Jake Holler is a multidisciplinary artist from Columbus, Ohio. His practices interweave oral histories, duration of time, screen printing, graphic design, existentialism, history, social justice, performance and film. He received his BFA in 2012 from Columbus College of Art and Design with a focus in art history and traditional oil painting techniques. As a part time job, Jake works as an Art Handler, but after hours he can be found nesting in his studio space at Corrugate Collective, located on 5th Ave.
Jake is invested in artist-driven arts spaces. In 2014, he and close friends founded MINT Collective. Mint Collective shut its doors in 2017, but it still exists as a mobile arts collective which works collaboratively with similar-minded spaces to disrupt conventional normatively through arts discourse. He moved to Corrugate Contemporary in 2017, using his skills as an art handler to improve the gallery, and program art shows.
Jake’s paintings can be seen at the upscale boutiques, Kiln, and The Sunroom. His newest work, Blue Chair: Furniture paintings for furnished houses has been on display at Kiln since early April. When he has free time, it goes to skateboarding, which he has been doing since the 7th grade, and going on long walks around Wayne County with his best bud, Gertrude, his wrinkly old Boston Terrier.
In 2016 and 2017 he was awarded resource grants through GCAC for his project, PZPS (Public Zoning Public Space), and Blue Chair: furniture paintings for furnished houses.