Nancy Holt

Born April 5, 1938, Massachusetts

Died February 8, 2014, New York

Father: Chemical Engineer

Mother: Homemaker

Husband: Robert Smithson

1960 Biology Major Graduate, Tufts University

Concrete Poetry

Audiotapes

Videos

Photographs

Site-specific Installation

Artist’s Books

Major Public Sculpture Commissions

“I wanted to bring the vast space of the desert back to human scale. I had no desire to make a megalithic monument.

The panoramic view of the landscape is too overwhelming to take in without visual reference points… through the

tunnels, parts of the landscape are framed and come into focus… the work encloses surrounds…”

Concrete Visions (1967)Composite inkjet print on

archival rag paper taken from original 126 format black and white negatives; printed 2012

35 x 35 in; 88.9 x 88.9 cm

Western Graveyards (1968)60 inkjet prints on archival rag paper, printed from original 126 format transparencies; printed

2012. 18 x 18 in; 45.7 x 45.7 cm

Hydra’s Head (1974)Mixed Media

Pine Barrens (1975)30:24 min, colour, sound, 16mm film on HD video

Sun Tunnels (1973-6)Concrete, Steel, EarthGreat Basin Desert,

Utah

Google Maps

Dark Star Park (1979-84)Multi Media Public Installation

Rosslyn, Virginia

Solar Rotary (1995)University of South

Florida, Tampa

Nancy Holt