Lonnie Holley

Known for his improvisational approach to music and art, Holley moves fluidly between song, spoken word, storytelling, and performance. His music draws from a lifetime of experience, observation, and making, transforming memory and history into something immediate, searching, and alive.

Holley has released six critically acclaimed albums, including Just Before Music (2012); Keeping a Record of It (2013); MITH (2018); National Freedom (2020); and Broken Mirror: A Selfie Reflection (with Matthew E. White) (2021). His sixth album, Oh Me Oh My — produced by Jacknife Lee, which includes collaborations with Bon Iver, Michael Stipe (REM), Moor Mother, Sharon Van Etten, and Rokia Koné — came out in 2023 on Jagjaguwar.

He has toured extensively throughout the United States, Europe, Brazil, Australia, and New Zealand, and shared stages with Bon Iver, Animal Collective, Deerhunter, Bill Callahan, Saul Williams, Tinariwen, Daniel Lanois, and many others.

Holley’s work is rooted in an expansive creative practice that encompasses sculpture, drawing, painting, photography, film, music, and performance. Across these forms, he finds possibility in the overlooked and discarded, inviting us to see the world — and ourselves — with renewed attention and imagination.

This special performance at ArtYard takes place one week before the opening of , Holley’s upcoming exhibition, and follows his August residency at ArtYard.

About ArtYard

ArtYard is an incubator for creative expression and a catalyst for collaborations that reveal the transformational power of art. We are an interdisciplinary alternative contemporary art center comprised of an exhibition space, theater, and residency program, dedicated to presenting transformative artwork, fostering unexpected collaborations, and incubating original new work.

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