Holly Crawford is cross media artist, behavioral scientist, economist
and art historian. Her art and poetry give new meanings and draws categories themselves into question through transformative
juxtapositions. She examines mass media and pop culture and it's relationship to art. She has exhibited internationally.
13 Ways of Looking at a Blackbird site specific installations in Florence, Valencia, Berlin, London, New York City and Southern
California. Offerings project was a participating .net project at Ars Electronica & Found Punctuation was screened at the
Tate Modern in 2007. Sound Art Limo and Critical Conversations in a Limo were part of Melbourne International Arts Festival
in 2007. She has written and edited books and papers that include: Attached to the Mouse, 2006 and catalogue essay, "Disney
and Pop" in Once Upon a Time Walt Disney Studio; Artistic Bedfellows, edited, 2008. She received her Ph.D. from the University
of Essex in Art History and Theory, B.A and M.A. in Economics and M.S. in Behavioral Science from UCLA. From 2004-2006,
she was a non-clinical Fellow at NYU Medical School Psychoanalytic Center. She has taught at UCLA in the Art Department
and SVA. She founded and is the director of AC Institute, a non-profit space for experimental work in NYC (Chelsea). She
is President of the American Friends of the University of Essex. She was born in California and now lives in New York City.
