Holly King – CCCA Canadian Art Database

Holly King

Holly King is a Canadian artist known for her photographs of constructed landscapes. She views landscape as a product of the imagination. For thirty years, Holly King has been making meticulously staged images from miniature theaters, groups of small sculptures composed of plants in the foreground, paintings as a backdrop and cleverly reflected lighting, to give rise, once photographed, to large-scale landscapes through which King hopes to reveal the beautiful and sublime. For the last 10 years, King has moved back and forth between constructed images to images of real places and back again. She sometimes added machine elements or constructed small still life subjects from plants. King studied visual arts at Laval University, where she earned her BFA in 1979. She then studied visual arts and modern dance at York University, completing her MFA in 1981. The Canadian Centre of Contemporary Photography organized a travelling show of her photography in 1998. In 2016, Linda Jansma curated a travelling mid-career retrospective of her work for the Robert McLaughlin Gallery in Oshawa, Ontario, titled Holly King: Edging Towards the Mysterious. It showed the last 10 years of her work, both constructions and her more recent "viewing boxes". King has been teaching at Concordia University in Montreal since 1983. Her work is included in the collections of the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, the Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Concordia University, and the National Gallery of Canada.

Creator Id: 326
Social Media Link: Social Media Link
Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
Country of Birth: Canada
Province of Birth: Quebec
Year of Birth: 1957
City: Montreal
Country: Canada
Type of Creator: Artist
Gender: Female
Mediums: photography
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Work by Holly King

Faded Arbour

Work ID: 7237

Measurements: 121.92 x 157.48 cm

Collection:

Date Made: 1990

Materials: colour photograph

Virtual Collection: Original CCCA

Floral Run

Work ID: 7233

Measurements: 121.92 x 157.48 cm

Collection:

Date Made: 1990

Materials: colour photograph

Virtual Collection: Original CCCA

Moonlit Pergola

Work ID: 7235

Measurements: 121.92 x 157.48 cm

Collection:

Date Made: 1990

Materials: colour photograph

Virtual Collection: Original CCCA

Submerged

Work ID: 7234

Measurements: 121.92 x 157.48 cm

Collection:

Date Made: 1990

Materials: colour photograph

Virtual Collection: Original CCCA

Sentinel

Work ID: 7236

Measurements: 121.92 x 157.48 cm

Collection:

Date Made: 1990

Materials: colour photograph

Virtual Collection: Original CCCA

Encroaching Panorama

Work ID: 7239

Measurements: 121.92 x 157.48 cm

Collection:

Date Made: 1990

Materials: colour photograph

Virtual Collection: Original CCCA

Exhibition Installation, (view 2 of 2)

Work ID: 7232

Description: Exhibition Installation, Costin & Klintworth Gallery, Toronto, 1990.

Measurements: various

Collection:

Date Made: 1990

Materials: colour photographs

Virtual Collection: Original CCCA

Tundra Divided

Work ID: 7238

Measurements: 121.92 x 157.48 cm

Collection:

Date Made: 1990

Materials: colour photograph

Virtual Collection: Original CCCA

Exhibition Installation, (view 1 of 2)

Work ID: 7231

Description: Exhibition Installation, Costin & Klintworth Gallery, Toronto, 1990.

Measurements: various

Collection:

Date Made: 1990

Materials: colour photographs

Virtual Collection: Original CCCA

Chamber of Passage

Work ID: 7241

Measurements: 162.56 x 121.92 cm

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Date Made: 1992

Materials: colour photograph

Virtual Collection: Original CCCA

Exhibition Installation

Work ID: 7240

Description: Exhibition Installation, Musée de Joliette, Joliette, Québec, 1993.

Measurements: various

Collection:

Date Made: 1993

Materials: colour photographs

Virtual Collection: Original CCCA

Ephemeral Fires

Work ID: 7244

Measurements: 109.22 x 99.06 cm

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Date Made: 1993

Materials: colour photograph

Virtual Collection: Original CCCA

Amethyst

Work ID: 7242

Measurements: 99.06 x 104.14 cm

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Date Made: 1993

Materials: colour photograph

Virtual Collection: Original CCCA

Metallurgical

Work ID: 7243

Measurements: 209.55 x 154.94 cm

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Date Made: 1993

Materials: colour photograph

Virtual Collection: Original CCCA

Memorial Rose

Work ID: 7250

Measurements: 121.92 x 149.86 cm

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Date Made: 1995

Materials: colour photograph

Virtual Collection: Original CCCA

Rose Bloomed

Work ID: 7249

Measurements: 121.92 x 149.86 cm

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Date Made: 1995

Materials: colour photograph

Virtual Collection: Original CCCA

Approaching Disturbance

Work ID: 7248

Measurements: 121.92 x 182.88 cm

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Date Made: 1995

Materials: black & white photograph

Virtual Collection: Original CCCA

Vanished

Work ID: 7247

Measurements: 121.92 x 182.88 cm

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Date Made: 1995

Materials: black & white photograph

Virtual Collection: Original CCCA

The Viewless Winds

Work ID: 7246

Measurements: 121.92 x 182.88 cm

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Date Made: 1995

Materials: black & white photograph

Virtual Collection: Original CCCA

The Stillness of Absence

Work ID: 7254

Measurements: 152.4 x 182.88 cm

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Date Made: 1997

Materials: colour photograph

Virtual Collection: Original CCCA

The Veiled Forest

Work ID: 7253

Measurements: 152.4 x 182.88 cm

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Date Made: 1997

Materials: colour photograph

Virtual Collection: Original CCCA

Rose Remembered

Work ID: 7251

Measurements: 121.92 x 149.86 cm

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Date Made: 1997

Materials: colour photograph

Virtual Collection: Original CCCA

Exhibition Installation

Work ID: 7245

Description: Exhibition Installation, Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography, Ottawa, 1998.

Measurements: various

Collection:

Date Made: 1998

Materials: colour photographs

Virtual Collection: Original CCCA

Exhibition Installation

Work ID: 7252

Description: Exhibition Installation, Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography, Ottawa, 1998.

Measurements: various

Collection:

Date Made: 1998

Materials: colour photographs

Virtual Collection: Original CCCA

Exhibition Installation, (view 1 of 2)

Work ID: 7255

Description: Exhibition Installation, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, Quebec, 1999.

Measurements: various

Collection:

Date Made: 1999

Materials: colour photographs

Virtual Collection: Original CCCA

Roseate

Work ID: 7259

Measurements: 152.4 x 182.88 cm

Collection:

Date Made: 1999

Materials: colour photograph

Virtual Collection: Original CCCA

Lament

Work ID: 7260

Measurements: 152.4 x 182.88 cm

Collection:

Date Made: 1999

Materials: colour photograph

Virtual Collection: Original CCCA

Lucent

Work ID: 7258

Measurements: 152.4 x 182.88 cm

Collection:

Date Made: 1999

Materials: colour photograph

Virtual Collection: Original CCCA

Exhibition Installation, (view 2 of 2)

Work ID: 7256

Description: Exhibition Installation, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, Quebec, 1999.

Measurements: various

Collection:

Date Made: 1999

Materials: colour photographs

Virtual Collection: Original CCCA

Bluff

Work ID: 7257

Measurements: 152.4 x 182.88 cm

Collection:

Date Made: 1999

Materials: colour photograph

Virtual Collection: Original CCCA