Nancy Goldring

Nancy Goldring (born January 25, 1945) is an American artist. Her art practice combines graphic, photographic, and projected material, presented as a non-narrative series of images that she calls "foto-projections." Goldring currently lives and works in New York City, and is a professor at Montclair State University.

Goldring grew up in University City, Missouri. She was educated at University City High School, received a BA in Art History at Smith College, and an MA in Fine Art at NYU. She received her first Fulbright Grant to Italy immediately following Smith College.

While a graduate student, she was a co-founder of Sculpture in the Environment (SITE), an organization of artists dedicated to developing public art projects.After leaving SITE she began developing her own work, and continued to write about public sculpture. Together with architects Michael Webb of Archigram and Giuliano Fiorenzoli she collaborated on an exhibition, Image of the Home at the Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies in New York City.

Goldring's work incorporates drawing, paper models, photography, and slide projection. Photos are layered like collages and eventually flattened into a final image, evocative of layers of archeological excavation.There is a focus on travel and memory and the final pieces are sometimes shown as large slide projection installations.

Her archive is held by the Smithsonian Institution.

Nancy Goldring has worked on numerous collaborations including:

• SITE
• Image of the Homewith Giuliano Fiorenzoli, and Michael Webb
• Aureola with Juan Downey, Giuliano Fiorenzoli, and Michael Webb
• Stage set design with Ze'Eva Cohen, "Ode"

Nancy Goldring's work has been shown primarily in the USA, but she has also exhibited in countries such as Italy, India, Japan, Sweden and Czech Republic. A selection of notable individual exhibitions includes:

• Projections: Place without Description, Devi Art Foundation, Sarai Center for Developing Studies, Delhi, 2012-2013
• Palinsesto, Palazzo Pigorini, Parma, Italy, 2005, catalog with essays by David Levi Strauss
• Legend, Lyman Allen Museum, New London, CT, 2002
• Sites and Sets, Baruch College, New York, 2001
• Distillations, Southeast Museum of Photography, Daytona Beach, FL, 2000
• Foto-Projections, Hampshire College, Amherst, MA, 1993
• Images of Myanmar: Inle Lake and Pagan, Arts for Transit, sponsored by MTA, Grand Central Station, New York, 1992
• Studio on Stromboli, Mississippi Museum of Art, The Open Gallery, Jackson, MS, 1983
• Drawings with Foto-Projections, The Herzliya Museum, The American Cultural Center of Tel Aviv, 1981-1983
• Trepidation of the Spheres: Drawings with Foto-Projections, Camera Club, New York, 1981
• Drawings with Foto-Projections, SOHO 20, New York,1980
• Nancy Goldring: Drawings, Comfort Gallery, Haverford College, Haverford, PA, 1976

Goldring has also participated in a large number of group exhibitions, including:

• Classical Mythology in Modern and Contemporary Art, William Benton Museum of Art, CT, 2012
• Everywhere/Nowhere, The Spiritual Temperament in Current American Art, Siri Fort Auditorium, New Delhi, India, 2009
• New York New York, Smith College Museum of Art, 2005
• Waking Dreams, University of Virginia Art Museum, Charlottesville, VA, 2004
• Fresh Work 2, Southeast Museum of Photography, Daytona Beach, FL, 1998
• New in the Nineties, Katonah Museum, Katonah, NY, 1996
• Ellis Island: Echoes From a Nation's Past, Aperture Foundation, New York, 1989;Palazzo Cini, Ferrara, Italy, 1993
• Sequence (Con) Sequence, Bard College, Annandale on Hudson, New York,1989.
• Photography of Invention: Pictures of the Eighties, National Museum of American Art, Washington D.C., 1989
• Photography on the Edge, Haggarty Museum of Art, Milwaukee, WI, 1988

Goldring's work can be found in more than 30 public collections around the world, including:

• School of Nite, Peter Lamborn Wilson and Nancy Goldring (Spuyten Duyvil Press: Jan 2016)
• Nancy Goldring: Punti di fuga, altri paesaggi, Nancy Goldring, Paolo Barbaro, Michael Taussig, and Carlo Vannicola (Il Geko Edizioni, 2012)
• Palimpsest: fotografie di Nancy Goldring, Nancy Goldring, David Levi Strauss, Paolo Barbaro (Gabriele Mazzotta, 2005)
• Distillations, Nancy Goldring, Alison Divine Nordstrom, and Ellen Handy,(Southeast Museum of Photography, Daytona Beach Community College, 2000)

Goldring has been the recipient of awards and grants from such institutions as the Joan Mitchell Foundation, the American Institute of Architecture, New York Foundation for the Arts, New York State Council on the Arts, and the Santa Fe Art Institute. She has received multiple Fulbright Awards to Italy, Sri Lanka, and India, as well as awards from Montclair State University.