Holstad has shown work internationally in exhibitions including
Greater New York 2005 at
P.S. 1 in New York, the 2004
Whitney Biennial in New York,
Beautiful Lies You Could Live In at the
Victoria Miro Gallery in London,
Domestic Porn at the Foksal Foundation Gallery in
Warsaw and
The New Gothic at Cokkie Snoei in
Rotterdam. His first solo exhibition in Europe was curated by
Daniel Schmidt in
Cologne in 2003. In 2006, he had his first museum solo exhibition
The Terms of Endearment at the
Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami. He is represented by Andrew Kreps Gallery in New York, Victoria Miro in London, and Galleria
Massimo De Carlo in Milan. In the New York Times, critic
Roberta Smith wrote that "Mr. Holstad is a one-artist collective, equally at ease with knitting, quilting, collage, drawing and sculpture; his work has a multimedia mix." In an
Artforum review of a 2006 solo exhibition, critic
Christopher Bollen wrote that "Holstad's artistic career has often centered on the public spectacle and campy aestheticizing of sexual dissonance ... [In this show], Holstad seemed to ask whether s/m codes of thirty years ago have lost their deviant power. More provocatively, he asked what happened to the spiritual and physical liberation once accessed through these forms." ==Collections==