Nancy Spero’s work was widely exhibited throughout her lifetime, appearing in galleries and institutional exhibitions, as well as art events, such as the Venice Biennale, documenta, and the Whitney Biennial. Her art has also been the subject of several retrospective shows since her death in 2009.
Spero’s solo exhibitions include Nancy Spero: Paper Mirror, MoMA PS1 (2019); Nancy Spero, Centre Pompidou, Paris (2010); and Leon Golub and Nancy Spero, Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Japan (1996).
The artist’s group exhibitions include Some Day is Now: Women, Art & Social Change, New Britain Museum of American Art, Connecticut (2020); Fast Forward: Painting From the 1980s, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2017); Female Power, Museum voor Moderne Kunst, Arnhem, Netherlands (2013); and WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington DC (2007). __
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