Frank Holliday Explained

Frank Holliday
Birth Place:	Greensboro, North Carolina, U.S.
Known For:	Painting, performance
Training:	School of Visual Arts, New York City
Movement:	Neo-expressionism, East Village
Awards:	Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Grant, Pollock-Krasner Grant, Guggenheim Fellowship

Frank Holliday (born 1957, North Carolina) is an American painter who became known in the New York City 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^[1] Ann Magnuson and Kenny Scharf.

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^[2]
• 2007 The New York Times Holland Cotter
• 2004 Gay City News "Queering MoMA", a panel discussion with artists "Frank Holliday", Carrie Moyer, Stephen Mueller, Sheila Pepe and Andrew Cornell Robinson.
• 2003 Art Net March Walter Robinson
• 2003 Gay City News March 23, 2003, Mick Meehan
• 2002 Art in America January 1, 2003^[3]
• 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
• 1988 Juliet Spray International Survey
• 1984 The New York Times The Beast by Grace Glueck
• 1984 Flash Art East Village By N. Moufourrage

Grants

• 2015 Guggenheim Fellowship^[4]
• 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: School of Visual Arts 1979
• San Francisco Art Institute
• New York Studio School

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, Carrie Moyer, Stephen Mueller, Sheila Pepe and Andrew Cornell Robinson.
• Article about Frank Holliday's award of the Gottlieb and Pollock-Krasner grants

Notes and References

1. Keith Haring Journals By Keith Haring, Shepard Fairey, Robert Farris Thompson. Penguin, Jan 26, 2010 pages
2. https://web.archive.org/web/20091010215319/http://www.observer.com/2009/movies/gallery-fake-paintings-are-real Observer.com
3. Web site: FindArticles.com CBSi.
4. Web site: John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Frank Holliday.