Exhibit | Nancy Lee Katz: A Private Pantheon | Part 1
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Nancy Lee Katz: A Private Pantheon (https://magnes.berkeley.edu/exhibitions/nancy-lee-katz-a-private-pantheon/) explores the artist's decades-long effort to photograph artists, writers, musicians, and thinkers she admired, including Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Stephen Sondheim, Maya Lin, Roy Lichtenstein, and Seiji Ozawa. Created in the intimate environments of personal studios and workplaces, these 133 portraits look behind public accolades to reveal a quiet, private presence. Unfolding in two parts (fall and spring), the exhibition presents, for the first time, the entirety of Katz's Pantheon. Part 1 | Sep 2 - Dec 17, 2026 Part 2 | Jan 19 - May 13, 2027Nancy Lee Katz (1947–2018) was a prolific photographer who spent her life documenting people and places. Katz was born to a Jewish family in Los Angeles and traveled extensively in her youth, exploring Europe and Morocco before beginning work as an assistant film editor and still photographer. From 1986 to 2010, she created a remark
