Louise Bourgeois

Louise Bourgeois (1911 - 2010) Born in 1911, Paris, France Education 1946 Atelier 17, New York, US 1938-1939 Art Students League with Vaclav Vytlacil, New York, US 1938 Atelier of Fernand Léger, Paris, France 1938 Académie Scandinavie with Charles Despiau, Paris, France 1938 Académie Julian, Paris, France 1937-1938 Académie de la Grande Chaumière with Othon Friesz and Wlérick, Paris, France 1936-1938 École des Beaux-Arts with Devambez and Colarossi, Paris, France 1936-1937 Académie d‘Espagnat, Paris, France 1936-1937 Atelier Roger Bissière de l‘Académie Ranson, Paris, France 1935-1936 École du Louvre, Paris, France 1932-1935 Mathematics at the Sorbonne, Paris, France 1921-1927 Lycée Féneloan, Paris, France Selected Solo Exhibitions 2026 Echo of the Moring , PoMo, Trondheim, Norway 2025 Louise Bourgeois: In Private View , Auckland Art Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand Gathering Wool , Hauser & Wirth, New York, US Rocking to Infinity , Kukje Gallery, Seoul, Korea Louise Bourgeois: The Evanescent and the Eternal , Hoam Museum of Art, Yongin, Korea Louise Bourgeois: Drawings from the 1960s , The Courtauld Gallery, London, UK Louise Bourgeois. Soft Landscape , Hauser & Wirth, Hong Kong Louise Bourgeois: I have been to hell and back. And let me tell you, it was wonderful. , Fubon Art Museum, Taipei City, Taiwan (Traveling Exhibition) 2024 Louise Bourgeois: I have been to hell and back. And let me tell you, it was wonderful. , Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan (Traveling Exhibition) Louise Bourgeois: Nature Study , Compton Verney, Warwickshire, UK Rare Language , Studio Trisorio, Naples, Italy Do Not Abandon Me , Museo Novecento, Florence, Italy Louise Bourgeois: Unconscious Memories , Galleria Borghese, Rome, Italy Artist Rooms. Louise Bourgeois , Aberdeen Art Gallery, Aberdeen, Scotland 2023 Louise Bourgeois: Has the Day Invaded the Night or Has the Night Invaded the Day? , Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney, Australia Persistent Antagonism , Lower Belvedere, Vienna, Austria Artist Rooms: Louise Bourgeois , Dorset Museum, Dorchester, UK What is the Shape of This Problem? , Marlborough Graphics, New York, US 2022 Louise Bourgeois. Drawing Intimacy 1939-2010 , Hauser & Wirth Somerset, Bruton, UK Louise Bourgeois: Paintings, New Orleans Museum of Art, New York, US (Traveling Exhibition) Louise Bourgeois: Paintings, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, US (Traveling Exhibition) Louise Bourgeois: The Woven Child , Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin, Germany (Travelling Exhibition) Louise Bourgeois: The Woven Child , Hayward Gallery, London, UK (Travelling Exhibition) Louise Bourgeois X Jenny Holzer. The Violence of Handwriting Across a Page , Kunstmuseum Basel, Basel, Switzerland 2021 The Smell of Eucalyptus , Kukje Gallery, Seoul, South Korea Louise Bourgeois: What is the Shape of This Problem. From the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and His Family Foundation , Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art at Portland State University, Portland, US Louise Bourgeois: Maladie de l’Amour , Hauser & Wirth, Monaco Louise Bourgeois: Freud’s Daughter , The Jewish Museum, New York, US Louise Bourgeois: What is the Shape of This Problem. From the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and His Family Foundation , Esker Foundation, Calgary, Canada 2020 Louise Bourgeois: To Unravel a Torment , Serralves Museum, Porto, Portugal Louise Bourgeois. The Heart Has Its Reasons, Hauser & Wirth, Tarmak 22, Gstaad, Switzerland 2019 Louise Bourgeois. To Unravel a Tormen t, Voorlinden, Wassenaar, The Netherlands Louise Bourgeois & Pablo Picasso: Anatomies of Desire , Hauser & Wirth, Zurich, Switzerland Louise Bourgeois in the Rijksmuseum Gardens , Rijksmueum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Louise Bourgeois. My Own Voice Wakes Me Up , Hauser & Wirth, Central, Hong Kong Louise Bourgeois: The Eternal Thread , Song Art Museum, Beijing, China (Travelling Exhibition) Louise Bourgeois , Kettle's Yard, Cambridge, UK 2018 Louise Bourgeois. Papillons Noirs , Hauser & Wirth, St. Moritz, Switzerland Louise Bourgeois: The Eternal Thread , Long Museum West Bund, Shanghai, China (Traveling Exhibition) Louise Bourgeois , Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami (ICA Miami), Miami, US Louise Bourgeois: Spiral , Cheim & Read, New York, US Louise Bourgeois: To Unravel a Torment , Glenstone Museum, Potomac, US Louise Bourgeois: The Empty House , Schinkel Pavillon, Berlin, Germany Louise Bourgeois: Selection from the Collection of Jordan D. Schnitzer and His Family Foundation , Pendleton Center for the Arts, Pendleton, US Louise Bourgeois: Triptych for the Red Room , Galerie Lelong, Paris, France Louise Bourgeois: Works on Paper , Galerie Karsten Greve, Cologne, Germany Louise Bourgeois: The Red Sky , Hauser & Wirth, Los Angeles, US Louise Bourgeois: Editions , Galerie Karsten Greve, Paris, France 2017 Louise Bourgeois: Spiders , San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, US Louise Bourgeois: Twosome , Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel Louise Bourgeois – Etchings , Glasgow Print Studio, Glasgow, Scotland Autobiographical Series and Set of 11 Drypoints , Roe Valley Arts and Cultural Centre, Limavady, UK (Traveling Exhibition) Louise Bourgeois: Fabric Works , Carolina Nitsch Project Room, New York, US Louise Bourgeois: Prints , Marlborough Gallery, New York, US Louise Bourgeois: An Unfolding Portrait , MoMA (Museum of Modern Art), New York, US Louise Bourgeois: Pink Days and Blue Days , Gordon Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel Phase III expansion, Building 6: Louise Bourgeois , Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, North Adams, US Louise Bourgeois: Voyage Without a Destination , Studio Trisorio, Naples, Italy Louise Bourgeois: Holograms , Cheim & Read, New York, US 2016 Louise Bourgeois: Turning Inwards , Hauser & Wirth, Somerset, UK Structures of Existence: The Cells , Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, Denmark (Travelling Exhibition) Artist Rooms: Louise Bourgeois , Tate Modern, London, UK Structures of Existence: The Cells , Guggenheim Bilbao, Bilbao, Spain (Travelling Exhibition) 2015 Louise Bourgeois: The Body in Exile (1947-1949) , Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain (2015-2017) Structures of Existence: The Cells , Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany (Travelling Exhibition) Artist Rooms: Louise Bourgeois, A Woman Without Secrets , Southampton City Art Gallery, Southhampton, UK Louise Bourgeois: Late Work , Peder Lund, Oslo, Norway Louise Bourgeois: Larger Than Life , Akbank Art Center, Istanbul, Turkey Louise Bourgeois: Les têtes bleu et les femmes rouge , Xavier Hufkens Gallery, Brussels, Belgium Looking Forward Looking Back , New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fe, US Louise Bourgeois: No Exit , National Gallery of Art, Washington, US Structures of Existence: The Cells, Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia (Travelling Exhibition) Louise Bourgeois. I Have Been to Hell and Back , Museo Picasso Málaga, Málaga, Spain (Travelling Exhibition) Louise Bourgeois. I Have Been to Hell and Back , Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden (Travelling Exhibition) Louise Bourgeois , Lund Fine Art, Oslo, Norway (Travelling Exhibition) 2014 Louise Bourgeois: Works on Paper , Tate Modern, London, UK Louise Bourgeois: Suspension , Cheim & Read, New York, US Artist Rooms: Louise Bourgeois, A Woman without Secrets , Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art, Middlesbrough, UK (Travelling Exhibition) Louise Bourgeois. L’araignée et les tapisseries , Hauser & Wirth, Zurich, Switzerland 2013 Louise Bourgeois: Editions , Galerie Karsten Greve, Cologne, Germany Sammlungshangung Bourgeois , Fondation Beyeler, Basel, Switzerland Louise Bourgeois: I Give Everything Away , Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland Artist Rooms Foundation: Louise Bourgeois, A Woman Without Secrets , Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, Scotland (Travelling Exhibition) Louise Bourgeois: The Insomnia Drawings & The Late Suites , Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland Louise Bourgeois: Alone and Together , Faurschou Foundation, Copenhagen, Denmark (Travelling Exhibition) Louise Bourgeois: Petite Maman , Museo del Palacio de Bellas Artes, Mexico City, Mexico 2012 Topiary: The Art of Improving Nature , University of Arkansas, Fine Arts Center Gallery, Fayettesville, US Louise Bourgeois: Personages , Kukje Gallery, Seoul, Korea Louise Bourgeois: Alone and Together , Faurschou Foundation, Beijing, China (Travelling Exhibition) The Graphic Series by Louise Bourgeois , Graphische Sammlung der ETH Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland Louise Bourgeois , Art Gallery of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada Louise Bourgeois: Late Work , Heide Museum of Modern Art, Bulleen, Australia Louise Bourgeois (2000-2010): Honni Soit Qui Mal Y Pens , Casa Encendida, Madrid, Spain Louise Bourgeois. The Return of the Repressed , Freud Museum, London, UK Louise Bourgeois: Conscious and Unconscious , Qatar Museums Authority Gallery, Doha, Qatar Louise Bourgeois. Passage Dangereux , Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany 2011 Louise Bourgeois. The Return of the Repressed , Museu do Arte Moderno, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (Travelling Exhibition) A L’infini , Fondation Beyeler, Riehen, Switzerland Louise Bourgeois: The Fabric Works , Cheim & Read, New York, US Louise Bourgeois. The Return of the Repressed , Fundación Proa, Buenos Aires, Argentina (Travelling Exhibition) Double Sexus: Hans Bellmer and Louise Bourgeois , Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, US (Travelling Exhibition) Louise Bourgeois. Kona/Femme , National Gallery of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland Alex Van Gelder - Louise Bourgeois. ARMED FORCES , Hauser & Wirth Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland Louise Bourgeois and Tracey Emin. Do Not Abandon Me , Royal West of England Academy, Bristol, UK (Travelling Exhibition) Louise Bourgeois: Mother and Child , Kunstforeningen GL Strand, Copenhagen, Denmark (Travelling Exhibition) Louise Bourgeois and Tracey Emin. Do Not Abandon Me , Hauser & Wirth London, London, UK (Travelling Exhibition) Estampes et dessins , Galerie Lelong, Paris, France Louise Bourgeois , National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Canada 2010 Louise Bourgeois and Hans Bellmer – Double Sexus , Gemeentemuseum, Den Hague, Netherlands (Travelling Exhibition) Louise Bourgeois: Mother and Child , Nordic Watercolour Museum, Skärhman, Sweden (Travelling Exhibition) Louise Bourgeois: The Fabric Works , Hauser & Wirth London, London, UK (Travelling Exhibition) Louise Bourgeois and Tracey Emin - Do Not Abandon Me , Carolina Nitsch, New York, US (Travelling Exhibition) Louise Bourgeois: The Fabric Works , Fondazione Emilio e Annabianca Vedova, Venice, Italy (Travelling Exhibition) Louise Bourgeois , Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, US Louise Bourgeois , Museum of Cycladic Art, Athens, Greece Louise Bourgeois: Les Fleurs , Kukje Gallery, Seoul, Korea Louise Bourgeois: Moi, Eugénie Grandet... , Maison de Balzac, Paris, France Louise Bourgeois / Hans Bellmer , Sammlung Scharf-Gerstenberg, Berlin, Germany 2009 Louise Bourgeois: Retrospective , The Hirshhorn Museum, Washington, US (Travelling Exhibition) Louise Bourgeois , Galerie Carsten Greve, Cologne, Germany Louise Bourgeois, Galleri Andersson / Sandström, Stockholm, Sweden 2008 Louise Bourgeois , Museo Nazionale di Capodimonte, Naples, Italy La Rivière Gentille , Hauser & Wirth Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland Recent Drawings , Inverleith House, Edinburgh, Scotland Louise Bourgeois: Echo , Cheim & Read, New York, US Louise Bourgeois: Retrospective , Tate Modern, London, UK (Travelling Exhibition) Louise Bourgeois: Retrospective , Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, US (Travelling Exhibition) Louise Bourgeois: Retrospective, MOCA - Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, US (Travelling Exhibition) 2007 Louise Bourgeois, Xavier Hufkens, Brussels, Belgium Louise Bourgeois. Hours of the Day , Carolina Nitsch Project Room, New York, US Louise Bourgeois: La Sage Femme , Espacia AV, la Region de Murcia, Murcia, Spain Marlborough Gallery, London, UK Louise Bourgeois: Retrospective , Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France (Travelling Exhibition) Louise Bourgeois: New Work , Hauser & Wirth London, London, UK Kaliman Gallery, Sydney, Australia Bourgeois in Boston, Institute of Contemporary Arts, Boston, US Louise Bourgeois: Quarantania 1947/1990 , Christine König Galerie, Vienna, Austria Louise Bourgeois: Abstraction, Kukje Gallery, Seoul, Korea Louise Bourgeois , Storm King Art Center, Mountainville, US Louise Bourgeois: Crouching Spider , Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, US Louise Bourgeois: The Woven Child , Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, US Fugue , Kunstmuseum Bern, Graphisches Kabinett, Berne, Switzerland 2006 Louise Bourgeois – Scultura e Opere Grafiche, Christine Bader, Lugano, Switzerland Works on Paper from the 1940s and 1950s, Peter Blum, New York, US Louise Bourgeois and Roni Horn: Drawings, Hauser & Wirth Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland Louise Bourgeois. Prints & unique works on paper, Goya Contemporary, Baltimore, US Louise Bourgeois – Estampes et porcelaines 1996-2005, Galerie Lelong, Paris, France Louise Bourgeois. Print Focus: Recent Editions, Greg Kucera Gallery , Seattle, US Louise Bourgeois. Femme, Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, US Louise Bourgeois. La famille, Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany Louise Bourgeois, Butler Gallery, Kilkenny, Ireland Louise Bourgeois, Worcester Art Museum, The Woven Child', Worcester, US 2005 Louise Bourgeois, Galerie Karsten Greve, Cologne, Germany Louise Bourgeois. Aller-Retour, Kunsthalle Wien , Vienna, Austria Louise Bourgeois. Works on Paper and Cloth, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, US Louise Bourgeois. La Sage Femme , Neue Galerie im Höhmannhaus, Augsburg, Germany Louise Bourgeois. Fabric and Paperworks, Galleri Stefan Andersson, Umeå, Sweden Sublimation, Hauser & Wirth London, London, UK Stitches in Time , Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami, US (Travelling Exhibition) Louise Bourgeois, Wifredo Lam Centre, Havana, Cuba Louise Bourgeois , Kukje Gallery, Seoul, Korea 2004 Louise Bourgeois - Prints, Karsten Greve, Paris, France The Reticent Child, Cheim & Read Gallery, New York, US Louise Bourgeois: Stitches in Time, CAC – Centro de Arte Contemporàneo , Malaga, Spain (Travelling Exhibition) Louise Bourgeois. Stitches in Time, The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland (Travelling Exhibition) Louise Bourgeois, Daros Collection, Zurich, Switzerland Louise Bourgeois, Akira Ikeda Gallery Muranchi, Yokosuka, Japan Louise Bourgeois. Ode à l'Oubli , Peter Blum, New York, US Louise Bourgeois, Galerie Scheffel, Bad Homburg, Germany 2003 A View from the Outside. Louise Bourgeois. The Reticent Child, Sigmund Freud Museum , Vienna, Austria Louise Bourgeois. The Early Work, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, US Louise Bourgeois. Geometry of Desire, Zacheta Gallery of Art, Warsaw, Poland Louise Bourgeois. La Sage-Femme, Paule Anglim Gallery, San Francisco, US Louise Bourgeois. Intimate Abstractions, Akademie der Künste, Berlin, Germany Louise Bourgeois, Louisiana Museum for Moderne Kunst, Humlebaek, Denmark New Sculptures and The Woven Drawings, Xavier Hufkens Gallery, Brussels, Belgium Spiders. Louise Bourgeois, Shiraishi Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan Louise Bourgeois. Installation at inauguration of Dia: Beacon, Dia Center for the Arts, Beacon, US Louise Bourgeois. Maman, Frederik Meijer Gardens and Sculpture Park, Grand Rapids, US Galerie Karsten Greve, Cologne, Germany Louise Bourgeois. The Insomnia Drawings, The Whitney Museum of American Art , New York, US Louise Bourgeois: Stitches in Time, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland (Travelling Exhibition) Louise Bourgeois and James Lee Byars, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France Louise Bourgeois, White Cube Gallery, London, UK Louise Bourgeois , Akademie der Künste, Berlin, Germany (Travelling Exhibition) 2002 Louise Bourgeois, Helsinki City Art Museum, Helsinki, Finland Louise Bourgeois. Le Jour La Nuit Le Jour, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France Louise Bourgeois, Galería Soledad Lorenzo, Madrid, Spain Louise Bourgeois, Galerie Karsten Greve , Milan, Italy Louise Bourgeois, Kukje Gallery, Madrid, Spain Louise Bourgeois , Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, US Louise Bourgeois Spiders , Playhouse Square's Star Plaza, (organized in association with Cleveland Public Art, Inc.), Cleveland, US The Ace Gallery, Hamilton, Bermuda Louise Bourgeois, Kulturhuset , Stockholm, Sweden Louise Bourgeois. Recent sculptures and drawings, Beaumontpublic + Königbloc, Luxembourg, Luxembourg Louise Bourgeois. Childhood, Ars TEOR / Ética Fundacion, San Jose, Costa Rica Louise Bourgeois, Museet for Samtidskunst, Oslo, Norway Louise Bourgeois. Works in Marble, Hauser & Wirth Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland Louise Bourgeois, Kunsthaus Bregenz, Bregenz, Austria (Travelling Exhibition) Louise Bourgeois, Bunkier Sztuki Gallery of Contemporary Art, Krakow, Poland (Travelling Exhibition) Louise Bourgeois. William Eggleston. Documenta XI, Cheim & Read Gallery, Kassel, Germany Louise Bourgeois. The Early Work, Krannert Art Museum, Champaign, US (Travelling Exhibition) Louise Bourgeois. The Early Work, Madison Art Center, Madison, US (Travelling Exhibition) Louise Bourgeois. Recent Works on Paper, David Floria Gallery, Aspen, US 2001 Louise Bourgeois – Œuvres récentes, Galerie Karsten Greve, Paris, France Louise Bourgeois – The Personages, C&M Arts, New York, US Louise Bourgeois, Cheim & Read Gallery, New York, US Louise Bourgeois, Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Bilbao, Spain Louise Bourgeois. Reconstruction of the Past, Akademie der bildenden Künste, Vienna, Austria Louise Bourgeois. Passage Dangereux, Kunstraum Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria Louise Bourgeois, The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russian Federation Peter Blum, New York, US Louise Bourgeois. Spiders, Rockefeller Center / Public Art Fund, New York, US Louise Bourgeois. The Puritan, Galerie Fahnemann, Berlin, Germany Louise Bourgeois. Illustrated Books, Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery, Columbia University, New York, US Louise Bourgeois. Livres Illustrés, Musée d'Art Américain, Giverny, France 75th Anniversary Sculpture: Louise Bourgeois, Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, US 2000 Louise Bourgeois. Neue Arbeiten/Recent Works, Hauser & Wirth Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland Louise Bourgeois and Carol Rama: Prints from 1944 to 2000, Franco Masoero, Turin, Italy Louise Bourgeois. Works on Paper, Galleria Karsten Greve, Milan, Italy Louise Bourgeois. Estampes 1990-2000, Galerie Lelong, Paris, France Kappatos Gallery Athens, Greece National Museum of Contemporary Art, Gwacheon, Korea Louise Bourgeois (Retrospective and installation), Tate Modern, London, UK Louise Bourgeois, Grafiska Sallskapet, Stockholm, Sweden (Travelling Exhibition) Louise Bourgeois, Norrköpings Konstmuseum, Norrköping, Sweden (Travelling Exhibition) Louise Bourgeois, Göteborg Museum of Art, Gothenburg, Sweden (Travelling Exhibition) Installation of The Welcoming Hands by Louise Bourgeois, Jardin des Tuileries, Paris, France 1999 Louise Bourgeois. Prints 1989-1998, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, US Louise Bourgeois: Metamorphosis and other works on paper, Galerie Lelong, New York, US Wexner Prize Wall, Wexner Center for the Visual Arts, Columbus, US Louise Bourgeois: Metamorphosis and other works on paper, Remba Gallery, West Hollywood, US Louise Bourgeois: Topiary, Piece Unique, Paris, France Louise Bourgeois. Memoria y arquitectura, Museo Nacional, Centro de Arte Reina Sofìa, Madrid, Spain Louise Bourgeois, Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany Louise Bourgeois. Sculpture from the 1940s and Works on Paper, Jaffe-Friede & Strauss Galleries, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, US Louise Bourgeois. Prints 1989-1998, Maier Museum of Art, Randolph-Macon Woman's College, Lynchburg, US Louise Bourgeois, Galerie Karsten Greve, Cologne, Germany Louise Bourgeois, Galerie Paula Böttcher, Berlin, Germany Louise Bourgeois, Galerie Seitz-von Werder, Berlin, Germany Louise Bourgeois, Ernst-Museum, Budapest, Hungary 1998 Louise Bourgeois. Recent Work, Serpentine Gallery, London, UK Louise Bourgeois. Obras Recentes, Centro Cultural de Belém, Lisbon, Portugal The Geometry of Pleasure, Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston, US Louise Bourgeois. Art is a Guarantee of Sanity, Wood Street Galleries, Pittsburgh, US Past Tense. Louise Bourgeois, The Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada Louise Bourgeois: Topiary, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, US Louise Bourgeois. New Works, Galerie Lars Bohman, Stockholm, Sweden Louise Bourgeois. Nyare verk, Malmö Konsthall, Malmö, Sweden Carte Blanche à Annee Dijan. The Drawings of Louise Bourgeois. Espace Saint-François, Lausanne, Switzerland Louise Bourgeois. Recent Work, CAPC - musée d'art contemporain de Bordeaux Entrepôt, Bordeaux, France Sacred and fatal: The Art of Louise Bourgeois, North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, US Present Tense: Louise Bourgeois, The Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada Louise Bourgeois, The Lotos Club, New York, US 1997 Louise Bourgeois, The Arts Club of Chicago, Chicago, US Louise Bourgeois, Xavier Hufkens Gallery, Brussels, Belgium Louise Bourgeois: Blue Days and Pink Days, Prada Foundation, Milan, Italy Louise Bourgeois. Drawings 1947-1997, Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, US Louise Bourgeois. Spider, Cheim & Read, New York, US Louise Bourgeois. Ode à Ma Mère, The Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, US The Drawings of Louise Bourgeois, Centro Cultural da Light, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Marion Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, US Louise Bourgeois. Sculpture, Centro Cultural Banco Cultural do Brasil, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Louise Bourgeois. Dessins Récents, Galerie Karsten Greve, Paris, France Louise Bourgeois, Galerie Karsten Greve, Cologne, Germany Louise Bourgeois. Hamlet and Ophelia, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Brooklyn, US Louise Bourgeois. Hamlet and Ophelia, Robert Miller Gallery, New York, US Louise Bourgeois. Homesickness, Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama, Japan 1996 Red Room, Hauser & Wirth Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland Louise Bourgeois, Galerie Soledad Lorenzo, Madrid, Spain Louise Bourgeois. Drawings, University Art Museum, University of California, Berkeley, US (Travelling Exhibition) Louise Bourgeois. Drawings, The Drawing Center, New York, US (Travelling Exhibition) Louise Bourgeois. Drawings, The List Visual Art Center, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, US (Travelling Exhibition) Louise Bourgeois. Drawings, The Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada (Travelling Exhibition) XI. Mostra da Gravura. Mostra América (special room dedicated in honour of Louise Bourgeois), Fundacão Cultural de Curitaba/Museu da Gravura, Curitiba, Brazil Louise Bourgeois, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, US Louise Bourgeois. Arbeiten auf Papier, Galerie Karsten Greve, Cologne, Germany Louise Bourgeois. Der Ort des Gedächtnisses Skulpturen, Environments und Zeichnungen. 1946-1995, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, Germany The Locus of Memory, Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal, Montreal, Canada (Travelling Exhibition) Louise Bourgeois. Spiders, Baumgartner Galleries, Washington D.C., US Louise Bourgeois. Skulpturen und Objekte, Rupertinum, Salzburg, Austria Louise Bourgeois, Galerie Samuel Lallouz, Montreal, Canada Louise Bourgeois: The Forties and the Fifties, Gallery Josedoff / Harry Jack Gray Center, University of Hartford, Westford, US Louise Bourgeois, Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporaneo, Seville, Spain Louise Bourgeois, Museo Rufina Tamayo, Mexico City, Mexico Louise Bourgeois. Sculptures, ORIEL, The Arts Council of Wales Gallery, The Friary, Cardiff, UK The Prints of Louise Bourgeois, Bonnefanten Museum, Maastricht, The Netherlands 1995 MARCO - Museo de Arte Contemporaneo, Monterrey, Mexico The Prints of Louise Bourgeois , Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, UK 20th Century Master Drawings, Barbara Mathes Gallery, New York, US Louise Bourgeois, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia Louise Bourgeois, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia Louise Bourgeois, Galerie Piece Unique, Paris, France Louise Bourgeois. Hommage à Duras, Galerie Karsten Greve, Cologne, Germany Louise Bourgeois: Drawings, Galerie Karsten Greve, Paris, France The Locus of Memory, Galeria Rudolfinum, Prague, Czech Republic (Travelling Exhibition) Louise Bourgeois: Dessins pour Duras, Théâtre du Vieux Colombier, Paris, France Louise Bourgeois, Walker Hill Art Center, Seoul, Korea Mitsubishi-Jisho Artium, Fukuoka City, Japan Louise Bourgeois: Drawings, École Nationale des Beaux-Art de Bourges, Bourges, France Louise Bourgeois. Pensées-Plumes, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France (Travelling Exhibition) Louise Bourgeois. Pensées-Plumes, Helsinki City Art Museum, Helsinki, Finland (Travelling Exhibition) Louise Bourgeois. Sculptures, environnements, dessins. 1938-1995, Musée d'Art moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France The Prints of Louise Bourgeois, Musée du Dessin et de l'Estampe Originale, Gravelines, France The Prints of Louise Bourgeois, Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris, France 1994 The Locus of Memory, The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., US (Travelling Exhibition) The Prints of Louise Bourgeois, MoMA (Museum of Modern Art), New York, US Louise Bourgeois. Skulpturen und Installationen, Galerie Karsten Greve, Cologne, Germany Louise Bourgeois. Skulpturen, Kestner-Gesellschaft, Hanover, Germany The Louise Bourgeois Papers. A Promised Gift to the Archives of American Art, Archives of American Art, New York, US Louise Bourgeois: The Art of Assemblage, Marion Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, US The Red Rooms, Peter Blum, New York, US Louise Bourgeois, Galleria Karsten Greve, Milan, Italy Louise Bourgeois. Etchings, Galerie Espace, Amsterdam, Netherlands Louise Bourgeois: The Personages, The Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, US Louise Bourgeois, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, US The Locus of Memory, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, US (Travelling Exhibition) 1993 XLV Esposizione Internazionale d'Arte, La Biennale di Venezia, American Pavilion, Venice, Italy Louise Bourgeois, Ginny Williams Family Foundation, Denver, US Louise Bourgeois, Galerie Ramis Barquet, Monterrey, Mexico Louise Bourgeois. Personnages, 1940s, Installations, 1990s, Laura Carpenter Fine Art, Santa Fe, US Louise Bourgeois: Etchings, Jan Weiner Gallery, Topeka, US Louise Bourgeois, Linda Cathcart Gallery, Santa Monica, US 1992 Louise Bourgeois, Galerie Karsten Greve, Paris, France Installation of recent acquisitions, National Gallery of Art, East Wing, Washington D.C., US Louise Bourgeois. Prints 1947-1991, Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston, US The Fabric Workshop's 15th Anniversary. Annual Benefit Honoring Louise Bourgeois and Anne d'Harnoncourt , The Fabric Workshop, Philadelphia, US Louise Bourgeois. Drawings, Second Floor, Reykjavik, Iceland Currents 21: Louise Bourgeois, Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, US Louise Bourgeois, Ydessa Hendeles Art Foundation, Toronto, Canada Louise Bourgeois. C.O.Y.O.T.E. , Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, US 1991 Louise Bourgeois. L'Œuvre gravée, Galerie Lelong, Zurich, Switzerland Louise Bourgeois. A Retrospective Exhibition, Kunstmuseum Bern, Berne, Switzerland (Travelling Exhibition) Louise Bourgeois. A Retrospective Exhibition, Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, Netherlands (Travelling Exhibition) Louise Bourgeois. Recent Sculpture, Robert Miller Gallery, New York, US Louise Bourgeois, Ydessa Hendeles Art Foundation, Toronto, Canada 1990 Bronzen der 40er und 50er Jahre, Galerie Karsten Greve, Cologne, Germany Louise Bourgeois: Drawings and Sculpture, Barbara Gross Galerie, Munich, Germany Louise Bourgeois. A Retrospective Exhibition, Fundació Tàpies, Barcelona, Spain (Travelling Exhibition) Louise Bourgeois. 1939-89. Skulpturen und Zeichnungen, Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna, Austria Louise Bourgeois: Bronze Sculpture and Drawings, Linda Cathcart Gallery, Santa Monica, US Louise Bourgeois: Four Decades, Ginny Williams Gallery, Denver, US Louise Bourgeois: Sculptures and Drawings, Monica Sprüth Galerie, Cologne, Germany Louise Bourgeois. 1984-89, Riverside Studios, London, UK Louise Bourgeois. A Retrospective Exhibition, Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich, Germany (Travelling Exhibition) Louise Bourgeois. A Retrospective Exhibition, Musée d'art contemporain, Lyon, France (Travelling Exhibition) Louise Bourgeois. Drawings, Karsten Schubert, London, UK 1989 Louise Bourgeois: Legs, Ydessa Art Foundation, Toronto, Canada Louise Bourgeois. A Retrospective Exhibition, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt a. M., Germany (Travelling Exhibition) Louise Bourgeois. Selected Works, Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, US Louise Bourgeois. 100 Zeichnungen, Galerie Lelong, Zurich, Switzerland Recent Sculpture by Louise Bourgeois, Art Gallery of York University, North Yorkshire, UK Louise Bourgeois. Works from the Sixties, Dia Art Foundation, Bridgehampton, US Louise Bourgeois. Sculpture, American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, New York, US Louise Bourgeois. Works from the 50s, Sperone Westwater Gallery, New York, US Louise Bourgeois. Progressions and Regressions, Galerie Lelong, New York, US Louise Bourgeois – Sculpture, Robert Miller Gallery, New York, US Louise Bourgeois. Dessins 1940/86, Galerie Lelong, Paris, France 1988 Louise Bourgeois. Work 1943-1987, Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, US Louise Bourgeois. Works On Paper, Museum Overholland, Amsterdam, Netherlands Sculpture by Louise Bourgeois, Laguna Gloria Art Museum, Austin, US Louise Bourgeois, Gallery of Art, Washington University, St Louis, US Louise Bourgeois. Drawings 1939-1987, Robert Miller Gallery, New York, US 1987 Louise Bourgeois, Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, US Louise Bourgeois, Riva Yares Gallery, Scottsdale, US Paintings and Drawings, Janet Steinberg Gallery, San Francisco, US Sculpture 1947-1955, Gallery Paul Anglim, San Francisco, US Louise Bourgeois, The Taft Museum, Cincinnati, US Louise Bourgeois, The Art Museum, Florida International University, Miami, US Louise Bourgeois. Paintings from the 1940s, Robert Miller Gallery, New York, US 1986 Louise Bourgeois. Sculptures and Drawings, Texas Gallery, Houston, US Louise Bourgeois, Robert Miller Gallery, New York, US Eyes, The Doris Feldmann Plaza, New York, US 1985 Louise Bourgeois, Serpentine Gallery, London, UK Louise Bourgeois. Retrospektive 1947-1984, Galerie Maeght-Lelong, Paris, France (Travelling Exhibition) Louise Bourgeois. Retrospektive 1947-1984, Galerie Maeght-Lelong, Zurich, Switzerland (Travelling Exhibition) 1984 Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles, US Louise Bourgeois. Sculpture, Robert Miller Gallery, New York, US 1983 Louise Bourgeois, Daniel Weinberg Gallery, San Francisco, US Louise Bourgeois. Retrospective, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, US (Travelling Exhibition) Louise Bourgeois. Retrospective, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, US (Travelling Exhibition) Louise Bourgeois. Retrospective, Akron Art Museum, Akron, US (Travelling Exhibition) 1982 Bourgeois Truth, Robert Miller Gallery, New York, US Louise Bourgeois. Retrospective, MoMA (Museum of Modern Art), New York, US (Travelling Exhibition) 1981 Louise Bourgeois. Femme Maison, Renaissance Society, University of Chicago, Chicago, US 1980 Louise Bourgeois. Sculpture: The Middle Years 1955-1970, Xavier Fourcade Gallery, New York, US The Iconography of Louise Bourgeois, Max Hutchinson Gallery, New York, US 1979 Louise Bourgeois. Sculpture 1941-1953. Plus One New Piece, Xavier Fourcade Gallery, New York, US Louise Bourgeois. Matrix / Berkeley 17, Berkeley Art Museum, University of California, Berkeley, US 1978 Louise Bourgeois: Triangles: New Sculpture and Drawings, 1978, Xavier Fourcade Gallery, New York, US Louise Bourgeois: New Work , Hamilton Gallery of Contemporary Art, New York, US 1974 Louise Bourgeois: Sculpture 1970–1974 . 112 Greene St. Gallery, New York, US 1964 Recent Drawings by Louise Bourgeois, Rose Fried Gallery, New York, US Louise Bourgeois: Recent Sculpture , Stable Gallery, New York, US 1953 Louise Bourgeois: Drawings for Sculpture and Sculpture , Peridot Gallery, New York, US 1950 Louise Bourgeois: Sculptures , Peridot Gallery, New York, US 1949 Louise Bourgeois, Recent Work 1947–1949: Seventeen Standing Figures in Wood , Peridot Gallery, New York, US 1947 Louise Bourgeois: Paintings , Norlyst Gallery, New York, US 1945 Paintings by Louise Bourgeois , Bertha Schaefer Gallery, New York, US Selected Awards 2007 Österreichisches Ehrenzeichen für Wissenschaft und Kunst (Austrian Honour Medal for Science and Arts) 2002 Wolf Foundation Prize in the Arts (Painting and Sculpture), Wolf Foundation, Israel Honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts, University of Illinois, Champaign , US 2000 Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts, The Art Institute of Boston , US Honorary Member, Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Vienna, Austria 1999 Wexner Center Honoree Leon d'oro, XLVIII Esposizione Internationale d'arte, Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy Praemium Imperiale, Award of Japan 1996 National Medal of Arts presented by President Clinton at the White House, Washington D.C. , US 1995 Honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts, Art Institute of Chicago , US 1991 Lifetime Achievement Award, International Sculpture Center, Washington D.C. , US (First Recipient) Grand Prix National de Sculpture, Ministère de la Culture, France 1990 Edward MacDowell Medal, MacDowell Colony, New York , US 1989 Distinguished Artist Award for Lifetime Achievement, College Art Association 1987 Honorary Doctorate, The New School, New York , US Golden Medal of Honor for Excellence in Art, National Arts Club, New York , US 1984 President's Fellows Award, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York , US Honorary Doctorate in Fine Arts, Maryland Institute, College of Art, Baltimore , US Officier de l'Ordre des arts et des lettres, Ministère de la Culture, France 1983 Selected Member of the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, New York , US Honorary Doctorate in Fine Arts, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston , US 1981 Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences of Boston , US 1980 Award for Outstanding Achievement in the Visual Arts from Women's Caucus for Art 1977 Honorary Doctorate in Fine Arts, Yale University, New Haven , US 1973 Artist Grant, National Endowment for the Arts