The artwork of Jim Holl has been widely exhibited and collected. He has mounted solo and group exhibitions with public institutions such as The New Museum, PS1 Museum, Creative Time, Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, and Artists Space in New York. Additional selected exhibitions include ‘T’ Space, Rhinebeck, New York; Garvey/Simon Gallery, New York, Prographica/KPR Gallery, Seattle, WA; Architecture for Art Gallery, Hillsdale, New York; Cross Contemporary Art, Saugerties, NY, Philadelphia Art Alliance, PA; The Arts Center Gallery, Saratoga Springs, NY; Thompson Giroux Gallery, Chatham, NY; Lehman College Art Gallery, NY; BCB Gallery, Hudson, NY; Denise Bibro Gallery, NY; and the Byrdcliffe Kleinart/James Center for the Arts, Woodstock, NY.
Jim Holl established James Holl Design in 1981. JHD has served corporate and non-profit clients designing and producing print and web projects. Selected clients include ‘T’ Space, Adidas, AT&T, Chase Manhattan Bank, Credit Suisse, Doubleday, Emerson College, Houghton/Mifflin, Knoll International, March of Dimes, Marymount Manhattan College, Metropolitan Transit Authority, McGraw Hill, NYNEX, Newsweek, Random House, Scholastic Magazine, Sloan Kettering Memorial Cancer Center, and The Asia Society.
Jim Holl holds a BA from the University of Washington, an MFA from Columbia University. He is a Professor Emeritus of Art at Marymount Manhattan College in New York City, where he directed the Graphic Design and Illustration and Animation Concentrations. Jim Holl’s art is driven by themes that are manifested in painting and sculpture. He maintains studios in Catskill, New York and Manchester, Washington. Charta Art Books published Jim Holl’s first book “The Landscape Painter, an autobiography 1974 through 1994” in 2009. Holl’s second book “All the Living Things” was published by ‘T’ Space Editions in 2017. Jim Holl was born in Manchester, Washington in 1949.
2024 | Particle Point Collisions, Turn Park Arts Center, West Stockbridge, MA |
2020 | Atwater Gallery, Kingston, NY, “Both a Point and a Wave” January 4-31 |
2019 | Prographica Gallery, Seattle, Wash “Particle Point Collisions” April 4-May 4 |
2019 | Prographica Gallery, Seattle, Wash “Particle Point Collisions” April 4-May 4 |
2018 | Garvey/Simon Gallery, NY, NY, “All the Living Things” June 11-July 14 |
2017 | Cross Contemporary Art, Saugerties, New York, “All The Living Things” March 3 – April 3 |
2011 | Architecture for Art Gallery, Hillsdale, New York, “Timelines and Indeterminate Landscapes” |
2010 | “T” Space, Rhinebeck, New York, “Low Lying Clouds” |
2008 | Terenchin Fine Art, Catskill, New York, “Indeterminate Landscapes” |
2007 | Varga Gallery, Woodstock, NY, “My God, I Can See” |
2006 | The Arts Center Gallery, Saratoga Springs, NY, “Indeterminate Places” |
2001 | 859 Broadway 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 | Soho Center for Contemporary Art, NY, NY, “Forms of Allusion” |
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” |
55 Mercer Gallery, NY, NY, “When, What Place” | |
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” |
PS 1 Museum, Long Island City, NY, Open Studio Show: “The Entourage” | |
1976 | Columbia University, NY, NY, “Peg and Slot Games” |
2021 | Lichtundfire Gallery “Abstract Singularity” June 3 – June 26 |
Lichtundfire Gallery “Semiotic Collisions” March 17 – April 10 | |
2020 | Garvey|Simon, NYC, “Linear Rhythms” Oct 22 – May 30 |
Lichtundfire Gallery, “Quantum Sphere” Dec. 2, – January 2 | |
2019 | Thompson Giroux Gallery, Chatham, NY, ”En Masse” Dec.7 – Jan 12 |
2018 | Lehman College Art Gallery, NY, NY, “Tick Tock,Time in Contemporary Ar” Feb. 2 – May 5 |
2018 | Thompson Giroux Gallery, Chatham, NY, ”En Masse” Dec.1 – Dec. 24 |
2018 | Thompson Giroux Gallery, Chatham, NY, ”Undiscovered Country” Aug. 11 – Sept. 1 |
2018 | Marymount Manhattan Hewitt Gallery, NY, NY, “Faculty Exhibition” |
2016 | Prographica/KDR Seattle, WA, “Things That Kill” September 1 – October 1 |
Marymount Manhattan College, Hewitt Gallery, NY, NY, “Faculty Exhibition” | |
2015 | Atwater Gallery, Rhinebeck, New York, “Bros. Picture Show” May 16 – June 16, 2015 |
2015 | Turn Park, West Stockbridge, MA, “Tippy Wheel Barrow” July 15 – October 31, 2015 |
2014 | PS 209 Art Gallery, Stone Ridge, New York, “Paper White” Nov. 28, 2014 – Jan. 11, 2015 |
2014 | Castlefitzjohns Gallery, New York, NY, “Everyone will be famous for 12 inches” Aug 8 – Aug 23 |
2014 | The Painting Center, New York, NY, “Shifting Ecologies,” June 17 – July 12 |
2013 | Fox Gallery, New York, NY, “Recent Paintings and Paper Works,” Oct. 17 – Feb 13 |
2012 | Prographica, Fine Works on Paper, Seattle, WA, “The Landscape: Evoked” June 8 – July 13 |
Thompson Giroux Gallery, Chatham, NY, “Friend of a Friend” Nov. 10 – Jan. 6, 2013 | |
Byrdcliffe Kleinart/James Center for the Arts, Woodstock, NY, “The Sky is Falling!” Curated by Alan Baer, Oct. 12- Nov. 12 | |
Prographica, Fine Works on Paper, Seattle, Wash, “Landscape Part II: Urban and Rural,” March 10- April 14 | |
Figment NYC, Outdoor sculpture exhibition and event. Governors Island, “Let’s Talk About Art,” June 15-17 | |
Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, New Palz, NY, “Dear Mother Nature: Hudson Valley Artists 2012” Curated by Linda Weintraub | |
Greene County Council of the Arts, Catskill, NY, “From Whale Oil to Whole Foods” | |
Marymount Manhattan Hewitt Gallery, NY, NY, “Faculty Exhibition” | |
2011 | Athens Cultural Center, Athens, NY, “Constant Gardeners: Susan Wides and Jim Holl,” Catalog design and essay by Jim Holl |
Denise Bibro Gallery, NY, NY “Summer Selections” | |
Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, New Paltz, NY, “Hudson Valley Artists 2011: Exercises in Unnecessary Beauty” | |
Byrdcliffe Guild, Woodstock, NY “Quick, Down and Dirty” Curated by Alan Baer, biannual outdoor sculpture exhibition | |
Prographica, Fine Works on Paper, Seattle, WA, “Studies: Preparatory Work that Stands Alone” | |
Greene County Council of the Arts, Catskill, NY, “Tour de Force” | |
Marymount Manhattan Hewitt Gallery, NY, NY, “Faculty Exhibition” | |
2010 | Prographica, Fine Works on Paper, Seattle, WA, “Inaugural Exhibition” |
Greene County Council of the Arts, Catskill, NY, “Wish You Were Here” | |
2009 | Danette Koke Fine Art, NY, NY, “Group Show” |
Greene County Council of the Arts, Catskill, NY, “Psychic Landscapes” | |
2008 | Mill Lofts Gallery, Catskill, NY, “Group Show” |
2007 | Kleinert/James Art Center / Byrdcliffe Guild, Woodstock, NY, “Woodstock Biennial” Curated by Nora Haime |
Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, New Paltz, NY, “Uncannny Valley” Curated by Brian Wallace | |
BCB ART, Hudson, New York, “Gallery Artists” | |
Marymount Manhattan College, Hewitt Gallery, NY, NY, “Faculty Exhibition” | |
2005 | Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, NY, “Juried Exhibition” |
BCB ART, Hudson, New York, “Gallery Artists” | |
BCB ART, Hudson, New York, “Gallery Artists” | |
2004 | Catskill Mountain Foundation, Hunter, NY, “Legacy” |
2002 | Marymount Manhattan Hewitt Gallery, NY, NY, “Faculty Exhibition” |
Photo District Gallery, NY, NY, “Moving On” | |
1998 | Marymount Manhattan Hewitt Gallery, NY, NY, “Faculty Exhibition” |
1995 | OIA Police Building Gallery, NY, NY, “Sculptors’ Thinking Drawings”, catalog design and essay by Jim Holl |
1995 | Bill Bace Gallery, Art Initiatives, NY, NY, “Buoys: Marking The Place”, catalog design by James Holl, essay by Dominique Nahas |
1994 | OIA, NY, NY, “Salon Show” |
1992 | CB’s 313 Gallery, NY, NY, “Beauty” |
Trenkman Gallery, NY, NY, “Fashion” | |
1991 | Bill Bace Gallery, NY, NY, “Artists at Home” |
Sandy Webster Gallery, Philadelphia, PA, “Philadelphia Designer Showhouse” | |
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” |
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” |
Lehman College, NY, NY, “Invitational” | |
Public Image Gallery, NY, NY, “Flags” | |
1980 | 55 Mercer Gallery, NY, NY, “Invitational” |
Times Square Show, NY, NY, “Preacher’s Principles Performance” | |
14 Sculptors Gallery, NY, NY, “Pamphlet Architecture” | |
1978 | Columbia University, NY, NY, “Invitational and Thesis Exhibition” |
1977 | Columbia University, NY, NY, “Invitational and Thesis Exhibition” |
1974 | Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA, “Northwest Annual” |
2014 | Artist’s Talk, “All the Living Things”, White Box Arts Space, NYC Feb. 22 |
2014 | Shaver Symposium, “The Future of the Liberal Arts”, MMC, NY, April 30 |
2012 | George Quasha, Interview,WGXC, Cairo, NY, “Jim Holl Speaking Portrait for ‘Art Is.’ ” August 11 |
2010 | Florence Hale, Interview, WZCR, “Art’s Alive, Jim Holl Speaking about |
“The Landscape Painter, An Autobiography 1974 through 1994”, Charta Art Books October 11 | |
1999 | Artists Space Benefit Committee, NY |
College Art Association, New York Hilton, NYC, Presented Paper: “The Room in the Mind” | |
1998 | Steven Holl Architects, Artist Consultant for the Museum of Modern Art redesign competition |
1998 | Marymount Manhattan College, NYC, Visiting Lecturer: Graphic Design |
1997 | Marymount Manhattan College, NYC, Visiting Lecturer: Graphic Design |
1987 | Columbia University, NYC, Visiting Critic: Architecture |
1986 | Columbia University, NYC, Visiting Critic: Architecture |
The New Museum Advisory Panel, NYC | |
1991 | Boston College, Boston, MA, Visiting Lecturer: Fine Art |
1983 | University of Washington, Seattle, WA: Visiting Lecturer; Fine Art |
1982 | University of Washington, Seattle, WA: Visiting Lecturer; Fine Art |
2021 | Jonathan Goodman, “Abstract Singularity” Art 511 Mag.com/2021/06/26/abstract-singularity, June 26 |
2020 | Lynn Woods, “New exhibits to see in person this month”, Hundsonvalleyone.com, October 15 |
2020 | Clarie Lambe, “Particle Point Collisions at Lockwood Gallery” Roll Magazine, rollmagazine.com, October, 14 |
2020 | Lynn Woods, “Energy Fields” Hundsonvalleyone.com, and Almanac Weekly, Art and Music, January 23, page 8 |
2018 | ArtDaily.org, “Jim Holl’s new large-scale paintings and small works on paper on view at Garvey/Simon”, June,12 |
2018 | Lynn Woods, “Renaissance by Round Lake, T Space gallery and trails in Rhinebeck now open to the public on Sundays” Hundsonvalleyone.com, and Almanac Weekly, Art and Music, May 31, 2018 |
2017 | Jim Holl. “All The Living Things”. ‘T’Space Editions, Rhinebeck, NY. “All The Living Things” |
2017 | Jeremy Eichler. “In the Berkshires, a new arts space takes root” bostonglobe.com/arts, July 28 |
2016 | Smart, Paul. “All The Living Things at Cross Contemporary” Saugerties Times, March 2. |
Edge, Lisa. “If it Bleeds, it Leads,” at Prographica/KDR, Real.Change News, September 21. | |
2012 | Woods, Lynn. “Art for an Apocalypse, The Sky is Falling!” at Woodstock’s Kleinert/James,” Ulster Publishing Almanac, November 8. |
De Rosa, Donatella. “After the Storm…Dear Mother Nature at the Dorsky Museum,” Roll Magazine, November 5. | |
Smart, Paul. “The Sky is Falling,” Woodstock Times, October 18. | |
Ratcliff, Carter. “A Panorama Considered as a Conversation (or the Other Way Around),” The Brooklyn Rail, September. | |
Haider, Faheem. “‘Dear Mother Nature’ at the Dorsky,” Chronogram, July 26, print and web. | |
Abrams Brill, Marietta. “Working through the End of Art,” Review of Jim Holl, The Landscape Painter, An Autobiography 1974-2007, | |
Hyperallergic, July 19, www.hyperallergic.com. | |
2011 | Holl, Jim. Susan Wides and Jim Holl: Constant Gardeners. Athens Cultural Center, Athens, New York. |
2010 | Holl, Jim. Low Lying Clouds, “T” Space Gallery, Rhinebeck, New York. |
Smart, Paul. “Art Landforms, Wish You Were Here at GGCA,” Almanac: Woodstock Times, Saugerties Times, and Kingston Times, 11. 1. | |
2009 | Holl, Jim. Jim Holl, The Landscape Painter, An Autobiography 1974 Through 1994. Milan, Italy: Charta, 2008. |
2007 | Smart, Paul. “Cultural Cornucopia,” Almanac: Woodstock Times, Saugerties Times, and Kingston Times, New York, October 18. |
Wallace, Brian. “Uncannny Valley,” Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, SUNY New Paltz, NY. | |
Woods, Alison. “The Uncanny Valley at the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art,” Roll Magazine, September. | |
2005 | Smart, Paul. “Concept versus Intuition,” Almanac: Woodstock Times, Saugerties Times, and Kingston Times, May 19. |
1999 | Watson, Sasha, “Susan Wides & James Holl : Subterranean Collaborators,” The East Hampton Star, Aug 19, 1999. |
1995 | Hornor, Dave. “Art in Review: Offerings of Sculpture from “Art Initiatives” Tribeca Trib, NY, April. |
1986 | “Fantasy Portfolio,” ID Magazine, September/October. |
1985 | Feldman, Melissa. “Survey of Window Displays,” Stroll Magazine, Summer Issue. |
1984 | Contini, Anita. Insights/Onsites, “Alternative Sites and Uncommon Collaborators: The Story of Creative Time,” Visual Arts Program, |
National Endowment for the Arts, Washington, DC: Partners for Livable Places. | |
1983 | Glueck, Grace. “Engaging Experiments Transform a Sandy Site,” The New York Times (Sunday Arts and Leisure Section Front Page) July 31. |
Larson, Kay. “Art on the Beach,” New York Magazine, August 8 | |
Howell, Chancy. “Art on the Beach,”Live at Five, Channel 5 Television News | |
Shepard, Richard F. “Sole Searching,” The New York Times, August 6. | |
Bennett, Sherry. “Footnotes,” FootwearNews, September 5 | |
Merritt, Robert. “P.S…P.S.1,” Richmond Times Dispatch, Virginia, March 6. | |
1982 | Blyn, Stephanie. P.S….P.S.1 at 1708 East Main, Richmond, VA. catalog design by James Holl |
The New Museum Annual Report, Cover photo from James Holl exhibit “World Toy Company” | |
1981 | The New Museum Annual Report, Cover photo from James Holl exhibit “World Toy Company” |
1980 | Zimmer, William. Soho Weekly News, Oct 1 |
1978 | Frank, Peter. The Village Voice, May 29 |
2013 | Marymount Manhattan College, Faculty Leave Fellowship |
2008 | Marymount Manhattan College, Faculty Leave Fellowship |
2004 | Marymount Manhattan College, Sokol Grant |
2002 | Marymount Manhattan College, Sokol Grant |
2001 | Marymount Manhattan College, Hewlett Grant |
1997 | Digital Illustration Award, NYMUG Macintosh Convention, Hilton Hotel |
1994 | JP Morgan and Company Inc., Art Commission for Corporate Headquarters |
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 |
1975-1977 | Columbia University Scholarship |
1996-2021 | Marymount Manhattan College, Associate Professor, Director of the Graphic Design and Illustration and Animation Concentrations |
1999-2005 | Marymount Manhattan College, Assistant Professor, Graphic Design. |
1996-1999 | Marymount Manhattan College, Adjunct Professor |
1996-98 | School of Visual Art, Adjunct Professor, Digital Illustration Design |
1995 | Marymount College Tarrytown, Adjunct Professor, Graphic Design |
1993-94 | Jersey City State College, Adjunct Professor, Graphic Design |
1990-93 | St. John’s University, Assistant Professor of Fine Arts and Graphic Design |
1984 – 2021 James Holl Design
JHD is a creative design studio dedicated to quality design and the communication of client content. JHD chooses to be a small office specializing in personalized service and on time products. Serving corporate clients, advertising agencies and corporate design studios as a Graphic Designer, Digital Illustrator, Art Director, Photographic Set Consultant and Stylist. Projects designed and produced include trade and fine art catalogs, web design, corporate identity, national and trade advertising, packaging, brochures, magazines, annual reports, posters and trade book covers.
Adidas, Aetna, AT&T, Avon, Citibank, Chase Manhattan Bank. Chubb, Credit Suisse / First Boston, Brooklyn Children’s Museum, Doubleday, Emerson College, Hill and Knowlton, Houghton/Mifflin, IBM, International Paper, JC Penny, J.P. Morgan, Knoll International, March of Dimes, Marymount Manhattan College, Metropolitan Transit Authority, McGraw Hill, NYNEX, Newsweek, Random House, Scholastic Magazine, Sloan Kettering Memorial Cancer Center, The Asia Society, Abelow Sherman Architects, Stephen Bobbitt Architects, and others.
1997 – 2010 Getty Stock Agency Creation of digital photo-illustrations for commercial media. These images are utilized worldwide via agency catalogs, and on the internet: www.gettyimages.com
1979-1984 Fairchild Publishing, Assistant Art Director, New York, NY. Editorial design for “Footwear News” and “Footwear News Magazine.”
1977-1978 Metropolitan Museum of Art, Design Assistant, New York, NY. Production and installation of signage, posters, banners and labels for various exhibitions including
Treasures of Tutankhamun, Splendor of Dresden, Treasures from the Kremlin, Ellsworth Kelly: Recent
Paintings and Sculpture.
1978 Columbia University, New York, NY, Master of Fine Arts, Painting
1974 University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, Bachelor of Arts, English Literature.
2001, 2004 New York University, Certificate in Computer Animation and Visual Effects