BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES

1926   born in Cleveland, Ohio

Lives and works in New York, New York

EDUCATION

1949   B.F.A. Chicago Art Institute

1949-50   Atelier Andre L'Hote, Paris

1949-50   Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Paris

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2002   Galerie Lelong, New York

2001   Barbara Gross Galerie, Munich
Vancouver Art Gallery, Canada
University of Massachusetts – Dartmouth
"Sheela Does Ramapo", Berrie Center, Ramapo College of New Jersey, Mahwah

2000   "Sheela-Na-Gigs & Nancy Spero", Hiestand Galleries, School of Fine Arts, Miami
University, Oxford, Ohio
"Sheela Does Fredericksburg", Mary Washington College, Pennsylvania

1998   "Nancy Spero", inaugural exhibition and wall installation, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, England
"Nancy Spero", Crown Gallery, Brussels
Museo Jacobo Borges, Caracas, Venezuela
"Black and the Red III", Galerie Montenay-Giroux, Paris
"Nancy Spero NEUE ARBEITEN", Barbara Gross Galerie, Munich

1997   "Nancy Spero WAR SERIES, Barbara Gross Galerie, Munich
"Antonin Artaud: Tete a tete", Galerie de France,Paris
"Nanomuseum", curated by Hans-Ulrich Obrist, (traveling)
"Nancy Spero", Christine Konig & Franziska Lettner, Vienna
"Nancy Spero: Collages", Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago
"Nancy Spero – Leon Golub: Contemporaries", Elaine L. Jacob Gallery, Wayne State University, Detroit, curated by Jane Blocker
"Nancy Spero/Leon Golub and The Elephant and The Hat", Galerie Pro Arte, Salzburg
"Leon Golub • Nancy Spero – Contemporaries", The Elaine L. Jacob Gallery,Wayne State University, Detroit

1996   "Black and the Red III", P.P.O.W. , New York
"Sheela at Home", Jack Tilton Gallery,New York
"A Cycle in Time", New York Kunsthalle
"Leon Golub and Nancy Spero", retrospective exhibition, Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima City, Japan
"Nancy Spero", Galerie im Taxispalais, Innsbruck
"Nancy Spero: Woman as Protagonist", Gallery of the Department of Art and Art History, Colgate University, Hamilton, New York
"Sheela-Na-Gig, He Commencement du Monde",Galerie im AlcatrazAlte Saline, Perner insel, Hallein, Salzburg, Director: Stephen R. Mathewson, Guest Speaker: Kiki Smith, Curator: Leon Golub
"Nancy Spero. The 1996 SGC Printmaker Emerita", 24th Annual Southern Graphics Council Conference, Laura Mesaros Gallery, College of Creative Arts, West Virginia University, Morgantown

1995   "A Cycle in Time:Nancy Spero, Update: Leon Golub", Residezgalerie, Salzburg
"Nancy Spero", Barbara Gross Galerie, Munich
"Notes in Time", Nancy Spero and Leon Golub, curated by Maurice Berger, Fine Arts Gallery, University of Maryland Baltimore County, Catonsville

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2000-2001   "Open Ends: Contemporary Art from 1960 - 2001", The Museum of Modern Art, New York
"Lookout", curated by Peter Kennard and organized by Cynthia Morrison-Bell, Wolverhampton Art Gallery, Wolverhampton, England (traveling through 2001)
"Reconfiguration: Works on Paper at the Yanhuang Museum", Beijing, China

2000   "Kwangju Biennale 2000", Art and Human Rights Section, Korea
"Chicago Loop: Imagist Art 1949-1979", Whitney Museum of American Art, Stamford, Connecticut
"The Perpetual Well: Contemporary Art from the Collection of the Jewish Museum", Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, University of Florida, Gainesville
"The End: An Independent Vision of Contemporary Culture, 1982-2000", Exit Art, New York
"The Figure: Another Side of Modernism", Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art, Snug Harbor Cultural Center, Snug Harbor, New York
"Self-Portraits 2000: A Twentieth Anniversary Celebration", Printworks Gallery, Chicago
"Jewish Artists of Conscience oin the 20th Century", Mizel Arts Center, Denver

1999-2000   "The American Century, Art and Culture, Part II 1950-2000", The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

1999   "Contemporary Classicism", Neuberger Museum of Art, curated by Judy Collischan Purchase, New York
"Selections from the Permanent Collection", Radford University Art Museum, Radford, Virgina
"Stop The Violence", Initiative Equidistance, organized by the Akademie der bildende Kunste, Wien and the MAK Wien, Austria

1998   "Matrix/Berkeley: 20 Years", The University of California, Berkeley Art Museum
"Presence of Greek Myth", Instituto di Storia dell'Arte", Palermo
"25 Years of AJ.R.", Kingsborough Community College, Brooklyn, New York
"Light on the New Millennium - Wind from Extreme Orient-", International Exhibition of Contemporary Art and International Sculpture Symposium, PICAF (Pusan Internati onal Contemporary Art Festival), Pusan, Korea
"Disidentico: Maschile Femminile e Oltre", curated by Achille Bonito Oliva, Palazzo Branciforte, Palermo
"L'Ombra degli Dei: Mito greco e arte contemporanea", Civica Galleria Renato Guttuso, Villa Cattolica, Bagheria, Italy

1997   "Documenta X", "The War Series", curated by Catherine David, Kassel
"Kunstlerlnnen: 50 Positionen, Kunsthaus Bregenz, Vienna
":Engel :Engel - Legenden den Gegenwart", traveling to Kunsthalle Wien & Galerie Rudolfinum Prague, curated by Cathrin Pilchler
"Art in Chicago 1945-1995", Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
"Partners in Printmaking: Works from SOLO Impression", The National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC
"4 Decades", P.P.O.W., New York
"A Game of Chance", Printworks Gallery, Chicago
"Go Figure!", The Temptation Continues, Fine Arts Center Galleries, University of Rhode Island, Kingston
"Light Catchers", Bennington College, Bennington, Vermont
"Auto-Portrait: The Calligraphy of Power,” Exit Art, New York
Babcock Fine Arts Center Gallery, Sweet Briar College, Virginia

1996-97   "Inside the Visible: Alternative Views of 20th Century Art Through Women's Eyes", Curated by Catherine de Zegher, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, 1996 (traveling to National Museum for Women in the Arts, Washington DC, Whitechapel Galley, London, Art Gallery of Western Australia through 1997)

1996   "Face a I'Histoire: 1933-1996", Centre Georges Pompidou
"Thinking Print: Books to Billboards, 1980-95", The Museum of Modern Art, New York, curated by Deborah Wye
"Deformations: Aspects of the Modern Grotesque", curated by Robert Storr, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
"Glaube Hoffnung Liebe Tod", curated by Eleonara Louis and Christoph Geissman-Brandi, Kunsthalle Wien
"Louise Bourgeois, Nancy Spero", Galerie Ursula Walbrol, Dusseldorf
"Jurgen Partenheimer, Nancy Spero, Katharina Sieverding, Remy Zaugg", Barbara Gross Galerie, Munich
"Orte des Moglichen", Hypobank International S.A., Luxembourg
"Do It", TV version/home version 1995/1995 Einfuhrung und Konzeption: Has-Ulrich Obrist, Produktion: museum in progress, Raum Aktueller (Austrian Television)
"Stones & Voices", Stiftung fur Konkrete Kunst, Revtlungen, Germany 1995-96
"Consensus & Conflict: The Flag in American Art", Whitney Museum of American Art at Champion, Stamford, Connecticut
"1968", Betty Rymer Gallery, The School of The Art Institute of Chicago
"Self Portraits 1996: New Drawings", Printworks, Chicago
"Extensions: Large Scale Drawings", Luise Ross Gallery, New York
"Maureen Gallace, Anne Harris, Annette Lemieux, Joan Snyder, Nancy Spero", Nielsen Gallery, Boston
"Divine Flesh: Contemporary Goddess Imagery", ARTOPIA Gallery, New York
"Domestic Violence: The Facts Are In", PS 122 Gallery, New York
"25 Years of Feminism – 25 Years of Women's Art: 1971-1976", Mason Gross School of the Arts Gallery, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey

1995   Feminine-Masculine: the sex of art", Musee national d'art moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
"The Human Figure, A Modern Vision", curated by Magdalene Dubrowski, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
"Glaube Hoffnung Liebe Tod", Kunsthalle Wien
"International Drawing Triennale in Warsaw: Art as Thought, Art as Energy", Museum of Architecture, Warsaw
"After Hiroshima – Message from Contemporary Art", Hiroshima City Museum of
Contemporary Art, Hiroshima
"Cultural Economies: Histories from the Alternative Arts Movement, NYC", organized by Julie Ault, The Drawing Center, New York
"Risarcimento: Artisti contemporanei per gli Uffizi", curated by Stefania Gori, catalog edited by Leo S. Olschki, Florence
"Laughter Ten Years After", traveling – Ezra and Cecile Zikha Gallery, Center for the Arts, Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut, Houghton House Gallery, Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Geneva, New York, Beaver College Art Gallery, Glenside, Pennsylvania, curated by Jo Anna Isaak
"Sniper's Nest: Art That Has Lived with Lucy R. Lippard", Center for Curatorial Studies Museum, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York
"The Art of Justice: Part II", Krasdale Gallery, White Plains, New York
"21: International Biennial of Graphic Art", Modern Gallery, Ljubljana, Slovenia
"Contemporary Drawing: Exploring the Territory", curated by Mark Rosenthal, Aspen Art Museum
"Death Penalty: Loss of Conscience", Visual Arts Gallery, Purchase College, State University of New York, Purchase
"Justice/Injustice: Art Against Death", Puffin Room, The Puffin Foundation, New York
"Art on Paper 1995", Weatherspoon Art Gallery, The University of North Carolina, Greensboro
"Drawn on the Museum", The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, Connecticut
"Civil Rights Now", curated by Bruce Lineker, Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, North Carolina
"After Auschwitz", responses to the Holocaust in Contemporary Art, Royal Festival hall, London (traveling to Manchester City Art Gallery, Ikon Gallery, Birmington, Edinburgh City Art Centre, Northern Centre for Contemporary Art, Sunderland)
"Prodigal Daughter", Rockford College Art Gallery, Rockford, IL, curated by Susanna Coffey
"Collage Made in America", Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York

UPCOMING PROJECTS by NANCY SPERO

2002-04   Codex Artaud is traveling after U. Mass. Dartmouth to several venues under supervision of Pamela Auchincloss

2004   Baltic Mills with Kiki Smith

MONOGRAPHS

Nancy Spero: Rebirth of Venus, edited by Edit deAk with essay by Robert Storr, Art Random, Kyoto Shoin, Japan, 1989

Nancy Spero: Woman Breathing, with essays by Achille Bonito Oliva, Brigitte Reinhardt, Noemi Smolik, Robert Storr, Klaus Vierneisel, et al, Ulmer Museum exhibition catalog, Edition Cantz, Ostfildern, Germany, 1992

Nancy Spero, Phaidon Press Limited, London, 1996

MUSEUM COLLECTIONS

Akron Art Museum, Ohio
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto
Art Institute of Chicago
Australian National Gallery
Berkeley Art Museum
Boston Museum of Fine Arts
Brooklyn Museum, NY
Centro Cultural, Mexico City
Corcoran Gallery of Art
Frac Nprd Pas de Calais, France
Greenville County Museum of Art, South Carolina
Harvard University Art Museums
Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art
Kunstmuseum, Dusseldorf
Madison Art Center, Madison, Wisconsin
Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada
MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge
Musee des Beaux-Arts de Montreal
Musuem of Art and Archaelogy, Univ. of Missouri, Columbia
Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego
National Gallery of Canada, Ottowa
The Museum of Fine Arts, Hanoi, North Vietnam
The Museum of Modern Art, NYC
New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, Connecticut
New School for Social Research, NYC
Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio
Ohio State University
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Portland Art Museum, Oregon
Radford University Art Museum, Radford, Virginia
Ramapo College, New Jersey
The Tate Gallery, London
The Toledo Museum of Art, Ohio
Uffizi Gallery, Florence, Italy
Ulmer Museum, Ulm, Germany
University Art Museum, Berkeley, California
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
Williams College Museum of Art, Massachusetts

AWARDS

Williams College, Massachusetts, Honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts, June, 2001
Artists Space, 2001 Spring Benefit Honoree
Cityarts, New York, 29th annual award (jointly with Leon Golub), 1997
Hiroshima Art Prize, (jointly with Leon Golub), Hiroshima , Japan, 1996
The 1996 Printmaker Emerita Award, West Virginia University
Skowhegan Medal for Works on Paper, April, 1995
NARAL/NY Pro-Choice Media Award, March, 1995
The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts, May 1991
National Endowment for the Arts Grant, 1977-1978.
CAPS Fellowship, New York State Council on the Arts, 1976-77.