Holly Hudson was born in Southeast Alaska in 1975. Birthed into a family of artists on the edge of the Tongass National Rainforest, tide pools and mossy trees were her steadfast playmates. At a young age, she could be found studying her parent’s art collection, transfixed by both classical paintings as well as the bold black formlines in the art of the Tlingit tribe. Some of her earliest memories consist of local Tlingit creation myths of shape-shifting entities that could be animal, plant, or human at will. This early exposure to various art forms and cultures served as a foundation for her curiosity of the world.

She received her bachelors in Fine Art at Western Washington University in1999 then studied from 2002-2005 at the Aristides Classical Atelier in Seattle, WA. Graduating in 2010 with her MFA from the New York Academy of Art, she was honored to be a Dedalus Foundation nominee and the recipient of the Parson’s School of Design Artist Residency in the Dominican Republic.

In 2012 she returned to the Pacific Northwest and her love of nature and the stories of her youth were reignited. Hudson began piecing together her own creatures and landscapes that explore the human need for myth making and examine humanity’s interrelatedness and dependence on the natural world.

Hudson has exhibited work nationally and internationally at such venues as The Museum of Northwest Art, The Seattle Art Fair, AMcE Creative Projects, and Smith and Vallee Gallery. She lives and works in Bellingham, WA.