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.
This program is supported in part by Nevada Humanities and the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Kaitlin Bryson
March 12 – April 19, 2025
Kaitlin Bryson is a queer transdisciplinary ecological artist and educator based in Santa Fe, New Mexico concerned with environmental and social justice and multispecies thriving. She primarily works with fungi, plants, microbes, and biodegradable materials to engage more-than-human audiences, while also facilitating human communities through ecosocial practice. Her practice is research-based and most often collaborative, highlighting the potency of working like lichens to realize radical change and justice. In 2019, Bryson co-founded The Submergence Collective, an environmental art collective focused on multidisciplinary projects that imagine more collaborative, creative, hopeful, and ecologically connected futures for our human species and the rest of the living world.
Bryson received an MFA in Art & Ecology from the University of New Mexico in 2018, where she concurrently studied art and mycology with research in ecotoxicology. Currently, she teaches Art & Ecology and is the Co-Director of the Radicle Art >V< Ecology Lab at the University of New Mexico. Bryson’s transdisciplinary teaching focuses on facilitating ecologically relational practices informed by queer and critical ecology and traditional ecological knowledge, to enroot anticolonial, interconnected, contemporary environmental art practices.
She has worked on multiple land and bioremediation projects with Tewa Women United and Communities for Clean Water in New Mexico, USA. She has received support from the Lannan and Andrew W. Mellon Foundation(s) to create ecologically remediative artworks nationally and internationally. She is a recipient of the 2022 Anonymous Was A Woman Environmental Arts Grant, as well as the 2022 Future Art Award: Ecosystem X from Mozaik Philanthropy, and a 2022 Fulcrum Fund from 516 Arts. Bryson has exhibited throughout the United States and Europe, and in Mexico, Ireland, and Nepal as well as in notable festivals such as Ars Electronica (AT) and Politics of the Machine (DE). Her artwork and activism have been featured in books such as “In Search of Mycotopia: Citizen Science, Fungi Fanatics, and the Untapped Potential of Mushrooms”, by Doug Bierend and The New Farmer’s Almanac “The Grand Land Plan” and in the Autumn 2022 Edition of Antennae: The Journal of Nature in Visual Culture. In 2023, she was selected as one of the “12 New Mexico Artists to Know” by Southwest Contemporary.
Exhibition On View: March 12 – April 19, 2025 | Closing Reception: April 18, 6-8PM | Workshop with the Curator: April 19, details TBA
Isaac Roman Quezada
May 23 – June 28, 2025
Isaac Roman Quezada is a Latinx multidisciplinary artist and curator based in Las Vegas, Nevada. Their work explores the balance between playful expression and the absence of it, reflecting their pansexuality and Latinx identity. As part of the artist collective “scrambled eggs”, Quezada brings a unique intuition and humor to their curation, Their upcoming curatorial project, Inauditx (Unheard), is the second iteration to their collaboration-forward project in which they invite noise, design, and visual artists to collaborate in teams of three which then create singular works and installations. The first iteration was presented in Las Vegas in January 2025.
Exhibition On View: May 23 – June 28, 2025 | Opening Reception: May 23, 6-8PM
Additional curatorial projects in 2025 will include pop-ups for Serva Pool Flux between May – September, as well as in October – November 2025 in conjunction with our Nevada Survey Exhibition and collaboration with the Desert Biennial Project. Details are forthcoming!