Nancy Holt

Biography

Nancy Holt was a pioneering American artist born in Worcester, Massachusetts in 1938. She developed her artistic language through a transformative trip to the American West with Robert Smithson and Michael Heizer in 1968, culminating in her photographic series Western Graveyards. Holt's work spanned public sculpture, installation art, concrete poetry, and land art, as well as film and photography. Her legacy is cared for by the Holt/Smithson Foundation since 2018.