Nancy Spector, Deputy Director of the Brooklyn Museum of Art, NY, is renowned for championing living artists, working to advocate for experimental programming, diverse representation, and exponential collection growth. 

Spector’s critically lauded exhibitions include Rebecca Horn: The Inferno-Paradiso-Switch (with Germano Celant, 1992); Felix Gonzalez-Torres (1995); Robert Rauschenberg: Performance (1997); Sugimoto: Portraits (2001); Matthew Barney’s The CREMASTER Cycle (2002–03); Richard Prince: Spiritual America (2007); Louise Bourgeois (with Tate Modern and Centre Georges Pompidou, 2008); theanyspacewhatever (2009); Tino Sehgal (2010); Maurizio Cattelan: All (2011-12); Gabriel Orozco: Asterisms (2012–13); Fischli and Weiss: How to Work Better (2015) and Artistic License: Six Takes on the Guggenheim Collection (with Cai Guo Qiang, Paul Chan, Jenny Holzer, Julie Mehretu, Richard Prince, and Carrie Mae Weems, 2019). In 2007 she served as the U.S. Commissioner for the Venice Biennale, where she presented an exhibition of work by Felix Gonzalez-Torres. In 1998, she co-curated the first Berlin Biennial (with Klaus Biesenbach and Hans-Ulrich Obrist).

She also led corporate collaborations such as the Guggenheim UBS MAP Global Arts Initiative, YouTube Play: A Biennial of Creative Video, and the BMW Guggenheim Lab. Spector is a recipient of the Peter Norton Family Foundation Curators Award and five International Art Critics Association Awards. In 2014, she was included in the 40 Women Over 40 to Watch list. She was awarded an Honorary Degree from Pratt Institute in 2019.

​She currently serves as a Fellow at the Felix Gonzalez-Torres Foundation, is an International Artistic Advisor for the Louis Vuitton Fondation in Paris, and is a member of the Scientific Committee for Mudam, the Contemporary Art Museum of Luxembourg.