Holly Coulis (b. 1968, Toronto, Canada) received her BFA from the Ontario College of Art and Design, Toronto and her MFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. She had solo show at Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery, New York; Sardine, Brooklyn; Cherry and Martin, Los Angeles; Atlanta Contemporary, Atlanta, USA; Claudia Groeflin Gallery, Zurich; Groeflin Maag Galerie, Basel, Switzerland; Simon Lee, London, United Kingdom. She has shown her work at such galleries as Jack Hanley, New York; Hannah Hoffman Gallery, Los Angeles, USA; Cooper Cole, Toronto, Canada; Mikiko Sato Gallery, Hamburg, Germany; Anna Marra Contemporanea, Rome; Galleria d’Art Moderna, Milan; Galerie Glance, Turin, Italy; and Andréhn-Schiptjenko, Stockholm, Sweden. Coulis currently lives and works in Athens, Georgia, USA.
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Born 1968, Toronto, Canada
Lives and works in Athens, Georgia, USA
Education
1998
MFA in Fine Arts, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, USA
1995
BFA in Fine Arts, Ontario College of Art and Design, Toronto, Canada
Solo Exhibitions
2018
Island, Cooper Cole, Toronto, Canada
Viewing Room, Simon Lee, London, United Kingdom
2017
Table Studies, Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery, New York, USA
Days and Nights, Lemons, Cherry and Martin, Los Angeles, USA
2016
Dishes and Fruits, Atlanta Contemporary, Atlanta, USA
2015
Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery, Brooklyn, USA
Cherry and Martin, Los Angeles, USA
2014
PITCHERS, Sardine, Brooklyn, USA
2012
Cherry and Martin, Los Angeles, USA
Inside Out, University of Georgia, Athens, Greece
2010
Small Paintings, Solomon Projects, Atlanta, USA
2009
Rosa, Rosa, Claudia Groeflin Gallery, Zurich, Switzerland
2008
Men, Cherry and Martin, Los Angeles, USA
Some People, Lamontagne Gallery, Boston, USA
2006
Groeflin Maag Galerie, Basel, Switzerland
Cherry and Martin, Los Angeles, USA
2004
Stories for Georgia, Groeflin Maag Galerie, Basel, Switzerland
Selves, Greener Pastures Contemporary Art, Toronto, Canada
2003
Happenstance, LFL Gallery, New York, USA
Group Exhibitions
2018
Rose Is A Rose Is A Rose Is A Rose, curated by Nikki Maloof & Louis Fratino, Jack Hanley, New York, USA
Gangs of New York, Adds Donna, Chicago, USA
Line and Verse, curated by Ridley Howard, Andréhn-Schiptjenko, Stockholm, Sweden
2017
Sitting Still, BravinLee, New York, USA
Oliver Twist, Rental Gallery, East Hampton, New York, USA
2016
Postcard from New York – Part I, at Anna Marra Contemporanea, Rome, Italy
A Change of Heart, curated by Chris Sharp, Hannah Hoffman Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
If Only Bella Abzug Were Here, Marc Straus Gallery, New York, USA
No Empty Vessels, Gildar Gallery, Denver, USA
Dream Song 386, curated by Keith J. Varadi, Cooper Cole, Toronto, Canada
The Other Side, Monya Rowe Gallery, St. Augustine, USA
2015
Around Flat, curated by William Staples, The Knockdown Center, Queens, USA
Tomorrow is Yesterday, Mikiko Sato Gallery, Hamburg, Germany Suddenly, Last Summer, Longhouse Projects, New York, USA
Don’t Shoot the Painter: Paintings from the UBS Art Collection, Galleria d’Art Moderna, Milan, Italy
2014
Sargent’s Daughters, Sargent’s Daughters, New York, USA
Salad, curated by Jennifer Coates, Jeff Bailey Hudson, New York, USA
The Last Brucennial, The Bruce High Quality Foundation, New York, USA
2013
Aliza Nisenmaum & Holly Coulis, Susanne Hilberry Gallery, Ferndale, USA
Fiction/Non-Fiction, Storefront Gallery, Bushwick, USA
1000 Little Deaths, curated by Tom Sanford, Bravin Lee Projects, New York, USA
Hot Fun in the Summertime, Reynolds Gallery, Richmond, USA
2012
En Plein Air, Stefan Stux Gallery, New York, USA
BigSkyMind, Bull and Ram, New York, USA
i glove you, Reynolds Gallery, Richmond, USA
Leave it to Beavers, Gallery Diet, Miami, USA
2011
Drawn, Storefront Gallery, Bushwick, USA
Fresh Paint, Standpipe Gallery, New York, USA
Russ and Liz’s Ultimate Playlist, Four Eleven Studio, Provincetown, USA
2010
Long, Long Gone, Leo Koenig Gallery, New York, USA
Big Picture, Priska Juschka Fine Art, New York, USA
Last Thursday, Lamontagne Gallery, Boston, USA
Bushwick Schlacht!, Fortress to Solitude, Brooklyn, USA
Animal Companions, CCA Andratx, Andratx, Spain
2009
Figuratively Seeing, Massachussetts College of Art and Design, New York, USA
From Yarn to Yucca – A Continuation in the Dialogue between Abstraction and Figuration, John Connelly Presents, New York, USA
First Show, Cherry and Martin, Los Angeles, USA
After the Goldrush, 106 Green, Brooklyn, USA
2008
New York, New Work: The Object Direct in Recent Art, Mississippi State
University Department of Art Gallery, Mississippi State, USA
Admirer, 31 Grand, curated by Maureen Cavanaugh, New York, USA
In Your Face, BUIA Gallery, New York, USA
The Drawing Narrative, Jenny Jaskey Gallery, Philadelphia, USA
2007
Rearview, Frieght & Volume, New York, USA
NeoIntegrity, curated by Keith Mayerson, Derek Eller Gallery, New York, USA
carel, coulis, pfefferkorn, Theirry Goldberg Projects, New York, USA
2006
Stiff, Gallery 4000, curated by Ann Toebbe, Chicago, USA
Ben Butler, Holly Coulis, Ridley Howard, Galerie Glance, Turin, Italy
2005
Interesting Painting, Gallery 400, University of Chicago, Chicago, USA
Summer Pleasures, Mark Moore Gallery, Santa Monica, USA
Séance, Fort Point Arts Community Gallery, Boston, USA
2004
Where do we come from? What are we? Where are we going?, Champion
Fine Art, Culver City, USA
She’s Come Undone, Artemis Greenberg VanDoren Gallery, New York, USA
Marilyn, Sean Kelly Gallery, New York, USA
Autumn, Sixtyseven Gallery, New York, USA
2003
Sandroni Rey Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
2002
Holly Coulis/Dana Schutz, LFL Gallery, New York, USA
Emerging New York Artists, Arno Maris Gallery, Westfield State College, USA
DNA at DAN, DNA Gallery, Provincetown, USA
International Contemporary and Emerging Art, Lawson Menzies Flynn, Sydney, Australia
2001
I See You 2, Fredericks Freiser Gallery, New York, USA
Passing Through: Women Artists in Brooklyn, Shaqab College of Design Arts, Doha, Qatar
Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, USA
Open, LFL Gallery, New York, USA
2000
Winter Paper, Catherine Moore Fine Art, New York, USA
The Pierogi Flatfiles, H & R Block Art Space, Kansas City, USA
1999
Go Figure!, Clifford-Smith Gallery, Boston, USA
Escape, DNA Gallery, Provincetown, USA
1998
Emblem, The Mills Gallery, Boston Center for the Arts, curated by Shelly
Bancroft, Boston, USA
Bibliography
2017
Colvin, Rob, A Playful Take on the Still Life, Hyperallergic.com, October 14, 2017
Rosenfeld, Jason, Holly Coulis: Table Studies, Brooklyn Rail, October 5, 2017
Schwendener, Martha, Holly Coulis, New York Times, October 4, 2017
2016
Tarmy, James, “Investing in Art? Here are 10 Young Artists to watch in 2017,” Bloomberg.com, December 16, 2016
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2015
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2014
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2013
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2012
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2010
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2009
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2008
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2006
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2005
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2004
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2003
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2002
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1999
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1998
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