Jim Holyoak
Studio (Drawing)
visual artist, BFA (Victoria), MFA (Concordia)
sickrad@gmail.com
Jim Holyoak was born in Michigan, grew up in coastal British Columbia, and has been based in Montréal for the last five years. His discipline is comprised of drawing-installation and book-works, exploring notions of culture and nature, the human and non-human, deep time and the present. In 2004 he received a BFA with honours from the University of Victoria, and in 2007 he studied as an apprentice of master ink painter, Shen Ling Xiang, in Yangshuo, China. In 2011, Holyoak completed his MFA at Concordia University, and participated in the Québec Triennial, at the Musée d’art contemporain. His work has been published in three books and innumerable zines, and has exhibited in Vancouver, Los Angeles, New York, Montréal, Berlin, Trondheim, and at the Mustarinda House in the forests of central Finland.