2008 Women’s Art: Women’s Vision Honoree, National Women's History Project
2001 Artists Space, 2001 Spring Benefit Honoree
1997 Cityarts, New York, 29th annual award (jointly with Leon Golub)
1996 The 1996 Printmaker Emerita Award, West Virginia University
Hiroshima Art Prize, Hiroshima Museum of Contemporary Art and Hiroshima City, Japan
1995 NARAL/New York Pro Choice Media
Skowhegan Medal for Works on Paper
1991 Honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago
1990 Touring exhibition
1987 First retrospective exhibition Institute of Contemporary Arts, London
1978-77 National Endowment for the Arts Grant
1977-76 CAPS Fellowship, New York State Council on the Arts
1971 Founding member of the A.I.R. Gallery, New York, NY
1962 First solo exhibition, Paris, France
1951 Marries Leon Golub, New York, NY
1950-1949 Education Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Paris, France
1949-1945 Bachelor of Fine Arts School of the Art Institute of Chicago
1945-1944 University of Colorado, Boulder
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2009 “The Woman as Protagonist, Herbert-Boeckl-Preis for International Painting, Museum der Moderne Salzburg, Austria
“Un Coup de Dent,” Galerie Lelong, New York, New York (solo)
“What’s the Word: Words and Symbols from the Lyman Allyn Art Museum,” Lyman Allyn Art Museum, New London, Connecticut
2008 “Nancy Spero,” Anthony Reynolds Gallery, London, Englandn (solo)
“Dissidances,” Museo d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain; Traveled to MuseoNacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain, Centro
Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo, Seville, Spain (solo)
“Reflections,” Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
“Close Encounters: Facing the Future,” American University Museum, Washington D.C.
“Women of a Certain Age and Beyond,” Gallery of Contemporary Art, Sacred Heart University, Fairfield, Connecticut
“Collage: The Unmonumental Picture,” The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, New York
“Spero Speaks”, de Appel Arts Centre, Amsterdam (solo)
Selected works by gallery artists, Anthony Reynolds Gallery, London
Museu d`Art Contemporani de Barcelona (MACBA), Barcelona (solo)
2007 Multiplex: Directions in Art, 1970 to Now, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
“Unmonumental: The Object In The 21st Century, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, Inaugural exhibition, New York
27th Biennial of Graphic Arts, Centre of Graphic Arts, Lubljana, Slovenia
“WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution,” Geffen Center, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA; Traveled through 2008 to National Museum of
Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C.; Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada; P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, NY
“Think with the Senses – Feel with the Mind. Art in the Present Tense,” 52nd International Art Exhibition, Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
“New Hangings of the Modern Collection,” Musée National d'art Moderne Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
“Nancy Spero: The Paris Black Paintings,” Galerie Lelong, Paris, France
“Nancy Spero: Artaud Paintings and Codex Artaud,” Frac Haute-Normandie, Sotteville-lès-Rouen, France
“After the Revolution: Women Who Transformed Contemporary Art,” Dorsky Gallery, Long Island City, New York
2006 "Twice Drawn,” Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery, Saratoga Springs, New York
“Nancy Spero,” Francosoffiantino Artecontemporanea, Torino, IT
2005 “Cri du Coeur,” Galerie Lelong, New York
“Tattoo,” Overtones, Los Angeles, California
“Along the Way: MTA Arts For Transit, Celebrating 20 Years of Public Art”, UBS Gallery, New York, NY
“Persistent Vestiges: Drawing from the American-Vietnam War, “ Drawing Center, New York
“Three Cities Against the Wall,” ABC No Rio, New York
“Drawn to Cleveland,” Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland, New York
“Atomica: Making the Invisible Visible,” Lombard-Freid Fine Arts & Esso Gallery, New York
“Toward the Future: Through the Eyes of the Artists Awarded the Hiroshima Art Prize,” Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan
2004 ”The War Series”, Galerie Lelong, Paris, France
“Esprit,” Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Paris, France
“Weighing the Heart Against a Feather of Truth,” Centro Galego de Arte Contemporanea, Santiago de Compostela, Spain (retrospective)
2003 “The War Series,” Galerie Lelong, New York
“Other Worlds”, with Kiki Smith, Baltic Mill Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, England
2002 “Nancy Spero: A Continuous Present, Kunsthalle zu Kiel, Kiel, Germany
“Azur,” Galerie Lelong, New York
2001 Barbara Gross Galerie, Munich, Germany
Vancouver Art Gallery, Canada
“Codex Artaud,” University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth; traveling through 2004 to several venues, organized by Pamela Auchincloss
2001-00 “Open Ends: Contemporary Art from 1960 - 2001' The Museum of Modern Art, New York
'Kwangju Biennale 2000' Art and Human Rights Section, Korea
“The Perpetual Well: Contemporary Art from the Collection of the Jewish Museum” Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, University of Florida, Gainesville
“Lovers XV”, 1961, Oil on canvas, 45.5 x 54”