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

Future Art Fair 2026 NYC
 
Loose Threads, Girls Club, Fort Lauderdale, FL 2026


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).

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: Dimensions Variable(2026, 2017); Untitled Art (2025 and 2024); 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.