Louise Bourgeois


Selected Bibliography
Louise Bourgeois. Ed. Deborah Wye. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1982. Text by Deborah Wye. Louise Bourgeois: The Locus of Memory. Works 1982–1993. Ed. Joanna Ekman. Brooklyn: The Brooklyn Museum, 1994. Texts by Charlotta Kotik, Terrie Sultan, and Christian Leigh. Louise Bourgeois: Sculptures, environnements, dessins 1938–1995. Paris: Musée d'art moderne de la ville de Paris, 1995. Texts by Lynne Cooke, Alain Cueff, Béatrice Parent, and Robert Storr. (Published in German by Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, in 1996.) Louise Bourgeois: Blue Days and Pink Days. Ed. Jerry Gorovoy and Pandora Tabatabai Asbaghi. Milan: Fondazione Prada, 1997. Text by Paulo Herkenhoff. Louise Bourgeois: Destruction of the Father, Reconstruction of the Father. Writings and Interviews 1923–1997. Ed. Marie-Laure Bernadac and Hans-Ulrich Obrist. London: Violette Editions, 1998. Texts by Marie-Laure Bernadac and Hans-Ulrich Obrist. Louise Bourgeois: Memory and Architecture. Madrid: Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, 1999. Texts by Mieke Bal and Jennifer Bloomer, Beatriz Colomina, Lynne Cooke, Jerry Gorovoy and Danielle Tilkin, Joseph Helfenstein, and Christiane Terrisse.


Biography
Louise Bourgeois was born in 1911 in Paris. She entered the Sorbonne to study mathematics in 1932 but turned to art the next year, enrolling at several art schools, including the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris, in addition to apprenticing in artists' studios in Montparnasse and Montmartre. She emigrated to New York, in 1938, and continued her studies at the Art Students League. Her first one-person exhibition was held at the Bertha Schaefer Gallery, New York, in 1945, and her sculpture was first shown in 1949 at the Peridot Gallery, New York. In 1982 the Museum of Modern Art, New York, organized a retrospective, which traveled to various American venues. Her work has since been shown internationally, including in Documenta 9 (1992) and the São Paulo Bienal of 1996. Bourgeois's first European retrospective was organized in 1989, traveling from the Frankfurter Kunstverein to the Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich, and the Fundació Antoni Tàpies, Barcelona, among other venues. Bourgeois represented the United States at the Venice Biennale in 1993. Tate Modern, London, organized a major traveling retrospective of her work in 2007.