Faith Holland

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Faith Holland
Born
Faith Holland

(1985-02-10) February 10, 1985 (age 37)
Hudson Valley, New York, U.S.
Alma mater School of Visual Arts, Vassar College
Movement Internet art
AwardsP3: Post-Photography Prototyping Prize – name
2016 shortlist – role
Website faithholland.com

Faith Holland (born February 10, 1985) is a new media artist based in New York City. Her work engages with deconstructing female sexualization in the digital space and incorporates sculpture, video, and photography. [1]

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Personal life and education

Holland was born on February 10, 1985. She earned her M.F.A from School of Visual Arts and her B.A from Vassar College. [2] She currently teaches at Pratt and Pace University. [3] She is a new media artist who is known for digital GIFs that focus on the body and sexualization in digital landscapes. Her breakthrough performance, "Porn Interventions", was streamed on RedTube and depicted her shaving her legs. Holland lives in New York City with her husband Seth Barry Watter, four cats and daughter. [4] [5]


Career

Exhibitions

Holland's first solo show, Technophilia, was at Transfer Gallery in 2015. [6] Her work Lick Suck Screen 2 (2014) was included in the 2015 online exhibition Body Anxiety (curated by Ann Hirsch). [7] In 2016, Holland also showed at the Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning, in an exhibition called Female Adapter, as part of her residency at the center. [8] Holland also held residencies at Harvest Works. [9]

In 2017 to 2018, Holland's show Speculative Fetish at Transfer Gallery included two bodies of work: Queer Fetishes (lasercut photo prints depicting mismatched "male" and "female" wire connections held together with nail polish) and The Fetishes (electronic devices covered in various substances and displaying GIFs taken from internet porn). Also exhibited, the video Wire Bath shows the artist bathing in a tub of Ethernet cords. [10] For use in Speculative Fetish, Holland spent a year collecting her own pubic hair. [11]

Other works

In 2014, Lorna Mills curated a video series, entitled Ways of Something, based on art historian John Berger's 1971 documentary Ways of Seeing. For this, thirty different web-based artists were invited per episode to create a single minute of footage about their contemporary practice. Faith Holland's work is represented in episode 1, minute 29 of this work. [12] [13]

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References

  1. ↑ "Artist Profile: Faith Holland". Rhizome. Retrieved 2018-03-04.
  2. ↑ Shneyderman, Elizaveta (4 January 2017). "Artist Profile: Faith Holland". Rhizome. Retrieved 2017-03-13.
  3. ↑ "LinkedIn".
  4. ↑ "Faith Holland". www.faithholland.com.
  5. ↑ {{Cite web |url=https://www.artslant.com/9/articles/show/43309 |title=Faith Holland's Cum "Paintings" Aren't Your Usual Cum Paintings |last=Kuennen |first=Joel |date=19 June 2015 |w ebsite=ArtSlant |access-date
  6. ↑ "FAITH HOLLAND: TECHNOPHILIA". Transfer Gallery. 2015. Retrieved 2017-03-13.
  7. ↑ Fateman, Johanna (April 2015). "WOMEN ON THE VERGE: ART, FEMINISM, AND SOCIAL MEDIA". www.artforum.com. ARTFORUM. Retrieved 2018-03-04.
  8. ↑ "Female Adapter". ArtSlant. December 2016. Retrieved 2019-03-15.
  9. ↑ Parkinson, Carol (2016). "2016 New Works Residencies". Harvestworks Digital Media Arts Center. Retrieved 2019-03-15.
  10. ↑ Murphy, Olivia B. (28 November 2017). "Faith Holland's Speculative Fetishism and Digital Self-Care | ArtSlant". ArtSlant. Retrieved 2018-03-04.
  11. ↑ "Toolbox: Faith Holland's Pubes". ELEPHANT. 2017-10-31. Retrieved 2018-03-04.
  12. ↑ "Ways of Something, Lorna Mills". T e l e m a t i c. Retrieved 2022-02-28.
  13. ↑ "Ways of Something: 58 Web-Based Artists Remake Historic Art Documentary, One Minute At A Time". ANIMAL. 2014-08-21. Retrieved 2022-02-28.
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