Lonnie Holley
Born 1950, 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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CV (Selection)
Born Birmingham, Alabama. Lives and works in Atlanta, Georgia
Selected Solo Exhibitions
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
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, New York, NY
Group Exhibitions
2019
My Head is a Haunted House, curated by Charlie Fox, Sadie Coles, London
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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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 in The New York Times (PDF↓)
Lonnie Holley on Artnet (PDF↓)
Lonnie Holley at The Halsey Institute (PDF↓)
Lonnie Holley in the Financial Times (PDF↓)
Lonnie Holley at Frieze New York (PDF↓)
Lonnie Holley in Artnet (PDF↓)