Evan Holloway

Evan Holloway was born in 1967 in Southern California (gallery sources give either Whittier or La Mirada, both in Los Angeles County). He earned a BA from the University of California, Santa Cruz, in 1989 and an MFA from the University of California, Los Angeles, in 1997. He began showing in Los Angeles in the late 1990s, including solo exhibitions at Marc Foxx Gallery and Room 702, and at The Approach in London starting in 2000.

His profile widened after his inclusion in the 2002 Whitney Biennial, the same year he received the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award. He went on to receive the Penny McCall Foundation Award in 2004 and a FOCA Grant from Friends of Contemporary Art, MOCA Los Angeles, in 2005. Museum recognition followed through the 2000s and 2010s, including a solo Projects Series presentation at the Pomona College Museum of Art in 2008, inclusion in the Hirshhorn Museum's "The Uncertainty of Objects and Ideas" in 2006, the Hammer Museum's "All of This and Nothing" in 2011, and Public Art Fund's "Lightness of Being" in New York's City Hall Park in 2013. He has continued to show regularly at David Kordansky Gallery in Los Angeles, including "Taurus and the Awakener" in 2018 and "Cobbler" in 2024, and at Xavier Hufkens in Brussels. He lives and works in Los Angeles.

Holloway's critical standing rests mainly on institutional recognition rather than on a body of individual reviews confirmed for this profile. His inclusion in the 2002 Whitney Biennial and in the Hirshhorn Museum's 2006 group exhibition "The Uncertainty of Objects and Ideas" placed him within a broader account of Los Angeles sculptors who use material experimentation and dry humor to examine masculinity, labor, and the process of making objects. Specific reviews and additional exhibition details could not be independently confirmed for this profile and are not reported here.

Holloway's market is defined by depth of institutional presence rather than auction volume. He is currently represented by David Kordansky Gallery in Los Angeles and Xavier Hufkens in Brussels, and his work is held by the Whitney Museum, the Hirshhorn, the Hammer Museum, LACMA, MOCA Los Angeles, MCA Chicago, and MCA San Diego. No catalogue raisonne has been identified for his work; verification runs primarily through his representing galleries. Public auction activity is limited: the best documented recent secondary market sale is a work that sold at Heritage Auctions for USD 5,250 on 1 November 2023. Additional listings on auction house sites suggest occasional higher-value private and secondary sales, but the underlying lot details could not be independently confirmed and are not reported here.

Holloway's museum and biennial history is substantial relative to his auction footprint, which remains small and infrequently tested. The absence of a catalogue raisonne means provenance and gallery-based verification carry extra weight for any work considered for acquisition. Collectors should treat any reported high-value secondary market figures with caution until full lot details, including title, sale house, and date, are documented from a primary auction record.