Roni Horn was born in
New York in 1955, and lives and works in New York. She received
a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design and an MFA from Yale
University.
Horn explores
the mutable
nature of art through sculptures, works on paper, photography,
and books. She describes drawing as the key activity in all her
work because drawing is about composing relationships. Horn’s
drawings concentrate on the materiality of the objects depicted.
She also uses words as the basis for drawings and other works.
Horn crafts complex relationships between the viewer and her work
by installing a single piece on opposing walls, in adjoining rooms,
or throughout a series of buildings. She subverts the notion of ‘identical
experience’, insisting that one’s sense of self is
marked by a place in the here-and-there, and by time in the now-and-then.
She describes her artworks as site-dependent, expanding upon the
idea of site-specificity associated with Minimalism. Horn’s
work also embodies the cyclical relationship between humankind
and nature—a mirror-like relationship in which we attempt
to remake nature in our own image. Since 1975 Horn has traveled
often
to Iceland, whose landscape and isolation have strongly influenced
her practice. “Some Thames” (2000),
a permanent installation at the University of Akureyri in Iceland,
consists of 80 photographs of
water dispersed throughout the university’s public spaces,
echoing the ebb and flow of students and learning over time at
the university. Roni Horn received the CalArts/Alpert Award in
the Arts, several NEA fellowships, and a Guggenheim fellowship.
She has had one-person exhibitions at the Art Institute of Chicago;
Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; Dia Center for the Arts, New York;
and Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, among others. Group
exhibitions include the Whitney Biennial (1991, 2004); Documenta
(1992); and Venice Biennale (1997), among others.
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