Katie Holten Explained

Katie Holten
Birth Date:	1975 9, df=y
Birth Place:	Dublin, Ireland
Nationality:	Irish
Education:	National College of Art and Design Hochschule der Kunste Cornell University
Occupation:	visual artist
Website:	http://www.katieholten.com

Katie Holten is a contemporary Irish artist whose artwork focuses on humans' impact on the natural environment.^[1]

Career

Her mother was a gardener and a floral artist. She graduated from National College of Art and Design 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.^{[2] [3]} Holten was chosen to represent Ireland at the 50th Venice Biennale in 2003.

Work

Holten's work is often made from recycled materials, and involves maps, plants, and various ecological subjects, provoking a dialogue on issues ranging from biodiversity to global warming.

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."^[4] In works like "Uprooted", the very shadows cast on the walls are part of the work.^[5]

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.^{[6] [7]} "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."^[8]

Exhibitions

• 2013
  • "Uprooted" in the Sensing Change Exhibit at the Chemical Heritage Foundation, Philadelphia, US.^{[9] [10]}
• 2012
  • "Drawn to the Edge" in New Orlean's Museum of Art, New Orleans, US (15 June – 9 September 2012)^{[11] [12] [13]}
  • "Light and Landscape", Storm King Art Center, Mountainville, New York City (12 May – 11 November 2012)^[14]
  • Katie Holten, FUTURA, Prague, Czech Republic (11 September – 25 November 2012)
• 2011
• 2010
  • The Golden Bough, Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane, Dublin, Ireland^{[15] [16]}
  • Solo exhibition, VAN HORN, Düsseldorf, Germany^[17]
• 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, Wave Hill, New York City Department of Parks and Recreation (solo)
  • Compilation IV, 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
  • Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, Missouri, US (solo)^[18]
  • VAN HORN, Düsseldorf, Germany (solo)
  • Schuermann Berlin, Germany (solo)
  • Neuer Aachener Kunstverein, Aachen, Germany
  • Pforzheim Kunstverein, Germany
  • Angel Row Gallery, Nottingham, UK
• 2006
  • Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, 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
  • CREATIVE TIME, New York City
  • Wallspace Gallery, New York City
  • LMAK Projects, New York City
• 2003
  • Irish Pavilion, Venice Biennale, Italy
  • Butler Gallery, Kilkenny, Ireland
  • W139, 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, Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, 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,

External links

• Katie Holten artist's website
• Gasser & Grunert New York gallery
• VAN HORN Düsseldorf, Germany
• Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis solo museum exhibition, 2007
• The New Yorker Talk of the Town piece by Ian Frazier, 2009
• ARTFORUM Review of solo exhibition, 2010
• katieholten.com/ARTFORUM

Notes and References

1. http://www.nevadaart.org/exhibitions/exhibition_display.php?id=119 "NMA Exhibitions: KATIE HOLTEN Atlas of Memory"
2. http://www.rte.ie/arts/2002/0410/holtenk.html "Winner of AIB Art Prize announced", RTE Entertainment, Apr. 10, 2002.
3. http://www.recirca.com/artnews/119.shtml "Holten takes AIB Prize", Circa, Apr. 16, 2002.
4. Web site: Interview with Katie Holten. Greeno. 24 January 2014. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20140201190338/http://www.greeno.it/home/interview-with-katie-holten/. 1 February 2014.
5. Web site: Uprooted. Science History Institute. 26 March 2018.
6. Web site: Tree Museum. 24 January 2014.
7. Web site: Holten. Katie. Tree Museum. Arts21 Magazine. 10 December 2009. 24 January 2014.
8. News: Dwyer. Jim. A Museum of Trees That Speak of History. 24 January 2014. The New York Times. 5 June 2009.
9. Web site: Sensing Change. Chemical Heritage Foundation. 26 March 2018.
10. Web site: Thomas-Anderson. Monet. Sensing Change at the Chemical Heritage Foundation. 1 July 2013. CampusPhilly. 24 January 2014. https://web.archive.org/web/20130804044427/http://campusphilly.org/2013/07/01/sensing-change-at-the-chemical-heritage-foundation/. 4 August 2013. dead.
11. Web site: Katie Holten: Drawn to the Edge. NOMA. 24 January 2014. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20140117011738/http://noma.org/exhibitions/detail/52. 17 January 2014.
12. News: MacCash. Doug. Irish artist Katie Holten's edgy landscape drawings at NOMA tonight. 24 January 2014. The Times-Picayune. 15 June 2012.
13. Web site: Holten. Katie. 500 Words. ArtsForum. 2 July 2012. 22 January 2014.
14. Web site: Lawrence. Nora. Light and Landscape. 2012. Storm King Art Center. 24 January 2014.
15. Web site: The Golden Bough: Katie Holten. Hugh Lane. 24 January 2014.
16. Web site: Katie Holten. Paper Visual Art Journal. 24 January 2014. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20140201154941/http://papervisualart.com/?page_id=2819. 1 February 2014.
17. Web site: KATIE HOLTEN, 2010. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20140201204748/http://www.van-horn.net/exhibitions/past-exhibitions/2010/katie-holten.html. 1 February 2014. Van Horn. 24 January 2014.
18. Web site: Katie Holten: Paths of Desire. Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis.. 22 January 2014. 18 May 2007.