Jenny Holzer
Gallipolis, Ohio, 1950
1950
Born on July 29.
1968
Enrolls at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, and takes summer courses at Ohio University.
1970
Studies drawing and printmaking for a year at the University of Chicago.
1972
Graduates from Ohio University with a major in drawing and printmaking.
1973
Travels to France and Spain.
1975
Enrolls at the Rhode Island School of Design, receiving a master’s degree in fine arts two years later.
Begins to use language in her work.
1977
Moves to New York after being accepted into the Independent Study Program at the Whitney Museum of American Art.
Creates the Truisms series of aphoristic texts, which she prints and hangs anonymously on walls in Manhattan.
