Artworks

Artwork categories NH

A series of twenty photographs captured along the high moor of Dartmoor National Park in Britain. Each photograph featuring an orange mark painted onto each stone marker.

1966—1969

black background with a black and white circle in the center that displays a cracked window.

1970—1972

A circular pool of water reflecting a blue sky.

1973—1976

Nancy Holt's Star-Crossed made of two large intersecting concrete tunnels

1977—1980

a concrete and metal sculpture of an undulating wall and circular steel inset into the wall

1981—1983

Nancy Holt's sculpture Electrical Lighting for Reading Room made of lightbulbs and conduit along three walls

1984—2014

Featured Works

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

Nancy Holt

1972

a sculpture made of hot water piping

Nancy Holt

1984-85

a vertical steel pole with a horizontal viewing pipe directed at a black circle painted in the corner of a room

Locator (Studio Corner)

Nancy Holt

1971

Shared studio space in Nancy Holt and Robert Smithson's loft in New York City

A view through Holt's P.S.1 LOcator

Nancy Holt

1980

two people looking through sculptural seeing devices at black circular shapes painted on a white wall

Locators with Loci

Nancy Holt

1972

a large puddle with cars parked beside it on the right side and a row of evergreen trees in the background

Nancy Holt

1969

Miami, Florida

firepits installed in the ground in the shape of the Big Dipper

Nancy Holt

1986

Anchorage, Alaska

a collage of six polaroid images of cardboard tubes that are affixed to a sheet of paper

Sun Tunnels photo study collages

Nancy Holt

ca. 1975

A composite of 30 images showing shifting shadows inside one of Nancy Holt's Sun Tunnels

Sun Tunnels: Shifting Shadows

Nancy Holt

1976

a football player running to the right

Nancy Holt

1985

An artist book depicting images of football paired with text

Time Outs [Artist's Book]

Nancy Holt

1985

Visual Studies Workshop

Circular white grommets arranged in a circle on white foamcore

Nancy Holt

ca. 1973

white circular grommets through foamcore arranged in a diagonal line

Nancy Holt

ca. 1973

a circular view of a beach and ocean

Views through a Sand Dune

Nancy Holt

1972

Narragansett Beach, Rhode Island

a composite image showing four views of the earthwork Views through a Sand Dune by Nancy Holt

Views through a Sand Dune [photowork]

Nancy Holt

1972

four wooden pillars sticking out of the earth with mountains in the background

Western Graveyards

Nancy Holt

1968