About
Kyle Holland’s work bridges visual art, book arts, and critical explorations of identity through material practice. A visual artist, Holland’s work affirms and embraces diverse expressions of masculinity, engaging ideologies that stand in opposition to hegemonic masculine social structures and conditions.
Holland has been an artist in residence through the Scholarship for Advanced Studies in Book Arts program at The Center for Book Arts (2012). His work has been featured in numerous curated portfolios, including Negative Space in Handmade Paper: Picturing the Void, published by Hand Papermaking (2014); Surface Tension: The Barren, the Despondent and the Void, organized for the 2018 SGC International conference; and Extra Pulp, a portfolio organized by IS Projects highlighting handmade paper works that treat paper itself as a primary expressive medium (2019).
Impact Beyond the University
Holland’s artistic practice and professional engagement extend to teaching and workshops at institutions and organizations across the country. From 2014 to 2015, he served as an instructor at the Dieu Donné papermill in New York City, where he taught courses in contemporary papermaking. He has also taught workshops at a range of institutions dedicated to book arts and material-based creative practice.
A Commitment to Book Arts Education and Studio Practice
Holland is a senior instructor and studio manager for the MFA Book Arts Program at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa. His previous teaching experience includes serving as adjunct faculty at the Cleveland Institute of Art, lecturer at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, and instructor at the 2019 Wells Book Arts Summer Institute at Wells College in Aurora, New York.
Through teaching, mentorship, and studio leadership, Holland supports students in developing material-based practices that critically engage in identity, craft, and the expressive potential of book arts and papermaking.