Holly Roberts CV
BORN
1951, Boulder, Colorado
EDUCATION
1981 M.F.A., Arizona State University
1973 B.A. (Special Distinction), University of New Mexico
1971-72 University of New Mexico at Quito, Ecuador
1971 Bellas Artes De Mexico, San Miguel de Allende, Mexico
SELECTED INDIVIDUAL EXHIBITIONS
2024 “Storyteller: Work by Holly Roberts”, MOPA at San Deigo Museum of Art, San Diego, CA
“Holly Roberts”, Morpeth Gallery, Hopewell, NJ
“Holly Roberts: Big Head (Thinking)”,Candela Gallery, Richmond, VA
2022 “Just for a Moment: Holly Roberts”, Form and Concept Gallery: Santa Fe, NM 87048
2021 “Transmogrify: Holly Roberts and Thiang Uk”, Catalyst Contemporary, Baltimore, MD
“Holly Roberts”, Weatherhead Gallery, Roland Art Center, University of Saint Francis, Fort Wayne, IN
“Holly Roberts”, Bradley University, Slane College of Communication and Fine Arts and the Department of Art
and Design Peoria, IL
2020 “Holly Roberts: Primitive Visions”, Candela Gallery, Richmond, VA
2019 “Holly Roberts: Bunn Lectureship in Photography”, Slane College of Communication and Fine Arts and the
Department of Art and Design, Bradley University, Peoria, Il
2018 Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester, MA
Craig Kull Gallery, Bergamont Station, Santa Monica, CA
Turner Carroll Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
2017 Tilt Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ
2016 Open Shutter Gallery, Durango, CO
Turner Carroll Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
2014 Craig Krull Gallery, Bergamont Station, Santa Monica, CA
Zane Bennett Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico
2013 “As the Crow Flies”, Catherine Edelman Gallery, Chicago, Il
Etherton Gallery, Tucson, AZ
Morpeth Gallery, Hopewell, New Jersey
2012 “Unusual Suspects:Paint and Photographs by Holly Roberts”, Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, CA
2011 Zane Bennett Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
2009 Zane Bennett Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
2008 Eleanor D. Wilson Museum of Art, Hollins University, Roanoke, VA
Catherine Edelman Gallery, Chicago, Il
2007 Zane Bennett Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
2006 Parks Gallery, Taos, NM
2005 Etherton Gallery, Tucson, AZ
“A Cracked Woman”, Harwood Art Center, Albuquerque, NM
Sara Smith Contemporary, Corrales, NM
2003 Parks Gallery, Taos, NM
The Photography Room, Grand Rapids, MI
2002 Etherton Gallery, Tucson, AZ
Mainsite Gallery, Norman, OK
2001 University of West Florida, Pensacola, FL
Catherine Edelman Gallery, Chicago, Il
LewAllen Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM
Soho Photo Gallery, New York City, N.Y.
Galerie Peter Borchardt, Hamburg, Germany
2000 Robert C. May Photography Endowment Lecture Series, University of Kentucky Art
Museum, Lexington
Parks Gallery, Taos, N.M.
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2021 “Taste of Art: Portraits Imagined and Imaginative”, Oceanside Museum of Art, Oceanside, CA
“Fresh 2021”, Klompching Gallery, New York City, NY
“Thereby Hangs a Tale”, South Broadway Cultural Center, Albuquerque, NM
“Holly Roberts, Darlene Kaczmarczyk and Adrianne Little” John P. Weatherford
Gallery, University of Saint Francis, Fort Wayne, IN
“Holly Roberts and Thiang Uk”, Catalyst Contemporary, Baltimaore, MD
“Framing Moments”, Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, Kalamazoo, MI
“The West on Horseback”, University of Wyoming Art Museum, Laramie, WY
2020-21 “Holly Roberts and Suzanne Sbarge”, Turchin Center for the Visual Arts, Appalachian State
University, Boone, NC
2020 “Photo +”, Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, Fl
“20th Anniversary President’s Gala Exhibtion”, Weatherhead Gallery: Rolland Art Center, University of Saint
Francis, Fort Wayne Indiana
“Holly Roberts, Robert Wilson, Jack Balas, and Titus Castanza,” Etherton Gallery Tucson, AZ
“Holly Roberts & Robert Wilson”,Jon Abrams Gallery,UNM Hospital, Albuquerque,NM
2017 “Body Language: Figuration in Modern and Contemporary Art”, Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ
“Transformational Image Making: Handmade Photography Since 1960, Bevier Gallery,
Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY
2016 “This is a Photograph”, Penland Gallery, Penland, NC
“Self Regard: Artist Self-Portraits from the Collection”, New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fe, NM
“Things that might have happened: selections from Transformational Image Making”,
Martin Art Gallery, Baker Center for the Arts, Muhlenberg College, Allentown, PA
“Beauty and the Beast: The Animal in Photography”, MOPA, San Diego, CA
2015 “Holly Roberts and Jenny Honnert Abell”, Turner Carroll Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
“One of a Kind: Unique Photographic Objects”, Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix
“Visualizing Albuquerque”, Albuquerque Museum of Art and History, Albuquerque, NM
“The Spirit of Two Deserts”, Fine Arts Museum of Turkmenistan, Turkmenistan
“ABC: Assamblage, Book Art and Collage, Braithwaite Fine Arts Gallery, Southern Utah Museum of Art,
Cedar City, UT
“This Art is Not Mine: The Jonatha Abrams and Fay Pfaelzer Abrams Art Collection”
UNM Art Museum, Albuquerque, NM
“Unconfined: Empowering Women Through Art”, African American Performing Arts
And Exhibit Hall, Albuquerque, NM
2014 “Transformational Image Making: Handmade Photography Since 1960”, CEPA Gallery, Buffalo, NY
“Regeneration”, The Photographer’s Gallery, London, England
2013-14 “Decisive Moments: Photographs from the Collection of Cherye R. and James F. Pierce”, Honolulu Museum of Art, Honolulu,
HI
2013 “Way of Nature/Way of Grace”, Asheville Area Arts Council, Asheville, N.C.
“Beyond the Human Experience”, University of Saint Francis, Fort Wayne, Indiana
“Alternate Realities: The visions of Holly Roberts and Dan Estabrook”, Center for Photographic Arts, Carmel, CA
“Cycles of Life”, Donkey Mill Art Center, Holualoa foundation for Arts and Culture, Holualoa, Hi
2012 “Exploring Photographic Alternatives: Diane Bush, Darius Kuzmickas, and Holly Roberts”, The Barrick Museum at UNLV, Las
Vegas, NV
“Under Thirty-Five/Glass, Prints, Painting, Sculpture, ZaneBennett Contemporary Art, Santa Fe, NM
“Studio Practice” Penland Gallery, Penland School of Crafts, Penland, North Carolina
“Cycles of Life”, Donkey Mill Gallery, Kona, Hawaii
2011 “Painting Coast to Coast”, Elaine Jacobs Gallery, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI
“Time Lapse: 4 Decades of Art” Sesnon Gallery’s 40th Anniversary Exhibit, Mary Porter Sesnon Art Gallery, University of
California at Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA
2009 “Albuquerque Now”, Museum of Albuqeurque, Albuquerque, NM
2009 “Well Told Tales”, Etherton Gallery, Tucson, AZ
2008 “15th Anniversary Celebration”, Parks Gallery, Taos, NM
“Photography: New Mexico”, University of New Mexico Art Museum, Albuquerque, NM
“Alchemy: Collage & Assemblage”, 516 Arts, Albuquerque, NM
2007 “An Eclectic Eye: Selections from the Dan Leach Collection”, Tucson Museum of Art,Tucson, AZ
“Mixed: Six Artists Using Mixed Media”, Sandy Carson Gallery, Denver, CO
“20/20 Vision: 40th Anniversary Exhibiton”, Center for Photographic Art, Carmel, CA
2006 “Miniatures: 2006”, Museum of Albuquerque, Albuquerque, NM
“Paper Trail”, EFA Gallery, New York City, NY
2005 “15th Annual Center Awards”, Center for Photographic Art, Carmel, CA
“Small Works Invitational”, Exhibit51, Albuquerque, NM
2004 “Creativity: Beyond the Norm”, The Richard M. Ross Art Museum, Ohio Wesleyan University, Delaware, Ohio
“Modes and Methods: Diversity in Contemporary Art”, Amarillo Art Museum, Amarillo, TX
“New Works: Holly Roberts & Petas”, Mainsite Contemporary Art, Norman, OK
“Whats Love got to do with This?; Perceptions of Relationships and Solitude”, Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ
“The Nature of Craft and the Penland Experience”, Mint Museum, Charolotte, NC
2003 “Pentimento,” LewAllen Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM
2002 “Photographs Elsewhere”, Bassetti Fine Art Photographs, New Orleans, LA
"What Were You Thinking?", Fifteen Year Anniversary, Catherine Edelman Gallery, Chicago, IL
"Idea Photographic: After Modernism", Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe, N.M.
"A Thousand Hounds", Richard M. Ross Art Museum, Ohio Wesleyan University, Delaware, OH
"Painted Psychologies", Mary Porter Sesnon Art Gallery, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA
2001 "2 x 2", Kunsthalle Dominikanerkirche, Osnabruck, Germany
2000 "Mosiac: Culture and Identity in America", Hampton University Museum, Hampton,
AWARDS
2008 Artist-in-Residence, Hollins University, Roanoke, VA
1998 Magnifico Honors, Albuquerque, NM
1988 National Endowment for the Arts, Photography
1986 National Endowment for the Arts, Photography
Ferguson Grant, Friends of Photography, Carmel, CA
1981 Henry Laurence Gully Memorial Graduate Award (Outstanding Achievement), Arizona State University
PUBLICATIONS
2024 “Storyteller:Work by Holly Roberts”, the San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, CA
2020 “Holly Roberts: Primitive Visions”, Candela Gallery, Richmond, VA
Procédes de Photographie Alternatifs, Laura Blacklow, 2020, Editions Francaise un department d'Edi8, Paris
2018 “Holly Roberts: 33 years”, Griffin Museum Publications, Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester, MA
"New Dimensions in Photo Processes: A Step-by-Step Manual for Alternative Techniques", Laura Blacklow, revised and
expanded 5th edition, 2018, Focal Press, an imprint of Taylor & Francis/Routledge Publishing
2016 “Seizing the Light: A Social & Aesthetic History of Photography”, Robert Hirsch Focal Press, New York and London
“75 Years at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art”, Larry Feinberg, Santa Barabara Museum of Art, Marquand Books
“Beauty and the Beast: The Animal in Photography”, Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, CA
2014 “Transformational Image Making: Handmade Photography Since 1960”, Robert Hirsch,Focal Press, London , England
“Holly Roberts”, Art LTD, Nov./Dec. 2014
2013 “Alternate Realities: The Visions of Dan Estabrook and Holly Roberts”, Center for Photographic Art, Carmel, Ca
2010 “Holly Roberts: Works 2000 to 2009”, Nazraeli Press, Portland, OR
2008 Photography: New Mexico”, curated by Tom Barrow, Fresco Fine Art Publications “Photographic Possibilities: The Expressive
Use of Ideas, Materials and Processes” Robert Hirsch, Focal Press “The Book of Alternative Photographic Processes”,
Christopher James, Delmar Cengage Learning, Second Edition
2007 “The Photography Collectors Guide”, Bullfinch
“Light and Lens: Photography in the Digital Age”, Robert Hirsch, Focal Press
“Exploring Color Photography: From the Darkroom to the Digital Photograph”, 4th
Edition, Robert Hirsch, McGraw-Hill
2002 "Idea Photographic: After Modernism", Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe, N.M.
"What Were You Thinking?", Fifteen Year Anniversary, Catherine Edelman Gallery, Chicago, Il
2000 "Holly Roberts: Works 1989-1999", Nazraeli Press, Tucson, Az
"Painting as a Language", Jean Robertson and Craig McDaniel, Harcourt Brace
1997 "Defining Eye: Women Photographers of the 20th Century", Olivia Lahs-Gonzales and
Lucy Lippard, The Saint Louis Art Museum
1994 "The Body", William A. Ewing, Thames and Hudson
1991 "The Horse: Photographic Images, 1839 to the Present", Gerald Lang and Lee Marks, Harry N. Abrams
"A Portrait is Not a Likeness",Center for Creative Photography, Tucson, AZ
1990 "Holly Roberts", Untitled Series, Friends of Photography, San Francisco, CA
"Northwest by Southwest; Painted Fictions", Palm Springs Desert Museum, Palm Springs, CA
1988 "Exploring Color Photography", Robert Hirsch, W.M.C. Brown Company
1987 "Photography and Art; Interactions Since 1946", Kathleen Gauss and Andrew Grundberg, Los Angeles County Museum of Art
PUBLIC AND CORPORATE COLLECTIONS
Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, Florida
Norton Museum, West Palm Beach, Florida
Richard M. Ross Art Museum, Ohio Wesleyan University, Delaware, Ohio
Special Collections, Green Library, Stanford University
Art Institute of Chicago
Museum of Photographic Art, San Diego, CA
University of Arizona, Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ
Phoenix Museum of Art
Museum of Art, University of Iowa
University Art Museum, University of New Mexico
Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts, University of California, Los Angeles
Trisolini Collection, College of Fine Arts, Ohio University
Tulsa City-County Library Collection
Prudential Insurance
University of Houston, Print Study Collection
Valley National Bank, Phoenix, AZ
Citicorp Bank, Albuquerque, NM
Center for Creative Photography, Tucson, AZ
Dayton Hudson Corporation, Minneapolis, MN
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe, NM
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
University of Kentucky Art Museum, Lexington, KY
Phoenix Arts Commission
Albuquerque Museum of Art, Albuquerque, NM
Albuquerque International Airport, Albuquerque, NM
Monterey Peninsula Museum of Art, Monterey, CA
Hallmark Collection of Art, Kansas City, MO
California Museum of Photography, University of California, Riverside, CA
Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
Bayly Museum of Art, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA
University of Wyoming Art Museum, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY
University of California at Santa Cruz, Special Collections, Santa Cruz, CA
University of West Florida Art Museum, Pensacola, Fl
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Il
Columbia Collage, Chicago, IL
Fidelity Investments Corporate Art Collections, Boston , MA
Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester, MA
Bradley University, Slane College of Communication and Fine Arts and the Department of Art and Design Peoria, IL
University of Saint Francis, Fort Wayne, IN,
Aquinas College, Grand Rapids, MI
Texas Tech Museum of Art, Lubbock, TX
Midwest Museum of American Art, Elkhart, Indiana
Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ
Appalachia State University, Boone, NC
Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio
Kalamazoo Institute of the Arts, Kalamazoo, MI