| Agnes Denes | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1931 Budapest |
| Field | Land Art |
| Movement | Conceptual Art |
| Works | Wheatfield, Tree Mountain |
Agnes Denes is an American Land Art artist. Born in Budapest in 1931, her family moved to Stockholm, then New York City.[1] Denes has been a pioneer of both the environmental art movement and Conceptual art.
For "Wheatfield", her best known land art project, she planted a two-acre field of wheat in a vacant lot in downtown Manhattan. The purpose of the project was to comment on "human values and misplaced priorities". Grain harvested from "Wheatfield" then traveled to 28 cities worldwide in "The International Art Show for the End of World Hunger" and was symbolically planted around the globe. Another notable project is "Tree Mountain-A Living Time Capsule", a massive earthwork and reclamation project that reaches four hundred years into the future to benefit future generations with a meaningful legacy.
Agnes Denes has had over 300 solo and group exhibitions on four continents, including Documenta VI in Kassel (1977), three Venice Biennales (1978, 1980,2001) and "Master of Drawing" Invitational at the Kunsthalle in N�rnberg (1982). She has shown at the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Whitney Museum in New York. In l992 she had a major retrospective at the Herbert F. Johnson Museum at Cornell University, for which five art historians contributed catalogue essays.
In addition to her art work, Agnes Denes also has written four books. She holds a doctorate in fine arts.
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