Clive Holden is a Canadian new media[1] artist, filmmaker[2] and poet[3] from Victoria, British Columbia, he is currently living in Stratford, Ontario with his wife, writer Alissa York.

In the inaugural exhibition in 2013 of UNAMERICAN UNFAMOUS[4] at the Ryerson Image Centre, Holden worked with archival photographs and snap shots submitted by the public via social media, along with pulsating film leader loops in a large-scale wall composition.

[8] In it is included the haunting short, 18000 Dead in Gordon Head,[9] in which Holden recalls the shooting of a young girl in that part of Victoria.

[citation needed] The 18,000 in the title refers to the average number of murders a television viewer has seen by the time they reach the age of sixteen years.

[citation needed] Currently he is working on his project Utopia Suite,[10] launched at the Holland Festival in Amsterdam (2006),[11] investigating into 21st-century views on utopianism.