Louise Bourgeois

Page 1 | Biography

Born: Paris, France 1911
Lives: & works in New York

Education
Studied at the Lycée Fénelon, Paris 1921-1927
Studied Mathematics at the Sorbonne, Paris 1932-35
Studied at the École du Louvre, Paris 1935-36
Studied at the Atelier Roger Bissière de l‘Académie Ranson 1936-1937
Studied at the Académie d‘Espagnat 1936-1937
Studied at the École des Beaux-Arts with Devambez and Colarossi, Paris 1936-38
Studied at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière with Othon Friesz and Wlérick, Paris 1937-38
Studied at the Académie Julian, Paris 1938
Studied at the Académie Scandinavie with Charles Despiau 1938
Worked in the Atelier of Fernand Léger, Paris 1938
Moved to New York 1938
Art Students League with Vaclav Vytlacil 1938-39
Atelier 17, New York 1946



Solo Exhibitions
RECENT

2008
Museum Kunst Palast, ‘Diana + Actaeon, Der Verbotene Blick auf die Nacktheit’ Düsseldorf/DE
MOCA, ‘Louise Bourgeois’, Los Angeles CA
Museo Nazionale di Capodimonte, ‘Louise Bourgeois’, Naples/IT
Hauser & Wirth, ‘La Rivière Gentille’, Zurich/CH
Inverleith House, ‘Recent Drawings’, Edinburgh/UK

2007
Marlborough Gallery, ‘Louise Bourgeois’, London/UK
Tate Modern, ‘Louise Bourgeois: Retrospective’, London/UK [travelled to Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris/FR; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York NY; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles CA, The Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC]
Hauser & Wirth Colnaghi, ‘Louise Bourgeois: New Work’, London/UK
Institute of Contemporary Arts, ‘Bourgeois in Boston’, Boston/MA
Christine König Galerie, ‘Louise Bourgeois: Quarantania 1947/1990’, Vienna/AT
Kukje Gallery, ‘Louise Bourgeois: Abstraction’, Seoul/KR
Storm King Art Center, ‘Louise Bourgeois’, Mountainville NY
Philadelphia Museum of Art, ‘Louise Bourgeois: Crouching Spider’, Philadelphia PA
Worcester Art Museum, ‘Louise Bourgeois: The Woven Child’, Worcester MA
Kunstmuseum Bern, Graphisches Kabinett, ‘Fugue’, Berne/CH

2006
Christine Bader, ‘Louise Bourgeois – Scultura e Opere Grafiche’, Lugano/CH
Peter Blum, ‘Works on Paper from the 1940`s and 1950`s’, New York NY
Hauser & Wirth, ‘Louise Bourgeois and Roni Horn: Drawings’, Zurich/CH
Goya Contemporary, ‘Louise Bourgeois. Prints & unique works on paper’, Baltimore MD
Galerie Lelong, ‘Louise Bourgeois – Estampes et porcelaines 1996-2005’, Paris/FR
Greg Kucera Gallery, ‘Louise Bourgeois. Print Focus: Recent Editions’, Seattle WA
Walters Art Museum, ‘Louise Bourgeois. Femme’, Baltimore MD
Kunsthalle Bielefeld, ‘Louise Bourgeois. La famille’, Bielefeld/DE
Butler Gallery, ‘Louise Bourgeois’, Kilkenny/IE

2005
Galerie Karsten Greve, ‘Louise Bourgeois’, Cologne/DE
Kunsthalle Wien, ‘Louise Bourgeois. Aller-Retour’, Vienna/AT
Gallery Paule Anglim, ‘Louise Bourgeois. Works on Paper and Cloth’, San Francisco CA
Neue Galerie im Höhmannhaus, ‘Louise Bourgeois. La Sage Femme’, Augsburg/DE
Galleri Stefan Andersson, ‘Louise Bougeois. Fabric and Paperworks’, Umeå/SE
Hauser & Wirth London, ‘Sublimation’, London/UK
Museum of Contemporary Art, ‘Stitches in Time’, North Miami FL
Wifredo Lam Centre, Havana/CU
Kukje Gallery, Seoul/KR

2004
Karsten Greve, ‘Louise Bourgeois – Prints’, Paris/FR
Cheim & Read, ‘The Reticent Child’, New York NY
CAC Màlaga, ‘Louise Bourgeois: Stitches in Time’, Malaga/ES
Daros Collection, ‘Louise Bourgeois’, Zürich/CH
Akira Ikeda Gallery Muranchi, ‘Louise Bourgeois’, Yokosuka/JP
The Fruitmarket Gallery, ‘Louise Bourgeois. Stitches in Time’, Edinburgh/UK
Peter Blum, ‘Louise Bourgeoise. Ode à l’ Oubli’, New York NY
Galleri Stefan Andersson, ‘Louise Bourgeois: Multitriples and prints’, Umeå/SE
Galerie Scheffel, Bad Homburg/DE

2003
Sigmund Freud Museum, ‘A View from the Outside, Louise Bourgeois. The Reticent Child’, Vienna/AT
Aspen Art Museum, ‘Louise Bourgeois. The Early Work’, Aspen CO
Zacheta Gallery of Art, ‘Louise Bourgeois. Geometry of Desire’, Warsaw/PL
Paule Anglim Gallery, ‘Louise Bourgeois. La Sage-Femme’, San Francisco CA
Akademie der Künste, ‘Louise Bourgeois. Intimate Abstractions’, Berlin/DE
Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, ‘Louise Bourgeois’, cur. Julie Sylvester Cabot, Humlebaek/DK
Xavier Hufkens Gallery, ‘Louise Bourgeois’, Brussels/BE
Shiraishi Contemporary Art, ‘Spiders. Louise Bourgeois’, Tokyo/JP
Dia Center for the Arts, Beacon, ‘Louise Bourgeois. Installation at Inauguration of Dia: Beacon’, Beacon NY
Frederik Meijer Gardens and Sculpture Park, ‘Louise Bourgeois. Maman’, Grand Rapids MI
Galerie Karsten Greve, ‘Louise Bourgeois’, Cologne/DE
The Whitney Museum of American Art, ‘Louise Bourgeois. The Insomnia Drawings’, New York NY
Irish Museum of Modern Art, ‘Louise Bourgeois’, Dublin/IE
White Cube, ‘Louise Bourgeois’, London/UK

2002
Helsinki City Art Museum, ‘Louise Bourgeois’, cur. Julie Sylvester Cabot, Helsinki/FI
Palais de Tokyo, ‘Louise Bourgeois. Le Jour La Nuit Le Jour [film and sound installation]’, Paris/FR
Galería Soledad Lorenzo, ‘Louise Bourgeois’, Madrid/ES
Galerie Karsten Greve, ‘Louise Bourgeois’, Milan/IT
Kukje Gallery, ‘Louise Bourgeois’, Seoul/KR
Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, ‘Louise Bourgeois’, Provincetown MA
Playhouse Square’s Star Plaza, ‘Louise Bourgeois Spiders [organized in ass. with Cleveland Public Art, Inc.]’, Cleveland OH
The Ace Gallery, ‘Louise Bourgeois’, Hamilton/BM
Kulturhuset, ‘Louise Bourgeois’, cur. Julie Sylvester Cabot, Stockholm/SE
Beaumontpublic + Königbloc, ‘Louise Bourgeois. Recent sculptures and drawings’, Luxembourg/LU
Ars TEOR / éTica Fundacion, ‘Louise Bourgeois. Childhood’, San José/CR
Museet for Samtidskunst, ‘Louise Bourgeois’, cur. Julie Sylvester Cabot, Oslo/NO
Galerie Hauser & Wirth, ‘Louise Bourgeois. Works in Marble’, cur. Michaela Unterdörfer, Zurich/CH
Kunsthaus Bregenz, ‘Louise Bourgeois’, Bregenz [travelled to Bunkier Sztuki Gallery of Contemporary Art, Krakow/PL, Akademie der Künste, Berlin/DE]
Krannert Art Museum, ‘Louise Bourgeois. The Early Work’, Champaign IL [travelled to Madison Art Center, Madison WI]
David Floria Galllery, ‘Louise Bourgeois. Recent Works on Paper’, Aspen CO

2001
Galerie Karsten Greve, ‘Louise Bourgeois – Œuvres récentes’, Paris/FR
C&M Arts, ‘Louise Bourgeois – The Personages’, New York NY
Cheim & Read, ‘Louise Bourgeois’, New York NY
Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, ‘Louise Bourgeois’, Bilbao/ES
Akademie der bildenden Künste, ‘Louise Bourgeois. Reconstruction of the Past’, Vienna/AT
Kunstraum Innsbruck, ‘Louise Bourgeois. Passage Dangereux’, Innsbruck/AT
The State Hermitage Museum, ‘Louise Bourgeois’, cur. Julie Sylvester Cabot, St. Petersburg/RU
Peter Blum, ‘Louise Bourgeois’, New York NY
Rockefeller Center/Public Art Fund., ‘Louise Bourgeois. Spiders’, New York NY
Galerie Fahnemann, ‘Louise Bourgeois. “The Puritan”’, Berlin/DE
Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery, Columbia University, ‘Louise Bourgeois. Illustrated Books’, New York NY
Musée d’Art Américain, ‘Louise Bourgeois. Livres Illustrés’, Giverny/FR
Williams College Museum of Art, ‘75th Anniversary Sculpture: Louise Bourgeois’, Williamstown MA

2000
Galerie Hauer & Wirth, ‘Louise Bourgeois. Neue Arbeiten/Recent Works’, Zurich/CH
Galleria Karsten Greve, ‘Louise Bourgeois. Works on Paper’, Milan/IT
Galerie Lelong, ‘Louise Bourgeois. Estampes 1990-2000’, Paris/FR
Kappatos Gallery Athens, ‘Louise Bourgeois’, Athens/GR
National Museum of Contemporary Art, ‘Louise Bourgeois‘, Kyungki-do/KS
Tate Modern, ‘Louise Bourgeois‘ [retroscpective and installation], London/UK
Grafiska Sallskapet, ‘Louise Bourgeois’, Stockholm/S [travelled to Norrköpings Konstmuseum, Norrköping/SE]
Göteborg Museum of Art, ‘Louise Bourgeois’, Göteborg/SE
Jardin des Tuileries, ‘Installation of The Welcoming Hands by Louise Bourgeois’, Paris/FR



Group Exhibitions
RECENT

2008
Broelmuseum Kortrijk – Museum voor beeldende en toegepaste kunst, ‘FuturARTextiel’, Kortrijk/BE
MARTA Herford, ‘Loss of Control’, Herford/DE
Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, ‘Intimacy’, Southbank/AU
Royal Academy, ‘Summer Exhibition 2008’, London/UK
Grote Zaal Koninklijke Schouwburg Den Haag, ‘The Hague Sculpture 2008. FREEDOM – American Sculpture’, The Hague/NL
Victoria and Albert Museum, ‘Blood on Paper: the Art of the Book’, London/UK
Compton Verney Art Gallery, ‘The Fabric of Myth’, Warwickshire/UK
MARTA Herford, ‘Die Hände der Kunst’, Herford/DE
Museum Morsbroich,‘Kavalierstawrt 1978-1982’, Leverkusen/DE
British Museum, ‘The American Scene: Prints from Hopper to Pollock, London/UK
Cheim & Read, ‘The Sum of its Parts’, New York NY
Institute of Contemporary Art, ‘The Puppet Show’, Philadelphia PA
Irish Museum of Modern Art, ‘Order. Desire. Light: An Exhibition of Contemporary Drawing.’, Dublin/IE
L’Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, ‘Academia: Qui es-tu? ‘, Paris/FR

2007
CGAC, ‘Gender Battle’, Santiago de Compostela/ES
Parrish Art Museum, ‘All the More Real’, Southampton NY
Museo Fortuny, ‘artempo – where time becomes art’, Venice/IT
MAMbo, ‘Vertigo’, Bologna/IT
Cheim & Read, ‘Circa 70’, New York NY
Centre Pompidou, ‘AIRS DE PARIS’, Paris/FR
Xavier Hufkens, ‘Richard Artschwager / Louise Bourgeois / Roni Horn / Raymond Pettibon’, Brussels/BE
52. Biennale di Venezia, ‘Think with the Senses – Feel with the Mind. Art in the Present Tense’, Venice/IT
10. Triennale Kleinplastik, ‘Bodycheck’, Fellbach/DE
The Wanas Foundation, ‘20th Anniversary’, Knislinge/SE
Aargauer Kunsthaus, ‘Scenes and Sequences – Peter Blum Editionen’, Aarau/CH
Deutsche Guggenheim Berlin, ‘Affinities – 10 Jahre Deutsche Guggenheim’, Berlin/DE
Hamburger Bahnhof, ‘Schmerz’, Berlin/DE
MOCA, ‘Wack! Art and the Feminist Revolution’, Los Angeles/CA [travels to National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington/DC; Vancouver Art Gallery/CA]
Christine König Galerie, ‘Quarantania 1947/1990’, Vienna /AT
Centro José Guerrero, ‘The Invisible Show’, Granada/ES
Akademie der Künste, ‘RAUM. Orte der Kunst’, Berlin/DE
Walker Art Center, ‘Picasso and Modern Art’, Minneapolis MI
J & P Fine Art, ‘Great Art …outdoors’, Zurich/CH
Sean Kelly Gallery, ‘PURE’, New York NY

2006
Whitney Museum, ‘Picasso and American Art’, New York/NY [travelled to Walker Art Center, Minneapolis MN, Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco CA]
KW Institute for Contemporary Art, ‘Into Me/Out of Me’, Berlin/DE, [travelled to MARCO, Roma/IT]
Frith Street Gallery, ‘Resonance’, London/UK
Fondation Beyeler, ‘Eros in der Kunst der Moderne’, Riehen/CH [Kunstforum der Bank Austria, Vienna/AT]
The Wallace Collection, ‘From Jean Arp to Louise Bourgeois: Modern Artists at Sèvres’, London/UK
MFAH The Museum of Fine Arts Houston, ‘Singular Multiples: The Peter Blum Edition Archive 1980-1994’, Houston TX
Wildenstein &Co., ‘The Odyssey Continues’, New York NY
Museum Ludwig, ‘Das Achte Feld/The Eighth Square’, Cologne/DE
Museum of Contemporary Art Vigo, ‘The Invisible Show’, Vigo/ES
Talbot Rice Gallery, ‘Girlpower & Boyhood’, Edinburgh/UK
The Renaissance Society, ‘One Space. Many Ideas’, Chicago IL
Ursula Blickle Stiftung, ‘Eccentrics’, Kraichtal/DE
MUMOK, Review’, Vienna/AT
Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, ‘Transformation’, Vaduz/FL
Whitechapel, ‘Inner Worlds Outside’, London/UK
Dorsky Gallery, ‘Threads of Memory’, Long Island City NY
Corcoran Gallery of Art, ‘redefined’, Washington DC
Zacheta National Gallery, ‘HOT/COLD-SUMMER LOVING’, Warsaw/PL
Cheim & Read Gallery, ‘The new Landscape’, New York NY
Museum of Modern Art, ’2006 Beaufort Outside’, Oostende/BE
Palais des Beaux-Arts, ‘Artitudes’, Brussels/BE
Musée de Grenoble, ‘Choix d`oevres graphiques’, Genoble/FR
Reina Sofia, ‘La vision impura’, Madrid/ES
Fischerplatz Galerie, ‘Leckerbissen II’, Ulm/DE
MOCA, ‘Fiction@Love’, Shanghai/CN

2005
Barbara Gross Galerie, ‘Under the Skin’, Munich/DE
Musée des Beaux-Arts, ‘La Peau est ce qu’il y a de plus profond’, Valenciennes/FR
Kunstmuaseum des Kantons Thurgau Kartause Ittingen, ‘Gott sehen. Das Überirirdische als Thema der zeitgenössischen Kunst’, Warth/CH
Wexner Center for the Arts, ‘Part Object Part Sculpture’, Columbus OH
Andrea Rosen Gallery, ‘Looking at Words. The Formal Presence of Text in Modern and Contemporary Works on Paper’, New York NY
Wasserschloss, ‘XII. Rohkunstbau: Kinderszenen – Child’s Play’, Gross Leuthen – Brandenburg/DE
Sammlung Essl – Kunst der Gegenwart, ‘figur skulptur’, Klosterneuburg/AT
Carolina Nitsch, ‘Art 36 Basel’, New York NY
Barbican Artgallery, ‘Private View. Colour after Klein’, London/UK
Barbara Mathes Gallery, ‘Exhibiting at ART BASEL’, New York NY
Dominique Lévy Fine Art, ‘Sculpture’, New York NY
Museum Ludwig / Imhoff-Stollwerck-Museum, ‘Kunst in Schokolode’, Köln/DE
Estiarte, ‘Louise Bourgeois / Kiki Smith / Nancy Spero’, Madrid/ES
La Biennale di Venezia, 51st International Art Exhibition, Venice/IT
Istanbul Modern,‘Permanent Instability’, Istanbul/TR
Tajan, ‘New York – Paris 1945 – 2005’, Paris/FR
ICA Institut of Contemporary Art, ‘Springtide’, Philadelphia PA
Museum am Ostwall / Museum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte, ‘Munch Revisited-Edvard Munch und die heutige Kunst’, Dortmund/DE
Musée Rodin, ‘La sculpture dans l`espace’, Paris/FR

2004
Fundació Joan Miro, ‘La Femme: Métamorphose de la modernité’, Barcelona/ES
Dinter Fine Arts, ‘Word of Mouth. A selection: Part I’, New York NY
Cheim & Reid, ‘Im Am the Walrus’, New York NY
Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston MA
Site Santa Fe’s 5th International Biennal, ‘Disparities and Deformations’, Santa Fe NM
Galleria d’Arte Moderna, ‘Il Nudo. Fra Ideale e Realtà. Una storia dal Neoclassicismo ad oggi’, Bologna/IT
Grand Palais, ‘The Great Parade: Portrait of the Artist As Clown’, Paris/F [travels to National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa/CA]
Brooklyn Museum of Art, ‘Open House. Working in Brooklyn’, Brooklyn NY
Centre d’Art en L’Ile, ‘Carré de Dame Par Les Valets’, Geneva/CH
Collection Lambert en Avignon, ‘A Fripon. Fripon et demi’, Avignon/FR
Musée Departemental d’Art Contemporain de Rochechouart, ‘La Fabrique du Sensible’, Rochechouart/FR
Galerie Nächst St. Stephan, Rosemarie Schwarzwälder, ‘Kunst Stoff’, Vienna/AT
Akira Ikeda Gallery / Taura, ‘Louise Bourgeois. Cell (Portrait)’, Yokosuka/JP
Cacmálaga, Centro de Arte Contemporáno de Málaga, Málaga/ES
Flick Collection, ‘Eröffnung der Flick Collection am Hamburger Bahnhof am 22. September 2004’, Hamburg/DE
Ursula Blickle Stiftung, ‘Diaries and Dreams, Zeichnungen’, Kraichtal/DE



Grants/Awards
2004
Internationaler Kunstpreis, Kulturstiftung Stadtsparkasse München, Munich/DE

2002
Wolfgang-Hahn-Preis, Museum Ludwig Köln, Cologne/DE

1980
Kunstpreis Berlin, Berlin/DE

1978 – 80
Karl Schmidt-Rottluff-Stipendium, Germany

1977
Grant for USA from the State Art Academy, Dusseldorf/DE


Selected Works in Public Collections

Australian National Gallery, Canberra/AU
Bibliotheque Nationale de Paris/FR
British Museum, London/UK
Carnegie Museum, Pittsburgh PA
Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland OH
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington DC
Denver Art Museum, Denver CO
Grafische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna/AT
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington DC
Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo/NL
Kunstmuseum Basel, Basel/CH
Kunstmuseum Bern, Bern/CH
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York NY
Moderna Museet, Stockholm/SE
Museum Ludwig, Cologne/DE
Museum of Modern Art, New York NY
Museum Moderner Kunst, Vienna/AT
Musée d’art Contemporain de Montréal/CA
Musée National d’Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris/FR
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa/CA
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia PA
Reina Sofia, Madrid/ES
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York NY
Tate Collection, London/UK
Uffizi Museum, Florence/IT
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis MN
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York NY


Publications
RECENT

2008
'Nothing to Remember' - Steidl Hauser & Wirth


2008
Cheim & Read, ‘Louise Bourgeois. Echo’, New York NY
Espacio av, ‘Louise Bourgeois. La sage femme’, Murcia: Consejeria de Culura, Juventud y Deportes, 2008
Laratt-Smith, Philip, Nesbitt, Paul, ‘Nature Study. Bourgeois Balfour Inverleith House’, Edinburgh: The Royal Botanic Garden, 2008, vol. 1
von Heydebreck, Amélie, ‘Stations. 100 Meisterwerke zeitgenössischer Kunst’, Köln: DuMont, 2008, p. 90, 91, ill.
Bernadac, Marie-Laure, Storsve, Jonas, ‘Louise Bourgeois’, Paris: Centre Pompidou, 2008 (exh.cat.)
Steidl (ed.), ‘Steidl Spring/Summer 08’, Göttingen: Steidl, pp. 162-163, ill.
Weidemann, Christiane, Larass, Petra, Klier, Melanie, ’50 Künstlerinnen, die man kennen sollte’, Munich: Prestel, 2008, pp. 106-109, ill.

2007
Linsenmaier-Wolf, Christa (ed.), ‘Bodycheck’, Cologne: Snoeck, pp. 56-61, ill.
Macel, Christine, Guillaume, Valérie, ‘Airs de Paris’, Paris: Centre Pompidou, 2007, pp. 234-237, ill.
Biesenbach, Klaus (ed.), ‘Into Me/Out of Me’, Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz, 2007, pp. 145-147, ill.
Storr, Robert (ed.), ‘Think with the Senses – Feel with the Mind. Art in Present Tense’, Venice: Marsilio, 2007, pp. 34-37, ill.
Centre Pompidou (ed.), ‘La collection du Centre Pompidou. Musée national d’art moderne. Selected works’, Paris: Centre Pompidou, 2007, p. 239, ill.
Morris, Frances (ed.), ‘Louise Bourgeois’, London: Tate Publishing, 2007 (exh.cat.)
Mark, Lisa Gabrielle, Hamilton, Elizabeth (ed.), ‘WACK! Art and the feminist Revolution’, London: MIT Press/ Los Angeles: MoCA, 2007 (exh.cat.)
Wood, J./Hulks, D./Potts, A. (ed.), ‘Modern Sculpture Reader’, Leeds: Henry Moore Institute, 2007, pp. 418-425
Bourgeois, Louise, ‘Louise Bourgeois. Recent prints on cloth and paper’, London: Malborough Graphics Ltd., 2007

2006
Bourgeois, Louise, ‘Louise Bourgeois’, Zurich: JRP Ringier, 2006.
Bernadac, Marie-Laure, ‘Louise Bourgeois’, Paris: Flammarion, 2006
Bader Christine (ed.), ‘Louise Bourgeois, 2006, Scultura e Opere Grafiche’, Lugano: Christine Bader Art Consultant, 2006
Kellein, Thomas (ed.), ‘Louise Bourgeois. La Famille’, Köln: Buchhandlung Walter König, 2006 (exh.cat.)

2005
Matt, Gerald, Weiermair, Peter, Kunsthalle Wien (ed.)‘Louise Bourgeois. Aller-Retour’, Nürnberg: Verlag für moderne Kunst, 2005 (exh.cat.)
‘figur skulptur’, [texts by Essl, Karlheinz, Fleck, Robert, Hoffer, Andreas, [et. al], Klosterneuburg: Edition Sammlung Essl Privatstiftung, 2005, ill. (exh.cat.)

2004
Germerchak, Christopher M. (ed.), ‘Everyday Extraordinary: Encountering Fetishism with Marx, Freud and Lacan’, Leuven: Leuven University Press, 2003
Keller, Eva, Malin, Regula (ed.), ‘Louise Bourgeois. Emotions Abstracted. Werke/Works 1941-2000’, Zürich: Daros Services AG/Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2004, ill. (exh.cat.)

2003
Caux, Jacqueline, ‘Tissée, Tendue au Fil des Jours. La Toile de Louise Bourgeois’, Paris: Éditions du Seuil, 2003
Morris, Frances, ‘Louise BourgeoisStiches in Time’, August Projects/Irish Museum of Modern Art, 2003 (exh.cat)
Louisiana Museum of Modern Art (ed.), ‘Louise Bourgeois. Life as Art’, Humblebaek, 2003, ill. (exh.cat.)
Stammer, Beatrice E. [et al. ] (ed.), ‘Louise Bourgeois: Intime Abstraktionen’, Berlin: Akademie der Künste, 2003 (exh.cat.)
Storr, Robert, Herkenhoff, Paulo, Schwartzman, Allan, ‘Louise Bourgeois’, London: Phaidon Press Limited, 2003
Aliaga, Juan Vicente, de Corral, Maria, Cortés, José Miguel G. (ed.), ‘Micropoliticas, Arte y cotidianidad (2001-1968) / Micropolitics, Art and Everyday Life (2001-1968) ‘, Castelló: Espai d’Art Contemporani de Castelló, 2003 (exh.cat.)
University of Iowa Museum of Art (ed.), ‘Top 40! The Stoner Collection of 20th-Century Sculptor’s Drawings’, Iowa IA: University of Iowa Museum of Art, 2003, p. 22 – 23, ill. (exh. cat.)
Unterdörfer, Michaela, Winzen, Matthias, ‘ (In the Search of) The perfect Lover’, Ostfildern-Ruit: Hatje Cantz Publishers, 2003, pp. 14 – 59, ill. (exh.cat.)
Foster, Carter E., Grove, Jeffrey D., ‘Drawing Modern. Works from the Agnes Gund Collection’, Cleveland: The Cleveland Museum of Art Publication, 2003, pp. 24-25, ill.
‘Expressive! ‘ [texts by Donald Kuspit, Markus Brüderlin], Riehen: Fondation Beyeler, 2003 (exh.cat.)
Wasserman, Krystyna (ed.), ‘Insomnia: Landscapes of the Night’, Washington: National Museum of Women in the Arts, 2003 (exh.cat.)
‘Santuary: Contemporary Art & Human Rights’, Glasgow: Gallery of Modern Art, 2003 (ehx.cat.)
Greenberg, Jan, Jordan, Sandra, ‘Runaway Girl: The Artist Louise Bourgeois’, New York: Harry N. Abrams, 2003
Morawinska, Agniezka, ‘Louise Bourgeois: Geometry of Desire’, Warsaw: Zacheta Gallery of Art, 2003 (exh.cat.)
‘The Exesight and the Vision’, Valencia: IVAM, 2003 (exh.cat.)
‘20th Century Sculpture’, New York: Acquavella Galleries,Inc., 2003 (exh.cat.)
‘Utopia Station’, in: Dreams and Conflicts. The Dictatorship of the Viewer, Venezia: la Biennale di Venezia, 2003, p. 412, ill. (exh.cat.)
Braendholt Lundgaard, Ida (ed.), ‘Louise Bourgeois. Livet Som Kunst’ [text by Kathrine Holten Pind], Louisiana: Skoletjenesten, 2003, ill. (exh.brochure Louisiana Museum of Modern Art)
Kunsthalle Wien (ed.), ‘Heiliger Sebastian. A Splendid Readiness for Death’, Bielefeld: Kerber Verlag, 2003 (exh.cat.)
Cooke, Lynne, Govan, Michael, ‘Dia: Beacon’, New York: Dia Art Foundation, 2003
Tesch, Jürgen, Hollman, Eckhard (ed.), ‘Icons of Art: The 20th Century’, New York: Prestel, 2003
Théberge, Pierre, ‘The Body Transformed’, Ottawa: National Gallery of Canada, 2003 (exh.cat.)