About the Artist

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.

Solo Exhibitions
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”

 

Group Exhibitions
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”

 

Lectures and Panels
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

 

Publications
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

 

Awards
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

 

Teaching Experience
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

 

Graphic Design Experience

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.

Selected Clients

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.

Education

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