Bio

Holly Ward is a Vancouver-based interdisciplinary artist working with sculpture, multi-media installation, architecture and drawing as a means to examine representations of social progress and the utopian imaginary.

She received her BFA (interdisciplinary) from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in 1999 and her MFA (studio) from the University of Guelph in 2006.

Ward has exhibited in solo shows across Canada at the Morris and Helen Belkin Gallery, the Or Gallery in Vancouver, and YYZ Gallery, Toronto amongst others. She has participated in group exhibitions in Canada, England, Mexico, the US, Norway and South Korea. She is currently represented by Republic Gallery, Vancouver where she had a solo exhibition in 2009. For her 2009-2010 Langara College Artist in Residence project in Vancouver, Ward constructed a 22’ diameter geodesic dome to act as host to a series of exhibitions, readings, workshops and experimental performances.


Solo exhibitions

2009
Here & There, Republic Gallery, Vancouver, BC
2008
Radical Rupture, Morris and Helen Belkin Gallery,Vancouver, BC
2006
The Relay, Macdonald Stuart Art Centre, Guelph, ON
2004-2005
The Future Is Now, L’Oeil de Poisson, Quebec, PQ, Or Gallery, Vancouver, BC, YYZ Artist’s Outlet, Toronto, ON
2003
The New Colony, Trylowski Gallery, Vancouver, BC 2002
Komfy Korners II, Struts Artist Run Centre, Sackville, NB
2000
More Softer Please, Helen Pitt Gallery, Vancouver, BC

Group exhibitions

2010
Invitation to an Infiltration, Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC
2009
How Soon Is Now, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC
2008
The Sound I’m Looking For, Part 2, Charles H. Scott Gallery, Vancouver, BC
2007
Voice Overhead, Insa Art Space, Seoul, South Korea
Gasoline Rainbows, Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC
2006
Until Then Then, Western Front, Vancouver, BC
How Soon Is Now, ARTLAB, London, ON
2005
You & Me, Art & Idea, Mexico City, Mexico
News From Nowhere, Susan Hobbs Gallery, Toronto, ON
2003-2004
Soundtracks – Replay, Edmonton Art Gallery, Edmonton, AB, Blackwood Gallery, Missasauga ON, Mackenzie Art Gallery, Regina, SK, Ottawa Art Gallery, Ottawa, ON
2002
The Log Family (a collaboration with Jason Maclean, Scott Evans & Shayne Ehman), Or Gallery & Stanley Park, Vancouver, BC
Beyond Terminal City, VTO Gallery, London, UK
There’s A Hair In My Cake, Mercer Union, Toronto, ON
The Village, Or Gallery, Vancouver, BC
The T-Shirt Show, Instant Coffee/AGO, Toronto, ON
2001
Instant Coffee: Urban Disco Cart, Garash Gallery, Mexico City, Mexico
Pop Song Covers (Music and Landscape), Western Front, Vancouver, BC

Education

2006
Master of Fine Arts, Studio
University of Guelph
1999
Bachelor of Fine Arts, Interdisciplinary
Nova Scotia College of Art and Design
1995
Bachelor of Arts, English
University of New Brunswick

Awards

2009
Canada Council Creation/Production
BC Arts Council Project Grant
2006
Ontario Women’s Federation Scholarship
2005-2006
Ontario Graduate Scholarship
2004
University of Guelph Scholarship
Banff Centre for the Arts Award
2002
Canada Council Creation/Production
2001
Canada Council Travel
1999
Joseph Beuys Scholarship NSCAD

Residencies

2009-2010
Langara College Artist in Residence
2004

Banff Centre for the Arts: New Works

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Projects

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