Holt/Smithson Foundation is delighted that Nancy Holt (1938-2014) will be the subject of a ground-breaking exhibition at Dia Art Foundation this Fall. This dedicated exhibition is the first to focus on Holt’s room-sized light installations Holes of Light (1973) and Mirrors of Light I (1974). The exhibition at Dia:Chelsea follows Dia’s acquisitions earlier this year of Holt’s Holes of Light as well as the artist’s monumental Sun Tunnels (1973-76) in Utah’s Great Basin Desert, the first work of Land art by a woman to enter Dia’s collection. Dia’s acquisition of these landmark artworks was supported by Holt/Smithson Foundation.
Nancy Holt, Installation view, Dia:Chelsea, New York, 2018
Bill Jacobsen Studio, New York
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Nancy Holt, Installation view, Dia:Chelsea, New York, 2018
Bill Jacobsen Studio, New York
© Holt/Smithson Foundation / Licensed by Artists Rights Society, New York
Nancy Holt, Installation view, Dia:Chelsea, New York, 2018
Bill Jacobsen Studio, New York
© Holt/Smithson Foundation / Licensed by Artists Rights Society, New York
Nancy Holt, Installation view, Dia:Chelsea, New York, 2018
Bill Jacobsen Studio, New York
© Holt/Smithson Foundation / Licensed by Artists Rights Society, New York
Opening of Nancy Holt at Dia:Chelsea
Don Stahl
Opening of Nancy Holt at Dia:Chelsea
Don Stahl
Nancy Holt, Holes of Light, 1973/2018.
Installation view at Dia:Chelsea, New York
Bill Jacobsen Studio, New York
© Holt/Smithson Foundation and Dia Art Foundation / Licensed by Artists Rights Society, New York
Nancy Holt, Holes of Light, 1973/2018.
Installation view at Dia:Chelsea, New York
Bill Jacobsen Studio, New York
© Holt/Smithson Foundation and Dia Art Foundation / Licensed by Artists Rights Society, New York
Nancy Holt, Mirrors of Light I (1974)
Installation view: Dia:Chelsea, New York, 2018
Ten mirrors, 650 watt quartz light
Overall dimensions: 11 x 20 x 28 ft. (3.4 x 6.1 x 8.5 m)
Mirrors: 9 1/2 in. (24.1 cm) diameter each
Photograph: Bill Jacobson Studio, New York
© Holt/Smithson Foundation / Licensed by Artists Rights Society, New York
Nancy Holt, Mirrors of Light I (1974)
Installation view: Dia:Chelsea, New York, 2018
Ten mirrors, 650 watt quartz light
Overall dimensions: 11 x 20 x 28 ft. (3.4 x 6.1 x 8.5 m)
Mirrors: 9 1/2 in. (24.1 cm) diameter each
Photograph: Bill Jacobson Studio, New York
© Holt/Smithson Foundation / Licensed by Artists Rights Society, New York
Nancy Holt, Mirrors of Light I [detail] (1974)
Installation view: Dia:Chelsea, New York, 2018
Ten mirrors, 650 watt quartz light
Overall dimensions: 11 x 20 x 28 ft. (3.4 x 6.1 x 8.5 m)
Mirrors: 9 1/2 in. (24.1 cm) diameter each
Photograph: Bill Jacobson Studio, New York
© Holt/Smithson Foundation / Licensed by Artists Rights Society, New York
Nancy Holt, Mirrors of Light I [detail] (1974)
Installation view: Dia:Chelsea, New York, 2018
Ten mirrors, 650 watt quartz light
Overall dimensions: 11 x 20 x 28 ft. (3.4 x 6.1 x 8.5 m)
Mirrors: 9 1/2 in. (24.1 cm) diameter each
Photograph: Bill Jacobson Studio, New York
© Holt/Smithson Foundation / Licensed by Artists Rights Society, New York
Nancy Holt, Installation view, Dia:Chelsea, New York, 2018.
Bill Jacobson Studio, New York
© Holt/Smithson Foundation / Licensed by Artists Rights Society, New York
Nancy Holt, Installation view, Dia:Chelsea, New York, 2018.
Bill Jacobson Studio, New York
© Holt/Smithson Foundation / Licensed by Artists Rights Society, New York
Opening of Nancy Holt at Dia:Chelsea
Don Stahl
Opening of Nancy Holt at Dia:Chelsea
Don Stahl
Installation image of Nancy Holt at Dia:Chelsea
Don Stahl
Installation image of Nancy Holt at Dia:Chelsea
Don Stahl
Nancy Holt, Installation view, Dia:Chelsea, New York, 2018
Don Stahl
© Holt/Smithson Foundation / Licensed by Artists Rights Society, New York
Nancy Holt, Installation view, Dia:Chelsea, New York, 2018
Don Stahl
© Holt/Smithson Foundation / Licensed by Artists Rights Society, New York
Installation view of Nancy Holt, Mirrors of Light I (1974)
Dia:Chelsea, New York, 2018
Photograph: Don Stahl
© Holt/Smithson Foundation / Licensed by Artists Rights Society, New York
Installation view of Nancy Holt, Mirrors of Light I (1974)
Dia:Chelsea, New York, 2018
Photograph: Don Stahl
© Holt/Smithson Foundation / Licensed by Artists Rights Society, New York
More Exhibitions
Shadow and Light
The New Mexico Museum of Art Vladem Contemporary in Santa Fe, New Mexico launches this month.
Nancy Holt: Circles of Light
Four Decades of Experiments with Sounds, Images, and Objects
Holt/Smithson Foundation and Gropius Bau are pleased to announce the most comprehensive presentation of Nancy Holt in Germany to date. Nancy Holt (1938–2014) reframed art’s capacity to engage with essential questions surrounding nature, ecology and the perception of our environment. Over five decades, her pivotal work encompassed text, poetry, audio, photography, film and video and land art. She consistently experimented with sound, image, and the very nature of objects to redraw the boundaries of what art can be and where it can be found.