Roni Horn

Nature, and particularly water, is the common current through Roni Horn’s abstracted sculptures, photographs and drawings. Since the 1970s, she has found inspiration in the rugged landscape of Iceland and its unique geologic activity. In her most well-known series of sculptures, cloudy glass barrels with reflective, pool-like surfaces cannot be seen the same way twice; they change with the weather and light throughout the day, and their reflectivity makes each viewer’s experience unique.

Born in 1955 in New York, Horn studied at the Rhode Island School of Design before earning an MFA from Yale University in 1978. Following her first solo exhibition in 1980 at the Kunstraum München in Germany, she has since been the subject of international solo exhibitions and created several prominent public artworks. She received a Guggenheim fellowship in 1990 and the Joan Miró Award in 2013. Her sculptures draw on the tradition of  Minimalism and specifically Donald Judd, while she has also been heavily influenced by literary figures such as Emily Dickinson. 

-       Untitled (“I deeply perceive that the infinity of matter is no dream.”), 2014, Solid cast glass with as-cast surfaces, 50 3/4 x 52 3/4 inches (128.91 x 133.99 cm), representative of the artist’s sculptural works

-       Thicket No. 1, 1989–90, Aluminum and plastic, 64 x 48 x 2 inches (162.3 x 122.2 x 5.1 cm), collection of Tate Museum in London