Frank Holliday

Born in 1957 in Greensboro, North Carolina. Lives and works in New York. Holliday studies at San Francisco Art Institute, New York Studio School and School of Visual Arts in New York. Painter and performance artist, part of Neo Abstract and Neo Expressionist Movement, Holliday reaches fame in New York, during the 1970s and 1980s, and is often associated with the East Village art scene and the Club 57. In the early years of his career as an artist, he works closely with Andy Warhol and other artists such as Keith Haring, Ann Magnuson and Kenny Scharf. Frank Holliday works with art galleries such as Gallery Kenny Schacter, Tony Shafrazi Gallery and has solo exhibitions at Debs & Co., Tom Cugliani Gallery, The Kitchen, Dru Artstark and GAL Gallery. He participates in numerous group exhibitions at prestigious New York spaces such as The Arts Club, Derek Eller, White Columns, Sandra Gering Gallery, Amy Lipton Gallery, Elizabeth Dee, Barbara Toll Fine Art, Lennon Weinberg, PS1, and the Club 57 with Keith Haring. His work receives critical acclaim and is the subject of reviews written by Holland Cotter and Stephen Westfall in Art in America, Gluek Grace and Ken Johnson for The New York Times, and Bill Arning for the Village Voice. His works are in numerous important collections around the United States, Europe, Japan, Australia and Mexico, as well as in museum collections as The Weatherspoon Museum at The University of North Carolina at Greensboro; The Museum Frederick Russe of Stockholm; the Miniature Museum of Amsterdam. Frank Holliday is awarded the National Endowment for the Arts in 1986, the Gottlieb Foundation Fellowship in 2010, the Pollock Krasner Foundation Fellowship in 2010 and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in 2015.