Freedom Riders
By Jenny Holzer
About
The artwork
Freedom Riders is a richly layered text-based painting that incorporates FBI files on the Civil Rights-era Freedom Riders, as well as civil rights activists who expanded the freedoms of Black Americans to travel through the United States and legitimized the use of nonviolent direct action. Holzer transforms this record of surveillance into a tribute to the Freedom Riders’ remarkable courage and achievement.
Location: Museum | Sky Room Vista
The artist
Jenny Holzer is a conceptual artist known for text-based works presented in public space. Her practice examines how language functions — how it communicates, obscures, and shapes power. Over the course of her career, she has worked across media including installation, projection, and print. Holzer studied at the University of Chicago, Ohio University, and the Rhode Island School of Design. She lives and works in New York.
