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Holly Holmes
1155 Lyman Ave, Oak Park, IL 60304
773-470-7915 | http://hollyholmes.xyz | hollyholmesb@gmail.com
EDUCATION
Master of Fine Arts, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC), Chicago IL, 2011.
Sculpture
Bachelor of Fine Arts, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale (SIUC), Carbondale IL, 2000
Painting
Selected SOLO EXHIBITIONS
Findings, Burt Green Gallery, Chicago, Il. Jan.- March 2025
Reverberations, Epiphany Arts Center, Chicago Il, Nov - Jan
Companions Riverside Art Centers, Riverside, Il Sept. 2024
Secret Garden, Ohklahomo Gallery, Chicago Il, June - Aug. 2024
Resonant Spaces, Material Exhibitions, Chicago, IL, 2023
All Thou Lost, Bring It Too Day, Compound Yellow, Oak Park, Illinois 2020
Transcription, Terrain Exhibitions, Oak Park, IL 2012
Distress, GARDENfresh, Chicago, IL 2008
Bucket Rider Gallery, Chicago, Il, 2003
Everything, Everything, Everything, Jinx Cafe Chicago, IL 2002
SELECTED TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS
Gallery Andreas, Stamford, CT ( Up Coming, Spring 2026)
Through the Looking Glass, Cultural Center Window, Chicago Il. 2025
Copy Shop, University Illinois, Springfield Il (with Tom Burtonwood) 2014
Dialogues on The New Plastic, Fire Cat, Chicago, Il, (with Tom Burtonwood) 2014
Multiplicity, Oak Park Public Library, IL (with Tom Burtonwood) 2011
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2025 Her Space, Heaven Gallery, Chicago Il (Sept - Nov.)
Expo Chicago, Bert Green Gallery, Navy Pier, Chicago Il
Videokaffe, Galerie Herold, c/o Güterbahnhof Bremen, Bremen, GER
SHAT Summer Open, Curator: Ruth Heaton, SHAT Visual Arts Gallery, Skelmanthorpe, UK
2024 VideoKaffe, Art House Turku, Finland
England is a Forest, curated Small Works Art Gallery at Sluice, Colchester, UK.
2023 VideoKaffe, Seemannsgarn. MOM, Art Space, Hamburg, Germany
Fuzz,, Purple Window Gallery, Chicago, Il
Art Community | Design Culture, Faculty Show, Columbia College, Chicago, Il
Meta Space Opening Exhibition, Online, Liverpool, England
VideoKaffe, MUU HELSINKI, Contemporary Art Centre, Helsinki, Finnland
2022 Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, Design Museum of Chicago, Chicago, Il.
Small Works, McGing’s, Westport, Ireland
2021 Rokko Meets the Art Festival, Kobe, Japan
Nomad, Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA.
2020 Rokko Meets the Art Festival, Kobe, Japan
Art in Place, Oak Park, Il
Videokaffe, Sign Gallery, Netherlands
Mail Art, Lawrence and Clark, Mail Art, Chicago, Il
Slowly with Care, Dominican University, River Forest, Il
Shades of Clay, Kunthius, Contemporary Art Gallery, Crayke, UK
Public Collections
City of Nackka, Stockholm, Sweden
Leaf House, Turku, Finland
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago Il
America Online Artists Program, New York, NY
RESIDENCIES
Kaleidoscope, project with See Saw Seeds and Videokaffe, Turku Finland, 2024
MOM, Art Space, with Videokaffe, Hamburg, Germany (Dec.23)
Nacka Joshua Tree, Videokaffe visiting artist, Turku, Finland, 2019
Harold Arts, Chesterhill, OH, 2011
Open Studio, Chicago, IL, 2006
SELECTED Professional EXPERIENCE
Co-Curator, Her Space, Heaven Gallery, Chicago Il, 2025
Founding Board Member, Terrain Exhibitions, IL, 2018 - 2024
Co-Organized successive Terrain Biennials 2019, 2021 and 2023
Served on both Programming and Operations committees
Co-Director, What It Is, Oak Park, IL, 2009 – 2014
Curated exhibitions, install art works, promote projects, work with artists to develop concepts
Published catalogues and presented artist projects at art fairs around the country