Pioneering conceptual artist Lawrence Weiner

Artist’s Biography:

Lawrence Weiner (b.1942 in the Bronx, NY) has produced early experimental work in film and video, artist books and ephemera, as well as large-scale public commissions in cities including Vancouver, Vienna, Eindhoven, and New York. His most recent major exhibitions include Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin (2000), Museo Tamayo Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico City, (2004) and Tate Gallery, London (2006).

In 2007 the Whitney Museum of American Art in collaboration with MOCA, Los Angeles, mounted his first major retrospective in the United States. This exhibition is on view at K21 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf through January 2009. Weiner divides his time between New York City and Amsterdam.

Year of Birth: 1942

Gallery Representation: Gagosian Gallery

Artist’s Statement:

Art is something human beings make to present to others to understand their place in the world.