Born in 1926, Cleveland, Ohio. She lives and works in New York.

Nancy Spero's art attempts to establish a connection between the separate worlds of sacred and profane, the archetype of the individual, the old and the contemporary with the use of archaic and pictographic elements in the role of decorative motive of current shapes and colours. In her works the female figure always takes on a prominent position turning into the expression of a poetic, which tends to claim the central role of woman in History.