Club 57 | HOW TO SEE the 1970s countercultural art scene with 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 HaringAnn Magnuson, Kenny Scharf, et al.
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.
