Exhibition Files
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Spero, Nancy, 1926-2009
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content: Nancy Spero papers
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 3.3 Linear Feet (Boxes 6-9, 27, OV 28)
label: Extent
content: 1.5 Gigabytes (ER09-ER10, ER14, ER17)
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1976-2009
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.spernanc, Series 5
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
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content: Gigabytes
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: Exhibition files were originally housed in the Subject Files series but files relating solely to single exhibitions have been rearranged separately here to facilitate access. Files are arranged chronologically by date of exhibition. Additional records relating to exhibitions can be found in Series 2, Series 6, and Series 7.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Exhibition files span Spero's career from the 1976 exhibition of her work Torture of Women at A.I.R. Gallery to the final exhibitions of her work during her lifetime in 2009, documenting over 75 solo and group exhibitions and illustrating the extent of Spero's international reputation. Files may include correspondence and details of exhibition planning logistics, loan documentation, photographs of installations, and printed material including digital and video recordings. 

The series includes documentation of the 51st and 52nd Venice Biennales, extensive records of the major 2008 retrospective at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía and Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona (MACBA), Nancy Spero: Dissidances, other exhibitions throughout Europe, Canada, and the United States, and the joint exhibition with Leon Golub, War and Memory (1994-1995).