Moira Holohan
Moira Holohan (b. 1976 New York, NY, lives in Miami)
Holohan labors over layers of time that loop together history with present-day patterns and futuristic media prisms
Moira Holohan
Introduction
Biography
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Introduction
Moira Holohan uses a multi-discipline approach to evoke a comical tension between counterposed temporal perceptions. From the 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 labors over layers of time that loop together history with present-day patterns and futuristic media prisms.
Holohan 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.
When describing Holohan’s video work, René Morales, Director of Curatorial Affairs and Chief Curator of the Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM), writes: “Holohan intervenes into every split second of the footage, transforming the temporal fluidity of video into something much more tactile and controllable. In the process, she switches back and forth from mechanical means of creation to manual ones, imbuing the “coldness” of the medium with the warm aura of the handmade. With each of these shifts, she regulates the tempo of her progress, oscillating between quick phases and inordinately slow ones. The resulting videos compress months of work into poignantly brief productions. For the artist, this feature of her practice serves, on one level, as a way to think critically about artistic labor—as a way to disentangle it from its romantic associations and expose it to scrutiny while nevertheless diving into it wholeheartedly”.
Biography
Moira Holohan (b.1976, New York, NY; lives and works, Miami, FL).
Moira Holohan received a MFA Degree at Hunter College, NY and a BA at Bard College, NY.
She recently received the Miami Individual Artists (MIA) Stipend in 2023 and 2022. This past summer, Holohan participated in two artist residencies, La Maldita Estampa in Barcelona and Cal Gras in Avinyó (Catalonia, Spain). She received the Access Grant to help fund her art residency at La Maldita Estampa. Holohan is a resident artist at the Bakehouse Art Complex, Miami, FL, and is represented by the Emerson Dorsch Gallery, Miami. Public and Private collections include Miami-Dade Art in Public Places Trust, Francie Bishop Good and David Horvitz and El Espacio 23, Jorge M. Pérez Collection.
Select solo and two-person exhibitions include Dits and Dahs (2024), Zillman Museum, Bangor, ME; Ergo Argot (2024), Emerson Dorsch Gallery, Glimpse (2021), Emerson Dorsch Gallery, Miami, FL; Green (2019), Miami Beach Botanical Garden, Miami, FL; Subsurface (2019), Annex Art, Castine, ME.
Select group exhibitions include Untitled Art Fair, Emerson Dorsch Booth, Miami Beach, FL; SFCC exhibition, Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami, Miami, FL; Blueprint, BridgeRed, Miami, FL; A Thread of Execution, Dimensions Variable, Miami, FL; Aesthetics & Values, FIU Frost Art Museum, Miami, FL; Screen Dance Miami, Perez Art Museum, Miami, FL; Flow State: Thisishappening, Emerson Dorsch Gallery, Miami, FL; Pattern State: Fringe Project, Miami, FL; Cortaditos, MDC Museum of Art & Design, Miami, FL; New Work Miami 2013, Perez Art Museum Miami, Miami, FL; Practices Remain, Regina Rex, Queens, NY; DCG 2012, David Castillo Gallery, Miami, FL; Practices Remain, Norwegian Wood Building, Miami FL; Split, General Practice, Miami, FL; Re-Framing the Feminine, Girls Club Web Project, Fort Lauderdale, FL; Sky/water, de la Cruz Collection Contemporary Art Space, Miami, FL.
Holohan co-founded Meetinghouse, an innovative exhibition space in downtown Miami that brought together art, design, and architecture disciplines. Between 2015 and 2018, she served as the Director of Art for Meetinghouse, curating exhibitions and developing programming.
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MOIRA HOLOHAN
Born in New York, NY in 1976. Lives and works in Miami, FL
EDUCATION
2005 – 2008 Hunter College, MFA
1994 – 1998 Bard College, BA
STUDIO
2020 – CURRENT
Bakehouse Art Complex
SOLO AND TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2024 Dits and Dahs, Zillman Museum, Bangor, ME
Ergo Argot, Solo Exhibition, Emerson Dorsch Gallery, Miami, FL
2021 Glimpse, Emerson Dorsch Gallery, Miami, FL
2019 Green, Miami Beach Botanical Garden, Miami, Fl
Subsurface, Annex Arts, Castine, ME
2012 Moments in Process, 6th Street Container, Miami Fl
Elements, Hollywood Art and Culture Center, Hollywood, FL
2011 Split, General Practice, Miami, Fl
SELECT GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023 #Potent, Untitled Art Fair Miami Beach, Emerson Dorsch Gallery
SFCC Exhibition, Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami, FL
2022 BluPrint, Bridge Red, Curated by Robert Chambers, Miami, FL
2021 EDO, Emerson Dorsch Gallery, Miami, FL
2020 Intersect Chicago, Emerson Dorsch Gallery, Miami, FL
2017 A Thread of Execution, Dimensions Variable, Miami, Fl
Aesthetics & Values, FIU Frost Art Museum, Miami, Fl
Screen Dance Miami, Perez Art Museum, Miami, Fl
2016 Screen Dance Miami, Screening Room, Miami, Fl
2014 Flow State: Thisishappening, Emerson Dorsch Gallery, Miami, Fl Pattern State: Pattern State: Fringe Project, Miami, Fl
(curated by Amanda Sanfilippo)
Cortaditos, MDC Museum of Art & Design, Miami, Fl
2013 Drawing Project (online exhibition), Frost Art Museum, Miami Fl
New Work Miami 2013, Perez Art Museum Miami, Miami, Fl
(co-curated by PAMM associate curators René Morales and Diana Nawi) Whiskey and Rye, Night Club, Miami, Fl (curated by Amalia Caputo)
Speak Now, Deering Estate, Miami, Fl
2012 Practices Remain, Regina Rex, Queens, NY
DCG 2012, David Castillo Gallery, Miami, Fl
Practices Remain, Norwegian Wood Building, Miami Fl
2011 Re-Framing the Feminine (Girls Club Web Project), Girls Club, Fort Lauderdale, Fl
2010 Sky/water…Reproduction, de la Cruz Collection Contemporary Art Space, Miami, FL (curated by Carlos Rigau)
2009 Domestic, AC Institute, NewYork, NY
2007 A Merging of Minds, Steuben Gallery, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY
RESIDENCIES
2023 Artist Access Grant, Miami-Dade County and in partnership with FUNDarte,2023, Artist in residence, La Maldita Estampa, Barcelona, Spain
2019 Annex Arts, Castine, MN
2014 Hangar, Barcelona, Spain
2006 Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT
2003 Inga Denton Scholarship, National Academy of Design,New York, NY
2001 Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT
AWARDS
2023 Artist Access Grant, Miami Dade County, Miami, FL
2022 South Florida Consortium, Miami, FL
2014 Artist Access Grant, Tigertail Productions, Miami, Fl
2008 Tom Wood Award, Hunter College, New York, NY
1998 The Jane from Yacenda Scholarship: In the Arts, Bard College, NY
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2017 Stratton, Shannon, The Event of a Thread, The Miami Rail, April 25
Aesthetics & Values, FIU: Frost Museum Publication
2016 New American Painters, South Issue #124
2014 Braithwaite, Hunter, Miami Light and Texture, The Miami Rail, September 5
FRINGE Public Art Projects 2K14, Tropicult, September 14
2013 Kohan, Helen, New Work Miami 2013, The Miami Rail, March 1
Morales, René, New Work Miami 2013, Perez Art Museum Miami
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