Bio
Holly Grimsrud
Email: hollygrimsrudart@gmail.com
Website: http://www.hollygrimsrudart.com
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Teaching
April 2019-Present – Instructor of Multimedia Art, Glacier Hills Elementary School of arts & science
Rosemount - Apple Valley - Eagan School District, Minnesota Examples of student work in Multimedia Art
October 2018-Febuary 2019 – art teacher, los altos high school
Los Altos, California Examples of student work – pen & ink drawings
2014-2018 – Instructor of Multimedia Art, Glacier Hills Elementary School of Arts & Science
Rosemount - Apple Valley - Eagan School District, Minnesota Examples of student work in Multimedia Art
summer 2014 – art teacher, Articulture
Minneapolis, MN
2007-2014 – Art teacher, Shakopee (MN) PUblic schools Mural by students.jpg
Shakopee, MN
On leave – school year 2011-2012 to attend San Francisco Art Institute
Spring 2012 – Teaching Assistant in painting, San Francisco Art Institute
San Francisco, CA Examples of student work in Painting – Student Work 1.jpg, Student Work 2.jpg, Student Work 3.jpg
2007-2008 – Varsity ASSiSTANT women’s basketball coach, St. Olaf College
Northfield, MN
2006-2007 – teacher of visual & performing arts, upward bound, st. olaf college
Northfield, MN
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Education
2012 – MFA Painting, San Francisco Art Institute
San Francisco, CA
Honors in Fall 2011 Anatomy, Spring 2012 Art on Paper and Narrative Painting
Honors recognition for off-site work in drawing and painting in Spring 2010
2007 – BA studio art & art education – St. Olaf College
Northfield, MN
Cum Laude, Certified to teach K-12 in Minnesota Public Schools
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Exhibitions
2018
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•Bodies in Motion, Two-person exhibition with Christopher Sellect, The Anderson Center, Red Wing, MN
2017
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•La Mese Delle Donne V, 5th Annual Women Juried Exhibition, Rochester Art Center, Rochester, MN
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•May exhibition: The Figure, Red Wing Arts Association Depot Gallery, Red Wing, MN
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•Summer exhibition, The Workshop, Minneapolis, MN
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•“Partners In Art”, Ridgedale Center, Minnetonka, MN
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•Juried Figure Show, Minnetonka Center for the Arts, Wayzata, MN
2016
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•Pink Shoes, Oil on panel, 24”x30”, Minnesota State Fair Art Exhibition, St. Paul, MN
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•“Youth Sports”, Commissioned by the MN Vikings to make art work for the U.S. Bank Stadium (Permanent Collection)
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•“Prince and Dribble Prints”, Made Here MN presents Represent, Summer Showcase, Mall of America, Bloomington
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•“Young Sports”, Seven figures cut from particle board, MN Vikings permanent collection, US Bank Stadium, Minneapolis
2015
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•Exhausted Woman, Acrylic painting on particle board, Life-size, Minnesota State Fair Art Exhibition, St. Paul, MN
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•The Portrait Show, Heritage Park Senior Services Center, Minneapolis, MN
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•Dribble Prints, Mixed media on paper, Minnesota Children’s Museum Gallery, St. Paul, MN
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•Hello, Twin Cities Pride Art Exhibition, Intermedia Arts, Minneapolis, MN
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•Still LIfe/Portraiture Group Exhibition, Northside Arts Collaboration, Heritage Park Senior Services Center, Minneapolis, MN
2014
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•Exhausted Woman, Painting and two drawings, Meditations on Woman exhibition, Flow Art Space, St. Paul, MN
• Runner, Thirteenth Annual Poet-Artist Collaboration, Crossings at Carnegie, Zumbrota, MN
• Drawings & Paintings, Locker Room Tableau, Two-person show with father, Northfield Arts Guild
2013
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• Wheel, Acrylic on particle board and Masonite, Grid Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
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•Red Shoes 1, Saloon 300: Minnesota State Fair Overflow Show, Hopkins Center for the Arts
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•One-person exhibit of 55 drawings and paintings, The Salon, Rochester, MN
Exhibition space provided courtesy of C4 of Rochester (Concerned Citizens for a Creative Community)
2012
• One Sock, drawing, Minnesota State Fair Art Exhibition, St. Paul, MN
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•Britta, painting, Alumni Art Show, St. Olaf College, Northfield, MN
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•Vernissage 2012, MFA Exhibition, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
2011
• Towny and Biser, Portraits: SFAI Courtyard Juried Show, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
• Untitled, Midpoints Courtyard Show, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
• Performing X for Y, Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
2010
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•Girl Talk Totem and Boots 1, paintings, HGA Architects & Engineers Show, Rochester, MN
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•Portraits displayed at benefit featuring Garrison Keillor, Wild Ginger, Zumbrota, MN
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•Britta, The Nice Show at Swell Gallery, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
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•Kurt, The Asshole Show, Swell Gallery, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
2007
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•Family, Seven oil paintings, Senior Show, St. Olaf College, Northfield, MN
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•Self-Portraits, Three oil paintings, Skoglund Athletic Center, St. Olaf College, Northfield, MN
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Art Judging
2014
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• Juror of Drawing, Painting, and Printmaking, 51st Annual Uptown Art Fair, Southwest Minneapolis.
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Holly Grimsrud was born November, 25, 1984 to Dave and Deb Grimsrud of Zumbrota, Minnesota. She earned her BA in art at St. Olaf College and her MFA in painting at the San Francisco Art Institute. Over the past eleven years, she has had art teaching experiences ranging from Upward Bound at St. Olaf College, elementary school and secondary school in Shakopee and Eagan, Minnesota, high school in Los Altos, California and a teaching assistantship in painting at SFAI. In addition, her college-level work experience includes having been an assistant basketball coach at St. Olaf College where she had played four seasons.
