Career
Horn quit high school a year early at 16 and enrolled in the Rhode Island School of Design. Since 1975 Horn has traveled often to Iceland, whose landscape and isolation have strongly influenced her practice. Her first solo exhibition (outside the university) was held in 1980 at the Kunstraum München. With two New York shows at the Paula Cooper and Leo Castelli galleries, Horn's career accelerated in the late 1980s. Horn received the CalArts/Alpert Award in the Arts in 1998, several NEA fellowships, and a Guggenheim fellowship. She has had one-person exhibitions at the Art Institute of Chicago (2004); Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris (2003); Dia Center for the Arts, New York, and Museu Serralves, Porto (2001); Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Kunsthalle Basel (1995); Rencontres d'Arle s festival, France (2009) and Tate Modern, London (2009). Group exhibitions include the Whitney Biennial (1991, 2004); Documenta (1992); and Venice Biennale (1997), among others In 2004 she was a visiting critic at Columbia University.
In November 2009, the Whitney Museum of American Art opened a survey show of Horn’s work. Titled "Roni Horn aka Roni Horn", the show travelled to the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston (2010), the Tate Modern, London (25 February - 25 May 2009), and the Collection Lambert in Avignon (21 June - 4 October 2009).
Recent solo shows include 2011's, 'Double Mobius', at FLAG Art Foundation, New York and 'Recent Work' at Hauser & Wirth, London.
Horn is represented by Hauser & Wirth, Xavier Hufkens, Brussels; and Kukje Gallery, Seoul.
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