
Since the late 1970s, Roni Horn has developed an expansive practice encompassing drawing, photography, sculpture, installation, and text. Her works are discrete and multifaceted, yet they are unified by an abiding conceptual focus on questions of perception and the fluidity of identity—of the object and of oneself—as conditioned by varying circumstances. While the examination of materials’ properties is a significant aspect of Minimalism, Horn’s work critiques the movement’s notion of the autonomous art object, allowing human subjectivity to shape it. The work is the process of becoming; it happens in the encounter with the viewer, repeatedly. The selection on view exemplifies the artist’s early exploration of how we experience of the physical reality of chosen media—forms, materiality, presence—through nuanced spatial compositions. Key to the contingent nature of her work is the investigation of how a material’s presence is heightened and doubling as both a visual and conceptual approach. Elements in Horn’s work are reiterated, defining themselves through differences as well as varying distances from one another.
Roni Horn is curated by Donna De Salvo, senior adjunct curator, special projects, with Min Sun Jeon, assistant curator.
Roni Horn is made possible by Marie-Josée and Henry Kravis, Kukje Art and Culture Foundation, Peter Lund, and Nina and Michael Zilkha.
All exhibitions at Dia are made possible by the Economou Exhibition Fund.
Roni Horn is an American contemporary artist whose multifaceted practice—spanning sculpture, drawing, photography, and text—meditates on identity, perception, and place, often exploring the mutable relationship between subject and environment.




DIA Beacon is a renowned contemporary art museum situated in Beacon, New York, on the banks of the Hudson River. Housed in a repurposed 1929 Nabisco box printing factory, its expansive galleries and minimalist architecture make it a destination for lovers of postwar art and industrial design.

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