Education
University at Albany
MFA, 2010
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
1992, BFA, Drawing and Painting
Selected Exhibitions
2008 “Shipped Shapes”, fakespace LA, Los Angeles, California
2007 “The Wisconsin Triennial”, Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Madison, WI
2006 “Pentominoes”, Steven Wolf Fine Arts, San Francisco, CA
2005 “Fresh Trouble”, curated by Jeff Jahn, Portland, OR “New Work”, James Watrous Gallery, Madison, WI “Pushing It –Moving Abstraction Into the 21st C”,2 artist show, Dean Jensen Gallery, Milwaukee, WI
2004 Project Space, Art Chicago, Chicago IL
Solo Exhibition, The Institute of Visual Arts, (INOVA), Milwaukee, WI
2003 “Color Abstractions”, Tory Folliard Gallery, Milwaukee, WI “Clarity of Vision – Minimalist Prints and Drawings”,
Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI
2002 “The New Modernists”, The Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design,Milwaukee, WI
2001 “Abstract Art in the New Century”, Crossman Art Gallery, University of Wisconsin – Whitewater “Mixed Bag: Two Shindigs”, Wendy Cooper Gallery, Madison, WI “Gallery TBA”, group show and auction, (the featured artist), Wisconsin Aids Fund, Milwaukee, WI “UFO”, juried by Marilu Knode, Riverwest Art Works, Milwaukee, WI` “Monochromatic”, Walker’s Point Center for the Arts, Milwaukee, WI
2000 “Abstraction”, KM Art Gallery, Milwaukee, WI “The 2000 Rockford Midwestern Exhibition”, Rockford Art Museum, Rockford, IL “Recent Work”, Riverwest Art Works, Milwaukee, WI “Dot’s Art 2000”, Gallery 100, Cape Girardeau, MO
“New American Talent 15”, Jones Center for Contemporary Art, Austin, TX
Collections
The Milwaukee Art Museum (five works)
Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company (seven works)
Union Art Gallery, University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee
Plus many, many private collections
Selected Reviews, Publications
2007 “Triennial is Meditative and Witty in It’s Exploration of Life’s Disconnects”, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, by Mary LouiseSchumacher
2005 “Douglas Holst”, by Sarah Mankowski, Riverwest Currents, Vol. 4, issue 10 “Here Comes Trouble”, The Oregonian, Sept. 30, by Harvest Henderson (with large photo of wall painting project) “Fresh Trouble – Like a Bridge Over Mainstream”, Portland Tribune, Sept. 23, by Joseph Gallivan “Holst Creates Shapes of a Different Stripe”, Aug. 31, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, by Mary Louise Schumacher
2004 Catalogue for INOVA exhibition, with essay “Douglas Holst: Once the Grid Appears”, by Michelle Grabner “UWM’s INOVA Gears Up for New Spring Cycle”, Jan 8, by James Auer
2003 “Art Walk: Milwaukee”, Art On Paper, Sept/Oct, by Mary Louise Schumacher “Tracing Growing Minimalism of Artist”, March 28, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Mary Louise Schumacher
2001 “Supercalatravalistic!”, Oct. 11, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, By Mary Louise Schumacher “New Century, New Art”, Shepherd Express, Sept., by Nathan Guequirre
2000 “Abstract Beauty”, Shepherd Express, Aug. 3, by Nathan Guequirre
