Holly Overton
hollyoverton.com
Education
New York Studio School MFA Candidate, New York, NY 2026
Parsons The New School of Design BFA, New York, NY 2009
Departmental Honors, Dean's List
Solo Exhibitions
2018 The Woman On The Beach, The Well, Kitty Hawk, NC
and DRTY SMMR, Brooklyn, NY
Group Exhibitions
2024 A Plexiglass Proscenium, PARADICE PALACE, online
2023 16 x 16, ST. HROUDA, Brooklyn, NY
Ninth Life, Calico Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Telepathic Moon Train, Rodrigo Courtney and Hanna-Katerina Alexandria, Millennium Film Workshop, NY
ANALAGON SKIN (performer), curated by Odalis Valdivieso, Millennium Film Workshop, Brooklyn, NY
BROKEN AIR CONDITIONER* (*Two person with Sarah Rozell), Swells'a, Kill Devil Hills NC
2022 After The Fall Comes Love; or The Shadow Society, Bushel Collective, Delhi NY
Heat Wave, ST. HROUDA, Brooklyn, NY
We Are the Map, Millennium Film Workshop, Brooklyn, NY
Plantasia Vol. 1 (Curator), Millennium Film Workshop, Brooklyn, NY
Do Not Research, Lower Cavity, Holyoke, MA
(Three person*) Her Ironic World, Dare County Arts Council, Manteo, NC
New York City Symphonies of the Millennium Film Workshop, MoMA, New York, NY
2021 Daughters Rising Benefit Auction, ELM Foundation, Brooklyn, NY
The Space In Between, TheSpaceInbetween.art, Austin, TX
Frank Stick Memorial Art Show, Dare County Arts Council, Manteo, NC
2020 GIFC, The Hole, New York, NY
2019 Anonymous Brooklyn, Brooklyn Metal Works, Brooklyn, NY
2013 Landscapes on Paper, Schema Projects, Brooklyn, NY
2012 Spring Fling, Williamsburg Art and History Center, Brooklyn, NY
2011 Art & Spirit: Sacred Works by 60 Artists, Roanoke Island Festival Park Gallery, Manteo, NC
Nurtureart, Dia Chelsea, New York, NY
Voyeur Night, Recess Art, New York, NY
2010 X Initiative, Dia Chelsea, New York, NY
artists FOR: Haiti, New York, NY
2009 Let Me Tell You My Onion, Parsons School of Design Gallery, New York, NY
I Love Everything, Envoy Enterprises, New York, NY
2008 Homeland, Death By Audio, Brooklyn, NY
Awesome Kids Doing Awesome Shit, The Room, Boston, MA
If I Were President, 435 Broadway, Brooklyn, NY
Happy Endings, Parsons School of Design Gallery, New York, NY
From Sea to Me, The Kit Pit, Kill Devil Hills, NC
Here And Now, Dare County Arts Council, Manteo, NC
Para-Sites, Parsons School of Design Gallery, New York, NY
Painting For, Parsons School of Design Gallery, New York, NY
2007 Disasters and Dream Boats, The Rascal Shack, Brooklyn, NY
2006 Palindrome Home, Union Docs, Brooklyn, NY
2004 Frank Stick Memorial Art Show, Honorable Mention, Ghost Fleet Gallery, Manteo, NC
North Carolina Women's Democratic Voter's Club Art Show, Roanoke Island, NC
Press
The Milepost, Listen To Arachne’s Voice, Winter 2024
DoNotResearch.net, After Geoengineering Paintings, Feb 2022
Show & Purell Magazine, 2022
Medium: The Woman on The Beach: The Practice of Joy, Sept 2020
Plaster Cocktail Magazine, Vol 3: REVOLUTION, Dec 2020
Marietta Magazine: Video, Performance, and Experimental Art // Vol. 3, 2020
Stay-At-Home Variety Show, Sister Polygon Records, Washington DC, Apr 2020
Sweetstatic, Video Premiere: 'The Woman on the Beach,' July 2019
Bushwick Daily, Holly Overton Shares 'Transient Love,' Brooklyn, NY, May 2019
Audiofemme, Holly Overton with Midnight People, Brooklyn, NY, August 2017
BTR Today, Every New Day with Holly Overton and Midnight People, May 2017
Impose Magazine, Holly Overton, 'Living Without You,' Brooklyn, NY, May 2017
The Coast Newspaper, Featured Artist, Outer Banks, NC, Summer 2017
Impose Magazine, Holly Overton 'The Split,' Brooklyn, NY, Sept 2016
Decoder Magazine, An Interview with Holly Overton, 2015
Nashville Scene, Newspaper, Featured Artist, March 2015
L Magazine, 4 Bands You Need to Know, Summer 2014
Maximum RocknRoll Magazine, San Francisco, CA, August 2012
Taurus, The Other Half of the Orange, New York, NY 2012
Readymade.com, Home and Garden: Projects, April 2011
Polar Magazine Online, New York, NY 2009
ETA Magazine: Issue 2, Brooklyn, NY 2009
OBX4life.com, Featured Artist, Oct 2008
Team Tiger Cobra Illustration Zine, Parsons School of Design, New York, NY 2007
Short Film Premieres
2021 Nuances of My Life, 9:52, video diary, Millennium Film Workshop, New York, NY
Coral & Sebastian, 7:07, narrative short film, Millennium Film Workshop, NY
Curatorial Experience
2024 PLANTASIA VOL. 2: WORLD WIDE WEB TAKEOVER, gallery exhibition and experimental film screening, Millennium Film Workshop, Brooklyn, NY
2023Telepathic Moon Train: Rodrigo Courtney and Hanna-Katerina Alexandria, gallery exhibition and experimental film screening, Millennium Film Workshop, NY
2022 PLANTASIA VOL. 1, gallery exhibition and experimental film screening, Millennium Film Workshop, Brooklyn, NY
2021 Coral & Sebastian, and Short Films, short film program, Millennium Film Workshop, NY
Professional Experience
2019-Present Preparator, Salon 94, New York, NY
2024 Director, Blooming Spell music video, Agua Viva, New York, NY
2023 Director, Editor, Co-Producer Prayer music video, Leathered, New York, NY
2022 Director, Editor, Producer Mujeres Con Mangoes music video, Frida Kill, New York, NY
Residencies
2019 DRTY SMMR Resident Artist, gallery+studio+performance space, Brooklyn, NY
Musical Releases
2021 Coral's Theme, short film score, piano sheet music booklet
Take A Step, single, duet with Sean Spada
No Breakfast With Andy, with MPHO, digital single, self-released
2019
The Woman On The Beach, Solo concept album, music videos, costume, set design
2017
Every New Day, with Midnight People, cassette album
The Split, Solo CD/Cassette EP, GP Stripes Records
2016
Midnight People, with MPHO, digital album, self-released
2015
Holly Overton, Solo CD/digital EP, self-released
MPHO, with MPHO, CD/digital EP, self-released
T.I.G.H.T., with MPHO, digital EP, self-released
2014
Day of Days, with Juniper Rising, vinyl album, Happenin' Records
Days of Heaven, with Juniper Rising, vinyl EP, 307 Knox Records
2013
Juniper Rising, with Juniper Rising, cassette album, Burger Records
2012
American Sun, with American Sun, vinyl EP, self-released
American Sun, with American Sun, cassette EP, self-released
2011
Shrine to Pleasant, with Feather and Folly, cassette album, self-released
2010
Feather and Folly, with Feather and Folly, cassette album, self-released
Music Festival Performances
No Cover New York '21, Rockaway Beach, Brooklyn, NY
Burgerama '13 Santa Ana, CA
Iceland Airwaves '13 Reykjavík, Iceland
SXSW '13-'16 Austin, TX
Midpoint Music Festival '13-'15 Cincinatti, OH
Northside Music Festival '13-'17 New York, NY
CMJ '10-'15 New York, NY
Theatrical Performances
2019
The Woman On The Beach, Experimental Theater Production, USA Tour
Composer, Performer, Director, Set Design, Costume Design
2018
Vagina Town, Musical Theater Production, 13th St. Theater, New York, NY
Performer, Ensemble Vocalist
Vagina Town Musical Theater Production, La MaMa Theater, New York, NY
Performer, Ensemble Vocalist