Loie Hollowell

b. 1983 Woodland, CA Lives and works in New York, NY

Loie Hollowell is an American artist based in New York City. Originating in autobiography, her paintings and drawings explore themes of sexuality, pregnancy and birth. Among her major solo exhibitions are Pace Gallery (New York, Hong Kong, Seoul, Geneva, London), Manetti Shrem Museum (University of California at Davis, CA), Long Museum West Bund (Shanghai, China), and Jessica Silverman Gallery (San Francisco, CA). Her work is included in the collections of the Centre Pompidou (Paris), Crystal Bridges Museum (Bentonville, AR), Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden (Washington, DC), and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Hollowell was the recipient of a 2011 Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Fellowship Award, and she earned a BFA from the University of California, Santa Barbara, and an MFA from Virginia Commonwealth University.