Resources
Here you will find links to multimedia resources relevant to YOU BE MY ALLY and Jenny Holzer’s practice more broadly.
View Jenny Holzer’s recent work on Instagram.
Jenny Holzer’s official website: https://projects.jennyholzer.com/.
Listen to Jenny Holzer talk about her first project with augmented reality (AR).
TRUISMS (1978-1983)
Find a full list of Jenny Holzer’s Truisms here.
It's Jenny Holzer's World
Online version of print feature and interview, published September 16, 2020.
‘I’m Frightened, Dismayed, Disgusted’: Jenny Holzer on How Artists Can Use Outrage to Expose the Hypocrisies of Our Time
Rachel Corbett on Jenny Holzer, published April 22, 2020.
Kiki Smith interview with Jenny Holzer
Published in Interview Magazine on March 26, 2012.
Jenny Holzer speaks about her use of virtual reality (VR) around 5-minute mark (1993).
Jenny Holzer on Art:21
“Protest,” Art in the Twenty-First Century, Season 4 (November 4, 2007)
Jenny Holzer interview about the late artist Paul Klee’s work, in which she discusses her use of language, capitalization, collaboration with deceased artists, feminism, her gravitation toward “tough subjects,” etc.
Jenny Holzer selected the content for YOU BE MY ALLY from texts taught in UChicago’s Core Curriculum. Learn more about UChicago’s Core here.
“The Core curriculum has always been conceived as a foundation for fiercely creative and independent thinking. It has been so impactful and resilient because it continually renews itself by interrogating its very premises and practices. Jenny Holzer’s engagement with some of its foundational texts is emblematic of such self-interrogation and captures the intellectual and aesthetic power of the Core for subsequent work in the arts and every other discipline.”
––John W. Boyer, Dean of the College and the Martin A. Ryerson Distinguished Service Professor in the Department of History, University of Chicago
Banner image: YOU BE MY ALLY, 2020. LED truck. Text: Borderlands / La Frontera by Gloria Anzaldúa, © 1987 by the author. Used with permission of Aunt Lute Books, www.auntlute.com. Chicago, Illinois, USA. © 2020 Jenny Holzer, member Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY. Photo: Christopher Dilts