A Locator looking to a mirror

Nancy Holt in "10 Years LA!"

From May to August 2026, Monika Sprüth and Philomene Magers presented 1 0 Years LA!,at their Los Angeles gallery, an exhibition celebrating the gallery's decade-long presence in the city.

Since opening its doors in February 2016, the gallery has presented solo and group exhibitions debuting new works by its iconic LA-based artists, as well as major installations by artists from around the world, often bringing their work to the city for the very first time. In 2022 the solo exhibition Nancy Holt: Locating Perception brought key works by Holt to the LA gallery, including the expansive System Work Electrical System (1982) which filled the upper gallery. Earlier in 2026, the gallery hosted a screening event n conjunction with the exhibition Nancy Holt: Light and Shadow Poetics at the MAK Center for Art and Architecture at the Schindler House.

llustrating this expansive approach, 10 Years LA! filled the gallery's 10,000-square-foot space at 5900 Wilshire Boulevard with works by a wide cross-section of Sprüth Magers artists and extended to the former Sizzler restaurant at 6145 Wilshire Boulevard with an installation focusing on film and video. were two works by Nancy Holt seen in LA for the first time: in the gallery Holt’s Locator with Mirror (1972) and at Sizzler her important 1974 videowork Underscan. 

Nancy Holt, Locator with Mirror (1972)

Steel pipe, mirror

Locator: 60 x 12 x 2 in. (152 x 31 x 5 cm); mirror: 10 in. (25 cm) diameter; distance from Locator to mirror: 20 in. (50.8 cm)

© Holt/Smithson Foundation / Licensed by Artists Rights Society, New York

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Soft Network Benefit Auction

We are pleased to participate in the Soft Network Benefit Auction, open on Artsy from September 23 until October 7, 2026. The auction brings together works in support of Soft Network and the Artist Foundations and Estate Leaders List (AFELL), an international network for artists and stewards of artists’ estates and legacies. Holt/Smithson Foundation has donated two rare works of art by Nancy Holt and Robert Smithson to the auction to help further this goal. 

Nancy Holt's "Starfire" (1986) as installed at the Powder Art Foundation, Utah, 2025

“Starfire” at Powder Art Foundation Fall Open Day and Utah Museum of Fine Arts Land Art Week

On October 2, from 11 am to 3 pm, Powder Art Foundation will host a Fall Open House at Powder Mountain in Eden, Utah where Nancy Holt’s Starfire (1986) can be experienced. Starfire joined the collection of Powder Art Foundation last year. The sculpture comprises eight fire pits arranged in the configuration of the Big Dipper and the North Star, bringing the sky down to earth.

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Portuguese translation of Smithson's "Strata: A Geophotographic Fiction"

We are pleased to share our collaboration with the São Paulo–based Robert Smithson scholar and professor Antônio Ewbank and publisher Editora Ébria, presenting the first Portuguese translation of the text of Robert Smithson's Strata: A Geophotographic Fiction (1970). Strata: A Geophotographic Fiction is a four-part fold-out work created by Smithson for Aspen Magazine No. 8: The Fluxus Issue, guest edited by Dan Graham and designed by George Maciunas.