Katie Holten is a contemporary Irish artist whose artwork focuses on humans' impact on the natural environment."NMA Exhibitions: KATIE HOLTEN Atlas of Memory"

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, Sep. 27, 2008 – May 17, 2009, Retrieved Apr. 6, 2009.

Career

Her mother was a gardener and a floral artist. She graduated from

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in Dublin in 1998. In 2004 Holten was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to develop her practice in New York. In 2002, Holten was awarded €20,000 as the winner of the AIB art awards."Holten takes AIB Prize", ''Circa'', Apr. 16, 2002.
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in 2003.

Work

Holten's work is often made from recycled materials, and involves

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s, plants, and various ecological subjects, provoking a dialogue on issues ranging from

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. Drawing is central to Holten's work. She is fascinated by the process of transforming two-dimensional drawings to three-dimensional works. "In a sense, no matter what form they end up taking, all of my works can be considered drawings. I have a wide-open understanding of what drawing is. It's lines created on a page, in space, on screen, on a wall, through walking, flying, talking, via graphite, ink, sand, stones, wind, sound, ether, time… Drawing is a way to chart what is there, what might be there, what could be there." In works like "Uprooted", the very shadows cast on the walls are part of the work. In 2007 Holten was commissioned by The Bronx Museum of the Arts, Wave Hill and the NYC Department of Parks & Recreation to create "Tree Museum", a public artwork celebrating the 2009 centennial of the Grand Concourse, Bronx, NY. "She has marked out 100 trees along the Concourse, which is about four and a half miles long. Each one will have a sign that gives a phone number and a code to listen to short recordings of people speaking about the Bronx, their lives and their work."

Exhibitions

*2013 **"Uprooted" in the Sensing Change Exhibit at the

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, Philadelphia, US. *2012 **"Drawn to the Edge" in New Orlean's Museum of Art, New Orleans, US (15 June – 9 September 2012) **"Light and Landscape", Storm King Art Center, Mountainville, New York City (12 May – 11 November 2012) **Katie Holten, FUTURA, Prague, Czech Republic (11 September – 25 November 2012) *2011 *2010 **The Golden Bough, Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane, Dublin, Ireland **Solo exhibition, VAN HORN, Düsseldorf, Germany *2009
Green Platform
Palazzo Strozzi, Florence, Italy
Subversive Spaces
The Whitworth Art Gallery, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK **Public Art Commission, New York, The Bronx Museum of the Arts,

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(solo)
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Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Germany *2008 **ATLAS of MEMORY, Nevada Museum of Art, Reno (solo) **IMPLANT, The Horticultural Society of New York at UBS, New York **Villa Merkel, Esslingen am Luckar, Germany (solo) **Klemens Gasser & Tanja Grunert, Inc. New York City (solo) *2007 **

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, Missouri, US (solo) **VAN HORN, Düsseldorf, Germany (solo) **Schuermann Berlin, Germany (solo) **Neuer Aachener Kunstverein, Aachen, Germany **Pforzheim Kunstverein, Germany **Angel Row Gallery, Nottingham, UK *2006 **

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, Philadelphia, US **KBH Kunsthal, Copenhagen, Denmark (solo)
Fondation d'entreprise Ricard
Paris, France **Goettingen Kunstverein, Goettingen, Germany **GRAN BAZAAR, Centro Historico, Mexico City, Mexico (solo) *2005 **Wiener Secession, Vienna, Austria **

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, New York City **Wallspace Gallery, New York City
LMAK Projects
New York City *2003 **Irish Pavilion, Venice Biennale, Italy **Butler Gallery, Kilkenny, Ireland **

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, Amsterdam, The Netherlands *2002 **Temple Bar Gallery, Dublin, Ireland

Bibliography

*''Katie Holten'', a Van Horn Press book published by Revolver, Germany, 2007, *''Katie Holten: Paths of Desire'',

, Missouri, 2007, *''GRAN BAZAAR'', Tûp Institute and m o s t r a, printed in Mexico City, 2006, *''En Upassende Sandhed'', Pork Salad Press, Copenhagen, 2006, *''notional'', Coracle Press, Clonmel, 2003, *''Procumbent Notions'', Pork Salad Press, Copenhagen, 2003, *''Katie Holten and others: Drawings, Instances, Collaborations + Texts'', Tûp Institute and Temple Bar Gallery and Studio, Dublin, 2002,

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