Contact: holly@hollysumner.net
Links: www.rulegallery.com
www.silentplankton.com
SOLO AND TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS
1999 Rule Modern & Contemporary, Denver, CO “Denatured”
1997 Boulder Museum for Contemporary Art, CO “Natural Abstraction: Holly Sumner - Paradise as Site”
1992 Skep Gallery, New York, NY “Holly Sumner: Paintings”
1984 City Spirit Gallery, Denver, CO “Holly Sumner, Phillip Wofford”
Emmanuel Gallery, Denver, CO “Messengers”
Unicorn Gallery, Aspen, CO
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2011 Kentler International Drawing Space, "The Kentler Flatfiles @ 21"
2009 The Arts at St Marks Garage, Honolulu, HI "Slow News International
2008 Cheryl Pelavin, NY, NY "Friends"
ArtNow, Broadthinking, New York, NY
Rule Modern and Contemporary, Denver, CO
2007 ASLO, The Influence of Planktonic Form in Art and Design, Santa Fe, NM
2006 Institute for Psychoanalytical Research, New York, NY
2005 d.u.m.b.o Arts Center, Brooklyn, NY “Human Scale” curated by Doug Bohr
Sirius Arts Centre, Cork, Ireland “The Trunk Show”
Women's Library, London Metropolitan University “The Trunk Show
Stellar Union, Southampton, NY
Pierogi Flat Files
2004 d.u.m.b.o Arts Center, Brooklyn, NY “Up and Off the Wall” curated by Donald Sultan
Rubin Museum of Art “The Flag Project”
2003 Field Gallery, Martha’s Vineyard, MA “Artists Respond To War”
2000 Exit Art, New York, NY “Choices”
1999 MMC Gallery, New York, NY “Animal Lives”
1998 Center for Contemporary Art, Sacramento, CA “Death & Desire Show”
1997 Fotouhi Cramer Gallery, New York, NY “Edge of Chaos” curated by John Torreano
1996 Gray Matters, Dallas, TX “Drawing from New York”
1995 Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, NY “Under Glass”
Three Rivers Arts Festival, Pittsburg, PA “Like Young: 12 New York Painters” curated by Ingrid Schaffner
1995 Castle Gallery, College of New Rochelle, NY “Green Piece”
1994 Ellsworth Public Library, Maine “Emerging New York Artists”
1993 Artists Space, New York, NY “Artists Select”
1993 The Drawing Center, New York, NY “The Return of the Cadavre Exquis”
1992 Skep Gallery, New York, NY “Suzanne Bocanegra, Kellie Murphy, Holly Sumner”
1991 MMC Gallery, Marymount College, New York, NY “In Memory of Nature”
1988 Stamford Museum, Stamford, CT
1986 Ridge Street Gallery, New York, NY
1986 Denver Art Museum “Alliance for Contemporary Art Exhibit”
Arvada Center for the Arts, Arvada, CO “A Colorado Landscape Painters Show”
1985 Aspen Museum of Art, CO “Colorado Landscape: New Directions”
1984 Denver Art Museum “Colorado Biennial”
Traveled to: Sangre de Cristo Art Center, Pueblo, CO
Western Colorado Center for the Arts, Grand Junction, CO
Colorado State University Gallery, Fort Collins, CO
Aspen Museum of Art, CO “Small Wonders”
Arvada Center for the Arts, Arvada, CO “A Colorado Painting Show”
1983 Cocodrilles II Building, Denver, CO “Six”
1982 Cocodrilles II Building, Denver, CO “CRANE: Colorado Resident Artists New Exhibitions”
Clayton Staple Memorial Gallery, Wichita State University, KS
FLATFILES
Peirogi International, Brooklyn, NY
Kentler International Drawing Center, Brooklyn, NY
EDUCATION
University of Colorado, Boulder, CO MFA 1984
Alfred University, Alfred, NY BFA 1975
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Paglia, Michael.”Place Settings” Westword, (Denver,CO) March 11-17,1999, p.59
Chandler, Mary.”Critcs’ Choice: Art”,Denver Rocky Mountain News, Sunday Feb 14,1999, p.31
Heath, Jennifer. “Making the Ordinary Extraordinary”, Boulder Planet, June 25, 1997, p.4C
Anon. “From the Big Apple”, The Dallas Morning News, Nov 15, 1996, guide p. 44
Smith, Roberta. “Art in Review: Artists ‘Select’ Part 1”, The New York Times, Jan 7,1996, p. C23
Clegg, Nancy. “Art: Blandscapes”, Westword, (Denver, CO), Feb 5 - 11, 1986, p. 30
Clurman, Irene. “Eye on Art: Colorado landscape artists exhibit variety of styles”, Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO), Jan 17, 1986, p. 7W
Glenn, Reed. “Ten artists offer landscapes for all seasons”, The Sunday Camera (Boulder, CO), Jan 12, 1986, p. 10A
Anon. “American West is theme of show”, The Aspen Times Feb 28, 1985, p. 9B
Clurman, Irene. “A show to match the mountains”, Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO), March 19, 1985, p. 41
Julian, June. “Holly Sumner”(review), New Art Examiner, Feb 1985, p. 66
Anon. “Unicorn exhibits pair of painters”, The Aspen Times, March 22, 1984, p. 13B
Fudge, Jane. “The 1983 Colorado Biennial” Muse Feb/March 1984, p.13
Fudge, Jane. “Messengers: artists in awe of birds”, Daily Camera (Boulder, CO) Oct 10, 1984, p. 11A
Kronwitter, Carol. “Colorado Biennial 1983: Contemporary show is nice change”
The Pueblo Star-Journal and Sunday Chieftain, Pueblo, CO April 8, 1984, p.2D
Price, Max. “Exhibition explores the roles of birds in legends” The Denver Post Oct 5, 1984, p.
Price, Max. “Catching a bit of City Spirit” The Denver Post Dec 21, 1984, p. 47
Pytel, Christopher. “Eye fantasies, myths of the west”, The Apen Times, March 29, 1984, p. 7B
Clurman, Irene. “Museum Biennial puts bite in art” Rocky Mountain News (Denver) Dec 9 1983, p. 7W
Fudge, Jane. “’83 Biennial: a mixture of peaks and valleys” Daily Camera (Boulder) Dec 28, 1983, p. 10E
COLLECTIONS
TIAACREF, New York, NY
J P Morgan, New York, NY
Hale and Dorr, Boston, MA
Capital Group, Los Angeles, CA