joseph holston

Joseph Holton's cubist abstractionist style has evolved over a fine arts career spanning more than twenty-five years. He is a critically acclaimed artist who has exhibited at numerous museums and institutions, including the Smithsonian's Anacostia Museum, Washington, DC; the Fort Worth Museum of Fine Art, Texas; the Afro-American Museum, Philadelphia, PA; The Arts Program Gallery at the University of Maryland; the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; the APEX Museum, Atlanta, Georgia; and the DuSable Museum, Chicago. His work was also included in the exhibition "American Painters in Paris", and the Department of State's "Art in the Embassies" program.

Holston has exhibited and been a guest lecturer at DePauw University, the University of Maryland, and Howard University to name a few. His work has been commissioned by the AFL-CIO, the Miller Brewing Company, the National Urban Coalition, the National Medical Association, Gallo Winery, and the Washington Urban League. Holston was selected to be the official artist of the Chicago Jazz Festival in 1996 and 1997.

Works by Jospeh Holston are included in numerous museum, institution and private collections such as the Lyndon B. Johnson Library at the University of Texas, the Banneker-Douglass Museum in Maryland, the King-Tisdell Cottage Museum, DePauw University, Howard University, Montgomery County, Maryland, the Hubert H. Humphrey Collection, and New York City's Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Holston's works are also owned by many private collectors, including Michael Jordan, Jesse Jackson, Wynton Marsalis, Bryant Gumbel, Michael Jackson, Whitney Houston, Vernon Jordan, Patti Labelle, Angela Bassett, Cicely Tyson, and the President of the National Baseball League, Leonard Coleman to name a few.