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1980 · Steel pipe and paint
Installation dimensions variable; Locator:: 152.4 × 30.5 × 5.1 cm (60 × 12 × 2 in.)
Art Institute of Chicago
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Nancy Holt
1938–2014
Worcester, MA, USA
PhotographyPhotographyLand Art
Representation
None documented
2
Institutional Exhibitions
2
Works in Collection
36
Assets Indexed
17
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- • Photography
- • Land Art
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A Survey: Artist's TV Lab, WNET/Thirteen
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1984–1985
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Summer Light
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1981
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Why this artist matters now
Nancy Holt worked across public sculpture, land art, installation, film, and photography, with her most commanding works operating at an architectural and environmental scale. Her practice treated light, time, and celestial alignment as primary materials, most famously in Sun Tunnels (1973-76), four large concrete cylinders positioned in the Utah desert to frame the horizon and filter sunlight through drilled apertures aligned with solstice and equinox. The work's precision and its negotiation of deep geological time against the cycles of human perception define her contribution to Land Art. Her legacy is administered by the Holt/Smithson Foundation, established in 2018.
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Tufts University
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