*1968, lives and works in New York, USA

   
EDUCATION
   
1998:  MFA, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA, USA
1995:  BFA, Ontario College of Art and Design, Toronto, Canada
   
INDIVIDUAL EXHIBITIONS
   
2009:  Claudia Groeflin Galerie, "Rosa Rosa", Zurich, Switzerland
2008: Cherry and Martin, Los Angeles, CA, USA
  La Montagne Gallery, "Some People", Boston, MA, USA
2006: Groeflin Maag Galerie, "Outdoors", Basel, Switzerland
  Cherry and Martin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA
2004: Groeflin Maag Galerie, "Stories for Georgia", Basel, Switzerland
  Greener Pastures Contemporary Art, "Selves", Toronto, Canada
2003: LFL Gallery, "Happenstance", New York, USA
   
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
   
2009:  John Connelly Presents, From Yarn to Yucca, A Continuation of the Dialogue
Between Abstraction and Figuration, New York, NY, USA
Cherry and Martin, "First Show", Los Angeles, CA, USA
   
2008:  31 GRAND, Admirer (curated by Maureen Cabanaugh), NY, USA
  Jenny Jaskey Gallery, "The Drawing Narrative", Philadelphia, PA, USA
   
2007:  Freight & Volume, "Rearview", New York, NY, USA
  Derek Eller Gallery, "NeoIntegrity" (curated by Keith Meyerson), New York, NY, USA
  Thierry Goldberg Projects, carel, coulis, pfefferkorn, New York, NY, USA
   
2006:  Gallery 40000, "Stiff" (curated by Ann Toebbe), Chicago, IL, USA
  Galleria Glance, Benjamin Butler, Holly Coulis, Ridley Howard, Turin,Italy
  Cherry and Martin, El Dorado (curated by Portia Hein), Los Angeles, CA, USA
   
2005:  Susanne Hilberry Gallery, Detroit, MI, USA
  Mark Moore Gallery, "Summer Pleasures", Los Angeles, CA, USA
  Gallery 400, "Interesting Painting", University of Chicago, Illinois
   
2004: Champion Fine Art, "Where do we come from? What are we? Where are we going?", Culver City, CA, USA
  Sixtyseven Gallery, "Autumn", New York, NY, USA
  Sean Kelly Gallery, "Marilyn", New York, USA
  Artemis Greenberg Van Doren Gallery, "She's come undone", New York, USA
   
2003: Sandori Rey Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
  Greener Pastures Gallery, "2 weeks in Autumn", Toronto, ON, Canada
   
2002: LFL Gallery, Holly Coulis/Dana Schutz, New York, USA
  Arno Maris Gallery, "Emerging New York Artists", Westfield
  State College, MA, USA
  DNA Gallery, "DNA at DANN", Provincetown, MA, USA
  Lawson_Menzies Flynn International Contemporary and Emerging Art, Sydney, Australia
   
2001: Fredericks Freiser Gallery, "I See You 2", New York, USA
  Passing Through: Women Artists in Brooklyn, New York, USA
  Shaquab College of Design Arts, Doha, Qatar
   
2000: Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, USA
  LFL Gallery, "Open", New York, USA
   
1999: Clifford-Smith Gallery, "Go Figure!", Boston, USA
  DNA Gallery, "Escape", Provincetown, MA, USA
   
1998: The Mills Gallery, Boston Center for Arts, "Emblem" (curated by Shelly Bancroft), Boston, USA
   
BIBLIOGRAPHY
   
2008: Francine Koslow Miller, Holly Coulis; Lamontagne Gallery, Artforum, March 2008
  Cate McQuaid, Holly Coulis at Lamontagne, Boston Globe, January 17
  Gregg Cooker, III Wind, The Boston Phoenix, January 14
  Cate McQuaid, Critics Pick, Boston Globe, January 27
   
2006: Holly Coulis and Max Maslansky, Flavor Pill LA, issue 149, January 3-9
  Charlotte Mullins, Painting People: Figure painting today, pg 114, ill., pp. 126 - 127 ill., D. A. P.
Distributed Art Publishers, New York, NY, USA
  Luca Vona, Il New Folk, Exibart.onpaper, No. 32, Turin, Italy, September
  Renate Dürst, Frontal, Hautnah; Holly Coulis in der Galerie Groeflin & Maag, Basler Zeitung, Agenda
Basel, Switzerland, 16 November 2006 (pdf)
   
2005: Marsha Miro, Brushes with Greatness, Metro Times, Detroit, USA, December 14
  Christina Vassallo, A Story being told, ducts.org, New York, NY, USA, winter 2005
   
2004: Karen N. Gerig, Hirsch und Hündchen, human: Die kanadische Künstlerin Holly
  Coulis in der Galerie Groeflin Maag, Basler Zeitung, Switzerland, September 9
   
2003: From Perky to Unsettling, Los Angeles Times, July 4
  Roberta Smith, Holly Coulis, The New York Times, March 28
   
2002: Cattelan, Gioni and Subonick, Charley 02, Les Presses du Reel, Dijon, France
  Kim Levin, Holly Coulis/Dana Schutz, The Village Voice: Voice choices, NY, USA, Febraury 12
  Roberta Smith, Holly Coulis, The New York Times, March 28
   
1999: Cate McQuaid, Striking Portraits, The Boston Globe, July 22
   
1998: Jeffrey Perrott, Emblem, Arts Media, October
  Joanne Silver, Beyond Recognition: Mills Gallery Exhibit
  Tests the Limits of Familiarity, The Boston Herald, September 4
   
PUBLICATIONS
   
2008: Catherine Taft, Seeing Stars: Paintings by Holly Coulis, 2006, Cherry and Martin
Los Angeles, CA, USA and Groeflin Maag, Basel, Switzerland , 92 pp.