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Desirée Holman

MULTIMEDIA & VIDEO ARTIST

Hear more from Desirée on financing large-scale productions, getting out of debt, working with institutions like SFMOMA, balancing family life, and pursuing her inner calling over external recognition.

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See more of Desirée's work at desireeholman.com and on Instagram at @desireearletteholman.

RESOURCES

“Sophont” — Ongoing project of Desirée’s exploring techno-spiritualism, theosophy, E.T. sightings, New Age mysticism, and California utopias

SFMOMA (San Francisco Museum of Modern Art) — Where Desirée was a Fellow within the Film and Performance Department from 2015-17 and exhibited in 2008 as a SECA Art Award winner

Other spaces mentioned where “Sophont” has exhibited:

Rocky Mountain College of Art & Design

di Rosa Center for Contemporary Art

Black Cube Nomadic Museum at Red Rocks Park



 

Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara

Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego

Bay Area Now — Triennial exhibition surveying contemporary emerging artists throughout the Bay Area, at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, where Desirée was featured in 2002 for “Bay Area Now 3”

UC Berkeley — Where Desirée earned her MFA

“Troglodyte” — Ongoing project of Desirée’s exploring human emotion and behavior through chimpanzees