Buzz Spector's art has been the focus of exhibitions in such museums and galleries as the Art Institute of Chicago, Los Angeles Museum of Art, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., and the Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh, PA. His work makes frequent use of the book, both as subject and object, and is concerned with relationships between public history, individual memory and perception. Spector has published a number of artists' books and editions since the mid-1970's, including, most recently, Time Square, a limited edition book whose text is taken from a sequence of Google searches on the nature of time, published in 2007 by the artist and Pyracantha Press.

Spector was a co-founder of WhiteWalls, a magazine of writings by artists, in Chicago in 1978 and served as the publication's editor until 1987. Since then he has written extensively on topics in contemporary art and culture, and has contributed reviews and essays to a number of publications, including American Craft, Artforum, Art Issues, Dialogue, Exposure, New Art Examiner, and Visions. He is the author of The Book Maker's Desire, critical essays on topics in contemporary art and artists' books (Umbrella Editions, 1995) and numerous exhibition catalog essays.

--Timothy Van Laar, 2009