Nancy Grossman

(American, born 1940)

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Nancy Grossman

Potawatami, 1967

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Nancy Grossman

Snake Still-Life with Swimming Pool, 1993

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Nancy Grossman

Untitled, 1962

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Nancy Grossman

Battle-Axe, 1965

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Nancy Grossman

Purple Glass, 1966

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Nancy Grossman

Brown and Black, 1965

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Nancy Grossman

Siege-Throttler, 1966

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Nancy Grossman

Venice-Ravenflag, 1978–1982

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Nancy Grossman

Black Thundercloud Landscape, 1963

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Nancy Grossman

Seated Helmut, 1969

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Nancy Grossman

G.I.O, 1969

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Nancy Grossman

Gun Figure , 1974

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Biography

Timeline

1962
B.F.A., Pratt Institute, New York, NY
1984
National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Sculpture
1990
The Hassam, Speicher, Betts and Symons Purchase Award, The American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters
1991
Artist’s Fellowship in Sculpture, The New York Foundation for the Arts
1996 - 1997
Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant
2001
Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant
2008
Women’s Caucus for Art Lifetime Achievement Award

Exhibitions

2014
Nancy Grossman Exhibitions in 2014:
Nancy Grossman: The Edge of Always, Constructions from the 1960s, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery LLC, New York, NY (solo exhibition)
A Chromatic Loss, Bortolami Gallery, New York, NY, January 9-February 15, 2014
The Sara Roby Collection, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC
Inaugural Group Show: Gallery Artists, March Selwyn Fine Art, Beverly Hills, CA
Venus Drawn Out: 20th Century Drawings by Great Women Artists, The Armory Show Modern, New York, NY
Vintage Violence, Monya Rowe Gallery, New York, NY
New Hells, Derek Eller Gallery, New York, NY
2013
Nancy Grossman Exhibitions in 2013:
Ballet of Heads: The Figure in the Collection, Berkeley Art Museum, University of California, Berkeley, CA
Personal, Political, Mysterious, The FLAG Art Foundation, New York, NY
A New View: Contemporary Art, Saint Louis Art Museum, Saint Louis, MO
2012
Nancy Grossman Exhibitions in 2012:
Nancy Grossman: Tough Life Diary, Frances Young Tang Museum, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY (traveling retrospective)
Nancy Grossman, Marc Selwyn Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA
2011
Nancy Grossman Exhibitions in 2011:
Nancy Grossman: Heads, MoMA PS-1, New York, NY (solo exhibition)
Nancy Grossman: Combustion Scapes, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery LLC, New York, NY (solo exhibition)
From the Hand: Drawings from the Hofstra University Museum Collection, Hofstra University Museum, Hempstead, NY
Women Sculptors of the National Academy, National Academy Museum, New York, NY
Collage, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery LLC, New York, NY
2010
Nancy Grossman Exhibitions in 2010:
Visible Vagina, Francis Naumann Fine Art, New York, NY
Different Strokes: Twentieth Century Drawings, George Adams
2009
Nancy Grossman Exhibitions in 2009:
Everywhere: Politics of Sexual Diversity in Art, Centro Galego e Arte Contemporánea, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
Propose: Works on Paper from the 1970s, Alexander Gray Associates, LLC, New York, NY
Reconfiguring the Body in American Art, 1820-2009, National Academy Museum of Art, New York, NY
2008
Nancy Grossman Exhibitions in 2008:
(un)common threads, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York, NY
2007
Nancy Grossman Exhibitions in 2007:
Nancy Grossman: Drawings, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York, NY (solo exhibition)
Agents of Change: Women, Art and Intellect, Ceres Gallery, New York, NY
WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution, 1965-1980, Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA; National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington D.C.; P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York, NY; Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia
The Critic as Advocate: The Legacy of Arlene Raven, College of Staten Island, Staten Island, NY
The Third Mind, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France
2006
Nancy Grossman Exhibitions in 2006:
Skin is a Language, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Twice Drawn, The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY
Lines of Discovery, 225 Years of American Drawings, Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, GA; The Gilcrease Museum, Tulsa, OK; Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, Kalamazoo, MI; Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AR
When the Revolution Comes, Cullen Fine Arts, New York, NY
2005
Nancy Grossman Exhibitions in 2005:
Upstarts and Matriarchs: Jewish Women Artists and the Transformation of American Art, Mizel Center for Arts and Culture, Denver, CO
Contemporary Women Artists: New York, University Art Gallery, Indiana State University, Terre Haute, IL
Collage: Signs & Surfaces, Pavel Zoubok Gallery, New York, NY

Public Collections

Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA
Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, Dallas, TX
Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Frances Young Tang Museum, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY
Georgia Museum of Art, University of Georgia, Athens, GA
Hamline University, St. Paul, MN
Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
Hofstra University Museum, Hempstead, NY
National Academy Museum of Art, New York, NY

Literature

2012
Video: Artist Interview, Nancy Grossman: Tough Life Diary, Frances Young Tang Museum, Saratoga Springs, NY, 14:20
Video: Dunkerley Dialogue with Nancy Grossman and Elizabeth Streb, Frances Young Tang Museum, Saratoga Springs, NY, 50:47
Bjornland, Karen. “Nancy Grossman exhibit tells tale about intriguing heads,” Daily Gazette, Schenectady, NY, May 3, 2012 (illus)
Kane, Tim. “On exhibit: Nancy Grossman 'Tough Life Diary' at the Tang”, Times Union, Albany, NY, April 19, 2012 (illus)
The Linda Lee Alter Collection of Art by Women, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA, 2012 (illus.)
2011
Augsburg, Tanya. Man as Object: Reversing the Gaze, SOMArts Cultural Center, (San Francisco, CA: Women’s Caucus for Art) 2011, p 26 (illus.)