Born in Cleveland, Ohio, Spero lived for much of her life in New York City. A year later, her family moved to Chicago, where Spero remained until age 23.
New York’s Jewish Museum Offers Almost 600 AnswersThese 10 Unrealized Artworks Would Have Been SpectacularVenus Drawn Out: Insights from Curator Susan HarrisSpotlight on “Spotlight”, the Crowd Favorite of Frieze Masters She created an identity through the acts of borrowing and disguise. As both artist and activist, Nancy Spero had a career that spanned fifty years. Tate Papers no.11 Spring 2009, Tate's flagship academic research publication
Nancy Spero was an American painter and feminist artist. She trained at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris, where she lived from 1959 until 1964. …
The first major presentation of the celebrated American artist Nancy Spero since her death in autumn 2009. Nancy Spero was born in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1926 to a family with a Jewish background. As an activist in the 1960s, she leveled her art against all existing power structures, notably … Spero’s radical body of work explores issues of subjugation, brutality and the abuse of power. A leading figure in the feminist art movement of the 1960s, Nancy Spero explored female sexuality, suffering, and heroism, as well as the horrors of war, in gouache and ink works on paper. She married and collaborated with, artist Leon Golub.
In the early 1990s Nancy Spero (born 1926) composed a series of homages to the Cuban artist, Ana Mendieta (1948–1985).
Nancy Spero (August 24, 1926 – October 18, 2009) was an American visual artist. Untitled (Cimetière de Varsovie à l'extérieur du ghetto)Untitled (Cimetière de Varsovie à l'extérieur du ghetto)Untitled (Cimetière de Varsovie à l'extérieur du ghetto)Untitled (Cimetière de Varsovie à l'extérieur du ghetto)"The Female Emperor" - Exhibition celebrating Women ArtistsPolitical Prints & Multiples from the 1960s to today"The Female Emperor" - Exhibition celebrating Women ArtistsPolitical Prints & Multiples from the 1960s to todayWhat Does It Mean to Be Jewish? Nancy Spero was born in Cleveland, Ohio, and graduated from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1949. The American artist Nancy Spero (1926-2009) was a feminist pioneer.
Nancy Spero Thou Shalt Not Kill, plate VI from the portfolio The Ten Commandments 1987 Group Material, Mike Glier, Jenny Holzer, Barbara Kruger, Carrie Mae Weems, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Nancy Spero, Nancy Linn, Hans Haacke, Richard Prince, Louise Lawler Inserts, an advertising supplement produced for New York Times 1988 The Body is Present Even if in Disguise: Tracing the Trace in the Artwork of Nancy Spero and Ana Mendieta Joanna S. Walker Her expressive work is characterized by its figurative interpretation of sociopolitical and cultural issues, often directly tackling racism, violence, and sexism in contemporary space. Spero, her husband (the painter Leon Golub), and their three sons eventually settled in New York City, where she lived until her death in 2009.