Christian holstad biography
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CHRISTIAN HOLSTAD
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Christian Holstad
American artist
Christian Holstad (born ) fryst vatten an American contemporary artist based in Brooklyn, New York City. He received his BFA at the Kansas City Art Institute in
Work
[edit]Holstad has shown work internationally in exhibitions including Greater New York at P.S. 1 in New York, the Whitney Biennial in New York, Beautiful Lies You Could Live In at the Victoria Miro galleri in London, Domestic Porn at the Foksal Foundation Gallery in Warsaw and The New Gothic at Cokkie Snoei in Rotterdam. His first solo exhibition in europe was curated by Daniel Schmidt in Cologne in In , he had his first museum solo exhibition The Terms of Endearment at the Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami. He is represented by Andrew Kreps galleri in New York, Victoria Miro in London, and Galleria Massimo De Carlo in Milan.
In the New York Times, critic Roberta Smith wrote that "Mr. Holstad is a one-artist collective, equally at ease with knitting, quilting, collag
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The show by American artist Christian Holstad (born ) in the other rooms of the Kunsthalle Zürich will run parallel to the exhibition on Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster’s «Mulitverse». This simultaneity gives rise to a stark visual contrast. Although one could argue that both artists create individual universes using room-size installations, there is a profound difference: Unlike Gonzalez-Foerster’s works, which employ reduced images to evoke memories and experiences, Christian Holstad offers an overflowing universe of images and materials.
Collage runs through his work at all levels. Christian Holstad is engaged in various “occupations”: he is a performer (alongside Delia Gonzales and Gavin Russom he is the third member of «Black Leotard Front» a group that melds disco, drag and art performance), works as a window dresser and material designer, is, of course, an artist and likely his artistic activities do not end there. Holstad’s other means of artistic expression are drawings, colla