Holly Trostle Brigham
Born 1965, Carlisle, PA
Lives and works in Philadelphia, PA
Education
The George Washington University, Washington, D.C., Art Department, 1991-94.
M.F.A., Painting, January, 1994.
Thesis: “The Self-Portrait Nude: Finding a Modern Female Mythology.”
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, 1990-91.
Day School, full-time student, January-May, 1991.
Evening School, part-time student, January-December, 1990.
University of Pittsburgh, Department of Fine Arts, 1988-90.
Completed M.A. course work in the History of Art.
Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts, 1984-88.
Bachelor of Arts, Art History, May, 1988. Minor: Italian.
Academic Concentration: Italian Renaissance Art and Culture.
Smith College Junior Year Abroad Program, Florence, Italy, 1986-87.
Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pennsylvania, 1983.
Non-degree course work in Spanish.
Solo Exhibitions
Holly Trostle Brigham, Reading Public Museum, Reading, PA, scheduled for 2023.
I Wake Again: Holly Trostle Brigham on Elizabeth Siddal, Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, DE, scheduled for 2022.
Holly Trostle Brigham, Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art, Loretto, PA, October-December, 2019.
Holly Trostle Brigham, Somerville Manning Gallery, Greenville, DE, March 12-April 6, 2019.
Holly Trostle Brigham, Sordoni Art Gallery, Wilkes University, Wilkes-Barre, PA, January 1-March 3, 2019.
Holly Trostle Brigham: Sisters and Goddesses, James A. Michener Art Museum, Doylestown, Pennsylvania, February 20-May 26, 2016.
Holly Trostle Brigham, The Ronald K. De Long Gallery, Penn State University, Lehigh Valley Campus, March 15-April 29, 2016.
Holly Trostle Brigham: Sacred Sisters, in collaboration with poet Marilyn Nelson, William Benton Museum of Art, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut, October 22-December 20, 2015.
Holly Trostle Brigham: Seven, Lafayette College, Easton, Pennsylvania, January19-March 1, 2015.
Holly Trostle Brigham: Dis/Guise, Berman Museum of Art, Ursinus College, Collegeville, Pennsylvania, October 17-December 22, 2013; and Luther W. Brady Art Gallery, The George Washington University, Washington, DC, January 15-February 28, 2014.
Holly Trostle Brigham: Myths, Portraits and Self, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, August 5-September 27, 2013.
Holly Trostle Brigham, The Baldwin School, Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, March 3-April 18, 2013.
Holly Trostle Brigham: Three Stages, Raven Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, July 18-August 9, 2009.
Reflected Personae, Ahlum Gallery, Easton, Pennsylvania, May 1-June 26, 2005.
Undressed in Her Rightful Mind: Paintings by Holly Trostle Brigham, Clark University, Worcester, Massachusetts, August 19-November 6, 1998.
Public Collections
Georgia Art Museum, Athens, Georgia.
Beinecke Library, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut.
David C. Driskell Center for African American Art, University of Maryland, University Park, Maryland.
Eskenazi Museum of Art, Bloomington, Indiana.
William Benton Museum, Storrs, Connecticut.
Allentown Art Museum, Allentown, Pennsylvania.
Bates College Museum of Art, Lewiston, Maine.
Fellowship of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Skillman Library, Special Collections, Lafayette College, Easton, Pennsylvania.
Mount Holyoke College Art Museum, South Hadley, Massachusetts.
National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC.
Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio.
Palmer Art Museum, State College, Pennsylvania.
Pennsylvania State University, Library, State College, Pennsylvania.
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Rutgers University, Archibald S. Alexander Library, New Brunswick, NJ.
Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, Massachusetts.
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC.
Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania.
The Dimock Gallery, The George Washington University, Washington, DC.
Luther W. Brady Art Gallery/Corcoran Collection, The George Washington University, Washington, DC.
Group Exhibitions
Power In My Hand, Palmer Art Museum, State College, Pennsylvania, forthcoming.
Taking a Page Out of Her Book: Women Artists' Books, Episcopal Academy, Newtown Square, PA, March 2020.
FAME, Hot Bed Gallery, Philadelphia, PA, May 5-29, 2019, James Oliver, juror.
Power in My Hand, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Betty Boyd Dettre Library and Research Center, Washington, DC, April 1-August 30, 2019.
Into the Light: Benefit Exhibition for friends of the Rail Park, Philadelphia, PA, September 7-October 5, 2018.
Tradition and Innovation: PAFA Artists in PA, Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art, Loretto, PA, April 20-June 9, 2018.
Opposition, Alexander Library, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, opening November 3, 2017.
Women Now, Avery Galleries, Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, October 13-November 10, 2017.
Drawn From: 15 Years of Exhibition at the Luther W. Brady Art Gallery, Washington, DC, September 7-December 10, 2017.
A Collaborative Language: Selections from the Experimental Printmaking Institute, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, August 10-November 5, 2017.
Art of the State, The State Museum of Pennsylvania, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, June 11-September 10, 2017.
A Creative Adventure in Printmaking: Prints from EPI, Hudgens Center, Duluth, Georgia, January 17-April 29, 2017.
From the EPI-Center: Celebrating 20 Years at the Experimental Printmaking Institute, Part II, Williams Center for the Arts, Lafayette College, Easton, Pennsylvania, October 15-December 12, 2016.
The Christa Project: Manifesting Divine Bodies, St. John the Divine Cathedral, New York, New York, October 6, 2016-March 12, 2017.
A Leap of Faith, Stanek Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, January 22-March 27, 2016.
Changing the Subject: The Women Artists of the Experimental Printmaking Institute, Bone Black Gallery, Austin, Texas, January 21-February 14, 2016; and New Door Creative, Baltimore, MD, March 10-April 2, 2016.
A Collective Body: Uncovered and Illuminated, an exhibition of the artists in the collective Corpus VI, New Bedford Art Museum, New Bedford, Massachusetts, September 1-November 13, 2015.
Home Front Heroes: Women of World War II, Penn State University, Lehigh Valley Campus, February 27-April 28, 2012.
Cradle and Crucible: The Enduring Legacy of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Avery Galleries, Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, April 15-May 25, 2011.
Juried Alumni Exhibition, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, inaugural exhibition in the Alumni Gallery, November 5, 2010-January 2, 2011.
Faculty and Alumni Exhibition in conjunction with Narcissus in the Studio: Artist Portraits and Self-Portraits, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, October 23, 2010-January 2, 2011.
Three-Person Show, Raven Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, December 5, 2009-January 3, 2010.
Group Show, Kathy Imlay Fine Arts, Montclair, New Jersey, October 10, 2009-January 15, 2010.
Humanity: 100 Years of Figurative Art, ACA Galleries, New York, New York, May 7-July 3, 2009.
Lehigh Valley Invitational Exhibition, Cedar Crest Gallery, Allentown, Pennsylvania, October 11-December 1, 2006.
Painting the Unclothed Figure, juried exhibition, Fine Arts People Gallery, Exton, Pennsylvania, September 1-29, 2006.
Faculty Exhibition, The Baum School of Art, Allentown, Pennsylvania, July 13-August 18, 2006.
Area Artists 2005–Salma Arastu, Holly Trostle Brigham, Maureen Drdak, Gary Graves, Lehigh University, Siegel Gallery, February 24-May 6, 2005.
Philadelphia Tri State Artists Equity, fall juried exhibition, The Phillips Museum of Art, Franklin & Marshall College, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, August 31-September 26, 2004.
Lancaster County Art Association Juried Exhibition, Strasburg, Pennsylvania, June 13-July 24, 2004.
76th Annual Juried Exhibition, Harrisburg Art Association, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, May 15-June 17, 2004.
Self-Portraits, The Plastic Club, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, April 4-23, 2004.
Salute to Women and Women Artists, juried exhibition of the Artists Guild of Delaware Valley, September 2003, Chestnut Hill College, Chestnut Hill, Pennsylvania.
Summer Show, regional invitational exhibition, July 16-September 14, 2003, MCS Galley, Easton, Pennsylvania.
The Artful Woman, national juried exhibition, May 2-June 29, 2003, The Banana Factory, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.
Re-Semblance, juried exhibition, ARTSWorcester Gallery at the Aurora, Worcester, Massachusetts, October 4-November 14, 2002.
Our Image, Ourselves, juried exhibition, ARTSWorcester Gallery at the Aurora, Worcester, Massachusetts, October 10-November 3, 2000.
Faculty Art Exhibition, Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, Massachusetts, April 13-May 19, 2000.
One Thousand and Under, regional invitational exhibition, Fletcher/Priest Gallery, Worcester, Massachusetts, November 19, 1999-February 10, 2000.
Third Annual National Juried Christmas Exhibition, Levitan Gallery, New York, N.Y., December 6, 1997-January 4, 1998.
Creating Women, national juried exhibition, Lancaster Museum of Art, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, March 7-March 29, 1997.
Women as Mythmakers, Four-Person Exhibition with Audrey Flack, Biruta Hansen, and Amy Zerner, Suzanne H. Arnold Art Gallery, Lebanon Valley College, March 8-April 7, 1996.
Skin Deep: Stories in the Fight Against Breast Cancer, national invitational exhibition, Lancaster YWCA, organized by the American Cancer Society, October 1-October 21, 1995.
Art at Kreiderheim, three-person exhibition with Suk Shuglie and Lori Stahl, Lebanon Valley College, August 25-October 25, 1995.
Dimock Gallery, Washington, D.C., M.F.A. Thesis Show, May 5-May 19, 1994.
Dimock Gallery, Washington, D.C., April 7-29, 1993.
Dimock Gallery, Washington, D.C., November 11-December 3, 1992.
Dimock Gallery, Washington, D.C., April 2-30, 1992.
Dimock Gallery, Washington, D.C., November 7-December 5, 1991.