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Jenny Holzer Jenny Holzer was born in Gallipolis, Ohio in 1950. Jenny Holzer's artwork describes torture, or lamenting death and disease with a use of language that provokes a response in the viewer. Her disruptive work is often used in advertisements in public spaces and media such as posters, electronic signs, billboards and T-shirts. Jenny Holzer became recognized since her retrospective PROTECT PROTECT series which had her presentation that incorporated the 2003 Iraq invasion and hand prints of U.S. soldiers accused of war crimes. She provides a range of opinions, attitudes, and voices in works filled with formal beauty, sensitivity and power.

Jenny Holzer also began writing early in her career and some of her most well-known texts are the Truisms (1977-9) and Inflammatory Essays (1979-82). In her writings, she uses various media to spread her throughts especially with LED (light-emitting diode). Many things support her LED with oil paintings, passionate letters, and a variety of government documents from the Iraq war hanging on the walls. Holzer also carefully considers every aspects of the signs including its shape, font, and color choice, the speed of the movement of the text and more.