Jim Holl  

Leaf, 2.16.13
Acrylic on Handmade Paper
17" x17"

Kitchen Garden, 1.18.12
Oil on Board
30" x 30"

What's in a Cat's Eye, 6.13.12
Oil on Board
30" x 30"

 

Indeterminate Landscape, 11.1.06
Oil on Board
30" x30"

The Leaf, 2.2.12
Oil on Board
17" x 17"

The Leaf, 7.12.13
Oil on Board
17" x17"

The Leaf, 7.12.13
Acrylic on handmade paper
17" x17"

The Leaf, 4.19.12
Acrylic on handmade paper
17" x17"

Rain, 11.12.12
Oil on Board
17" x 17"

Leaf, 5.8.12
Acrylic on Handmade paper
17" x 17"

Leaf, 4.12.13
Oil on Board
17" x17"

Leaf, 3.18.13
Acrylic on Handmade paper
17" x 17"

1975-1977 Masters Degree, Columbia University Scholarship

www./jimholl.com

Solo Exhibitions
2011 Art for Architecture Gallery, Hiilsdale, New York, “Timelines and Indeterminate Landscapes”
2010 Tspace, Rhinebeck, New York, “Low Lying Clouds ”
2008 Terenchin Fine Art, Catskill, New York, “Indeterminate Landscapes”
2008 Varga Gallery, Woodstock, NY “My God, I Can See”
2006 The Arts Center Gallery, Saratoga Springs, NY, Indeterminate Places
2001 859 Space , NY, NY, Dots and Lines
1995 55 Mercer Gallery, NY, NY, Our Last Sleep We Fly,
(catalog design by James Holl, essay by Nancy Princenthal)
1991 St. John’s University Gallery, Queens, NY, Recent Paintings
1987 Gotham Fine Arts Gallery, NY, NY, Early Works: 1976 to 1983
1984 John Carl Warnecke Architects, NY, NY, Display Window, Preacher’s Principles
1981 The New Museum, NY, NY, Special Projects Window, The World Toy Company
1980 Artist’s Space, NY, NY, Wake Up It’s Time To Go To Work
1979 PS 1 Museum, Long Island City, NY, Open Studio Show: The Scientist and the Sea
1978 PS 1 Museum, Special Projects Exhibition, When Creatures Crawled from the Bowels of the Earth
1978 PS 1 Museum, Long Island City, NY, Open Studio Show: The Entourage.
1976 Columbia University, NY, NY, Peg and Slot Games.
Group Exhibitions
2011 Athens Cultural Center, Athens, NY “Constant Gardeners: Susan Wides and Jim Holl” Catalog design and essay by Jim Holl
2011 Denise Bibro Gallery, NY, NY “Summer Selections”
2011 Samual Dorsky Museum of Art, New Palz, NY, “Hudson Valley Artists 2011: Exercises in Unnecessary Beauty”
2011 Byrdcliff Guild, Woodstock, NY “Quick Down and Dirty” biannual summeer outdoor sculpture exhibition
2011 Prographica, fine works on paper, Seattle, Wash, “Preliminary Drawings”
2011 Greene County Council of the Arts, Catskill, NY, “Tour de Force”
2010 Prographica, fine works on paper, Seattle, Wash, “Inaugural Exhibition”
2010 Greene County Council of the Arts, Catskill, NY, “Wish You Were Here”
2009 Danette Koke Fine Art, NY, NY
2009 Greene County Council of the Arts, Catskill, NY, “Psychic Landscapes”
2008 Mill Lofts Gallery, Catskill, NY
2007 Kleinert/James Art Center / Byrdcliffe Guild, Woodstock, NY, “Woodstock Biennial”
2007 Samual Dorsky Museum of Art, New Palz, NY, “Uncannny Valley”
2005 Parish Art Museum, Juried Exhibition, Southhampton, NY
2004, 2005 BCB ART, Gallery Artists, Hudson, New York
2004 Catskill Mountain Foundation, Hunter, NY. Legacy
2002, 07, 11 Marymount Manhattan Hewitt Gallery, NY, NY, “Faculty Exhibition”
2002 Photo District Gallery, NY, NY . Moving On
1998 Marymount Manhattan College Gallery, NY,NY, Faculty Exhibition
1995 Police Building Gallery, NY, NY, Sculptors’ Thinking Drawings
(catalog design and essay by James Holl)
1995 Bill Bace Gallery, Art Initiatives, NY, NY, Buoys: Marking The Place
(catalog design by James Holl, essay by Dominique Nahas)
1994, 1995 OIA NY, NY, Salon Show
1992 CB’s 313 Gallery, NY, NY, Beauty
1992 Trenkman Gallery, NY, NY, Fashion
1991 Bill Bace Gallery, NY, NY, Artists at Home
1991 Soho Center for Contemporary Art, NY, NY, Forms of Allusion
1991 Sandy Webster Gallery, Philadelphia, PA, Philadelphia Designer Showhouse
1991 Marymount Manhattan College Gallery, NY, NY, Drawing: Thought Before Sculpture
(catalog design and essay by James Holl)
1990 Philadelphia Art Alliance, Philadelphia, PA, The Significant Surface
1986 Kamikaze Night Club, NY, NY, Off the Wall
1985 Northside Arts Industries, Brooklyn, NY, Pan Arts
1984 Thorpe Gallery, Sparkill, NY, Architecture/Sculpture
1983 Creative Time’s Art on the Beach, NY, NY, Public Art Collaboration, Civic Plots , NY, NY
1983 Artist’s Space, NY, NY, Christmas Invitational
1982 1708 East Main Gallery, Richmond, VA., P.S…P.S. 1 at East Main
1981 Zone Gallery, Springfield, MA, Book Show
1981 Lehman College, NY, NY, Invitational
1981 Public Image Gallery , NY, NY, Flags
1980 55 Mercer Gallery, NY, NY, Invitational
1980 Times Square Show, NY, NY, Preacher’s Principles Performance
1980 14 Sculptors Gallery, NY, NY, Pamphlet Architecture
1977, 1978 Columbia University, NY, NY, Invitational and Thesis Exhibition
1974 Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA, Northwest Annual
Lectures and Panels
2010 Radio interview, WZCR, “Art’s Alive,” Florence Hale. Oct 11
1999 Artist’s Space Benefit Committee, NYC
1998 Steven Holl Architects, Artist Consultant for the Museum of Modern Art redesign competition; final model was exhibited at MoMa
1997, 1998 Marymount Manhattan College, NYC, Visiting Lecturer: Graphic Design
1989 College Art Association, New York Hilton, NYC, Presented Paper: Room in the Mind
1986, 1987 Marymount Manhattan College, NYC, Visiting Lecturer: Graphic Design
1986, 1987 Columbia University, NYC, Visiting Critic: Architecture
1991 Boston College, Boston, MA, Visiting Lecturer: Fine Art
1982, 1983 University of Washington, Seattle, WA: Visiting Lecturer; Fine Art
1986 The New Museum Advisory Panel, NYC
                        Jim Holl, catalog and essay, Athens Cultural Center, NY “Constant Gardeners Susan Wides and Jim Holl”, July 31      2011
2010 Jim Holl, catalog and essay, T-Space Gallery, Rinebeck, “New York, Low Lying Clouds”, October 1
2010 Paul Smart, Almanac: Woodstock Times, Saugerties Times, and Kingston Times, New York,
“Art Landforms, Wish You Were Here at GGCA ” November 4
2009 Jim Holl’s The Landscape Painter An Autobiography 1974 Through 1994 The book chronicles the artist’s reflections and artworks regarding the dichotomy between thinking and feeling, art and life, artifice and authenticity during this vibrant period in New York City. Charta Art Books is an international publishing house based in Milan Italy. Charta specializes in contemporary artists books. The book is Distrubuted by DAP. The Landscape Painter is 128 pages with 176 b/w illustrations.
2007 Paul Smart, Almanac: Woodstock Times, Saugerties Times, and Kingston Times, New York, “Cultural Cornucopia” October 18
2007 Brian Wallace, “Uncannny Valley” Catalog, Samual Dorsky Museum of Art, SUNY New Palz, NY,
2007 Alison Woods, Roll Magazine, “The Uncanny Valley” Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, SUNY New Paltz,
Aug-Sept.
2005 Paul Smart, Woodstock Times , Saugerties Times, and Kingston Times, New York,
“Concept versus Intuition” May 19
1995 Dave Hornor, Tribeca Trib, “Art in Review: Offerings of Sculpture fromArt Initiatives”
1986 ID Magazine, “Fantasy Portfolio,” Sept/Oct
1985 Melissa Feldman, Stroll Magazine, “Survey of Window Displays,” Summer Issue
1984 Anita Contini, “Insights/ Onsites,” Visual Arts Program, National Endowment for the Arts, “Alternative Sites and Uncommon Collaborators: The Story of Creative Time,”
Published by Partners for Livable Places, Washington, D.C.,
1983 Grace Glueck, The New York Times, Sunday Arts and Leisure Section, “Engaging Experiments Transform a Sandy Site,” front page, July 31
1983 Kay Larson, New York Magazine, “Art on the Beach,” August 8
Chancy Howell, Live at Five, Television News, Channel 5
1983 Richard F. Shepard, New York Times, “Sole Searching,” August 6
1983 Sherry Bennett, Footwear News, “Footnotes,” September 5
1983 Robert Merritt, Richmond Times Dispatch, “P.S…P.S.1,” March 6
1982 Stephanie Blyn, P.S….P.S. 1 at 1708 East Main, (Catalog design by James Holl)
1981 The New Museum Annual Report , Cover photo from James Holl exhibit “World Toy Company,”
1980 William Zimmer, Soho Weekly News, Oct 1
1978 Peter Frank, Village Voice, May 29
Awards
2004 Marymount Manhattan College, Sokol Grant
2002 Marymount Manhattan College, Sokol Grant
2001 Marymount Manhattan College, Hewlett Grant
1994 JP Morgan and Company Inc., Art Commission for Corporate Headquarters
1997 Digital Illustration Award, NYMUG Macintosh Convention, Hilton Hotel
1991 Exhibition Support Grant, Artist’s Space
1990 Artist’s Grant, The Pollock-Krasner Foundation
1983 Artist’s Grant, Creative Time, “Art on the Beach,” New York, NY
1980 Artist’s Grant, Artist’s Space, New York, NY
1978-1979 Artist-in-Residence, PS1 Museum(MOMA), Institute for Art and Urban Resources, Long Island City, NY