYC, NY.
18 Wooster Street/Deitch Projects, NYC, NY.
1998
Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, New York.
1999
Galerie Yvon Lambert, Paris, France.
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California.
2000
Whitney Museum of American Art, NYC, NY.
2001
South London Gallery, London, England.
2002
Palazzo delle Papesse - Centro Arte Contemporanea, Siena, Italy.
2003
Skarstedt Fine Art, NYC
2004
Mary Boone, NYC
Selected Group Shows
1981
Nineteen Emerging Artists, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, NYC, NY.
1982
Documenta 7, Museum Fridericianum, Kassel, West Germany.
La Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy.
Image Scavengers, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, Massachusetts.
1983
Currents, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, Massachusetts.
1983
Biennial Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, NYC, NY.
Times Square Spectochrome Sign, NYC, NY.
1984
Sexuality and Representation, Institute of Contemporary Art, London, England.
1985
1985 Biennial Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, NYC, NY.
1986
Painting and Sculpture Today: 1986, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, Indiana.
An American Renaissance: Painting and Sculpture from 1940 to the Present, Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
Barbara Kruger and Jenny Holzer, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel.
1987
1987 Biennial Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, NYC, NY.
L'epoque, la mode, la morale, la passion, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France.
Documenta 8, Museum Fridericianum, Kassel, West Germany.
1988
Biennial of Sydney, Sydney, Australia.
1989
Bilderstreit, Rheinhalle, Koln, West Germany.
A Forest of Signs: Art in the Crisis of Representation, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California.
Magiciens de la Terre, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France.
Image World: Art and Media Culture, Whitney Museum of American Art, NYC, NY.
1990
The Decade Show, Museum of Contemporary Hispanic Art/The New Museum of Contemporary Art/The Studio Museum in Harlem, NYC, NY.
Art et Publicite, Musee National d'Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France.
1991
Devil on the Stairs: Looking Back on the Eighties, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
1992
More Than One Photography: Works Since 1980 From the Collection, The Museum of Modern Art, NYC, NY.
1993
Image Makers, Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn Harbor, New York.
1994
Wall to Wall, Serpentine Gallery, London,
England.
1995
Passions Privees, Musee d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France.
1996
Thinking Print: Books to Billboards, 1980-95, The Museum of Modern Art, NYC, NY.
1998
Read My Lips: Jenny Holzer, Barbara Kruger, Cindy Sherman, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Australia.
1999
The American Century: Art and Culture 1950-2000, Whitney Museum of American Art, NYC, NY.
2000
Around 1984: A Look at Art in the Eighties, P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, New York.
2002
Sans Commune Mesure, Musee des Beaux-Arts, Lille, France.
Shopping, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, Germany.
Selected Public Projects
1986
Billboard project, Art Angel, London, England.
1988
Picturing Greatness, exhibition curated and designed for The Museum of Modern Art, NYC, NY.
1989
Billboard project, Public Art Fund, Manhattan and Queens, New York.
1990
Exterior wall project, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California.
1991
Bus shelter posters, Public Art Fund, NYC, NY.
Billboard project, Von-der-Heydt-Museum, Wuppertal-Elberfeld, Germany.
1992
Poster project, Magasin, Centre National d'Art Contemporain, Grenoble, France.
Cover and essay, ESQUIRE, May 1992.
Cover and editorial spread, NEWSWEEK, 8 June 1992.
Billboard, bus shelter and bus placard project, Portland Art Museum, Portland, Oregon.
Billboards and bus shelters, Women's Work Project on Domestic Violence, Liz Claiborne, Inc., San Francisco, California.
1993
Billboards, products and radio spots, Women's Work Project on Domestic Violence, Liz Claiborne, Inc., Boston, Massachusetts and Miami, Florida.
1994
Editorial feature, HARPER'S BAZAAR, February 1994.
Design for train station, Strasbourg, France.
1995
Design for outdoor theater, North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, North Carolina (collaboration with Smith-Miller & Hawkinson and Nicholas Quennell).
1997
New York City/Queens Transit Line bus wrap, Public Art Fund, NYC, NY, November 1997.
2000
Banner billboards at Eighth Avenue/42 Street and Washington Street/West Side Highway, co-produced by the Public Art Fund and the Whitney Museum of American Art, NYC, NY, July 2000.
2002
Kuahof department store façade banners, Frankfurt, Germany.
