Bio

Holly Cahill (b. 1976) is a Chicago-based interdisciplinary artist working between painting, drawing, fibers, sculpture, print, and collage. Her process-oriented abstractions weave together elements of the fantastic found at the heart of our domestic and shared environments. Her work has been shown at 65GRAND, Epiphany Center for the Arts, Mana Contemporary, Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation, Chicago Artists Coalition, Heaven Gallery, Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts, D Gallery, The Franklin, Hyde Park Art Center, (Chicago, IL), DEMO Project (Springfield, IL), Eckert Art Gallery (Millersville, PA), Woskob Family Gallery (State College, PA), and nationalmuseum (Berlin, Germany), among others. She has been an artist in residence at Chicago Artists Coalition (Chicago, IL), Spudnik Press Cooperative (Chicago, IL), Vermont Studio Center (Johnson, VT), 8550 Ohio (Chesterhill, OH), Banff Centre (Banff, Canada), and Ox-Bow (Saugatuck, MI). Cahill received her MFA from the College of Design, Architecture, Art, and Planning at the University of Cincinnati (2004) and a BFA from the College of Visual and Performing Arts at Syracuse University (1998). Her work has been featured in luxe Interiors + Design, New American Paintings, Chicago Tribune, Inside\Within, and The Comp Magazine, among others. Cahill has curated several exhibitions, often in collaboration with others, at Tiger Strikes Asteroid (Chicago, IL), Satellite Art Show (Miami, FL), The Glass Curtain Gallery, Columbia College (Chicago, IL), Weinberg Newton Gallery (Chicago, IL), TSA_PDF, Mana Contemporary (Chicago, IL) and SCOTTY (Berlin, Germany). She was a Director and Co-Director in Chicago of Tiger Strikes Asteroid, an artist-run, non-profit network of gallery spaces with locations in Chicago, New York, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, and Greenville, SC from 2020-2023.