Louise Bourgeois

Louise Joséphine Bourgeois (fr; 25 December 1911 – 31 May 2010) o daa nyɛla nuuni tuunbaŋda ŋun daa nyɛ French-American. O nyɛla ŋun daa mɛri binyɛra ka daa lahi peentira.

Louise Bourgeois
Dɔɣim yuli	Louise Joséphine Bourgeois
6th arrondissement of Paris (en) , Silimin gɔli December 25, 1911
O ya Tiŋgbaŋ	France America
Kpibu shee	Beth Israel Medical Center (en) ni New York, Silimin gɔli May 31, 2010
Cutchogue Cemetery (en)
Ŋ-ŋɔ kum	natural causes (en)  (myocardial infarction (en) )
Paɣa/yidana	Robert Goldwater  (1938 - 1973)
Education
Shikuru shɛli o ni chaŋ	Académie Moderne (en) Atelier 17 (en) École du Louvre (en) Art Students League of New York (en) Lycée Fénelon, Paris (en) (1921 - 1927) University of Paris (en) (1932 - 1935) : Laasabu malibu Beaux-Arts de Paris (en) (1936 - 1938) Académie de la Grande Chaumière (en) (1937 - 1938) Académie Julian (en) (1938 - 1938)
Bala yɛlibu, sabbu bee buɣisibu	Farinsi
Shikuru bila zaŋ ti	Paul Colin (mul)
Tuma
Tuma	sculptor (en) , Pɛnta-pɛnta, illustrator (en) , jewelry designer (en) , foot ŋmara, drawer (en) , installation artist (en) , printmaker (en) ni performance artist (en)
Tuma shee	Paris ni New York
Ŋun kpuɣi o tuma	Brooklyn College (en)
Notable work	Maman (en) The Welcoming Hands (en) Spider (en)
Pin' shɛŋa o ni dee	view National Medal of Arts  (1997) Knight of the Legion of Honour  (2008) Praemium Imperiale  (1999) National Women's Hall of Fame  (2009) Wolf Prize in Arts  (2003) Austrian Decoration for Science and Art  (2005) Women's Caucus for Art Lifetime Achievement Award  (1980) Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences Great Immigrants Award  (2009) honorary doctorate  (2005)
Nira zaŋti	American Academy of Arts and Letters (en) American Academy of Arts and Sciences (en) American Abstract Artists (en)
Laɣingu	abstract expressionism (en) feminist art (en) modernism (en) surrealism (en) abject art (en)
Yupapaa	Bourgeois, Louise Joséphine, Goldwater, Louise Bourgeois ni Goldwater, Mrs. Robert
Nuu tuunbaŋsim balibu	assemblage (en) figurative art (en) abstract art (en)
IMDb	nm1658238

Not to be confused with Louis Bourgeois (disambiguation) or Louyse Bourgeois.

Piligu biɛhigu

Bourgeois nyɛla bɛ ni daa dɔɣi so 25 December 1911, Paris, France. O daa nyɛla sunsuuni bia bihi ata ni ka o laamba nyɛ Joséphine Fauriaux mini Louis Bourgeois.

Selected works

Bibliography

• 1982 – Louise Bourgeois. Museum of Modern Art. 1982. p. 123. ISBN 978-0-87070-257-0.
• 1994 – The Prints of Louise Bourgeois. Museum of Modern Art. 1994. p. 254. ISBN 978-0-8109-6141-8.
• 1994 – Louise Bourgeois: The Locus of Memory Works 1982-1993. Harry N. Abrams. 1994. p. 144. ISBN 978-0-8109-3127-5.
• 1996 – Louise Bourgeois: Drawings and Observations. Bulfinch. 1995. p. 192. ISBN 978-0-8212-2299-7.
• 1998 – Louise Bourgeois Destruction of the Father / Reconstruction of the Father. MIT Press in association with Violette Editions. 1998. p. 384. ISBN 978-0-262-52246-5.
• 2000 – Louise Bourgeois: Memory and Architecture. Actar. 1999. p. 316. ISBN 978-84-8003-188-2.
• 2001 – Louise Bourgeois: The Insomnia Drawings. Scalo Publishers. p. 580. ISBN 978-3-908247-39-5.
• 2001 – Louise Bourgeois's Spider: The Architecture of Art-Writing. University of Chicago Press. 29 June 2001. p. 88. ISBN 978-0-226-03575-8.
• 2008 – Louise Bourgeois: The Secret of the Cells. Prestel USA. 2008. p. 168. ISBN 978-3-7913-4007-4.
• 2011 – To Whom it May Concern. Violette Editions. 2011. p. 76. ISBN 978-1-900828-36-9.
• 2011 – Armed forces. Ediciones Poligrafa. 2011. p. 48. ISBN 978-8-434312-53-1.
• 2012 – The Return of the Repressed. Violette Editions. 2012. p. 500. ISBN 978-1-900828-37-6.
• 2015 – Mumbling Beauty Louise Bourgeois. Thames & Hudson. 2015. p. 112. ISBN 978-0-500093-91-7.

Documentary

• 1987 – Tɛmplet:Cite video
• 2008 – Tɛmplet:Cite video

Exhibitions

• 1947 – Persistent Antagonism at San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco.
• 1949 – Untitled at Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago.
• 1967 – Untitled at National Academy of Design, New York City.
• 1972 – Number Seventy-Two at Storm King Art Center, Mountainville, New York.
• 1982 – Louise Bourgeois, at the Museum of Modern Art, New York City.
• 1982 – Eyes, marble sculpture, at Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City.
• 1984 – Nature Study: Eyes at Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York.
• 1987 – Louise Bourgeois: Sculpture 1947–1955 at Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, California.
• 1992 – Sainte Sebastienne at Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas.
• 1993 – Louise Bourgeois: Recent Work at U.S. Pavilion, 45th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy.
• 1993 – Helping Hands in permanent display at Chicago Women's Park & Gardens as of 2011, Chicago.
• 1994 – The Prints of Louise Bourgeois at the Museum of Modern Art, New York City.
• 1994 – The Nest at San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco.
• 1994 – Louise Bourgeois: The Locus of Memory, Works 1982–1993 at the Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, and the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
• 1995 – Louise Bourgeois: The Locus of Memory, Works 1982–1993 at Galerie Rudolfinum, Prague.
• 1997 – Maman at Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City.
• 1999 – Maman at Guggenheim Museum Bilbao.
• 1999 – Granite eyeball benches and 25' bronze water fountain, at Agnes R. Katz Plaza, Pittsburgh. Sculptures are currently on permanent display.
• 2000 – Fallen Woman at Galleria d'arte moderna Palazzo Forti, Verona.
• 2007 – Maman at Tate Modern, London.
• 2008 – Louise Bourgeois at Centre Pompidou, Paris, 5 March 2008 – 2 June 2008.
• 2008 – Louise Bourgeois Full Career Retrospective at Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York City.
• 2008 – Nature Study at Inverleith House, Edinburgh.
• 2008 – Louise Bourgeois for Capodimonte at National Museum of Capodimonte, Naples.
• 2009 – Louise Bourgeois: Moi, Eugénie Grandet, un processus d'identification at Maison de Balzac, Paris.
• 2010 – Louise Bourgeois: The Fabric Works, at Fondazione Vedova Venice. Travelling to Hauser & Wirth, London.
• 2010 – Louise Bourgeois: Mother and Child at Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, California.
• 2011 – Louise Bourgeois: À L'Infini at Fondation Beyeler, Riehen, Basel, 3 September 2011 – 8 January 2012.
• 2011 – Louise Bourgeois. The Return of the Repressed, at Fundación Proa, Buenos Aires. Travelling to Instituto Tomie Ohtake, São Paulo, and Museu de Arte Moderna, Rio de Janeiro.
• 2011 – Louise Bourgeois (1911–2010) at the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, 21 April 2011 – 18 March 2012.
• 2012 – Louise Bourgeois: Conscious and Unconscious at the Qatar Museums Gallery, Katara, Doha, Qatar, 20 January 2012 – 1 June 2012.
• 2012 – Louise Bourgeois: The Return of The Repressed at Freud Museum, London, 7 March 2012 – 27 May 2012.
• 2012 – Louise Bourgeois: Late Works at Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne, 24 November 2012 – 11 March 2013.
• 2013 – Louise Bourgeois 1911–2010 at Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, 22 June 2013 – 11 August 2013.
• 2014 – Louise Bourgeois: A Woman Without Secrets at Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art, 18 July 2014 – 12 October 2014.
• 2015 – ARTIST ROOMS: Louise Bourgeois: A Woman Without Secrets at Southampton City Art Gallery, 16 January 2015 – 18 April 2015.
• 2015 – Louise Bourgeois. Structures of Existence: the Cells at Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany, 27 February 2015 – 2 August 2015.
• 2015 – Louise Bourgeois: I Have Been to Hell and Back at Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden, 14 February 2015 – 17 May 2015.
• 2016 – Louise Bourgeois: Structures of Existence: The Cells at Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Spain, Exhibition date: 18 March 2016 – 4 September 2016.
• 2016 – Louise Bourgeois: Turning Inwards at Hauser & Wirth, Switzerland, 2 October 2016 – 1 January 2017
• 2017 – Louise Bourgeois: Human Nature: Doing, Undoing, Redoing at Kistefos Museum and Sculpture Park, Jevnaker, Norway, 21 May 2017 – 9 October 2017.
• 2017 – Louise Bourgeois: Spiders at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 7 October 2017 – 4 September 2018.
• 2017 – Louise Bourgeois: Twosome at Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel, 7 September 2017 – 17 February 2018.
• 2017 – Louise Bourgeois: An Unfolding Portrait at the Museum of Modern Art, New York City, 24 September 2017 – 28 January 2018.
• 2018 – Louise Bourgeois: The Empty House at Schinkel Pavillon (Berlin-Mitte), 21 April 2018 – 29 July 2018.
• 2018 – Louise Bourgeois: To Unravel a Torment at Glenstone Museum, Potomac, Maryland, 10 May 2017 – 1 January 2020.
• 2019 – Louise Bourgeois & Alex van Gelder at UM Museum, Seoul, South Korea, 1 October 2019 – 31 December 2019.
• 2019 – 1999-12-03 Abels, Carolyn, "Katz Plaza in Cultural District is Dedicated", Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (vol. 73, no. 125, p. B-1)
• 2021 – Louise Bourgeois, Freud's Daughter at Jewish Museum (Manhattan), 21 May 2021 – 12 September 2021.
• 2023 – Louise Bourgeois: Has the Day Invaded the Night or Has the Night Invaded the Day?, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Australia, 25 November 2023 – 28 April 2024
• 2024 – Louise Bourgeois: I have been to hell and back. And let me tell you, it was wonderful. Mori Art Museum, Tokyo.

Recognition

• 1972: Mary Beth Edelson's Some Living American Women Artists / Last Supper (1972)
• 1977: Honorary doctorate from Yale University
• 1981: Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
• 1990: Elected into National Academy of Design
• 1990: Edward MacDowell Medal, MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, New Hampshire
• 1991: Lifetime Achievement in Contemporary Sculpture Award (Hamilton, New Jersey, USA)
• 1997: National Medal of Arts
• 1999: Praemium Imperiale for lifetime achievement
• 1999: Golden Lion at the Venice Biennale
• 2003: Wolf Foundation Prize in the Arts (Jerusalem)
• 2005: Austrian Decoration for Science and Art
• 2008: National Order of the Legion of Honour
• 2009: Commanderesse exquise, Arrangeuse du monde Collège de Pataphysique, New York, Ordre de la Grande Gidouille
• 2009: Honored by the National Women's Hall of Fame

Collections

• US: the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.; the Museum of Modern Art in New York City and Nasher Sculpture Center; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
• Canada: National Gallery of Canada
• UK: Tate Modern in London
• France: Centre Pompidou in Paris

Further reading

• Heartney, Eleanor; Posner, Helaine; Princenthal, Nancy; Scott, Sue (2007). After the Revolution: Women Who Transformed Contemporary Art. Prestel Publishing. p. 351. ISBN 978-3-7913-4755-4.
• Armstrong, Carol (2006). Women Artists at the Millennium. October Books. p. 408. ISBN 978-0-262-01226-3.
• Herskovic, Marika (2000). New York School: Abstract Expressionists. New York School Press. p. 393. ISBN 978-0-9677994-0-7.
• Herskovic, Marika (2003). American Abstract Expressionism of the 1950s: An Illustrated Survey. New York School Press. p. 372. ISBN 978-0-9677994-1-4.
• (May 1997) "Feminist Readings of Louise Bourgeois or Why Louise Bourgeois is a Feminist Icon". N.paradoxa (3): 28–38. ISSN 1461-0426.
• Wasilik, Jeanne M. (1987). Assemblage. Kent Fine Art. p. 44. ISBN 978-1-878607-15-7.

External links

• Louise Bourgeois in The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston: https://www.mfah.org/blogs/inside-mfah/a-confessional-sculpture-by-louise-bourgeois
• Louise Bourgeois in the Museum of Modern Art online collection
• Louise Bourgeois: The Complete Prints & Books, Museum of Modern Art
• Louise Bourgeois at Hauser & Wirth
• 'My art is a form of restoration', interview with Rachel Cooke for The Observer, London, 14 October 2007
• Louise Bourgeois at the Qatar National Convention Center
• Louise Bourgeois: À L’Infini. Exhibition at Fondation Beyeler Exhibition and interview with curator Dr. Ulf Küster (video)
• Webcam of the sculpture "Maman" outside of the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
• Louise Bourgeois Louise Bourgeois's Exhibition at Fundació Antoni Tàpies 6/11/1990 – 6/1/1991
• Tɛmplet:FrenchSculptureCensus
• Louise Bourgeois at Schinkel Pavillon Berlin
• Louise Bourgeois | HOW TO SEE the artist with MoMA Chief Curator Emerita Deborah Wye
• Louise Bourgeois | HOW TO SEE the artist with Sewon Kang
• Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution: Oral History Interview