Holli McEntegart (b NZ. 1980) is a Pākehā (Irish Gaelic, Ulster Scots, English), interdisciplinary artist moving fluidly between social practice, video, performance, fiber and text-based work. She received a Bachelor of Visual Arts in Photography in 2006 (Unitec, NZ), a one-year Masters of Fine Arts scholarship at Carnegie Mellon School of Art in Pittsburgh, USA (2011), and a Masters of Arts (First Class Honors) from Auckland University of Technology (NZ, 2013). In 2014 she was an Artist in Residence at the Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture in Maine (USA). Holli has trained and worked as a full spectrum doula in New York, Los Angeles and Aotearoa, approaching this mahi through the lens of social practice. After almost a decade living in the United States, Holli returned to Aotearoa in 2020 and was awarded the 2021 Letting Space Public Arts Commission for, Inhabit - a durational event-based art project examining the labour, politics and ecosystems of care in our communities, as they survive and morph through colonisation and migration.

Most recently her work has been included in Transformative Motherscholarship and Art: Public Peagogies of Childhood(Published in 2025 by Bloomsbury Academic) and the accompanying exhibition, MOTHERWORK, at Carlow University Art Gallery in Pittsburgh, USA. Holli is a co-researcher on The Tīpuna Project, a community-based collective of Māori and Tauiwi activists, artists and academics who experiment with the decolonial potential of communing with ancestors - Indigenous, settler, pagan, non-human. Now based in Tāmaki Makaurau, her work has been performed and exhibited throughout the USA and Aotearoa.