Holland Hopson
Assistant Professor, Arts Entrepreneurship
- (205) 348-1282
- hghopson@ua.edu
- Lloyd Hall 206
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- Curriculum Vitae
Education
- MFA, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 1998
- BA, Birmingham-Southern College, 1993
About
Holland Hopson is a sound and media artist, composer and improviser. A multi-instrumentalist, he usually performs on clawhammer banjo and electronics. Holland often augments his instruments with custom-designed sensor interfaces and performs with his own highly responsive, interactive computer programs. Holland has performed in Australia, Europe and North America along with notable experimental and outsider musicians such as MacArthur Genius Grant winners Anthony Braxton and George Lewis, live electronics pioneer David Behrman, sonic meditator Pauline Oliveros, mutantrumpeter Ben Neill, network music trailblazer Tim Perkis, free-improv innovators LaDonna Smith and Davey Williams, and others. Holland has held residencies at the Atlantic Center for the Arts, Florida; at LEMURPlex, Brooklyn, N.Y.; and Harvestworks Digital Media Arts, New York. Holland is also assistant professor of arts entrepreneurship in New College and a Fellow of the Collaborative Arts Research Initiative (CARI) at UA.
Exhibitions
2021
Art Now America: National Juried Exhibition, Slocumb Galleries of East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, Tenn.
Reality Shift, a Mid-America College Art Association (MACAA)
2019
An Idea of Order, St. Louis Artists’ Guild, St. Louis, Missouri
2019 Biennial Faculty Exhibition, Sarah Moody Gallery of Art, Tuscaloosa, Ala.
News
Sound Artist’s Visual Work Selected for National Exhibitions