ED HOLTEN
Ed Holten is an artist living in Richmond Virginia who uses photography to explore complex themes ranging from cyclic violence, loss and the power of spaces/objects in transition. He has received fellowships from the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts and the Virginia State Commission of the Arts. His artwork has been exhibited extensively and internationally, including a solo exhibition at the Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art.
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MFA in Sculpture from Virginia Commonwealth University
B.S. in Photography and Printmaking Towson State University
Grants and Recognition
2023 2nd Place Award - FAMILY - Juried by Miguel Carter-Fisher - Artspace
Richmond VA
2023 Honorable Mention - Jazz - Juried by Dennis Winston - Artspace
Richmond VA
2021 Merit Award National Council On Aging - Age+Action Photography Contest
2001 Virginia State Commission for the Arts Sculpture Fellowship
1998 Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Professional Fellowship - Sculpture
1989 Independent Research Grant, Towson State University
1989 Printmaking Award - Student Exhibition, Towson State University
Solo -Feature Exhibits
2022 Various Mirrors - New Work by Ed Holten Artspace Gallery Richmond Va
2017 VIV -Portraits of Vivian - St Gertrude Art Gallery Richmond VA
2016 Quiet Loud - The impossibility of photographing music - Show at Capital
One Corporate offices both McLean and Richmond VA
2015 Inner Portraits - Capital One Knolls3
2014 Capital One Knolls and West Creek Galleries, Richmond, VA
2001 Ed Holten - A Fog Progress, Contemporary Arts Center of Virginia,
Curator Carla Hanzal, Virginia Beach, VA
2001 The State of Things, New Works by Ed Holten and Margery
Albertini, Gallery 402. New York, New York
1995 Ed Holten - MFA Thesis Show, Anderson Gallery, Richmond, VA
Selected Group Exhibits
2023 FAMILY - Juried by Miguel Carter-Fisher - Artspace
Richmond VA
2022 Bling it Out - Iridian Gallery - Richmond VA
2022 Watershed Artspace 2022 Members’ Biennial - Artspace Richmond VA
2022 Protest Signs - Curated by Dr. Travis Williams - CAB Gallery - University of North Carolina Wilmington
2022 Laid Bare - Curated by Quentin Gibeau - The Gormley Gallery - Notre Dame of Maryland University - Baltimore Maryland
2021 Age+Action Photography Award Contest - National Council on Aging
2021 Wreck-oning - Cade Gallery - Anne Arundel Community College Maryland Curated by Rai Arthur-Mensah
2021 2020 An International Juried Photography Exhibition - The University of
Southern Mississippi Museum of Art - Curated by Betty Press
2020 Color Photography - The Black Box Gallery - Portland Oregon
2020 Fearless Women of Faith - Womankind 2020 - The Michaux House
Richmond VA
2019 48 to Create - Selected to Participate in Art Event - The Visual Arts Center
of Richmond - Richmond VA
2019 Orlando Museum of Art Special Exhibit of Featured First Thursday Artists -
Hyatt Hotel - Orlando Fl
2019 Florida Focus - Osceola Center for the Arts
2018 Florida Showcase – Featured Photographers, Snap! Gallery Orlando FL
2018 Diversitastic - Artwork portraying the diversity of Orange County Florida -
Orange County Government Chambers
2015 Focus - The Portrait - Curated by Amy Arbus - Black Box Gallery Portland, OR
2015 Think Small - Artspace Gallery - Richmond VA
2015 Gallery 50 - Richmond Arts and Crafts Show UU Church - Richmond VA
2013 Inagural Exhibition Capital One Canada,North York Center, Toronto Ontario
2012 Ron Cubbison Alumni Exhibit, Towson University Fine Arts Gallery, Towson, MD
2011 Exquisite Corpse, Second Street Gallery, Charlottesville, VA
2006 Richmond Outdoor Sculpture Exhibition, Richmond, VA
2005 Sculpture Invitational, Richmond, VA
2003 Small Works Invitational, Artspace Richmond, VA
2002 Biennial Juried Exhibition, Phillip Pearlstein - Juror, Peninsula Fine Arts Center, Newport News, Virginia.
Implicit Associations: Mental Residue, 3 Miles Gallery, Richmond, VA
2000 Reviving the Corpse, Second Street Gallery, Charlottesville, VA
Holiday Show, PS122, New York, NY
undercurrents, Gallery 402, OIA New York , NY
Y2K-aotic, The Art Club, New York, NY
1997 Rites of Spring, 1708 Gallery, Richmond, VA
1996 Uninvited Reminders: Albertini, Graham, Holten, Artspace, Richmond, VA
1995 National Juried Show, 1708 Gallery, RIchmond, VA
Publications and Writings
2021 Museé Magazine "Triggered" Featured Artist on November 23, 2021
2020 Photo for Medium.Com Article "HOW TO UNDERSTAND PROTEST"
by Ernesto Castañeda and Daniel Jenks
2018 Grow Radio Photos for Article "Pop Bar: DirtBike brings sunny SoFla sensibilities to The Atlantic Friday for Sprang Break"
2015 Focus - The Portrait -Curated by Amy Arbus - Black Box Gallery - Show Catalouge
2015 American Connemara Pony Society Magazine - Featured Photo Fall Issue
2001 Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Fellowship Recipients Catalog
1996 Richmond Times-Dispatch, Sept. 25
“Function Foils Eye in Holten’s Works”, by CeCe Bullard
1994 Sex and courage... that’s what love is, Forward by Ed Holten, Written Project by Christopher Glibert
As Curator
2023 Renee S. Browne (AnimeBlaque) Fashion Borne of Love, Loss & Light - Artspace Richmond VA
2023. Sydnee Schorr In Between - Large Scale Photographs -
Artspace Richmond VA
2023 Exhibition Committee Artspace Richmond VA
2022 The Frances Wessells Collection - Artspace Richmond VA
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Teaching Experience
1995 Instructor, Introduction to Sculpture, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia
1994 Instructor, Advanced Sculpture Summer Seminar, Virginia
Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia
1993 Graduate Assistant Instructor, Introduction to Sculpture and Advanced Sculpture, VCU, Richmond, Virginia
1992 Visiting Artist-Photography, Slidell High School, Slidell Louisiana
1989-91 Assistant Teacher, Special Education - Emotionally Handicapped and Learning Disabled Middle School Students, School For Contemporary Education, Baltimore, Maryland
1988-89 Darkroom Lab Technician, Towson State University, Towson, Maryland
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