Galerie Lelong - New York

Nancy Spero

(American, 1926–2009)

Nancy Spero

Lovers IX, 1965

Nancy Spero

Male Bomb, 1966

Nancy Spero

Maypole: Take No Prisoners, 2007

Nancy Spero

Peace, 1968

Nancy Spero

Picasso and Frederick's of Hollywood, 1990

Nancy Spero

The Underworld, 1997

Timeline

1926: Born in Cleveland, OH
1944 - 1945: University of Colorado, Boulder, CO
1945 - 1949: Bachelor of Fine Arts, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
1949 - 1950: Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Paris, France
1951: Marries Leon Golub, New York, NY
1971: Founding member of the A.I.R. Gallery, New York, NY
1976 - 1977: CAPS Fellowship, New York State Council on the Arts, New York, NY
1977 - 1978: National Endowment for the Arts Grant
1991: Honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
1995: Skowhegan Medal for Works on Paper
1996: Hiroshima Art Prize, Hiroshima Museum of Contemporary Art and Hiroshima City, Japan
The 1996 Printmaker Emerita Award, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV
1997: Cityarts, New York, 29th annual award (jointly with Leon Golub)
2001: Artists Space, 2001 Spring Benefit Honoree
2008: Women’s Art: Women’s Vision Honoree, National Women's History Project
2009: Died in New York
2010 - 2011: Exposition au Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
: Lived and worked in New York, NY

Exhibitions

2012: Every Exit is An Entrance: 30 Years of Exit Art, Exit Art, New York, New York
: VIOLENCE. Art Decoding Violence, XV Biennale Donna, organized by UDI – Unione Donne in Italia di Ferrara and the Gallerie d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea in Ferrara, Padiglione d’Arte Contemporanea, Ferrara, Italy
: Spirits of Internationalism: 6 European Collections 1956- 1986, M HKA, Antwerp, Belgium
: Loin des yeux près du corps, Galerie de l’UQAM, Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada
: Nancy Spero: The Rebirth, HELLERAU - European Center for the Arts, Dresden, Germany (solo)
2011: “Nancy Spero: Works from the 1980s,” Barbara Gross Galerie, Munich, Germany (solo)
: “Abstract Expressionism and its Discontents,” Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
: “Heroínas,” Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza and Fundación Caja Madrid, Spain
: “Signs of Life: Ancient Knowledge in Contemporary Art,” Kunstmuseum Luzern, Luzern Germany
“Diabolique,” Galerie de L’UQAM, Université du Québec à Montréal, Quebec, Canada
“The Visible Vagina,” David Nolan Gallery, New York, New York
“Face History,” Anthony Reynolds Gallery, London, England
: “Babel,” FRAC Auvergne, Clermont-Ferrand, France
: “Signs of Life: Ancient Knowledge in Contemporary Art,” Kunstmuseum Luzern Museum of Art Lucerne, Lucern, Switzerland
: “Bearing Witness: Works from the Collection,” Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver B.C., Canada
2010: “Woman in Motion,” Galerie Lelong, Paris, France (solo)
: “Love in Vein: Editions Fawbush projects and artists 2005–2010,” Gering & Lopez Gallery, New York, New York
: “Nancy Spero,” Musée National d'art Moderne Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France. Traveled through 2011 to Serpentine Gallery, London, England (solo)
: “Breathless Days 1959 – 1960: A Chronotropic Experiment,” Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
: “Shifting the Gaze: Painting and Feminism,” The Jewish Museum, New York, New York
: “Ni Una Mas (Not One More): The Juarez Murders,” The Leonard Pearlstein Gallery, Drexel University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
2009: Back to Earth: Revisiting Magiciens de la Terre,” Fleisher/Ollman Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
"And Other Essays," Center for Curatorial Studies and Hessel Museum of Art at Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York
“Kiki Smith, Nancy Spero, Nalini Malani,” Galeria Estiarte, Madrid, Spain
“The Sacred Feminine: Prehistory to Post Modernity,” Museum of Art and Archeology, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri
“Diabolique,” Dunlop Art Gallery, Regina, Canada
"elles@centrepompidou: Women Artists in the Collections of the National Modern Art Museum," Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
“Lest We Forget: The Voice of Art,” Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, North Carolina
“Time as Matter. MACBA Collection. New Acquisitions,” Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
“Blue,” Studio Stefania Miscetti, Rome, Italy (solo)
The Woman as Protagonist, Herbert-Boeckl-Preis 2009 for International Painting, Museum der Moderne, Salzburg, Austria
“Unbuilt Roads,”e-flux project space, New York, NY
“Un Coup de Dent,” Galerie Lelong, New York, NY (solo)
“What’s the Word: Words and Symbols from the Lyman Allyn Art Museum,” Lyman Allyn Art Museum, New London, CT
2008: Spero Speaks, de Appel Arts Centre, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (solo)
Anthony Reynolds Gallery, London, UK (solo)
“Nancy Spero,” Anthony Reynolds Gallery, London, UK (solo)
“Dissidances,” Museu d`Art Contemporani de Barcelona (MACBA), Barcelona, Spain; Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain; Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo, Seville, Spain (solo)
“Reflections,” Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, IL
“Close Encounters: Facing the Future,” American University Museum, Washington D.C.
“Women of a Certain Age and Beyond,” Gallery of Contemporary Art, Sacred Heart University, Fairfield, CT
"Unmonumental Picture,” The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY
2007: Multiplex: Directions in Art, 1970 to Now, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Unmonumental: The Object In The 21st Century, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, Inaugural exhibition, New York, NY
27th Biennial of Graphic Arts, Centre of Graphic Arts, Lubljana, Slovenia
“WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution,” Geffen Center, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA; National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C.; Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada; P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, New York, NY
“Think with the Senses – Feel with the Mind. Art in the Present Tense,” 52nd International Art Exhibition, Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
“New Hangings of the Modern Collection,” Musée National d'art Moderne Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
“Nancy Spero: The Paris Black Paintings,” Galerie Lelong, Paris, France
2006: "Twice Drawn,” Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery, Saratoga Springs, NY
“Nancy Spero,” Francosoffiantino Artecontemporanea, Torino, Italy
“femme brut(e),” Lyman Allyn Art Museum, New London, CT
“Couples Discourse,” Palmer Museum of Art, University Park, PA
2005: “Toward the Future: Through the Eyes of the Artists Awarded the Hiroshima Art Prize,” Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan
“Cri du Coeur,” Galerie Lelong, New York, NY
“Tattoo,” Overtones, Los Angeles, CA
“Along the Way: MTA Arts For Transit, Celebrating 20 Years of Public Art”, UBS Gallery, New York, NY
“Persistent Vestiges: Drawing from the American-Vietnam War", Drawing Center, New York, NY
2004: The War Series, Galerie Lelong, Paris, France
“Esprit,” Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Paris, France
“Weighing the Heart Against a Feather of Truth,” Centro Galego de Arte Contemporanea, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
2003: The War Series, Galerie Lelong, New York, NY
Other Worlds, with Kiki Smith, Baltic Mill Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, UK
2002: Nancy Spero: A Continuous Present, Kunsthalle zu Kiel, Kiel, Germany (solo)
“Azur,” Galerie Lelong, New York, NY
2001: Barbara Gross Galerie, Munich, Germany
“Codex Artaud,” University of Massachusetts, MA
Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
"Open Ends: Contemporary Art from 1960 - 2001", The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
2000: "Kwangju Biennale 2000", Art and Human Rights Section, South Korea
"The Perpetual Well: Contemporary Art from the Collection of the Jewish Museum", Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
"The American Century, Art and Culture, Part II 1950-2000", The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
1998: "Matrix/Berkeley: 20 Years", The University of California, Berkeley Art Museum, CA
"Nancy Spero", Crown Gallery, Brussels, Belgium (solo)
"Black and the Red III", Galerie Montenay-Giroux, Paris, France
"Nancy Spero NEUE ARBEITEN", Barbara Gross Galerie, Munich, Germany
"Nancy Spero", IKON Gallery Birmingham, UK (solo)
Leon Golub/Nancy Spero, Museo Jacobo Borges Carcas, Venezuela
Contemporary Art: The Janet Wolfson de Botton Gift, Tate Gallery, London, UK
Matrix/Berkeley: 20 Years, The University of California, Berkeley Art Museum, CA
Nancy Spero NEUE ARBEITEN, Barbara Gross Galerie, Munich, Germany
1997: Documenta X, Kassel, Germany
"Art in Chicago 1945-1995", Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
Figured, Associated Americain Artists, New York, NY
Partners in Printmaking: Works from SOLO Impression, The National Museum of Women in the Arts Washington, DC
4 Decades, PPOW, New York, NY
A Game of Chance, Printworks Gallery, Chicago, IL
1996: "Deformations: Aspects of the Modern Grotesque", The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
"Leon Golub • Nancy Spero - Contemporaries", The Elaine L. Jacob Gallery, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI
1995: After Hiroshima, Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Japan
1993: "Torture of Women, The First Language' & 'The Hours of the Night", National Gallery of Canada, Ottowa, Canada
1992: "Codex Artaud", Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
1991: "Works on Paper 1981-1991", Salzburger Kunstverein, Künstlerhaus Salzburg, Austria
Josh Baer Gallery, New York, NY
: Selected Public Collections:
: Allen Art Museum, Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Tate Gallery, London, UK
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN

Public Collections

: University Art Museum, Berkeley, California
: Frac Nord Pas de Calais, France
: Centro Cultural, Mexico City
: Brooklyn Museum, New York
: Boston Museum of Fine Arts
: Australian National Gallery
: Art Institute of Chicago
: Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto
: Akron Art Museum, Ohio
: New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, Connecticut
: National Gallery of Canada, Ottowa
: The Museum of Modern Art, New York
: The Museum of Fine Arts, Hanoi, North Vietnam
: Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego
: Musuem of Art and Archaelogy, Univ. of Missouri, Columbia
: Musée des Beaux-Arts de Montreal
: Madison Art Center, Madison, Wisconsin
: MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge
: Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, B.C.
: Wakefield City Art Gallery, Yorkshire, England
: Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina, Greensboro
: Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
: New School for Social Research, New York
: Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio
: Greenville County Museum of Art, South Carolina
: Ohio State University
: Portland Art Museum, Oregon
: Ramapo College, New Jersey
: The Toledo Museum of Art, Ohio
: Uffizi Galerry, Florence, Italy
: Ulmer Museum, Ulm, Germany
: Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art
: Philadelphia Museum of Art
: Harvard University Art Museums

Literature

2004: NANCY SPERO: Weighing the Heart Against a Feather of Truth. Spain: Centro Galego de Arte Contemporanea, 2004
1998: Sosa, Ana Teresa. Nancy Spero/Leon Golub. Caracas, Venezuela: Museo Jacobo Borges, 1998 (catalogue)
: Nancy Spero: The Work, Christopher Lyon, Editions Prestel

Galerie Lelong - New York

Nancy Spero

(American, 1926–2009)

Nancy Spero

Nancy Spero

Nancy Spero

Nancy Spero

Nancy Spero

Nancy Spero

Biography

Timeline

Exhibitions

Public Collections

Literature