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Louise Bourgeois was born in Paris in 1911. She attended various art schools such as the College de Sorbonne (presently known as University of Paris). She moved from Paris in 1938 to New York City, where she lives now. Earlier in her career she wasn't very successful, she only had a few shows in the mid to late 1940's and from then on remained quite stagnant until the 1970's when both her husband and father past away.
From then on her work took on a very "dark" tone; her works were forged from her feelings of seclusion, anger, and most of all fear. The loss of her father and husband sparked her creativity and inspired her to create some of her sculptures that she is now famous for today. Her most famous series, known as the Mamans, are massive, dark, and scrawny spiders standing as high as 35 feet tall.
She also created her own style that she named "cumuls" which were very organic and round objects...
From this point out Bourgeois' career remained very steady, and very successful. Her sculpture s are on display in museums internationally.