SELECTED BIOGRAPHY

1956 Elected Phi Beta Kappa
1959 International dealer, Hevre Galleries, exhibits Hollingsworth along with Picasso, Roualt, Utrill, Jensen, Clave and Fogart
1963 Emily Lowe Award
1964 Whitney Fellowship
1965 “Cry City” exhibition at Terry Dintenfass Gallery
1967 “Artist of the Year” award, New York University
1967 Commissioned murals, Don Quixote Condominiums, NYC
1968 IBM acquires Hollingsworth for their collection
1969 Chase Banks acquires Hollingsworth for their collection
1970 “Prophet” exhibition at Harbor Gallery, Studio Museum & Staten Island Museum
1971 Included in the Barnett-Arden Collection
1971 TV Series for NBC: “You’re a Part of Art”
1972 Rutgers University commissioned a mural of Paul Robeson
1972 At&T acquires Hollingsworth for their collection
1975 “Eyes of the City” Retrospective, Manhattan College
1976 Inducted in the International Who’s Who of Intellectuals
1977 “Space Time Infinity” exhibition at Allan Stone Gallery
1978 Included in the Brooklyn Museum Collection
1979  Included in the Hewitt Collection
1980 Alvin Ailey’s American Dance commission to paint ‘Dances Sequences” series
1980-1984 Commissions art by private art collectors and New York City
1983 “Sun Worshipers” and “Aspects of Women” exhibition at Patricia Judith Gallery, Boca Raton, Fl. 
1985 Work selected to be exhibited in Shanghai, China
1986 NBC guest on “Politics of Art”
1987 “Prevailing Women” exhibition at Northern Lights Gallery
1988 WBAI guest on “Discussion of Art”
1989 “Sketches of the Subconscious” exhibition at Allan Stone Gallery
1989 “Aspects of Women” exhibition at Neuberger Museum of Art, SUNY Purchase
1990 Lincoln Center acquires Hollingsworth for their collection
1991 “Visions of Visionaries” exhibition at James E. Lewis Museum of Art, Morgan State Univ.
1992 “Jam’in” exhibition commissioned by the George McMurray Group
1993 “Revisionist” exhibition, Episcopal Center, NYC
1994 “Remembering the Duke” and the Jazz series exhibition at Aaron Faber Gallery, and Cathedral of Saint John of Devine 
1994 Hollingsworth interview on NBS with Carol Jenkins
1994 Debbie Allan acquires Hollingsworth for her collection
1994 Halle Berry acquires Hollingsworth for her collection
1995 Hollingsworth interviewed on the McCrery Report
1995 “Black Beauty” exhibition at Allan Stone, and Cathedral of Saint John of Devine  

SELECTED SERIES

HOLLINGSWORTH’S SERIES INCLUDES:
Exodus
Cry City
Visions & Visionaries 
Aspects of Women & Goddesses
Sun Worshipers
The Sound of Jazz
Man of LaMancha
Space, Time, Infinity
Guggenheim
The Harlequin

“Alvin Celebrates Alvin” appeared in the October 1980 issue of the National Scene Magazine. Joseph D. Harris, Ph.D. discussed the magnificent coming together of the performing and fine arts, and that an accomplished black artist pays tribute to his black contemporary. In celebration of Alvin Ailey and the American Dance Theatre, Hollingsworth’s paintings and drawings were shown at the Bronx Museum of the Arts. Both Alvins have achieved international recognition. “But more central than this is that the exhibit itself accomplishes the mutual embracing of artists who dared and dare to express through art the suffering, the pain, and the triumphs and joys.” Hollingsworth captured the beauty of the dancers bodies, motions, and moods.