Louise LeBourgeois’s breathtakingly photorealistic compositions comprise three essential features: water, sky, and horizon. By building her paintings up from numerous layers of paint and glaze, which she carefully sands to create a smooth, glossy surface, she achieves nuances of light and dark and a sense of depth and complexity that convey not just the look of water but also the unmistakable feeling of being immersed within it.

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b. New Orleans, LA

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2020 One Body, Dolby Chadwick Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2017 Rising Light, Dolby Chadwick Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2014 Towards Horizon, Dolby Chadwick Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Approaching Light, Fermilab, Batavia, IL
2013 Bright Storm, Takohl Gallery, Chicago, IL
2012 Infinite Pull, Au: Gold Gallery, Boston, MA
Light Through Water, Dolby Chadwick Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2011 Distant Vision, Megumi Ogita Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2010 Somewhere Between, Packer Schopf Gallery, Chicago, IL
2009 Many Truths About Space, Dolby Chadwick Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2008 Timescape, Alfedena Gallery, Chicago, IL
Upward: New Paintings, Gallatin River Gallery, Big Sky, MT
2006 Vapor, Gallatin River Gallery, Gallatin Gateway, MT
2005 Bittersweet, Gescheidle, Chicago, IL
Desires, Lyons Wier Gallery, New York, NY
Graystone Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2003 Luna, Gescheidle, Chicago, IL
2002 This Imagined Place, Gescheidle, Chicago, IL
Through Many Veils, Susan Cummins Gallery, Mill Valley, CA
New Landscape Paintings, Lyons Wier Gallery, New York, NY
2000 Elemental, Lyons Wier Packer Gallery, Chicago, IL
1999 Sense of Place, Susan Cummins Gallery, Mill Valley, CA
1998 Landscape and Seascape Paintings, Lyons Wier Gallery, Chicago, IL
1997 Imagined Spaces, Susan Cummins Gallery, Mill Valley, CA
1996 New Landscape Paintings, Lyons Wier Gallery, Chicago, IL
1995 New Paintings, Lyons Wier Gallery, Chicago, IL
1992 Cardiff Giant Theater, Chicago, IL

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2022 Occupy the Moment, Intersect History With Impact, National Women's Caucus for Art Exhibition, Bridgeport Art Center, Chicago, IL

2021 Small But Mighty, Addington Gallery, Chicago IL

2020 Stay Inspired, Dolby Chadwick, San Francisco, CA

2019 Lightning Strikes II, Dolby Chadwick Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Into the Expanse: New Paintings by Louise LeBourgeois and Katherine B. Young, Claire Carino Contemporary,
Boston, MA
Light on the Horizon, Louise LeBourgeois and David Travis, Environmental Law and Policy Center, Chicago, IL
It's A Small Show After All, Hofheimer Gallery, New York, NY
Summer Session 2019, Lyons Wier Gallery, New York, NY
Summer Selection, Claire Carino Gallery, Boston, MA
The Mind's I: Santiago, Chile
2018 Here and Now, Dolby Chadwick Gallery, San Francisco, CA
MIA in MIA, Lyons Weir Gallery, New York, NY
2017 20th Anniversary Exhibition, Dolby Chadwick Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Louise LeBourgeois and Elsa Muñoz, Gold Gallery, Boston, MA
2016 A Bowlful of Sky, Addington Gallery, Chicago, IL
La Mère/La Mer, Moreau Art Galleries, St. Mary’s College,South Bend, IN
The Mind’s I Archive, Elder Gallery, Nebraska Wesleyan University, Lincoln, NE
Chicago Paints, Ohio University Art Gallery, Athens, OH
2015 Lightning Strikes: 18 Poets 18 Artists, Dolby Chadwick Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Sea and Sky, Gallatin River Gallery, Big Sky, MT
Return of the Exquisite Corpse: 35th Anniversary Show with 105 Artists,
Printworks Gallery, Chicago, IL
In With The New, Gold Gallery, Boston, MA
2014 Regarding the Sublime, Carlson Tower Gallery, North Park University, Chicago, IL
Ampersand 20th Anniversary Exhibition, Ampersand Gallery, Buda, TX
Collaborations II, Printworks Gallery, Chicago, IL
2012 Commodores, Coastline Community College, Newport Beach, CA
Blue, Beth Urdang Gallery, Boston, MA
Gallery Hana Shimokitazawa, Tokyo, Japan
Land, Sea, Sky: 4 Painters, Beth Urdang Gallery, Boston, MA
2011 Handscape, Mindscape, Indiana University, Gary, IN
Oil and Water, Gallery Project, Ann Arbor MI
2010 Imagine Everywhere, 4th Annual Art + Design Faculty Exhibition, A + D Gallery,
Columbia College, Chicago, IL
Incised, Bitten and Gouged: Anchor Graphics and the Chicago Printmakers
Collaborative, 20 Years of Printmaking, Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art,
Chicago, IL
Without Moving (25), {fill in the blank} Gallery, Chicago, IL
30th Anniversary Book Cover Exhibition, Printworks Gallery, Chicago, IL
2009 Packer Schopf Gallery, Chicago, IL
The Landscape Show, Beverly Art Center, Chicago, IL
Cheryl Hazan Gallery, New York, NY
2008 Vista Novus, Addington Gallery, Chicago, IL
The Drawing Show, Beverly Arts Center, Chicago, IL
2007 Earth and Sky, Gallatin River Gallery, Big Sky, MT
Joie de Vivre: A Meditation on New Orleans, Katrina and the US, Chicago, IL
2006 Travel Documents, Koehnline Museum, Oakton Community College, Des Plaines, IL
Travel Documents, Columbia College A + D Gallery, Chicago, IL
The Museum of Water, New York, NY
Journey II, Gallatin River Gallery, Gallatin Gateway, MT
2005 Senza Titolo: Santa Reparata Faculty Exhibition 2005, Santa Reparata International
School of Art, Florence, Italy
Damn Good Painting!, Lyonswier Gallery, New York, NY
25th Anniversary Bookplate Show, Printworks Gallery, Chicago, IL
2004 Think Small, traveling exhibition sponsored by the Illinois State Museum:
Chicago, Lockport, Rend Lake, and Springfield, IL
Earth and Sky, Gallatin River Gallery, Gallatin Gateway, MT
Articles and Waves, Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, MA
Printworks Gallery, Chicago, IL
The Nature of Reduction, Prater Rouse Gallery, Norfolk, VA
2003 Eccentric Landscape, Fine Arts Center Gallery, University of Rhode Island, Kingston
Personal Visions, Graystone Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Guest List, Gescheidle, Chicago, IL
Landscapes, Tory Folliard Gallery, Milwaukee, WI
Earth and Sky, Gallatin River Gallery, Gallatin Gateway, MT
San Francisco Art Fair 2003, Gescheidle, San Francisco, CA
Art New York, Lyons Wier Gallery, New York, NY
2002 To Kiss the Spirits: Homage to Hollis Sigler, Artemisia Gallery, Chicago, IL
Sea and Sky, Perimeter Gallery, New York, NY
Earth and Sky, Gallatin River Gallery, Gallatin Gateway, MT
Contemporary Drawing Salon, Northeastern Illinois University, Chicago, IL
2001 Looking In, Seeing Big: Louise LeBourgeois and Steven Carrelli, The Community
Gallery of Art, College of Lake County, Grayslake, IL
Artists/Alumni: Masters of Fine Arts from Northwestern’s Department of Art Theory and
Practice, Block Museum of Art, Evanston, IL
“What They Half Create...”, Glass Curtain Gallery, Columbia College Chicago, Chicago, IL
The ArtCouncil/Chicago’ s Grant Recipient Show, Gallery 312, Chicago, IL
Realism Today: Nine Contemporary Painters, Beth Urdang Gallery, Boston, MA
SnowGlobe Invitational, Lyonswier Gallery, Chicago, IL
Lyons Wier Gallery, New York, NY
2000 Shake the Coat: A Midwestern Tribute to Gregory Gillespie, North Park University, Chicago, IL
Strange Presences 2, Tory Folliard Gallery, Milwaukee, WI
First Works, Columbia College Gallery, Chicago, IL
Gallery Artists, Lyons Wier Packer Gallery, Chicago, IL
S.O.F.A. (Sculpture, Objects and Functional Art), New York, NY
Painting In Chicago Now, Oakton Community College Art Gallery, Des Plaines, IL
1999 Images of Silence, Noyes Cultural Art Center, Evanston, IL
The Shadow of Memory, Susan Cummins Gallery, Mill Valley, CA
New Landscape Paintings, Lyons Wier Packer Gallery, Chicago, IL
New Gallery: New Paintings, Euro Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
Columbia College Chicago Small Works Faculty Exhibition, Columbia College Art Gallery, Chicago, IL
Faculty Exhibition, Evanston Art Center, Evanston, IL
The Conscious Line, Anne Reed Gallery, Ketchum, ID
Landscape Revisited, Anne Reed Gallery, Ketchum, ID
S.O.F.A. (Sculpture, Objects and Functional Art), New York, NY
S.O.F.A. (Sculpture, Objects and Functional Art), Chicago, IL
1998 Painting in Chicago Now, Columbia College Art Gallery, Chicago, IL
Remembering Beauty: The Seductive and Nostalgic Nature of American Landscape,
South Bend Regional Art Museum, South Bend, IN
Small Works II, Susan Cummins Gallery, Mill Valley, CA
A Retrospective/Prospective: 98-99, Anne Reed Gallery, Ketchum, ID
Anne Reed Gallery, Ketchum, ID
Indiana University Northwest, Gary, IN
Trinity Christian College, Palos Heights, IL
1997 Small Works, Susan Cummins Gallery, Mill Valley, CA
A Retrospective/Prospective: 97-98, Anne Reed Gallery, Ketchum, ID
Chicago: A Spiritual Landscape, Fourth Presbyterian Church, Chicago, IL
A Year in Review, Lyons Wier Gallery, Chicago, IL
Evanston Art Center Faculty Exhibition, Evanston Art Center, Evanston, IL
Part-Time Faculty Exhibition, Columbia College, Chicago, IL
1996 In Side Out Side In, North Park College, Chicago, IL Lyons Wier Gallery, Chicago, IL
1995 Ten Emerging, Artemisia Gallery, Chicago, IL
Poetic Images, Suburban Fine Arts Center, Highland Park, IL
1994 Three Artists, Inside Art Gallery, Chicago, IL
M.F.A. Thesis Show, Dittmar Gallery, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL
Graduate Exhibition, Dittmar Gallery, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL
Dean's Collection, College of Arts and Sciences, Northwestern University, Evanston
1993 Space Gallery, Chicago, IL
Ninth Annual All-Illinois Graduate Art Exhibition, Jones College Gallery, Evanston Graduate
Exhibition, Dittmar Gallery, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL
Dean's Collection, College of Arts and Sciences, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL
1991 Intimate Works, Space Gallery, Chicago, IL
1990 B.F.A. Exhibition, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL