Dana Holst (b. 1972, Canada)

 

Education

1995 Honors B.A. Fine Arts University of Waterloo

 

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2017 Girls! Girls! Girls! Christopher Cutts Gallery, Toronto, CA

2015 She’s All That, Art Gallery of Alberta, Edmonton, CA

2013 She Kisses Birds, Galerie St-Laurent+Hill, Ottawa, CA

2012 Lo and, Katharine Mulherin Contemporary Art Projects, Toronto, CA

2011 Sometimes Rainbows are Black, White Water Gallery, North Bay, CA

2011 Sometimes Rainbows are Black, The Redhead Gallery, Toronto, CA

2011 True Romance, Galerie St. Laurent + Hill, Ottawa, CA

2009 Prey, Latitude 53, Edmonton, CA

2006 Woebegone, Katharine Mulherin Contemporary Art Projects, Toronto CA

2006 Pounding, Galerie St. Laurent + Hill, Ottawa CA

2004 Dancing Girls, Act I, Galerie St. Laurent + Hill, Ottawa CA

2004 Dancing Girls, Act II, Katharine Mulherin Contemporary Art Projects, Toronto Ontario 2003 Dolly Vanderleelie Gallery , Edmonton, CA

2002 Baby Doll Project, Katharine Mulherin Gallery, Toronto CA

2002 Baby Doll Project, Galerie St. Laurent + Hill, Ottawa Ontario 2000 Showdown Galerie St. Laurent + Hill, Ottawa, CA

1999 Wrestle, The Angell Gallery, Toronto, CA

1999 Boudoir, OS Gallery (Open Studio), Toronto, CA

 

Select Group Exhibitions

2024 The Empty Church, Christopher Cutts Gallery, Toronto, CA

2018 Winter Blast, Christopher Cutts Gallery, Toronto, CA

2017 Group Exhibition, Disrupter Gallery, Edmonton, CA

2014 Summer Group Exhibition, Christopher Cutts Gallery, Toronto, CA

2014 Betwixt and Between with Jude Griebel, The Reach Museum, Abbotsford, CA

2013 Fresh Paint, University of Alberta Museums, Edmonton, AB Artefact Artefiction, Macdonald Stewart Art Centre, Guelph, CA

2013 La Vie Fantastique, Travelling group show curated by Shane Golby

2010  Duo Exhibition with Ufuk Gueray, Odd Gallery, Dawson City, CA

2007 Beastie with Angela Grossmann, Galerie St. Laurent + Hill, Ottawa, CA

2003 Group Exhibition Galerie St. Laurent + Hill Group Exhibition

Heat Katharine Mulherin Gallery, Toronto CA

2001 Girl’s Own Hamilton Artists’ Inc., with Bonnie Lewis & Eliza Griffiths, Hamilton CA

2001 Waiting for your Tongue, James Baird Gallery, St. John’s, CA

2001 Interrupted Viewing, University of Waterloo Art Gallery, with Darlene Cole curated by

Carole Podedworny, Waterloo CA

2000 Intersections – Montreal/Toronto, curated by Francine Paul & Herb Sigman

1999 Gallery 96 Retrospective, Gallery Stratford, curated by Sandra Margolian, Stratford CA

1999 Fresh The Angell Gallery, curated by Jessica Wyman, Paintings, Toronto CA

1999 4 days at the Whitehouse, 11 Jersey Avenue, curated by Eileen Sommerman, Toronto CA

1998 Lucky, The Angell Gallery, with Chantal Rousseau, Paintings, Toronto, CA

1998 Social Secrets, Meg Gallery, curated by Dana Holst and Judith Mullett, Toronto CA

 

Awards & Grants

2000 Best in Show Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition, Toronto

Honorable Mention Ernst & Young, Great Canadian Printmaking Competition

1997 Print Award Blackwood Gallery, Paperbacked / Paperbound

1995 Runner Up Best of Show Cambridge: The Library and Gallery, Open Juried Exhibition

Toronto Sun Best Drawing Award Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition

 

Awards – Residencies

2015 Alberta Foundation of the Arts, Project Grant 

2012 Canada Council Project Grant

2011 Canada Council Travel Grant (Sometimes Rainbows are Black – North Bay)

Alberta Foundation for the Arts, Project Grant

2009 Alberta Creative Development Initiative – Canada Council 2007 Alberta Foundation for the Arts, Project Grant

2005 Alberta Foundation for the Arts, Project Grant

2004 Alberta Foundation for the Arts, Project Grant

2001 Canada Council Travel Grant (Girl’s Own, Hamilton)

Ontario Arts Council Exhibition Assistance Grant (Hamilton Artists’ Inc.) Ontario Arts Council Visual Arts Grant (Emerging)

Toronto Arts Council Visual Arts Grant (Level 1)

Canada Council Visual Arts Grant (Emerging)

2000 Ontario Arts Council Exhibition Assistance Grant (Hamilton Artists’ Inc.) 1999 Ontario Arts Council Exhibition Assistance Grant (VAO, Toronto)

Ontario Arts Council Exhibition Assistance Grant (Power Plant, Toronto) Ontario Arts Council Visual Arts Grant (Emerging)

Sheila Hugh Mackay Foundation Rothesay, New Brunswick

1998 Ontario Arts Council Exhibition Assistance Grant (A Space, Toronto) Ontario Arts Council Exhibition Assistance Grant (Hart House, Toronto) Open Studio Nick Novack Scholarship (Lithography)

Sheila Hugh Mackay Foundation Rothesay, New Brunswick

1997 Ontario Arts Council Exhibition Assistance Grant (McMaster Museum of Art, Hamilton) 1996 Ontario Arts Council Exhibition Assistance Grant (The Library and Gallery, Cambridge)

Open Studio Don Phillips Scholarship (Lithography)

 

Collections

Alberta Foundation for the Arts, Alberta

Agnes Etherington Art Centre Kingston, Ontario

Art Bank, Canada Council, Ottawa

Carleton University Art Gallery, Ottawa

Colart Collection, Montreal

Ernst & Young Toronto, Ontario

Glenbow Museum, Calgary Alberta

JK Hannaford Barristers Toronto, Ontario Royal Conservatory of Music Toronto, Ontario Sin-Forest Corporation Mississauga, Ontario J.M. Schneiders Kitchener, Ontario

University of Waterloo Waterloo, Ontario private collections in North America

 

Bibliography

2009 Vue Weekly “Our precious formative years”

Amy Fung (June 25 – July 1, 2009. Page 24)

Galleries West “Prey” Jill Sawyer, (Summer Issue, 2009.)

2008   Carte Blanche Vol. 2: Painting, published by Magenta Publishing, released November 2008

2007 Canadian House and Home “Artist File”

Betty Ann Jordan, (June Issue, 2007. Page 58 & 60)

2006 The Globe and Mail “Pet project pays tribute to four-legged innocents” Gary Michael Dault, (November 11, 2006. Weekend Review – R20) Toronto Life “Dana Holst”

Kate Reagan, (November Issue, 2006. Arts and Entertainment Guide) The Ottawa Citizen “Demented cats, demon dogs and zombie toddlers” Paul Gessell, (May 11, 2006. Arts Section, F1)

2004 The Globe & Mail “Holst’s girl’s are red hot”

Gary Michael Dault, (Saturday November 13, 2004. R12)

The Ottawa Citizen “Holst’s work has a totally addictive acquired taste” Paul Gessell, (Thursday May 27, 2004. Section G)

2002 The Globe & Mail “Holst’s infants are molten to the core” Gary Michael Dault, (Saturday September 21, 2002. R7)

2001 The Hamilton Spectator “Girl’s Own chews up exploitive gender roles” Regina Haggo, (November 3, 2001. Magazine Arts Section) Canadian House and Home “Interview with John Schofield Manuel” Lynda Reeves, (October 2001. Page 48)

2000 The Montreal Gazette “What the Bosses are Buying” Henry Lehmann, (Saturday April 1, 2000. J1 & J2)

1999 The Globe & Mail “Dana Holst’s unholy terrors”

Gary Michael Dault, (Saturday November 13, 1999. C14)

Now Magazine “Dana Holst Wrestles with sexual predators”

Deirdre Hanna, (November 4 – 10, 1999. Page 131)

Toronto Life “Nuclear Family”

Betty Ann Jordan, (November 1999)

Breakfast Television, City TV (Toronto) “Alysa-Beth Engel discussing the show Boudoir at Open Studio”, (Monday October 25, 1999, 7:30 – 9:00 am)

The Globe & Mail “Luscious paint, cast-off photos & enigmatic tableaus”

Gillian McKay, (Saturday June 19, 1999. C11)

The Globe & Mail “Dana Holst at Ace Bakery”

Gary Michael Dault, (Saturday March 27, 1999. C12)

Saturday Night Magazine “Skinned”

Gillian Burnett, (March 1999, Volume 114, Number 2, Pages 18 & 19)

1998 Breakfast Television, City TV (Toronto) “Lithography demo at Open Studio” (Monday November 23, 1998, 7:30 – 9:00 am

The Globe & Mail “Dana Holst & Chantal Rousseau at the Angell Gallery” Gillian McKay, (Saturday November 14, 1998. C4)

 

Miscellaneous

2011 – 2012 Associate Visual Artist for the French Theatre – NAC, Ottawa Ontario