"KONA 0416.1542 Limited edition 6" Photograph

Bootsy Holler is an intuitive artist who has been a working photographer for over thirty years in music, editorial, advertising, and fine art. Best known for her empathetic style of portraiture, she has been noticed and awarded by the Society of Photographic Journalism and the Association of Alternative News-media. After living in Seattle for most of her life, she moved to Los Angeles to focus on fine art. Her work examines the nature of emotions, identity, and the reimagined vision of the self.

Holler showed recently at the Foley Gallery, NYC, and The Lodge, Los Angeles. Her art images have appeared in numerous publications like VOGUE, House & Garden, Lucky Magazine, NPR, PDN, Lenscratch, Fraction, Shoutout L.A., Photo London Magazine, and Chinese Photographer Magazine. Her seminal work from the Seattle music scene from the 1990s is in the permanent collection of the Grammy Museum. Her work has been shown at many institutions, including Fotofever in Paris, The Griffin Museum of Photography, the California Museum of Photography, and The Center for Fine Art Photography, to name a few. She was awarded Best-of-Show in the 2020 juried exhibition at the Center for Photographic Art in Carmel, CA. In 2020, she was invited to exhibit the "Without Words" series at the Shanghai International Photo Festival. In 2019, she published her second monograph, "TREASURES: objects I've known all my life," and is working on a new book.