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Painter and Printmaker - Born 1944

Joseph Holston's cubist abstractionist style has evolved over a fine arts career spanning nearly thirty years. He is a critically acclaimed artist who has exhibited at numerous museums and institutions including:

• Butler Institute of American Art in Youngstown, Ohio
  
• Smithsonian Institution's Anacostia Museum, Washington, D.C.
• Fort Worth Museum of Fine Art, Texas
• Afro-American Museum, Philadelphia
• King-Tisdell Cottage Museum, Savanna
• Arts Program Gallery a the University of Maryland
• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
• Delaware State University
• APEX Museum, Atlanta, Georgia
• Visual Arts Center of Northwest Florida
• DuSable Museum, Chicago

His work was also included in the exhibition "American Painters in Paris" and the Department of State's "Art in Embassies" program.

He has exhibited and been a guest lecturer at:

• University of Maryland
• University of Dar es Salaam
• Howard University
• Delaware State University
• Bowling Green State University
• Villa Julie College
• Visual Arts Center of N.W. Florida

His work has been commissioned by the:

• AFL-CIO
• Miller Brewing Company
• National Urban Coalition
• National Medical Association
• Gallo Winery
• Washington Urban League

Holson was selected to be the official artist of the Chicago Jazz Festival in 1996 and 1997.

Works by Joseph Holston are included in numerous museum, institution and private collections. Among these are:

• the permanent collection of the Rhode Island School of Design Museum
• Banneker-Douglass Museum, Annapolis, Maryland
• King-Tisdell Cottage Museum, Savannah, Georgia
• Lyndom B. Johnson Library at the University of Texas
• Depauw University
• Howard University
• University of Maryland
• University of Vermont
• AFL-CIO, Washington, DC
• Montgovery County, Maryland
• Hubert H. Humphrey Collection
• Evans-Tibbs Collection
• Donald Byrd Collection