Lawrence Weiner


Selected Bibliography
Lawrence Weiner: Posters November 1965–April 1986. Ed. Benjamin H. D. Buchloh. Halifax: Press of Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, in association with Art Metropole, Toronto, 1986. Text by Benjamin H. D. Buchloh. Lawrence Weiner: Works from the Beginning of the Sixties towards the End of the Eighties. Ed. Marja Bloem. Amsterdam: Stedelijk Museum, 1988. Texts by Wim Beeren, Marja Bloem, Rudi H. Fuchs, Edward Leffingwell, and Anne Rorimer. Lawrence Weiner: Books 1968–1989. Catalogue Raisonné. Ed. Dieter Schwarz. Cologne: Walther König, in association with Le Nouveau Musée, Villeurbanne, 1989. Text by Dieter Schwarz. Show (&) Tell: The Films & Videos of Lawrence Weiner. A Catalogue Raisonné. Ed. Bartomeu Mari. Ghent: Imschoot, 1992. Texts by Rudi H. Fuchs, Bartomeu Mari, Dieter Schwarz, Alice Weiner, and Lawrence Weiner. Rorimer, Anne. "Lawrence Weiner: Displacement." In Robert Lehman Lectures on Contemporary Art, vol. 1. Ed. Lynne Cooke and Karen Kelly. New York: Dia Center for the Arts, 1996, pp. 19–41. Lawrence Weiner. London: Phaidon, 1998. Texts by Alexander Alberro, David Batchelor, Benjamin H. D. Buchloh, Lawrence Weiner, W. B. Yeats, and Alice Zimmerman, and an interview by Benjamin H. D. Buchloh.


Biography
Lawrence Weiner was born in the Bronx, New York, in 1942. After graduating from high school, he traveled across the country to California, where, in 1960, he used dynamite to create his Cratering Pieces in Mill Valley. His first one-person show was held at the Seth Siegelaub Gallery, New York, in 1964. In 1968 he presented Statements, a book of works composed solely of language, in another show at Siegelaub's gallery, and since then he has continued to explore the capacities and presentation of language as a sculptural medium. The museums in which Weiner has had solo exhibitions have included the Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg (2000), the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis (1994), and the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. (1990). In 1991 Dia presented his work Displacement and published an accompanying book of the same title. Weiner currently lives in New York City and Amsterdam.