About Christian Holstad

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    Christian Holstad (b. 1972)

    Christian Holstad was born in Anaheim, California in 1972. In 1994, Holstad received his BFA at the Kansas City Art Institute. He began his residency John Michael Kohler Arts Program in 2000.

    An Artforum review his solo exhibition in 2006, critic Christopher Bollen wrote that "Holstad's artistic career has often centered on the public spectacle and campy aestheticizing of sexual dissonance ... [In this show], Holstad seemed to ask whether s/m codes of thirty years ago have lost their deviant power. More provocatively, he asked what happened to the spiritual and physical liberation once accessed through these forms."

    Selected Solo Exhibitions:
    2010: The Worlds G...

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