CV

SD Holman

Art Producer/Director; Photo-based Artist

Awards

2025 King Charles III Coronation Medal

2014 YWCA Women of Distinction Award

Board of Directors & Programming Work

2022—Present Founding Artistic Director Emeritus, Pride in Art Society—QAF/SUM gallery

2021—Present Vice-President On The Cutting Edge Society; On Main Gallery

2008—2021 Artistic and Executive Director, Pride in Art Society—QAF/SUM gallery

2006—2008  Vice-President, Board of Directors & participating artist, Pride in Art Society

1991—2000 Director, Vancouver Association for Non-Commercial Culture

1999—2001  Director/operator, Studio Q-infamous Vancouver salon featured in Vancouver Secrets of The City

Solo Exhibitions
2026 Pas à pas; Not intent on Arriving: Comox Valley Art Gallery, Curator Denise Lawson

2026 Music for Turtles: Public art, Platfoms: Teachers among us

2026 BUTCH, Hirschheydt Galerie, Berlin, Curator: Dr Michael Hirschheydt

2025 Music for Turtles: Vancouver East Cultural Center (the Clutch), with Little Chamber Music 

2023 Pas à pas, SUM Gallery Vancouver, Mark Tacashi Mcgregor, curator

2021 Momento Mori, On Main Gallery, selected exhibition, Capture Festival. Curated by Paul Wong

2014 BUTCH: not like the other girls, Canadian Lesbian and Gay Archives, Toronto, ON.
Curated by Karen Stanworth

2014 BUTCH: not like the other girls, Jewitt Sculpture Gallery, Wellesley College, MA.
Curated by Leah M. Fygetakis

2014 BUTCH: not like the other girls, Austin Gallery, San Francisco, CA. Curated by Alex Austin

2014   BUTCH: not like the other girls, Holyoke College, South Hadley, MA

2014   BUTCH: not like the other girls, Easthampton City Arts+ and Mill Arts Project, Easthampton, MA

2013   BUTCH: not like the other girls, Vancouver East Cultural Centre and as public art in transit shelters

2011   Still Life, The Western Front, Vancouver. Commissioned for In Passing, a multi-disciplinary show co-presented by Astrolabe Musik Theatre and Heritage Vancouver

2009    Stealing Masculinity, Gallery Gachet, Vancouver 

2008    Dead Serious, Vancouver Crematorium and Cemetery, Vancouver. Commissioned by New Music in New Places, presented by the Canadian Music Centre 

2001   G.l.D. Gender Identity Disorder or Girls in Drag, San Francisco Public Library, San Francisco. Curated by Karen Sundheim.

2000   G.l.D. Gender Identity Disorder or Girls in Drag, Dr. Vigari Gallery, Vancouver 

1998 G.l.D. Gender Identity Disorder or Girls in Drag, Helen Pitt Gallery, Vancouver. Curated by Ken Dietrich-Campbell.

Collaborative Projects and Public Art

2026  Platforms 2025: The Teachers Among Us The City of Vancouver Public Art Program

2025 Music for Turtles: visual artist and creative producer, transdisciplinary project on climate change and species loss, Dr. Rachel Kiyo Iwaasa, Emily Doolittle, Eliot Britton, Nancy Tam. Vancouver East Cultural Center (the Clutch), Little Chamber Music 

2025 My Pronoun is Art, museum, of contemporary Art, Chicago public art, site-specific installation 

2025 Music for Turtles, museum of contemporary Art, Chicago public Art, site-specific installation   My Pronoun is Art, museum of contemporary photography, Chicago, May 2025 public art (site-specific installation during “Collaboration: A Potential History of Photography”). 

2025    Music for Turtles,  museum of contemporary photography, Chicago, May 2025 public art (site-specific installation during “Collaboration: A Potential History of Photography”). 

2025 My Pronoun is Art, Wrightwood 659 Museum, public art (site-specific installation during “The First Homosexuals: The Birth of a New Identity, 1869-1939”). 

2025 Music for Turtles, Wrightwood 659 museum, public art (site-specific installation during “The First Homosexuals: The Birth of a New Identity, 1869-1939”). 

2024-2027 ?? Chiyo: A Thousand Generations transdisciplinary work in progress, collaboration, with Rachel Kiyo Iwaasa, shown in June at the National Gallery of Canada (Ottawa), August in at the Cumberland Museum and Archives and November at the Banff Centre (Past Wrongs Future Choices Symposium) 

Selected Group Exhibitions

2025 DisCordance, Berlin, The “Fourth Wall” art space. Curated by Doron Polak 

2025 At Least We Have Each Other, BERLIN, Sonntags Club. Curated by Nicholé Velásquez

2025 DisCordance, Berlin, The “Fourth Wall” art space. Curated by Doron Polak  

2014 Thru the Trapdoor, On Main Gallery, Vancouver. Curated by Paul Wong

2013 40th Anniversary Lesbian Herstory Archives Art Benefit, Johannes Vogt Gallery, New York

2013 Transgression Now, The Roundhouse Gallery, Vancouver. Curated by Paul Wong and Glenn Alteen for Queer Arts Festival

2011 Games People Play, Pride In Art, The Roundhouse Gallery, Vancouver

2008 Gender Twist, Pride In Art, The Roundhouse Gallery, Vancouver

2006 joy along the continuum, Pride In Art, The Roundhouse Gallery, Vancouver

2005 Who Is Your Tribe? Who Is Your Family?, Pride In Art, Roundhouse Gallery, Vancouver

2004 GenderStupid From Borg Again, The Pendulum Gallery, Vancouver. Curated by         Persimmon Blackbridge for Society for Disability Arts and Culture.

2003 Special, Born Naked And Dj Boychick, Artisan Square, Bowen Island. Curated by Geoff       McMurchy for Society for Disability Arts and Culture.

2003 #1, #2, #3, #4, #5, Untitled From Fusion, Town Hall, Seattle. Erotic art show 

2003 G.I.D. Gender Identity Disorder or Girls in Drag, Soady Campbell Gallery, New York.          Curated by Ector Simpson.

2002 G.I.D. Gender Identity Disorder or Girls in Drag, 1.6 Gallery, Vancouver. Curated by              Christopher Davidson.

2001   Special. From OUTSIDE THE LINES, The Roundhouse, Vancouver. Curated by            Persimmon Blackbridge.

2000 Special. From OUTSIDE THE LINES,  The Pendulum Gallery, Vancouver. Curated by     Persimmon Blackbridge.

1999 G.I.D. Gender Identity Disorder or Girls in Drag, Advocate Gallery, Los Angeles. Curator Sarah Stifler. 

1997 Objectification, From The Body, Exposure Gallery, Vancouver

1996 Untitled, From Altered States, Exposure Gallery, Vancouver

1995 Hero Was a Woman, Fotobase Gallery Vancouver. Curated by Anne Rosenburg.

1995 Famous, From Freely Deposited, deposited in public sites, Vancouver. A project with the   Association for Non-Commercial Culture.

1995 My Shoes, From Bench (Re) Marks, Vancouver. A project with the Association for Non-Commercial Culture.

1994 A Thin Line, Fringe Festival, Vancouver, Multi-media Performance, Video/Theatre

1993 A Thin Line, Women in View, Vancouver, Multi-media Performance, Video/Theatre

1993 Hate is not a Family Value, From Benchmarks, Vancouver. A project with the Association for Non-   Commercial Culture.

1993 Principal Hazardous Components From Artropolis, Woodwards Building, Vancouver

1993 Little Lesbian House on the Street, From Out of Place, Various sites Vancouver. A project with the Association for Non-Commercial Culture Vancouver. Collaboration with Lizard Jones and River Sui.

1992 Picture a Day, From Revising the Mandate, Women in Focus Gallery, Vancouver

1991 The Ovaltine, From Vancouvers’ Vancouver, Lens and Shutter, Vancouver,

1990 Power & Trust – There’s Something about the Women in my Life, Community Arts Council, Vancouver

1988 Shannon, From Women in this Decade, Robson Square Media Centre, Vancouver (toured British Columbia), 

 Curatorial Work

 2022 Vanishing Act, ‘revelations about radical forms of hospitality, sociality and empathy’, co-curated with Adwait Singh

2022 Sovereignty, solo exhibition by Duane Isaac, SUM gallery, Vancouver

2021 It’s Not Easy Being Green, co-curated with Jeffrey McNeil-Seymour, SUM gallery, Vancouver

2021 Trauma Clown, solo exhibition by Vivek Shraya, SUM gallery, Vancouver

2020 Time-lapse: Posthumous conversations—A Geoff McMurchy retrospective, co-curated with Persimmon Blackbridge and Yuri Arajs, SUM gallery, Vancouver

2018 Naked Napi, solo exhibition by Adrian Stimson, SUM gallery, Vancouver

2018 QueerSUM  ?  solo exhibition by Karin Lee, co-curated with Paul Wong, SUM gallery, Vancouver

2015 TRIGGER: Drawing the Line in 2015, Pride in Art, The Roundhouse Gallery, Vancouver

2012    Random Acts of Queerness, Pride in Art, The Roundhouse Gallery, Vancouver

2011    Games People Play, Pride In Art, The Roundhouse Gallery, Vancouver

2010    Queertopia: The Best Place on Earth, Pride in Art, The Roundhouse Gallery, Vancouver

2009    Faerie Tales: Telling Our Stories, Pride in Art, The Roundhouse Gallery, Vancouver

Selected Publications

2022 Vanishing Act Exhibition Catalogue by SD Holman and Pride in Art Society, with Adwait Singh Vancouver, BC

2021 It’s not easy being green: Exhibition Catalogue by SD Holman and The Pride in Art Society, with Jeffrey McNeil-Seymour, Vancouver, BC

2020 WICKED: Exhibition Catalogue by SD Holman and The Pride in Art Society, with Jonny Sopotiuk; Vancouver, BC

2019 rEvolution: Exhibition Catalogue by SD Holman and The Pride in Art Society, with Elwood Jimmy Vancouver, BC

2020 Time-lapse: Posthumous Conversations, a Geoff McMurchy retrospective by Geoff McMurchy; Yuri Arajs; SD Holman; Persimmon Blackbridge. Pride in Art Society, Vancouver, BC

2018 DECADEnce: Exhibition Catalogue by SD Holman and The Pride in Art Society, with Valérie d. Walker; Vancouver, BC

UnSettled, 2017   Visual Exhibition Catalogue by SD Holman and The Pride in Art Society, in collaboration with Adrian Vancouver, BC

2016 Drama Queer: Exhibition Catalogue by Jonathan D Katz; SD Holman; Conor Moynihan. Pride in Art Society, Vancouver, BC

2014 BUTCH: not like the other girls. Holman, SD. Foreword by Persimmon Blackbridge. 1st ed. Shooting Gallery Press, Vancouver. 2nd ed. 2020, Dagger Editions, Caitlin Press

2007  Culture and Education. Wadham, Pudsey, & Boyd. Pearson Education, Australia, New Zealand and  Southeast Asia. (reprinted 2012 and 2009)

2003    Journal of Lesbian Studies—Gibson and Meem. Harrington Park Press

2002   Fusion—Link Publications, Vancouver, BC

2001    The Mammoth Book of Erotic Photography—Constable & Robinson, London, UK & Paris, France

2001   The Mammoth Book of Illustrated Erotica—Knopf Press, New York, NY                        

1990    The Best of College Photography—Serbin Communications, Santa Barbara, CA

Selected Speaking Engagements

2014 BUTCH: not like the other girls, Smith College, Northampton, MA

2014 BUTCH: not like the other girls, Westfield College, Westfield, MA

2014 BUTCH: not like the other girls, Amherst College, Amherst, MA

Selected Reviews and Interviews

Piano Burning, 2021 “the event takes on deeper metaphors about decolonization”[Stir]

WICKED, 2020  [Janet Smith, 2020, Georgia Straight] [Jewish Independent 2020 Cynthia Ramsay]

Time-lapse: Posthumous Conversations, a Geoff McMurchy retrospective; [Georgia Straight, Craig Takeuchi  2020] or https://www.createastir.ca/articles/sum-gallery-geoff-mcmurchy-time-lapse], 

DECADEnce [SAD Mag Elizabeth Holliday 2018]

rEvolution, 2019 [What’s on Queer BC, 2019] 

UnSettled, 2017  the first Two-Spirit curated arts festival in collaboration with Adrian Stimson, Cris Derksen, and others

Mic.com, “9 Stunning Photos of ‘Butches’ That Shatter Society’s Stereotypes About Masculinity” by Marcie Bianco (December 2014)

Xtra Toronto, “Butch-itude: SD Holman is not like the other girls” (November 2014)

Common Ground (San Francisco). “Butch: Not like the other girls” 8-page pictorial (October 2014)

Plenitude Magazine, “SD Holman: Not like the other girls.” Interview with Leah Horlick (August 2014)

Beautiful Decay, “SD Holman’s Portraits Of Female Masculinity In BUTCH: Not Like The Other Girls” by Leslie Tane (July 2014)

Xtra, “Queer Arts Fest Director Wins YWCA Award” (June 2014)

Vancouver Sun, “YWCA announces women of distinction: SD Holman, a photographic artist and a driving force behind Vancouver’s Queer Arts Festival, accepted a YWCA Women of Distinction award Tuesday for her work at the trans-disciplinary arts festival.” (June 2014)

Georgia Straight, “Artist SD Holman nominated for YWCA Women of Distinction award” (May, 2014)

Xtra, “Queer Arts Fest Artistic Director Nominated for YWCA Award ” by Natasha Barsotti (May 2014)

The Rainbow Times (New England), “Butch: Not like the other girls” (February 2014)

Queering Gender in the Arts “Butch: Not Like the Other Girls” (April 2013)

Co-op Radio, Interview with Helen Polychronakos on The F-Word (April 2013)

Georgia Straight, “SD Holman’s BUTCH: Not like the other girls challenges traditional gender roles” (March 2013)

Xtra Newspaper, “Butches on Bus Shelters: SD Holman’s project showcases women out of the mainstream” (March 2013)

CBC Radio, Interview on North by Northwest (March 2013)

Georgia Straight, “SD Holman: Stealing Masculinity at Gallery Gachet” (Straight Pick, September 2009)

Girlfriends, “Check it out, Visual art” (June 2001)

Artichoke, “Review” by Paula Gustafson (Spring 1999)

Mix Magazine, Vol. 24.2, “Artist Run Culture—G.I.D.” (1999)

Parallelogram, Vol. 20 #3, “Benched Art Negotiating the Rhetorics of Taste” by L. Robertson

Xtra West, #138, “Whose Definition of Gender?” by Paula Gustafson (1998)

Vancouver Courier, “The Meaning of Drag” (October 1998)

Kinesis, “Girls in Drag is Gender Euphoria” by Lesley Ziegler (1998)

Borderline Issue 34/35 “Benchmarks” by Jacqueline Larsen (Winter/Spring 1995)

The Vancouver Sun, “Town Talk” by Malcolm Parry (December 14, 1995)

Woman’s Television Network, “The Creators” (1994,1995)

Every Woman’s Almanac by Karen X. Tulchinsky (1995)

Xtra West, “A Decade of Alternative Theatre” by Cindy Filipenko (August 1994)

Arts, “Review” by Angles Staff (September 1994)

The Fringe Review, “Hotter than Georgia Asphalt” by D. Evans (September 1994)

Xtra West, “Typecasting on Madison” by Cindy Filipenko (July 1994)

Georgia Straight, “Local Street Art Expresses Community Creativity” by P. Gustafsen (1994)

Artopolis, “Process and Transformation” by David Pettigrew (1993)

CFRO, “The Muse at 9:00” by Lizard Jones (August 1993)

Artopolis, “Art Focus” (Winter/Spring 1993)

Kinesis, “Revising the Mandate” by Kathleen Oliver (September 1992)

CFRO, “Pigeon Park Review” (April 1992)

“Can you see me now” a film on five women artists, by Holly Natall (July 1991)

The Vancouver Sun, “Images of Pride and Humour” by Ann Rosenburg (September 1990)

Independent Film/Video

2000 Performer & assistant to the Producer—Independent Video. Casablanket by Barbara Anderson; Amazon Communications, Berlin Film Festival and V.O.S. Film.

1999 Co-Creator/Director and Videographer—Non-Document. An experimental video exploring perceptions of truth and history A project with the Association for Non-Commercial Culture

1999 Photographer—Independent Video Alternative Families by Barbara Anderson; Amazon Communications

1997 Photographer—Independent Video. Tears of a Lotus by John Milton Branton; Emerald Films

1994 Co-Creator/Performer/ Assistant Editor—Independent Multi-media Performance, Video/Theatre; A Thin Line by River Light.

1994 Performance/Independent Video; Coming Out of the Closet by Susan Harman; Reel Bent Productions

1993 Photographer – Independent Video; Passing; Reel Bent Productions

1992 Assistant Editor & Photographer—Independent Film; Orpheus Rising by Lorna Boschman

1991 Assistant Editor & Photographer—Independent Video; Drawing The Line by Lorna Boschman

1991 Co-Creator & Videographer—Assistant Editor—P.S.A. for Rape Relief

1991 Performance—Independent Film; Uncle Vanya. Producer: D. Henley. Cinestar Productions, Educational Film VSB