Jammie Holmes

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Jammie Holmes
Born1984 (age 40–41)
Thibodaux, Louisiana
EducationSelf-taught as painter
Known forPainting, public art
Website www.jammieholmes.com

Jammie Holmes (born 1984) is an American painter and public artist. As a painter, he is known for work that represents scenes of Black life in the American deep south, paying particular attention to the contrast of Louisiana as a hub of hospitality and as a place with a deep history of poverty and racism. [1] [2] He has been described as a self-taught painter. [2] Holmes lives and works in Dallas, Texas. [3]

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Early life

Holmes was born and raised in Thibodaux, Louisiana. [4] [2] He grew up in a place surrounded by reminders of slavery along with the labor union conflicts which have had an intense presence since the Thibodaux Massacre of 1887. [5]

Art career

In 2020 Holmes staged a performance where George Floyd's last words were attached to airplane banners and flown above New York City, Dallas, Los Angeles, Detroit, and Miami. [6] [7] [8] The words appeared in large block text; in Detroit the banner read "PLEASE I CAN’T BREATHE", while in New York city it read "THEY’RE GOING TO KILL ME". [9] [10] In 2021 he presented the billboard project I'VE SEEN IT ALL in Dallas, Texas. [11]

His paintings are included in the collections of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston [12] and the Scantland collection at the Columbus Museum of Art. [13]

Exhibitions

References

  1. ↑ "Jammie Holmes". Library Street Collective. Archived from the original on 2021-07-27. Retrieved 2020-09-20.
  2. 1 2 3 Biro, Matthew (2 June 2021). "Jammie Holmes: Pieces of a Man". The Brooklyn Rail.
  3. ↑ "Four Black Men, Lost in Thought". The New York Times. 2 October 2020.
  4. ↑ Hicks, Tyler. "Artist Jammie Holmes Paints What He Knows: Stories of Trauma and Survival". Dallas Observer.
  5. ↑ "The Thibodaux Massacre Left 60 African-Americans Dead and Spelled the End of Unionized Farm Labor in the South for Decades". Smithsonian Magazine. Retrieved 2020-09-20.
  6. ↑ Moss, Hilary (1 June 2020). "George Floyd's Final Words, Written in the Sky". The New York Times.
  7. ↑ Holland, Oscar; Pellerin, Ananda (2 June 2020). "George Floyd's last words fly across the skies of US cities". CNN.
  8. ↑ "George Floyd's Last Words Soar Over Detroit: "Please I Can't Breathe"". wdet.org. June 2020.
  9. ↑ "Artist Jammie Holmes Flies Banners Across the Sky to Remember George Floyd's Last Words". Observer. 3 June 2020.
  10. ↑ "Why Visual Artist Jammie Holmes Took George Floyd's Last Words to the Sky". Texas Monthly. 10 July 2020.
  11. ↑ "Artist Jammie Holmes Wants to Remind Dallas About the City's Black History". D Magazine. 21 July 2021.
  12. ↑ "Jammie Holmes Brown Sparrow". mfah.org.
  13. ↑ "Present Generations: Creating the Scantland Collection of the Columbus Museum of Art". columbusmuseum.org. 25 May 2021.
  14. ↑ "New Digital Art Exhibit Features Dallas-Based Artist's Sky-High Response to the Murder of George Floyd". PaperCity Magazine. 2020-06-08. Retrieved 2020-09-20.
  15. ↑ ""Clean Water" | Jammie Holmes - Exhibitions - Arts District New Orleans". www.artsdistrictneworleans.com. Retrieved 2020-09-20.
  16. ↑ "International Juried Exhibition of Contemporary Art - 23RD ANNUAL NO DEAD ARTISTS - Exhibitions - JONATHAN FERRARA GALLERY". www.jonathanferraragallery.com. Retrieved 2020-09-20.
  17. ↑ "5th Annual Juried Exhibit". LA Artcore. Archived from the original on 2021-07-27. Retrieved 2020-09-20.
  18. ↑ "What We Are Talking About". Marianne Boesky Gallery.
  19. ↑ Matthew Biro (June 17, 2021). "Jammie Holmes: Pieces of a Man". Brooklyn Rail.
  20. ↑ Alexis Schwartz (January 21, 2022). "Jammie Holmes Unveils the Rural Black South to the World". Cultured Mag.
  21. ↑ Angelica Villa (February 17, 2023). "Painter Jammie Holmes Wrestles with What It Means to Belong". ARTnews.
  22. ↑ "Jammie Holmes: Make the Revolution Irresistible | Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth". www.themodern.org. Retrieved 2025-10-18.


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