Jenny Holzer — Biography, Exhibitions, Galleries & Auction Results

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Selected Works577

Museum Acquisitions

Whitney

Previous Sales 110

Bonhams

Jenny Holzer (B. 1950) The Living Series: More people will be building..., 1989 17 x 36 x 18 in (43.1 x 91.4 x 45.7 cm) (This work is number two from an edition of three.)

$85,000

Apr 2026

Bonhams

Jenny Holzer (B. 1950) The Living Series: When you've been someplace ..., 1989 17 x 36 x 18 in (43.1 x 91.4 x 45.7 cm) (This work is number two from an edition of three.)

$65,000

Apr 2026

Sotheby's

Desert Crossing 6 blue white, 2009

Unknown

Mar 2026

Sotheby's

TOP SECRET, blue, 2010

€60,000 ($79k USD)

Dec 2024

Sotheby's

Selection from Truisms: All Things Are Delicately Interconnected, 1987

$571,500

Mar 2023

Sotheby's

Selections from the Living Series: It is hard to know what people want..., 1980

$10,000

Dec 2021

Christie's

The Hand Desired, 2004

$7,500

Oct 2021

Christie's

Without Warning..., from The Living Series

Phillips

Phillips

Use What is Dominant in a Culture to Change it Quickly

SBI Art Auction

SBI Art Auction

Wright

Truisms postcards (sixteen works)

$4,000

Jan 1970

Christie's

Olympian sign: Selections from Truisms, the Living Series, and the Survival Series, 1986

$27,940

Mar 2026

Christie's

Truisms Footstool: An elite is inevitable..., 1988

$53,340

Feb 2026

Phillips

Survival: When there is no safe place..., 1997

$79,572

Dec 2025

Christie's

Untitled from the Living Series, 1981

$16,298

Dec 2025

Christie's

Selections from Truisms: A sense of timing..., 1998

Christie's

Sotheby's

Phillips

Water Boarding (Griffelkunst)

Bonhams

Christie's

Christie's

Use What is Dominant, 2003

$4,032

Jul 2025

Phillips

Living Series: There is a period when it's clear..., 1981

$25,400

Jul 2025

For Sale 12

Sprüth Magers · Artsy

Humor is a release, 2019

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Oak Stone bench

SitterArt · Artsper

Freedom is a luxury not a necessity

$4,733

Print

Kukje Gallery · Artsy

leverage, 2020

Price on request

Graphite and watercolor on paper

Sprüth Magers · Artsy

STATEMENT - Truisms +, 2015

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Four-sided vertical LED sign: RGB diodes; stainless steel

Sprüth Magers · Artsy

What a shock when they tell you it won't hurt..., 1989

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Bethel white granite bench Text: Living (1980-82)

MLTPL · 1stDibs

Jenny Holzer, Water Board 0000090: 2012, Signed Print, Contemporary Art

$3,331

Template reservage technique, on 350 g/qm wove paper

Alpha 137 Gallery · 1stDibs

Jenny Holzer -USE WHAT IS DOMINANT IN A CULTURE TO CHANGE IT: Signed glass bowl

$8,500

Smolensky Gallery · 1stDibs

More Trouble Than Thought, Screen Print with Palladium Leaf, 2021

$4,391

MLTPL · 1stDibs

Jenny Holzer, Inflammatory Essays 3 - LED Sculpture, Light Art, Text-based Art

$10,112

Electronic tri-color mini-LED panel, with anodized aluminium housing, incl. power adapter

MLTPL · 1stDibs

Jenny Holzer, Top Secret 32 (from Water Boarding Series), Signed Print

$3,331

Template reservage technique, on 350 g/qm wove paper

MLTPL · 1stDibs

Jenny Holzer, AKA: Portfolio of 5 Etchings, Contemporary Art, Signed Print

$4,988

Set of five etchings, on Magnani Pescia paper (with title page, sheets loose, in original black silk-covered portfolio case)

Caviar20 · 1stDibs

Truth Before Power

$7,000

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Market609 auction results

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$3.5K – $1.6M

47 of 50 sculpture/objects lots with prices

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$114K

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$32.8K

47 priced sculpture/objects lots

calendar_todayLast Sculpture/objects Sale

Mar 2026 · $27.9K

Latest tracked sale in this object type

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Sculpture/objects: $32.8K medianPaintings: $97.7K medianPhotographs: $7.0K medianWorks on paper: $18.8K medianUnclassified lots: $53.3K medianPosters/ephemera: $2.9K medianEditioned prints: $1.7K medianBooks/portfolios: $1.6K median

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Galleries2

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Prizes & Awards2

National Arts Awards

Winner 2011

Goslarer Kaiserring

Winner 2002

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Podcast Interviews1

podcasts Jenny Holzer on the Raw Power of the Well-Wrought Phrase The Art Angle · Jun 15, 2023

Over the past five decades, American artist Jenny Holzer has been engaging in thought-provoking interventions into public space that unflinchingly address politics, power, violence, and vulnerability. The New York-based …

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Education5

Duke University

Museum of Fine Arts / Tufts University

Boston, MA, USA

Ohio State University

BFA · Columbus, OH, USA

Rhode Island School of Design (RISD)

MFA · Providence, RI, USA

School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC)

Chicago, IL, USA

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Publications20

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Monograph 2

For Freedoms: Where Do We Go From Here?

Phaidon Press · 2024

Jenny Holzer Author

Hatje Cantz · 1997

Exhibition Catalog 7

Amitié et créativités collectives

Hatje Cantz · 2022

Freundschaften: Gemeinschaftsarbeiten von Salvador Dalí bis Jenny Holzer

Hatje Cantz · 2022

Everyone is an artist. Cosmopolitical Exercises with Joseph Beuys

Hatje Cantz · 2021

Jenny Holzer

Hatje Cantz · 2009

Jenny Holzer

Hatje Cantz · 2008

Die Macht des Wortes = Author

Hatje Cantz · 2006

Jenny Holzer: Lustmord

Hatje Cantz · 1997

Group Catalog 3

BMW Art Cars

Hatje Cantz · 2018

SOM Journal Author

Hatje Cantz · 2002

Everything that's interesting is new

Hatje Cantz · 1996

Survey 7

BMW Art Cars

Hatje Cantz · 2025

The Word is Art

Thames & Hudson · 2018

BMW Art Cars

Hatje Cantz · 2014

Understanding installation art

Prestel · 2003

Public Art Author

Hatje Cantz · 2001

The American Art Book

Phaidon Press

Vitamin Txt: Words in Contemporary Art

Phaidon Press

Artist Book 1

Jenny Holzer Author

Hatje Cantz · 2011

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Current Exhibitions1

#4,887 PalaisPopulaire

Seeing Words, Reading Images: The Written Art Collection in dialogue with the Deutsche Bank Collection

Etel Adnan, Mounira Al Solh, Joseph Beuys, Osman Bozkurt, Hoy Wong Cheong, Natalie Czech, Claudia Comte, Marcel Dzama, Larissa Fassler, Meschac Gaba, Ellen Gallagher, Jenny Holzer, Annette Kelm, William Kentridge, Imi Knoebel, Ahmed Mater, Ahmad Moualla, Farhad Moshiri, Herta Müller, Shiryû Morita, Shirin Neshat, Zhijie Qiu, Karin Sander, Viviane Sassen, Yinka Shonibare, Slavs and Tatars, Agathe Snow, Evelyn Taocheng Wang, Lawrence Weiner, Yang Jiechang, Inoue Yū-ichi, Charles Hossein Zenderoudi

Unter den Linden 5, 10117 Berlin, Germany

Mar 20, 2026 — Jun 18, 2026

Details Website

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#5,838 AR Gallery

Jenny Holzer J’ai vu

Jenny Holzer

Esplanade Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, 75007 Paris, France

Oct 20, 2026 — Jan 18, 2027

Details Website

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Recent News20

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Jenny Holzer found fame for her subversive slogans — now she’s turning FBI files into art

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Jenny Holzer Opens First Portugal Solo Show at Serralves Museum

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A First Look at the Art in the New Obama Presidential Center

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This humble building in small-town Texas houses one of America’s greatest private art collections

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The best exhibitions to see this autumn in Paris and the Île-de-France region

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Louvre Abu Dhabi exhibition to trace connections across the Indian Ocean, from trade to algebra and astronomy

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