12 Facts About Roni Horn

Roni Horn was born on September 25,1955 and is an American visual artist and writer.

Roni Horn was named for her grandmothers, both of whom were named Rose.

Roni Horn graduated from high school early and enrolled in the Rhode Island School of Design at age 16.

Roni Horn received an MFA in sculpture from Yale University in 1978.

Roni Horn has been intimately involved with the singular geography, geology, climate and culture of Iceland.

Since her first encounter with the island as a young arts graduate visiting on a fellowship from Yale, Roni Horn has returned to Iceland frequently.

Roni Horn manipulated passages of the text to shape partial and overlapping rings and loops, playing with the order and coherence of Lispector's text.

Roni Horn's first photographic installation, You Are The Weather, is a photographic cycle featuring 100 close-up shots of the same woman, Margret, in a variety of Icelandic geothermal pools.

Roni Horn was one of the artists featured on PBS' Art:21 series of biographies of contemporary artists.

Roni Horn has had one-person exhibitions at the Nasher Sculpture Center ; the Art Institute of Chicago ; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris ; Dia Center for the Arts, New York, and Museu Serralves, Porto ; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Kunsthalle Basel ; Rencontres d'Arles festival, France and Tate Modern, London.

In 2016 Roni Horn had a solo exhibition in Tilburg, The Netherlands, at De Pont Museum of Contemporary Art.

Roni Horn was commissioned to install her "Wits' End Sampler" wall drawing in the entry space of the Menil Drawing Institute.