b. 1972
Since graduating from the Fine Arts program at Waterloo University in 1995 Dana Holst has exhibited widely across Canada both in group and solo exhibitions. Over the last ten years she has received funding from The Canada Council for the Art, The Ontario Arts Council and The Alberta Foundation for the Arts. She has also won awards such as The Best in Show Award at the Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition. Her artwork can be found in many public and private collections in Alberta and Ontario, including The Alberta Foundation for the Arts and the Canada Council Art Bank.

Dana Holst lives and works in Edmonton, Alberta.

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2009 Prey, Latitude 53, Edmonton Alberta

2006 Woebegone Katharine Mulherin Contemporary Art Projects, Toronto Ontario
Pounding Galerie St. Laurent + Hill, Ottawa Ontario

2004 Dancing Girls, Act I Galerie St. Laurent + Hill, Ottawa Ontario
Dancing Girls, Act II Katharine Mulherin Contemporary Art Projects, Toronto Ontario

2003 Dolly Vanderleelie Gallery , Edmonton Alberta

2002 Baby Doll Project Katharine Mulherin Gallery, Toronto Ontario
Baby Doll Project Galerie St. Laurent + Hill, Ottawa Ontario

2000 Showdown Galerie St. Laurent + Hill, Ottawa Ontario

1999 Wrestle The Angell Gallery, Toronto Ontario
Boudoir OS Gallery (Open Studio), Toronto Ontario
Suite Ecstasy / Suite Bliss The Red Head Showcase, Toronto Ontario

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2007 Beastie with Angela Grossmann, Galerie St. Laurent + Hill, Ottawa

2005 Spider Girls Scope - New York, Alternative Art Fair, NYC
Figures IV Galerie St. Laurent + Hill, Ottawa Ontario

2003 Group Exhibition Galerie St. Laurent + Hill Group Exhibition
Heat Katharine Mulherin Gallery, Toronto Ontario

2001 Girl’s Own Hamilton Artists' Inc., with Bonnie Lewis & Eliza Griffiths, Hamilton Ontario
Waiting for your Tongue James Baird Gallery, St. John's, NF
Interrupted Viewing University of Waterloo Art Gallery, with Darlene Cole curated by
Carole Podedworny, Waterloo Ontario

2000 Loaded The Angell Gallery, Toronto Ontario
Intersections - Montreal/Toronto, curated by Francine Paul & Herb Sigman

1999 Gallery 96 Retrospective Gallery Stratford, curated by Sandra Margolian, Stratford, Ontario
Works on Paper Third Avenue Gallery, Vancouver BC
Fresh The Angell Gallery, curated by Jessica Wyman, Paintings, Toronto Ontario
4 days at the white house 11 Jersey Avenue, curated by Eileen Sommerman, Toronto, Ontario

1998 Lucky The Angell Gallery, with Chantal Rousseau, Paintings, Toronto Ontario
Social Secrets Gallery 96, Stratford Ontario
Social Secrets Meg Gallery, curated by Dana Holst and Judith Mullett, Toronto Ontario