Education
2001
MFA, University at Albany, SUNY
Solo Exhibitions
2013
America-ecstatic, RARE, New York, NY
2011
A Heart’s Hot Shell, RARE, New York, NY
2010
Of Heads & Hands, Sheldon Museum of Art, Lincoln, NE
2009
LMIRL (Let’s Meet In Real Life) Project Room, Lincoln, NE
Portraits. Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts, Nebraska City, NE Takedown. Rourke Art Museum. Moorhead, MN
2008
External Unconscious, RARE, New York, NY
2005
Another Place, A Different Garden, RARE, New York, NY
Group Exhibitions
2015
The Fantasy of Representation, Beers Contemporary, London, UK
Art Seen, Josyln Art Museum, Omaha, NE - curated by Karin Campbell and Bill Arning
2014
Hot Dry Men, Cold Wet Women, Mark Miller Gallery, New York, NY
2013
Family: Jenny Dubnau & Aaron Holz, Fiendish Plots, Lincoln, NE
Summer Chill / MTV Staying Alive, Beers.Lambert, London, UK
50 Gifts for Fifty Years, Sheldon Museum of Art, Lincoln, NE
It Might Get Small, Tugboat Gallery, Lincoln, NE
2012
When We Dead Awaken, Beers.Lambert Contemporary, London, UK The Library Space, Beers.Lambert Contemporary, London, UK
2011
After School Special, Alumni Exhibition curated by Ken Johnson, University Art Museum, Albany, New York
Mail To: Drift Station, Lincoln, Nebraska
What Would Dante Do? Rourke Art Museum, Moorhead, MN
2010
SCOPE Miami, Miami, FL (RARE)
Single Fare, 224 Grand Street, Brooklyn, NY
Instructions for Initial Conditions, Drift Station, Lincoln, Nebraska
2008
Face Forward, LeRoy Neiman Gallery, Columbia University, NY, NY Chariker, Foster, Holz, Mastrangelo, Wright, RHYS Gallery, Boston, MA IAG Exhibit, Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Omaha, NE American Narratives, Sheldon Museum of Art, Lincoln, NE
Publications
Juror's Picks - 100 Painters of Tomorrow, Thames and Hudson Publishing, 2013
Beautiful/Decay, “Family Values: 5 Artists Draw Inspiration from Family,” Kristin Bauer, September 14, 2013
Catalogue, Fifty Gifts for Fifty Years, Sheldon Museum of Art, 2013
New York Sun, “A Heart’s Hot Shell, Aaron Holz at RARE Gallery,” Franklin Einspruch, Oct 4, 2011
Lincoln Journal Star, “‘Of Heads and Hands’ impressive small exhibition,” L. Kent Wolgamott, April 2, 2011
New York Times, “Art of the Metrocard, Unlimited,” Andy Newman, May 5, 2010
Lincoln Journal Star, “Get ready to rumble,” L. Kent Wolgamott, November 7, 2009
New York Arts Magazine, “Body Shots,” Jeff Lutonsky, October / December, 2007
Residencies
2011
Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts, Nebraska City, NE
2008
PV Art Studio, Puerto Vallarta, Mexico
2002
Platte Cove Artists Residency, The Catskill Center, Catskill, NY
Public Collections
The Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, Lincoln, NE
The University Art Museum, State University of New York, Albany
Nebraska Wesleyan University, Lincoln, NE
Minnesota State University, Moorhead, MN
The Rourke Art Museum, Moorhead, MN
Private Collections
Beth Rudin DeWoody, New York, NY
Norman Dubrow, New York, NY
Robert & Karen Duncan, Lincoln, NE
Marc & Kathy LeBaron, Lincoln, NE
Thomas Huerter, Omaha, NE
Guy Roberts, New York, NY
Eva Victoria Wyman, New York, NY
Paul Schacher, New York, NY