National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA
Ringling School of Art and Design, Sarasota, Florida
K.P.M.G. Consulting, Washington D.C.
Eastman Pharmaceuticals, Eastman Kodak, Malvern, PA
University of California, Berkeley
University of Iowa
Yale University
Scripps College, Claremont, CA
University of California, LA
Wesleyan University
Cerritos Library, Cerritos, CA
Phoenix Public Library Rare Book Room
George Mason University, VA
2007, Creative Projects Grant, Arts & Humanities Council of Montgomery County
2004, 1st prize, An Open Book, Gallery West, Cuyahoga Community College, Cleveland, Ohio
2004, Individual Artist Award, Maryland State Arts Council
2003, Equal Merit Award, 6th National Juried Competition, Gallery West, Alexandria, VA
2002, 1st prize, Printmaking in the Mid-Atlantic Region, Art Institute & Gallery, Salisbury, MD
1997, Materials Award, 50th Anniversary North American Print Exhibition: Boston Printmakers
1993, Individual Artist Fellowship, Arts Council of Montgomery County
1989, Juror's choice, 2nd award, Maryland's Best '89, Rockland Arts Center, Ellicott City, MD
1980, 4th prize, Juried show, South County Art Association, Kingston, RI
Interviews with curators of museums and print collections in Washington, D.C., by Shireen Holman, InPrint, Vol. 17, #1, March 2005
"Featured Artist: Calvin Custen" by Shireen
Holman, InPrint, The
Newsletter of the Maryland Printmakers, Vol. 14, #1, March 2003
"Guy Kuhn Fine Art Papers" by Shireen Holman, InPrint, The Newsletter of the Maryland Printmakers, Vol. 12, #3, September 2001
“Border Crossings, The Southern Graphics Council’s
29th Annual Conference” by Shireen Holman, InPrint, The
Newsletter of the Maryland Printmakers, Vol. 12, #2, June 2001
“The [Baren] Internet Woodblock Forum” by Shireen
Holman, InPrint, The Newsletter of the Maryland Printmakers, Vol. 11, #3,
September 2000
“Artists’ Books and the National Gallery: An
Interview with Executive Librarian Neal Turtell” by Shireen Holman, InPrint,
The Newsletter of the Maryland Printmakers, Vol. 11, #1, March 2000
“Prints, Papers, Books, Cultures” by Shireen
Holman, Contemporary Impressions: The Journal of the American Print Alliance
Vol. 7, #2, Fall 1999
Bound & Lettered, Vol. 4, No. 1, 2004
Dogeared Magazine,
April 2001
Art of the Scrapbook: A Guide to Handbinding and
Decorating Memory Books, Albums and Art Journals, by Diane Maurer-Mathison,
Watson-Guptill, 2000
Making Memory Books by Hand, by Kristina
Feliciano, Rockport Publishers Inc., 1999
Featured Artist, InPrint, The Newsletter of the
Maryland Printmakers, Vol. 9, #4, Dec. 1998
“Edges + & Interfaces”
by Carol Pulin, Contemporary Impressions: The Journal of the American
Print Alliance Vol. 4, #1, Spring 1996
“Discovery on the Stream of Life” by Gordon Fluke, Hand Papermaking, Vol. 10,
Number 1, Summer 1995; article on artist's book: Stream
of Life
Collaboration as a Medium: 25 Years of Pyramid Atlantic, 2005
Book Arts 2004, Bright Hill Center, Nancy Callahan, Louise Neaderland, Jurors, 2004
The Boston
Printmakers 2003 North American Print Biennial,
catalogue of exhibit, Clifford S. Ackley, Juror, 2003
Book as Art XIV:
Temptations, catalogue of exhibit, The National Museum of Women in the Arts,
Washington DC, Krystyna Wasserman, Curator, 2002
Hand-Pulled Prints IX, catalogue of exhibit,
Stonemetal Press, San Antonio, Texas, Wayne Kimball, Curator, 2001
Book As Art X,
catalogue of exhibit Book As Art X, The National Museum of Women in the Arts,
Washington DC, Krystyna
Wasserman, Curator, 1998
Pyramid Atlantic: A Study in Collaboration,
catalogue of exhibit, Federal Reserve Building, Washington DC, Mary Anne Goley, Curator, 1998
The Book: Story & Structure, catalogue of
exhibit, Peoria Art Guild, Peoria, IL, and John A. Logan College Museum &
Art Galleries, Carterville, IL, Maryruth Ginn, Curator, 1998
The Boston Printmakers 50th Anniversary
North American Print Exhibition, catalogue of exhibit, Trudy V. Hansen,
Curator, 1997
Book As Art VIII, catalogue of the exhibit Book
As Art VIII, The National Museum of Women in the Arts, April 15 - October
25, 1996, Krystyna Wasserman, Curator
Woman as
Protagonist, catalogue of exhibit, Rosenberg Gallery, Goucher College,
Baltimore, MD, Helen Glazer, Curator, 1992
Peaceworks,
catalogue of exhibit, Boston Visual Artists Union, Sajed Kamal, Curator, 1985
Stepping Stones: Artists' Transitions,
catalogue of exhibit, Boston Visual Artists Union, Paul J. Gonyea, Curator, 198
Excerpt from "Pyramid Atlantic exhibit reads like an open book" by Nancy Ungar, The Gazette, April 18, 2001. Review of exhibit "Books Speak: Out of the Mainstream" at Montgomery College, Takoma Park, Maryland
"Shireen Modak Holman's Memories of My Father is a traditionally shaped book that tells its story largely through the artist's colorful drawings. Opening the book is like opening the door to a middle class living room with a large picture window view of mountains. A very small book hangs by a thread from the top of the picture and contains the larger book's text. It tells us that Holman's father 'immigrated from India to the United States where he spent the last 30 years of his life.' Two pockets in the book and one on the outside of the cover contain folded drawings of the objects that evoke Holman's memories.....Perusing this large, colorful and personal book is like holding Holman's past in our hands.....Some of the work, like Holman's Stream of Life.....recalls 19th and 20th century European books that combined poetry with graphics."
Excerpt from "At Women in the Arts, Books of a Different Feather" by Nicole Lewis, The Washington Post, August 27, 1998. Review of exhibit "Book as Art X" at the National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington D.C.
"Although [Krystyna] Wasserman tries not to repeat artists in her shows, she made an exception this year for Shireen Modak Holman of Montgomery Village. Holman created her book of woodcuts on handmade paper as a homage to her father, who died recently. She combines elements of his life in America and India, including images of his beige couch and a copy of the newspaper India Abroad."
Excerpt from "The Book: Story & Structure" Introduction to catalogue for exhibit "The Book: Story & Structure" by William P. Heidrich, 1997.
"Stream of Life, another work recently published by Pyramid Atlantic, structurally extends well beyond our conventional sense of the book form. Conceived and illustrated by Shireen Holman with poems by Tom Galt, the self-conscious shaping and coloring of the book dramatically enhances our comprehension of the poems themselves. All parts of this work interact to create an experience greater than the individual parts."
Excerpt from "NMWA makes book on women's art" by Nancy Ungar, The Gazette, August 28, 1996. Review of exhibit "Book as Art VIII" at the National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington D.C.
"Shireen Holman....[has] used poetry by others as take-off points for [her] art. Holman's Stream of Life with poetry by her cousin Tom Galt, uses simplified realism and deep, rich colors to reflect the difficult passage from her childhood in [India] to her adulthood in America. The book takes the shape of an Indian houseboat (for the journey of life) and the borders contain the fluid script of [Marathi], the native language of [Maharashtra]."