Evan Holloway
Evan Holloway
Born 1967 Whittier, California, USA
Lives and works in Los Angeles, USA
Education
1997 MFA University of California, Los Angeles, USA
1989 BA University of California, Santa Cruz, USA
Solo Exhibitions
2012
Trees, Heads and Molds, Xavier Hufkens, Brussels
Post-process plunk, The Approach, London, UK
2010
Experimental and Professional, Harris Lieberman, New York
2009
The Approach, London, UK
2008
Projects Series #35, Pomona College Museum of Art, Claremont, USA
2007
Scripted and Sourced, Raucci Santamaria, Naples, Italy
2006
$ocial Epi$temology, Harris Lieberman Gallery, New York, USA
2005
Analogue counter revolution, The Approach, London, UK
A Voyage to Laputa, Xavier Hufkens, Brussels, Belgium
2004
I Don’t Exist, MARC FOXX, Los Angeles, USA
Art Now, with Dave Muller, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, USA
2003
Evan Holloway, Gary Webb, The Approach, London, UK
A White Hunter, MARC FOXX, Los Angeles, USA
2002
Xavier Hufkens, Brussels, Belgium
Raucci/Santamaria Gallery, Naples, Italy
2001
New Work, The Approach, London, UK
MARC FOXX, Los Angeles, USA
1999
MARC FOXX, Los Angeles, USA
1997
Black Caninet, MARC FOXX, Santa Monica, USA
Drum Box, Room 702, Los Angeles, USA
Group Exhibitions
2013
Theatrical Gestures, The Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art, Herzliya, Israel
2012
Give me Head: Selected Paintings and Sculpture, James Harris Gallery, Seattle, USA
Viva la Raspberries, Harris Lieberman Gallery, New York, USA
2011
American Exuberance, Rubell Family Collection/Contemporary Arts Foundation, Miami, FL, USA
Knock, Knock! From the Collection of Paul and Sara Monroe, Anderson Gallery, Virginia Commonwealth Gallery, Richmond, Virginia, USA
There are two sides to every coin and two sides to your face, curated by Carlos Cadenas, Galerie Xippas, Paris, France
Group show with Rose Wylie, The Approach, London, UK
ALL OF THIS AND NOTHING, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, USA
The Artist’s Museum, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, USA
Home Show, Revisited, Santa Barbara Contemporary Art Forum, USA
2010
Kurt, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, USA
Everynight, I go to sleep, Stuart Shave/Modern Art, London, UK
HEAD, The Approach, London, UK
At Home.Not At Home: Works from the Collection of Martin and Rebecca Eisenberg, CCS Bard Hassel Museum of Art, Annandale-on-Hudson, USA
The Secret Knows, LAND at The Virgin Mobile Freehouse, Austin, USA
Afterglow: Rethinking West Coast Light and Space Art, Wiegand Gallery, University of Notre Dame de Namur, Belmont, USA
Multiple Pleasures: Functional Objects in Contemporary Art, curated by Nathalie Karg/Cumulus Studios, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York, USA
2009
Play, Prakke Contemporary and Paradise Row, London, UK
Moby Dick, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, USA
Art of the Sea, Beaufort03, Ostend, Belgium
Second Nature: The Valentine-Adelson Collection, The Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, USA
2008
The Wizard of Oz, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, USA
Songs Informing a Sculpture of the Tin Man, (in conjunction with The Wizard of Oz at Wattis) Eric Bene Project Space, Hollywod, USA
The Impossible Prison, curated by Alex Farquharson, at the Police Station at the Galleries of Justice, Nottingham,UK
2008
California Biennial, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, USA
MARC FOXX, Los Angeles, USA
Globetrotters, Sister Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
2007
Ensemble, curated by Christian Marclay, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia
For Ree, MARC FOXX, Los Angeles, USA
Sculptors’ Drawings: Ideas, Studies, Sketches, Proposals and More, Angles Gallery, Santa Monica, USA
Oliver Twist, Rental Gallery, New York, USA
My Flashing Laundrette, Raucci/Santamaria Gallery, Naples, Italy
Designomite, Black Dragon Society, Los Angeles, USA
Time Difference, Initial Access, Manchester, UK
2006
Street Signs and Solar Ovens: Socialcraft in Los Angeles, The Craft and Folk Art Museum, Los Angeles, USA
Trash + Treasure, Miliken Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden
FOCA Fellowship: Vincent Fecteau, Evan Holloway, Monica Majoli, The Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, USA
The Uncertainty of Objects & Ideas, Hirschhorn Museum & Sculpture Garden, Simithsonian Institution, Washington, USA
Gone Formalism, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, USA
2005
Drunk vs. Stoned II, Gavin Brown’s enterprise, New York, USA
Think Blue, Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, USA
Sculptures d’ Appartment, Musee department d’Art Contemporain de Rochechourt, Rochechourt, France
Gallery Artist, MARC FOXX, Los Angeles, USA
CA, curated by Max Henry, Art Athina, Helexpo Exhibition Centre, Maroussi, Greece
Rogue Wave, LA Louver, Los Angeles, USA
A Walk to Remember, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles, USA, organized by Jens Hoffman
Paper, Nicole Klagsbrun, New York, USA
We Disagree, The Wrong Gallery at Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York, USA
2004
Painting on Sculpture, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York, USA
for nobody knows himself if he is only himself and not another at the same time, MARC FOXX, Los Angeles, USA
Baja to Vancouver: The West Coast in Contemporary Art, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle; MCA
San Diego; Vancouver Art Gallery; Vancouver, British Columbia; CCAC Wattis Institute, San Francisco, USA
Warped Space, CCAC Wattis Institute, San Francisco, USA
Oases, Los Angeles, USA
2003
Evan Holloway, Matthew Ronay, Hiroshi Sugito, MARC FOXX, Los Angeles, USA
The Moderns, Castello di Rivoli, Torino, Italy
Guided by Heroes, Z33, Hasselt, Belgium
Youngstars, Krinzinger Projekte, Vienna, Austria
2002
Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA
A Show That Will Show That a Show Is Not Only a Show, The Project, Los Angeles, USA
My Head Is On Fire But My Heart Is Full Of Love, Charlottenborg Exhibition Hall, Copenhagen, Denmaek
California Biennial, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, USA
Rock My World, CCAC, San Francisco, USA
Now is the Time, Dorsky Gallery Curatorial Programs, New York, USA
Officina America, Galleria D’Arte Moderna di Bologna, Bologna, Italy
2001
The Americans, The Barbican, London, UK
The Fact Show conceptual art today, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh, USA
FreeStanding, Beaver College Art Gallery, Glenside, USA
ROCK, Vilma Gold, London, UK
MISE EN SCENE, New LA Sculpture, CCAC, San Francisco, USA
2000
SHOCKWAVE, Raucci/Santamaria Gallery, Naples, Italy
extraextralarge; 3 day weekend, Kapinos Gallery, Berlin Germany
I Can Live With That; 3 day weekend, The Approach, London, UK
MISE EN SCENE; New LA Sculpture, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, USA
1999
Standing Still & Walking In Los Angeles, Gagosian Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
Caught, 303 Gallery, New York, USA
Play Mode, University of California, Irvine, CA; University of Michigan Ann Arbor, USA
1998
Obviously 5 Believers, curated by Brian Olson, Action: Space, Los Angeles, USA
Plaats, W139, Amsterdam, Holland
Brighten the Corners, curated by Dennis Cooper, Marianne Boesky, New York, USA
Low, Marc Foxx, Los Angeles, USA
Local Heroes, Beyond Baroque, Venice, Italy
1997
Malibu Sex Party, PURPLE, Los Angeles, USA
Work and Progress, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles, USA
5 Emerging Artists, Dan Bernier, Los Angeles, USA
Wish You Were Here, University of California Los Angeles, USA
Performances:
2000
Three Musical Lengths, As I Love You, You Become More Pretty, Karin Gulbran’s Garden Exhibition
1998
Broadcast Moment, ‘LA X-Ray’, KPFK, April 23
Bibliography:
2011
Vargas, Whitney, The Show of the Season: Raf Simons collection, The Wall Street Journal, 25 August
Lehrer-Graiwer, Sarah, All of This and Nothing, Artforum, May
Knight, Christopher, It’s all over the map: Traverse Santa Barbara during ‘Home Show, Revisited’, Los Angeles Times, 23 June
2010
Malone, Micah, ‘Kurt’ Artforum Critics’ Picks, Artforum Online, May
2009
Yu, David, A Balancing Act, ArtSlant, www.artslant.com, March
Rappolt, Mark, The Conservative Anarchist, Art Review, March
2008
Knight, Christopher, Low-tech, yet high on wow, Los Angeles Times
2007
Bellini, Andrea. New York Tales, Flash Art, Jan-Feb
Kuo, Michelle. Review: The Uncertainty of Objects and Ideas, Artforum, February
2006
Rappolt, Mark, The Man Who Sold the World, i-D, March, Issue No.264
Kerr, Merrily. Evan Holloway. Time Out New York, 16-22 November
Smith, Roberta. Evan Holloway: Social Epistemology. The New York Times, 17 November
Stevens, Mark & Karen Rosenberg, Best of 2006: Art, New York Magazine, 18 December
2005
100 Future Greats, Art Review, December
2004
Lee Triming and Dennis Cooper, Evan Holloway: Third Space, Flash Art, November-December pp. 102-4
Pagel, David, A groups power to unsettle us, The Los Angeles Times, October 22
Sholis, Brian, Review at Marc Foxx, Los Angeles, Artforum.com, www.artforum.com November 5
2003
Simons, Raf, Another Thing I Wanted to Tell You: Evan Holloway, Another Magazine, Spring/Summer, p.102
Sanders, Mark, The American Dollar Bill, Another Magazine, Spring/Summer (curated portfolio)
Intra, Giovanni, When Bad Attitude Becomes Form, The Moderns, Castello di Rivoli, Torino (essay republished)
Pagel, David, Evan Holloway at Marc Foxx: A video exhibit that mocks video, The Los Angeles Times, January 17
2002
Pontégnie, Anne, Evan Holloway at Xavier Hufkens, Artforum.com, www.artforum.com, Summer
JMB, Deze Week in Brussel, August 22-29
Rinder, Lawrence, Evan Holloway, Whitney Biennial 2002, p.107
Farquharson, Alex, The New Americans at Barbican, Artforum, March, p. 136
O’Reilly, Sally, Evan Holloway at The Approach, Freize, March, p. 88-89
Gellatly, Andrew, 2002 California Biennial, Frieze, January/February, p.99-100
2001
Hainley, Bruce, Top 10, Artforum, December, p. 104
Sladen, Mark, Young Americans, November, pp.50-55
Marie, Annika, Evan Holloway at Marc Foxx, Art Issues, September/October, p. 47
Harvey, Doug, Snapshot: Multiple Exposures, LA Weekly, June 22-28, p. 53
Pagel, David, Evan Holloway at Marc Foxx: A Few Tests to See How Much Input the Brain Can Handle, The Los Angeles Times, June 8
Coles, Sadie, Mario Testino’s Art Index, V, May/June
Bonetti, David, Bay City Best; Top Picks For The Coming Week, San Francisco Chronicle Magazine, January 28, p. 4
Baker, Kenneth, Just Look at the Sculpture And There Is Los Angeles, San Francisco Chronicle, January 27
Intra, Giovanni, Evan Holloway: When Bad Attitude Becomes Form, Art/Text, No. 72, February - April, pp. 52-53
Romeo, Filippo, Shockwave, Flash Art International, December/January p. 122
2000
Blackwell, Josh, MISE EN SCENE; New LA Sculpture, Art Issues, September/October, p. 56
Hainley, Bruce, Towards a Funner Laocoon, Artforum, Summer, pp. 166-173
Knight, Christopher, MISE EN SCENE: A Web of Illusion, Los Angeles Times, June 28
1999
Hainley, Bruce, Infinity and Beyond, Frieze, Issue 47, June - August, p.90
Schwabsky, Barry, Suddenly This Summer, Art In America, October, pp.33-37
Jason Meadows and Evan Holloway, OBJECT LESSON, Cakewalk, Fall
1998
Zyzzyva, Spring, Vol. XIV 1, cover
Smith, Roberta, Brighten the Corners: Five Artists from Los Angeles, The New York Times, April 24
Turner, Grady T., Brighten the Corners, New York Arts, May, p. 25
Isé, Claudine, Group Show at Marc Foxx: Finding New Uses for Household Items, Los Angeles Times, April 11
Hainley, Bruce, Malibu Sex Party, Artforum, February, p. 98
Cooper, Jacqueline, Review of Black Cabinet, Chicago New Art Examiner, February
Hainley, Bruce, Evan Holloway at Marc Foxx, Artforum, January, p.106
1997
Wilson, William, Progress Offers Likable Exercise in Sculpture, Los Angeles Times, August 12, p. 6
Kandel, Susan, Group Show at Dan Bernier: Young Ideas, Los Angeles Times, June 13
Cooper, Dennis, Too Cool for School, SPIN, July, pp. 86-94
Young, Paul, An A for Art, BUZZ, June/July, p. 34
1996
Cooper, Dennis, Tots and Toys, Artforum, December, p. 13
1994
Einstein’s Birthday, Tacoma News Tribune
McLennan, Douglas, Music Architecture Elements; Add Interest to Art Walk, Tacoma News Tribune, February 17, p.11
1993
About Face, Reflex Magazine
Publications
2011
Home Show, Revisited, Santa Barbara Contemporary Art Forum, USA
ALL OF THIS AND NOTHING, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, US
2010
Sculpture Today, Phaidon Press Limited
2009
Vitamin 3-D: New Perspectives in Sculpture and Installation, Phaidon Press Limited
2008
Need:2008 California Biennial catalog
Moby Dick, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, USA
The Wizard of Oz, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, USA
2007
ICE CREAM, Phaidon Press Limited
2006
The Uncertainty of Objects & Ideas, Hirschhorn Museum & Sculpture Garden, Simithsonian
Institution, Washington, USA
2005
LA Artland: Contemporary Art from Los Angeles, Black Dog Publishing
2004
Baja to Vancouver: The West Coast in Contemporary Art, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, USA
2003
The Moderns, Castello di Rivoli, Torino, Italy
Guided by Heroes, Z33, Belgium
2002
Whitney Biennial 2002, Whitney Museum, New York, USA
California Biennial, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, USA
Rock My World, CCAC, San Francisco, USA
2001
The Americans, The Barbican, London, UK
2000
MISE EN SCENE; New LA Sculpture, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, USA
1999
Play Mode, University of California, Irvine, USA
Awards and Residencies
2005
FOCA Grant
2004
Penny McCall Foundation Award
2003
Jentel Artists Residency Program, Banner, USA
2002
Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award
Collections
Fondazione Morra Greco, Naples, Italy
Initial Access Frank Cohen Collection, Wolverhampton, UK
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, USA
Smithsonian Hirshorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington DC, USA
Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, USA
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, USA
Whitney Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, USA
Laguna Art Museum, USA
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, USA