Frank Holliday

Frank Holliday (born 1957, North Carolina) is a painter who became known in the New York City art world in the 1970s and 1980s and is often associated with the East Village scene and associated with Club 57. His early career as an artist included working with Andy Warhol and close associations with artists such as Keith Haring Ann Magnuson, Kenny Scharf, et al.

Contents

• Club 57 HOW TO SEE the 1970s countercultural art scene with Frank Holliday
• Solo exhibitions
• Group exhibitions
• Catalogs
• Grants
• Collections
• Affiliations
• Education
• References

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 and Stephen Westfall in Art in America, Grace Glueck and Ken Johnson in the New York Times, and Bill Arning in the Village Voice, and has been a recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Grant." In 2010, Frank Holliday was awarded grants from the Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation and the Pollock-Krasner Foundation.

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, Mexico

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

2011 The Sword of Damocles, The Painting Center, NYC

2011 Royal/T presents East Village West, curated by Ann Magnuson and Kenny Scharf, Los Angeles, CA

2010 Greensboro Collects Weatherspoon Art Museum, NC

2009 Watercolors Rose Burlingham Gallery, NYC

With Love Weatherspoon Museum, NC

2008 Brooklyn's Best Robeling Hall, NYC

Boson Exotic Rupert Ravens Contemporary, NJ

2007 Sanctuary Robeling Hall, NYC

Neo Integrity Derek Eller Gallery, NYC

Change At Babylon Kathleen Kullen Gallery, NYC

2006 Glad Benefit NYC

Weatherspoon NC

Bushwick Artist NYC

2005 Glad Benefit NYC

New York Studio School NC

Postcards From The Edge Robert Miller Gallery, NYC

2004 Biannual University of Tennessee Gallery, TN

Cool and Collected Weatherspoon Art Museum, NC

Band of Abstraction Van Brundt Gallery, NYC

101 Ways SVA Gallery, NYC; curated by Jerry Saltz

2003 Dali Lama Elizabeth Dee Gallery, NYC

Group Show Lohin Geduel Gallery, NYC

Glad Auction NYC

2002 With Or Without You E Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney, AU; curated by Royce Smith

Glad Benefit Auction NYC

2001 Figure/Disfigure University of Rhode Island Gallery; curated by J. Tolnick

Self-Made Men D.C. Moore Gallery, NYC; curated by Alexia Worth

Absolute Vodka Grand Central Station, NYC

20 Years Anniversary Museum of Decorative Arts, Paris, FR

Benefit Artist Space, NYC

1999 Stars of Track & Field Debs & Co., NYC

David Bowie Rupert Goldsworthy Gallery, NYC

1998 Group Show Rupert Goldsworthy Gallery, NYC

Calendar Show Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art, IL

Salon New York Arts Club, NYC; curated by Barbara Hunt

Utz Lennon Weinberg Gallery, NYC

Pink La Mamma Gallery, NYC

1997 A Very Large Array Debs & Co., NYC

Oh What a Wonderful LifeUnfinished, NYC

1996 Day Without Art Office of Ruth Messinger, NYC

No Show St. Marks Church, NYC

1995 Group Show Funhouse Throckmorton Gallery, NM; curated by Sue Canning

Art on Paper Weatherspoon Museum, NC

1993 A Few Fey Things White Columns, NYC; curated by Bill Arning

Totems, Sculpture & Totems Tony Shafrazi Gallery, NYC

Group Show Bonlow Gallery, NYC

Space Invaders P.S.1 Museum, LIC, NY

1992 New Art White Columns, NYC; curated by Bill Arning

Physical/Metaphysical Sandra Gerning Gallery, NYC

Benefit White Columns, NYC

Group Show Tom Cugliani Gallery, NYC

Beast P.S.1 Museum, LIC, NY; curated by Richard Flood

1991 Painters Painting Amy Lipton Gallery, NYC

1990 Summer Barbara Toll Gallery, NYC

1988 Inaugural Show Tom Cugliani Gallery, NYC

Monochrome & Beyond The Carnegie Museum, ME

1986 Correspondences La Foret Museum, JP

Figure Abstraction Hallwalls Gallery, Buffalo, NY

1984Group Show Gabriel Beyers Gallery, NYC

Group Show DeFacto Gallery, NYC

Group Show Beulahland, NYC

1981 Group Show 77 White Street, NYC; curated by Keith Haring

1980 New Paintings by Keith Haring and Frank Holliday Club 57, NYC

Catalogs

2004 Biannua IEssay by Michael Braake

2002 With Or Without YouEssay by Royce Smith

2001 Tripping in AmericaEssay by Elizabeth Murray, Debs & Co.

Figure/Disfigure Essay by J. Toinick, URI

1999 Wah Wah Series Essay by Anney Bonney, Nick Debs

No Show Essay by Dale Peck, Nick Debs

1986 Correspondences Essay by N. Mouforrage

Grants

2010 Pollock Krasner Foundation Fellowship

2010 Gottlieb Foundation Fellowship

1986 National Endowment for the Arts

Collections

Weatherspoon Museum

Museum Frederick Russe, Stockholm Sweden

Miniature Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands

IBM

Numerous Private Collections United States, Europe, Japan, Australia, Mexico

Affiliations

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

Education

BFA: School of Visual Arts 1979

San Francisco Art Institute

New York Studio School