LAURIE ANDERSON Biography Born in Chicago, IL. Lives and works in New York, NY.

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1 LAURIE ANDERSON Biography 1947 Born in Chicago, IL. Lives and works in New York, NY. SELECTED PERFORMANCES 2008 Homeland, Lincoln Center Festival, New York, New York; toured US, South America and Europe The End of the Moon, February/March, Brooklyn Academy of Music, New York, New York; other venues City of Twist, Joyce Theater, New York (original music by Laurie Anderson) Life on a String, music tour with band in US and Europe. 1999/2000 Songs and Stories from Moby Dick, toured US and Europe The Speed of Darkness, toured Australia Meltdown Festival, Director, London, England. The Speed of Darkness, United States and European Tour. Civil Wars, by Philip Glass and Robert Wilson, Rome, Italy. Harmolodic, performance with Ornette Coleman, Lincoln Center Festival, New York, New 1996 The Speed of Darkness, United States Tour. Opera Totale, Venice, Italy The Nerve Bible, United States and European tour. Site Santa Fe, Santa Fe, New Mexico. When Words Collide, Long Beach, California Stories from the Nerve Bible, United States and European tour Stories from the Nerve Bible, Annenberg Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Stories from the Nerve Bible, premiere: Expo 92 Seville, Spain (toured Germany and Spain). Arte TV premier. Strasbourg Opera House, Strasbourg, Germany. Later presented in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv, Israel Voices From Beyond, as part of High Art/Low Art series organized by Roselee Goldberg, Museum of Modern Art, New York, New 1989 Empty Places, premiere: Spoleto Festival, Charleston S.C. followed by a United States and European tour in Home of the Brave, Cannes, France. Talk Normal, Tokyo International Video Biennale United States, performed in its eight hour version, Brooklyn Academy of Music, followed by a European tour of England, Switzerland,

2 Italy, and Austria as well as many large venues, theaters, and opera houses in the United States It s Cold Outside, performed by the Westdeutscher Rundfunk, Köln, Germany; directed by Dennis Russell Davies It s Cold Outside, performed by American Composers Orchestra 1980 United States II, premiere, Orpheum Theater, New York, New 1979 Americans on the Move, Carnegie Recital Hall, New York, New 1978 Own Here, Texas Opry House, Houston, Texas. Like a Stream, Washington D.C., New York, and Minneapolis Songs for Lines Songs for Waves, The Kitchen, New York, New On Dit, Paris Biennale, Paris, France. That s Not The Way I Heard It, Documenta, Kassel, Switzerland. Some Songs, Belgium, Italy, and Holland. Audio Talk, New School, New York, New Stereo Decoy, Art Park, Lewiston, New 1976 For Instants Part 3 Refried Beans, Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York; Whitney Museum of American Art; and many colleges and alternative spaces in the United States and Europe Songs and Stories for the Insomniac, Artists Space, New York, New York; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois. Duets on Ice, Genoa, Italy AS:IF, Artists Space, New York, New Out of the Blue and Tales From the Vienna Woods, performed throughout the United States and Europe. In the Nick of Time, The Clocktower, New York, New Duets on Ice, performed on street corners in each borough of New York City, fulfilling the public service requirement of the CAPS grant O-Range, Lewiston Stadium, City College Automotive, Rochester, Vermont. Institutional Dream Series, personal study of narcolepsy and dreams. SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS/INSTALLATIONS 2009 From the Air: Two Installations, Location One, New York, New 2005 Laurie Anderson: The Record of the Time, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin; InterCommunication Center (ICC), Tokyo, Japan. The Waters Reglitterized, Sean Kelly Gallery, New York, New Laurie Anderson, The Record of the Time, Museum Kunst Palast, Düsseldorf, Germany. Traveled to Padiglione d Arte Contemporanea, Milan, Italy Laurie Anderson, The Record of Time, Musée d art Contemporain de Lyon, Lyon, France (traveling exhibition) Laurie Anderson's Anthology, Kulturboro Museum of Contemporary Art, Roskilde, Denmark Life - Dal Vivo, Fondazione Prada, Milan, Italy and Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France. Handphone Table exhibited at the Musée d Art Contemporain, Lyon, France Dancing in The Moonlight With Her Wigwan Hair, Southbank Centre, London, England. History of Art and Science directed by Naoto Tanak, TV Man Union, Japan. Produced Alternate Current, New York, New 1996 Hugo Boss Prize exhibition, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, New

3 1983 Laurie Anderson: Works From 1969 to 1983, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. (Traveling venues: Frederick S. Wight Gallery, University of California, Los Angeles, California; the Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, Texas; The Queens Museum, Flushing, New ) 1982 Laurie Anderson: Artworks, part of ICA: NY exhibition, Institute of Contemporary Art, London, England. (Traveling venues: Bluecost Gallery, Liverpool, England; Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, England; Rochdale Art Gallery, Rochdale, England; New 57 Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland; Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin, Ireland.) 1981 Scenes from United States, Holly Solomon Gallery, New York, New 1980 Dark Dogs, American Dreams, Holly Solomon Gallery, New York, New 1979 United States (Part I), The Kitchen, New York, New 1978 Projects: Laurie Anderson (When You We re Here), Museum of Modern Art, New York, New 1977 Jukebox, Holly Solomon Gallery, New York, New 1974 O-Range, Artists Space, New York, New Selected by Vito Acconci Harold Rivkin Gallery, Washington D.C 1972 Laurie Anderson, Barnard College, New York, New First one-person exhibition included early sculpture - newspaper works, fiberglass and resin works, sticks against wall combined with drawing on the wall. SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2010 The Record, Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham, North Carolina The Missing Peace, Frost Art Museum, Miami, Florida. Big Shots: Andy Warhol, Celebrity Culture, and the 1980s, Spencer Museum of Art, Lawrence, Kansas. Art and Electronic Media, Bitforms, New York, New Four at the Start, Salomon Contemporary, East Hampton, New The 70s. Photography and Everyday Life, PhotoEspaña, Madrid, Spain. Traveling to: Museo d'arte Provincia di Nuoro, Sardinia, Italy and Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporaneo, Seville, Spain. The Third Mind: American Artists Contemplate Asia, 1860 to 1989, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, New White Noise, James Cohan Gallery, New York, New 2008 Ciclo de Video: Bailando sin salir de casa, Museo Tamayo Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico City, Mexico. Agency: Art and Advertising, McDonough Museum of Art, Youngstown State University, Youngstown, Ohio. "Neon", Anna Schwartz Gallery, Sydney, Australia. Street & Studio: An Urban History of Photography, Tate Modern, London, England; Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany. Brasil: desfocos (o olho de fora), Paço das Artes, São Paulo, Brazil 2007 Role Exchange, Sean Kelly Gallery, New York, New What s Your Hobby? Curated by Beth Rudin DeWoody, The Fireplace Project, East Hampton, New Space Is the Place, Independent Curators International (ICI), traveling exhibition d Ombra, Papesse Centro Arte Contemporanea, Museo d Arte Provincia di Nuoro, Siena, Italy. The Downtown Show: The New York Art Scene, , Grey Art

4 Gallery, New York University, New York, New Gordon Matta-Clark and Anarchitecture: A Detective Story, Arthur Ross Architecture Gallery, Columbia University, New York, New 2005 Long Playing, Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts Perspectives at 25: A Quarter-Century of New Art in Houston, Contemporary Arts Museum in Houston, Houston, Texas. Public/Private, Auckland Triennial, Auckland, New Zealand. I need you, CentrePasquArt, Biel Bienne, Switzerland New Music, New York +25, Gala Concert for The Kitchen, New York, New Arte del Video, The Fondazione Centor Studi Sull Arte Licia E Carlo Exhibit and Silent Auction, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, New Ludovico Ragghianti, Lucca, Italy Public/Private/Tumatanui/Tumataiti, The Second Auckland Triennial, Auckland, New Zealand. The Invisible Thread: Buddhist Spirit in Contemporary Art, The Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art at Snug Harbor, Staten Island, New Il viaggio dell uomo immobile, Museo d arte contemporanea di Villa Croce, Genoa, Italy. Gloria: Another Look at Feminist Art of the 1970s, The RISD Museum, Providence, Rhode Island Personal & Political: The Women s Art Movement, Guild Hall Museum, East Hampton, New Moving Pictures, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, New Time Share, Sara Meltzer Gallery, New York, New 2001 Audible Imagery, The Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, Illinois. Biennale de Lyon, Musée d Art contemporian, Lyon, France. Les Subsistances and Parc de la Tête d Or, Lyon, France Biennale of Sydney, Sydney, Australia. Le temps, vite, Centre national d art et de culture Georges Pompidou, Paris, France. The End: An Independent Vision of Contemporary Culture, , Exit Art, New York, New Orbis Terrarum/Ways of Worldmaking, Antwerpen Open, Antwerp, Belgium. Media City Seoul, Seoul, Korea 1999 El espacio del sonido, El tiempo de la mirada, KM Kulturunea, San Sebastián. The American Century: Art and Culture, , The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New I Love New York: Crossover of Contemporary Art, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany. Impact: Revealing Sources for Contemporary Art, Contemporary Museum, Baltimore, Maryland. Warum ist Zeichnung so schön, Gallerie Gaby Kraushaar, Dusseldorf, Germany Body Mécanique: Artistic Explorations of Digital Realms, Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Ohio. Out of Actions: Between Performance and the Object, , The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California. Meltdown Festival, The Royal Festival Hall, London, England. (curator: Laurie Anderson).

5 From Warhol to Mapplethorpe: Three Decades of Art at ICA, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Digital Video Wall. Museum of Modern Art, New York, New Extended Play. The Photographic Resource Center, Boston, Massachusetts Electra. Henie-Onstad Art Center, Oslo, Norway. Award Finalist, The Hugo Boss Prize 1996, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, SoHo, New York, New Other Minds Festival, San Francisco, California War Child (fashion show and art exhibition) 1994 La Visite Guidée (collaboration with Sophie Calle), Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, Rotterdam, Holland. The Ossuary, The Knitting Factory, New York, New AWARDS 2007 The Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize, New York 2005 Helen Adelia Rowe Metcalf Award for Lifetime Achievement, RISD Athena Awards, New 2002 Tenco Prize for Songwriting, San Remo, Italy. Preis des Deutschen Schallplattenkritik for best album. Life on a String, Grammy Award for "Best Engineered Album, Non-classical." 1997 Ludwig Award for Creative Achievement, Aachen, Germany Marlene Award for the Performing Arts, Munich, Germany Distinguished Alumna Award from Columbia University School of the Arts, New York, New 1990 Honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts, Art Institute of Chicago Honorary Doctorate from Philadelphia College of the Arts. SELECTED LECTURES/PANELS 2006 Celebrating the 25 th Anniversay of the Mark Morris Dance Group, Rubin Museum of Art, New York, New The Columbia Conference on Art and the New Biology of Mind, Columbia University - Italian Academy for Advanced Studies in America, New York, New 2005 The Artangel Longplayer Conversation 2005: Laurie Anderson and Doris Lessing, The Royal Institution of Great Britain, London, England. New York Studio School, Evening Lecture Series, Fall 2005, New York, New th Anniversary Lecture Series, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, New York Centre Pompidou - Musée National d Art Moderne, Paris, France Fondazione Prada, Milan, Italy Museet for Samtidskunst, Roskilde, Denmark Museum Kunst Palast, Dusseldorf, Germany

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