Steven Holmes has been the curator of The Cartin Collection since 2005 and previously served as adjunct curator of contemporary art at the Bass Museum in Miami Beach and as Director of Visual Arts and Public Programming at Real Art Ways in Hartford. His projects have included exhibitions in New York, Paris, Berlin, London, Miami, Boston, and Hartford and he has been a visiting critic at Skowhegan, the Ontario College of Art and Design, Yale School of Art, Art Omi, University of Connecticut, Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, University of Lethbridge and Hartford Art School. Projects have been reviewed in The New York Times, Art in America, Art Forum, The New Yorker Magazine, LeMonde, and Die Zeit.  Holmes holds a Bachelor of Arts in Religion and History from the University of Toronto, a Master of Theological Studies in Religion and Culture from Harvard University, and a Master of Fine Arts from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design.