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Select Solo Exhibitions

Marking Time Making Fiction, at Sami Zoobi New Media Gallery, UNC Asheville, North Carolina(2026)
In collaboration with Emerson Dorsch Residency, North Carolina(2026)






Active Archive Residency at Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center in North Carolina(2025)





Ergo Argot (Solo Exhibition), Emerson Dorsch Gallery, Miami, 2024

Head Bang Series (installation view of Ergo Argot Exhibition, second gallery), hand dyed hemp cord, gouache painting, color pencil on wood panel, 2024 (each work measures 36 inches x 72 inches)
Images courtesy of Emerson Dorsch Gallery, by Francesco Casale




Dits and Dahs installation view of Ergo Argot Exhibition, first gallery, hand dyed hemp cord, gouache painting, color pencil, latex paint on wood panel, 2024

Head Banger, video flip book animation, 30-second loop, dimensions variable, 2023.




SOS, video flip book animation, 30-second loop, dimensions variable, 2024 



Keep Your Eyes Peeled, hemp and bamboo cord, gouache and graphite on wood panel, 51 1⁄5 x 12 1/4 inches, 2021
Images coutesy of Emerson Dorsch Gallery by Francesco Casale


On the Surface, video flip book animation, 1 minute loop, dimensions variable, 2021.



Wink, Nudge Nudge, video, 45 seconds looped, dimensions variable, 2021
(woven panels activated in video)



<Happening now>
 
New Studio and Art Resident @ Dimensions Variable, Miami 

 Future Art Fair 2026 NYC 

Born in New York City, based in Miami
Education: MFA at Hunter College, NY (2008) and a BA at Bard College, NY (1998).

Moira Holohan starts with the body and gesture — as both the thing she is looking at and the thing she makes with. Growing up in New York City in the 80s and 90s, she absorbed gesture as a coded language in the context of tight and structured spaces of NYC, the NY subculture of dance clubs and concerts, her mother's ballet classes, and eventually in museums, standing in front of large Abstract Expressionist paintings. The latter was critical to developing a painted vocabulary; she couldn't leave alone but couldn't take straight. Grad school introduced her to video, green screen, and textiles — and eventually to flipbook animations (sequences of video stills she reworks by hand and reanimates). Holohan layers codes in painting, video, and textiles grounded in the art historical, personal, and contemporary. She looks for what lives in the gap between body and gesture, looking to the AbEx gesture and a small, specific, sometimes humorous moment.



Select Solo Exhibitions 
"Marking Time Making Fiction", at Sami Zoobi New Media Gallery, UNC Asheville, North Carolina(2026); "Dits and Dahs" at the Zillman Art Museum, University of Maine (2024); "Ergo Argot" at Emerson Dorsch Gallery in Miami (2024); "Glimpse" at Emerson Dorsch Gallery (2021); "Green" at Miami Beach Botanical Garden (2019), and "Subsurface" at Annex Art in Castine, Maine (2019). Select group exhibitions include Girls Club(2026 and 2025); Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami (2023, 2010), Pérez Art Museum Miami (2017, 2013, 2011), and FIU Frost Art Museum (2017).

Grants, Residencies and Collections
 Emerson Dorsch Residency, North Carolina(2026)
Active Archive Residency at Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center in North Carolina(2025)
Recipient of the Miami Individual Artists (MIA) grant (2025, 2023, and 2022), the South Florida Cultural Consortium Grant (2022), and the Artist Access Grant (2025, 2023, 2014). Public and private collections, including the Zillman Art Museum, Miami-Dade Art in Public Places Trust, El Espacio 23 as part of the Jorge M. Pérez Collection, and the Francie Bishop Good and David Horvitz Collection.

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