Steven Holmes
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Steven Holmes (b. 1965) is a Canadian curator based in Hartford, Connecticut
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[edit] Biography
He was born in Cobourg, Ontario and educated at The University of Toronto, Harvard University and the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design. While he now currently works in the field of contemporary art, he also taught theology and history at institutions such as King's-Edgehill School, Greens Farms Academy and Convent of the Sacred Heart in Greenwich CT.
As an artist, Holmes worked as a photographer and briefly exhibited work in several Canadian venues, including Gallery 44 in Toronto, and Anna Leonowens Gallery in Halifax. He also was one of a small group of artists who helped establish Khyber Institute for the Arts in 1994.
[edit] Curatorial Work
Holmes was curator at the alternative space Real Art Ways from 2000 to 2005 and is now curator of The Cartin Collection, a private collection of Contemporary Art based in Hartford.
Single artist projects include exhibitions with
- Joe Amrhein
- Robert Beck
- Joe Coleman
- Thierry Delva
- Harrell Fletcher
- Wes Mills
- Kehinde Wiley
[edit] Selected Publications
- "Joe Coleman Moderne Frõmmigkeit" Checkpoint. May-August 2007.
- "Joe Coleman's Modern Devotion". Palais de Tokyo Magazine. March 2007.
- None of the Above, Real Art Ways, 2005 ISBN 0-9717859-1-0
- "Charged Image vs. a University in Retreat". The Hartford Courant. 3 October 2004.
- Acquiring Taste: Work from the Collections of Janice and Mickey Cartin, Robinson and Nancy Grover, Peter Hirschl and Lisa Silvestri, and the LeWitt Collection, Real Art Ways, 2002. ISBN 0-9717859-0-2
- "Documentary Sculpture", Exhibition Catalogue, Real Art Ways, 2002
- "BOXWORKS: Sculpture by Thierry Delva", Dalhousie University Art Gallery, 1996.
- "The Word is Made Flesh, The Flesh is Made Word: Michel Foucault and His Gaze" in Rewire, Spring 1993.
- 'Photography as Theological Discourse" in Harvard Divinity Bulletin, Vol. 21, No. 4, (1992).
