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Holly Cahill

@hollyacahill

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Chicago artist, independent curator, @tsa_chi and Praxis collective member
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Meet our 12th season featured visual artist, @hollyacahill ✨ It has been a true privilege learning from Holly and deeply connecting to her work through movement. Stay tuned for ticket sales to the April 3 & 4, 2026 premiere titled OLD. LONG. SING. 🔗 in bio to full Artist Statement and Bio “As a child, I often disappeared into the forest for hours and still find the experience of wandering generative. Through an expansive painting practice that combines fibers, sculpture, and collage, my work is aroused by moments of awe and wonder in everyday encounters within our lived ecology. I translate observations within the natural world into hybrid works that focus on the roles biodiversity, sensorial experience, and transformation play in building a more verdant future to deepen connection, sensitivity, and care for our environment.” - Cahill Holly Cahill is a Chicago-based visual artist working between painting, fibers, sculpture, and collage. Her process-oriented, sculptural abstractions gather impressions of natural phenomena that explore themes of biodiversity, transformation, and sensorial experience. Considering fabric’s foundational role in painting, she works with materials expansively, combining strategies drawn from painting alongside various textile traditions. Cahill received her MFA from the University of Cincinnati (2004) and a BFA from Syracuse University (1998). Most recently, her work has been included in exhibitions at Secrist|Beach, Hyde Park Art Center, 65GRAND, and Epiphany Center for the Arts (Chicago, IL). She has been awarded residencies throughout the United States and Canada at Ragdale (Lake Forest, IL), Chicago Artists Coalition (Chicago, IL), Vermont Studio Center (Johnson, VT), Banff Centre (Banff, Canada), and Ox-Bow (Saugatuck, MI), among others. Her work has been featured in several publications, including LUXE Interiors + Design, New American Paintings, Chicago Tribune, and Inside\Within. #stillinspired #visualartist #danceperformance taken in Ruth Page Center for the Arts by @hollyacahill
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I’m thrilled to have work included in Holding Multitudes, now on view at the Thelma Sadoff Center for the Arts in Fond du Lac, WI, opening this Friday, Sept. 25, 2026, from 5:30-7:30 p.m. Holding Multitudes brings together the work of 11 artists from Praxis: a collective cohort formed to support, challenge, and share an understanding of the creative studio practices of its members. I feel very fortunate to be part of this remarkable group of women from Chicago and beyond, including..! Lois Bielefeld Holly Cahill Vanessa Filley Tanya Gill Rita Grendze Tulika Ladsariya Katherine Lampert Jill Lanza Jennifer Mannebach Yoonshin Park Marzena Ziejka From the curatorial statement: “Working across a wide range of mediums, we explore ideas that extend beyond technique and material. Our work touches on domestic labor, ritual, ecology, memory, vulnerability, and perseverance. While each artist here approaches these subjects differently, connections emerge through the ways they collect, repeat, transform, repair, and tend to materials.” The exhibition is curated by Tanya Gill and Rita Grendze, with Lois Bielefeld as our project lead and many others pitching in to help along the way. All the photo documentation here was done by Lois Bielefeld. If you’re in Wisconsin or traveling there soon, I hope you stop by. The exhibition will be on view until October 29th. taken in Thelma Sadoff Center for the Arts by @hollyacahill
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It's an honor to have my work featured in the latest New American Paintings issue of Midwestern artists juried by Stephanie Fox Knappe PhD, the Sanders Sosland Senior Curator of Global Modern and Contemporary Art and Head of American Art at The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City, MO, among so many wonderful artists. In Fox Knappe's introductory comments she writes, "Whether geographical, psychological, liminal, or completely fantastical, place in the paintings on the pages that follow informs narrative and shapes identity. It underpins abstraction; it evokes the familiar, invites us into, or conjures, the strange, and holds us at a distance. It signals personal, cultural, and sociopolitical meaning, holding memories and offering portals of possibility." Thank you, Stephanie Fox Knappe and @newamericanpaintings. Cover art is by Song Watkins Park. Photos by @tomvaneynde. by @hollyacahill
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➡️ 📸 @rhyssteelephoto Dance Artists: @alexthebell, @markanthony_428, @megan.hansen, @abigail_stack, @lauren.a.reed, @tianasthompson Choreography: @bphare Visual artist inspiration: @hollyacahill and her work titled “Elemental Interplay” (slide 1) Lighting design: @ringindanose From our 12th annual production titled OLD. LONG. SINCE @ruthpagecenter #stillinspired #inspiration #dance #visualart #dancephotography taken in Ruth Page Center for the Arts by @hollyacahill
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➡️ 📸 @rhyssteelephoto Dance Artists: @lauren.a.reed, @abigail_stack Choreography: @lauren.a.reed & @abigail_stack Visual artist inspiration: @hollyacahill and her work titled Book of Marigold (slide 2) Lighting design: @ringindanose From our 12th annual production titled OLD. LONG. SINCE @ruthpagecenter #stillinspired #inspiration #dance #visualart #dancephotography taken in Ruth Page Center for the Arts by @hollyacahill
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6 months ago
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➡️ 📸 @rhyssteelephoto Dance Artists: @megan.hansen , @tianasthompson Choreography: @bphare Visual artist inspiration: @hollyacahill and her work titled Clay Courts (slide 1) Lighting design: @ringindanose From our 12th annual production titled OLD. LONG. SINCE @ruthpagecenter #stillinspired #inspiration #dance #visualart #dancephotography taken in Ruth Page Center for the Arts by @hollyacahill
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📸 @rhyssteelephoto Dance Artists: @alexthebell, @markanthony_428, @megan.hansen, @lauren.a.reed, @abigail_stack, @tianasthompson Choreography: @thurston.laura @laura.thurston.pro Visual artist inspiration: @hollyacahill and her work titled Garden Gallery ➡️ Lighting design: @ringindanose From our 12th annual production titled OLD. LONG. SINCE @ruthpagecenter #stillinspired #inspiration #dance #visualart #dancephotography taken in Ruth Page Center for the Arts by @hollyacahill
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Join us for the final week of Debra Kayes: I seem to be a verb. Gallery hours: Saturday, April 18, 12-4 pm Exhibition Walk-Through / Cardboard Painting Workshop: 2-3 PM Debra Kayes and Holly Cahill will discuss Debra's influences, process, and the background on the exhibition. Following the conversation in the gallery, there will be a cardboard art-making workshop for participants to create your own works. All are welcome! Feel free to bring any additional materials since supplies will be limited. @debrakayes @hollyacahill @tsa_chi @manacontemporary_chicago #tigerstrikesasteroidchicago #tigerstrkesasteroid #iseemtobeaverb taken in Tiger Strikes Asteroid Chicago by @hollyacahill
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📸 @rhyssteelephoto Dance Artists: @alexthebell & @tianasthompson Choreography: @bphare Visual artist inspiration: @hollyacahill and her work titled Torch Mountain ➡️ Lighting design: @ringindanose From our 12th annual production titled OLD. LONG. SINCE @ruthpagecenter #stillinspired #inspiration #dance #visualart #dancephotography taken in Ruth Page Center for the Arts by @hollyacahill
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“Study of Thorns (enclosing)” by Chicago visual artist @hollyacahill ✨ Performance photo inspired by this work captured by @rhyssteelephoto at @ruthpagecenter This past weekend for the premiere of OLD. LONG. SINCE.✨ Choreographed and performed by: @markanthony_428 @megan.hansen @lauren.a.reed @abigail_stack @tianasthompson with direction by @thurston.laura @laura.thurston.pro #stillinspired #season12 #inspired #liveperformance #visualart taken in Ruth Page Center for the Arts by @hollyacahill
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We’re ready! 2 beautiful dress rehearsals today. We cannot wait to see you this weekend ✨ Link in bio for tickets to OLD. LONG. SINCE premiering this Friday and Saturday at @ruthpagecenter #stillinspired #chidance #visualart #liveperformance #dance taken in Ruth Page Center for the Arts by @hollyacahill
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7 months ago
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You may have noticed that my feed is full of dancers lately! Something truly remarkable is happening this Friday and Saturday evening at 7 PM at the Ruth Page Center for the Performing Arts in downtown Chicago. A dance performance created by Still Inspired drawing inspiration from my practice will be happening with an incredible team of choreographers, Brain Hare and Laura Thurston, and a group of fantastic dancers: Alex Bellocq, Mark Gonzalez, Megan Hansen, Lauren Reed, Abigail Stachnik, and Tiana Thompson. This dance performance, OLD LONG. SINCE., draws from an ever evolving body of my work that spans back to 2011 and traces many events in my life and practice. At a time when the arts are facing so many challenges, to experience this type of gesture, reaching across disciplines and uplifting artists in the process is truly moving. I hope you can join us for what I know will be a wonderful performance! 📸Pictured here are choreographers Laura Thurston and Brian Hare of Still Inspired in the months leading up to this weekend on a site visit to the theatre. @still.inspired @laura.thurston.pro @bphare @alexthebell @markanthony_428 @megan.hansen @lauren.a.reed @abigail_stack @tianasthompson #stillinspired taken in Ruth Page Center for the Arts by @hollyacahill
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