Holly Crawford, Ph.D. is an artist, art historian, behavioral scientist and economist. Her art and poetry (www.art-poetry.info) give new meanings and draws categories themselves into question through transformative juxtapositions. Installations, interventions and performances include Critical Conversations in a Limo, Outsourced Critics, Open Adoption for Art, May I have your autograph? Hospitality Suite, Tracking, 13 Ways of Looking at a Blackbird, Offerings, Punctuation Performance, The Dinner Party, The Road: The Century Freeway, Offerings, Water!, Water$ Water?, Voice Over exhibitions of her paintings, drawings and monotypes.  Her projects comment on social political and economic behavior. 

She has performed, installed and exhibited international: Ars Electronica, Tate Modern, Beyond Baroque, The Armory Art Fair, PhotoNY, Photo San Francisco, Artist Residency Polish National Sculpture Garden,   Melbourne International Arts Festival, Riverside Art Museum, Downey Art Museum, Torrance Art Museum; Stanford Law School; U.S. Consulate Art Gallery, Florence; the Lab at the Roger Smith Hotel (NYC); Lab (San Francisco); and many other galleries and non-profit spaces. 

Publications include: Attached to the Mouse, Disney & Contemporary Art, 2006; Artistic Bedfellows, Histories, Theories and Conversations in Collaborative Art Practices editor 2008, and catalogue essay, “Disney and Pop” in Once Upon a Time Walt Disney Studio, 2006 and essay Who Can Play?, in Popular Culture Values and the Arts, ed. Ray B. Browne and  Lawrence A. Kreiser, Jr.

She is the Director and Founder of AC Institute www.artcurrents.org  which has spaces in Chelsea area of NYC. It is non-profit, 501 (c) 3   for   research, exhibition and documentation of  contemporary art. She was a Fellow in Art Education at the New Museum in 2003. She taught contemporary art issues in the UCLA art department and a new media course SVA. Her Ph.D. is in Art History and Theory from the University of Essex. B.A  and M.A. in Economics and M.S. in Behavioral Science from UCLA School of Public Health.  From 2004-2006, she was a non-clinical Fellow at NYU Medical School Psychoanalytic Center.  She was born in California and now resides in the New York.