BIO

Frank Holliday Born 1957, North Carolina, USA
is a painter

Painting

Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a surface . The application of the medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush but other objects can be used. In art, the term painting describes both the act and the result of the action. However, painting is...

 who became known in the New York

New York

New York is a state in the Northeastern region of the United States. It is the nation's third most populous state. New York is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south, and by Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont to the east...

 art world in the 1970s and 1980s and is often associated with the East Village

East Village, Manhattan

The East Village is a neighborhood in the borough of Manhattan in New York City, lying east of Greenwich Village, south of Gramercy and Stuyvesant Town, and north of the Lower East Side...

 scene.

Frank Holliday exhibited with galleries such as Kenny Schacter Gallery, Tony Shafrazi Gallery and has had several solo shows at Debs & Co. and Tom Cugliani Gallery as well as The Kitchen, Dru Artstark and GAL Gallery. He’s been represented in numerous group shows including shows at The Arts Club, White Columns, Sandra Gering Gallery, Amy Lipton Gallery, Barbara Toll Fine Art and Club 57 with Keith Haring, all in NYC. His work has been the subject of reviews by Holland Cotter

Holland Cotter

Holland Cotter is an art critic with the New York Times. In 2009, he won the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism.Cotter was born in Connecticut and grew up in Boston, Massachusetts. He earned his A.B. from Harvard College in 1970, where he studied English literature under poet Robert Lowell and was an...

 and Stephen Westfall

Stephen Westfall

Stephen Westfall is an American painter, critic, and professor at Bard College.He graduated from the University of California, Santa Barbara with a B.A. and M.F.A...

 in Art in America, Grace Gluek and Ken Johnson

Ken Johnson

-Sports personalities:*Ken Johnson , defensive end for the Cincinnati Bengals, played 1970–1977*Ken Johnson , defensive end for the Buffalo Bills and the Kansas City Chiefs...

 in the New York Times, and Bill Arning in the Village Voice, and has been a recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts

National Endowment for the Arts

The National Endowment for the Arts is an independent agency of the United States federal government that offers support and funding for projects exhibiting artistic excellence. It was created by an act of the U.S. Congress in 1965 as an independent agency of the federal government. Its current...

 Grant." In 2010, Frank Holliday was awarded grants from the Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation and the Pollock-Krasner Foundation.

EDUCATION

• San Francisco Art Institute
  San Francisco Art Institute
  San Francisco Art Institute is a school of higher education in contemporary art with the main campus in the Russian Hill district of San Francisco, California. Its graduate center is in the Dogpatch neighborhood. The private, non-profit institution is accredited by WASC and is a member of the...
  
  
• New York Studio School
• BFA
  Bachelor of Fine Arts
  In the United States and Canada, the Bachelor of Fine Arts degree, usually abbreviated BFA, is the standard undergraduate degree for students seeking a professional education in the visual or performing arts. In some countries such a degree is called a Bachelor of Creative Arts or BCA...
  
  : School of Visual Arts
  School of Visual Arts
  The School of Visual Arts , is a proprietary art school located in Manhattan, New York City, and is widely considered to be one of the leading art schools in the United States. It was established in 1947 by co-founders Silas H. Rhodes and Burne Hogarth as the Cartoonists and Illustrators School and...
  
   1979

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

• 2006 Paintings on Paper Tintenets Gallery Beacon, NY
• 2003 New Paintings Kenny Schachter ConTEMPorary, NYC
• 2001 Trippin' In America Debs & Co., NYC
• 1999 Rafa Series Debs & Co., NYC
• 1998 New Paintings Samuel Manache, Mexico City, MX
• 1997 Wah Wah Series Debs & Co., NYC
• 1997 Eclipse The Kitchen, NYC
• 1994 Paintings Dru Arstark Gallery, NYC
• 1993 Inside/OutGAL Gallery, NC
• 1990 New Paintings Tom Cugliani Gallery, NYC
• 1989 New Paintings Tom Cugliani Gallery, NYC
• 1987 New Paintings Tom Cugliani Gallery, NYC

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

• 2010Greensboro CollectsWeatherspoon Art Museum, NC
• 2009WatercolorsRose Burlingham Gallery, NYC
• 'With LoveWeatherspoon Museum, NC
• 2008Brooklyn's BestRobeling Hall, NYC
• 'Boson ExoticRupert Ravens Contemporary, NJ
• 2007SanctuaryRobeling Hall, NYC
• 'Neo IntegrityDerek Eller Gallery, NYC
• 'Change At BabylonKathleen Kullen Gallery, NYC
• 2006Glad BenefitNYC
• 'Weatherspoon NC
• 'Bushwick Artist NYC
• 2005Glad BenefitNYC
• 'New York Studio SchoolNC
• 'Postcards From The EdgeRobert Miller Gallery, NYC
• 2004 Biannual University of Tennessee Gallery, TN
• 'Cool and CollectedWeatherspoon Art Museum, NC
• 'Band of AbstractionVan Brundt Gallery, NYC
• '101 WaysSVA Gallery, NYC; curated by Jerry Saltz
• 2003Dali LamaElizabeth Dee Gallery, NYC
• 'Group ShowLohin Geduel Gallery, NYC
• 'Glad AuctionNYC
• 2002With Or Without YouEIvan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney, AU; curated by Royce Smith
• 'Glad Benefit AuctionNYC
• 2001Figure/DisfigureUniversity of Rhode Island Gallery; curated by J. Tolnick
• 'Self-Made MenD.C. Moore Gallery, NYC; curated by Alexia Worth
• 'Absolute VodkaGrand Central Station, NYC
• '20 Years AnniversaryMuseum of Decorative Arts, Paris, FR
• 'BenefitArtist Space, NYC
• 1999Stars of Track & FieldDebs & Co., NYC
• 'David BowieRupert Goldsworthy Gallery, NYC
• 1998Group ShowRupert Goldsworthy Gallery, NYC
• 'Calendar ShowChicago Museum of Contemporary Art, IL
• 'SalonNew York Arts Club, NYC; curated by Barbara Hunt
• 'UtzLennon Weinberg Gallery, NYC
• 'PinkLa Mamma Gallery, NYC
• 1997A Very Large ArrayDebs & Co., NYC
• 'Oh What a Wonderful LifeUnfinished, NYC
• 1996Day Without ArtOffice of Ruth Messinger, NYC
• 'No ShowSt. Marks Church, NYC
• 1995Group Show FunhouseThrockmorton Gallery, NM; curated by Sue Canning
• 'Art on PaperWeatherspoon Museum, NC
• 1993A Few Fey ThingsWhite Columns, NYC; curated by Bill Arning
• 'Totems, Sculpture & TotemsTony Shafrazi Gallery, NYC
• 'Group ShowBonlow Gallery, NYC
• 'Space InvadersP.S.1 Museum, LIC, NY
• 1992New ArtWhite Columns, NYC; curated by Bill Arning
• 'Physical/MetaphysicalSandra Gerning Gallery, NYC
• 'BenefitWhite Columns, NYC
• 'Group ShowTom Cugliani Gallery, NYC
• 'BeastP.S.1 Museum, LIC, NY; curated by Richard Flood
• 1991Painters PaintingAmy Lipton Gallery, NYC
• 1990SummerBarbara Toll Gallery, NYC
• 1988Inaugural ShowTom Cugliani Gallery, NYC
• 'Monochrome & BeyondThe Carnegie Museum, ME
• 1986CorrespondencesLa Foret Museum, JP
• 'Figure AbstractionHallwalls Gallery, Buffalo, NY
• 1984Group ShowGabriel Beyers Gallery, NYC
• 'Group ShowDeFacto Gallery, NYC
• 'Group ShowBeulahland, NYC
• 1981Group Show77 White Street, NYC; curated by Keith Haring
• 1980New Paintings by Keith Haring and Frank HollidayClub 57, NYC

CATALOGS

• 2004Biannua IEssay by Michael Braake
• 2002With Or Without YouEssay by Royce Smith
• 2001Tripping in AmericaEssay by Elizabeth Murray, Debs & Co.
• 'Figure/DisfigureEssay by J. Toinick, URI
• 1999Wah Wah SeriesEssay by Anney Bonney, Nick Debs
• 'No ShowEssay by Dale Peck, Nick Debs
• 1986CorrespondecesEssay by N. Mouforrage

GRANTS

• 2010 Pollock Krasner Foundation Fellowship
• 2010 Gottleib Foundation Fellowship
• 1986 National Endowment for the Arts

COLLECTIONS

• 'Weatherspoon Museum
• 'Museum Frederick Russe, Stockholm Sweden
• 'Miniature Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands
• 'IBM
• 'Numerous Private CollectionsUSA, Europe, Japan, Australia, Mexico

AFFILIATIONS

• He is a member of the faculty of Parsons, the New School for Design, in New York City.

External links

• The artist's website is www.FrankHolliday.net
• Frank Holliday's Flickr page with more images of his new paintings
• Review of Frank Holliday's recent show, titled "Trippin' in America," Art in America, Feb, 2002 by Joe Fyfe
• Article about Frank Holliday's work that he did for a film in 2009
• "Queering MoMA", a panel discussion and conversation with artists Frank Holliday
  Frank Holliday
  -BIO:Frank Holliday Born 1957, North Carolina, USAis a painter who became known in the New York art world in the 1970s and 1980s and is often associated with the East Village scene....
  
  , Carrie Moyer
  Carrie Moyer
  Carrie Moyer is an American painter and writer living in Brooklyn, NY. Moyer's paintings and public art projects have been widely exhibited nationally and internationally since the early 1990s.-Life and Work:...
  
  , Stephen Mueller
  Stephen Mueller
  Stephen Mueller was an American painter whose color field and Lyrical Abstraction canvases took a turn towards pop. He earned his B.F.A. in painting from the University of Texas, Austin in 1969 and his M.F.A...
  
  , Sheila Pepe
  Sheila Pepe
  Sheila Pepe is an artist and educator living and working in Brooklyn, New York. She is a prominent figure as a lesbian, cross-disciplinary artist, whose work employs conceptualism, surrealism, and craft to address feminist and class issues...
  
   and Andrew Cornell Robinson
  Andrew Cornell Robinson
  Andrew Cornell Robinson is an American artist based in New York City. He was born in 1968 in Camden, New Jersey.Robinson is best known for his artwork that spans various media from ceramics and painting to photography and sculptural installations...
  
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• Article about Frank Holliday's award of the Gottlieb and Pollock-Krasner grants