Bio

Holly Cahill (b. 1976) is a Chicago-based interdisciplinary artist working between painting, drawing, fibers, sculpture, and collage. Her process-oriented abstractions gather inspiration and materials from natural phenomena that speak to issues of growth, transformation, and embodied experiences that intersect with the ways we navigate the built and natural environments.

Cahill received her MFA from the University of Cincinnati (2004) and a BFA from Syracuse University (1998). Most recently, her work has been included in exhibitions at Secrist|Beach, Hyde Park Art Center, 65GRAND, Epiphany Center for the Arts, Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation, Chicago Artists Coalition (Chicago, IL), and nationalmuseum (Berlin, Germany). She has been an artist in residence at Chicago Artists Coalition, Spudnik Press Cooperative (Chicago, IL), Vermont Studio Center (Johnson, VT), 8550 Ohio (Chesterhill, OH), Banff Centre (Banff, Canada), and Ox-Bow (Saugatuck, MI). Her work has been featured in luxe Interiors + Design, New American Paintings, Chicago Tribune, and Inside\Within, among others. She is a current member, former director, and co-director in Chicago of Tiger Strikes Asteroid: a 501c3 non-profit network of independently programmed, artist-run exhibition spaces with locations in Philadelphia, New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, and Greenville, SC. She has curated exhibitions, often in collaboration with others, at venues such as Tiger Strikes Asteroid, Weinberg Newton Gallery, Mana Contemporary, The Glass Curtain Gallery at Columbia College (Chicago, IL), Satellite Art Show (Miami, FL), and Scotty Enterprises (Berlin, Germany).