Kim Holleman

Biography

Kim Holleman was born in Tampa, Florida and was raised in Palm Beach County. Holleman's maternal grandfather Neal Lozins was a rocket engineer who worked on solid rocket booster design for the first space shuttle missions with NASA and also worked for Lockheed Martin. Her paternal grandfather, Nathan Dale Holleman owned and operated a machining company, Dale Manufacturing, Inc. Dale Manufacturing, also located in Florida, fulfilled contracts for The United States Government, Pratt and Whitney, Boeing and NASA. Significant contracts included machining components of the landing gear on the Lunar Module as well as manufacturing the trigger switches for the Los Alamos Nuclear Tests. Both of her grandfathers worked for or on NASA projects at the onset of the Space Program. Holleman credits this as a major influence on her focus on science and society in her work, namely the confluence of nature, art, architecture and engineering. Holleman's work is, "inspired by the complexities of the design in nature and the environment".

Art

Kim Holleman is an alumna of Cooper Union. "Holleman’s work addresses concepts of utopia and dystopia, utilitarianism, environmentalism, and ideas about creating utopian architectures for "a better world". She examines how the forms used in the architectural reality of our world connect to our ideas about the natural environment and our view of ourselves. On the one hand, Holleman examines the contamination of the natural environment while designing fantastical solutions in clever practical forms. In order to present something new born out of something familiar, she infuses collected and found objects with new meaning by manipulating physical materials, controlling visual language, and playing with titles in order to invert meanings."

Holleman's interdisciplinary approach has been recognized across fields. Kim Holleman has given a TEDx Talk on her work. TEDxCOOPER UNION. Her work was featured in a New York Times New York Times Feature, in print and online. Holleman's first solo show in New York,"Law of the Land" was R.C. Baker’s pic for Best In Show- The Village Voice (2008) and was reviewed again with a feature in the arts section by Alan Gilbert.

Notable gallery and museum exhibitions include: Ideas City at The New Museum of Contemporary Art, Circa: 2012 at White Box, Law of the Land at Black and White Gallery, BMW Guggenheim Lab Screenings (2011), Museum of (Un)Natural History at Work Gallery (2011), Bushwick Biennial NurtureArt (2009) A Sense of Place The Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art (2004), and Utopia at The John Michael Kohler Arts Center (2006). Her most notable work, Trailer Park: A Mobile Public Park was shown at The Storefront for Art and Architecture (2006)

Holleman's work has been featured in the METRO, L Magazine, and other media. Her solo show, The Artificial Homemaker at The Rietveld Pavilion (1996), an all-glass show space in Amsterdam, was filmed for the documentary De Cultuurshok: Foreign Artists in Amsterdam (1996) that aired on Dutch National Television in the Netherlands that year.

Notable Works

Holleman's work of public art, Trailer Park: A Mobile Public Park, at The New Museum at Ideas City, May 2013. Trailer Park is a natural, built into a mobile Coachmen Travel Trailer with skylights allowing the entrance of rain and air.

Trailer Park: Mobile Public Park, debuted at the Storefront for Art and Architecture and has since shown in many locations around New York. Since its first showing at The Storefront For Art and Architecture, Trailer Park has shown in Chelsea, at Sculpture Center in Long Island City, The Lower East Side, The Cooper Union, DUMBO at Pearl Street Triangle, The Supreme Court at Foley Square and more.

Trailer Park: Mobile Public Park has been featured in The New York Times 10/20/2012, pg A20, and online: To Flourish, Nature Park Doesn’t Put Down Roots. Trailer Park continues to evolve as a community based project in New York.