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S.D Holman

EDUCATION

Vancouver Film School - Cinematography & Lighting - 2001
Vancouver Film School - Set Orientation and WHMIS - 2000
Video In - Avid editing /Mac orientation/Lightning/post production/media literacy - 1998
Emily Carr College of Art & Design - Diploma - Photography Film/Video - 1991
Los Angeles Valley College - Theatre Arts - 1986

EXHIBITIONS

2006

The Roundhouse Gallery
Vancouver, BC

Pride in Art group exhibition

2005

The Roundhouse Gallery
Vancouver, BC

Pride in Art group exhibition

2004

The Pendulum Gallery
Vancouver, BC

GenderStupid
From Borg Again Group exhibition
Curator: Persimmon Blackbridge

2003
 

Soady Campbell Gallery
New York, USA

G.I.D. Gender Identity Disorder or Girls in Drag.  
Solo, Photo-based installation.
Curator: Ector Simpson

2003

Artisan Square
Bowen Island

Special, Born Naked, and Dj. Boychick
Group show for S4DAC
Curator: Geoff McMurchy

2003
 

Town Hall

Seattle

#1, #2, #3, #4, #5 Untitled
Silver Gelatin Prints 23" X 30" from Fusion
Director: Allena Gabosch

2002
 

1.6 Gallery
Vancouver, BC

G.I.D. Gender Identity Disorder or Girls in Drag.
Solo, photo-based installation.
Curator: Christopher Davidson

2001
 

Advocate Gallery
Los Angeles

G.I.D. Gender Identity Disorder or Girls in Drag.
Solo, photo-based installation and artists' talk.
Curator: Sarah Stifler

2001
 

San Francisco Public Library
San Francisco, USA

G.l.D. Gender Identity Disorder or Girls in Drag.
Solo, photo-based installation.
Curator: Karen Sundhiem

2001
 

The Roundhouse
Vancouver, BC

Special.  From OUTSIDE THE LINES.
Photo-based self portrait. Group exhibition
Curator: Persimmon Blackbridge

2001
 

The Pendulum Gallery
Vancouver, BC

Special.  From OUTSIDE THE LINES.
Photo-based self portrait. Group exhibition
Curator: Persimmon Blackbridge

2000
 

Dr. Vigari Gallery
Vancouver, BC

G.l.D. Gender Identity Disorder or Girls in Drag.
Solo, photo-based installation

1999
 

Video In
Vancouver, BC

Non - Document
An experimental video exploring perceptions of truth and history, 26 mm.

A project with the Association for Non - Commercial Culture

1998
 

Helen Pitt Gallery
Vancouver, BC

G.l.D. Gender Identity Disorder or Girls in Drag
Solo, photo-based installation.
Curator: Ken Dietrich-Campbell

1997
 

Exposure Gallery
Vancouver, BC

Objectification; from The Body
Polaroid Transfer, group exhibition

1996
 

Exposure Gallery
Vancouver, BC

Untitled; from Altered States
Polaroid Transfer, group exhibition

1995
 

A project with the Association for Non - Commercial Culture
Vancouver, BC

Famous from Freely Deposited
Group Exhibition deposited in public sites.
 

1995
 

Fotobase Gallery
Vancouver, BC

Hero Was A Woman
Solo, photo based installation, Silver Emulsion prints
Curator: Anne Rosenburg

1994
 

A project with the Association for Non - Commercial Culture
Vancouver, BC

My Shoes from Bench (Re) Marks
Interactive site, specific installation

1993
 

Fringe Festival
Vancouver, BC

A Thin Line
Multi-media Performance,
Video/Theatre

1993
 

Women in View
Vancouver, BC

A Thin Line
Multi-media Performance,
Video/Theatre

1993
 

A project with the Association for Non - Commercial Culture
Vancouver, BC

Hate is not a Family Value from Benchmarks
Group, Interactive site, specific installation

1993
 

Woodwards Building
Vancouver, BC

Principal Hazardous Components from Artropolis
Solo, Interactive, photo-based  installation

1993
 

Various sites in Vancouver, BC

Little Lesbian House on the Street from Out of Place
Interactive kinetic site-specific installation
Collaboration with Lizard Jones and River Sui

1992
 

Women in Focus Gallery
Vancouver, BC

Picture a day... fromRevising the Mandate
Photo-based installation

1991
 

Lens and Shutter
Vancouver, BC

The Ovaltine from Vancouvers' Vancouver
Group exhibition, colour print.

1990
 

Community Arts Council
Vancouver, BC

Artcelebration 90
Power & Trust - There's Something about the Women in my Life (1) (2) (3) from Artcelebration 90
Photo-based installation

1988
 

Robson Square Media Centre (toured B.C.)
Vancouver, BC

Shannon from Women in this Decade
Group exhibition, colour print

REVIEWS AND INTERVIEWS:

  • 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 Lisa Robertson
  • Xtra West, #138, “Who’s 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 - Independent Video;
    Non - Document An experimental video exploring perceptions of truth and history, 26 mm.
    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.
    P.S.A. – Rape Relief
  • 1991 Performance - Independent Film;
    Uncle Vanya. Producer: D. Henley; Cinestar Productions, Educational Film VSB

BOOKS

  • 2002 Fusion Link Inc. Publications Vancouver, B.C. Can.
  • 2001 The Mammoth Book of Erotic Photography Constable & Robinson, London, UK & Paris, France
  • 2001 The Mammoth Book of Illustrated Erotica Knopf New York, NY
  • 1990 The Best of College Photography Serbin Communications Santa Barbara, Ca

PUBLICATIONS

Photographers Forum, Kinesis, The Loop, Diversity, Chart, and Xtra west

COLLECTIONS and COMMISSIONS

Numerous private collections including Melissa Davis, Catherine White and Sandra Goundery.

COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT

Vancouver Folk Music Festival, Fringe Festival, Women In View Festival and Out on Screen

OTHER MEDIA ARTS EXPERIENCE

35 mm, 2 1/4, 4 x 5 and 8 x 10 still cameras. Experience with Arriflex BL 16mm, 3/4, SVHS and Hi-8 video camera, Experience with editing, also B & W, colour and cibachrome printing Experience with studio, flash, lighting and metering.

 

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