 Artist's arttributes:
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Feminist Art |
Most exhibitions in: |
| Country |
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| USA | 101 |
| Germany | 20 |
| France | 15 |
| Austria | 13 |
Most exhibitions held at: |
| Institution |
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New Museum of Contemporary Art, USA |
8 |
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Rhona Hoffman Gallery, USA |
7 |
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Galerie Lelong - New York, USA |
7 |
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Barbara Gross Galerie, Germany |
5 |
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Museu d´Art Contemporani de Barcelona - MACBA, Spain |
4 |
Biography: 
24.8.1926 Born in Cleveland, OH (US)
Awards 1996 "Hiroshima Art Prize"
2009 Herbert-Boeckl-Preis 2009
18.10.2009 Died in Manhattan, New York (US)
External links: | | Public exhibitions (Selection) 211
from 2.7.
Solo shows 44
2013
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| From Victimage to Liberation: Works from the 1980s & 1990s - Galerie Lelong - New York, New York City, NY |
2011
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| Nancy Spero - Serpentine Gallery, London (England) |
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| Nancy Spero: Works Of The 1980s - Barbara Gross Galerie, Munich |
2010
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| Woman in motion - Galerie Lelong - Paris, Paris |
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| Nancy Spero - Centre Pompidou - Musée National d´Art Moderne, Paris |
2009
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| Blue - Studio Stefania Miscetti, Rome |
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| Nancy Spero - Woman as Protagonist - Museum der Moderne Salzburg Mönchsberg, Salzburg |
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| Nancy Spero - Un Coup de Dent - Galerie Lelong - New York, New York City, NY |
2008
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| Nancy Spero. Dissidances - Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid |
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| Nancy Spero - Anthony Reynolds Gallery, London (England) |
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| Nancy Spero. Disidanzas - Museu d´Art Contemporani de Barcelona - MACBA, Barcelona |
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| Nancy Spero - Spero Speaks - de Appel arts centre, Amsterdam |
2007
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| Nancy Spero - FRAC - Haute-Normandie, Sotteville-lès-Rouen |
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| Nancy Spero - Galerie Lelong - Paris, Paris |
2006
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| Nancy Spero - Franco Soffiantino Gallery, Turin |
2005
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| Nancy Spero - Cri du Coeur - Galerie Lelong - New York, New York City, NY |
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| Tattoo - - Overtones, Los Angeles, CA (closed, 2009) |
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| Nancy Spero - Crown Gallery, Brussels |
2004
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| Nancy Spero - Weighing the Heart Against a Feather of Truth - CGAC - Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea, Santiago de Compostela |
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| Nancy Spero - Galerie Lelong - Paris, Paris |
2003
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| Nancy Spero - Galerie Lelong - New York, New York City, NY |
2002
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| Nancy Spero - A continuous present - Kunsthalle zu Kiel, Kiel |
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| Nancy Spero - Galerie Lelong - New York, New York City, NY |
2001
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| L’image parlée / The Spoken Image - Galerie de l’UQAM, Montreal, QC |
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| Nancy Spero - Barbara Gross Galerie, Munich |
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| Sheela Does Ramapo - Ramapo College Art Galleries, Mahwah, NJ |
1997
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| Nancy Spero: Collages - Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, IL |
1996
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| Projected Artists V/V - TheBlack and TheRed - Studio Stefania Miscetti, Rome |
1994
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| Nancy Spero - Malmö Konsthall, Malmö |
1991
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| Sky Goddes, Egyptian Acrobat - Studio Stefania Miscetti, Rome |
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| Nancy Spero - Barbara Gross Galerie, Munich |
1990
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| Nancy Spero - Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn |
1989
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| Nancy Spero: Works Since 1950 - New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York City, NY |
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| Nancy Spero: Works Since 1950 - The Power Plant, Toronto, ON |
1988
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| Nancy Spero - MOCA Grand Avenue, Los Angeles, CA |
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| Nancy Spero: War Series 1966-1969, Artaud Paintings 1969-197 - Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, IL |
1987
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| Nancy Spero: Works 1954-86 - Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh (Scotland) |
1986
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| Nancy Spero: New Work - Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, IL |
1985
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| Nancy Spero - University of Iowa Museum of Art, Iowa City, IA |
1984
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| Nancy Spero - The Black Paintings - The Renaissance Society at The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL |
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| Nancy Spero / MATRIX 72 - Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive BAM/PFA, Berkeley, CA |
1983
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| Nancy Spero: 1974 - 1983 - Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, IL |
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| Nancy Spero / Matrix 74 - The Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, CT |
Group shows 166
2013
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| Female Power - Museum voor Moderne Kunst Arnhem - MMKA, Arnhem |
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| Tell It To My Heart: Collected by Julie Ault - Museum für Gegenwartskunst - Emanuel Hoffmann-Stiftung, Basel |
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| Feminist Art Then And Now - Katherine E. Nash Gallery - University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN |
2012
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| The Female Gaze: Women Artists Making Their World - Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA |
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| Die Frau in der Pop Art im Echo anderer Stilrichtungen - QuadrART Dornbirn, Dornbirn |
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| Adelaide International 2012: Restless - The Anne & Gordon Samstag Museum of Art, Adelaide, SA |
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| Restless - Adelaide International / Gallery 1-3 - The Anne & Gordon Samstag Museum of Art, Adelaide, SA |
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| Spirits Of Internationalism - MuHKA Museum voor Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen, Antwerp |
2011
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| Body Gesture - Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR |
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| Neue Künstlerinnenräume - K21 Ständehaus, Dusseldorf |
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| Leon Golub / Nancy Spero - Galeria Pilar Serra (former Estiarte), Madrid |
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| Froschbärfant und andere Tiere in der Kunst - Galerie im Traklhaus, Salzburg |
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| Abstract Expressionism and its Discontents - Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA |
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| Familienbande - Galerie Thomas Modern, Munich |
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| Heroines - Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid |
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| Pictures of the Body - Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA |
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| New Inventory - Andrew Rafacz Gallery, Chicago, IL |
2010
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| L'image et le mot - Galerie Chantal Bamberger, Strasbourg |
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| Love in Vein: Editions Fawbush projects & artists 2005-2010 - Gering & López Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| The right to protest - Museum on the Seam, Jerusalem |
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| 29° Bienal de São Paulo - Bienal de Sao Paulo, São Paulo |
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| Diabolique - Oakville Galleries, Oakville, ON |
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| Shifting the Gaze: Painting and Feminism - The Jewish Museum of New York, New York City, NY |
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| This Girl Bends: Art and Feminism Since 1960 - Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, MA |
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| BABEL - FRAC - Auvergne, Clermont Ferrand |
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| NI UNA MAS (Not One More): The Juarez Murders - Leonard Pearlstein Gallery at Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA |
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| Breathless Days 1959 - 1960 - A Chronotropic Experiment - The Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC |
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| Tha Visible Vagina - David Nolan Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| ADIEU! A tribute to Nancy Spero and Leon Golub - Christine König Galerie, Vienna |
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| Diabolique - Galerie de l’UQAM, Montreal, QC |
2009
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| (Des)Accords Communs - FRAC - Haute-Normandie, Sotteville-lès-Rouen |
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| Learn to Read Art: A History of Printed Matter - MoMA PS1, New York City, NY |
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| Kiki Smith / Nancy Spero / Nalini Malani - Galeria Pilar Serra (former Estiarte), Madrid |
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| Rebelle - Kunst & Feminisme 1969 - 2009 - Museum voor Moderne Kunst Arnhem - MMKA, Arnhem |
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| elles@centrepompidou, artistes femmes dans les collections du Centre Pompidou - Centre Pompidou - Musée National d´Art Moderne, Paris |
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| Tiempo como materia. Colección MACBA. Nuevas incorporaciones - Museu d´Art Contemporani de Barcelona - MACBA, Barcelona |
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| Acquisitions 2007-2008 - FRAC - Picardie, Amiens |
2008
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| Alex Rosenberg: Collector and Patron - Freedman Gallery at Albright College, Reading, PA |
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| Under the Influence - Art and Culture Center of Hollywood, Hollywood, CA |
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| Reflections - Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, IL |
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| Anatomie | les peaux du dessin - collection Florence et Daniel Guerlain - FRAC - Picardie, Amiens |
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| WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution - Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC |
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| Close Encounters: Facing the Future - American University Museum at the Katzen Arts Center, Washington, DC |
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| The order of things - MuHKA Museum voor Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen, Antwerp |
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| The Magic of the State - castillo/corrales, Paris |
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| Beauty and The Beast - - Overtones, Los Angeles, CA (closed, 2009) |
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| That Was Then...This Is Now - MoMA PS1, New York City, NY |
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| A Year in Drawing - Galerie Lelong - New York, New York City, NY |
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| Nancy Spero - Eylem Aladogan - Barbara Gross Galerie, Munich |
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| Paper Trail II: Passing Through Clouds - The Rose Art Museum, Waltham, MA |
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| WACK!: Art and the Feminist Revolution - MoMA PS1, New York City, NY |
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| Collage: The Unmonumental Picture - New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York City, NY |
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| Pressing Issues - Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA |
2007
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| Unmonumental: The Object In The 21st Century - New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York City, NY |
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| Gehen bleiben - Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn |
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| Multiplex: Directions in Art, 1970 to Now - MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY |
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| MACBA im Frankfurter Kunstverein - Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt/Main |
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| WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution - National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC |
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| A batalla dos xéneros - CGAC - Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea, Santiago de Compostela |
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| 27th Biennial of Graphic Arts - The Unbound Eyes of Anxiousnes - Ljubljana Biennial of Graphic Arts, Ljubljana |
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| 52nd International Art Exhibition Venice Biennale / Biennale di Venezia - La Biennale di Venezia, Venice |
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| After the Revolution: Women Who Transformed Contemporary Art - Dorsky Gallery Curatorial Programs (DGCP), New York City, NY |
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| Commemorating 30 Years Part II: 1981-1990 - Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, IL |
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| WACK! - Art And The Feminist Revolution - The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, Los Angeles, CA |
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| Funny Women - Gallery Onetwentyeight, New York City, NY |
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| libre < échange - Galerie de l’UQAM, Montreal, QC |
2006
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| Twice Drawn - The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY |
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| Newark Between Us - Newark Arts Council, Newark, NJ |
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| femme brut(e) - Lyman Allyn Art Museum, New London, CT |
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| How American Women Artists Invented Postmodernism 1970-1975 - The Harold B. Lemmerman Gallery at New Jersey City University, Jersey City, NJ |
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| Inviting Words Into The Image: Contemporary Prints From The Rutgers Archives For Printmaking Studios (raps) - Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, New Brunswick, NJ |
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| Neo-Sincerity: The Difference Between the Comic and the Cosmic is a Single Letter - Apexart, New York City, NY |
2005
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| Persistent Vestiges - Drawing from the American-Vietnam War - The Drawing Center, New York City, NY |
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| Looking at Words - Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Drawn to Cleveland - MOCA - Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland, Cleveland, OH |
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| 10 Jahre Kollaboration Galerie pro arte – Sommerakademie Salzburg - Kunstraum pro arte - Tennengauer Kunstkreis, Hallein |
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| La Colección MACBA - Museu d´Art Contemporani de Barcelona - MACBA, Barcelona |
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| Atomica - Lombard Freid Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| (my private) Heroes - MARTa Herford, Herford |
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| Louise Bourgeois/ Kiki Smith/ Nancy Spero - Galeria Pilar Serra (former Estiarte), Madrid |
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| Toward the Future - Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima |
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| Magnolia Editions: Tapestries - JayJay, Sacramento, CA |
2004
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| The Print Show - - Exit Art, New York City, NY (closed, 2012) |
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| Celebrating the Jewish Contribution to 20th-Century American Art - The RISD Museum - University of Rhode Island, Providence, RI |
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| Paula's Home - Lentos Kunstmuseum Linz, Linz |
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| Walk Ways - Surrey Art Gallery, Surrey, BC |
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| Pour les oiseaux - FRAC - Pays de la Loire, Carquefou |
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| Arte y utopía - La acción restringida - Museu d´Art Contemporani de Barcelona - MACBA, Barcelona |
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| Modern Means: Continuity and Change in Art from 1880 to the Present - Mori Art Museum, Tokyo |
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| Exquisite Corpses Today: 25 Curiosities Commissioned by the Bowdoin College Museum of Art - Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, ME |
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| Collage - Bloomberg Space, London (England) |
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| Lodz Biennale 2004 - Lodz Biennale, Lodz |
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| Esprit - Galerie Nathalie Obadia - Paris, Paris |
2003
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| Nancy Spero and Kiki Smith - BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead (England) |
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| Wings of Art - Motiv Flugzeug - Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst, Aachen |
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| Walk Ways - University of South Florida Contemporary Art Museum, Tampa, FL |
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| Das Recht des Bildes - Kunstmuseum Bochum, Bochum |
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| Wings of Art – Motiv Flugzeug - Kunsthalle Darmstadt, Darmstadt |
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| H2O - Victoria H. Myhren Gallery, Denver, CO |
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| Some Assembly Required - Collage Culture in Post-War America - Polk Museum of Art, Lakeland, FL |
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| 30 Sommerakademiekünstler im Traklhaus - Galerie im Traklhaus, Salzburg |
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| H2O - Danese, New York City, NY |
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| Walk Ways - Oakville Galleries, Oakville, ON |
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| Attack! - Kunst und Krieg in den Zeiten der Medien - Kunsthalle Wien (Museumsquartier), Vienna |
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| 50th International Art Exhibition Venice Biennale / Biennale di Venezia - La Biennale di Venezia, Venice |
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| Sanctuary - GoMA - Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow (Scotland) |
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| Leon Golub & Nancy Spero - Christine König Galerie, Vienna |
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| Traditions: The Blessing & The Curse - Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL |
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| Walk Ways - Dalhousie Art Gallery, Halifax, NS |
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| Love - IKON Ltd, Santa Monica, CA |
2002
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| Leon Golub - Nancy Spero - Barbara Gross Galerie, Munich |
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| The Human Factor: Figuration in American Art 1950-1995 - Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita, KS |
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| Gloria - another look at feminist art in the 1970s - White Columns, New York City, NY |
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| Goddess - Galerie Lelong - New York, New York City, NY |
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| True Grit - Seven Female Visionaries Before Feminism - Boise Art Museum BAM, Boise, ID |
2001
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| Let´s talk about sex - Kunsthaus Dresden, Dresden |
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| A Work in Progress - Selections from the New Museum Collection - New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York City, NY |
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| ARS 01 Unfolding Perspectives - Kiasma - Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki |
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| 49th International Art Exhibition Venice Biennale / Biennale di Venezia - La Biennale di Venezia, Venice |
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| Look Out - PM Gallery & House, London (England) |
2000
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| Walking - University Galleries at Illinois State University, Normal, Il |
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| The Fighting Is A Dance, Too - Andrew Roth Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Picturing the Modern Amazon - New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York City, NY |
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| True Grit - Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| The End: An Independent Vision of Contemporary Culture, 1982-2000 - - Exit Art, New York City, NY (closed, 2012) |
1999
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| bodies of resistance - Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT |
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| No Quarter Given. Images of Violence in Contemporary Art - EACC - Espai d´Art Contemporani de Castelló, Castellon de la Plana |
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| Stop the Violence - Museum für angewandte Kunst (MAK), Vienna |
1998
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| Amnesty International Benefit Drawing Show - Paula Cooper Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| World Artsist for Tibet - Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, CA |
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| Gemeinschaftsaustellung GRB u. GIK - Galerie Inga Kondeyne, Berlin |
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| Rights of Spring - PPOW, New York City, NY |
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| Do It - Surrey Art Gallery, Surrey, BC |
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| Skulptur Figur Weiblich - Landesgalerie am Oberösterreichischen Landesmuseum, Linz |
1997
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| Angel, Angel - Legends of the Present - Galerie Rudolfinum, Prague |
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| Künstlerinnen - Kunsthaus Bregenz, Bregenz |
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| documenta X - Documenta, Kassel |
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| Acrobate mime parfait - Musée Zadkine, Paris |
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| ENGEL:ENGEL - Kunsthalle wien project space karlsplatz, Vienna |
1996
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| Womens's work - The Greene Naftali Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| The 3rd Hiroshima Art Prize - Leon Golub & Nancy Spero - Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima |
1995
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| Sniper's Nest: Art That Has Lived with Lucy R. Lippard - Hessel Museum of Art & Center for Curatorial Studies Galleries at Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY |
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| Collage: Made in America - Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Notes in Time: Leon Golub & Nancy Spero - Center for Art and Visual Culture, Baltimore, MD |
1994
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| Athena & Arachne - Apexart, New York City, NY |
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| Leon Golub and Nancy Spero - Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, IL |
1993
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| Palle - Studio Stefania Miscetti, Rome |
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| Viande mystique - Optica - centre for contemporary art, Montreal, QC |
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| Coming to Power: 25 years of Sexually X-plicit Art by Women - David Zwirner, Inc., New York City, NY |
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| 1920: The Subtlety of Subversion/The Continuity of Intervention - - Exit Art, New York City, NY (closed, 2012) |
1992
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| Allegories of Modernism - MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY |
1991
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| Word As Image: American Art 1960–1990 - Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Houston, TX |
1990
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| The Decade Show: Frameworks of Identity in the 1980s - New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York City, NY |
1988
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| The Social Club - - Exit Art, New York City, NY (closed, 2012) |
1987
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| CONCRETE CRISIS: Urban Images of the 1980s - - Exit Art, New York City, NY (closed, 2012) |
1986
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| Body Electric - Temple Gallery - Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia, PA |
1985
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| After Tilted Arc - Storefront for Art and Architecture, New York City, NY |
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| Memento Mori - Galleries at Moore College of Art & Design, Philadelphia, PA |
1984
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| Art and Ideology - New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York City, NY |
1983
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| The End of the World: Contemporary Visions of the Apocalypse - New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York City, NY |
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| New Work New York - Newcastle Salutes New York - University Gallery and Baring Wing - Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne |
1982
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| The Atomic Salon - Ronald Feldman Fine Arts Inc, New York City, NY |
1979
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| Artists Draw - Artists Space, New York City, NY |
| Dealer Directory 12 |
Austria
| | Christine König Galerie, Vienna
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Belgium
France
| | Galerie Lelong - Paris, Paris
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Germany
| | Barbara Gross Galerie, Munich
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Italy
| | Franco Soffiantino Gallery, Turin
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Spain
| | Galeria Pilar Serra (former Estiarte), Madrid
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United Kingdom
| | Anthony Reynolds Gallery, London (England)
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USA
| | Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, IL
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| | Printworks Gallery, Chicago, IL
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| | Editions Fawbush, New York City, NY
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| | Galerie Lelong - New York, New York City, NY
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| | Magnolia Editions, Oakland, CA
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Canada
| | Galerie de l’UQAM, Montreal, QC
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| | Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, ON
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France
| | FRAC - Pays de la Loire, Carquefou
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| | FRAC - Auvergne, Clermont Ferrand
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| | FRAC - Nord-Pas de Calais, Dunkerque
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Italy
| | Studio Stefania Miscetti, Rome
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Slovenia
| | International Centre of Graphic Arts (MGLC), Ljubljana
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Spain
| | Museu d´Art Contemporani de Barcelona - MACBA, Barcelona
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United Kingdom
| | Tate Britain, London (England)
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USA
| | MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, MA
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| | Mary & Leigh Block Museum of Art, Evanston, IL
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| | Jersey City Museum, Jersey City, NJ
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| | MOCA Grand Avenue, Los Angeles, CA
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| | Maier Museum of Art, Lynchburg, VA
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| | Apexart, New York City, NY
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| | The Jewish Museum of New York, New York City, NY
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| | MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY
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| | New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York City, NY
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| | Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY
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| | ASU Art Museum - Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe, AZ
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| | Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, FL
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