Tom Holland

Tom Holland (born 1936 in Seattle, Washington, United States) is an American visual artist. Holland is known for creating a style of art that may use fiberglass (or fibreglass), aluminum (or aluminium), epoxy paint, plywood, beads, oil paint, palette knives, marble, copper, paper, and clay. For clay he uses watercolor, acrylic urethane, and ceramic glazes.

Holland began his formal art education at the University of California at Berkeley, where he was influenced by David Parkbefore traveling to Chile as a Fulbright Grant recipient. Holland's early academic art influence was David Park at Berkeley, but his artistic style continued to develop through his travels and personal experiences.

Contemporary practice

His beginning as a painter was labeled "funky". It wasn't until Holland began to work with aluminum that he achieved critical acclaim. His work has been described as taking inspiration from Cubism, Futurism, and Constructivism, and he has been called one of California's most important contemporary artists and was featured in Art in the San Francisco Bay Area, 1945–1980: An Illustrated History.

Holland works primarily with fiberglass and aluminum to create free-standing and wall installations, a style that has been said to encompass Abstract Expressionism (8). He creates his art by riveting metal to the fiberglass or aluminum, then using epoxy paint to add other elements to the piece which add depth, light, and color. His work has been labeled exhilarating and visually challenging, playing games and distorting the three-dimensional space.

• 1959 : Fulbright Fellowship
• 1975–1976 : National Endowment for the Arts Sculpture Grant
• 1980 : Guggenheim Fellowship

• 1966 : Nicholas Wilder Gallery, Los Angeles
• 1970 : Neuendorf Gallery, Hamburg
• 1972 : Felicity Samuel Gallery, London
• 1972 : San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco
• 1980 : James Corcoran Gallery – Santa Monica
• 1982 : Corcoran Gallery
• 1983 : Bank of America Galleries, Santa Monica
• 1989 : Persons and Lindell Gallery, Helsinki
• 1994 : San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose
• 1995 : Triton Museum, Silicon Valley
• 2002 : John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco
• 2013 : Samuel Lynne Galleries, Dallas

• 1973 : Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
• 1965 : University of Texas, University Art Museum, Austin
• 1969 : Corcoran Gallery
• 1970 : Museum of Modern Art, New York
• 1977 : Watson/de Nagy & Company
• 1981 : Museum of Modern Art, New York
• 1984 : San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco
• 1996 : Los Angeles County Museum, of Art, Los Angeles
• 2004 : The National Academy, New York
• 2005 : Tucson Museum of Art

• Anderson Collection
• Berkeley Art Museum
• Brooklyn Museum
• Charles Schwab Company
• Chicago Art Institute
• Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art
• Denver Art Museum
• Di Rosa Collections
• Duker Collection
• Federal Reserve Bank, San Francisco
• Los Angeles County Museum* Mayfield Fund
• Museum of Modern Art, New York
• Oakland Museum of California
• The Official Residence of the United States Ambassador to Switzerland
• Palm Springs Desert Museum
• San Francisco Art Institute
• San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
• The Santa Barbara Museum of Art Collection
• Seattle Art Museum
• Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
• Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
• Whitney Museum of American Art