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Holly King Art

Canadian, b. 1957

Holly King is a Canadian contemporary artist, born in Montréal, in 1957. She has a BFA degree from Laval University and an MFA degree in visual art from York University. King currently teaches at Concordia University. Her photographs have been shown in Canada and internationally, most notably at the Montréal Museum of Fine Arts, the Centre Georges Pompidou, in Paris, the Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, in Taiwan and the Museum of Contemporary Art, in Mexico. The Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography organized a traveling show of her works, “Landscapes of the Imagination," which was on tour from 1998–2002. Her works can be found in many prestigious collections, including those of the Montréal Museum of Contemporary Art, the Musée national de beaux-arts du Québec, the Leonard and Bina Ellen Gallery, in Montreal, the Canadian Museum of Contemporary Art, in Toronto, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, in Ottawa and the Canada Council Arts Bank.

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Artist: Holly King
Borneo Burning
By Holly King
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Holly King was born in Montreal and has a BFA from Laval and an MFA in visual art from York University. She currently teaches at Concordia University. Her photographs have been shown...
Category

2010s Contemporary Holly King Art

Materials

Oil, Wood Panel

Water Vessel
By Holly King
Located in Montreal, Quebec
King’s interpretation of nature’s struggle takes the shape of small-format oil paintings, which depict landscapes merged with vessels that work to destroy or protect the environment ...
Category

2010s Contemporary Holly King Art

Materials

Oil, Wood Panel

Chilled Moonscape
By Holly King
Located in Montreal, Quebec
King’s interpretation of nature’s struggle takes the shape of small-format oil paintings, which depict landscapes merged with vessels that work to destroy or protect the environment ...
Category

2010s Contemporary Holly King Art

Materials

Oil, Wood Panel

Melting Shard
By Holly King
Located in Montreal, Quebec
King’s interpretation of nature’s struggle takes the shape of small-format oil paintings, which depict landscapes merged with vessels that work to destroy or protect the environment ...
Category

2010s Contemporary Holly King Art

Materials

Oil, Wood Panel

Tendril Promise
By Holly King
Located in Montreal, Quebec
King’s interpretation of nature’s struggle takes the shape of small-format oil paintings, which depict landscapes merged with vessels that work to destroy or protect the environment ...
Category

2010s Contemporary Holly King Art

Materials

Oil, Wood Panel

Arid Storm
By Holly King
Located in Montreal, Quebec
King’s interpretation of nature’s struggle takes the shape of small-format oil paintings, which depict landscapes merged with vessels that work to destroy or protect the environment ...
Category

2010s Contemporary Holly King Art

Materials

Oil, Wood Panel

Barbed Paradise
By Holly King
Located in Montreal, Quebec
King’s interpretation of nature’s struggle takes the shape of small-format oil paintings, which depict landscapes merged with vessels that work to destroy or protect the environment ...
Category

2010s Contemporary Holly King Art

Materials

Oil, Wood Panel

Valley
By Holly King
Located in Montreal, Quebec
King creates large format photographic landscapes in her studio with sculptural props and painted backdrops. She is interested in the tension between artifice and constructed realiti...
Category

2010s Contemporary Holly King Art

Materials

Photographic Paper

Peak
By Holly King
Located in Montreal, Quebec
King creates large format photographic landscapes in her studio with sculptural props and painted backdrops. She is interested in the tension between artifice and constructed realiti...
Category

2010s Contemporary Holly King Art

Materials

Photographic Paper

Glow
By Holly King
Located in Montreal, Quebec
King creates large format photographic landscapes in her studio with sculptural props and painted backdrops. She is interested in the tension between artifice and constructed realiti...
Category

2010s Contemporary Holly King Art

Materials

Photographic Paper

Bridge
By Holly King
Located in Montreal, Quebec
King creates large format photographic landscapes in her studio with sculptural props and painted backdrops. She is interested in the tension between artifice and constructed realiti...
Category

2010s Contemporary Holly King Art

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Photographic Paper

Flow
By Holly King
Located in Montreal, Quebec
King creates large format photographic landscapes in her studio with sculptural props and painted backdrops. She is interested in the tension between artifice and constructed realiti...
Category

2010s Contemporary Holly King Art

Materials

Photographic Paper

Ascent
By Holly King
Located in Montreal, Quebec
King creates large format photographic landscapes in her studio with sculptural props and painted backdrops. She is interested in the tension between artifice and constructed realiti...
Category

2010s Contemporary Holly King Art

Materials

Photographic Paper

Still life #8
By Holly King
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Holly King creates large format photographic landscapes in her studio with sculptural props and painted backdrops. She is interested in the tension between artifice and constructed r...
Category

2010s Contemporary Holly King Art

Materials

C Print

Still life #7
By Holly King
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Holly King creates large format photographic landscapes in her studio with sculptural props and painted backdrops. She is interested in the tension between artifice and constructed r...
Category

2010s Contemporary Holly King Art

Materials

C Print

Dusking Time, Sphere
By Holly King
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Holly King creates large format photographic landscapes in her studio with sculptural props and painted backdrops. She is interested in the tension between artifice and constructed r...
Category

2010s Contemporary Holly King Art

Materials

C Print

Still life #6
By Holly King
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Holly King creates large format photographic landscapes in her studio with sculptural props and painted backdrops. She is interested in the tension between artifice and constructed r...
Category

2010s Contemporary Holly King Art

Materials

C Print

Still life #2
By Holly King
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Holly King creates large format photographic landscapes in her studio with sculptural props and painted backdrops. She is interested in the tension between artifice and constructed r...
Category

2010s Contemporary Holly King Art

Materials

C Print

Twilit Smoke
By Holly King
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Holly King creates large format photographic landscapes in her studio with sculptural props and painted backdrops. She is interested in the tension between artifice and constructed r...
Category

2010s Contemporary Holly King Art

Materials

C Print

Still life #4
By Holly King
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Holly King creates large format photographic landscapes in her studio with sculptural props and painted backdrops. She is interested in the tension between artifice and constructed r...
Category

2010s Contemporary Holly King Art

Materials

C Print

The Darker Stage of Dusk
By Holly King
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Holly King creates large format photographic landscapes in her studio with sculptural props and painted backdrops. She is interested in the tension between artifice and constructed r...
Category

2010s Contemporary Holly King Art

Materials

C Print

Still life #3
By Holly King
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Holly King creates large format photographic landscapes in her studio with sculptural props and painted backdrops. She is interested in the tension between artifice and constructed r...
Category

2010s Contemporary Holly King Art

Materials

C Print

Floral Dusk
By Holly King
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Holly King creates large format photographic landscapes in her studio with sculptural props and painted backdrops. She is interested in the tension between artifice and constructed r...
Category

2010s Contemporary Holly King Art

Materials

C Print

Still life #1
By Holly King
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Holly King creates large format photographic landscapes in her studio with sculptural props and painted backdrops. She is interested in the tension between artifice and constructed r...
Category

2010s Contemporary Holly King Art

Materials

C Print

Basalt Cliff
By Holly King
Located in Montreal, Quebec
King creates large format photographic landscapes in her studio with sculptural props and painted backdrops. She is interested in the tension between artifice and constructed realiti...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Holly King Art

Materials

Photographic Paper

Arch and Sea 2
By Holly King
Located in Montreal, Quebec
King creates large format photographic landscapes in her studio with sculptural props and painted backdrops. She is interested in the tension between artifice and constructed realiti...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Holly King Art

Materials

Photographic Paper

Shipwreck
By Holly King
Located in Montreal, Quebec
King creates large format photographic landscapes in her studio with sculptural props and painted backdrops. She is interested in the tension between artifice and constructed realiti...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Holly King Art

Materials

Photographic Paper

Cliff with Vines
By Holly King
Located in Montreal, Quebec
King creates large format photographic landscapes in her studio with sculptural props and painted backdrops. She is interested in the tension between artifice and constructed realiti...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Holly King Art

Materials

Photographic Paper

Heavenly Invitation
By Holly King
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Text by Amber Berson Canadian photographer Holly King’s Mangrove series is an investigation into the artist’s own subconscious. The photographs border on the uncanny, although nev...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Holly King Art

Materials

Photographic Paper

World Beyond the Water
By Holly King
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Text by Amber Berson Canadian photographer Holly King’s Mangrove series is an investigation into the artist’s own subconscious. The photographs border on the uncanny, although never uncomfortably so. Instead, her preternatural compositions engage the viewer’s curiosity – the viewer is not sure how to approach, and yet is drawn to do so. At times the images are reflective, occasionally disquieting and always thought provoking. The twisted roots of the mangrove forests that form the base of this series provide an entry point for an investigation into the shadowy parts of the artist’s imagination. The differences between what we know to be real and what we perceive as real are often slight. The work of Holly King stems from an attempt to prevail over the uncharted territory of both her imagination and that which is perceived as true. In her creations, King endeavours to understand her subconscious mindscape as manifested through photographs recalling actual landscapes. This new series, stemming from earlier pieces also focused on roots, reflects King’s interest in drawing, in the linear subject and in geometric abstraction. It is a move away from previous series – despite the photographic medium in which King works, her oeuvre has contained a certain painterly quality. These new photographs tend to melt into themselves, drawing the viewer in and letting the imagination drift. The Mangrove series causes the viewer to approach with at a slower pace, to investigate deeply into the darker nooks and crannies and to attempt to find reason within a work that so clearly plays with our understanding of real and imaginary. Nothing is incidental in King’s photographs...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Holly King Art

Materials

Photographic Paper

Chalk Shoreline
By Holly King
Located in Montreal, Quebec
King creates large format photographic landscapes in her studio with sculptural props and painted backdrops. She is interested in the tension between artifice and constructed realiti...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Holly King Art

Materials

Photographic Paper

Into the Mist
By Holly King
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Text by Marsha Taichman Holly King’s photographs draw from memories of landscapes, and reference film, art and literature. Her images are cinematic ...
Category

2010s Contemporary Holly King Art

Materials

Photographic Paper

Lighthouse
By Holly King
Located in Montreal, Quebec
King creates large format photographic landscapes in her studio with sculptural props and painted backdrops. She is interested in the tension between artifice and constructed realiti...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Holly King Art

Materials

Photographic Paper

Crowned Seascape
By Holly King
Located in Montreal, Quebec
King creates large format photographic landscapes in her studio with sculptural props and painted backdrops. She is interested in the tension between artifice and constructed realiti...
Category

2010s Contemporary Holly King Art

Materials

Photographic Paper

Tree and Fields
By Holly King
Located in Montreal, Quebec
King creates large format photographic landscapes in her studio with sculptural props and painted backdrops. She is interested in the tension between artifice and constructed realiti...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Holly King Art

Materials

Photographic Paper

Spiral Water
By Holly King
Located in Montreal, Quebec
King creates large format photographic landscapes in her studio with sculptural props and painted backdrops. She is interested in the tension between artifice and constructed realiti...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Holly King Art

Materials

Photographic Paper

Quiet Monument
By Holly King
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Holly King’s photographs draw from memories of landscapes, and reference film, art and literature. Her images are cinematic and striking, seemingly rea...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Holly King Art

Materials

Photographic Paper

Pathway to an Illusion
By Holly King
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Holly King’s photographs draw from memories of landscapes, and reference film, art and literature. Her images are cinematic and striking, seemingly rea...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Holly King Art

Materials

Photographic Paper

Scenic Delirium
By Holly King
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Holly King’s photographs draw from memories of landscapes, and reference film, art and literature. Her images are cinematic and striking, seemingly rea...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Holly King Art

Materials

Photographic Paper

Rising Levels
By Holly King
Located in Montreal, Quebec
King’s interpretation of nature’s struggle takes the shape of small-format oil paintings, which depict landscapes merged with vessels that work to destroy or protect the environment ...
Category

2010s Contemporary Holly King Art

Materials

Oil, Wood Panel

Delicate Balance
By Holly King
Located in Montreal, Quebec
King’s interpretation of nature’s struggle takes the shape of small-format oil paintings, which depict landscapes merged with vessels that work to destroy or protect the environment ...
Category

2010s Contemporary Holly King Art

Materials

Oil, Wood Panel

Blindspots
By Holly King
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Holly King was born in Montreal and has a BFA from Laval and an MFA in visual art from York University. She currently teaches at Concordia University. Her photographs have been shown...
Category

2010s Contemporary Holly King Art

Materials

Oil, Wood Panel

Still life #5
By Holly King
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Holly King creates large format photographic landscapes in her studio with sculptural props and painted backdrops. She is interested in the tension between artifice and constructed r...
Category

2010s Contemporary Holly King Art

Materials

C Print

Beach and Cliffside
By Holly King
Located in Montreal, Quebec
King creates large format photographic landscapes in her studio with sculptural props and painted backdrops. She is interested in the tension between artifice and constructed realiti...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Holly King Art

Materials

Photographic Paper

Luminous
By Holly King
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Text by Amber Berson Canadian photographer Holly King’s Mangrove series is an investigation into the artist’s own subconscious. The photographs border on the uncanny, although nev...
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Holly King Art

Materials

Photographic Paper

Ascent to the Edge
By Holly King
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Holly King’s photographs draw from memories of landscapes, and reference film, art and literature. Her images are cinematic and striking, seemingly rea...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Holly King Art

Materials

Photographic Paper

Reflections Tantalize
By Holly King
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Holly King’s photographs draw from memories of landscapes, and reference film, art and literature. Her images are cinematic and striking, seemingly rea...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Holly King Art

Materials

Photographic Paper

Almost Paradise
By Holly King
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Holly King’s photographs draw from memories of landscapes, and reference film, art and literature. Her images are cinematic and striking, seemingly rea...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Holly King Art

Materials

Photographic Paper

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Find a wide variety of authentic Holly King art available for sale on 1stDibs. You can also browse by medium to find art by Holly King in paper, photographic paper, c print and more. Much of the original work by this artist or collective was created during the 21st century and contemporary and is mostly associated with the contemporary style. Not every interior allows for large Holly King art, so small editions measuring 15 inches across are available. Customers who are interested in this artist might also find the work of Patrick Beaulieu, Patrick Lajoie, and Michel Piquette. Holly King art prices can differ depending upon medium, time period and other attributes. On 1stDibs, the price for these items starts at $2,200 and tops out at $16,500, while the average work can sell for $5,000.

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