This biography from the Archives of AskART:
| Environmental artist Nancy Holt was born in Worcester, Massachusetts in 1938, receiving a degree from Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts, in 1960. She later made her residence in Calisteo, New Mexico. Using film, videotape and actual excavations of, and sculptural additions to, the soil, Holt, like her husband, earth-artist Robert Smithson, seeks to document and express her ideas about the universe.
Holt and Smithson produced a 1969 videotape "East CoastWest Coast," and a 1972 film, "Swamp." Holt continued videotapes with "Locating Z," 1972; "Zeroing In," 1973; "Going Around in Circles," 1973; "Undersea," 1974; and a film in 1975, "Pine Barrens."
A 1973, "Sun Tunnels," an earth-art work placed in northwestern Utah in the shape of an X, explored the effects of light flowing through holes, drilled to suggest the constellations, in four nine-foot diameter concrete pipes, eight-feet long.
"Dark Star Park," in the Rossyln neighborhood of Arlington, Virginia, 1979-1984, is an urban renewal project consisting of four steel pipes, two tunnels, two circular pools and five spheres the artist thinks of as fallen stars.
Other works include "Rock Rings," Western Washington University, Bellingham, 1977-1978; "Annual Ring," Federal building, Saginaw, Michigan, 1980-1981; "Star-Crossed," Miami University Art Museum, Oxford, Ohio.
Holt was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of South Florida, Tampa, and has received a Guggenheim Fellowship, five fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, and two New York Creative Artist Fellowships.
Source:
Jules and Nancy Heller
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