About Louise Bourgeois
Louise Joséphine Bourgeois was a French-American artist. Although she is best known for her large-scale sculpture and installation art, Bourgeois was also a prolific painter and printmaker. She explored a variety of themes over the course of her long career including domesticity and the family, sexuality and the body, as well as death and the unconscious. These themes connect to events from her childhood which she considered to be a therapeutic process. Although Bourgeois exhibited with the abstract expressionists and her work has a lot in common with Surrealism and feminist art, she was not formally affiliated with a particular artistic movement.
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Awards & Honors
Praemium Imperiale
Austrian Decoration for Science and Art
Wolf Prize in Arts
National Medal of Arts
National Women's Hall of Fame
Knight of the Legion of Honour
Great Immigrants Award
honorary doctorate
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Women's Caucus for Art Lifetime Achievement Award
Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
