Part 2 of the artist parent interview with Moira Holohan @moira_holohan , an artist from Miami, Fl.
What are the challenges you have faced in your artistic practice being a parent?
I think it’s organizing your time and energy, but I do think you make it work, and you find ways to organize the chaos. You just have to know it’s ok, and sit and be one with the chaos. My partner and our parents have been critical in helping us navigate all of this.
Any advice for other Artist Parents and how they can continue to nurture their practice?
I am currently trying to incorporate more of being a mom into my work. I probably already do but maybe more obvious gestures of the experience. I am working to stop resisting it and merge everything.
Is there anything else you would like to say, share or promote?
As Artists, we are naturally curious and creative people, and that, in itself, is an amazing place to be with children, teenagers, and beyond. Take them along for the ride!
Thank you for reading and thank you to Moira for sharing her experiences.
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Part 1 of an artist parent interview @artist_parent with Moira Holohan @moira_holohan , an artist from Miami, Fl.
Tell us about yourself?
I was born and raised in New York City.
I am a multimedia artist. My practice builds on gesture and the body as subject and material, excavating a coded language shaped by my New York City history, Abstract Expressionism, and small, specific, sometimes humorous personal moments. I am an Artist in Residence at Dimensions Variable in Miami, with an artist studio and an amazing art community. I am raising two daughters in Miami with an amazing husband, who is a true partner in all this, he is a Geophysicist and musician originally from Barcelona.
How has being a parent had a positive impact on your artistic practice?
So many ways, I especially love seeing art with them. They give me a different perspective, slow me down, and open me up. I also love having them around in the studio, like parallel play. I think they keep me grounded and find the humor in it all.
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Part of my last solo exhibition, Marking Time Making Fiction, @uncasheville_newmedia - 8 of my video works from the last 15 years. Exposition, Rising Action and Climax - screened at Optic Nerve @mocanomi in 2010.
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Very excited to have the opportunity to exhibit a selection of my past video work at UNC Media Gallery. It will be up until mid-April if you are in or around Asheville, NC.
Thank you UNC Media Program for this opportunity.
I enjoyed speaking with the thoughtful and engaging students at the UNC Media program.
Thank you @emersondorschartistresidency team for hosting my family and I. We have had a wonderful time!
Tyler and Lei thank you for organizing this exhibition and your support, it means a lot. Thank you Ibett and Brook for your ongoing support!!
Moira Holohan: Marking Time, Making Fiction
Sami Zoobi New Media Gallery, UNC Asheville
March 16 – April 6, 2026
UNC Asheville’s New Media Department is pleased to present Moira Holohan: Marking Time, Making Fiction, an exhibition of video works by the Miami-based multimedia artist. Presented in partnership with Emerson Dorsch Artist Residency (EDAR), the exhibition will be on view March 16 through April 6, 2026 in the Sami Zoobi New Media Gallery on the fourth floor of Owen Hall.
An artist talk will take place on March 25 at 3:30 p.m., followed by an opening reception from 5:30–7:00 p.m.
The exhibition features four projections, each presenting two videos, tracing Holohan’s development from 2010 to 2023 through the lens of her video practice. Installed in the gallery’s purpose-built projection environment, the works reveal how video functions in Holohan’s practice as a container for experimentation, performance, and process, as well as a bridge to other forms such as drawing, painting, animation, and textile work.
Across these works, Holohan treats video as both medium and material. She frequently breaks her footage into individual frames, printing and altering them by hand through drawing, collage, scratching, and painting before reassembling them into animated sequences. The resulting videos compress long, labor-intensive processes into brief durations, making time itself a visible subject.
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I’m honored to be part of Salon Together—, a special fundraiser exhibition at Dimensions Variable supporting the production of their upcoming 16-year publication.
All works in this exhibition have been generously donated by artists who have exhibited with DV, participated in their studio program, or collaborated with them over the years. 💚100%
of proceeds go directly to helping bring this publication to life— a project that will document and celebrate the artists, conversations, and community that DV has built in Miami over the last sixteen years.
I’m proud to support a space that has supported so many artists and to help preserve this important piece of Miami’s cultural history.
Join us for the opening:
February 28, 6–9 PM
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You can also view and purchase works directly online:
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If you’re in Miami, please come see the show — and if you’re able, consider supporting this project by purchasing a work.
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🎨 Meet BMC Active Archive Resident Moira Holohan!
We're thrilled to spotlight our fall cohort of BMC Active Archive Residents, who recently completed a ten-day residency at the historic grounds of Black Mountain College. Stay tuned to learn about all three residents and to watch our soon-to-be-released feature video, giving a behind-the-scenes look at the Active Archive experience!
Moira Holohan (b.1976, New York, NY; lives and works, Miami, FL) uses a multi-discipline approach to evoke a comical tension between counterposed temporal perceptions. Methods range from a purposely dilatory methodical weaving process to a hasty intuitive drawing and video footage composite, both characteristics of the New York Avant-Garde, which exerted a strong influence on Holohan’s artistic training in New York during the 80s and 90s. Holohan received a MFA Degree at Hunter College, NY and a BA at Bard College, NY.
Holohan labors over layers of time that loop together history with present-day patterns and futuristic media prisms. She often references Chroma Green (popularly known as green screen) to enhance the dynamism for these temporal transitions between weaving, drawings, and videos. Chroma green has become a contemporary signifier in Holohan’s work, representing a portal, a marker of unstable identity, and a place of transformation. A transformation that takes the viewer to computer-generated landscapes and an imaginative capacity, suggesting a self-awareness and transient
space that enables change.
These photos show Holohan's studio space in the Studies Building at Lake Eden. She worked on a series of new weaving-paintings featuring Chroma Green, a signifier for the void of green-screen technology, and she also experimented with performance and video while on-site at the historic campus. Thank you, Moira, and we look forward to sharing more of your work in our feature video!
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Images from the Fall 2025 Active Archive residency by Moira Holohan
I’m back in Miami after participating in the incredible Art Residency at Black Mountain College!
Thank you Black Mountain College Museum for the inspiring and magical opportunity.
Thank you Jeff and Alice for your support and wonderful tours on everything Black Mountain College and more!
Thank you Chuck for taking such good care of us and Kira for your time in the studio.
David and Kathy it was wonderful getting to know you and collaborating with exceptional artists like you are!!!! 💚💚💚Merce would be proud!
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