Jenny Holzer

Lecture: October 18, 6pm, James A. Little Theatre
Workshop: October 18 - 23

Informed by her experience with public art, Jenny Holzer's workshop will investigate the process of creating art in public places and how content is transmitted outside gallery walls. Holzer will discuss her many projects and work with participants toward an understanding of the context of public art and its particular challenges.

For more than 25 years, Jenny Holzer has presented her ideas, arguments, and sorrows in public places and international exhibitions, including the Venice Biennale, the Reichstag, and the Guggenheim Museums in New York and Bilbao, Spain. Her medium is always language, and the public dimension is integral to the delivery of her work. From the Truisms and Inflammatory Essays posters that Holzer plastered to the walls of New York buildings in the late 1970s to the LED screens and granite benches to the recent xenon projections on prominent façades, her texts and practices have countered ignorance and violence with humor, kindness, and moral courage.

Holzer was born in 1950 in Gallipolis, Ohio. She received a BFA from Ohio University, Athens, Ohio, and an MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island. She lives and works in Hoosick, New York.