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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 Center for the Arts, Chicago, Il Nov. 24 -Jan. 25
• 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
• Everything, Everything, Everything, Jinx Cafe Chicago, IL 2002
SELECTED TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS
• 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
• 2024 VideoKaffe, Art House Turku, Finland
• England is a Forest, curated Small Works Art Gallery at Sluice, Colchester, UK.
• 2023 VideoKaffe, 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
• 2019 Sightings of Morgawr, Fish Factory, Cornwell, UK
• ARISING: A CALL, The Blenheim Walk Gallery, Leeds Arts University, Leeds, UK
• 2018 Collider, Circa Modern, Chicago, Il
• Riverside Art Center, Riverside IL
• Small Works, Trestle Gallery's online exhibition, NY
• Mail Art, Lawrence and Clark, Chicago, Il
• 2017 Terrain Biennial, Oak Park, Il
• Summer Show, Riverside Art Center, Riverside, IL
• Ann Metzger Memorial National Juried Exhibition, St Louis, MO,
• Art for Aleppo, New York, 2017
• Crumbs in the Bed, Gallery 1900 Gallery at SAIC, Chicago, IL,
SELECTED PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
• Founding Board Member, Terrain Exhibitions, IL, 2018 - 2024
• Co-Organized successive Terrain Biennials 2019, 2021 and 2023
• Served as Treasurer & Chair of Programming
• Served on both Programming and Operations committees
• Co-Director, What It Is, Oak Park, IL, 2009 – 2014
• Co-ran artist run exhibition and project space.
• 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
SELECTED LECTURES, PANEL DISCUSSIONS
• Findings, Bert Green Fine Art, Chicago Il (Upcoming Feb, 2025)
• Reverberations,Epiphany Center for the Arts, Chicago, Il 2024
• Companions Riverside Art Centers, Riverside, Il . 2024
• Women of Videokaffe, Kobe University, Kobe, Japan, 2022
• Copy Shop, Illinois University Springfield, Springfield Il, 2015
• Brooks Middle School, Oak Park, Il 2015
• Artist Lecture, Waubonsee Community Collage, Sugar Grove, Il 2014
• Artist talk, Fire Cat, Chicago, Il, 2014
• What’s Your Art, Demo and Discussion Chicago Cultural Center, Dec. 2011
• Better Together, Panel MDW Fair, Chicago, 2011
• Round Table with Tobias Putrih, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, 2011
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
• 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