Roni Horn American, b. 1955

Roni Horn is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice spans sculpture, drawing, and photography. Educated at the Rhode Island School of Design (BFA) and Yale University (MFA), Horn interrogates the instability of perception and the ways in which meaning shifts across time, place, and form. She identifies drawing as the central engine of her practice, describing it as an act of “composing relationships,” a framework that informs her material investigations across media.

Horn’s drawings foreground the physical presence of their subjects, often using language itself as material. Her installations strategically disperse works across opposing walls, adjacent rooms, or even multiple buildings, generating spatial dialogues that challenge any assumption of a singular or “identical” encounter. This insistence on the viewer’s embodied, temporal experience positions her work as “site-dependent,” a deliberate expansion of the minimalist notion of site-specificity. Through these spatial and conceptual maneuvers, Horn constructs an experience of the “here-and-there” and the “now-and-then,” inviting viewers to confront the shifting ground of their own perception.