Christa Holka

Page 1 | Biography

Born: New York
Lives: London

Education
M.A., Fine Art, Central St. Martins College of Art & Design, London

B.F.A. (Photography), Columbia College Chicago, Chicago, Illinois,

B.A. (English Literature), State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York


Solo Exhibitions
2006 Christa Holka, Photographs, The Lobby Gallery, Chicago, Illinois

2004 Art is a Drag, NewSpace Gallery, Portland, Oregon

Group Exhibitions
2009 Queertopia! 2.0, An Academic Festival: (Re)Imagining Communit(ies),
Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois

2008 FutureMap 08, Gallery One One One, London, UK
NEW LIFE BERLIN/Urban Spaces, Berlin, Germany
“And Try Again”, Central St. Martins College of Art & Design, London, UK
This Constant Cracking of the Surface, Bargehouse, London, UK

2007 Bridge Art Fair (Verge Project Space, collaboration with Marie Waltz),
London, UK
COMA, California Occidental Museum of Art, Chicago, Illinois

2006 COMA, California Occidental Museum of Art, Chicago, Illinois
re: Surface, 237 Space, Toledo, Ohio

2005 Cash 'N Carry, Lisa Boyle Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
Macerate, Up the Stairs Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
Spring Formal, High School Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
My Secret Valentine, Skyline Gallery, Chicago, Illinois

2004 dis/locator, HotHouse Gallery, Chicago, Illinois

2003 Carousel, Columbus Park, Chicago, Illinois
Group Slide Show in conjunction with Locus
(see http://www.artic.edu/~apeiper/docs/carousel/two.html)

2002 Photographs, The Hat Factory, Chicago, Illinois

2001 BLISSTER, Artemisia Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
(Ladyfest Midwest Juried Fine Art Group Show)

Grants/Awards
2006 Chicago Artists Assistance Program Grant

2004 Chicago Artists Assistance Program Grant

Projects
Film

2010 Art Direction/Set Design/Stills Photographer
Frida & Anita , Berlin, Germany

Still Photographer/Set Photographer
Field of Vision , London, UK

2009 Still Photographer/Set Photographer
Wreckers , London, UK

Still Photographer/Set Photographer
Pictures of Zain , London, UK

Still Photographer/Set Photographer
Break My Fall , London, UK

2008 Still Photographer/Set Photographer
Traverse City, Chicago, Illinois

2007 Still Photographer/Set Photographer
Head, Chicago, Illinois

2006 Still Photographer/Set Photographer
Intercosmos, Chicago Illinois

2004 Still Photographer/Set Photographer
Untitled ("Dyketactics Revisited"), Chicago, Illinois

Still Photographer
Dominatrix Waitrix Chicago, Illinois

2002 Still Photographer/Set Photographer
The Undergrad, by Michele Mahoney, Chicago, Illinois