Born in Toronto, Canada
Lives and works in Brooklyn, NY

 

EDUCATION

1998 MFA in Fine Arts, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
1995 BFA in Fine Arts, Ontario College of Art and Design, Toronto, ON

 

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2008
Some People, Lamontagne Gallery, Boston, MA

2006
Groeflin Maag Galerie, Basel, Switzerland
Cherry and Martin, Los Angeles, CA

2004
Stories for Georgia, Groeflin Maag Galerie, Basel, Switzerland
Selves, Greener Pastures Contemporary Art, Toronto, Canada

2003
Happenstance, LFL Gallery, New York, NY

 

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2008
The Drawing Narrative, Jenny Jaskey Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

2007
Rearview, Frieght & Volume, New York, NY.
NeoIntegrity, curated by Keith Mayerson, Derek Eller Gallery, New York, NY.
carel, coulis, pfefferkorn, Theirry Goldberg Projects, New York, NY

2006
Stiff, Gallery 4000, curated by Ann Toebbe, Chicago, IL
Ben Butler, Holly Coulis, Ridley Howard, Galerie Glance, Turin, Italy

2005
Interested Painting, Gallery 400, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Summer Pleasures, Mark Moore Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Séance, Fort Point Gallery, Boston, MA

2004
Where do we come from? What are we? Where are we going?, Champion Fine Art,Culver City, CA
She's Come Undone, Artemis Greenberg VanDoren Gallery, New York, NY
Marilyn, Sean Kelly Gallery, New York, NY
Autumn, Sixtyseven Gallery, New York, NY

2003
Sandroni Rey Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2002
Holly Coulis/Dana Schutz, LFL Gallery, New York, NY
Emerging New York Artists, Arno Maris Gallery, Westfield State College, MA
DNA at DAN, DNA Gallery, Provincetown, MA
International Contemporary and Emerging Art, Lawson Menzies Flynn, Sydney, Australia

2001
I See You 2, Fredericks Freiser Gallery, New York, NY
Passing Through: Women Artists in Brooklyn, Shaqab College of Design Arts,Doha, Qatar
Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA
Open, LFL Gallery, New York, NY

2000
Winter Paper, Catherine Moore Fine Art, New York, NY
The Pierogi Flatfiles, H & R Block Art Space, Kansas City, MO

1999
Go Figure!, Clifford-Smith Gallery, Boston, MA
Escape, DNA Gallery, Provincetown, MA

1998
Emblem, The Mills Gallery, Boston Center for the Arts, MA

 

BIBLIOGRAPHY

-Miller, Francine. Holly Coulis at Lamontagne Gallery, ArtForum, March, 2008
-McQuaid, Cate. Holly Coulis at Lamontagne, Boston Globe, January 17, 2008
-McQuaid, Cate. Critics Pick, Boston Globe, January 27, 2008
-Cooker, Gregg. Ill Wind, The Boston Phoenix, January 14, 2008
-Timothy McSweeney's Quarterly Concern, Summer 2006.
-Taft, Catherine. Seeing Stars: Paintings by Holly Coulis, 2006, Cherry and Martin, Los Angeles and Groeflin Maag, Basel, 92pp.
-Mullins, Charlotte. Painting People: Figure Painting Today. 2006, Thames & Hudson, London, 192pp.
-Mullins, Charlotte. False sense of security, Financial Times, August 13, 2005.
-Gerig, Karen N., Hirsch und Hündchen, human; Die kanadische Künstlerin Holly Coulis, Basler Zeitung, September 9, 2004.
-Pagel, David. From Perky to Unsettling, Los Angeles Times, July 4, 2003.
-Smith, Roberta, Holly Coulis at LFL, The New York Times, March 28, 2003.
-Cattelan, Gioni and Subotnick, Charley 02, Les Presses du Reel, Dijon, France, 2002.
-Levin, Kim. Holly Coulis/Dana Schutz, The Village Voice, February 12, 2002.
-Smith, Roberta. Holly Coulis/Dana Schutz , The New York Times, February 8, 2002.
-McQuaid, Cate. Striking Portraits , The Boston Globe, July 22,1999.
-Perrott, Jeffrey. Emblem , Arts Media, October 1998.
-Silver, Joanne. Beyond Recognition , The Boston Herald, September 4, 1998.
-Vassallo, Christina, A Story Being Told, Ducts.org, Issue 14, Winter 2005.