A native of Los Angeles, artist SD Holman is a photo-based artist, curator and Artistic Director of The Queer Arts Festival (a three-week, multidisciplinary arts festival in Vancouver, Canada). Laureate of the YWCA Women of Distinction Award in Arts and Culture, one of the nation's most prestigious awards, SD Holman defines as a participant observer employing subjective conceptual documentary practice.
Holman has exhibited internationally at venues including Wellesley College (MA), the Advocate Gallery (Los Angeles), the Soady-Campbell Gallery (New York), the San Francisco Public Library, the Canadian Lesbian and Gay Archives (Toronto), the Western Front, the Helen Pitt International Gallery, the Charles H. Scott Gallery, Exposure, Gallery Gatchet, the Vancouver East Cultural Centre, Artopolis, and the Foto Base Gallery (Vancouver). Holman's project Butch: Not Like the Other Girls toured North America in 2014 and is available in book form by Dagger Editions.
