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Louise Lawler

Biographie / Biography

geboren / born in 1947 in Bronxville, lebt und arbeitet / lives and works in , New York

Ausbildung / Education

1969 BFA , Ithaca, New York

Einzelausstellungen (Auswahl) / Selected solo exhibitions

2020 'Metro Pictures: 40 Years', Metro Pictures, New York, USA

2019 'Andy in Chicago', Institute of Chicago, USA 'Is Anybody Home', Marc Jancou Chalet, Rossinière, CH

2018 'She’s Here', Sammlung Verbund, Vienna, AT 'Edits and Projections (with Rhea Anastas and Robert Snowden)', 80WSE, New York, USA 'After', Campoli Presti, Paris, FR

2017 'WHY PICTURES NOW', MoMA, New York, USA

2015 'No Drones', Blondeau & Cie, Geneva, CH

2014 'The Billboard', New York, USA 'No Drones', Sprüth Magers, Berlin, DE 'No Drones', Studio Guenzani, Milan, IT 'No Drones', Galerie Greeta Meert, Brussels, BE 'No Drones', Sprüth Magers, , UK 'No Drones', Metro Pictures, New York, USA 'No Drones', Yvon Lambert, Paris, FR

2013 'Adjusted', , , DE 'November 1 – December 21' (two-person show with ), Casey Kaplan, New York, USA

2012 '(Selected). ’, Galerie Neue Meister, Albertinum, Dresden, DE 'A Movie Will Be Shown Without the Picture', The Movie Cinema, Amsterdam, NL (screening)

2011 'Fitting at Metro Pictures', Metro Pictures Gallery, New York, USA 'No Drones', Sprüth Magers, London, UK

2010 'Later', Yvon Lambert, Paris, FR

2009 'Taking Place', Sprüth Magers, Berlin, DE

2008 'Sucked In, Blown Out, Obviously Indebted or One Foot in Front of the Other', Metro Pictures, New York, USA

2007 'Where is the Nearest Camera', Sprüth Magers, London, UK 'Louise Lawler: The Tremaine Pictures 1984-2007', BFAS Blondeau Fine Art Services, Geneva, CH 'No Official Estimate', Yvon Lambert, Paris, FR Studio Guenzani, Milan (two-person exhibition with ), IT

2006 'Twice Untitled and Other Pictures (looking back)', Wexner Center, Ohio, USA

2005 'In and Out of Place: Louise Lawler and ', Dia: Beacon, New York, USA 'MoMA in Hamburg: Louis Lawler', Kunstverein Hamburg, DE

2004 'Not there and other works', Sprüth Magers Lee, London, UK 'Louise Lawler and Others', Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Basel, CH 'Looking Forward', Metro Pictures, New York, USA

2003 'Selected works from 1980 to 2000 & Helms Amendment (963) from 1989', Blondeau & Cie, Geneva, CH 'Probably Not in the Show', Portikus, Frankfurt, DE 'New Walls', Yvon Lambert, Paris, FR 'Add to It', Portikus, Frankfurt, DE

2001 'More Pictures and Other Pictures', Galerie Meert Rihoux, Brussels, BE

'Dunn-Rite and Other Pictures', Studio Guenzani, Milan, IT 'Controlled Temperature', Art & Public, Geneva, CH

2000 'More Pictures', Metro Pictures, New York, USA 'Paint, Wood, Plaster, Fabric, Glass and Other Pictures', Richard Telles Fine Art, , USA 'More Pictures', Neugerriemschneider, Berlin, DE

1999 'Hand On Her Back’ and Other Pictures', Monika Sprüth Galerie, Cologne, DE 'The Tremaine Series 1984', Skarstedt Fine Art, New York, USA 'An Exhibition of Photographs by Louise Lawler From 1985 through 1993 Selected and Installed by Jürgen Becker', Jürgen Becker, Hamburg, DE

1998 'Pictures That May or May Not Go Together', Gallery Larsen, Stockholm, SE

1997 'Farbe – Wände – Bilder', Monika Sprüth Galerie, Cologne, DE 'Paint, Walls, Pictures: Something Always Follows Something Else. She Wasn't Always a Statue', Metro Pictures, New York, USA 'Anonymous', a + a company, New York, USA 'Monochrome', Hirshhorn Museum and Garden, Washington D.C., USA

1996 'It Could Be Elvis and Other Pictures', Galerie Six Friedrich, Munich, DE S.L. Simpson Gallery, Toronto, CA 'Fixed Intervalls (two-persons exhibition with Allan McCollum)', John Weber Gallery, New York, USA

1995 'A Spot on the Wall', Münchener Kunstverein, Munich; Neue Galerie, Graz; De Appel, Amsterdam, NL

1994 'Press-papiers, cartes postales, images et cannibalisme', Centre d'Art Contemporain, Geneva, CH 'External Stimulation', Galleria Klemens Gasser, Bolzano, IT 'External Stimulation', Monika Sprüth Galerie, Cologne, DE 'External Stimulation', Studio Guenzani, Milan, IT 'External Stimulation', Metro Pictures, New York, USA 'Blue Cibachromes and Two Fixed Intervals', Friedrich Petzel/ Nina Borgman Gallery, New York, USA (with Allan McCollum)

1993 Sprengel Museum, Hannover, DE

1992

Galerie Isabella Kacprzak, Cologne, DE

1991 'For Sale', Metro Pictures, New York, USA Galerie Meert-Rihoux, Brussels, BE

1990 'A Vendre', Galerie Yvon Lambert, Paris, FR 'The Enlargement of Attention, No One Between the Ages of 21 and 35 is Allowed, Connections: Louise Lawler', Museum of Fine , Boston, USA

1989 'How Many Pictures', Metro Pictures, New York, USA 'The Show Isn't Over', Photographic Resource Center, Boston, USA

1988 'Vous Avez Déjà Vu Ça', Galerie Yvon Lambert, Paris, FR 'Les Objets', Galerie Meert Rihoux, Brussels, BE 'Work by Louise Lawler and Allan McCollum and Fixed Intervals as Matter of Agreement', Le Consortium, Dijon, FR (two-person exhibition with Allen McCollum) 'Investigations 26: Louise Lawler', Institute of , University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA (Phamplet with essay by Jack Bankowsky)

1987 'It Remains To Be Seen', Metro Pictures, New York, USA 'Enough, Projects: Louise Lawler', The , New York, USA 'As Serious as a Circus', Isabella Kacprzak, Stuttgart, DE

1986 'What is the Same', Maison de la Culture et de la Communication de Saint-Etienne, Saint-Etienne, FR 'The Big Top Is Up', Kuhlenschmidt / Simon, Los Angeles, USA

1985 'Interesting', Nature Morte, New York, USA

1984 'Home / Museum – Arranged for Living and Viewing', Matrix, The Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, USA 'For Presentation and Display: Ideal Settings', Diane Brown Gallery, New York, USA (two-person exhibition with Allen McCollum)

1982 'Another Gallery', Anna Leonowens Gallery II, Halifax, UK '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

1973 'One Person University of California', Davis, New York, USA

Gruppenausstellungen (Auswahl) / Selected group exhibitions

2020 'Pictures, Revisited', The Met, New York, USA 'Louise Lawler, R.H. Quaytman, Cameron Rowland', Galerie Buchholz, Cologne, DE 'Social Photography VIII', carriage trade, New York, USA 'The Brandhorst Collection – Lawler, Twombly, Warhol', Museum Brandhorst, Munich, DE 'Sculpture Garden', Geneva Biennale, Geneva, CH 'Material Meanings: Selections from the Constance R. Caplan Collection', , USA 'Moving Energies – 10 years me Collectors Room', me Collectors Room / Stiftung Olbricht, Berlin, DE

2019 '5 Ways In', , Minneapolis, USA 'Sound Art? ', Fundació Loan Miró, Barcelona, ES 'Inaugural Exhibition', Rubell Museum, Miami, USA 'Public Images', Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA 'New York: The 1980s, Part I', Le Consortium, Dijon, FR 'Theater of Operations: The Gulf Wars 1991-2011', MoMA PS1, New York, USA 'Moving The Image', curated by Duncan Wooldridge, Camberwell Space, University Gallery at University of Arts London, UK 'Eau de Cologne', Sprüth Magers, H Queen´s, Hongkong, CN 'Birdcalls 1972/81', University Art Museum, University at Albany, State University of New York, USA 'Louis Lawler: Birdcalls', Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland, USA 'Spring 2019: Collected Works', Rennie Museum, Vancouver, CA 'Front Room', Baltimore Museum of Art, USA 'Garden of Earthly Delights', Gropius Bau, Berlin, DE 'Constellations', Museu Coleção, PT 'Forever Young: 10 Years Museum Brandhorst', Museum Brandhorst, Munich, DE 'Francesco Vezzoli: Le Lacrime dei poeti', Collection Lambert, Avignon, FR

2018 'Décor: Barbara Bloom, , Louise Lawler', MOCA Pacific Design Center, Los Angeles, USA 'Affective Affinities', 33rd Sao Paulo Bienal, BR

'Exhibiting the Exhibition', Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, DE 'Faithless Pictures', National Museum, Oslo, NO 'Brand New', Hirshhorn Museum, Washington, USA 'The Classical Now', Somerset House, King’s College London, UK 'Unexchangeable', WIELS Contemporary Art Centre, Brussels, BE 'Michael Jackson: On the Wall', National Portrait Gallery, London, UK; Grand Palais, Paris, FR 'Other Mechanisms', Secession Vienna, AT 'The Artist is Present', Yuz Museum, Shanghai, CN 'Hunter of Worlds', Salts, Birsfelden, CH 'Picture Industry' , LUMA, Arles, FR 'Signal or Noise: The Photographic II', S.M.A.K.Ghent, BE 'Local Histories', Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, DE

2017 'Pop Pictures People', Museum Brandhorst, Munich, DE 'Remastered – die Kunst der Aneignung', Kunsthalle Krems, Krems, AT 'Why Can’t Minimal', The Rooms, St. John’s, CA 'We Need to Talk', Petzel Gallery, New York, USA 'Eau de Cologne', Adrian Rosenfeld Gallery, San Francisco, USA 'Serialities', Hauser & Wirth, New York, USA 'Come to the Edge', Luxembourg & Dayan, New York, USA & London, UK 'Plages', Campoli Presti, London, UK & Paris, FR 'How Beautiful it is and how Easily it can be Broken', S.M.A.K., Ghent, BE 'A Slow Succession with Many Interruptions', San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, USA 'Poïpoï: A Private Collection in Monaco', Nouveau Musée National de Monaco, MC 'Recent Acquisitions', , London, UK 'The World is Made of Stories', Astrup Fearnley Museum, Oslo, NO 'PLAGES', Campoli Presti, London, UK and Paris, FR 'The Ends of Collage', Louxembourg & Dayan, New York, USA & London, UK 'Double Take', Skarstedt Gallery, London, UK 'Wundercamera: Savannah', Jepson Center, Savannah, USA 'SoixanteDixSept Experiment', Centre Photographique d’Île-de-France, Paris, FR 'American Interior', Carriage Trade, New York, USA 'Never Enough‘, MEWO Kunsthalle, Memmingen, DE 'Enemy of the Stars‘, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, DE 'Unpacking‘, Marciano Art Foundation, Los Angeles, USA 'Picture Industry‘, Hessel Museum of Art, Bard College, Annandale-On-Hudson, USA 'Replicas‘, Musée des beaux-arts de La Chaux-de-Fonds, FR 'Von Christo bis Kiefer‘, Kunstmuseum Pablo Picasso, Münster, DE 'Perfectly Concocted Context by Jonathan Monk‘, Cherry and Martin, Los Angeles, USA 'Collection. Remonter le temps‘, FRAC Bretagne, Rennes, FR '[AN-]SICHTEN – Vom Umgang mit der Wirklichkeit‘, DZ Bank Art Collection Art Foyer, Frankfurt am Main, DE 'Watchin Sugar Dissolve in a Glass of Water‘, Museum Moderner Kunst, Vienna, AT 'Schreibtischuhr‘, Galerie Meyer Kainer, Vienna, AT 'Mechanism‘, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, USA

'Being Modern: MoMA in Paris‘, Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris, FR 'VISITEZ MA TENTE‘, Warhus Rittershaus, Cologne, DE 'Projects for the Page‘, Center for Contemporary Art & Culture, Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland, USA 'Glass Ceiling‘, UrbanGlass, Brooklyn, USA 'The Trouble with Value‘, Bunkier Sztuki Gallery, Krakow, PL

2016 'Animality‘, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, USA 'Summer 2016: Collected Works‘, Rennie Collection, Vancouver, CA 'Photography Reinvented: The Collection of Robert E. Meyerhoff and Rheda Becker, , Washington, USA 'Eau de Cologne: , , Louise Lawler, Cindy Sherman, Rosemarie Trockel’, Sprüth Magers, Los Angeles, USA 'Pièces-Mueblés‘, Galérie Patrick Seguin, Paris, FR 'The Possessed‘, La Friche Belle de Mai, Marseille, FR 'Return to that Partciular Moment‘, 601 Artspace, New York, USA 'The Capacity to Be Alone‘, MFC Michèle Didier, Paris, FR 'The Nest: An Exhibition of Art in Nature‘, Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, USA 'In Place of‘, Miguel Abreu Gallery, New York, USA 'Acquisitions récentes, Frac Franche-Comté, Besançon, FR 'L’Image Volée‘, , Milan, IT 'This is Your Replacement‘, Sies + Höke, Düsseldorf, DE 'Receipt of a Magical Agent‘, CCS Bard Galleries, Annandale-on-Hudson, USA 'Schiff Ahoy: Contemporary Art from the Brandhorst Collection‘, Museum Brandhorst, Munich, DE 'Human Interest: Portraits from the Whitney Collection‘, USA 'Solo Walks‘, Bündner Kunstmuseum, Chur, CH 'First Light: A Decade of Collecting at the ICA‘, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, USA 'Ballads of the Beasts‘, Centre national édition art image, Chatou, FR 'The Artist’s Museum‘, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, USA 'Open Spaces | Secret Places – Works from the Sammlung Verbund, Vienna‘, Palais de Beaux- Arts Brussels, BE 'Accrochage‘, Punta della Dogana, Venice, IT 'Open This End: Contemporary Art from the Collection of Blake Byrne‘,The Miriam & Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery, Columbia University, New York, USA 'Ordinary Pictues‘, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, USA 'What People Do For Money‘, Manifesta 11: The European Biennial of Contemporary Art, Zurich, CH 'Question the Wall Itself‘, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, USA 'Die Kerze‘, Museum Frieder Burda, Baden-Baden, DE 'The Vanished Reality‘, Modern Art Oxford, Oxford, UK 'Why Can’t Minimal‘, Open Space Gallery, Victoria, CA 'Why Can’t Minimal‘, The Kenderdine Art Gallery, Saskatoon, CA 'Frenemies: Art Versus Commodity‘, University Art Museum at CSULB, Long Beach, USA 'Various Small Fires (Working Documents)‘, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, USA

'No Man’s Land. from the Rubell Family Collection‘, Rubell Family Collection, Miami, USA

2015 'They Printed It!', Kunsthalle Zürich, Zürich, CH 'Greater New York', MoMA PS1, New York, USA 'Play', Tanya Leighton Gallery, Berlin, DE 'Eau de Cologne: Jenny Holzer, Barbara Kruger, Louise Lawler, Cindy Sherman, Rosemarie Trockel', Sprüth Magers, Berlin, DE 'To Expose, to Show, to Demonstrate, to Inform, to Offer', Mumok, Vienna, AT 'Works on Paper', Greene Naftali, New York, USA 'Dimensions Variable: Artist and Architecture', Pavillon de l’Arsenal, Paris, FR 'Open This End: Contemporary Art from the COllection of Blake Byrne', The Skylark Foundation, Los Angeles, USA 'Von Bildern. Strategien der Aneignung', Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Basel, CH 'America is Hard to See', The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA 'Picasso in der Kunst der Gegenwart', Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, DE 'Stories We Tell Ourselves', Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, USA 'Et in Arcadia Ego – World-chaos & idyll', Kurhaus , DE 'Ape Culture', Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, DE 'Reflections: A Programme of New and Changing Displays', Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Modern One, Edinburough, UK 'Open Source', Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin, DE and Paris, FR 'Parasophioa; Kyoto International Festival for Contemporary Culture', Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art, Kyoto, JP 'Cannibalism? On in Art', Zacheta National Art Gallery, Warsaw, PL 'Can the Museum Be a Garden?', Serralves Museum, Porto, PT 'Taking Pictures', Burlington City Arts Center, Burlington, USA 'Sleepless – the Bed in History and Cotemporary Art', 21er Haus, Vienna, AT 'Museum Studies', Berman Museum at Ursinus College, Collegeville, USA

2014 'To Have and to Hold. 50 Years of Marriage and Collecting Contemporary Art', Rubell Family Collection, Miami, USA 'Social Factory', Shanghai Biennial, CN 'My Private World‘, Vertikale Galerie, Sammlung Verbund, Vienna, AT 'Before and After Pictures: An Exhibition for Douglas Crimp', Galerie Buchholz, Cologne, DE 'A Letter Always Arrives at its Destination', La Panacée, Centre de Culture Contemporaine, Montpellier, FR Collection Presentation, S.M.A.K., Gent, BE 'Concept After Concept: Before Normal', Museet for Samtidskunst, Roskilde, DK 'No Such Thing as History: Four Collections and One Artist', Espace Louis Vuitton, Munich, DE 'Take it or Leave it: Institution, Image, Ideology', Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, USA 'Codex', CCA Wattis Institute, San Francisco, USA

2013 'Alejandro Cesarco. Secondary Revision', Frac Île-de-France / Le Plateau, Paris, FR

'Reinventing the Wheel: The Readymade Centenary', Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne, AU 'Wundercamera', Pitzhanger Manor Gallery & House, London, UK 'Das Beste vom Besten.Vom riskanten Geschäft der Kunst', Kunstverein Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, DE 'Honey, I Rearranged the Collection', Petach Tikva Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, IL 'BACKFLIP: Feminism and Humour in Contemporary Art', Margaret Lawrence Gallery, Victorian College of the Arts, The University of Melbourne, AU 'Works of the Jenney Archive', Gagosian Gallery, New York, USA 'A Space for Contemplation', Andreas Binder Galerie, Munich, DE 'Art by Telephone...Recalled', Winter Scenario, cneai, Paris, FR 'Paraphrasing Babel', outdoor exhibition, Maastricht and Heerlen, NL 'Significant Ordinaries', University Art Museum, California State University, Long Beach, USA 'The Causes of Things', CNAP Centre national des arts plastique, Brussels, BE

2012 'Elles: Women Artists from the , Paris', Seattle Art Museum, USA 'Regarding Warhol: Sixty Artists, Fifty Years', The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA 'Seeing is Believing: A History of Photography', Sackler Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA 'open spaces | secret places', Museum der Moderne Salzburg, AT 'Spies in the House of Art: Photography, Film, and Video', The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA 'Installation View', 601Artspace, New York, USA; Collectorspace, Istanbul, TR 'Histories de L’Art', VOX Centre de l’image contemporaire, Montreal, CA 'Painting in Photography: Strategies of Appropriation' Städelmuseum, Frankfurt am Main, DE 'Drawing a Blank (On Forgetting, Refusal, Censure and Impotence)', David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles, USA 'Look Now: Modern and Contemporary Art from Private Collections', The Montclair Art Museum, New Jersey, USA 'Lizi Sanchez: Beyond the Pearl', Standpoint Gallery, London, UK 'This Will Have Been: Art, Love & Politics', Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago; Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston; Walker Art Center Minneapolis, USA 'Last Exit: Pictures', BFAS Blondeau Fine Art Services, Geneva, CH

2011 'Codex', Geneva University of Art and Design, Geneva, CH 'Frames and Documents: Conceptualist Practices, Selections from the Ella Fontanals-Cisnerors Collection', CIFO Art Space, Miami, USA 'Situation New York 1986', Art & Public, Geneva, CH 'Museum of Desires', MUMOK, Vienna, AT 'After Images', Jewish Museum of Belgium, Brussels, BE 'Shared Intelligence: American Painting and the Photograph', The Georgia O' Keeffe Museum, Santa Fe, USA 'No Substitute', Glenstone, Potomac, Maryland, USA

'Le Temps, Retrouve: Cy Twombly photographe et artistes invites', Collection Lambert in Avignon, Musée d’art Contemporain, Avignon, FR 'Photographs: Folio and Installations', Blondeau Fine Art Services, Geneva, CH 'Picture no Picture', Carriage Trade, New York, USA 'Made in Italy', Gagosian Gallery, Rome, IT 'Kraftwerk Depot: Wie Kunst altert', MARTa Museum für zeitgenössische Kunst, Herford, DE 'André Butzer. Château Christopher Robin', Galerie Hammelehle und Ahrens, Cologne, DE 'The 2011 Bridgehampton Biennial', MARTOS GALLERY, New York, USA 'Through the Looking Brain', Kunstmuseum, , DE 'Beziehungsarbeit – Kunst und Institution', Künstlerhaus, Vienna, AT 'The Deconstructive Impulse: Women Aritsts Reconfigure the Signs of Power, 1973-1991', Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase College, New York, USA 'Accrochage IX Photography', Galerie Greta Meert, Brussels, BE 'The World Belongs To You', Palazzo Grassi, Venice, IT

2010 'Pictures by Women: A History of Modern Photography', Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA 'Hareng Saur: Ensor and Contemporary Art', S.M.A.K./Museum of Fine Arts, Ghent, BE 'Hyper Real', Museum Moderner Kunst, Vienna, AT 'Je Crois aux Miracles: Dix ans de la Collection Lambert', Collection Lambert en Avignon Musée d’art, Contemporain, Avignon, FR 'Untitled (Ohne Titel)', Neue Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst, Berlin, DE 'Bloodflames III', Alex Zachary, New York, USA 'Mixed Used ', Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, ES 'Taking Place', The Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, NL 'The Fifth Genre: Considering the Contemporary Still Life', Galerie Lelong, New York, USA 'Adaptation: Between Species', The Power Plant, Toronto, CA 'Memories of the Future', Sean Kelly Gallery, New York, USA 'Lost and Found', Neugerriemschneider, Berlin, DE 'Focus on Photography: Recent Acquisitions', Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, St. Louis, USA 'Accrochage VIII', Galerie Greta Meert, Brussels, BE 'Your History is Not Our History', Haunch of Venison, New York, USA 'C’est la Vie! Vanités—De Pompéï à ', Musée Maillol, Paris, FR 'Animism, Extra City Kunsthal and the Museum of Contemporary Art', Antwerp; Kunsthalle Bern, CH 'Studiolo', Hard Hat, Geneva, CH 'The Library of Babel / In and Out of Place', 176 Zabludowicz Collection, London, UK 'Signatures', Sutton Lane, Paris, FR 'Sound & Vision', Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, USA 'El Gabinete Blanco', The Jumex Collection, Mexico City, MX

2009 'Take the Money and Run', De Appel, Amsterdam, NL 'Elles@Centrepompidou', Centre Pompidou, Paris, FR 'Where Do We Go From Here: Selections from the Jumex Collection', Bass Museum of Art, Miami, USA 'Off the Wall', Galerie Leonoard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery, Montreal, CA

'Beg Borrow and Steal', The Rubell Family Collection Museum, Miami, USA 'Mondernologies: Contemporary Artists Researching Modernity and Modernism', Museu d'Art Contemporani, Barcelona, ES; Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw, PL 'See This Sound: Promises in Sound and Vision', Lentos Kunstmuseum, Linz, AT 'Pictures of Pictures', Galerie Andreas Binder, Munich, DE 'The Effect of Modern Art on Green Circles', The Vanmoerkerke Collection, Ostend, BE 'The Making of Art', Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt am Main, DE 'Market Forces: Part 1 & 2', Galerie Erna Hecey, Brussels, BE 'Top 10 Allegories', Francesca Pia Gallery, Zurich, CH 'White Noise', James Cohan Gallery, New York, USA ': 1974-1984', The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA 'Nothingness and Being', The Jumex Collection, Mexico City, MX 'Beginnings, Middles, And Ends', Georg Kargl Fine Arts, Vienna, AT 'The Quick and the Dead', Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, USA 'Every Revolution is a Role of the Dice', Paula Cooper, New York, USA 'Regift', The Swiss Institute of Contemporary Art, New York, USA 'Phot(o)bjects', Presentation House Gallery, Vancouver, CA

2008 'The Present: An Infinite Dimension', The Banco Espírito Santo Collection, Museu Colecção Berardo, Lisbon, PT (cat.) 'An Unruly History of the Readymade', The Jumex Collection, Mexico City, MX 'Wall Rockets: Contemporary Artists and Ed Ruscha',The Flag Art Foundation, New York, USA 'Communication Breakdown', Edlin Gallery, New York, USA; Galerie Impaire, Paris, FR 'Political Correct', BFAS Blondeau Fine Art Services, Geneva, CH 'Blasted Allegories: Works from the Ringier Collection', Kunstmuseum Luzern, CH 'The Marfa Sessions: Sounds Across Town', Ballroom Marfa, Texas, USA Metro Pictures, New York, USA 'Blasted Allegories: Works from the Ringier Collection', Kunstmuseum Luzern, Lucerne, CH 'Meet Me Around the Corner', Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo, NO 'The Museum as Medium', Museo de Arte Contemporánea de Vigo, Vigo, ES '2018: Fate, Fortune, Coming Times', LessThanThree Gallery, Long Island City, USA 'Exact Imagination', Columbus College of Art & Design, Ohio, USA 'Jedermann Collection', Fotomuseum Winterthur, Winterthur, CH 'Ornithology', Contemporary Art Galleries, University of Connecticut, Hartford, USA 'Martian Museum of Terrestrial Art', Barbican Art Gallery, London, UK ' 2008', Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA 'Women in the City', West of Rome Presents, Los Angeles, USA

2007 'Collected Visions: Modern and Contemporary Works from the JPMorgan Chase Art Collection', Pera Museum, Istanbul, TR 'Contemporary Photography', de Pury & Luxembourg, Zurich, CH 'A New Reality', Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, USA ' 12', Aue-Pavillon, Kassel, DE 'Romantic Conceptualism', Kunsthalle Nürnberg, Nuremberg, DE

'For Sale', Cristina Guerra Contemporary Art, Lisbon, PT 'Not Like You Remembered', Galerie Six Friedrich Lisa Ungar, Munich, DE 'Seeing Things', Dorsky Gallery, New York, USA Museum Ludwig, Cologne, DE 'The Price of Everything: Perspectives on the Art Market', The Art Gallery of the Graduate Center, New York, USA 'REALLIFE: 1979-1990', , New York, USA 'Held Together With Water', Sammlung Verbund, MAK, Vienna, AT 'Edit! Photography and Film in the Ellipse Collection', The Ellipse Foundation: Contemporary Art Collection, Alcoitao, PT 'Not for Sale', P.S. 1, New York, USA 'What Does the Jellyfish Want', Museum Ludwig, Cologne, DE Metro Pictures, New York, USA 'The 80’s: A Topography', Fundação Serralves, Porto, PT 'Sequence 1: Selections from the collection of François Pinault', Palazzo Grassi, Venice, IT

2006 'Mondi Possibili', Sprüth Magers, Cologne, DE 'Why Pictures Now', Museum Moderner Kunst, Vienna, AT 'Open House', The Ellipse Foundation: Contemporary Art Collection, Alcoitao, PT 'Not Quite Ten Years Without Martin Kippenberger', MOT, London, UK 'Contemporary Master Works: Saint Louis Collects', St. Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, USA 'An Ongoing Low-Grade Mystery', Paula Cooper, New York USA Meert-Rihoux, Brussels, BE 'Make Your Own Life: Artists In & Out of Cologne', ICA – Institute of Contemporary Art at University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia; The Powerplant, Toronto, CDN; The Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, USA; MOCA, Miami, USA

2005 'Exceeding Paint / Expanding Painting', Pratt Manhattan Gallery, New York, USA 'Museum Fever: Included Louise Lawler', National Museum of Art, Oslo, NO 'Slide Show', The Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, USA 'Flashback: Revisiting the Art of the Eighties', Kunstmuseum – Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Basel, CH Metro Pictures, New York, USA

2004 'Collection (or, How I Spent a Year)', P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, USA 'A Fripon Fripon et Demi', Collection Lambert en Avignon, Avignon, FR '100 Artists See God', co-curated by John Baldessari and Meg Cranston, Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco USA 'Raum', Häusler Contemporary, Munich, DE 'The Big Nothing', Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, USA 'Los Usos de la Imagen, the Jumex Collection', Espacio Fundación Telefónica, Buenos Aires, AR

2003

'Shadow and Light', Sprüth Magers Lee, Salzburg, AT '20th Anniversary Show', Sprüth Magers, Cologne, DE Metro Pictures, New York, USA 'Re-produktion 2', Georg Kargl, Vienna, AT 'Bull’s Eye: Works from the Astrup Fearnley Collection', Arken Museum of Moderne Kunst, Ishøj 'Pletskud', Arken Museum for Moderne Kunst, Ishøj, DK 'The Last Picture Show: Artists Using Photography 1960-1982', Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, USA; Miami Art Center, Florida, USA 'Pretty, as a Picture', Carrie Secrist Gallery, Chicago, USA 'Designs for Living', Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, USA 'Adorno 100', Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt am Main, DE 'Everyday Aesthetics', Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo, NO 'German Art Now', Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, USA 'Contemporary Spaces Underlying Culture', Brigham Young University Museum of Art, Salt Lake City, USA 'Himmel & Helvete', Kistefos Museum, Jevnaker, NO

2002 'Reflections', Sprüth Magers, Munich, DE Metro Pictures, New York, USA 'toys II', Kagan Martos Gallery, New York, USA 'Open House', Casino Luxembourg, Luxembourg, LU 'Realitetsfantasier', Astrup Fearnley Museet for Modern Kunst, Oslo, NO 'Visions from America: Photographs from the Whitney Museum of American Art', The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA 'Extension', Magasin 3 Stockholm Konsthall, Stockholm, SE 'Jani Leinonen', Plus Ultra Gallery, Brooklyn, USA 'Her Point of View', The United States Embassy in Lome, Lome, TG 'Life, Death, Love, Hate, Pleasure, Pain', Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, USA

2001 'Now Playing: Audio in Art', Susan Inglett, New York, USA 'Double Vision: Photographs from the Strauss Collection', University Art Museum, California State University, Long Beach, USA 'Play’s The Thing', organized by The Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Study Program, Art Gallery of The Graduate Center, The City University of New York, New York, USA 'American Art', Galerie Rudolfinum, The Centre of Contemporary Art, Prague, CZ 'What’s New: Recent Acquistions in Photography', The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Des Moins Art Centre, Iowa, USA 'Extra Art', Logan Galleries, California College of Arts and Crafts, San Francisco, USA 'Body Double: Figures of Figures', Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, USA 'A Work in Progress', New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, USA 'Televisions', Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, AT

2000 Metro Pictures, New York, USA

'Frames of Reference', Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery, Middletown, USA 'rot grau', Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, CH 'Whitney Biennial', The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA 'Insites: Interior Spaces in Contemporary Art', The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA 'Limited and Unlimited Editions', Artists’ Space (benefit exhbition), New York, USA 'Paperweights', Metro Pictures, New York, USA 'Eröffnung', Neugerriemschneider, Berlin, DE 'John Baldessari, Candida Höfer, Louise Lawler, , John Waters, James Welling', Galerie Jürgen Becker, Hamburg, DE 'American Art Today: Fantasies & Curiosities', Art Museum at Florida International University Miami, Miami, USA 'toys', Kagan Martos Gallery, New York, USA

1999 'Das Versprechen der Fotografie', Kestner Gesellschaft, Hannover, DE 'The Museum as Muse', The Museum of Modern Art, New York; Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, USA 'Oh cet écho! (duchampiana)', Le Musée d'Art Moderne et Contemporain, Geneva, CH 'Shelf Life', Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, USA 'Moving Images', Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst, Leipzig, DE 'Triennale Exhibition: Sentiment of the Year 2000', Triennale di Milano, Milan, IT

1998 'Mysterious Voyages', Contemporary Museum, Baltimore, USA 'Scratches on the Surface of Things', Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, NL 'dijon / le consortium. coll tout centre l' art contemporain', Musée National d’Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, FR 'Emotion', Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, DE Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, USA 'Without Moving / Without Stopping', www.stadiumweb.com (online exhibition) 'Birdcalls', www.stadiumweb.com (online exhibition)

1997 'Ausblick', Monika Sprüth Galerie, Cologne, DE 'Collected', The Photographer's Gallery, London, UK 'Foto Text Text Foto', Fotomuseum Winterthur, Winterthur, CH 'Dramatically Different', Centre d'Art Contemporain de Grenoble, Grenoble, FR 'Deep Storage: Arsenale der Erinnerung', , Munich, DE; Nationalgalerie, Berlin, DE; Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf im Ehrenhof, Düsseldorf, DE; P.S.1 Center for Contemporary Art, New York, USA (1998) 'Der klare Blick', , DE 'Moving Images', Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst, Leipzig, DE

1996 Metro Pictures, New York, USA 'Cultural Economies: Histories from the Alternative', The Drawing Center, New York, USA

'Fractured Fairy Tales: Art in the Age of Categorical Disintegration', Museum of Art, Durham, North Carolina, USA 'Art at Home: Ideal Standard Life', Spiral Garden, Tokyo, JP 'Comme un Oiseau', la Fondation Cartier pour l'art Contemporain, Paris, FR 'Architecture, Art and Planning Department Centennial', Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, GR 10th Biennale of Sydney, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Artspace, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, AU (

1995 'The End(s) of the Museum', Fundacio Antoni Tapies, Barcelona, ES 'Passions Privees', Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, FR 'Contemporary Photographs: Group Lhoist Collection', Saint-Jean-des-Bois, FR

1994 Metro Pictures, New York, USA 'Radical Scavenger(s): The Conceptual Vernacular in Recent American Art', Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, USA 'Die Orte der Kunst', Sprengel Museum, Hannover, DE 'The Century of the Multiple: From Duchamp to the Present', Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, DE '4 x 1 im Albertinum', Gemäldegalerie Neue Meister, Staatliche Kunstammlungen, Dresden, DE 'Temporary Translation(s): Sammlung Schurmann', Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, DE

1993 'Eau de Cologne 83–93', Monika Sprüth galerie, Cologne, DE Metro Pictures, New York, USA 'Louise Lawler, Cindy Sherman, ', Kunsternes Hus, Oslo; Museum of Contempoary Art, Helsinki, FI 'The Image of the Exhibition', Hochschule für Angewandte Kunst, Vienna, AT 'The Nightshade Family', Museum Fridericianum, Kassel, DE 'The Language of Art', Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, AT 'Kontext Kunst', Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz, AT 'Network', Kunsternes Hus, Oslo, NO 'Das Bild Der Ausstellung', Heiligenkreuzerhof, Vienna , AT 'Songs of Retribution', Richard Anderson Gallery, New York, USA

1992 'Quotations. The Second History of Art', The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield Metro Pictures, New York, USA 'Knowledge: Aspects of Contemporary Art', University Art Museum, Santa Barbara; North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, USA 'Yvon Lambert Collectionne', Musée d'Art Moderne, Villeneuve d'Ascq, FR 'Selected Works From the Early Eighties', K-Raum Daxer, München, DE 'American Art of the 80's', Museo d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento, Trento, IT 'Informationsdienst', Künstlerhaus Stuttgart, Stuttgart, DE

1991

Biennial Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA 'Hugo-Erfurth-Preis: Manual Alvarex Bravo, Louise Lawler, Henk Tas', Museum Morsbroich, , DE 'L’insoutenable l’égèreté de l’art', Musée de La Roche-sur-Yon, La Roche-sur-Yon; Musée de Poitiers, Ville de Poitier, FR 'Anni Novanta', Galeria Communale d'Arte Contemporanea, Bologna, IT 'Devil on the Stairs: Looking Back on the 80s', ICA – Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia; Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, USA 'Carnegie International', Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, USA Metro Pictures, New York, 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', The Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, USA 'A Vint Minuts de Paris', Galeria Joan Prats, Barcelona, ES 'Tierra Encantada', Charlotte Crosby Kemper Gallery, City Art Institute, Kansas City, USA Metro Pictures, New York, USA

1989 'Mondi Possibili', Monika Sprüth Galerie, Cologne, DE 'Photography of Invention: American Pictures of the 1980's', National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institute, Washington D.C., USA 'A Forest of Signs: Art in the Crisis of Representation', The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, USA 'scripta manent – verba volant', Monika Sprüth Galerie, Cologne, DE 'Tenir L'image a distance', Musee d'Art Contemporain de Montreal, Montreal, CA 'Wittgenstein', Wiener Secession, Vienna, AT 'Confronting the Uncomfortable: Questioning Truth and Power', Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, USA 'In Other Words', Museum am Ostwall, , DE 'Moscow – Vienna – New York', Wiener Festwochen, Vienna, AT 'Allan McCollum, Richard Prince, Louise Lawler, Barbara Bloom, Larry Johnson', Galerie Isabella Kacprzak, Cologne, DE Metro Pictures, New York, USA

1988 'Investigations 1988'; Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA 'Five Installations', Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, USA 'Presi Per Incantamento', Padiglione d'Arte Contemporanea di Milano, Milan, IT

1987 Maison de la Culture et de la Communication de Saint-Etienne (two-person exhibition with John Knight), Saint-Etienne, FR

'This Is Not a Photograph: Twenty Years of Large-Scale Photography 1966-1986', The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota; Akron Art Museum, Ohio, USA; The Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, UK 'Nothing Sacred' Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, USA Metro Pictures, New York, USA 'Photography and Art: Interactions Since 1946', Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles; Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale (cat.); Queens Museum, New York, USA 'Art and the Dialectic Process', Everhart Museum, Scranton, USA 'Eau de Cologne', Monika Sprüth Galerie, Cologne, DE 'Implosion: A Postmodern Perspective', Moderna Museet, Stockholm, SE 'Quatriemes Ateliers Internationeaux de Pays de la Loire 1987', Abbaye Royale de Fontevraud, Fontevraud, FR 'L'objet de la Peinture', Ecole Superior d'art Visuel, Geneva, CH

1986 'The Fairy Tale: Politics, Desire, and Everyday Life', Artists Space, New York, USA 'The Real Big Picture', Queens Museum, New York, USA 'Damaged Goods', The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, USA 'Rooted Rhetoric. Una Tradizone Nell'Arte Americana', Pallazzina Centrale, Castel dell'Ovo, Naples, IT 'L'oeuvre et son accrochage', Musée National d'Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, FR Metro Pictures, New York, USA 'Art and Its Double: A New York Perspective', Fundacio Caixa de Pensions, Barcelona; La Caixa de Pensions, Madrid, ES

1985 'Eau de Cologne', Monika Sprüth Galerie, Cologne, DE 'The Anticipated Ruin', The Kitchen, New York, USA 'The Art of Memory/The Loss of History', The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York (cat.) Metro Pictures, New York, USA 'New York Now: Correspondences', Laforet Museum, Tokyo; Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Arts, Tochigi; Tazaki Hall, Tazaki; Espace Media, Kobe, JP 'Arts and Leisure', by , The Kitchen, New York, USA

1984 'Artists Call Against U.S. Intervention in Central America', Metro Pictures, New York, USA 'Masking/Unmasking: Aspects of Post-Modernist Photography', The Friends of Photography, Carmel, USA 'Re-placement', Hallwalls, Buffalo, USA 'Contemporary Perspectives, 1984', Center Gallery, Bucknell University, Bucknell, USA; Wilkes College, Wilkes-Barre, USA 'Natural Genre', Fine Arts Gallery, Florida State University, Tallahassee, USA 'New York, Ailleurs et Autrement', ARC Musee d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, FR 'Pop', Spiritual America, New York, USA 'Con Rumore', Galerie Westersingel 8, Rotterdam, NL

'Wedge Benefit', Gallery Nature Morte, New York, USA

1983 'Performance / Presentation', Nova Scotia College or Art & Design, Halifax, UK 'Against U.S. Intervention in Central America', Artists Call, New York, USA 'Pierre et Marie', 36 rue d'Ulm, Paris, FR 'Borrowed Time', Baskerville & Watson Gallery, New York, USA 'Multiple Choice', P.S. I, New York, USA 'Drawings/Photographs', , New York, USA 'In Other Words: Artists' Use of Language, Part 2', Franklin Furnace, New York, USA 'In Order to Get Experience You Have to Get a Job', The Danspace Project, St. Marks Church, New York, USA 'Hundreds of Drawings', Artists’ Space, New York, USA

1982 'Public Vision', White Columns, New York, USA 'Group Exhibition', Jancar/Kuhlenschmidt, Los Angeles, USA

1981 'Extended Photography', Wiener Secession, Vienna, AT 'Photo', Metro Pictures, New York, USA 'Love is Blind', Castelli Gallery, New York, USA 'A Picture is No Substitute For Anything', I D Gallery, Cal Arts, Valencia; Harry Rivkin/Lispenard Street, New York; Ronelle Gallery, Nova Scotia, CA 'His gesture moved us to tears', James Turcotte Gallery, Hollywood, USA

1980 'Amalgam', Castelli Graphics, New York, USA

1979 'Individual and Collaborative Works by Nine Artists', 616 South Broadway, Los Angeles, USA 'Dan Graham, Louise Lawler, Peter Nadin, Lawrence Weiner', Peter Nadin, New York, USA

1978 '______, Louise Lawler, Adrian Piper and Cindy Sherman are participating in an exhibition organized by Janelle Reiring at Artists Space, September 23 to October 28, 1978', Artists Space, New York, USA 'Show of Shows', One Hundred Dollar Gallery, New York, USA

1976 'The Law and Order Show', Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, USA

1972

'The Roseprint Detective Club, Caring/Lawler', Meetings, Pampolona, E; Protech-Rivkin, Washington, D.C., USA

1970 'Artists on Paper', Kornblee Gallery, New York, USA

1969 'Two person with Martha Kite', Goldwyn-Smith Gallery, Cornell University, Ithaca, GR

Sammlungen / Museum Collections

Aargauer Kunsthaus, Aarau Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College, Ohio Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago Art Museum, Princeton University, New Jersey Astrup Fearnley Museet for Moderne Kunst, Oslo Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris Cincinnati Art Museum, Ohio Des Moines Art Center, Iowa Detroit Institute of Art, Detroit Ellipse Foundation, Cascais Fondation Cartier, Paris Fotomuseum Winterthur, Winterthur FRAC Bretagne, Chateaugiron Glenstone Foundation, Potomac Guggenheim Museum, New York Harn Museum of Art, University of Florida Gainsville Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts Hessel Collection Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami Israel Museum, Tel Aviv Jumex Collection, Mexico City Kemper Art Museum, Washington University, St. Louis Kresge Museum, East Lansing, Michigan Kunsthalle Hamburg, Hamburg Kunstmuseum Basel, Basel Le Consortium, Dijon Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles Magasin 3 Konsthall, Stockholm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Moderna Museet, Stockholm Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, New Jersey Museet for Samtidskunst (Museum of Contemporary Art), Oslo

Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts Museum Ludwig, Cologne Museum of Modern Art, New York Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna Museum van Hedendaagse, Antwerp Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix Princeton University Art Museum Queens Museum, New York Rubell Collection, Miami San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco Seattle Art Museum, Seattle Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art, Portugal Sprengel Museum, Hannover Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart The Tate Gallery, London Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut Walker Art Center, Minneapolis Whitney Museum of American Art, New York Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut