Jenny Holzer

Award-winning conceptual artist

Jenny holzer was born in Ohio and educated at Ohio University, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and the Rhode Island School of Design. She is a conceptual artist famous for her trademark short slogans - or "truisms" - and LED displays, although she has worked with a wide variety of media, including stickers, T-shirts, light projection, and even condoms. Much of her work focuses on the projection of words and statements in public spaces, and she has used texts by, among others, the Polish Nobel laureate Wislawa Szymborska and Mahmoud Darwish. Her work Truisms, debuted in 1977, consists of truisms displayed in several media. Another, 2005's For The City, projected documents from the US government's National Security Archive onto buildings in New York.

Holzer's work has been exhibited all over the world, including Rome, Washington and Paris. She was the recipient of the Leone D’Oro for her installation at the Venice Biennale in 1990, and has also won the Kaiserring from the German city of Goslar (2002) and the Public Art Network Award from Americans for the Arts (2004).