Lonnie Holley
Born 1950 in Birmingham, AL
Lives and works in Atlanta, GA
Installation view, The Weight of Everything, James Fuentes, 2017
Installation view, The Weight of Everything, James Fuentes, 2017
Installation view, The Weight of Everything, James Fuentes, 2017
Installation view, Which Do We Drop First The Baby or The Bomb?, James Fuentes, 2017
Installation view, Which Do We Drop First The Baby or The Bomb?, James Fuentes, 2017
Installation view, Which Do We Drop First The Baby or The Bomb?, James Fuentes, 2017
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SOLO EXHIBITIONS (SELECTED)
2021
Parrish Art Museum, Water Mill, NY
2019
Somewhere in a Dream I Got Lost: Works by Lonnie Holley, Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, NC
2017
The Weight of Everything, James Fuentes, New York, NY
Lonnie Holley: I Snuck Off the Slave Ship, Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta, GA.
Lonnie Holley: Which Do We Drop First, the Baby or the Bomb? James Fuentes, New York, NY
GROUP EXHIBITIONS (SELECTED)
2020
Forms of Life, 2020, Morán Morán, Los Angeles, CA
2019
Cosmologies from the Tree of Life: Art from the African American South, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA
Straighten Up The World: Self-Taught Art from the Collection, Museum of Fine Arts, Saint Petersburg, FL
Souls Grown Deep: Artists of the African American South, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA
In The Hot Seat, KMAC Museum, Louisville, KY
2018
Difference Engine, Curated by Cory Arcangel and Tina Kukielski, Lisson Gallery, New York, NY
History Refused to Die: Highlights from the Souls Grown Deep Foundation Gift, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Outliers and American Vanguard Art, The National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
2017
Strange Attractors: the Anthology of Interplanetary Folk Art Vol.1 Life on Earth, Curated by Bob Nickas, Redling Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA
Thumbs Up for the Mother Ship (Lonnie Holley and Dawn DeDeaux), MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA
Revelations: Art from the African
American South, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco (de Young Museum), San Francisco, CA
Animal Farm, curated by Sadie Laska, The Brant Foundation, Greenwich, CT
COLLECTIONS
American Folk Art Museum, New York, NY
Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, AL
De Young Museum, San Francisco, CA
High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Michael C. Carlos Museum, Emory University, Atlanta, GA
Milwaukee Museum of Art, Milwaukee, WI
Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, MN
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, NJ
New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA
Smithsonian American Museum of Art, Washington, DC
AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS
2020
Elaine de Kooning House Residency, East Hampton, NY
2014
Robert Rauschenberg Residency, Captiva Island, FL
2006
Joan Mitchell Fellowship
News
Lonnie Holley in My Head is a Haunted House at Sadie Coles
Lonnie Holley in The New Yorker (PDF↓)
"The Unseen" in the New Yorker (PDF↓)
Lonnie Holley at The Fields at Art Omi
Lonnie Holley at the Met on Hyperallergic (PDF↓)
Lonnie Holley at the Met is a New York Times Critics Pick (PDF↓)
Lonnie Holley at the Met in The Art Newspaper (PDF↓)
Lonnie Holley at the Met on Artnet (PDF↓)
Lonnie Holley at the National Gallery in The New York Times
Lonnie Holley in "History Refused to Die" at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Lonnie Holley in "Outliers and American Vanguard Art" at The National Gallery, Washington, DC
Lonnie Holley listed on Artnews 34 Artworks NADA Miami 2017
Lonnie Holley: The Weight of Everything on Contemporary Art Daily
Lonnie Holley on Hyperallergic
Lonnie Holley in SF Weekly (PDF↓)
Lonnie Holley on Contemporary Art Daily (PDF↓)
Lonnie Holley on Artnet (PDF↓)
Lonnie Holley at The Halsey Institute
Lonnie Holley at The Halsey Institute (PDF↓)
Lonnie Holley in the Financial Times
Lonnie Holley in the Financial Times (PDF↓)
Lonnie Holley at Frieze New York (PDF↓)
Lonnie Holley in Artnet (PDF↓)
Lonnie Holley in The New York Times
Lonnie Holley in The New York Times (PDF↓)