[11][10][12] In the early 1970s, she was a member of Art Workers Coalition and Women Artists in Revolution (WAR), along with Nancy Spero, Leon Golub, Cindy Nemser, and Lucy Lippard.
[15] For her second solo show at SOHO 20, Nemec painted the gallery's 50-foot wall orange and covered it with orange paper, pencil and xerox self-portraits, stuffed dolls with her own face, and fabric silhouettes, as “a recording of the artist’s life (real or imaginary) and an exercise in self-searching.
As she explained to Grace Glueck of the New York Times, "We've felt from the beginning that the idea of the Whitney Biennial as an overview of American art was a very limited concept.
[18] In 1999, she became the part-time director of Viridian Artists,[1] an artist-owned gallery in the Chelsea district of New York City.
[25][26] Her performances include audio projects for Tellus Audio Cassette Magazine, work with Linda Montano,[27] gallery appearances,[28][29] guerrilla performances,[6] and appearances in large venues, such as Judson Church, as part of a series of programs curated by Movement Research.