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Nancy Holt and Robert Smithson, Swamp [excerpt] (1971)
16 mm film 
Color, sound
Duration: 6 minutes

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Distributed by Electronic Arts Intermix, New York


THE FOUNDATION

Holt/Smithson Foundation exists to continue the creative and investigative
spirit of the artists Nancy Holt (1938-2014) and Robert Smithson (1938-73).

Holt and Smithson developed innovative ways of exploring our relationship with
the planet, expanding the limits of artistic practice. Through public service
their Foundation engages in programs developing the artists' creative legacies,
continuing the transformation they brought to the world of art and ideas.

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Sun Tunnels
Nancy Holt


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Nancy Holt


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Up and Under
Nancy Holt


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Spiral Jetty
Robert Smithson


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Amarillo Ramp
Robert Smithson


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Partially Buried Woodshed
Robert Smithson


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Broken Circle/Spiral Hill
Robert Smithson


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Upside Down Tree II
Robert Smithson


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Stone Enclosure: Rock Rings
Nancy Holt


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Sky Mound
Nancy Holt


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Bingham Copper Mining Pit—Utah / Reclamation Project
Robert Smithson


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30 Below
Nancy Holt


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Nancy Holt


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Robert Smithson


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Nancy Holt


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   Sun Tunnels
   1973-76
   Great Basin Desert, Utah
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   Pine Barrens
   1975
   Pine Barrens, New Jersey
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   Up and Under
   1987-98
   Pinsiö, Finland
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   Stone Enclosure: Rock Rings
   1977-78
   Western Washington University
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   Sky Mound
   1984—
   I-A Landfill, Hackensack Meadowlands, New Jersey, USA
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   30 Below
   1979
   Commissioned for the 1980 Winter Olympics, Lake Placid, New York, USA
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   Pipeline
   1986
   Visual Arts Center of Alaska, Anchorage [permanently closed, 1992]
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   Pipeline II
   1986
   Fairbanks Arts Association, Fairbanks, Alaska
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   Alaskan Pines
   1986
   Southcentral Alaska
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   Time Span
   1981
   The Contemporary Austin, Laguna Gloria, Austin, Texas⁠
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   Dark Star Park
   1979-84
   Rosslyn, Arlington County, Virginia

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   Spiral Jetty
   1970
   Great Salt Lake, Utah
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   Amarillo Ramp
   1973
   Lake Tecovas, Amarillo, Texas
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   Partially Buried Woodshed
   1970
   Kent State University, Kent, Ohio, USA
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   Broken Circle/Spiral Hill
   1971
   Emmen, The Netherlands
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   Upside Down Tree II
   1969
   Captiva Island, Florida, USA
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   Bingham Copper Mining Pit—Utah / Reclamation Project
   1973
   Bingham Canyon Copper Mine, Utah, USA
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   Hypothetical Continent in Shells: Lemuria
   1969
   Sanibel Island, Florida

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BIOGRAPHIES

NANCY HOLT

1938—2014

Nancy Holt (April 5, 1938 – February 8, 2014) was a member of the earth, land,
and conceptual art movements. A pioneer of site-specific installation and the
moving image, Holt recalibrated the limits of art. She expanded the places where
art could be found and embraced the new media of her time. Across five decades
she asked questions about how we might understand our place in the world,
investigating perception, systems, and place.

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Nancy Holt
ROBERT SMITHSON

1938—1973

For over fifty years, Robert Smithson's work and ideas have influenced artists
and thinkers, building the ground from which contemporary art has grown. Born in
New Jersey in 1938, Smithson' early interests in cartography, geology,
prehistory, philosophy, science-fiction, and language spiral through his work.
From his landmark earthworks to his “quasi-minimalist” sculptures, Nonsites,
writings, proposals, collages, drawings, and radical rethinking of
landscape, Smithson's ideas are profoundly urgent for our times. 

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Robert Smithson
Year: 1961

Smithson at the Colosseum in Rome, in 1961. This photograph was taken during
Smithson's first visit to Rome when George Lester offered him his first solo
international exhibition at Galleria George Lester, where he explored
quasi-religious subject matter. 

Year: 1962

An exhibition poster for Robert Smithson's 1962 solo exhibition at Richard
Castellane Gallery,  New York, NY. This was the first of Smithson's two solo
exhibitions with Castellane Gallery in 1962.

 24 x 18 in. (61 x46 cm.)

Year: 1963

Nancy Holt and Robert Smithson marry in New York on June 8, 1963.  This
photograph of them was taken on Christmas, 1963.

Year: 1968

Nancy Holt visits the American West for the first time with Smithson and Michael
Heizer. Shoots film Mono Lake with Smithson and Heizer at California’s Mono
Lake.

Photo: Michael Heizer

Year: 1969

Robert Rauschenberg helps Smithson drag a tree out of the water and onto the
beach on Captiva Island, Florida, in order to create Smithson's Upside Down Tree
II.

Year: 1973

Nancy Holt first presents her installation work Holes of Light in a solo
exhibition at the LoGiudice Gallery.

Year: 1973

While photographing Amarillo Ramp, Smithson dies in a small airplane accident,
along with pilot Gale Ray Rogers and photographer Robert E. Curtin. Richard
Serra, Nancy Holt, and Tony Shafrazi complete Amarillo Ramp one month after his
passing.

Year: 1976

Holt completes construction of her most discussed work, Sun Tunnels in Utah’s
Great Basin Desert.  

Year: 1978

Working with Professor Lawrence Hanson and stonemason Al Poynter among others,
Holt constructs Stone Enclosure: Rock Rings at Western Washington University in
Bellingham, Washington.

Year: 1982

Holt constructs and exhibits her first Electrical System works: Electrical
System (For Thomas Edison) and Electrical System II: Bellman Circuit [pictured].

Year: 1995

Nancy Holt moves to Galisteo, New Mexico.

Photo: Lucy Lippard, 1998

Year: 1998

Holt completes a major earthwork in Nokia, Finland titled Up and Under. 



Nancy Holt, Up and Under (1987-98)

Location: Pinsiö, Finland

Materials: sand, concrete, topsoil, grass, water

Overall surface area: 14 acres (5.7 hectares)

Mound: height ranges from 11 to 26 ft. (3.5 to 8 m), with a length of 630 ft.
(192 m)

Tunnels: length 241 ft. (74 m), with a diameter of 10 ft. (3 m)

Orientation: using the North Star as true North, the tunnels are on north-south
and east-west axes

© Holt/Smithson Foundation/licensed by VAGA at ARS, New York

Year: 2010

From 2010 through 2012 the retrospective exhibition Nancy Holt: Sightlines
(curated by Alena J. Williams) travels from the Wallach Art Gallery, Columbia
University to Badischer Kunstverein in Karlsruhe, Tufts University Art Gallery
in Boston, the Graham Foundation in Chicago, Santa Fe Arts Institute, and the
Utah Museum of Fine Arts in Salt Lake City.

Photograph: Stephan Baumann

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ANNOUNCEMENTS


NANCY HOLT: LOCATING PERCEPTION

Oct 28 – Jan 14, 2022
Solo Exhibition

Public Reception: October 28, 2022, 6–8pm

Sprüth Magers, Los Angeles
https://spruethmagers.com/exhibitions/upcoming/

Holt/Smithson Foundation is pleased to announce that Nancy Holt: Locating
Perception launches at Sprüth Magers, Los Angeles on October 28, showing
through to January 14, 2023. This is the first exhibition of Nancy Holt
(1938–2014) at the Los Angeles gallery. Three major photographic series, a
room-sized installation, an audio-work, and a selection of her Locator
sculptures fill two floors of the LA gallery.




TUESDAY TEXTS: CHAPTER FOUR

October 12, 2022

We are happy to announce that throughout October we will be publishing a fourth
chapter of our Tuesday Text Series as part of our ongoing Scholarly Text
Program, which invites thinkers to focus on a single artwork by Holt and/or
Smithson.

Every Tuesday we will publish a text to our website that includes images
selected by the author, a short bibliography, citation reference, and endnotes
pointing to the author’s references.


HUMPTY \ DUMPTY

Oct 19, 2022 – Jan 8, 2023
Group Exhibition
Palais de Tokyo
https://palaisdetokyo.com/en/exposition/humpty-dumpty/

On October 19, 2022 the Palais de Tokyo and Lafayette Anticipations present the
two-part exhibition Humpty \ Dumpty, a project by artist Cyprien Gaillard.


NANCY HOLT / INSIDE OUTSIDE

Jun 18, 2022 – Feb 12, 2023
Solo Exhibition
Bildmuseet
https://www.bildmuseet.umu.se/en/exhibitions/2022/nancy-holt/

We are very pleased to announce the exhibition Nancy Holt / Inside Outside
launches this June, produced by Bildmuseet, one of Sweden’s foremost
contemporary art venues. The exhibition explores the artist’s rich artistic
legacy through a selection of works spanning 1967 to 1992. This is the most
ambitious exhibition of her work to date. Perceptions and demarcations of being
"inside" and "outside" guide this survey exhibition.


FIRST ANNUAL HOLT/SMITHSON FOUNDATION LECTURE

September 22, 2022

We are very pleased to announce the first in a ten-year series of Annual
Lectures, a new Holt/Smithson Foundation program that invites artists, writers,
and thinkers to extend the creative legacies of Nancy Holt and Robert Smithson.




2022 RESEARCH FELLOW: MARGO HANDWERKER

September 22, 2022

We are delighted to announce our second 2022 Holt/Smithson Foundation Research
Fellowship awardee: Margo Handwerker. 

Margo Handwerker is Chief Curator and Director of the Texas State Galleries at
Texas State University. Handwerker holds a Ph.D. from the School of Architecture
at Princeton University and a Masters in Art History, Theory, and Criticism from
the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She is a member of M12 STUDIO, a
group of artists, researchers, and writers collectively based in Big Springs,
Nebraska.


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