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Holly Downing was born in San Francisco in 1948. She studied art at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and the Royal College of Art, London and received a MA in Fine Arts from Goddard College, Program in Europe. She taught art for twenty-eight years at art colleges in the U.K., including Brighton University, and in California at UC Santa Cruz, San Francisco State University and Santa Rosa Jr. College. She is an elected member of the Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers, U.K.


Downing's paintings and mezzotints have been exhibited in solo exhibitions in London, Edinburgh, Manila, Medford, Seattle, San Francisco, Berkeley, San Jose and Santa Rosa, California, and in group exhibitions across the U.S., Canada, Europe, Japan, Korea, Brazil and Kenya. She is a recipient of fellowships and grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Greenshields Foundation, Canada; the Arts Council of Great Britain, the Graham Foundation, Chicago and the San Francisco Phelan Foundation, and is an elected member of the Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers, London.


Her work is in many museum collections including the Victoria and Albert Museum; Ashmoleon Museum, Oxford, U.K.; Scottish National Art Gallery, Edinburgh; Bibliotheque Nationale; Chi-ba Art Museum and Nakasatsunai Art Museum, Japan; Fine Arts Museums, San Francisco; Stanford University Art Museum; Boise Art Museum; Portland Art Museum, Oregon; and the Hawaii Art Museum, Hilo. Downing's mezzotints are included in a number of publications, including The Mezzotint, History and Technique by Carol Wax, 1990; Holly Downing, 25 Years of Mezzotints, catalogue raisonne, 2001; and Printmakers' Secrets edited by Tony Dyson, 2009.