Holly King (born 1957) is a Canadian artist based in Montreal,[1] known for her photographs of constructed landscapes.
[4] For thirty years, Holly King has been making meticulously staged images from miniature theaters, groups of small sculptures composed of plants in the foreground, paintings as a backdrop and cleverly reflected lighting, to give rise, once photographed, to large-scale landscapes through which King hopes to reveal the beautiful and sublime.
She then studied visual arts and modern dance at York University, completing her MFA in 1981.
[7] In 2016, Linda Jansma curated a travelling mid-career retrospective of her work for the Robert McLaughlin Gallery in Oshawa, Ontario, titled Holly King: Edging Towards the Mysterious.
[5] Her work is included in the collections of the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec,[1] the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts[8] the Robert McLaughlin Gallery,[9] Concordia University,[10] and the National Gallery of Canada[11]