Nancy Spector

Nancy Spector is an American museum curator who is the deputy director and Jennifer and David Stockman Chief Curator at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum on Fifth Avenue in New York City.

Life and career

Spector graduated with a B.A. in Philosophy from Sarah Lawrence College in 1981. She received an M.A. from Williams College in 1984 and an MPhil in Art History from City University Graduate Center in 1997[1] She has been a Guggenheim curator since 1989.[2] At the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York, she has organized exhibitions and retrospectives on or of conceptual photography, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Matthew Barney's Cremaster Cycle, Richard Prince, Louise Bourgeois, Marina Abramovic, Maurizio Cattelan and Tino Sehgal. She also organized the group exhibitions Moving Pictures (2003), Singular Forms (Sometimes Repeated) (2004), and theanyspacewhatever (2008).[3] Under the Deutsche Guggenheim in Berlin, Spector initiated special commissions by Andreas Slominski, Hiroshi Sugimoto, and Lawrence Weiner.[4]

Spector was adjunct curator of the 1997 Venice Biennale and a co-curator of the first Berlin Biennale in 1998. In 2007 she was the U.S. Commissioner for the Venice Biennale, where she presented an exhibition of work by Felix Gonzalez-Torres.[5] She has written catalogue essays for exhibitions on Maurizio Cattelan, Luc Tuymans, Douglas Gordon, Tino Sehgal and Anna Gaskell among others.[6]

Spector is a recipient of the Peter Norton Family Foundation Curators Award.[7] In 2014, she was named one of the top 25 most important women in the art world by Artnet.[8] Additionally, Forbes named Spector on the “40 Women To Watch Over 40” list. [9]

Spector won the Peter Norton Family Foundation Curators Award and International Art Critics Association Award[10] In 2014, she was named one of the top 25 most important women in the art world by Artnet.[8]

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References

  1. "Nancy Spector Biography". Yale University. Retrieved July 17, 2014.; and "Frieze Foundation Biography". Frieze Foundation. Retrieved April 10, 2012.
  2. Nancy Spector. The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.
  3. "Nancy Spector Biography". Yale University. Retrieved July 17, 2014.
  4. "Nancy Spector". Independent Curators International. Retrieved July 17, 2014.
  5. Kennedy, Randy (7 June 2007). "Tough Art With a Candy Center". The New York Times.
  6. "Nancy Spector". Yale University. Retrieved July 17, 2014.
  7. "Nancy Spector". Independent Curators International. Retrieved July 17, 2014.
  8. 8.0 8.1 "25 Art World Women at the Top, From Sheikha Al-Mayassa to Yoko Ono". Artnet. 17 April 2014.
  9. ""40 Women To Watch Over 40"". Forbes Inc. 16 July 2014.
  10. "Nancy Spector". International Art Critics Association. Retrieved July 17, 2014.

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