Not to be confused with Greeley, PA sculptor of the same name. Tom Holmes is an American artist based in

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Education

Holmes received a

Bachelor of Fine Arts A Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) is a standard undergraduate degree for students for pursuing a professional education in the visual, fine or performing arts. It is also called Bachelor of Visual Arts (BVA) in some cases. Background The Bachelor ...

from

the University of Texas at Austin The University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin, UT, or Texas) is a public research university in Austin, Texas. It was founded in 1883 and is the oldest institution in the University of Texas System. With 40,916 undergraduate students, 11,075 ...

in 1999, the student of

Peter Saul Peter Saul (born August 16, 1934) is an American painter. His work has connections with Pop Art, Surrealism, and Expressionism. His early use of pop culture cartoon references in the late 1950s and very early 1960s situates him as one of the fa ...

and

Linda Montano Linda Mary Montano (born January 18, 1942, Saugerties (town), New York, Saugerties, New York (state), New York) is an American performance artist. Early life Montano was raised in a devoutly Roman Catholic household, partly Irish and partly Itali ...

. They received a

Master of Fine Arts A Master of Fine Arts (MFA or M.F.A.) is a terminal degree in fine arts, including visual arts, creative writing, graphic design, photography, filmmaking, dance, theatre, other performing arts and in some cases, theatre management or arts admini ...

from the

University of California Los Angeles The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) is a public land-grant research university in Los Angeles, California. UCLA's academic roots were established in 1881 as a teachers college then known as the southern branch of the California ...

in 2002 where they studied with

John Baldessari John Anthony Baldessari (June 17, 1931 – January 2, 2020) was an American conceptual artist known for his work featuring found photography and appropriated images. He lived and worked in Santa Monica and Venice, California. Initially a painter, ...

, Mary Kelly,

Paul McCarthy Paul McCarthy (born August 4, 1945) is a contemporary artist who lives and works in Los Angeles, California. Life McCarthy was born in Salt Lake City, Utah, in 1945. He studied art at Weber State University in Ogden, Utah, and later continued ...

Lari Pittman Lari George Pittman (born 1952 in Glendale, California) is a Colombian-American contemporary artist and painter. Pittman is an Emeritus Distinguished Professor of Painting and Drawing at the UCLA School of the Arts and Architecture. Early life ...

Pipilotti Rist Pipilotti Elisabeth Rist (born 21 June 1962) is a Swiss visual artist best known for creating experimental video art and installation art. Her work is often described as surreal, intimate, abstract art, having a preoccupation with the female bo ...

and

Wolfgang Tillmans Wolfgang Tillmans (born 16 August 1968) is a German photographer. His diverse body of work is distinguished by observation of his surroundings and an ongoing investigation of the photographic medium’s foundations. Tillmans was the first photog ...

. The artist worked briefly for

Richard Tuttle Richard Dean Tuttle (born July 12, 1941) is an American postminimalist artist known for his small, casual, subtle, intimate works. His art makes use of scale and line. His works span a range of formats, from sculpture, painting, drawing, printma ...

in 2005.

Exhibitions

Holmes mounted their first solo museum show
Temporary Monument
' in 2013 at the

Kunsthalle Bern The Kunsthalle Bern is a ''Kunsthalle'' (art exposition hall) on the Helvetiaplatz in Bern, Switzerland. It was built in 1917–1918 by the Kunsthalle Bern Association and opened on October 5, 1918. Since then, it has been the site of numerous e ...

. Their work has been included in exhibitions at

Palais de Tokyo The Palais de Tokyo (''Tokyo Palace'') is a building dedicated to modern and contemporary art, located at 13 avenue du Président-Wilson, facing the Trocadéro, in the 16th arrondissement of Paris. The eastern wing of the building belongs to ...

, Paris; Contemporary Art Biennial,

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, France;

Malmö Konstmuseum Malmö (, ; da, Malmø ) is the largest city in the Swedish county (län) of Scania (Skåne). It is the third-largest city in Sweden, after Stockholm and Gothenburg, and the sixth-largest city in the Nordic region, with a municipal popu ...

, Sweden and the Whitney Museum at Altria, New York. Work resides in the public collections of Albright-Knox
FRAC BourgogneStiftung Kunsthalle Bern
an
The Frances Young Tang Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College

Artwork

Working within the "problems of abstraction" the artist often takes up a class-conscious

cultural critic A cultural critic is a critic of a given culture, usually as a whole. Cultural criticism has significant overlap with social and cultural theory. While such criticism is simply part of the self-consciousness of the culture, the social positions of ...

ism through the genre of the

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as well as processes derived from psychic automatism. Utilizing abstract compositional constructions and modest sculptural materials, such as concrete blocks, folding chairs, and cereal boxes, the works bear witness to the condition of the inevitable. Anne Doran writes, Holmes's work is "redolent of institutional limbos and marginal lives, with shrill bottom notes of failure and fear."

Honors

100 W Corsicana
* Joan Mitchell Center *

Pollock-Krasner Foundation The Pollock-Krasner Foundation was established in 1985 for the purpose of providing financial assistance to individual working artists of established ability. It was established at the bequest of Lee Krasner, who was an American abstract expression ...

* Edward F. Albee Foundation
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The Helene Wurlitzer Foundation
* Reed Foundation

Publications/Press

Mark Jenkins, 'In the Galleries: Tom Holmes', The Washington Post

Trey Burns, 'Tom Holmes', 100 W Corsicana

Andrew Russeth, ‘Tom Holmes: Piss Yellow / Bars and Stars at Bureau, GalleristNY.com

Boško Blagojevic, ‘Critic’s Pick: Piss Yellow / Bars and Stars’, Artforum.com

"First Proof - Portfolio: Tom Holmes", ''Bomb,'' Fall 2013, pp. 65, 68-9.
* ''Whitney Museum of American Art at Altria: 25 Years''. New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 2008. Print. () * Rist, Pipilotti, Richard Julin, and Tessa Praun. ''Pipilotti Rist: Congratulations!''Baden: Lars Müller, 2007. Print. () * Dorfsman, Alex, and Yoshua Okon. ''La Panadería, 1994-2002''. México, D.F.: Editorial Turner De México, 2005. Print. ()

References

External links

* Tom Holmes is represented in NYC b
BUREAU
* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSzkNi1cUbI
https://efremidisgallery.com/exhibitions/razor-blade-candy/#images
* https://www.vonammon.co/tom-holmes *https://asiancurator.com/tom-holmes/ *https://www.albrightknox.org/person/tom-holmes * https://kunsthalle-bern.ch/ausstellungen/2013/tom-holmes/?search_highlighter=Tom+Holmes
http://www.catherinebastide.com/sites/default/files/other-artists/files/Dossier%20Complet%20ANGL.pdf
* Dispatch http://www.dispatchbureau.com/projects/2010.holmes.html * http://www.galerie-fuer-gegenwartskunst.de/ausstellungen/
https://www.bu.edu/cfa/tuesday-night-lecture-series-tom-holmes/
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