Louise Lawler

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conceptual artist human installation artist photographer

Louise Lawler is an American conceptual artist known for her photographs and installations that critically examine the presentation, circulation, and economic value of artworks within museums, galleries, and private collections.

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Label	Occurrences
Louise Lawler canonical	1

Statements (88)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	conceptual artist ⓘ human ⓘ installation artist ⓘ photographer ⓘ
activeYearsStart	1970 ⓘ
associatedWith	Barbara Kruger NERFINISHED ⓘ Cindy Sherman NERFINISHED ⓘ Pictures Generation artists ⓘ Richard Prince NERFINISHED ⓘ Sherrie Levine NERFINISHED ⓘ
countryOfCitizenship	United States of America ⓘ
dateOfBirth	1947-01-01 ⓘ
educatedAt	Cornell University ⓘ Skidmore College NERFINISHED ⓘ
fieldOfWork	appropriation ⓘ installation art ⓘ institutional critique ⓘ photography ⓘ
genre	conceptual photography ⓘ documentary-style photography ⓘ site-specific installation ⓘ
hasExhibitedAt	Art Institute of Chicago NERFINISHED ⓘ Centre Pompidou NERFINISHED ⓘ Dia Art Foundation NERFINISHED ⓘ Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden NERFINISHED ⓘ Kunsthalle Basel NERFINISHED ⓘ Kunstmuseum Basel NERFINISHED ⓘ Metro Pictures NERFINISHED ⓘ Metropolitan Museum of Art NERFINISHED ⓘ Museum Ludwig, Cologne NERFINISHED ⓘ Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles NERFINISHED ⓘ Museum of Modern Art, New York NERFINISHED ⓘ Sprueth Magers NERFINISHED ⓘ Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam NERFINISHED ⓘ Walker Art Center NERFINISHED ⓘ Wexner Center exhibition "Louise Lawler: Why Pictures Now" NERFINISHED ⓘ Wexner Center for the Arts NERFINISHED ⓘ Whitney Museum of American Art NERFINISHED ⓘ
influenced	artists engaged in institutional critique ⓘ younger conceptual photographers ⓘ
influencedBy	Conceptual art of the 1960s and 1970s ⓘ institutional critique ⓘ
languageOfWorkOrName	English ⓘ
living	true ⓘ
movement	Appropriation art NERFINISHED ⓘ Conceptual art ⓘ Pictures Generation NERFINISHED ⓘ
notableExhibition	Louise Lawler and Others (Wexner Center for the Arts, 2006) NERFINISHED ⓘ Louise Lawler: A Movie Will Be Shown Without the Picture (various venues) NERFINISHED ⓘ Louise Lawler: Adjusted (Museum Ludwig, Cologne, 2013) NERFINISHED ⓘ Louise Lawler: Twice Untitled and Other Pictures (Museum of Modern Art, 2004) NERFINISHED ⓘ Louise Lawler: Why Pictures Now (Museum of Modern Art, 2017) NERFINISHED ⓘ
notableWork	A Movie Will Be Shown Without the Picture NERFINISHED ⓘ A Movie Will Be Shown Without the Picture (1979) NERFINISHED ⓘ Adjusted to Fit NERFINISHED ⓘ Adjusted to Fit (series) NERFINISHED ⓘ Arranged by (series) ⓘ Arranged by Louise Lawler ⓘ Birdcalls NERFINISHED ⓘ Birdcalls (1972–1981) NERFINISHED ⓘ Black and White (adjusted to fit) NERFINISHED ⓘ Black and White (series) NERFINISHED ⓘ Does Andy Warhol Make You Cry? NERFINISHED ⓘ Helms Amendment NERFINISHED ⓘ It Could Be Elvis NERFINISHED ⓘ Living Room Corner, Arranged by Mr. and Mrs. Burton Tremaine, New York City NERFINISHED ⓘ Monograms NERFINISHED ⓘ Monograms (series) NERFINISHED ⓘ No Drones NERFINISHED ⓘ No Drones (series) NERFINISHED ⓘ Pollock and Tureen (Arranged by Mr. and Mrs. Burton Tremaine, Connecticut) NERFINISHED ⓘ Statue Before Painting NERFINISHED ⓘ Still Life (Candle) NERFINISHED ⓘ Tracings NERFINISHED ⓘ Tracings (series) NERFINISHED ⓘ Why Pictures Now NERFINISHED ⓘ Why Pictures Now (series) NERFINISHED ⓘ
placeOfBirth	Bronxville, New York NERFINISHED ⓘ
sexOrGender	female ⓘ
workFocusesOn	art market ⓘ artworks in private collections ⓘ authorship and originality in art ⓘ circulation of artworks ⓘ display of artworks in galleries ⓘ economic value of artworks ⓘ institutional frameworks of art ⓘ politics of display ⓘ presentation of artworks in museums ⓘ

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Subject: Louise Lawler
Description of subject: Louise Lawler is an American conceptual artist known for her photographs and installations that critically examine the presentation, circulation, and economic value of artworks within museums, galleries, and private collections.

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Larry Aldrich Award → hasRecipient → Louise Lawler ⓘ