Christian Holstad

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Christian J. Holstad (born April 28, 1972 in Anaheim , California ) is an American artist who lives and works in New York.

Life

Christian Holstad studied art at the Kansas City Art Institute and graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in 1994.

His artistic work includes collages , drawings (Eraserhead Drawings), sculptures (Softsculptures) mostly made of textiles and common everyday objects, often installed in an overall spatial situation.

Furthermore, performances and music belong to his means of expression, which he often develops and carries out together with the performance group “ The Black Leotard Front ”, consisting of the artists Delia Gonzalez , Gavin R. Russom and Daniel Schmidt.

Holstad was represented internationally in exhibitions like "Greater New York 2005" at PS1 in New York, the Whitney Biennale 2004 in New York, "Beautiful Lies You Could Live In" at the Victoria Miro Gallery in London, "Gaity; Discovering the Lost Art (in Absentia) ", curated by Beatrix Ruf in the Kunsthalle Zürich and in exhibitions in the galleries Hiromi Yoshii in Tokyo and Massimo de Carlo in Milan.

His first solo exhibition in Europe was curated by Daniel Schmidt in 2003, and his first solo exhibition in a museum, "Turns of Endearment," was held in 2006 at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Miami, Florida. In 2007 Holstad shows an installation at the Biennale in Lyon, France, curated by Hans-Ulrich Obrist .

Public collections

  • Museum of Modern Art, NYC
  • Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburg
  • Museum of Contemporary Art, LA
  • Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami
  • MCA, Chicago
  • Astrup Fearnley Museet for Modern Art, Oslo, Norway
personal data
SURNAME Holstad, Christian
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Holstad, Christian J.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American artist
DATE OF BIRTH April 28, 1972
PLACE OF BIRTH Anaheim , California