Terry Holiday is a multidisciplinary artist trained at the National School of Painting, Sculpture and Engraving La Esmeralda in the early seventies. Throughout her artistic career, she has ventured into cinema, theatre, fashion, writing, stage design and painting, among others.

During the 1970s she was part of the countercultural collective Peyote y la Compañía, with whom she participated in the 1977 Experimental Art Biennial. In 1972 she worked as an extra in Alejandro Jodorowsky’s La Montaña Sagrada and, then in 1978, in Lucrecia Borgia, un delirio musical, with more than 100 performances. Later, in the 1980s, she collaborated in A Fuego Lento by director Juan Ibáñez.

Terry Holiday is a prominent figure for the LGBTQIA+ communities in Mexico and Latin America. As a dynamic cultural agent, nightlife promoter and Trans rights activist, Holiday is a founding member of the Archivo de la Memoria Trans de México.

Holiday’s textile works, mainly in patchwork -a technique historically associated with feminist art- are connected to her practice as a costume designer for shows. These textile compositions are also the link of artistic maturity with the drawings and sketches made at the beginning of her career.

Holiday’s vibrant, dreamlike and lavish universe is thus composed in the expanded format, capturing her central interests in space with volume, texture, and, evidently, lots of sequins and feathers. The continuous expression of the desire for a full life in opposition to the social reality of restrictions and marginalization is manifested both in historical photographs that capture Terry Holiday’s disruptive figure on and off stage and in her drawings marked by libertarian creative impulses.