Lorenzo Piero Holder III

Lorenzo Piero Holder III (he/him) is an interdisciplinary artist whose practice investigates how histories of power, migration, and inheritance are carried and negotiated through the body. Born in West Berlin, he works from the convergence of lineages that rarely coexist within a single narrative. Rather than attempting to resolve these tensions, Holder approaches them as generative conditions that shape his engagement with archives, institutions, and lived experience.

His practice treats the body not only as a subject but as an interpretive instrument capable of reading, responding to, and transforming historical and institutional memory. This orientation has deepened through his role in caring for his uncle, psychiatrist and stroke survivor Dr. Vicenzio Holder-Perkins, whose bodily transformation became the foundation for a sustained intergenerational collaboration. Grounded in Washington, DC while completing his MFA at the Corcoran School of the Arts and Design at George Washington University, Holder’s work integrates embodied research, collaborative art-making, and healing-centered methodologies to explore how creative practice can operate as a form of cultural infrastructure capable of engaging memory, and relational repair.

Holder founded FEVR (@fevrfestival), an international art festival and residency concept supporting collaborative, interdisciplinary work beyond traditional institutional frameworks, and Atelier Proveniersstraat, a collective studio and exhibition space for emerging artists. Together, these initiatives function as laboratories for collaborative curatorial practice and community engagement.

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