SD Holman is an award-winning, queer dyslexic Pagan Jewish Artist and curator born in Hollywood, California. Holman is a graduate of ECUAD Vancouver Canada; laureate of the YWCA Women of

Distinction Award; and Founding Artistic Director Emeritus of the multidisciplinary QAF+SUM gallery. Holman has been described as “visionary” by curator/scholar Jonathan Katz.

Self-defining as a participant-observer, Holman uses a subjective conceptual documentary practice. (Basically this means I take pictures of what I am, what I know, my communities; and in no way do I pretend to be an objective observer.) Holman’s approach to photography is conflicted and perverse. Holman’s work deals in paradox: the cognitive dissonance between estrangement and recognition, aversion and attraction, harshness and beauty, bravura and restraint, outrageousness and subtlety, expressionism and classicism.

Holman embraces Indeterminacy to open the artistic practice to the random and to radically break from tradition, convention, and habit. As John Cage said, “Indeterminacy in art is made not as an attempt to bring order out of chaos nor to suggest improvements in creation, but simply a way of waking up to the very life we’re living.” (This is talking about chance elements; that I approach the technical media of photography with gesture in a more painterly way and purposefully allow the unexpected to slip in rather than control every minute detail.)

Holman’s work has exhibited internationally including at Wellesley College, Amherst College, CLGA ArQuives (Toronto), the Advocate Gallery (Los Angeles), the Soady-Campbell Gallery (New York), the San Francisco Public Library, On Main Gallery, The Helen Pitt International Gallery, Charles H. Scott, Exposure, Gallery Gachet, the Roundhouse, Vancouver East Cultural Centre, Artropolis, and Fotobase Galleries (Vancouver).

Holman’s portrait project BUTCH: Not like the other girls toured North America and is in its second print edition, published by Caitlin Press, Dagger Editions. Studio Q, Holman’s notorious DTES Art Salon in Vancouver's Chinatown, was featured in Secrets of the City (1st edition). Holman is Artist and Artistic Director of The Shooting gallery.