1974 Born in Montgomery, AL, USA
Lives and works in Oakland, CA, USA
MFA, University of California at Berkeley, 2002
Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, 1999
BFA, California College of the Arts, 1999
Virginia Commonwealth University, sculpture, 1994-1996
Solo Exhibition
2014
Sophont in Action, di Rosa Gatehouse Gallery, Napa, CA
2013
Sophont, Philip J. Steele Gallery, Rocky Mountain College of Art and Design, Denver, CO
Destined to Disappear, The Armory Show 2013 with Jessica Silverman Gallery
2011
Desiree Holman: Heterotopias, Berkeley Art Museum, MATRIX, Curator: Elizabeth Thomas
2009
Desirée Holman, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA, Curator: Ali Subotnick (brochure)
Reborn, Silverman Gallery, San Francisco, CA.
Living History, Marc Selwyn Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA, Curators: Dean
Valentine & Marc Selwyn (two-person exhibition)
Make Believe, Thatcher Gallery at University of San Francisco, CA. 2008 The Magic Window, Machine Projects, Los Angeles, CA.
Desirée Holman Videos, Night Vision at the Climate Theater, San Francisco, CA.
2007
TV Honey: Desirée Holman with Lynda Benglis and Joan Jonas, Silverman Gallery, San Francisco, CA, Curator: Lawrence Rinder
2006
Desiree Holman: Bucolic Existence for my Unreal Life and Other Work, Lisa Boyle Gallery, Chicago, IL.
Effigy, YYZ Artistsʼ Outlet, Toronto, Canada, (publication)
2005
Troglodyte, Queens Nails Annex, San Francisco, CA
Breath Holes, San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery, CA, Curator: Mary Ceruti (catalogue)
Group Exhibition
2014
Way out West, The Art City Project, San Francisco, CA
Tooth and Nail, Vanity Projects, New York, NY
The Vastness is Bearable, MCA Santa Barbara, CA
New, New, New Abstraction, Toomey & Tourell Fine Art, San Francisco, CA
2013
Approxoimately Infinite Universe, Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA (forthcoming)
Thinking Like The Universe, K. Imperial Fine Art/Hatch Gallery, San Francisco/Oakland, CA
2012
I’m So Goth – I’m Dead!, Queens Nails Projects, San Francisco, CA
DocumentO, Kroswork, Oakland, CA
Big Reality, 319 Scholes Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2011
Intimacies, Gallery 400, Chicago
2010
Soft and Hard: Celebrating the humorous in Contemporary Video Art by Woman, Young Projects, Los Angeles, CA
In Wolves Clothing: Re-Imagining the Doll, The Shop @ Show Studio, London
Ordinary Miracles, Slaughterhouse Space, Healdsburg, CA.
Seven Easy Steps, Horton Gallery (Sunday L.E.S.), New York City, NY.
Five Centimeters Short, Rupert Goldsworthy Gallery, Berlin, Germany.
2009
Capricious: Looking Forward, Feeling Backwards, PPOW, New York City, NY.
Intelligent Design: Interspecies Art, University of California, Riverside Sweeney Art Gallery. Curators: Tyler Stallings and Rachel Mayeri.
Coté Court, Pantin, France. Curator: Shana Moulton.
2008
SECA Art Award, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA. Curators: Apsara DiQuinzio & Alison Gass (catalogue)
The Stan Brakhage Symposium, University of Colorado at Boulder. Curator: Steve Seid
Itʼs Not Us, Itʼs You, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, CA. Curator: Ray Beldner
2008
Twice Upon a Time, Galerie Andreas Huber, Vienna, Austria.
Cover, Museum of Modern Art, São Paulo, Brazil, Curator: Fernando Oliva (catalogue)
I-Legîtimo, Museum of Image & Sound and Paço das Artes, São Paulo, Brazil (catalogue)
Running Time: 24:00:00, Paul Gleason Theater, Los Angeles, CA.
Mineral Park, The Park Gallery, Falkirk, Scotland.
This One Goes Up to 11, http://whyandwherefore.com
Specter, CRG Gallery, NY, NY, Curator: Summer Guthery.
Second Thoughts,Hessel Museum of Art, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
My Footnote to David Askevold, Outpost for Contemporary Arts, Los Angeles, CA
2007
Coming Up, Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR.
A Century of CCA: Artists of Invention, Oakland Museum of Art, Oakland, CA. (book)
Body Double, Luckman Fine Arts Complex, Los Angeles, CA, Curators: Julie Joyce & Marco Rios. (catalogue)
Two Things at the Same Time, Peak Gallery, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
The Secretariat, Aftermodern, San Francsicso, CA, Curator: Geof Oppenheimer
2006
Glitch, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA.
Circles of Confusion, 49th San Francisco International Film Festival, AMC Kabuki 8
All Systems Go, Scope New York, Curator: Marisa Olsen/Rhizome, New York, NY
2005
Video installation at Omni Art Project, coinciding with Art Basel Miami Beach, Curator: Nina Arias, Miami, FL
The Peekskill Project, Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Peekskill, NY
Spark Video: New Local and International Video Art, Syracuse University
Cross Cuts, Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA
2004
The Love Show, The Drake, Toronto, Ontario, Canada (dvd catalogue)
Continuities, UC Davisʼ Nelson Museum, Davis, CA, Curator: Renny Pritikin
2003
Captivita, BnD Studios, Milan, Italy
The Pretendlings, New Langton Arts, San Francisco, CA, Curator: James Bewley
Portable Exhibition Venues, curated by Kate Pocrass, NY, NY and SF, CA
MiArt, BnD Studios, Milan, Italy
2002
Bay Area Now 3, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
Knew Knowledge, Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, CA, Curator: Heidi Zuckerman Jacobson (catalogue)
Home Movies, SF Camerawork, San Francisco, CA.
New Work: 2001 Kala Fellowship Exhibition, Kala Art Institute, Berkeley,CA
VIDEO Sho, Ego Park, Oakland, CA
Eisner Award Wining Films & Videos, Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, CA
Inside View, Pond, San Francisco, CA 2001
HiArt, Worth Ryder Gallery, Berkeley, CA
Skowhegan Alumni Exhibition, Knoedler Gallery, New York, NY 2000
HARC, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, CA
The San Francisco International Art Exposition, Refusalon Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Hi Touch/Hi Tech: Making Art in the 21st Century, Refusalon , San Francisco,CA and Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, CA, Curator: Larry Rinder
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Tromble, Meredith. We Are/ Are Not Animals. Online. August. 2009.
“Episode 203: Desiree Holman.” July 2009. Podcast.
“Bad at Sports: Contemporary Art Talk.”
Bakke, Erik. Desirée Holman: Reborn at Silverman Gallery. Online. June. 2009.
Helfand, Glen. Criticʼs Picks: San Francisco: Desirée Holman. Online. May. 2009.
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Melendez, Franklin. “The Young and Hungry Have Arrived.” San Francisco April 2009: 75-85.
Harmanci, Reyhan. “TV Eye.” California March/April 2009. Vol 120, No 2: 18-19.
Del Pesco, Joseph. SFMOMAʼs SECA Awards Show. Online. March 2009.
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Rinadli, Robin. “Desirée Holmanʼs Spooky Videos at the SFMOMA.” 7×7 Feb 2009.
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Firth-Eagland, Alissa. “Casting Kin: The Animations of Desiree Holman.” YYZ Nov. 2006.
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Select Institutional Collections
UCLA Armand Hammer Museum
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Berkeley Art Museum
Alameda County Art Collection (California)
University of California Davis Nelson Gallery and Fine Art Collection
University of California Riverside Sweeney Art Gallery
