Steven Holmes
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Steven Holmes is a Canadian curator
based in Hartford, Connecticut
and educated at The University of Toronto, Harvard University
and the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design.
As an artist, Holmes worked as a photographer and briefly exhibited work in several Canadian venues, including Gallery 44 in Toronto, and Anna Leonowens Gallery in Halifax.
Projects at Real Art Ways included:
None of the Above with Silvia Karman Cubiña and Deborah Cullen
This is Then with work by The Atlas Group
Acquiring Taste
In addition, Holmes conceived of and initiated the Real Art Ways projects POZA and FAITH.
Single-artist projects include exhibitions with
From 2008 to 2010 he curated exhibitions at Ars Libri in Boston, mostly single artist shows, but also some very small themed exhibitions.
In fall of 2008, he organized SCULPTING TIME, at Sperone Westwater, featuring work by Giorgio Morandi, On Kawara, Roman Opalka, Joseph Albers, and Andrew Grassie. This show was well reviewed, including reviews in the New York Times and The New Yorker.
In the spring of 2009 Holmes began working as Adjunct Curator at the Bass Museum of Art in Miami Beach and has done two exhibitions there - The Endless Renaissance and Human Rites.
Curator
A curator is a manager or overseer. Traditionally, a curator or keeper of a cultural heritage institution is a content specialist responsible for an institution's collections and involved with the interpretation of heritage material...
based in Hartford, Connecticut
Hartford, Connecticut
Hartford is the capital of the U.S. state of Connecticut. The seat of Hartford County until Connecticut disbanded county government in 1960, it is the second most populous city on New England's largest river, the Connecticut River. As of the 2010 Census, Hartford's population was 124,775, making...
Biography
He was born in Cobourg, OntarioCobourg, Ontario
Cobourg is a town in the Canadian province of Ontario, located in Southern Ontario 95 km east of Toronto. It is the largest town in Northumberland County. Its nearest neighbour is Port Hope, to the west. It is located along Highway 401 and the former Highway 2...
and educated at The University of Toronto, Harvard University
Harvard University
Harvard University is a private Ivy League university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, established in 1636 by the Massachusetts legislature. Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and the first corporation chartered in the country...
and the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design.
As an artist, Holmes worked as a photographer and briefly exhibited work in several Canadian venues, including Gallery 44 in Toronto, and Anna Leonowens Gallery in Halifax.
Curatorial Work
Holmes was curator at the alternative space Real Art Ways from 2000 to 2005 and is now curator of The Cartin Collection, a private collection of Contemporary Art based in Hartford.Projects at Real Art Ways included:
None of the Above with Silvia Karman Cubiña and Deborah Cullen
This is Then with work by The Atlas Group
Acquiring Taste
In addition, Holmes conceived of and initiated the Real Art Ways projects POZA and FAITH.
Single-artist projects include exhibitions with
- Joe Amrhein
- Robert Beck
- Joe ColemanJoe ColemanJoe Coleman may refer to:*Joe Coleman , American Major League Baseball pitcher*Joe Coleman , American Major League Baseball pitcher...
at Tilton Gallery and Palais de Tokyo. - Thierry Delva
- Harrell FletcherHarrell FletcherHarrell Fletcher is an American artist in Portland, Oregon who creates socially engaged interdisciplinary projects.-Early work:While completing his degree at California College of Arts and Crafts, Fletcher began collaborating with artist Jon Rubin...
- Wes Mills
- Kehinde WileyKehinde WileyKehinde Wiley is a New York-based portrait painter, who is known for his highly naturalistic paintings of contemporary urban African, African-American, Afro-Brazilian, Indian and Ethiopian-Jewish men in heroic poses.-Early life:...
From 2008 to 2010 he curated exhibitions at Ars Libri in Boston, mostly single artist shows, but also some very small themed exhibitions.
In fall of 2008, he organized SCULPTING TIME, at Sperone Westwater, featuring work by Giorgio Morandi, On Kawara, Roman Opalka, Joseph Albers, and Andrew Grassie. This show was well reviewed, including reviews in the New York Times and The New Yorker.
In the spring of 2009 Holmes began working as Adjunct Curator at the Bass Museum of Art in Miami Beach and has done two exhibitions there - The Endless Renaissance and Human Rites.
Selected publications
- Festschrift: Selections from a Collection. Leo Press, Hartford, 2008.
- "Joe Coleman Moderne Frõmmigkeit" Checkpoint. May-August 2007.
- "Joe Coleman's Modern Devotion". Palais de Tokyo Magazine. March 2007.
- None of the Above, Real Art Ways, 2005 ISBN 0-9717859-1-0
- "Charged Image vs. a University in Retreat". The Hartford Courant. 3 October 2004.
- Acquiring Taste: Work from the Collections of Janice and Mickey Cartin, Robinson and Nancy Grover, Peter Hirschl and Lisa Silvestri, and the LeWitt Collection, Real Art Ways, 2002. ISBN 0-9717859-0-2
- "Documentary Sculpture", Exhibition Catalogue, Real Art Ways, 2002
- "BOXWORKS: Sculpture by Thierry Delva", Dalhousie University Art Gallery, 1996.
- "The Word is Made Flesh, The Flesh is Made Word: Michel Foucault and His Gaze" in Rewire, Spring 1993.
- 'Photography as Theological Discourse" in Harvard Divinity Bulletin, Vol. 21, No. 4, (1992).