Nancy Spector

Nancy Spector is an American museum curator who is the Artistic Director and Jennifer and David Stockman Chief Curator at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum on Fifth Avenue in New York City.[1] Previously she was chief curator at the Brooklyn Museum.[2]

Nancy E. Spector
Born1959 (age 60–61)
NationalityAmerican
EducationSarah Lawrence College (BA)
Williams College (MA)
City University of New York (MPhil)
OccupationCurator
EmployerBrooklyn Museum,
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

Education

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 a Master of Philosophy degree in Art History from City University Graduate Center in 1997[3]

Career

Spector has been a Guggenheim curator since 1989.[4] 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).[5] Under the Deutsche Guggenheim in Berlin, Spector initiated special commissions by Andreas Slominski, Hiroshi Sugimoto, and Lawrence Weiner.[6]

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.[7] She has written catalogue essays for exhibitions on Maurizio Cattelan, Luc Tuymans, Douglas Gordon, Tino Sehgal and Anna Gaskell among others.[8]

In 2017, when the White House requested the loan of a Vincent Van Gogh painting, from the Guggenheim collection, Landscape With Snow, Spector suggested instead, America - a sculpture of a gold toilet by Maurizio Cattelan.[9]

Spector is a recipient of the Peter Norton Family Foundation Curators Award[6] and an 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.[11] Additionally, Forbes named Spector on the "40 Women To Watch Over 40" list.[12]

Controversy

On 5th November 2019, Spector hosted a panel for an exhibit in the Guggenheim called "Basquiat’s ‘Defacement’: The Untold Story". This panel excluded Chaédria LaBouvier, the curator of the exhibit. LaBouvier had previously complained that the museum had made decisions for her exhibit without her consultation. She was also excluded from the deinstallation process, which is standard for curators to oversee.[13] When LaBouvier raised this issue during the panel, Elizabeth Duggal, President of the Guggenheim Museum, said: "...I know you want to do this in a public forum, happy to talk separately..." and defended the decision by saying that the panel had acknowledged her efforts.[14]

Select bibliography
  • Spector, Nancy, and Félix González-Torres. Felix Gonzalez-Torres. New York: Guggenheim Museum, 1995.
  • Barney, Matthew, Nancy Spector, and Neville Wakefield. Matthew Barney: The Cremaster Cycle. New York: Guggenheim Museum, 2002.
  • Spector, Nancy, and Richard Prince. Richard Prince. New York: Guggenheim Museum, 2007.
  • ʻAnattā, . Phalang Thang 6 [hok]. Krungthēp: Khletthai, 1983.
  • Hanhardt, John G, Nancy Spector, Lisa Dennison, and Joan Young. Moving Pictures: Contemporary Photography and Video from the Guggenheim Museum Collections. New York: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 2003.
  • Spector, Nancy, Maurizio Cattelan, Francesco Bonami, and Barbara Vanderlinden. Maurizio Cattelan. London: Phaidon, 2000.
  • Spector, Nancy, Maurizio Cattelan, and Nancy Spector. Maurizio Cattelan: All. New York, NY: Guggenheim Museum Publications, 2011.
  • Spector, Nancy. Theanyspacewhatever. New York: Guggenheim Museum, 2008.
  • Dennison, Lisa, and Nancy Spector. Singular Forms (sometimes Repeated): Art from 1951 to the Present. [exhibition] Guggenheim Museum. New York: Guggenheim Museum Publications, 2004.
  • González-Torres, Félix, and Nancy Spector. Felix Gonzalez-Torres: America. United States Pavilion, 52nd Venice Biennale, 2007. New York, NY: Guggenheim Museum Publications, 2007.

References
  1. Randy Kennedy (2017-02-15). "Nancy Spector Returns to Guggenheim as Chief Curator and Artistic Director". The New York Times. Retrieved 2020-06-11.
  2. https://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/18/arts/design/nancy-spector-joins-brooklyn-museum-as-chief-curator.html?_r=0
  3. "Nancy Spector Biography". Yale University. Retrieved July 17, 2014.; and "Frieze Foundation Biography". Frieze Foundation. Retrieved April 10, 2012.
  4. "Nancy Spector. The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum". guggenheim.org. Retrieved September 21, 2015.
  5. "Nancy Spector Biography". Yale University. Retrieved July 17, 2014.
  6. "Nancy Spector". Independent Curators International. Retrieved July 17, 2014.
  7. Kennedy, Randy (7 June 2007). "Tough Art With a Candy Center". The New York Times.
  8. "Nancy Spector Biography". Yale University. Retrieved July 17, 2014.
  9. Schwartzman, Paul (2018-01-25). "The White House asked to borrow a van Gogh. The Guggenheim offered a gold toilet instead". Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved 2018-01-25.
  10. "Nancy Spector". International Art Critics Association. Retrieved July 17, 2014.
  11. "25 Art World Women at the Top, From Sheikha Al-Mayassa to Yoko Ono". Artnet. 17 April 2014.
  12. "40 Women To Watch Over 40". Forbes Inc. 16 July 2014.
  13. Siegler, Mara; Feuerherd, Ben (2019-11-07). "Guggenheim Basquiat curator says museum fosters 'white supremacy,' 'violence'". New York Post. Retrieved 2020-06-03.
  14. "twitter.com/badnewswomen". Twitter. 2019-11-06. Retrieved 2020-06-03.
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