Exhibitions

Lonnie Holley

Born 1950, Birmingham, AL
Lives and works in Atlanta, GA

Installation view, Frieze New York, 2019

Installation view, Which Do We Drop First The Baby or The Bomb?, James Fuentes, 2017

Installation view, The Weight of Everything, James Fuentes, 2017

Installation view, Frieze New York, 2015

You Forgot to Give Me Power, 2014. Wood, found house debris and radio, 72.5 x 12 x 8 inches

Memorial at Friendship Church, 2006. Metal, found debris, plastic flowers and ribbon, 38 x 31 x 27 inches

Sharing Eyes, 2014. Metal, 85 x 26.5 x 24.5 inches

Him, Her, And Them, 2005. Steel and aluminum, 48 x 44.5 x 39.5 inches

The Changing Colors in the Midst of the Rhino, 1985. Sandstone, 25 x 11 x 8 inches

If We Separate Church and State, 2014. Flag stand, wood and brass flag pole, and crucifix, 101.5 x 10 x 11 inches

My Fading Cross, 2014. Railroad ties, rope, chains, and roots, 102 x 29 x 4.5 inches

Grandmother's Stick, 2014. Stick, string, hair, and ribbon, 85 x 6 x 7.5 inches

Cross in the Hood, 1994. Wood, metal, shirt, found fabric, 83 x 25 x 6 inches

Don’t Mis-face Me, 2018. Wire. 33 x 26 x 11 inches. Frieze New York 2019

Installation view, The Weight of Everything, James Fuentes, 2017

New Angles Within, 2019. Found materials: wire, wood. 32 x 16 x 4 inches. Frieze New York 2019

To You All Of Africa, 1982. Sandstone. 13 x 10 x 7 inches. NADA Miami 2018

Elementary Drinker, 2014. Wood, markers and chain, 42 x 36 inches

Graffiti Mama, 2018. Found materials: wire with blue and yellow spray paint. 30 x 17 x 2 inches. Frieze New York 2019

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Born Birmingham, Alabama. Lives and works in Atlanta, Georgia

Selected Solo Exhibitions

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

2015

Something to Take My Place-The Art of Lonnie Holley, Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art; Charleston, SC

Supported by the Power-Lonnie Holley, John Hope Franklin Center, Duke University, Durham, NC

2014

Lonnie Holley, It’s Like Coming Home, Cash-Rojas Projects, Atlanta, GA

2013

Lonnie Holley: Keeping You Out of Harm’s Way, James Fuentes Gallery, New York, NY

Group Exhibitions

2018

DIFFERENCE ENGINE, Curated by Cory Arcangel and Tina Kukielski, Lisson, New York (Upcoming, June)

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, The Brant Foundation Art Study Center, Greenwich, CT

2016

Post Black Folk Art in America, 1930-1980-2016, Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art, Chicago, IL

2015

When the Curtain Never Comes Down, The American Folk Museum, New York, NY

Counterpoise, Kingsgate Gallery, London UK

2014

When the Stars Begin to Fall: Imagination and the American South, Studio Museum of Harlem, New York, NY

2013

Etched in Collective History, Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, AL

1998

Self-Taught Artists of the Twentieth Century: An American Anthology (traveling exhibition) Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA

Select Public Collections

American Folk Art Museum, New York, NY; Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, AL; Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA; High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Milwaukee Museum of Art, Milwaukee, WI; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX; New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, NJ; New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA; Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA; Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.

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