About the Artist

Wiley Holton is a Boston-based abstract artist whose work investigates the intersection of geometry, color theory, and neurodivergence. Born in 1997, Holton graduated with distinction from Colby College, where she majored in Studio Art and minored in Mathematics. Her award-winning painting Circumferences of the Void was acquired for the permanent collection of the Colby College Museum of Art in 2019.

Holton’s work has gained growing recognition in the New England art scene and beyond. She was named Artist of the Year at the Cambridge Art Association’s Members Shows in both 2022 and 2023 and was featured in Art New England Magazine in 2024. Her work has been exhibited nationally, including a spotlight as an emerging artist at the Boston International Fine Art Show in 2022, and is held in commercial and private collections around the world.

Working across mediums—oil, acrylic, graphite, printmaking, clay, and wood—Holton builds intricate visual systems that reflect a deep engagement with pattern, structure, and the lived experience of neurodiversity.

She expresses her artistic vision in three primary painting styles: kaleidoscopes, topographical works, and floral bouquets. Wiley’s paintings range in size from small pieces to wall murals. Her paintings are in private collections in Las Vegas, Lexington KY, Denver, Ventura, Boston, Maine, Sydney AUS, just to name a few.

You can follow along with Wiley’s works and process on her instagram @artbywileyholton.

Wiley Holton’s newest body of work—her Floral Series—bridges abstraction with the familiar, merging her two signature styles into a celebration of color, geometry, and organic form. Drawing on the emotional resonance of color and the structured logic of her kaleidoscopic compositions, these pieces evoke the vibrancy of flora and an endless summer—where complexity and clarity coexist.

Holton’s broader practice reflects her lived experience with ADHD, translating the chaos, anxiety, and nuance of neurodivergence into bold visual systems. In the Emergent Series, she began filling the geometric shapes with color as a way to find peace within disorder—using art as remedy. Her Horizon Lines series distills natural landscapes into bands of color, creating meditative works that explore memory, stillness, and nostalgia.

Through her evolving visual language, Holton offers viewers a glimpse into how she sees and feels the world—honestly, intuitively, and in the clearest way she knows how to express it.