Available works:
Holly Farrell
Holly Farrell is a Canadian painter who lives and works in Toronto, Canada. A self-taught painter, Farrell has been painting professionally since 1995.
"It’s my hope that the experience of growing up in northern Ontario and the influences of small town life are evident in my work. Nostalgia drives my subject matter, Still Life being my main focus. I think of my Still Lifes as simple meditations of the places and people we have known - that there is a sense of the Portrait in each of my paintings - that many of us have had some kind of connection to that bowl, or that book, or that chair.”
COLLECTIONS:
Farrell’s work is included in private and corporate collections throughout North America, Europe, and Japan, and Australia. Notable recent purchases include those by TD Bank, Bank of Montreal, the Louis-Dreyfus Family Collection, Wires Jolley Canada, and Sony Music, Japan.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
September 2021 (upcoming), Mira Godard Gallery, Toronto
March 2019, “Nothing Begins Today”, Mira Godard Gallery, Toronto
November, 2018, “Then And Now”, Clark Gallery, Lincoln
February 2017, "Homely”, Mira Godard Gallery, Toronto
July 2016, “Doll And Book Paintings”, Megumi Ogita Gallery, Tokyo
October 2015,“Books”, Clark Gallery, Lincoln
February 2014, “Clowns”, Packer Schopf Gallery, Chicago
September 2013, “New Paintings”, Clark Gallery, Lincoln
March 2012, “Book Shop”, Megumi Ogita Gallery, Tokyo
December 2010, “Tammy”, Megumi Ogita Gallery, Tokyo
June 2010, “Even Closer”, Katharine Mulherin Gallery, Toronto
December 2009, “New Paintings”, Chase Gallery, Boston
March 2009, “Home and Sea”, Megumi Ogita Gallery, Tokyo
January 2009, “New Paintings”, Winsor Gallery, Vancouver
February 2008, “New Paintings” Katharine Mulherin Gallery, Toronto
September 2007, “New Paintings”, Clark Gallery, Lincoln
April 2007, “New Paintings” Garde Rail Gallery, Seattle
April 2006, “New Paintings”, Dundas Street West Studio, Toronto
April 2004, “New Paintings”, Dundas Street West Studio, Toronto
December 2003, “Childhood”, Dundas Street West Studio, Toronto
March 2003, “Cutlery”, Dundas Street West Studio, Toronto
December 2001, “Bowls”, Dundas Street West Studio, Toronto
December 1999, “New Paintings”, Ossington Avenue Studio, Toronto
December 1998, “New Paintings”, Ossington Avenue Studio, Toronto
February 1998, “New Paintings”, Ossington Avenue Studio, Toronto
February 1997, “New Paintings”, Velvet & Vinyl, Toronto
November 1996, “New Paintings”, Ossington Avenue Studio, Toronto
May 1996, “New Paintings”, Ossington Avenue Studio, Toronto
April 1995, “New Paintings”, Ossington Avenue Studio, Toronto
GROUP SHOWS & INTERNATIONAL ART FAIRS:
March 2020, 20/20 Spirit Doubles, Mira Godard Gallery, Toronto
December 2019, Scope Miami, Clark Gallery, Lincoln
January 2019, New York Outsider Art Fair, Tanner Hill Gallery, New York
December 2018, Scope Miami, Clark Gallery, Lincoln
October 2018, “Art Toronto”, Mira Godard Gallery, Toronto
December 2017, “Scope Miami”, Clark Gallery, Lincoln
October 2017, “Art Toronto”, Mira Godard Gallery, Toronto
Summer 2017, “The Still Life Show”, Mira Godard Gallery, Toronto
January 2017, PREVIEW, Mira Godard Gallery, Toronto
December 2015, Scope Miami, Clark Gallery, Miami, FL
October 2015, Art Toronto, Mira Godard Gallery, Toronto
October 2015, “Exxpectations”, Cornell Museum, Delray Beach, FL
October 2015, Paris Outsider Art Fair, Garde Rail Gallery, Paris
May 2015, “Setting the Table”, Clark Gallery, Lincoln
January 2015, Outsider Art Fair, Garde Rail Gallery, NYC
December 2014, “Jealous Curator: Blog to Book”, Bedford Gallery, Walnut Creek
September 2014, “Variations on a Theme”, Clark Gallery, Lincoln
May 2014, Outsider Art Fair, Garde Rail Gallery, NYC
April 2014, “Landscape”, Megumi Ogita Gallery, Tokyo
May 2013, San Francisco artMRKT, Tanner Hill Gallery, San Francisco
February 2013, “Beautifully Boring”, Tanner Hill Gallery, Chattanooga
January 2013, Outsider Art Fair, Garde Rail Gallery, NYC
December 2012, Clark Gallery, Lincoln
December 2012, Art Factum Gallery, Beirut
September 2012, Sea Fair, Clark Gallery, Greenwich
August 2012, ZIA Gallery, Winnetka
March 2012, Art Fair Tokyo, Megumi Ogita Gallery, Tokyo
December 2011, ZIA Gallery, Winnetka
August 2011, SOFA, Garde Rail Gallery, Santa Fe
April 2011, Mason Murer Fine Art, Atlanta
December 2010, Aqua Miami, Garde Rail Gallery, Miami
May 2010, Nancy Margolis Gallery, NYC
February 2010, Megumi Ogita Gallery, Tokyo
February 2010, Outsider Art Fair, Berenberg Gallery, NYC
August 2009, Art Osaka, Megumi Ogita Gallery, Osaka
August 2009, Garde Rail Gallery, Seattle
April 2009, Art Fair Tokyo, Megumi Ogita Gallery, Tokyo
February 2009, Director’s Choice, Chase Gallery, Boston
January 2009, Outsider Art Fair, Garde Rail Gallery, NYC
October 2008, Garde Rail Gallery, Seattle
September 2008, Belgrave Gallery, St. Ives
June 2008, Weiss Gallery, Calgary
June 2008, Scope Basel, Katharine Mulherin Gallery, Basel
May 2008, Chase Gallery, Boston
December 2007, Scope Miami, Katharine Mulherin Gallery, Miami
December 2007, Clark Gallery, Lincoln
July 2007, Scope Hamptons, Katharine Mulherin Gallery, Hamptons
June 2007, Scope Basel, Katharine Mulherin Gallery, Basel
April 2007, Winsor Gallery, Vancouver
December 2006, Scope Miami, Katharine Mulherin Gallery, Miami
December 2006, Winsor Gallery, Vancouver
December 2006, Clark Gallery, Lincoln
October 2006, “Affair at the Jupiter Hotel”, Garde Rail Gallery, Portland
August 2006, Folk Fest, Atlanta
April 2006, Garde Rail Gallery, Seattle
December 2005, Clark Gallery, Lincoln
March 2004, Harbinger Gallery, Waterloo
February 2004, “The History of Everyday”, VAC Clarington, Bowmanville
November 2003, Etobicoke Civic Centre, Etobicoke
May 2003, Art Gallery of Peel, Brampton
November 2002, Elmwood Art Fair, Ottawa
December 2001, Prime Gallery, Toronto
February 2001, Project, Toronto
Summer 2001, “Arts 2000”, Canadian Royal Academy of Art, Stratford
May 2000, Art Gallery of Peel, Brampton
December 1999, Ciparis/Lennox Gallery, Toronto
October 1998, Etobicoke Civic Centre, Etobicoke
June 1998, Hummingbird Centre for the Performing Arts, Toronto
July 1995, Alexander Gallery, Toronto
July 1992 – 2009, Annual Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition, Toronto
BIBLIOGRAPHY:
Creative Boom, March 2020
White Hot Magazine, ART TORONTO versus ARTBO, October 2018
Art Collector’s Magazine (Japan), August 2016
Vogue, Japan, July 2016
Art Brut, Expressively Inspired: The Desire To Create For Two Self-taught Artists, June 2016
Savant Garde, May 2015
Life As A Human, February 2015
Examiner, Artist Holly Farrell, article on book paintings, December 2014
Lincoln Journal, September 2014
Culture Catch, “Pushing Against the Boundaries”, May 2014
art ltd., (review), May 2014
Frankie Magazine, “Throwback Thursday”, March 2014
Examiner, “Toronto Artist Sends In The Clowns” (interview), February 2014
Chicago Tonight, “The Jokers Are Wild”, February 2014
Creative Block, Danielle Krysa, (artist profile), February 2014
Zinc, December 2013
Daily Beast, “Outsider Art Fair: 10 Artists To Buy Now”, February 2013
Arts Observer, “Outsider Art Fair”, January 2012
Tokyo Art Beat, (review), March 2012
Home Build Life Design, February 2012
Arts Observer, “Outside Art Fair”, January 2012
Eyes Toward The Dove, “Outsider Art Fair”, January 2012
Design Sponge, December 2010
The Daily Yomiuri, “Another Face For Tammy” (review), November 2010
Magenta Magazine, “Holly Farrell Even Closer” (review), Fall 2010
Blog TO, “Even Closer” (review), July 2010
Huffington Post, “Inside The Outsider Art Fair”, February 2010
New York Times, “OAF: A Survey of a Field Hard to Define”, February 2010
Frankie Magazine, (interview) September 2009
Art In America, (review), March 2009
The Boston Globe, “We Direct Your Attention”, February 2009
The Boston Globe, “This Week’s Picks”, May 2008
NOW Magazine, (review), March 2008
The Globe and Mail, (‘review’), February 2008
Seattle Channel, Gallery Hop, Garde Rail Gallery, 2008
Seattle Post Intelligencer, Regina Hackett, 2007
Enroute Magazine, July 2007
Seattle Weekly, (review), April 2007
Seattle Magazine, Editor’s Picks, May 2006
Toronto Star, “Still Life With Meditation” (review), December 2003
BRAVO! TV, “The Artist’s Life” (artist profile), November 2003
“Out To Brunch” (cookbook featuring 9 commissioned paintings), November 2002
Home & Garden Television, “Room Service” (artist profile), 2002
ARTnews, (artist profile), October 2002
The Globe & Mail, “Art Al Fresco: Up Close & Personal”, (artist profile), July 2000
Century Home Magazine, (artist profile), May 2000
Lola Magazine, Shotgun Reviews, (review), Summer 1999
Canadian Living Magazine, “Easy Painting”, June 1998
Toronto Life, (review), May 1998
"It’s my hope that the experience of growing up in northern Ontario and the influences of small town life are evident in my work. Nostalgia drives my subject matter, Still Life being my main focus. I think of my Still Lifes as simple meditations of the places and people we have known - that there is a sense of the Portrait in each of my paintings - that many of us have had some kind of connection to that bowl, or that book, or that chair.”
COLLECTIONS:
Farrell’s work is included in private and corporate collections throughout North America, Europe, and Japan, and Australia. Notable recent purchases include those by TD Bank, Bank of Montreal, the Louis-Dreyfus Family Collection, Wires Jolley Canada, and Sony Music, Japan.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
September 2021 (upcoming), Mira Godard Gallery, Toronto
March 2019, “Nothing Begins Today”, Mira Godard Gallery, Toronto
November, 2018, “Then And Now”, Clark Gallery, Lincoln
February 2017, "Homely”, Mira Godard Gallery, Toronto
July 2016, “Doll And Book Paintings”, Megumi Ogita Gallery, Tokyo
October 2015,“Books”, Clark Gallery, Lincoln
February 2014, “Clowns”, Packer Schopf Gallery, Chicago
September 2013, “New Paintings”, Clark Gallery, Lincoln
March 2012, “Book Shop”, Megumi Ogita Gallery, Tokyo
December 2010, “Tammy”, Megumi Ogita Gallery, Tokyo
June 2010, “Even Closer”, Katharine Mulherin Gallery, Toronto
December 2009, “New Paintings”, Chase Gallery, Boston
March 2009, “Home and Sea”, Megumi Ogita Gallery, Tokyo
January 2009, “New Paintings”, Winsor Gallery, Vancouver
February 2008, “New Paintings” Katharine Mulherin Gallery, Toronto
September 2007, “New Paintings”, Clark Gallery, Lincoln
April 2007, “New Paintings” Garde Rail Gallery, Seattle
April 2006, “New Paintings”, Dundas Street West Studio, Toronto
April 2004, “New Paintings”, Dundas Street West Studio, Toronto
December 2003, “Childhood”, Dundas Street West Studio, Toronto
March 2003, “Cutlery”, Dundas Street West Studio, Toronto
December 2001, “Bowls”, Dundas Street West Studio, Toronto
December 1999, “New Paintings”, Ossington Avenue Studio, Toronto
December 1998, “New Paintings”, Ossington Avenue Studio, Toronto
February 1998, “New Paintings”, Ossington Avenue Studio, Toronto
February 1997, “New Paintings”, Velvet & Vinyl, Toronto
November 1996, “New Paintings”, Ossington Avenue Studio, Toronto
May 1996, “New Paintings”, Ossington Avenue Studio, Toronto
April 1995, “New Paintings”, Ossington Avenue Studio, Toronto
GROUP SHOWS & INTERNATIONAL ART FAIRS:
March 2020, 20/20 Spirit Doubles, Mira Godard Gallery, Toronto
December 2019, Scope Miami, Clark Gallery, Lincoln
January 2019, New York Outsider Art Fair, Tanner Hill Gallery, New York
December 2018, Scope Miami, Clark Gallery, Lincoln
October 2018, “Art Toronto”, Mira Godard Gallery, Toronto
December 2017, “Scope Miami”, Clark Gallery, Lincoln
October 2017, “Art Toronto”, Mira Godard Gallery, Toronto
Summer 2017, “The Still Life Show”, Mira Godard Gallery, Toronto
January 2017, PREVIEW, Mira Godard Gallery, Toronto
December 2015, Scope Miami, Clark Gallery, Miami, FL
October 2015, Art Toronto, Mira Godard Gallery, Toronto
October 2015, “Exxpectations”, Cornell Museum, Delray Beach, FL
October 2015, Paris Outsider Art Fair, Garde Rail Gallery, Paris
May 2015, “Setting the Table”, Clark Gallery, Lincoln
January 2015, Outsider Art Fair, Garde Rail Gallery, NYC
December 2014, “Jealous Curator: Blog to Book”, Bedford Gallery, Walnut Creek
September 2014, “Variations on a Theme”, Clark Gallery, Lincoln
May 2014, Outsider Art Fair, Garde Rail Gallery, NYC
April 2014, “Landscape”, Megumi Ogita Gallery, Tokyo
May 2013, San Francisco artMRKT, Tanner Hill Gallery, San Francisco
February 2013, “Beautifully Boring”, Tanner Hill Gallery, Chattanooga
January 2013, Outsider Art Fair, Garde Rail Gallery, NYC
December 2012, Clark Gallery, Lincoln
December 2012, Art Factum Gallery, Beirut
September 2012, Sea Fair, Clark Gallery, Greenwich
August 2012, ZIA Gallery, Winnetka
March 2012, Art Fair Tokyo, Megumi Ogita Gallery, Tokyo
December 2011, ZIA Gallery, Winnetka
August 2011, SOFA, Garde Rail Gallery, Santa Fe
April 2011, Mason Murer Fine Art, Atlanta
December 2010, Aqua Miami, Garde Rail Gallery, Miami
May 2010, Nancy Margolis Gallery, NYC
February 2010, Megumi Ogita Gallery, Tokyo
February 2010, Outsider Art Fair, Berenberg Gallery, NYC
August 2009, Art Osaka, Megumi Ogita Gallery, Osaka
August 2009, Garde Rail Gallery, Seattle
April 2009, Art Fair Tokyo, Megumi Ogita Gallery, Tokyo
February 2009, Director’s Choice, Chase Gallery, Boston
January 2009, Outsider Art Fair, Garde Rail Gallery, NYC
October 2008, Garde Rail Gallery, Seattle
September 2008, Belgrave Gallery, St. Ives
June 2008, Weiss Gallery, Calgary
June 2008, Scope Basel, Katharine Mulherin Gallery, Basel
May 2008, Chase Gallery, Boston
December 2007, Scope Miami, Katharine Mulherin Gallery, Miami
December 2007, Clark Gallery, Lincoln
July 2007, Scope Hamptons, Katharine Mulherin Gallery, Hamptons
June 2007, Scope Basel, Katharine Mulherin Gallery, Basel
April 2007, Winsor Gallery, Vancouver
December 2006, Scope Miami, Katharine Mulherin Gallery, Miami
December 2006, Winsor Gallery, Vancouver
December 2006, Clark Gallery, Lincoln
October 2006, “Affair at the Jupiter Hotel”, Garde Rail Gallery, Portland
August 2006, Folk Fest, Atlanta
April 2006, Garde Rail Gallery, Seattle
December 2005, Clark Gallery, Lincoln
March 2004, Harbinger Gallery, Waterloo
February 2004, “The History of Everyday”, VAC Clarington, Bowmanville
November 2003, Etobicoke Civic Centre, Etobicoke
May 2003, Art Gallery of Peel, Brampton
November 2002, Elmwood Art Fair, Ottawa
December 2001, Prime Gallery, Toronto
February 2001, Project, Toronto
Summer 2001, “Arts 2000”, Canadian Royal Academy of Art, Stratford
May 2000, Art Gallery of Peel, Brampton
December 1999, Ciparis/Lennox Gallery, Toronto
October 1998, Etobicoke Civic Centre, Etobicoke
June 1998, Hummingbird Centre for the Performing Arts, Toronto
July 1995, Alexander Gallery, Toronto
July 1992 – 2009, Annual Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition, Toronto
BIBLIOGRAPHY:
Creative Boom, March 2020
White Hot Magazine, ART TORONTO versus ARTBO, October 2018
Art Collector’s Magazine (Japan), August 2016
Vogue, Japan, July 2016
Art Brut, Expressively Inspired: The Desire To Create For Two Self-taught Artists, June 2016
Savant Garde, May 2015
Life As A Human, February 2015
Examiner, Artist Holly Farrell, article on book paintings, December 2014
Lincoln Journal, September 2014
Culture Catch, “Pushing Against the Boundaries”, May 2014
art ltd., (review), May 2014
Frankie Magazine, “Throwback Thursday”, March 2014
Examiner, “Toronto Artist Sends In The Clowns” (interview), February 2014
Chicago Tonight, “The Jokers Are Wild”, February 2014
Creative Block, Danielle Krysa, (artist profile), February 2014
Zinc, December 2013
Daily Beast, “Outsider Art Fair: 10 Artists To Buy Now”, February 2013
Arts Observer, “Outsider Art Fair”, January 2012
Tokyo Art Beat, (review), March 2012
Home Build Life Design, February 2012
Arts Observer, “Outside Art Fair”, January 2012
Eyes Toward The Dove, “Outsider Art Fair”, January 2012
Design Sponge, December 2010
The Daily Yomiuri, “Another Face For Tammy” (review), November 2010
Magenta Magazine, “Holly Farrell Even Closer” (review), Fall 2010
Blog TO, “Even Closer” (review), July 2010
Huffington Post, “Inside The Outsider Art Fair”, February 2010
New York Times, “OAF: A Survey of a Field Hard to Define”, February 2010
Frankie Magazine, (interview) September 2009
Art In America, (review), March 2009
The Boston Globe, “We Direct Your Attention”, February 2009
The Boston Globe, “This Week’s Picks”, May 2008
NOW Magazine, (review), March 2008
The Globe and Mail, (‘review’), February 2008
Seattle Channel, Gallery Hop, Garde Rail Gallery, 2008
Seattle Post Intelligencer, Regina Hackett, 2007
Enroute Magazine, July 2007
Seattle Weekly, (review), April 2007
Seattle Magazine, Editor’s Picks, May 2006
Toronto Star, “Still Life With Meditation” (review), December 2003
BRAVO! TV, “The Artist’s Life” (artist profile), November 2003
“Out To Brunch” (cookbook featuring 9 commissioned paintings), November 2002
Home & Garden Television, “Room Service” (artist profile), 2002
ARTnews, (artist profile), October 2002
The Globe & Mail, “Art Al Fresco: Up Close & Personal”, (artist profile), July 2000
Century Home Magazine, (artist profile), May 2000
Lola Magazine, Shotgun Reviews, (review), Summer 1999
Canadian Living Magazine, “Easy Painting”, June 1998
Toronto Life, (review), May 1998