Artist

Artist and Humanitarian

Tim Holmes is the first American artist ever invited to give a solo exhibit at the Hermitage in St. Petersburg, Russia, the world’s largest art museum, where his sculptures remain on permanent exhibit. His work has gained notice among some of the world’s peacemakers, from the Chinese dissident students of Tiananmen Square to the Physicians for Social Responsibility. Jimmy Carter, Czech hero Vaclav Havel, and the late Coretta Scott King are among Holmes’ best-known collectors.

Holmes has created many international projects such as the U.N. Women’s Peace Prize and other peace awards. He has worked with Archbishop Desmond Tutu in efforts to create an international peace center on Robben Island, the gulag where President Nelson Mandela and thousands of others were imprisoned during the dark apartheid years and on South Africa’s bid for the Olympics. Though Holmes is most well known for sculpture he works in a variety of media, all pointing toward a more responsive, cooperative and sustainable future.

Though Holmes is most well known for sculpture he has worked in a variety of other media from museum installation to film to performance, all to foster a rich and imaginative future. As his attention has steadily drifted from making objects toward creating stories of transformation, leaving him tinkering with cultural elements that can questionably be called “art”. He’s keenly interested in fostering creative approaches to contemporary problems, particularly among growing social challenges of living together in a rapidly shrinking world.

Holmes is a figurative sculptor for whom the human form is not simply bounded by the skin. His abiding interest is in sculpting whatever subject engages him, whether that be a chunk of metal, an idea or a community. He advocates for preserving rich and vulnerable human qualities amidst the tsunami of expanding technology we all experience, hoping to move the evolution of humanity toward a more responsive and sustainable world. In short he believes that art is the medicine that will heal the world.

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Tim Holmes Interviews:

How I Sculpt My Life, an interview with the Design Your Life group

“Sculptures by Tim Holmes deserve being displayed in the best museums of the world.”

Resume

Selected One-Person Museum Exhibitions:

The Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia, 1993-94

Coral Springs Museum of Art, Coral Springs, FL, 2003

Frye Art Museum, Seattle, WA, 1986-7 and 1991

Museum of the Rockies, Bozeman, MT, 1999

State of the World Forum, San Francisco, CA, 1999, Curator: Helen Pollock

The Cathedral of St. John the Divine, New York, NY, 1998, Curator: Jay Wegman

Sierra Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, Nevada, 1995, Curator: Howard Spencer

Hockaday Museum of Art, Kalispell, MT, 2000

Museum of Fine Arts, Univ. of Montana, Missoula, MT 1995,

Atwood Gallery, St. Cloud State University, St. Cloud, MN, 2001

Holter Museum of Art, Helena, Montana, 2011, 1996, Curator: Peter Held

Museum of Fine Arts, Univ. of Montana, Missoula, MT 1995, Curator: Dennis Kern

The National Cathedral, Welcome Home, Washington, DC, 1998

Union Theological Seminary , NY, NY, 2001, Curator: Troy Messenger

Masterpiece Gallery, Carmel, CA, 2002, Curator: Mike DiPietro

Maxwell Gallery, San Francisco, CA, 1999, Curator: Coleen Hoffman

Private Collections:

Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Nobel Peace Prize Winner

President Jimmy Carter, Nobel Peace Prize Winner

Vaclev Havel, President of Czechoslovakia

Coretta Scott King, civil rights icon

Dr. Jonas Salk, Polio vaccine developer

Thabo Mbeki, President of South Africa

Gro Harlem Brundtland, Former Norwegian Prime Minister

Madam Jehan Sadat, Former First Lady of Egypt

Li Lu, Chinese Pro-Democracy Movement

Rosalyn Carter, recipient of PeaceLinks award

Sen. Mike Mansfield

Archbishop Elias Chacour, three-time Nobel Peace Prize nominee

Andrew Young, U.S. Ambassador to U.N., Atlanta Mayor

Dr. Benjamin Spock, The baby doctor

Norman Cousins, author

George Kennan, the 20^th century’s great geostrategist

Edward Albee, playwright

Valentina Tereshkova, first woman cosmonaut

Marianne Williamson, author and presidential candidate

Mary Hart, Entertainment Tonight co-host

Bob Beckel, Fox News “The Five”, Crossfire, CNN

Public Collections:

The International Olympic Museum, Lausanne, Switzerland

The Archdiocese of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa

United Nations Development Fund for Women, New York, NY

The Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia

International Alert, London, England

Walker Art Gallery, Hennepin Ave. U. M. Church., Minneapolis, MN

University of Montana, Missoula, Montana

Jeannette Rankin Peace Center, Missoula, Montana,

Ronald Reagan Library, Eureka College, Eureka, IL

The Mansfield Center, Missoula, MT

Selected Public Commissions and Monuments:

U.N. Millennium Peace Prize for Women, U.N. Development Fund for Women,

New York, NY, and International Alert, London, England, 2000

Welcome Home, A monument for the Intnl. Peace and Reconciliation Cent. on Robben Is., South Africa, the former prison where Nelson Mandela and thousands of others were imprisoned. 1997

Freedom to Create Leadership Award for Women, Freedom to Create, Singapore, 2011

Who Gives All Gifts, (9 ft. bronze) St. Paul’s UM Church, Helena, MT, 2008

The Christian Vine, Commissioned award for Father Elias Chacour, Palestinian Peacemaker

Olympic Africa, (Cape Town’s gift to the International Olympic Museum, Lausanne, Switzerland), 1997

The Cycle of Renewal, (9 ft. bronze) First Presbyterian Church, Pompano Beach, FL, 2001

Soli and Tutti, Helena Symphony Orchestra, Helena, MT, 2001

Eleanor Roosevelt Living World Award, PeaceLinks, Wash., DC, 1994

China Peace, (Tianenman Sq. massacre memorial), China Info. Center, Boston, MA, 1989

Physicians for Social Responsibility Peace Award, Washington, DC, 1987

Cross and Flame, St. Paul’s United Methodist Church, Helena, MT, 2005

Breathmill, Cloud Clipper, Kenetech Corp., San Francisco, CA, 1996

The Inquisition of Don Miguel, (set design, a 16 x 20 ft. book) , Ballet Montana, Helena, MT, 2011

Cleopatra Rescues a Mariner, community of York, MT, 1994

The Spirit of BST, Billings Studio Theatre, Billings, MT. 1993

History of Horses, (12 x 8 ft. welded abstract) Sheraton Hotel, Billings, MT, 1980

Montage, Sheraton Hotel, Billings, MT, 1980

Awards and Honors:

Best Artwork Award, New Media Film Festival, Berkeley, CA, 2007

Competent Communicator Award, Toastmasters International, Apr. 2013

Jeanette Rankin Peace Award, Rocky Mountain Institute for Peace Studies, 2000

Breadwinner Award, Wheat Montana, Three Forks, MT, 2000

Love the Arts Award, Flathead Arts Council, Kalispell, MT, 1999

Art Achievement Award, The Art Center School of Fine Arts, Helena, MT, 1995

Distinguished Service Award, Rocky Mountain College, Billings, MT, 1996

Montana Historic Preservation Award, (Tim Holmes Studio) Helena, MT, 1993

Lakota Women’s Peace Award, Lakota Tribe, Rapid City, SD, 1988

Outstanding Alum Award, Rocky Mountain College, Billings, MT, 1987

Education:

Master’s Program, Sir John Cass School of Art, London, 1981

B.A. in Fine Arts, Rocky Mountain College, Billings, Montana 1976

Apprenticed to welded steel sculptor, Lyndon F. Pomeroy, 1975