Please note: All ramps and additional galleries of the museum are currently closed due to the installation of John Chamberlain: Choices, opening on February 24. The admission price is reduced at this time, and advance tickets are not available. View the museum map.
Nancy Spector
Deputy Director and Chief Curator
Guggenheim curator since 1989
Nancy Spector received her M.Phil. in Art History from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. She is Deputy Director and Chief Curator of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, where she has organized exhibitions on Felix Gonzalez-Torres, conceptual photography, Matthew Barney's Cremaster cycle, Richard Prince, Louise Bourgeois, and Tino Sehgal. She co-organized Moving Pictures and Singular Forms (Sometimes Repeated). She also organized the group exhibition theanyspacewhatever, which focused on the art of the 1990s.
She was one of the curators of Monument to Now, an exhibition of the Dakis Joannou Collection, which premiered in Athens as part of the Olympics program.
Spector was Adjunct Curator of the 1997 Venice Biennale and co-organizer of the first Berlin Biennial 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. Under the auspices of the Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin, she has initiated special commissions by Andreas Slominski, Hiroshi Sugimoto, and Lawrence Weiner, as well as a special exhibition on the work of Joseph Beuys and Matthew Barney.
Spector has also contributed to numerous books on contemporary visual culture with essays on artists such as Maurizio Cattelan, Luc Tuymans, Douglas Gordon, Tino Sehgal, and Anna Gaskell.
Spector is a recipient of the Peter Norton Family Foundation Curators Award. She has most recently organized a retrospective exhibition of work by Maurizio Cattelan.
On View Now
Special Exhibitions
Pop
Objects and Icons from the Guggenheim Collection
September
30, 2011–February
8, 2012
Surface, Support, Process: The 1960s Monochrome in
the Guggenheim
Collection
November
19, 2011–February
8,
2012
Kandinsky
at the Bauhaus, 1922–1933
Ongoing
From the Archives: Artist Awards and Acquisitions, 1956–1987
December 3, 2011–July 16, 2012
Collection on View
Thannhauser
Collection
Ongoing
Opening Soon
John Chamberlain: Choices
February 24–May 13, 2012
News
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Guggenheim Exhibition of American Avant-Garde Art to Open in Rome
The collaborative exhibition Guggenheim Collection: The American Avant-Garde 1945–1980 opens in the heart of Rome on February 7.
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The Guggenheim Organizes Seven-Hour Finale for Maurizio Cattelan: All
Events
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Film Festival
February 10 and 17
Enjoy Friday film screenings at the museum in conjunction with the annual festival. View times.
Members' Party
Friday, February 24, 7:30 pm
Guggenheim members are invited to a private viewing.
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Please note: All ramps and additional galleries of the museum are currently closed due to the installation of John Chamberlain: Choices, opening on February 24. The admission price is reduced at this time, and advance tickets are not available.
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