Selected Solo Exhibitions
2025 The sound of your own wheels, David Lusk Gallery, Memphis
Atom-Atom Scattering, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Ashburn, VA
2022 Don’t let the sun, David Lusk Gallery, Memphis
An Intimate Grammar, David Lusk Gallery, Nashville
Neuro Blooms, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda MD
2021 Neuro Blooms, Beautiful Distress House and Mentrum Mental Health Clinic, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2020 Neuro Blooms, Stamp Gallery, University of Maryland, College Park, MD
2019 Neuro Blooms, Unitarian Universalist Church of Arlington, Arlington, VA
Hysterical Women, David Lusk Gallery, Nashville
2017 Unspeakable, David Lusk Gallery, Memphis
Brain Stains, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD
2016 Unspeakable, 39th Street Gallery, Brentwood, MD
2015 Hello Masterpiece: Farewell Tour, David Lusk Gallery, Nashville
2013 Help Yourself, David Lusk Gallery, Memphis
Hello Masterpiece Denouement, Burnet Gallery, Minneapolis
2012 Hello Masterpiece, Sarratt Gallery, Vanderbilt University, Nashville
2011 Hello Pablo, Goodbye Liz, David Lusk Gallery, Memphis
2010 Hello Modern Art, PHD Gallery St. Louis
Hello Masterpiece, Burnett Gallery, Minneapolis
Unholy Ghosts, Mountain Gallery, Reno
2009 Hello Masterpiece Curator’s Office, Washington, DC
Hello Masterpiece, David Lusk Gallery, Memphis
2008 Hello Masterpiece, PHD Gallery, St. Louis
Hello Masterpiece, Firehouse Gallery, Grants Pass, OR
2006 See Through, Bonsack Gallery, St. Louis
2005 Effective Disorder, College of the Siskiyous Art Gallery, Weed, CA
Selected Group Exhibitions
2026 (forthcoming) Juried Invitational exhibit, Phillips Collection Washington, DC
Afloat, two-person exhibit, David Lusk Gallery, Nashville.
2025 Interstitium, Intersect Art Center, St. Louis, MO
Required Reading, Workhouse Art Center, Lorton, VA
Gifts Given, David Lusk Gallery, Memphis
Women Artists of the DMV, Adah Rose Gallery, Rockville, MD
2024 Restorative Gestures, two-person exhibit, Tephra Institute for the Arts, Reston, VA
Exhibiting Failure, Rhizome, Takoma Park, DC
2023 (Not) Strictly Painting, McClean Project for the Arts, McClean VA
DC Art Now, DC Arts and Humanities Council, Washington, DC
2021 Inside, Outside, Upside Down, invitational exhibit, The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC
Heed, David Lusk Gallery, Memphis
2020 Fable, David Lusk Gallery, Nashville
2018 Soft Serve, Willow Street Gallery, Washington, DC
Methods of Inquiry: Fields of Discovery, McClean Project for the Arts, McClean, VA
Gallery Artists, Hall-Barnett Gallery, New Orleans, LA
2016 Show of Hand, David Lusk Gallery, Nashville
2015 Emulsion, Gallery H on O, Washington, DC
2014 Strange Bedfellows, VisArts, Rockville, MD
20 Year Anniversary Exhibit, Firehouse Gallery, Grants Pass, OR
2013 Art South Hampton, David Lusk Gallery
2012 Context- Art Miami, Curator’s Office
Art Miami, David Lusk Gallery
2011 Art Miami, David Lusk Gallery
2009 Art Miami, David Lusk Gallery
You Think that’s Funny? Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL
2008 Mixology Curator’s Office
Scope New York, Curator’s Office
2007 Aqua Art Fair, Miami, FL, Curator’s Office
American Democracy Project, Regional Arts Commission, St. Louis, MO
Scope Hampton, Curator’s Office
2006 Time’s Body of Evidence, juried show, Wright State University, Dayton, OH
2005 Unholy Icons, Black Hills State University, Spearfish, SD
2004 Pop, Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL
Body Politics, Gallery 110, Seattle, WA
WSU Fine Art Faculty, Fina Gallery, Okanagan University, Kelowna, B.C.
2003 Popular TM, WORKS Gallery, San Jose, CA
Publications
Tendrils Journal: Trauma and the Body, June 2025
Last Chance: Don’t Let the Sun, Memphis Flyer, May 2022
Embracing Your Strangeness, The Luxembourg Times, August, 2021
Social and Political Art Takes Over Nashville’s Gallery Walls, Nashville Scene, August 2020
David Lusk Gallery Looks Closely at History of “Hysterical Women,” The Tennessean, February 2019
Review: Methods of Inquiry: Fields of Discovery, Washington Post, February 2018
New American Paintings #130 Summer 2017
Review: In the Galleries: Unspeakable, Washington Post, June 2016
Leslie Holt’s Unspeakable Discussed, East City Art blog, June 2016
Work featured: Pink Globalization: Hello Kitty's Trek across the Pacific by Christine R. Yano, Duke University Press. 2013
Hello Masterpiece, Minnesota Public Radio “State of the Arts,” November 19, 2010
The Five Spot, Minneapolis Star Tribune, 6 November 27, 2010
Review: Leslie Holt at Curator’s Office, Washington Post July 17, 2009
Art with a Purrpose, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, May 2008
Hello Kitty Travels the World of Art, St. Louis South City Journal, May 2008
Health, Aging Issues Examined at Wright State, Dayton Daily News, September 2006
References are personal in Holt’s Art, Herald Press News, Jan 26, 2005
Grants and Residencies
Project Grant, Prince Georges Arts and Humanities Council, 2023-24
Artist in Residency, Kings County Hospital Psychiatric Department, projected 2026
Artist Fellowship, Prince Georges Arts and Humanities Council, 2021-22
Creativity Grant, Maryland State Arts Council, 2019
Artist in Residency, Montgomery College, Silver Spring, MD, Fall 2019
Artist Fellowship, Prince Georges Arts and Humanities Council, 2018-19
Artist in Residency, Paul Artspace, St. Louis, MO, May 2015
Education
Washington State University Pullman, WA
MFA, Painting, 2003
Washington University St. Louis, MO
BFA, Painting, 1992