Bootsy Holler is an intuitive artist who has worked in photography for 27 years. She is best known for her work as a portraitist, beginning with intimate depictions of herself and her friends at the center of Seattle's pivotal music scene during the early 1990s. These formative years working both ends of the lens cemented her style and methodology. Her journalistic approach informed her work as she segued into a thriving commercial and editorial practice while at the same time always creating art. Her art revolves around family, memory, emotions, eco-feminism, and giving feelings to the inanimate.
Holler currently lives and works in Los Angeles, CA. She has been recognized by the Society of Photographic Journalism and selected for Critical Mass Top 50. Her art images have appeared in publications like VOGUE, House and Garden, NPR, Lenscratch, PDN, Lucky, and Chinese Photographer Magazine. Her seminal work is in the permanent collection of the Grammy Museum. Recently she showed work at The Foley Gallery NYC, and in 2020 she was invited to exhibit at the Shanghai International Photo Festival. She has hung art at Fotofever, Paris, The Griffin Museum of Photography, the California Museum of Photography, and The Center for Fine Art Photography. She was recently awarded Best-of-Show at the Center for Photographic Art in Carmel, California. In 2019 she published her second monograph, TREASURES: objects I've known all my life, and is working on a new book.
