Jenny Holzer

Jenny Holzer (1950) is one of the most famous and most awarded American conceptual artists from New York, widely praised for her provocative language based public works that deal with powerful subjects of consumerism, torture, disease and death. Holzer began her highly prolific career in 1970s and she quickly got noticed for her work Truism series of confrontational one-line aphorisms she used to wheat-paste to buildings, walls and fences in and around Manhattan. Holzer's unsettling words of wisdom, often written by others, have since appeared everywhere, from posters, billboards, T-shirts and condoms to illuminated electronic displays and xenon light projections on buildings and other architectural structures. More recently Jenny Holzer created and acclaimed series of captivating screen printing paintings featuring declassified government documents pertaining to prisoner abuse.

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