| Born | 1951, Boulder, CO |
| EDUCATION | |
| 1981 | MFA Arizona State University, Phoenix, AZ |
| 1973 | BA (Special Distinction), University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM |
| 1971-72 | University of New Mexico at Quito, Ecuador |
| 1971 | Bellas Artes De Mexico, San Miguel de Allende, Mexico |
| SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS | |
| 2014 | "Cabezas y Caballos", Craig Krull Gallery, Santa Monica, CA |
| 2013 | Museo de Arte Contemparaneo de Oaxaca, Oaxaca, Mexico |
| "As the Crow Flies", Catherine Edelman Gallery, Chicago, IL | |
| Etherton Gallery, Tuscon, AZ | Morpeth Gallery, Hopewell, NJ |
| Donkey Mill Gallery, Kona, HI | |
| 2012 | "Unusual Suspects: Paint and Photographs by Holly Roberts", Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, CA |
| Zane Bennett Gallery, Santa Fe, NM | |
| 2009 | Zane Bennett Gallery, Santa Fe, NM |
| Etherton Gallery, Tucson, AZ | |
| 2008 | Catherine Edelman, Chicago, IL |
| 2006 | "Transpositions: Paint and Photocollage", The Parks Gallery, Taos, NM |
| 2005 | Etherton Gallery, Tucson, AZ |
| 2001 | University of West Florida, Pensacola, FL |
| Catherine Edelman Gallery, Chicago, IL | |
| LawAllen Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM | |
| Robert Koch Gallery, San Francisco, CA | |
| Soho Photo Gallery, New York City, NY | |
| Galerie Peter Borchardt, Hamburg, Germany | |
| 2000 | "Robert C. May Photography Endowment Lecture Series", University of Kentucky Art Museum, Lexington, KY |
| 1999 | University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY |
| 1997 | Gibson Gallery, Seattle, WA |
| Pulliam Deffenbaugh Gallery, Portland, OR | |
| 1995 | Film and Photography Gallery, Hampshire College, Amherst, MA |
| Ehlers/Caudill Gallery, Chicago, IL | |
| 1994 | Roger Williams University, School of Architecture Gallery, Bristol, RI |
| 1993 | Center for Photographic Art, Carmel, CA |
| "Holly Roberts: New Work", Mesa College Art Gallery, San Diego, CA | |
| 1992 | Presentation House Gallery, Presentation House, North Vancouver, B.C., Canada |
| Gallery 210, University of Missouri, St. Louis, MO | |
| 1991 | Joe and Emily Lowe Art Gallery, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY |
| Benteler-Morgan Gallery, Houston, TX | |
| Jayne H. Baum Gallery, New York City, NY | |
| 1990 | Friends of Photography, San Francisco, CA |
| Photographic Resource Center, Boston University, Boston, MA | |
| 1989 | Jayne H. Baum Gallery, New York, NY |
| Ehlers/Caudill Gallery, Chicago, IL | |
| 1988 | "Holly Roberts: Animals", Film in the Cities, St. Paul, MN |
| 1986 | Northlight Gallery, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ |
| 1985 | Marcuse Pfeifer Gallery, New York City, NY |
| Northern Montana Gallery, Nothern Montana College, Havre, MY | |
| Southern Light Gallery, Amarillo College, Amarillo, TX | |
| 1984 | ASMSU Exhibit Gallery, Northern Montana State University, Bozeman, MT |
| 1983-84 | "Paintings by Holly Roberts", Arizona Commission on the Arts Traveling Exhibition Program |
| 1981 | "Holly Roberts- Painted Photos", University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI |
| SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS | |
| 2012 | "Exploring Photographic Alternatives: Diane Bush, Darius Kuzmickas, and Holly Roberts", The Barrick Museum at UNLV, Las Vegas, NV |
| "Under Thirty-Five/Glass, Prints, Painting, Sculpture", ZaneBennett Contemporary Art, Santa Fe, NM | |
| "Studio Practice", Penland Gallery, Penland School of Crafts, Penland, NC | |
| 2011 | "Painting Coast to Coast", Elaine Jacobs Gallery, Wayne State University, Detroit, MY |
| "Time Lapse: 4 Decades of Art", Sesnon Gallery's 40th Anniversary Exhibit, Mary Porter Sesnon Art Gallery, University of California at Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA | |
| 2009 | "Albuquerque Now", Museum of Albuquerque, Albuquerque, NM |
| 2008 | "Photography: New Mexico", University of New Mexico Art Museum, Albuquerque, NM |
| 2004 | "Creativity: Beyond the Norm", The Ross Art Museum, Ohio Wesleyan University, Delaware, OH |
| "Modes and Methods: Diversity in Contemporary Art", Amarillo Art Museum, Amarillo, TX | |
| "Idea Photographic: After Modernism", Museum of fine Arts, Santa Fe, NM | |
| "Painted Psychologies", Mary Porter Sesnon Art Gallery, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA | |
| 2001 | "2 x 2", Kunsthalle Dominikanerkiche, Osnabruck, Germany |
| 2000 | "Mosaic: Culture and Identity in America", Hampton University Museum, Hampton, VA |
| 1997-98 | "Developing a Collection: The Ralph M. Parsons Foundation and the Art of Photography", Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA |
| "O'Keeffe's New Mexico", Museum of fine Arts, Santa Fe, NM | |
| 1997 | "The Painted Photograph: Hand Colored Photography, 1839 to the Present", The University of Wyoming Art Museum, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY |
| "Defining Eye: Woman Photographers of the Twentieth Century, St. Louis ARt Museum, St. Louis, MO | |
| 1996 | "Painted and Constructed", Atrium Gallery, School of Fine Arts, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT |
| "Animal Magentism", The University Galleries, College of Fine Arts, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL | |
| "Southwest '96", Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe, NM (Award of Merit) | |
| 1995 | "Art on Paper", Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Greensboro, NC |
| "Woman in Photography", Spectrum Gallery, Light Impressions, Rochester, NY | |
| "The Horse: Photographic Images, 1839 to the Present", University of Wyoming Art Museum, Laramie, WY | |
| 1994 | "4 x 4: Late Modern; Photography Between the Edges", Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe, NM |
| 1993 | "Beyond Boundaries", The Light Factory, Charlotte, NC |
| "Diverse Directions", Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, Tx | |
| 1992 | "New Acquisitions/New Work/New Directions", Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA |
| "American Art Today: Surface Tension", The Art Museum, Florida International University, Miami, FL | |
| 1991 | "La Photographie en Miettes", Musee National D'Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris |
| "Photographs from the David C. and Sarajean Ruttenberg Collection", Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL | |
| "At One/At War with Nature", Pratt-Manhattan Gallery, New York, NY | |
| "Gilding the Lilly: An Exhibition of Hand Altered Photography", Olin Art Gallery, Kenyon College, Gambler, OH | |
| "Spirit of Self: Four Women Photographers", Fine Arts Gallery, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN | |
| "A Portrait is Not a Likeness", Center for Creative Photography, Tucson, AZ | |
| 1990 | "Northwest by Southwest: Painted Fictions", Palm Springs Desert Museum, Palm Springs, CA |
| "Photographs as Support", Graham Modern, New York City, NY | |
| "Fictive Strategies: Actuality and Originality in Contemporary Photography", The Friends of Photography, San Francisco, CA | |
| "Surface Appearances: The Painted Photograph", John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI | |
| 1988 | "Transform: Judith Golden and Holly Roberts", Museum of Contemporary Photography, Columbia College, Chicago, IL |
| 1987 | "Introductions; Extended Images", Museum of Photographic Art, San Diego, CA |
| "Photography and Art; Interactions Since 1946", Los Angeles Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA | |
| "Crosscurrents II: Recent Additions to the Collection", San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA | |
| "Empowered Paintings", Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe, NM | |
| 1985 | "The Colored Image: Applied Color in Photography", The Friends of Photography, Carmel, CA |
| "Lynda Frese, Gloria De Filipps Brush and Holly Roberts", Southwest Texas State University, San Marcos, TX | |
| 1984 | "The One and the Only: Unique Photographs Since the Daguerrotype", Laurence Miller Gallery, New York, NY/td> |
| "Painted Photographs", Marcuse Pfeifer Gallery, New York, NY | |
| "Alternative Image II", John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI | |
| "Gender Construction", Ithaca College, Ithaca, NY | |
| "Contemporary Work in Pastel", Pheonix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ | |
| "Certain Realities", University Art Museum, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM | |
| "Ten in New Mexico", Houston Center for Photography, Houston, TX | |
| 1982 | "Earth, Clay and Stone: A Photographer's View of the Architecture of the Southwest", Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ |
| "Holly Roberts-Luis Tomas Estrada", American Consulate General, Hermosillo, Mexico | |
| "1982 Alternatives", Ohio University School of Art, Athens, OH (Purchase Award) | |
| SELECTED PUBLIC AND CORPORATE COLLECTIONS | |
| Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, FL | |
| Norton Museum, West Palm Beach, FL | |
| Richard M. Ross Art Museum, Ohio Wesleyan University, Delaware, OH | |
| Special Collections, Green Library, Stanford University, Stanford, CA | |
| Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL | |
| Museum of Photographic Art, San Diego, CA | |
| University of Arizona, Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ | |
| Phoenix Museum of Art, Phoenix, AZ | |
| Museum of Art, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA | |
| University Art Museum, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM | |
| Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts, University of California, Los Angeles, CA | |
| Trisolini Collection, College of Fine Arts, Ohio University, Athens, OH | |
| Tulsa City-County Library Collection, Tulsa, OK | |
| Prudential Insurance | |
| University of Houston, Print Study Collection, Houston, TX | |
| Valley National Bank, Phoenix, AZ | |
| Citicorp Bank, Albuquerque, NM | |
| Center for Creative Photography, Tucson, AZ | |
| Dayton Hudson Corporation, Minneapolis, NM | |
| San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA | |
| Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe, NM | |
| Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX | |
| University of Kentucky Art Museum, Lexington, KY | |
| Phoenix Arts Commission | |
| Albuquerque Museum of Art, Albuquerque, NM | |
| Albuquerque International Airport, Albuquerque, NM | |
| Monterey Peninsula Museum of Art, Monterey, CA | |
| Hallmark Collection of Art, Kansas City, MO | |
| California Museum of Photography, University of California, Riverside, CA | |
| Los Angeles Musuem of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA | |
| Bayly Museum of Art, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA | |
| University of Wyoming Art Museum, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY | |
| University of California at Santa Cruz, Special Collections, Santa Cruz, CA | |
| University of West Florida Art Museum, Pensacola, FL | |
| Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL | |
