Born to Birmingham, Alabama, in 1950, Lonnie Holley lives and works in Atlanta, Georgia. His artistic life is dedicated to the practice of improvisational creativity that embraces painting, sculpture, film, and music. Works made from Holley in 2023 include Souls Grown Deep at the Royal Academy in London and Lonnie Holley: If You Really Knew to North Miami (MOCA). In 2022 he exhibited to Dallas Contemporary and at the National Gallery of Art in Washington DC. In 2021, at The Morgan Library & Museum in New York, and in 2020 at Turner Contemporary in the U.K. and the Philadelphia Museum of Art. In 2018 he exhibited at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, in 2017 at MASS MoCA in North Adams in the U.S. and at the De Young Museum in San Francisco. His works are housed in numerous permanent collections, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the National Gallery of Art in Washington DC, and the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington DC. Holley's first film, I Snuck Offthe Slave Ship premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2019. Artangel commissioned him to make a song cycle and film The Edge of What in 2022. Holley has signed a contract with Jagjaguwar and is represented from Blum & Poe Gallery (Los Angeles) and Edel Assanti (London). His latest album, Oh Me Oh My (Jagjaguwar, 2023), features Justin Vernon of Bon Iver, Sharon Van Etten, Moor Mother, Rokia Koné and Michael Stipe of REM, and was produced from Jacknife Lee (Modest Mouse, U2 , REM.