Nancy Holt

Sep 15, 2018 – Mar 9, 2019

Solo Exhibition

Installation view of Nancy Holt's work Holes of Light installed at Dia:Chelsea

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

Installation showing architecture of Dia:Chelsea and Nancy Holt's piece Holes of Light in the background

Nancy Holt, Installation view, Dia:Chelsea, New York, 2018

Bill Jacobsen Studio, New York

Nancy Holt, Installation view, Dia:Chelsea, New York, 2018

Bill Jacobsen Studio, New York

Installation of Nancy Holt's work at Dia:Chelsea showing two locators and holes of light in the background.

Nancy Holt, Installation view, Dia:Chelsea, New York, 2018

Bill Jacobsen Studio, 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

Light hitting a wall in the middle of a room, with holes cut in the wall to allow circles of light to be cast on the back wall.

Nancy Holt, Holes of Light, 1973/2018.

Installation view at Dia:Chelsea, New York

Bill Jacobsen Studio, 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

Room with white walls and concrete floor. Light on right wall. 10 circular small mirrors on the back wall. Circular light reflections from the mirrors on the left wall.

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

Two white walls meeting a white ceiling with three small round mirrors on the right side and reflected circular light on the left side.

Nancy Holt, Installation view, Dia:Chelsea, New York, 2018.

Bill Jacobson Studio, New York

Person looking through one of Nancy Holt's Locators toward a window.

Nancy Holt, Installation view, Dia:Chelsea, New York, 2018.

Bill Jacobson Studio, 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

A detailed image of one of Nancy Holt's locators, which are metal pipes with circular openings.

Installation image of Nancy Holt at Dia:Chelsea

Don Stahl

Nancy Holt, Installation view, Dia:Chelsea, New York, 2018

Don Stahl

Woman looking at black circle painted on brick wall as part of Dual Locators.

Nancy Holt, Installation view, Dia:Chelsea, New York, 2018

Don Stahl

Installation view of Nancy Holt, Mirrors of Light I (1974)
Dia:Chelsea, New York, 2018
Photograph: Don Stahl

Woman looking at small circular mirrors on wall as part of Mirrors of Light I.

Installation view of Nancy Holt, Mirrors of Light I (1974)
Dia:Chelsea, New York, 2018
Photograph: Don Stahl

More Exhibitions

looking through Nancy Holt's Locator at the Art Institute of Chicago

Nancy Holt: Seeing in the Round

Oct 5, 2024 – Apr 20, 2025

Solo Exhibition

Bluhm Family Terrace

The Art Institute of Chicago

https://www.artic.edu/exhibitions/10488/nancy-holt-seeing-in-the-round

From October 5, 2024 until April 20, 2025 a focused presentation of Nancy Holt’s Locators takes place at the Art Institute of Chicago, on the Bluhm Family Terrace.

A black metal pipe with a horizontal top is pointing directly at a black circle painted on the wall

Shifting Landscapes

Nov 1, 2024 – Jan 1, 2026

Group Exhibition

Whitney Museum of American Art

https://whitney.org/exhibitions/shifting-landscapes

Nancy Holt's Locator (Studio Corner) from 1971 is on view in the exhibition Shifting Landscapes at the Whitney Museum of American Art. This marks the first time the work has been installed since the work entered the collection of the Whitney in 2006.

Nancy Holt's pipeline outside of the Wexner Center for the Arts

Nancy Holt: Power Systems

Feb 7 – Jun 29, 2025

Solo Exhibition

Wexner Center for the Arts

https://wexarts.org/exhibitions/nancy-holt-power-systems

Nancy Holt: Power Systems at the Wexner Center for the Arts features the most extensive inquiry to date into Nancy Holt's studies of systems, focusing on her interactive site-responsive sculptural installations that expose the basic technological systems found in the built environment.

Circular white grommets arranged in a circle on white foamcore

Know

Apr 12 – May 17, 2025

Group Exhibition

Bodenrader

https://www.bodenrader.com/know

Nancy Holt's 1969 concrete poem Hammond and her 1973 grommet work Untitled are on view in the exhibition Know at Bodenrader, in Chicago, Illinois. On view alongside with these two works by Holt is a hand-bound artist book by Hanne Darboven from the collection of Holt/Smithson Foundation.