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 Bremerton, Washington in 1949.

Solo Exhibitions

Group Exhibitions

Lectures and Panels

Publications

Awards

Teaching Experience

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