An artist and critical writer whose work is concerned with relationships between public history, individual memory, and perception.

Buzz Spector is best known for his sculptural and conceptual use of books, both as subject and object, employing stacking, tearing and reconfiguration to explore how meaning is constructed, contained and transformed through the materiality of language.

His work has been shown at the Saint Louis Art Museum, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, the Corcoran Gallery of Art and the Mattress Factory, and is represented in more than fifty museum collections. His most recent solo museum exhibition was at the Rockford Art Museum.

He co-founded WhiteWalls, a magazine of writings by artists, in Chicago in 1978 and edited it until 1987, and was art editor of december from 2013 to 2025. He is the author of The Book Maker’s Desire and Buzz Words. He received National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships in 1982, 1985 and 1991.