The Holland Project’s Curator Series invites regional & national artist-curators to organize art and humanities programs in collaboration with HP Galleries. The series aims to expand the scope of conversations presented by curators and exhibiting artists beyond our gallery walls through programs that engage all departments of our organization: art, music, workshops, and community.
We are thrilled to announce the 2022 Resident Curators:
Jump to info: Nick Larsen | Kelsey Westphal | Antone Dolezal & Tracy Fish | Kelly Kirkland & Miwah Lee
This series is made possible in part through a grant from Nevada Humanities and the National Endowment for the Humanities
NICK LARSEN
March 8 – April 29, 2022
Nick Larsen is an artist living in Columbus, Ohio. He studied at the University of Nevada, Reno and the Ohio State University, where he received his MFA in Sculpture. Larsen has had over a dozen solo and collaborative exhibitions and been a part of a number of notable group exhibitions, including Tilting the Basin, a survey of contemporary art in Nevada (Nevada Museum of Art, 2016), and several editions of New American Paintings (NAP #131, #135, #143, #155). In 2019, he self-published a book of images, drawings, and writing that straddled the line between autobiography and fictionalized archeological inventory of Queer Mountain, a real though poorly documented desert wilderness in western Nevada.
KRUSTY WHEATFIELD
July 5 – August 5, 2022
Krusty Wheatfield (KQW, Kelsey Westphal) is a cartoonist and multimedia artist based in Oakland, CA. The power of lines and shapes to create stories and connections has guided her throughout her “career”, from getting a masters in comics research in France to curating monthly art shows from inside of a classic car showroom in Oakland. She aims to draw people together in space, literally and figuratively, and see what new situations arise from unpredictable combinations. Long-term interview comics with avant-garde publisher V Vale, gigantic wordless cartoon scenes, noise collages and organizing events are all part of her pursuit of the glittering edge where the sacred and absurd meet. Her favorite projects include “Fetching” (a dog fashion show), “Future Ruins” a field research comics zine with French artist Sabine Teyssonneyre, and multiple newsletters–namely, her raunchy quarantine newsletter The Deliverable with unhinged NYC lawyer ‘Little Johnny’, cosmic neighborhood broadsheet The Jefferies Tube with Stephen Steinbrink, and creating the A.B.O. Comix newsletter for LGBTQ+ folks in prisons). She loves the crust of bread, and of LIFE!
ANTONE DOLEZAL + TRACY FISH
August 23 – September 23, 2022
Antone Dolezal is a visual artist whose body of work employs photography, video, sound, archival materials, and bookmaking to survey the cultural and political dynamics of American history, folklore, and mythology. His work has been exhibited widely and is held in notable public collections including the Museum of Contemporary Photography, New Mexico Museum of Art, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Whitney Museum of American Art – Special Collections, and Yale University’s Collection of Western Americana. Antone is the author of several books including Devil’s Promenade (Overlapse, 2021), co-authored with long-time collaborator Lara Shipley and he is a recipient of the Syracuse University Visual & Performing Arts Fellowship, Snider Acquisition Prize (MoCP), Puffin Foundation Artist Grant and Gomma Grant. His work has appeared in many anthologies and has been reviewed and profiled in the British Journal of Photography, El Pais, GEO, Liberation News, Leica Magazine, National Public Radio, The New Yorker, and Smithsonian Magazine.
Tracy Fish (she/her) is a documentary and fine art photographer, born and raised in Brooklyn, N.Y. Her creative work expands genres, using her interest in culture and history as a catalyst to explore themes of memory, place, identity, and familial narrative through photography, audio, and experimental videography. She is also focused on documentation of the physical changes of the land within the Anthropocene. She is currently an Assistant Professor of Photography and Area Head of Photography at the University of Nevada, Reno, teaching courses at the undergraduate and graduate levels. Tracy has won various awards and exhibited both nationally and internationally. She received her MFA in Experimental and Documentary Arts from Duke University (2015).
Kelly Kirkland & Miwah lee
October 24 – December 3, 2022
Kelly Kirkland is a freelance researcher based in San Francisco, CA. She has supported numerous exhibitions at the Whitney Museum of American Art and the De Young Museum and was a 2018-19 writer-in-residence at Art Practical, where she published essays and reviews highlighting emerging artists in the Bay Area. Her areas of interest include fashion criticism, trend research, independent publishing, and olfactory culture. This is her first collaboration with The Holland Project.
Miwah Lee is a first-generation Korean American photographer and director living and working out of Los Angeles. She is a former student of UNR, graduating with a BFA in Photography. Her strong interest in fashion and music has led her career in fashion photography, creative styling, and directing. Her focus has been to collaborate with creative conceptual designers who are challenging the status quo and building community.
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