[1] Born in Chicago in 1948, he received his Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) from Southern Illinois University at Carbondale in 1972.
[4][5] In his art practice, Spector uses the book both as both subject and object, and he focuses on the relationship between public history, individual memory, and perception.
Echoing the shape and layout of Kazimir Malevich's 1915 Suprematist Composition (with Eight Red Rectangles), eight books are displayed on the ground.
"[7] In 1988, he held his first solo exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago: The Library of Babel, an installation.
[2] Unfinished Business (2020-2021) was a group show at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago which featured works by Alexander Calder, Charlotte Posenenske, Gedi Sibony, Jesús Rafael Soto, Buzz Spector, Daniel Spoerri, and Rosemarie Trockel.
[10] Curated by Gretchen L. Wagner, the show also focused on Spector's torn paper works, where he methodically tears pages of books.