Bootsy Holler

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 th...

Western Washington University, BA - Textiles and Design 1988-1993

2024- Leica Gallery, London, UK
2024 - Creative Space & Center for Fine Art Photo, Fort Worth, Colorado, USA
2021 - Without Words, The LODGE, Los Angeles, CA
2020 - Without Words, Shanghai International Photo Show, China
2015 - Nuclear Family, WallSpace Gallery, Seattle, WA
2015 - Nuclear Family, WallSpace Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA
2014 - Visitor, Kiernan Gallery, Lexington, VA
2009 - Ruby & Willie, WallSpace Gallery, Seattle, WA
2006 - Ruby & Willie, Gallery 63Eleven, Seattle, WA
2005 - Ruby & Willie, New Space Photo Center, Portland, OR
2004 - West Africa, Alibi Room, Seattle, WA
2003 - Rose Wallpaper, Black Lab Gallery, Seattle, WA
2002 - The Chair, Rose Club, Seattle, WA
2002 - Twenty-Eight, The Mark Gallery, Olympia, WA
2001 - Laundry, The Little Theatre Gallery, Seattle, WA
2000 - MASK, Black Lab Gallery, Seattle, WA
1999 - Twenty-Eight, Healey Gallery, Seattle, WA
1998 - Alone, Alibi Room, Seattle, WA
1997 - Alone, Habitude Gallery, Seattle, WA
1995 - Ten Short Stories, Light House, Seattle, WA

SELECT GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2021 - The Exhibition Lab, Foley Gallery, New York, NY
2021 - The Artist Intervenes, LENSCRATCH, Los Angeles, CA
2021 - The Poetry of the Ordinary, Juror: Douglas Beasley, PhotoPlace Gallery, VT
2021 - Art ...