Frank Holliday (born 1957, North Carolina) is an American

painter Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a solid surface (called the "matrix" or "support"). The medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush, but other implements, such as knives, sponges, and ai ...

who became known in the

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art world in the 1970s and 1980s. He is often associated with the East Village scene and associated with Club 57. His early career as an artist included working with Andy Warhol and close associations with artists such as

Keith Haring Keith Allen Haring (May 4, 1958 – February 16, 1990) was an American artist whose pop art emerged from the New York City graffiti subculture of the 1980s. His animated imagery has "become a widely recognized visual language". Much of his wor ...

Keith Haring Journals By Keith Haring, Shepard Fairey, Robert Farris Thompson. Penguin, Jan 26, 2010 pages

Ann Magnuson Ann Magnuson (born January 4, 1956) is an American actress, performance artist, and nightclub performer. She was described by ''The New York Times'' in 1990 as "An endearing theatrical chameleon who has as many characters at her fingertips as Lil ...

and

Kenny Scharf Kenny Scharf (born November 23, 1958) is an American painter known for his participation in New York City's interdisciplinary East Village art scene during the 1980s, alongside Jean-Michel Basquiat and Keith Haring. Scharf's do-it-yourself pract ...

Solo exhibitions

* 2006 Paintings on Paper Tintenets Gallery Beacon, NY * 2003 New Paintings Kenny Schachter ConTEMPorary, NYC * 2001 Trippin' In America Debs & Co., NYC * 1999 Rafa Series Debs & Co., NYC * 1998 New Paintings Samuel Manache, Mexico City, Mexico * 1997 Wah Wah Series Debs & Co., NYC * 1997 Eclipse The Kitchen, NYC * 1994 Paintings Dru Arstark Gallery, NYC * 1993 Inside/OutGAL Gallery, NC * 1990 New Paintings Tom Cugliani Gallery, NYC * 1989 New Paintings Tom Cugliani Gallery, NYC * 1987 New Paintings Tom Cugliani Gallery, NYC

Catalogs

* 2004 Biannua IEssay by Michael Braake * 2002 With Or Without YouEssay by Royce Smith * 2001 Tripping in AmericaEssay by Elizabeth Murray, Debs & Co. * Figure/Disfigure Essay by J. Toinick, URI * 1999 Wah Wah Series Essay by Anney Bonney, Nick Debs * No Show Essay by Dale Peck, Nick Debs * 1986 Correspondences Essay by N. Mouforrage

Bibliography

* 2009 ''New York Observer'', The Gallery Is Fake, But the Paintings Are Real, By Leon Neyfakh * 2007 ''The New York Times''

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* 2004 ''Gay City News'' "Queering MoMA", a panel discussion with artists "Frank Holliday",

Carrie Moyer Carrie Moyer is an American painter and writer living in Brooklyn, New York. Moyer's paintings and public art projects have been exhibited both in the US and Europe since the early 1990s. Life and work Carrie Moyer is a painter and writer who ha ...

, Stephen Mueller,

Sheila Pepe Sheila Pepe (born Morristown, New Jersey, 1959) is an artist and educator living and working in Brooklyn, New York. She is a prominent figure as a lesbian cross-disciplinary artist, whose work employs conceptualism, surrealism, and craft to addres ...

and

Andrew Cornell Robinson Andrew Cornell Robinson (born 1968) is an American artist and designer. He is based in New York City. Career Robinson's work spans various media from ceramics and painting to printmaking and sculpture. His work combines humor, history, and sculpt ...

. * 2003 Art Net March Walter Robinson * 2003 ''Gay City News'' March 23, 2003, Mick Meehan * 2002 ''

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'' January 1, 2003 * 2001 ''The New Yorker'' October 23, 2001 * 2001 ''The New York Times'' November 2, 2001, Review by Ken Johnson * 2000 ''Art Issues'' January 10, 2000, Review by David Humphrey * 2000 Absolute ArtBook * 1999 ''The New Yorker'' Pick * 1999 ''New York Magazine'' Pick * 1998 Excélsior Mexico City * 1998 Novedades Mexico City * 1998 El Reforma Mexico City * 1997 ''The New York Times'' Review by Ken Johnson * 1997 ''The New Yorker'' Pick * 1997 ''New York Magazine'' Pick * 1997 ''Art In America'' Holland Cotter * 1990 ''The New Yorker'' Pick * 1989 ''Art In America'' Review * 1989 Native New Yorker Review by

David Hirsh David Hirsh (born 29 September 1967) is a Senior Lecturer in Sociology at Goldsmiths, University of London, and co-founder of Engage, a campaign against the academic boycott of Israel. Early life and education Hirsh was raised in a Jewish fam ...

* 1988 Juliet Spray International Survey * 1984 ''The New York Times'' The Beast by

Grace Glueck Grace Glueck (July 24, 1926 – October 8, 2022) was an American arts journalist. She worked for ''The New York Times'' from 1951 until the early 2010s. Early life Glueck was born in New York City on July 24, 1926. Her father, Ernest, worked a ...

* 1984 Flash Art East Village By N. Moufourrage

Grants

* 2015

Guggenheim Fellowship Guggenheim Fellowships are grants that have been awarded annually since by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation to those "who have demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the ar ...

* 2010 Pollock Krasner Foundation Fellowship * 2010 Gottlieb Foundation Fellowship * 1986 National Endowment for the Arts

Collections

* Weatherspoon Museum * Museum Frederick Russe, Stockholm Sweden * Miniature Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands

Education

* BFA:

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1979 *

San Francisco Art Institute San Francisco Art Institute (SFAI) was a private college of contemporary art in San Francisco, California. Founded in 1871, SFAI was one of the oldest art schools in the United States and the oldest west of the Mississippi River. Approximately ...

New York Studio School The New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting and Sculpture at 8 West 8th Street, in Greenwich Village, Manhattan, New York City, New York State is an art school formed in 1963 by a group of students and their teacher, Mercedes Matter, all of ...

References

External links

Official website

Club 57 exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, with a video of Frank Holliday talking about the work and experiences from the club

Review of Frank Holliday's recent show, titled "Trippin' in America,"
Art in America, Feb, 2002
Article about Frank Holliday's work that he did for a film in 2009

"Queering MoMA"
a panel discussion and conversation with artists Frank Holliday,

, Stephen Mueller,

and

.
Article about Frank Holliday's award of the Gottlieb and Pollock-Krasner grants
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