Jenny Holzer (born July 29, 1950) is an American conceptual artist. Holzer lives and works in Hoosick Falls, New York. Read full biography of Jenny Holzer →
I'd paint long strips of canvas and abandon them on the beach, or put bread out in geometric patterns for the pigeons downtown. I wanted people... →
I'm always trying to bring unusual content to a different audience - a non-art-world audience.
It can be kind of gruesome at times, making things alone.
It's fun wandering around other people's minds.
One of the glories and terrors of working in public is that you do see if your output means anything to anyone.
Sloppy thinking gets worse over time.
When my daughter was young, she thought all electronic signs were mine.
I get up about four times a night and go back to sleep, or not. Then I swill tea around 8 a.m. I answer e-mail, while I stall thinking about whatever... →
It's necessary to start most work alone. But I'm tickled to death when I can pull somebody in or join someone, whether it's borrowing... →
One thing that changed when I moved upstate was that I became interested in different materials. I started making the stone benches because I was... →
I'd been doing projects outdoors for the public. I made pigeons eat geometry by putting bread out in rhomboids and triangles. I don't know if... →
So much of art-making is about reducing things to the essentials, so I don't feel particularly crippled by this. I don't want it to look... →
I moved to New York in the 1970s and started writing when I was at the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program.
Jenny Holzer (born July 29, 1950) is an American conceptual artist. Holzer lives and works in Hoosick Falls, New York.