About Me

My Background

Fredrick M. Holland was born in Chicago in 1954 and splits his time between Chicago.and Coloma, Mi. He received his B.A. in Design at the University of Illinois 1976 and has been exhibiting in commercial and non-profit galleries in Chicago, and New York since 1979. Reviewed in both the Chicago and National press. Recipient of Illinois Arts Council and City of Chicago Grants. Work in public collections include the Chicago History Museum and the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art Kansas. Holland is Faculty Emeritus from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago 1997-2022.

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My Medium

Drawing from art of the past and present, I juxtapose images from vernacular print to create new narratives or to question concepts of morality, politics, and memory by using traditional methods of cutting with a knife and pasting image on image.

My Inspiration

Waking up to a fresh cup of coffee and a fully charged phone I begin scrolling through the screaming headlines of the day. With pity for some and contempt for many, I read the latest outrages as well as the misplaced hopes of a world that is descending into authoritarianism, religious fanaticism and environmental collapse. With this in mind I head to the studio keeping one eye towards the sky and hoping for an asteroid.