Her work is heavily influenced by decorative arts and is included in such collections as the Davis Museum and Cultural Center, the RISD Museum, the Kemper Museum in Kansas City, the Freedman Gallery at Albright College and the Pfizer Collection. 2011: Rosenberg Gallery, Hofstra University, Hempstead, NY2009: Off the Plate, Under the Sheets, Sarofim Gallery, Georgetown, TX1988: Founders Gallery, Guilford College, Greensboro, NCDirect from Brooklyn/The Dot Conference, “room83spring”, Watertown, MAThe Dot Conference, The Yard, Brooklyn, NY, Curator Kirstin LambLive from New York, Odegaard Art and Design, Naples, FL, 3 personThe Art Mingle, Public House, Philmont, NY, 3 personPrinting Lab: The Members Show, Inky Editions, Hudson, NYRhode Island School of Design Museum, Faculty Show, Providence, RIWORLDS OF WONDER, Dorsky Museum, curated by Ian Berry, SUNY, New Paltz, NYSECOND NATURE: Artist Respond to our Changing Environment, Barbara Archer Gallery and Goat Farm Arts Center, Atlanta, GAOPTICAL CONSCIOUS, Memorial Hall Gallery, Providence, RI - 4 person show with Anoka Faruqee, Glenn Goldberg, Holly Hughes, and Kate Shepherd2013 ARTISTS OF THE MOHAWK HUDSON REGION, Hyde Collection, curator Dan Cameron, Glens Falls, NYRAID THE ATTIC, Cohen Gallery, Granoff Art Center, Brown, Providence, RI4 Person: Jean Blackburn, Wendy Edwards, Randa Newland, Holly HughesRhode Island School of Design Museum, Faculty Show, Providence, RIHabitat for Humanity Show, Art Omi Museum, Omi, NY Benefit ExhibitAn Exchange with Sol Lewitt, MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA,Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Faculty Show, Providence, RIThe Artists of Silvermine, Unison Arts Center, New Paltz, NYCowgirls of the Hudson River Valley III, BRICK Gallery, Catskill, NYArtists from Rome Programs, Temple/Rome, Rome, ItalyRhode Island School of Design Museum, Faculty Show, Providence, RIWorks on Paper, Faculty show, Memorial Hall, Providence, RIHolly Hughes and Nancy VanDeren, Lenore Gray Gallery, Providence, RIFaculty Plus One, Columbia Greene Community College, Hudson, NYMillay Colony Resident’s Exhibition, CCCA Gallery, Hudson, NYCowgirls of the Hudson River Valley, BRIK Gallery, Catskill, NY“Feeding on the Past,” Pocketbook Factory, Hudson, NY Curated/Hughes“Reframing Nature”, Spencertown Academy, Spencertown, NY“Painting Faculty 2006,” Woods Gerry, RISD, Providence, RI“Crossover,” Spencertown Academy, Spencertown, NY (2 person)Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Faculty Show, Providence, RI“Abstraction Now, II,” Shelnutt Gallery, RPI, Troy, NY“The Flag Project,” Rubin Museum of Art, New York, NYRhode Island School of Design Museum, Faculty Show, Providence, RIMontclair State University Art Gallery, Montclair, NJ“Snapshot,” Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CTRISD Works, ceramics exhibited, winter season, Providence, RIRhode Island School of Design Museum, Faculty Show, Providence, RIParrish Art Museum, Southhampton, NY, Best in Show Award“Snapshot,” Arcadia UniversityArt Gallery, Glenside, PAColumbia County Council on the Arts, Jack Shaiman, juror, Hudson, NYVirginia Lynch: A Curatorial Retrospective, R.I. Foundation, RI“Snapshot,” (traveling exhibit), The Contemporary, Baltimore, MA“Drawing in the Present Tense,” North Dakota Museum of Art (traveling exhibit with two other venues – see below)“Drawing in the Present Tense,” Eastern Connecticut State UniversitySanta Monica College Gallery, RISD Faculty group, Santa Monica, CAGenerations II: Women Artists at the Millenium, A.I.R., New York, NY“Drawing in the Present Tense”, Parsons School of Design & Aronson GalleryRhode Island School of Design Museum, Faculty Show, Providence, RI“Mind’s Eye,” Booth Contemporary Art”, Wakefield, RI“Part of The Fabric,’” Museum of RISD, Providence, RI (curated by Hughes)“realigned/recharged”, Swan Coach House Gallery, Atlanta, GA“Paintings from Pont-Aven,” Pierre Deux, New York, NY“Paintings from Pont-Aven,” French Embassy, Washington, DC“Art on Paper 1997”, Weatherspoon Art Gallery, Greensboro, NC“Eight Artists”, Virginia Lynch Gallery, Tiverton, RI“All the Things You Are”, Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, MA“4x4: Painters Choose Painters”, Herron Gallery, Indianapolis, INRhode Island School of Design Museum, Faculty Show, Providence, RI“Summer Exhibition”, Dru Arstark Gallery, New York, NY“Messages from the Interior”, Sound Shore Gallery, Cross River, NY“Contemporary Directions”, Jacqueline Holmes, Jacksonville, FL Impressions of Brittany, The French Library, Boston, MA Les and Catherine Levine Collection, Freedman Gallery, Reading, PA“Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Faculty Show,” Providence, RI“Conceptual Documents for Impossible Art” 450 Broadway Gallery, New York, NY“By Virtue of Excellence,” David Winton Bell Gallery, Providence, RI“Contemporary Art in Rhode Island,” Museum of Art, RISD, Providence, RI“Holly Hughes and Jerry Mischak,” Wheeler Gallery, Providence, RI“Postipamaus,” Helsinki Museum of Contemporary Art, Finland“Art of the Northeast,” Silvermine Arts Center, Silvermine, CT“10th Anniversary Exhibition,” Ewing Gallery, Knoxville, TN“Nature in Mind,” Spotted Dog Gallery, Old Chatham, NY (curated by Hughes)“Vertical Slice,” Cummings Art Center, New London, CT“Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Faculty Show,” Providence, RI“June Invitiational,” Philippe Briet Gallery, New York, NY“Arts Festival Show,” Hammond Galleries, Lancaster, OH“Summer Show,” Dorry Gates Gallery, Kansas City, MO“Apocalypse and Resurrection,” Gallery Three Zero, New York, NY“China June 4th,” traveling show, Asian American Center, New York, NY“CHINA: June 4th, 1989,” P.S.
STUDENTS RETURN TO CAMPUS FOR FALL SEMESTER AS OF AUGUST 30. She is a Professor Emerita at Rhode Island School of Design, where she taught graduate and undergraduate students and has been a frequent critic and lecturer at many national and international schools and institutions. Currently, Holly shoots with a Canon Mark II 35mm digital camera and utilizes Adobe products for the developing and production of her artworks. Holly Hughes joined the RISD faculty in 1993 and taught graduate and undergraduate students here in addition to presenting lectures at many other institutions in the US and abroad. Her photographic artwork is created with a digital SLR professional camera and digital software to process, develop, and edit her pictures. Dancing is fun and provides social interaction with peers who have the same interest. A foundation in outdoor signs and billboards led to murals and more. GO TO Holly Hughes joined the RISD faculty in 1993 and taught graduate and undergraduate students here in addition to presenting lectures at many other institutions in the US and abroad. Hughes has traveled extensively and studied traditional ink painting of the landscape as well as calligraphy at the Zhejiang Academy of Fine Arts in Hangzhou, China.