BIO
Paintings, Prints, Works on Paper and Ceramics
Holly Hughes was born in San Antonio, Texas. Hughes works in studios both on NYC’s Lower East Side and in Columbia County, NY. She is a Professor Emerita at Rhode Island School of Design, where she taught graduate and undergraduate students and has been a frequent critic and lecturer at many national and international schools and institutions.
Her resume details many solo and group shows in New York: Dru Arstark Gallery, David Beitzel Gallery, Piezo Electric, Philippe Briet Gallery, Graham Modern, One Penn Plaza, P.S. 1 Museum of Contemporary Art, Anita Shapolsky Gallery, The Work Space, A. I. R., etc. Outside New York Hughes has been represented in exhibits in Germany, People’s Republic of China, Finland and France as well as across the US including Rhode Island, Tennessee, California, Indiana, Florida, Georgia, Massachusetts, Missouri, North Carolina, Ohio, Connecticut, Maine and Maryland. Hughes’ work has been reviewed in ARTnews, Art Forum, Art in America, The New York Times, D’Ars (Milan), Drawing, Art New England and other publications.
Holly Hughes has traveled extensively, living in France and learning French. Focusing on her serious interest in Asian art, she attended one of China’s major art schools - the Zhejiang Academy of Fine Arts in Hangzhou - where she studied traditional ink painting of the landscape and calligraphy. She has worked in ceramic factories in France, Mexico and Italy. Travels to many nations have facilitated her study of decorative arts collections, which strongly influence her current work.
Some of the collections including her paintings and prints are: Citibank, Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley, the Museum of the Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI, The Kemper Museum, Kansas City, MO, Prudential Bache, Atlantic Richfield Corporation, Fred Alger Management Company, Bartlett Schlumberger & Company, The Freedman Gallery of Albright College, Pepsico, Benziger Winery Imagery Collection, the Francis Greenburger Art OMI Collection, Pfizer Collection.
HOLLY HUGHES
Studios in Columbia County, NY and NYC, NY
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ONE-PERSON EXHIBITIONS:
2018: John Davis Gallery, Hudson, NY
2011: Rosenberg Gallery, Hofstra University, Hempstead, NY
2010: John Davis Gallery, Hudson, NY
2009: Off the Plate, Under the Sheets, Sarofim Gallery, Georgetown, TX
2008: ArtSTRAND/Project Space, Provincetown, MA
2007: Joyce Goldstein Gallery, Chatham, NY
2003: Shelnutt Gallery, RPI, Troy, NY
1999: Wilkes Gallery, Lancaster, OH
1995: Dru Arstark Gallery, New York, NY
1993: Dorry Gates Gallery, Kansas City, MO
1988: Founders Gallery, Guilford College, Greensboro, NC
1986: David Beitzel Gallery, New York, NY
1985: Galerie Taub, Philadelphia, PA
1984: Peizo Electric, New York, NY
1981: Jackson Arnold, New York, NY
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2019
Direct from Brooklyn/The Dot Conference, “room83spring”, Watertown, MA
The Dot Conference, The Yard, Brooklyn, NY, Curator Kirstin Lamb
The Big Holiday Show, LABspace, Hillsdale, NY
True North, LABspace, Hillsdale, NY
2018
Live from New York, Odegaard Art and Design, Naples, FL, 3 person
2017
The Art Mingle, Public House, Philmont, NY, 3 person
2016
Printing Lab: The Members Show, Inky Editions, Hudson, NY
Celebrating 50 Years, exhibit, Anderson Ranch, CO
Selections, Montefiore Gallery, Chatham, NY
Cowgirls No. 5, Brik Gallery, Catskill, NY
2015
ART OUT, Iron Work Farm, Acton, MA
Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Faculty Show, Providence, RI
2014
WORLDS OF WONDER, Dorsky Museum, curated by Ian Berry, SUNY, New Paltz, NY
SECOND NATURE: Artist Respond to our Changing Environment, Barbara Archer Gallery and Goat Farm Arts Center, Atlanta, GA
OPTICAL CONSCIOUS, Memorial Hall Gallery, Providence, RI - 4 person show with Anoka Faruqee, Glenn Goldberg, Holly Hughes, and Kate Shepherd
2013
2013 ARTISTS OF THE MOHAWK HUDSON REGION, Hyde Collection, curator Dan Cameron, Glens Falls, NY
RAID THE ATTIC, Cohen Gallery, Granoff Art Center, Brown, Providence, RI
4 Person: Jean Blackburn, Wendy Edwards, Randa Newland, Holly Hughes
Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Faculty Show, Providence, RI
2012
Habitat for Humanity Show, Art Omi Museum, Omi, NY Benefit Exhibit
2011
An Exchange with Sol Lewitt, MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA,
Regine Basha Projects, organizer
Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Faculty Show, Providence, RI
2010
The Object Real, PG Contemporary, Houston, TX
It’s All Good, Sideshow Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
The Artists of Silvermine, Unison Arts Center, New Paltz, NY
Cowgirls of the Hudson River Valley III, BRICK Gallery, Catskill, NY
Artists from Rome Programs, Temple/Rome, Rome, Italy
2009
Paper Jam, Art STRAND, Provincetown, MA
Isherwood Gallery, Newport, RI
Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Faculty Show, Providence, RI
2008
Works on Paper, Faculty show, Memorial Hall, Providence, RI
2007
Holly Hughes and Nancy VanDeren, Lenore Gray Gallery, Providence, RI
Faculty Plus One, Columbia Greene Community College, Hudson, NY
Images of Growth, Zea Mays Gallery, Florence, MA
Cowgirls II, BRIK Gallery, Catskill, NY
Millay Colony Resident’s Exhibition, CCCA Gallery, Hudson, NY
2006
Cowgirls of the Hudson River Valley, BRIK Gallery, Catskill, NY
“Feeding on the Past,” Pocketbook Factory, Hudson, NY Curated/Hughes
“Reframing Nature”, Spencertown Academy, Spencertown, NY
“Painting Faculty 2006,” Woods Gerry, RISD, Providence, RI
2005
“Crossover,” Spencertown Academy, Spencertown, NY (2 person)
Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Faculty Show, Providence, RI
2004
“Abstraction Now, II,” Shelnutt Gallery, RPI, Troy, NY
“The Flag Project,” Rubin Museum of Art, New York, NY
“Abstraction Now,” Stageworks Gallery, Hudson, NY
Archive Show, Zea Mays Gallery, Florence, MA
Summit Walls Show, Chatham, NY
2003
Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Faculty Show, Providence, RI
2002
Montclair State University Art Gallery, Montclair, NJ
“Snapshot,” Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT
RISD Works, ceramics exhibited, winter season, Providence, RI
2001
Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Faculty Show, Providence, RI
Parrish Art Museum, Southhampton, NY, Best in Show Award
“Snapshot,” Arcadia UniversityArt Gallery, Glenside, PA
Columbia County Council on the Arts, Jack Shaiman, juror, Hudson, NY
2000
Virginia Lynch: A Curatorial Retrospective, R.I. Foundation, RI
“Snapshot,” (traveling exhibit), The Contemporary, Baltimore, MA
“Drawing in the Present Tense,” North Dakota Museum of Art (traveling exhibit with two other venues – see below)
“Drawing in the Present Tense,” Eastern Connecticut State University
Santa Monica College Gallery, RISD Faculty group, Santa Monica, CA
Sarah Y. Rentschler Gallery, group, Hudson, NY
Generations II: Women Artists at the Millenium, A.I.R., New York, NY
1999
“Drawing in the Present Tense”, Parsons School of Design & Aronson Gallery
Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Faculty Show, Providence, RI
“Mind’s Eye,” Booth Contemporary Art”, Wakefield, RI
“Peripheral Vision,” The Painting Center, NY, NY
1998
“Part of The Fabric,’” Museum of RISD, Providence, RI (curated by Hughes)
The Fanelli Show, OK Harris Gallery, New York, NY
“realigned/recharged”, Swan Coach House Gallery, Atlanta, GA
Art in the Embassies, Tashkent, Uzbekistan
“Paintings from Pont-Aven,” Pierre Deux, New York, NY
“Paintings from Pont-Aven,” French Embassy, Washington, DC
1997
“Art on Paper 1997”, Weatherspoon Art Gallery, Greensboro, NC
“Eight Artists”, Virginia Lynch Gallery, Tiverton, RI
The Art Exchange Show, Dru Arstark, New York, NY
“All the Things You Are”, Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, MA
“4x4: Painters Choose Painters”, Herron Gallery, Indianapolis, IN
Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Faculty Show, Providence, RI
1996
“Summer Exhibition”, Dru Arstark Gallery, New York, NY
“Messages from the Interior”, Sound Shore Gallery, Cross River, NY
“Contemporary Directions”, Jacqueline Holmes, Jacksonville, FL
Impressions of Brittany, The French Library, Boston, MA
Les and Catherine Levine Collection, Freedman Gallery, Reading, PA
1995
“Accumulation”, The Work Space, New York, NY
“Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Faculty Show,” Providence, RI
“Conceptual Documents for Impossible Art” 450 Broadway Gallery, New York, NY
Espace Melanie, Riec-Sur Belon, Brittany, France
Virginia Lynch Gallery, 3 person, Tiverton, RI
1994
“By Virtue of Excellence,” David Winton Bell Gallery, Providence, RI
“Contemporary Art in Rhode Island,” Museum of Art, RISD, Providence, RI
“Holly Hughes and Jerry Mischak,” Wheeler Gallery, Providence, RI
1993
“Postipamaus,” Helsinki Museum of Contemporary Art, Finland
“Art of the Northeast,” Silvermine Arts Center, Silvermine, CT
1992
“Process as Issue,” College of New Rochelle, NY
“10th Anniversary Exhibition,” Ewing Gallery, Knoxville, TN
“Nature in Mind,” Spotted Dog Gallery, Old Chatham, NY (curated by Hughes)
“Vertical Slice,” Cummings Art Center, New London, CT
“Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Faculty Show,” Providence, RI
“June Invitiational,” Philippe Briet Gallery, New York, NY
“Opening Exhibition,” SOMA Gallery, San Diego, CA
“Arts Festival Show,” Hammond Galleries, Lancaster, OH
“Summer Show,” Dorry Gates Gallery, Kansas City, MO
“Apocalypse and Resurrection,” Gallery Three Zero, New York, NY
“Portrait Salon,” Dolphin Gallery, Kansas City, MO
“China June 4th,” traveling show, Asian American Center, New York, NY
1991
“Winter Group Show,” Graham Modern, New York, NY
“Selections,” Frick Gallery, Belfast, ME
1990
“CHINA: June 4th, 1989,” P.S. 1 Museum, Long Island City, NY
“Program Selections,” Zhejiang Academy of Fine Arts, Hangzhou, China
“Works on Paper,” Frick Gallery, Belfast, ME
“Natural Selections,” Henry Street Settlement Art Center, New York, NY
“Aspects of Nature,” College of New Rochelle, NY
1989
“Drawings,” Anita Shapolsky Gallery, New York, NY
“LIfe Forces,” Lintas Worldwide, New York, NY
“On Paper,” Frick Gallery, Belfast, ME
“Visiting Artists,” Ewing Gallery, 3 person, UT, Knoxville, TN
“Faculty Show,” Goldie Paley Gallery, Moore, Philadelphia, PA
1988
“Summer Show,” G. H. Dalsheimer Gallery, Baltimore, MD
“Nature in Art,” One Penn Plaza, New York, NY
1986
“Natural Desire,” David Beitzel Gallery, New York, NY
“Invitational,” Hudson Center Gallery, New York, NY
1985
“Holly Hughes and Morilla Palmer,” Elizabeth Galasso, Ossining, NY
“New Drawings,” Ted Greenwald Gallery, New York, NY
“Abstract Paintings,” Virtual Garrison, New York, NY
Art Awareness, Lexington, NY
“East Village Show,” Vorpal Gallery, San Francisco, CA
“Abstract Paintings,” Ted Greenwald Gallery, New York, NY
“Implosionism,” Ted Greenwald Gallery, New York, NY
1984
“Winter Solstice,” Ericson Gallery, New York, NY
“Invitational,” Kamikazi Club, New York, NY
“Invitational,” Ericson Gallery, New York, NY
“Disposable Art,” Kamikazi Club, New York, NY
Museum of the Hudson Highlands, Cornwall, NY
1982
“Young American Painters,” Galerie Berg-Bernauer, Frankfurt, Germany
Sarah Rentschler Gallery, Bridgehampton, NY
1980
Des Refuses Gallery, Westbeth, New York, NY
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
Pfizer
Citibank
Dorsky Museum, New Paltz, NY
Pepsico
Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley
Prudential Bache
Museum of the Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
Kemper Museum, Kansas City, MO
Atlantic Richfield Corporation
Bartlett Schlumberger & Company
Freedman Gallery, Albright College, Reading, PA
Benziger Winery Imagery Collection
Fred Alger Management Company
Art Omi Collection
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
(not updated)
2004
“Abstraction Now” review, The Independent, Columbia County, NY, October 8
2001
Review, Southampton Press, LI, NY, November 8
Review, East Hampton Star, October 18, LI, NY
Review, Southampton Press, LI, NY October 1
Bill Van Siclen, “Virginia Lynch...”, ARTnews, February
2000
William Zimmer, “Untitled...”, The New York Times, February 13
U.S. Embassy Residence Art Catalog, Tashkent, Uzbekistan
Press/2000, Vermont Studio Center catalog, Johnston, Vermont
1999
Jennifer Pierson, “Working with Ceramics”, Lancaster Eagle Gazette, Lancaster, Ohio, July 22
Vermont Studio Center Press Catalog, Johnston, Vermont
1998
Mary Jones, “Interview with Holly Hughes”, DRAWING, Vol. XX, No.2, Winter
1995
Sue Scott, “Holly Hughes,” ARTnews, December
Review, The New Yorker, October 16, 1995
Alicia Craig Faxon, “Review,” Art New England, Aug./Sept.
Michaela Brill, “Decouvrir un langage,” Le Telegramme , Quimper, France, June 28
Bill Van Siclen, Review, Providence Journal , April 14
1994
Elliot Krieger, “Is there a Rhode Island Style?,” Providence Journal , Feb. 13
Bill Van Siclen, “Hughes and Mischak,” Providence Journal, January 28
1993
Peter von Ziegesar, “Small Worlds,” Kansas City Star, May 23
1992
Bill Van Siclen, “Group Show Review,” Providence Journal, September 25
1990
William Zimmer, “Review,” The New York Times, November 18
1988
John Dorsey, “Group Show Review,” Baltimore Morning Sun, July 22
Paul Govern, “Review,” Spectator, Greensboro, NC, February 17
Jaqueline Humphrey, “Review,” Greensboro Review and Record, March 1
1987
Shellie R. Goldberg, “Holly Hughes,” ARTnews, May
Stephen Westfall, “Holly Hughes,” Art in America, April
1985
Ted Greenwald, “Implosionismo,” D’ARS, Milan, Italy, summer
Ronny Cohen, “Holly Hughes,” Artforum, March
1984
Michael Brenson, “Holly Hughes,” The New York Times, December 7
CURATORIAL PROJECTS
2011
Mohawk Hudson Regional, Albany Institute, NY – sole juror/+essay
2009
“CRIT 4”, MFA Painters from RISD, Spencertown Academy Arts Center, Spencertown, NY
2008
“One of a Kind: Montotypes and Monoprints,” Spencertown Academy Arts Center, Spencertown, NY
2006
FEEDING ON THE PAST: Artists and Antique Dealers Interact
Hudson Artwalk 2006, Pocketbook Factory, Hudson, NY, Sept./Oct.
“CRIT”: Looking at the Next Generation
Paintings from the Undergrad Studios of RISD
Spencertown Academy Arts Center, August/September
1998
PART OF THE FABRIC, Museum of the Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
1992
NATURE IN MIND, Spotted Dog Gallery, Spencertown, NY
TEACHING: Rhode Island School of Design
2017: June Became Professor Emirita, RISD
1993-2017: Teaching of painting, drawing and graduate candidates for MFA
2013-2014: Sabbatical Leave
2011-2013: Department Head of the Painting Program
2010: Chief Critic, European Honors Program, RISD ROME
Rhode Island School of Design, Painting Department
Full Professor as of 2005, Department Head, 1997-1999,
Associate Professor past Critical Review, 1999-2004, Assistant Professor, 1993-1999
One-year sabbatical, 2006-2007, 2013-2014, Leave Spring 2016, Fall 2016
TEACHING and ARTIST/CRITIC VISITS TO OTHER INSTITUTIONS
2020
Upcoming: Painting at Anderson Ranch, CO, Tile and Plate Painting in San Miguel de Allende with Anderson Ranch, and La Napoule Foundation, France
2019
“Take Two” Intensive Painting Workshop, September, Anderson Ranch Art Center, Snow Mass Village, Colorado
RISD MFA Program, Visiting Artist (critiques/public lecture, Providence, RI
2018
Portfolio Reviews, Abu Dhabi Art Fair, UAE
“Seduced by the Decorative: Painting Workshop,” Anderson Ranch Art Center, Snow Mass, CO
2017
San Miguel de Allende Anderson Ranch Travel course
Anderson Ranch Fall Advanced Intensive course
Brown University visiting critic
Marlboro College, Vermont, Visiting Artist and Critic
2016
Inky Editions, Hudson NY – Watercolor Monoprinting Workshop
ChaNorth Residency, visiting critic/residents, Chashama Foundation, NY
University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, visiting critic and lecture, Ceramics
Marlboro College, Vermont, visiting artist and critic
Anderson Ranch Summer Program – one course
2015
San Miguel de Allende Anderson Ranch Travel course
2014
Anderson Ranch Summer Program – one course
2012
Anderson Ranch Summer Program – taught two courses
2011
Anderson Ranch Summer Course – taught Abstraction: Sources in Nature
2009
Mass College of Art, Boston, MA, visiting grad critic
Clark University, Wooster, MA, visiting artist and critic
2008
Anderson Ranch, Snow Mass Village, CO, Nature and abstraction course
2005
Anderson Ranch, Snow Mass Village, CO, taught advanced painting
2004
Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA visiting artist, critic
2003
Vermont Studio Center, Johnson VT, visiting artist
Putney School, Vermont, visiting critic
2001
Montclair State University, New Jersey, lecturer, critic, printmaker
Georgia State University, Atlanta, visiting ceramics workshop
2000
Georgia State University, Atlanta, visiting critic and lecturer
Pont-Aven School of Art, Brittany, France, summer session
Brandeis University, Post-Bac Program, visiting critic and lecturer
1998
Hunter College Grad Program, visiting critic and lecturer
Randolph Macon College, visiting critic and lecturer
1997
Art New England Summer Program, Bennington, VT
1996
Parsons MFA Program, visiting critic
Pont-Aven School of Art, Brittany, France, summer session
Brandeis University, Post-Bac program, visiting lecture and critiques
1995
Lahti Institute of Fine Arts, Finland, Visiting artist
Pont-Aven School of Art, Brittany, France, summer session
1994
Parsons MFA Program, visiting critic
1992
Rhode Island School of Design, part-time, fall
Kansas City Art Institute, visiting faculty, spring
1991
Rhode Island School of Design, part-time, spring and fall
1990
Washington University, St. Louis, MO, visiting artist
Bennington College, VT, visiting lecture
Arkansas State University, Jonesboro, AK, visiting artist
Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, NY, visiting lecture
1989
State University of New York, Purchase, part-time, spring and fall
Moore College of Art, Philadelphia, PA, visiting artist, fall
Middlebury College, Middlebury, VT, visiting artist
1988
University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, visiting artist, fall semester
Guilford College, Greensboro, NC, visiting artist
1987
University of Delaware, visiting artist
Guilford College, Greensboro, NC, visiting artist
EDUCATION
Recent Years: Ongoing Ceramic Training Workshops: Anderson Ranch, Penland
Various Print Workshops: Oehme Graphics, Zea Mays, Anderson Ranch and Women’s Studio Workshop
1990: Zhejiang Academy of Fine Arts, Hangzhou, China, summer program
1974-75: BFA, State University of New York at New Paltz
1971-72: Silvermine College of Art, Europe Program, Lacoste, France
1970-71: Silvermine College of Art, Silvermine, CT
1969-70: Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY
AWARDS AND RESIDENCIES
2019 November: Vallauris Ceramic Residency, Vallauris, France
2018: Emerita Jacquard Project, mentor Lisa Scull, RISD – ongoing
2017: The Athena Award and Medal, for Professor Emerita status, RISD, RI
2014: Print Production Residency, one week, Oehme Graphics, Colorado
2012: Ceramic Production Residency, Anderson Ranch, Snow Mass, CO.
2006: RISD Faculty Development Grant, Deruta, Umbria, Italy, ceramics work
2001: “Best in Show” award, Parrish Art Museum, Southhampton, NY
2000: Visiting Artist, Vermont Studio Center Press, Artists Supporting Artists Program
1999: Visiting Artist, Vermont Studio Center Press, Artists Supporting Artists Program
Resident Art Lecturer, Royal Viking Line, Baltic Cruise
1998: RISD Faculty Development Grant to paint ceramics in Mexico
1996: Contemporary Artists Center Award of Recognition, North Adams, MA
1995: ART/OMI: International Artists Workhop, Ghent, NY
Visiting Artist: Faiencerie Henriot H.B. de Quimper, France
RISD Faculty Development Grant for travel to France
1986: Millay Colony for the Arts, Residency, Austerlitz, NY
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