D E B R A    H O L T
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233 NW 36 Street
Miami Florida 33127

 
P.305.261.7619

 



 

 

BORN West Palm Beach, Florida
 
EDUCATION

1981-83

1979-81

1980-81

1976-78

Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, New York, - Master of Fine Arts - Painting

Florida International University, Miami, Florida - Bachelor of Fine Arts-Painting

South Florida Art Institute, Hollywood, Florida - One Year Certificate

Miami-Dade Community College, Miami, Florida - Associate in Arts
   
SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2011

2011

2009

2009

Abba Fine Art, Miami, Florida, "The Pulse of Nature"

Photo LA, Los Angeles, CA

Photo Miami Art Basel, Miami, Florida

Abba Fine Art, Miami, Florida, "ZOE"
Next Art Fair, Chicago, Illinois

2007 Abba Fine Art, Miami, Florida, “Cathartic”
2006-2007 Abba Fine Art, Miami, Florida, “911 Revisited”
2006 Abba Fine Art, Miami, Florida, “Reflections – Recent Photographs”
2005 Abba Fine Art, Miami, Florida, “1980 – 2005: A Spirit in Motion”
2001 Tim Cantillon Gallery, West Palm Beach, Florida, “Seasons of Change”
1999 Lindenberg Gallery, New York, New York, “See to be Seen”
   
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2009 Fifi Projects, Monterrey, Mexico
Fifi Projects, New York, New York, "Crown of the Lost"
SCOPE Art Fair, New York, New York
2008 Scope Art Fair, Miami, Florida
NOBE ART 67, Miami Beach, Florida
ABBA FINE ART, Miami, Florida "Filitum"
Red Dot Art Fair, New York, New York
2007 Abba Fine Art, Miami, Florida, “Basel Dice”
Art Now Art Fair - Art Basel, Miami, Florida
Abba Fine Art, Miami, Florida, “Miami Slice”
2006                       
Abba Fine Art, Miami, Florida, “Mixed Messages”
2001   Art Center/South Florida, Miami Beach, Florida, “Re-Connect”
1998       Douglas Entrance, Coral Gables, Florida, "Sheldon Lurie Art Against Aids Auction VI"
1997 Pat Hern Gallery, New York, New York, "Benefit Exhibition"
Mira Mar Gallery, Sarasota, Florida
1996    Bakehouse Gallery, Miami, Florida, Curator Suzanne Delehanty, Director of the Miami Art Museum                         
Norton Museum - Museum Store, West Palm Beach, Florida, "Miniature Sculptures"
SOFA, Coconut Grove, Florida
1995 Inter-Continental Gallery, Miami, Florida, "Sheldon Lurie Art Against Aids
SOFA, Coconut Grove, Florida
Bakehouse Gallery, Miami, Florida, Curator Mark Ormond, Director of Ringling Museum
Bakehouse Gallery, Miami, Florida, "Eighth Exhibition", Curator Christoph Gerozissis of Polk Museum
1994 Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, "Hortt", Curator Daniel Schulman of The Art Institute of Chicago
Heim America at Fisher Island Gallery, Fisher Island, Florida
Ground Level Gallery, Miami Beach, Florida, "Libraries 3 x 5"
Bixler Gallery, New York, New York
Armory Art Center, West Palm Beach, Florida, "Small Work"
SFAC Gallery, Miami Beach, Florida, "10th Anniversary Exhibition”
1993 New World School of the Arts Art Gallery, Miami, Florida, "New Paths"
Boarders Gallery, Coral Gables, Florida
H.B. Starr Gallery, Palm Beach, Florida
Boca Raton Museum of Art - Museum Store, Boca Raton, Florida, "Miniature Sculptures"
Bass Museum of Art - Museum Store, Miami Beach, Florida, "Miniature Sculptures"
Great House - Quayside Towers, Bay Harbor, Florida, "WIZO Art 1993"
1992 Whitney Museum - Store Next Door, New York, New York, “Miniature Sculptures"
1991   National Academy of Design Museum, New York, New York
1990   Sculpture Center Gallery, New York, New York
1989 O.K. Harris South Gallery, Bay Harbor, Florida, "Florida Invitational"
   
BIBLIOGRAPHY

Ernesto Memendez-Conde, “Crown of the Lost – Fifi Projects in New York, Wynwood The Art Magazine, Summer 2009
Brian Appel, “Mirror Mirror on the Wall – Debra Holt’s Mediations on the Transient Nature of Vanity”, AroundTown, May 2009
“Debra Holt-Zoe Series”, Wynwood The Art Magazine, April/May 2009
Marguerite Gil, “Rebirth”, Where Miami Magazine, March 2009
James Chladek,  Debra Holt Interviewed with James Chladek of The New Yorkers, TV 35 NYC and TV 38 Miami, Florida, October 2008.
Milagros Bello, “The Art Collection:  Debra Holt, Peter Mackie, Corina Maddalozzo, and Carolina Sanllehi”, The Brickellian, October 11, 2008
Art Daily, “Debra Holt – Cathartic – Opens in Miami”, September 14th, 2007
Andiana Herrera, “Especial para El Nuevo Herald”, September 16th, 2007, Nuevo Herald
Christina Mitchell, “Hope Through Art, Plum TV, September 11th, 2007
Bret Sokol, “Ever More Galleries Making Wynwood Home”, Miami Herald, September 7th, 2007
9/11 Events in South Florida, “911 Revisited and Cathartic”, Miami Herald, September 10th, 2007
Carlos Suarez De Jesus, "Wild About Wynwood", Miami New Times, May 2007
MAG Miami Art, “Reflections” February 2007
Victor Barrenechea, "Gallery Peek - Reflections", The Biscayne Times, February 2007
MAG Miami Art, “Abba Fine Art Revisits 911”, September 9th, 2006
“South Florida Remembers Sept. 11, 2001, “9/11 Revisited”,Miami Herald, September 11, 2006
Kerry Lee Sohn, "1980-2005: A Spirit in Motion", Miami New Times, February 2006
Kerry Lee Sohn, Biscayne Boulevard Times, “Gallery Peek”, January 2006
Russell, Candice, “Debra Holt”, City Link, August 21, 2002
Turner, Elisa, "Visual Arts", The Miami Herald, July 12, 1997
Gary Schwan, "This year’s Hortt Show", The Palm Beach Post, September 16, 1994
Sandra Schulman, "Mixed Messages", Sun-Sentinel, September 13, 1994
Helen L. Kohen, “Hortt Attracts Lots of Interest”, The Miami Herald, September 11, 1994
Cecile M. Betancourt, "3-by-5 Cards", The Miami Herald, June 23, 1994
Helen L. Kohen, "Indexing our Affection for the Nation’s Libraries", The Miami Herald, June 18, 1994
Gary Schwan, "Small Work at Armory", The Palm Beach Post, May 27, 1994
Karl Fitzgerald, "Figure Sculpture", Miami Today, April 14, 1994
Helen L. Kohen, "SFAC Celebrates 10 Years", The Miami Herald, March 5, 1994
Lisa Firestone, "WIZO Art ’93", Sunpost, February 18, 1993
Armando Alverez Bravo, "Collective Show in O.K. South", The New Herald, June 28, 1989

GRANTS/AWARDS

1992-93

1992-93

1992

1991-92

1991

1987
The Nancy McGrath Award

National Sculpture Society Grant

Lucrezia Bori Foundation Prize

National Sculpture Society Grant

Albert H. Hallgarten Traveling Fellowship

Artists’ Fellowship, Inc., Grant
   
TEACHING EXPERIENCE  
1993-94

1990-93
Art Teacher at New World School of the Arts, Miami, Florida

Art Teacher at F.H. LaGuardia High School of Music, Art, & Performing, New York, New York
   
   
   

 
   
   
   
 
 
 

 

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