1911 - Born in Paris, France
1938 - Moved to New York

Education

1921-1927 - Lycée Fénelon and Collège Sévigné
1932 - Lycée Fénelon (received Baccalauréat after private study)
1932 -1935 - Sorbonne
1934 - Paul Colin
1936-1937 - Atelier Roger Bissière dell’Académie Ranson
1936-1937 - Académie of D’Espagnat
1936-1937 - École du Louvre
1936-1938 - École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts (studying with André Devambez)
1936-1938 - Académie de la Grande-Chaumière, as an assistant or massière to Yves Brayer
1937-1938 - École Municipale de Dessin & d'Art
1937-1938 - Académie de la Grande-Chaumière, studying painting with Othon Friesz and sculpture with Robert Wlérick
1937-1938 - Docent at the Musée du Louvre
1937 - Académie Julian
1938 - Académie Scandinavie with Charles Despiau
1938 - Studied with Fernand Léger
1938 - Marcel Gromaire and André Lhote
1938-1939 - L’Académie Ranson
1939-1940 - Vaclav Vytlacil
1938 - Louise Bourgeois moves to New York City
1946 - Art Student’s League of New York
1955 On October 5th, Louise Bourgeois becomes an American citizen

Recent Solo Exhibitions

2008
Inverleith House, Royal Botanical Gardens, Edinburgh, Scotland “Nature Study” (5/3/08-7/6/08)
Galerie Hauser & Wirth, Zurich, Switzerland "Louise Bourgeois: La Rivière Gentille" (6/1/08-7/26/08)
Cheim & Read, New York, NY “Louise Bourgeois: Echo” (9/9/08-11/1/08)
Museo Nazionale di Capodimonte, Naples, Italy “Louise Bourgeois for Capodimonte” (10/17/08-1/11/09)

2007- 2009
Tate Modern, London, England “Louise Bourgeois: Retrospective” (10/10/07-1/20/08). Traveled to the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France (3/5/08-6/2/08)
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY (6/27/08-9/28/08)
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA (10/26/08-1/26/09)
Hirshhorn Museum & Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C. (2/28/09-6/7/09)

2007-2008
Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA “Bourgeois in Boston” (3/27/07-3/2/08)
San Francisco Arts Commission, San Francisco, CA "Louise Bourgeois: Crouching Spider", installed on Pier 14 at Embarcadero & Mission Street (11/07-11/08)
Carolina Nitsch Project Room, New York, NY "Louise Bourgeois: Hours of the Day" (12/1/07-1/29/08)
Espacia AV, La Región de Murcia, Spain “Louise Bourgeois: La Sage Femme” (11/22/07-01/10/08)

2007
Kukje Gallery, Seoul, Korea “Louise Bourgeois: Abstraction” (4/20/07-6/29/07)
Storm King Art Center, Mountainville, NY “Louise Bourgeois” (5/16/07-11/15/07)
The Haggerty Museum of Art, Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI “Louise Bourgeois: Recent Projects” (7/26/07-10/1/07)
Kaliman Gallery, Sydney, Australia “Louise Bourgeois” (8/31/07-9/29/07)
Hauser & Wirth Colnaghi, London "Louise Bourgeois: New Work" (10/10/07-11/17/07)
Marlborough Graphics, London “Louise Bourgeois: Recent Prints” (10/10/07-11/2/07)

2006
Goya Contemporary, Baltimore, MD "Louise Bourgeois: Prints" (2/2/06-4/15/06)
Walters Art Museum, and Contemporary Museum, Baltimore, MD: "Louise Bourgeois: Femme" (2/11/06-5/21/06)
Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany "Louise Bourgeois: La Famille" (3/12/06-6/5/06)
The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, PA "Louise Bourgeois" (7/8/06-9/16/06)
Galerie Lelong, Paris, France "Louise Bourgeois: Prints and Porcelains" (6/8/06-7/13/06)
Peter Blum, New York, NY "Louise Bourgeois: Early Drawings (9/5/06-11/4/06)
Butler Gallery, The Castle, Kilkenny, Ireland "Louise Bourgeois: Selected Prints on Fabric" (10/1/06-11/12/06)
Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA "Louise Bourgeois: The Woven Child (in context)" (10/21/06-2/25/07)
Christine Bader Gallery, Lugano, Switzerland "Louise Bourgeois: Sculpture and Prints" (11/24/06-12/16/06)
Tonson Gallery, Bangkok Thailand "Little More Sweet, Not too Sour" (11/9/06-1/07)

2005-2006
Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria "Louise Bourgeois: Back and Forth" (11/24/05-2/5/06)

2005
Galerie Hauser & Wirth, London, England "Louise Bourgeois: Sublimation" (1/28/05-3/12/05)
Wifredo Lam Center, Havana, Cuba "Louise Bourgeois: One and Others" (2/4/05-4/26/05)
Memphis College of Art, Memphis, TN "Louise Bourgeois: Topiary, the Art of Improving Nature" (2/18/05-3/30/05)
Xavier Hufkens Gallery, Brussels, Belgium "Louise Bourgeois: Prints" (2/24/05-3/19/05)
Marlborough Fine Art, London, England "Louise Bourgeois: Selected Prints 1989-2005" (3/30/05-4/22/05)
Kukje Gallery, Seoul, Korea "Louise Bourgeois" (4/7/05-5/8/05)
Galleri Stefan Andersson, Umea, Sweden "Louise Bourgeois: Fabric and Paper Works" (4/23/05-5/25/05)
Dunn and Brown Contemporary, Dallas, TX "Louise Bourgeois: Prints" (9/2/05-10/1/05)
Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA "Louise Bourgeois: Prints and Drawings" (9/1/05-10/8/05)
Galerie Karsten Greve, Köln, Germany "Louise Bourgeois: Prints" (10/29/05-12/7/05)

2004
Centre de la Gravure et de l'Image Imprimée, La Louvière, Belgium "Louise Bourgeois: Prints and Illustrated Books" (1/31/03-4/18/04)
Metropolitan State College, Denver, CO "Louise Bourgeois: Selections from the Ginny Williams Collection" (3/11/04-4/24/04)
Daros Exhibitions, Zurich, Switzerland "Louise Bourgeois: Emotions Abstracted, Works 1941-2000" (3/12/04-9/12/04)
St. Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, MO "Drawings by Louise Bourgeois" (3/23/04-6/20/04)
Akira Ikeda Gallery Muranchi, Yokosuka, Japan "Louise Bourgeois" (4/3/04-6/16/04)
Blumarts, New York, NY "Louise Bourgeois: Ode à l'Oubli" (9/30/04-11/13/04)
Cheim & Read, New York, NY "Louise Bourgeois: The Reticent Child" (10/21/04-12/31/04)
Galerie Karsten Greve, Paris, France "Louise Bourgeois: Prints" (11/20/04-2/12/05)

2003-2005
Museo Internacional de Arte Contemporáneo (MIAC), Arrecife Lanzarote, Canary Islands "Louise Bourgeois" (3/1/03-5/31/03)
Traveled to City Hall of Valladolid - Museo de La Pasion, Valladolid, Spain (8/5/04-8/22/04);
City Council of Leon, Spain (9/10/04-10/24/04);
Fundació Joan Miró, Palma de Mallorca (3/19/05-6/12/05);
Neue Galerie im Höhmannhaus, Augsburg,Germany (7/15/05-9/11/05)

2003
Zacheta Gallery of Art, Warsaw, Poland "Louise Bourgeois: Geometry of Desire" (1/10/03-2/9/03)
White Cube, London, England "Louise Bourgeois" (2/4/03-3/1/03)
Paule Anglim Gallery, San Francisco, CA "Louise Bourgeois" (3/12/03-4/12/03)
Xavier Hufkens Gallery, Brussels, Belgium "Louise Bourgeois: The Woven Drawings and Recent Sculptures" (3/27/03-9/7/03)
Galerie Karsten Greve, Köln, Germany "Louise Bourgeois" (4/25/03-7/19/03)
Shiraishi Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan "Spiders: Louise Bourgeois" (5/13/03-6/7/03)
Dia Center for the Arts, Beacon, New York "Louise Bourgeois Installation at Inauguration of Dia:Beacon" (5/17/03-long term loan)
Akademie der Künste, Berlin-Brandenburg, Germany "Louise Bourgeois: Intimate Abstractions" (6/3/03-7/27/03)
Frederik Meijer Gardens and Sculpture Park, Grand Rapids, MI "Louise Bourgeois: Maman" (6/12/03-11/1/03)
The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY "Louise Bourgeois: The Insomnia Drawings" (6/14/03-9/21/03)

2002-2003
Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France "Louise Bourgeois: Le Jour La Nuit Le Jour" (sound and film installation 10/7/02-4/6/03)
Beaumontpublic, Luxembourg "Louise Bourgeois: Recent Sculptures and Drawings" (10/18/02-1/18/03)
David Floria Gallery, Aspen, CO "Louise Bourgeois: Recent Works on Paper" (12/14/02-1/16/03)

2002
Galeria Soledad Lorenzo, Madrid, Spain "Louise Bourgeois" (1/17/02-3/2/02)
Galerie Karsten Greve, Milan "Louise Bourgeois" (2/31/02-3/30/02)
Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois, "Louise Bourgeois: The Early Work" (5/1/02-8/4/02)
Traveled to Madison Art Center, Madison, WI (9/15/02-11/17/02);
Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, CO (12/13/02-2/2/03)
Kukje Gallery, Seoul, Korea "Louise Bourgeois" (5/17/02-6/15/02)
Galerie Hauser & Wirth, Zurich, Switzerland "Louise Bourgeois: Works In Marble" (5/24/02-7/27/02)
Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Provincetown, MA "Louise Bourgeois" (6/12/02-7/1/02)
Playhouse Square's Star Plaza, Cleveland, OH "Louise Bourgeois' Spiders"(6/02-9/02)
Kunsthaus Bregenz, Bregenz, Austria "Louise Bourgeois: Drawings and Sculpture" (7/5/02-9/15/02)
The Ace Gallery, Hamilton, Bermuda "Louise Bourgeois" (8/9/02-10/31/02)
Ars TEOR / éTica Fundación, San José, Costa Rica "Louise Bourgeois: Childhood" (8/26/02-10/25/02)
Galerie Karsten Greve, Paris "Louise Bourgeois: Recent Work" (9/26/02-11/16/02)

2001-2003
The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia "Louise Bourgeois at the Hermitage" (10/9/01-1/13/02)
Traveled to Helsinki City Art Museum, Helsinki, Finland (2/25/02-5/5/02);
Kulturhuset, Stockholm, Sweden (5/18/02-9/1/02);
Museet for Samtidskunst, Oslo, Norway (9/14/02-12/8/02);
Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, Denmark (2/15/03-6/22/03)

2001
Galerie Karsten Greve, Paris "Louise Bourgeois" (2/10/01-3/31/01)
C&M Arts, New York, NY "Louise Bourgeois: The Personages" (4/12/01-6/9/01)
Akademie Der Bildenden Kunste Wien, Vienna, Austria "Louise Bourgeois: Reconstruction of the Past"(4/24/01-5/27/01)
Traveled to the Kunstraum Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria (6/6/01-9/29/01)
Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery, Columbia University, New York, NY "Louise Bourgeois: Illustrated Books" (4/25/01-6/9/01)
Rockefeller Center, New York, NY "Louise Bourgeois: Spiders" (6/21/01-9/4/01), organized in association with the Public Art Fund.
Musée d'Art Américain, Giverny "Louise Bourgeois: Livres Illustrés" (9/11/01-11/30/01)
Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, MA "75th Anniversary Sculpture: Louise Bourgeois"

2000-2001
Grafiska Sallskapet, Stockholm, Sweden "Louise Bourgeois" (4/29/00-5/17/00)
Traveled to Norrköpings Konstmuseum, Norrköping, Sweden (6/7/00-9/10/00);
Göteborgs Konstmuseum, Göteborg, Sweden (9/30/00- 1/7/01)
Tate Modern, London, England "Louise Bourgeois: The Insomnia Drawings" (12/00-5/01)

2000
Galerie Hauser & Wirth, Zurich, Switzerland "Louise Bourgeois" (1/15/00-3/12/00)
Tate Modern, London, England "Louise Bourgeois: Inaugural Installation of the Tate Modern Art at Turbine Hall" (5/12/00-11/26/00)
National Museum of Contemporary Art, Kyunggi-Do, Korea "Louise Bourgeois: The Space of Memory" (9/7/00-11/5/00)
Foundation Bevilacqua La Masa, under the patronage of the Biennale di Venice: Section Architecture, Venice, Italy "Louise Bourgeois: Handkerchiefs" (6/2/00-6/30/00)
Jardin des Tuileries, Paris, France, installation of The Welcoming Hands by Louise Bourgeois (inauguration of permanent installation 6/29/00)
Galerie Karsten Greve, Milan, Italy "Louise Bourgeois: Works on Paper" (9/21/00-11/30/00)
Galerie Lelong, Paris, France "Louise Bourgeois: Prints 1990-2000" (9/21/00-10/28/00)
Kappatos Gallery, Athens, Greece "Louise Bourgeois" (10/4/00-11/25/00)

1999-2000
Maier Museum of Art, Randolph-Macon Woman's College, Lynchburg, VA "Louise Bourgeois Prints: 1989-1998" (1/17/99-3/7/99)
Traveled to Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, Cleveland, OH (9/3/99-10/24/99);
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, MN (12/4/99-2/13/00)
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte / Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain "Louise Bourgeois: Architecture and Memory" (11/16/99-2/14/00)