Biography
| 1926 | Born in Cleveland, Ohio, USA Lives and works in New York, USA |
| 1944 - 1945 | University of Colorado, Boulder, USA |
| 1949 | BFA, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, USA |
| 1949 - 1950 | Ecole des Beaux-Arts and Atelier Andre Lhote, Paris, France; Lives and works in New York, USA |
| 1951 | Marries Leon Golub, they move to Chicago, USA |
| 1956 - 1964 | Lives one year in Italy, two years in Indiana, five years in Paris. Returns to New York. |
| 1964 - 1972 | Member of Artists and Writers Protest Against the War in Vietnam |
| 1972 | Co-founder of A.I.R. Gallery |
| 1984 | Joins Artists" Call Against U.S. Intervention in Central America |
| 2004 | Leon Golub dies |
| 2007 | First sculptural installation |
| 2009 | Dies on October 18 in New York |
Solo Exhibitions
| 2008 | Dissidances, Museu d"Art Contemporani de Barcelona (MACBA), Spain Spero Speaks, De Appel Arts Centre, Amsterdam, Netherlands |
| 2007 | Black Paintings, Galerie Lelong, Paris, France Autour D"Antonin Artaud, FRAC Haute-Normandie, Rouen, France |
| 2004 - 2005 | Weighing the Heart Agains a Feather of Truth, Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea (CGAC), Santiago de Compostela, Spain |
| 2004 | The War Series 1966-70, Galerie Lelong, Paris, France Esprit, Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Paris, France Cri du Coeur, Galerie Lelong, New York, USA |
| 2003 | Galerie Christine König, Vienna, Austria Galerie Lelong, New York, USA Nancy Spero, Galerie Filomena Soares, Lisbon, Portugal |
| 2002 | Galerie Lelong, New York, USA Sheela-Na-Gigs & Nancy Spero, Hiestand Galleries, School of Fine Arts, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, USA |
| 2001 | Vancouver Art Gallery, Canada Sheela Does Ramapo Berrie Center, Ramapo College of New Jersey, Mahwah, USA New Works, Barbara Gross Galerie, München, Germany University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, USA |
| 2000 | Crown Gallery, Brussels, Belgium |
| 1998 | New Works, Barbara Gross Galerie, München, Germany Nancy Spero, Crown Gallery, Brussels, Belgium Nancy Spero, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, Great Britain Black and the Red III, Galerie Montenay-Giroux, Paris, France |
| 1997 | War Series, Barbara Gross Galerie, München, Germany |
| 1996 | Sheela at Home, Jack Tilton Gallery, New York, USA Black and the Red III, P.P.O.W., New York, USA Leon Golub and Nancy Spero, Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Japan Cycle in Time, The New York Kunsthalle, New York, USA Nancy Spero, Galerie im Taxispalais, Innsbruck, Austria |
| 1995 | Barbara Gross Galerie, München, Germany Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Harvard University Art Museum, Boston, MA, USA Notes in Time, Nancy Spero and Leon Golub, Fine Arts Gallery, University of Maryland Baltimore County, Cantonsville, Maryland, USA Nancy Spero and Leon Golub, Residenzgalerie, Salzburg, Österreich |
| 1994 | Nancy Spero/Leon Golub, Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, USA The First Language & The Black and The Red, Malmö Konsthal, Malmö, Sweden Nancy Spero/Leon Golub, Printworks, Chicago, USA Nancy Spero/Leon Golub, Jack Tilton Gallery, USA |
| 1993 | National Gallery of Canada, Ottowa, Canada Kunststichting Kanaal Art Foundation, Kortrijk, Belgium Golub/Spero: War and Memory, American Center, Paris, France Malmö Konsthal, Malmö, Sweden |
| 1992 | Ulmer Museum, Ulm, Germany |
| 1991 | Salzburger Kunstverein, Künstlerhaus Salzburg, Austria Barbara Gross Galerie, München, Germany Glyptothek am Königsplatz, München, Germany |
| 1990 | Haus am Waldsee, Berlin; Bonner Kunstverein, Germany (traveling exhibition) |
| 1989 | Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada |
| 1988 | New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, USA MOCA, Los Angeles, USA Barbara Gross Galerie, München, Germany |
| 1987 | Retrospective, Institute of Contemporary Art, London, Great Britain |
Group Exhibitions
| 2008 | Nancy Spero - Eylem Aladogan, 20 Years Barbara Gross Galerie, München, Germany |
| 2007 | Kiss Kiss Bang Bang 45 Years of Art and Feminism, Museo de Bellas Artes de Bilbao Unmonumental:The Object in the 21st Century, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, USA WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution, Museum of Contemporary Art, Geffen Contemporary, Los Angeles, California; PS1, New York, USA Multipley: Directions in Art, 1970 to Now, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA |
| 2006 | Whitney Biennial 2006, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA Saigon Open City, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam |
| 2005 | Persistent Vestiges. Drawing from the American-Vietnam War, The Drawing Center, New York, USA |
| 2003 | Utopia Stations, Venice Biennale, Italy |
| 2002 | Goddess, Galerie Lelong, New York, USA |
| 2001 | Reconfiguration: Works on Paper at the Yanhuang Museum, Beijing, China |
| 2000 | Open Ends:Contemporary Art from 1960-2001, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA |
| 1999 | The American Century, Art and Culture, Part II 1950-2000, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA |
| 1998 | Matrix/Berkeley: 20 Years, The University of California, Berkeley Art Museum, USA Contemporary Art: The Janet Wolfson de Botton Gift, Tate Gallery, London, Great Britain |
| 1997 | Documenta X, KasselGermany |
| 1996 | Thinking Print: Books to Billboards, 1980-95, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA Deformations: Aspects of the Modern Grotesque, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA |
| 1995 | Feminin - Masculin, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France After Hiroshima, Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Japan |
| 1994 | Kunsthallen Brandts Klaedefabrik, Odense, Denmark |
| 1990 | The Decade Show:Frameworks of Identity in the 1980"s, Museum of Contemporary Hispanic Art, New York, USA Goya to Beijing, Centre International a´Art Contemporain, Montreal,Quebec,Canada |
| 1989 | Making Their Mark: Women Artists Move into the Mainstream, 1970-85, Cincinnati Art Museum; New Orleans Museum of Art; Denver Art Museum; Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, USA |
| 1986 | Biennale Sydney, Australia bestehend-lebend-gegenwärtig, Museum Villa Stuck, München, Germany |