Holland Houdek's work focuses on medical implants, the body, and embodied experience.
Her work has been exhibited at the Museum of Modern Arts and Design (MAD) in New York, the Fuller Craft Museum, and many other museums and galleries throughout the world — in Austria, Canada, Chile, China, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Lithuania, Mexico, Morocco, Poland, Romania, Russia, South Korea, Spain, Switzerland, and Taiwan.
Her work has been published in Metalsmith Magazine, American Craft, the AMA Journal of Ethics, two Lark Books' 500 Series, On Body and Soul: Contemporary Armor to Amulets, SNAG's A Body Adorned, Contemporary Jewelry in China, CAST, and elsewhere.
Houdek was a finalist for the inaugural Burke Prize at MAD and the recipient of the Janet Indick Sculpture Award and Material Hard & Soft's Ray & Georgia Gough Grand Juror Award. She was also a 2016 Niche Awards Winner and a 2015 Taiwan International Metal Crafts Competition Finalist, and she holds numerous Best in Show and other awards of merit. She is a former John Michael Kohler Arts/Industry resident, was the 2014-2015 Visiting Artist-in-Residence at the University of Iowa, and has also participated in artist residencies in Morocco and Berlin.
Working closely with the medical industry, Houdek has formed professional partnerships with the American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons, MedWish International, Cleveland Clinic, and others.
She holds an MFA from Syracuse University and a BFA from the University of Wisconsin-Stout.
Full portfolio: hollandhoudek.com