Nancy Spero
- Introduction
- Nancy Spero (August 24, 1926 – October 18, 2009) was an American visual artist. Born in Cleveland, Ohio, Spero lived for much of her life in New York City. She married and collaborated with artist Leon Golub. As both artist and activist, Nancy Spero had a career that spanned fifty years. She is known for her continuous engagement with contemporary political, social, and cultural concerns. Spero chronicled wars and apocalyptic violence as well as articulating visions of ecstatic rebirth and the celebratory cycles of life. Her complex network of collective and individual voices was a catalyst for the creation of her figurative lexicon representing women from prehistory to the present in such epic-scale paintings and collage on paper as Torture of Women (1976), Notes in Time on Women (1979) and The First Language (1981). In 2010, Notes in Time was posthumously reanimated as a digital scroll in the online magazine Triple Canopy. Spero has had a number of retrospective exhibitions at major museums.
- Wikidata
- Q2731236
- Nationality
- American
- Gender
- Female
- Roles
- Artist, Calligrapher, Feminist, Collagist, Graphic Artist, Painter
- Name
- Nancy Spero
- Ulan
- 500060537
Exhibitions
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420: War Within, War Without
Ongoing
MoMA
Collection gallery
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Nancy Spero: Paper Mirror
Mar 31–Jun 23, 2019
MoMA PS1
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Studio Visit: Selected Gifts from Agnes Gund
Apr 29–Jul 22, 2018
MoMA
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That was Then, This is Now
Jun 22–Oct 5, 2008
MoMA PS1
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Multiplex: Directions in Art, 1970 to Now
Nov 21, 2007–Jul 21, 2008
MoMA
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Nancy Spero has
18 exhibitionsonline.
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Leon Golub, Nancy Spero The Will Torture You, My Friend from Conspiracy: The Artist as Witness 1971, published 1972
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Nancy Spero Codex Artaud XXIII 1972
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Nancy Spero Notes in Time 1979
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Nancy Spero To the Revolution XI 1981
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Nancy Spero Thou Shalt Not Kill, plate VI from the portfolio The Ten Commandments 1987
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Group Material, Mike Glier, Jenny Holzer, Barbara Kruger, Carrie Mae Weems, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Nancy Spero, Nancy Linn, Hans Haacke, Richard Prince, Louise Lawler Inserts, an advertising supplement produced for New York Times 1988
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Nancy Spero Ballade von der Judenhure Marie Sanders 1991
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Various Artists, Nancy Spero, Ross Bleckner, Mike Kelley, Simon Leung, Louise Bourgeois, Kiki Smith, Lorna Simpson ACT UP Art Box 1993–94, published 1994
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Nancy Spero To the Revolution from ACT UP Art Box 1994
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Nancy Spero Tattoo 1996
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Various Artists, Donald Baechler, Nina Bovasso, Gregory Green, Jerry Kearns, Sean Mellyn, Lorna Simpson, Kiki Smith, Nancy Spero, Papo Colo Exit 8 1997–98
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Nancy Spero Airborne from Exit 8 1998
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Various Artists, Emma Amos, Eleanor Antin, Nancy Azara, Betsy Damon, Mary Beth Edelson, Lauren Ewing, Harmony Hammond, Joyce Kozloff, Diane Neumaier, Faith Ringgold, Miriam Schapiro, Carolee Schneemann, Joan Semmel, Sylvia Sleigh, Joan Snyder, Nancy Spero, May Stevens, Athena Tacha, June Wayne, Martha Wilson Femfolio 2009
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Nancy Spero Maypole-War from Femfolio 2009
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