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Professional Artist and Curator in London, England <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Education:<\/strong>
Bachelor of Fine Arts in Art, Painting Concentration, UNC Charlotte (2014)
Bachelor of Arts in Art History, UNC Charlotte (2014)
Master of Fine Arts, Goldsmith University in London (2025)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hometown:<\/strong> Charlotte, N.C.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Artist Holly Keogh is a local visual artist from Charlotte and now based in London. She exhibits, curates, and assists\u00a0 in multiple public art projects. Among her recent projects, Holly curated a show locally at Goodyear Arts, entitled\u00a0It Blooms At Night,<\/em>\u00a0and exhibited bodies of work in New York City as part of the internationally recognized SPRING\/BREAK art show.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Not long after graduating from UNC Charlotte in 2014, Holly became a founding member of the Goodyear Artist Collective and was its first artist-in-residence. Other residencies have followed: In 2019, she won a \u201cPeople’s Choice Award\u201d while at the Pienkow Artist Residency in Chelm, Poland. The following year, she was an artist-in-residence at the McColl Center for Art + Innovation in Charlotte.   <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Holly\u2019s work stems from her interest in memory and the human desire to document or freeze time – often with a camera. Throughout her childhood, her family would receive photographs from extended family in Britain. \u201cThese photographs depict cousin\u2019s birthdays I never attended or new homes I never stepped inside,\u201d her artist statement explains. \u201cI examine the familiar faces in these images in vain; I can\u2019t bring them any closer, I can\u2019t reconstruct the original moments in time.\u201d The photos become the basis for her paintings, which blend elements of the artifacts with her own remembrances and imaginings. \u201cPsychologically charged portraits emerge from tension between my will to remember and my power to project.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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While a student at UNC Charlotte, Holly studied abroad for a year at the University of Cape Town, South Africa, and while her concentration there and at Charlotte was painting, she took advantage of opportunities in the Department of Art & Art History to broaden her skills. She did an independent study in printmaking, for example, (\u201cI loved learning new techniques and incorporating them into paintings and collages,\u201d she says) and added an art history major, which taught the importance of \u201cconnecting my practice to a larger contemporary dialogue.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Holly ranks the senior BFA exhibition as one of the highlights of her education. \u201cI learned so much about how to finish and install work,\u201d she says. \u201cIt was also the first time I got to see people other than friends and family experiencing the work.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

To this day, Holly remains connected to many of the professors she studied with at UNC Charlotte. \u201cThey have been a source of information and guidance with many of the decisions and projects I have worked on.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Holly offers a few pieces of advice for current and future visual artists: \u201cDon’t be afraid to disconnect; go looking in places other than the Internet for inspiration. Defend your time to make work. Try a lot of new things, make a lot of work and don’t be too precious with it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Holly is represented by SOCO Gallery in Charlotte. To learn more about her work and see examples, visit her website<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Extinct Love,” by Holly Keogh. Above, right, “Not to put too fine a point on it.”<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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