Nancy Holt

American | 1938 - 2014

Nancy Holt was an American Postwar & Contemporary artist who was born in 1938. Her work is currently being shown at multiple venues like Whitney Museum of American Art in New York. Numerous key galleries and museums such as The Art Institute of Chicago have featured Nancy Holt's work in the past.Nancy Holt's work has been offered at auction multiple times, with realized prices ranging from 3,750 USD to 21,250 USD, depending on the size and medium of the artwork. Since 2013 the record price for this artist at auction is 21,250 USD for Holes of Light, sold at Christie's New York in 2013. Nancy Holt has been featured in articles for , and . The most recent article is written for MOUSSE Magazine in May 2025. The artist died in 2014.

Artist's alternative names: Nancy Louise Holt鈥�

At Auction

Notable Lots

Untitled (Waning Sphere) ,1973

By Nancy Holt

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Untitled (Installation Sketch) - Nancy Holt

Untitled (Installation Sketch) ,1973

By Nancy Holt

Sunlight in Sun Tunnels ,1976

By Nancy Holt

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Recent Auction Results

Untitled (Installation Sketch) ,1973

By Nancy Holt

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Untitled (Waning Sphere) ,1973

By Nancy Holt

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Holes of Light ,1973

By Nancy Holt

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Current Exhibitions

Nancy Holt: Power Systems

Wexner Center for the Arts

Columbus | Ohio | USA

Feb 08,2025 - Jun 29,2025

Nancy Holt: Pipeline

Wexner Center for the Arts

Columbus | Ohio | USA

Aug 16,2024 - Jul 27,2025

Rich Land, Poor Land

Carriage Trade

New York | USA

May 29,2025 - Jul 27,2025

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Articles

MOUSSE Magazine 27/05/2025

The multidisciplinary arts center at The Ohio State University has partnered with Holt/Smithson Foundation for the most extensive inquiry to date into the artist鈥檚 focus on the systems that connect and power societies.

ArtDaily 30/04/2025

The Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin has significantly expanded its collection with the acquisition of pivotal works by three prominent female artists鈥擬aria Lassnig, Ewa Partum, and Cornelia Schleime鈥攎ade possible through a generous private donation from Birgit and Thomas Rabe.

Artillery Magazine 23/04/2025

In 鈥淔irst Alienation,鈥� printed matter and machine vision come together in a clearly human context at Timeshare, a co-curated gallery run by six artists in Lincoln Heights.

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Coverage

鈥� ..Holt is most well-known for her large-scale sculptural works in the environment, such as Sun Tunnels (1976)... 鈥�
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The Whitworth Art Gallery

鈥� ..Holt deals with themes centring on memory, perception, time and space... 鈥�
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CAG Contemporary Art Gallery

鈥� ..Sightlines encompasses more than 40 works that illuminate Holt鈥檚 circumvention of modernist sculptural practice and institutional spaces... 鈥�
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Wallach Art Gallery, Columbia University

鈥� ..Animated by rigorous and lively essays from some of the leading writers on post-1960s artistic practice and fully illustrated, it charts Holt鈥檚 artistic trajectory from her initial experiments with unlikely... 鈥�
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Wallach Art Gallery, Columbia University

鈥� ..Alongside her sculptures Holt has always used photography and film, not only to document her work, but as a continuation of her interest in with memory, perception, time and space... 鈥�
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The Whitworth Art Gallery