Robin Holder

New York City based printmaker, Robin Holder, has developed a unique approach to uniting aesthetics with sociopolitical ideas, connecting personal and universal experiences, and reflecting on nature and spirituality. Robin Holder’s self-reflective images are a meditation on identities, women’s empowerment, and social realities, as she draws from her identity as a woman of myriad ethnic, sociopolitical, and spiritual influences. Holder’s awareness of self and American social culture yields an engaging perspective on the struggles of life and diversity in America.

Her retrospective 'An American Consciousness: Robin Holder's Mid Career Retrospective ' sponsored and curated by the David Driskell Center,
will be presented by The Mobile Museum of Art from January 21 through April 17, 2011.

The exhibition catalogue can be ordered directly from the David Driskell Center AND the entire catalogue, wiith color reproductions of each work in the show, academic, historic and curatorial essays is available online:http://www.driskellcenter.umd.edu/Holder/index.php.

Robin Holder's work has been presented in numerous institutions including: The Parish Gallery, Washington DC; The Woodruff Arts Center, Atlanta; The Stella Jones Gallery, New Orleans; The International Print Center, New York City; Hammonds House, Atlanta and Kent State University, Ohio.

Holder was interviewed by Dr. Halima Taha for the Hatch Billops Artist and Influences Archives.

Ms. Holder has completed several large scale site specific public art projects for The New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, The Metropolitan Transportation Authority, the Connecticut State Arts Commission and New Jersey Transit

In 2006 Holder joined Elizabeth Catlett, Louis Delsarte, David Driskell, Faith Ringgold and Sam Gilliam as the sixth Atlanta National Black Arts Festival Collectors Guild Artist.

Robin Holder was one of fourteen African American artists selected by ABSOLUT to create a commissioned piece for their collection.

The artist was selected by The Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation for an Artist as Catalyst project in Philadelphia.

and chosen by The New York Foundation for the Arts for the taping of a Public Service Announcement and featured in the 2000 premier segment of the We television series Cool Women, produced by Debbie Allen.

Holder was awarded an Individual Visual Artist Grant by The Brooklyn Arts Council to create Behind Each Window a Voice, a series of works inspired by oral histories of residents in Greenpoint Brooklyn. 



The artist’s work is included in significant collections, including The Library of Congress, Shore Bank, Xerox Corporation, Clark Atlanta University, Yale University, Queens Borough Public Library, United Parcel Service, The Washington State Arts Commission, and The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, The Art Commission of the City of New York and Yale University.

Holder has been sought after as a panelist, lecturer, and consultant by a variety of cultural and educational institutions, such as Pratt Institute, New York State Council on the Arts, The High Museum of Atlanta, The Brooklyn Museum, The Museum of Natural History, Cooper Union, Manhattan Community College, The Center for Arts Education and Parsons School of Design.


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