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 work 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 - an ongoing participatory art project examining 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 Pedagogies of Childhood (Published by Bloomsbury Academic, 2025) and the accompanying 2026 exhibition, MOTHERWORK, at Carlow University Art Gallery in Pittsburgh, USA.

Holli is a co-researcher on The Tīpuna Project, a creative community-based collaboration between Māori and Pākehā researchers, artists and activists in Aotearoa to experiment with the decolonial possibilities of communing with our Indigenous and settler ancestors. Now based in Tamaki Makaurau, her work has been performed and exhibited throughout the USA and Aotearoa.

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2026 Inhabit: Iteration 5, Nekehanga, Silo6 & Daldy Street Community Gardens, Wynyard Quarter, Tāmaki Makaurau, Aotearoa, NZ.
2025 - 2026 Inhabit: Iteration 4, Ngakinga (year long project) at Papa ki Awataha, Northcote, Tāmaki Makaurau, Aotearoa, NZ.
2024 Inhabit: Iteration 3, Ormiston Town Center, Tāmaki Makaurau, Aotearoa, NZ.
2023 Inhabit: Iteration 2, The Whau, Tāmaki Makaurau, Aotearoa, NZ.
2022 Inhabit: Iteration 1, Te Whanganui-a-Tara, Aotearoa , NZ. Letting Space & Urban Dream Brokerage Public Art Commission
2017 Salient Hush, 100 Rochester Gallery, 100 Rochester Ave, Brooklyn, New York.
2016 Oh My God Maggie! Staten Island Arts, Culture Lounge Gallery, Staten Island, New York.

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2026 MOTHER, Sanderson Contemporary Gallery, Tāmaki Makaurau, Aotearoa, NZ
2025 MOTHERWORK, Carlow Art Gallery, Carlow University, Pittsburg, USA
2025 Journeys from the Red Thread: Āta Haere, Āta Titiro, Āta Whakarongo, Te Auaha Gallery,Te Whanganui-a-Tara, NZ
2024 Mothermother Residency, Taupuni Ako Room, Northart, Northcote, Tāmaki Makaurau, Aotearoa, NZ
2024 GREEN, Mothermother Gallery, 23 Minnie Street, Eden Terrace, Tāmaki Makaurau, Aotearoa, NZ
2023 WHAU Arts Festival, Avondale Main Street, Tāmaki Makaurau, Aotearoa, NZ
2019 Skowhegan Two Channel Video Festival, W. 22nd Street, New York.
2017 TRUTH, BRIC Arts, 647 Fulton Street, Brooklyn, New York.              
2017 LUMEN8, Oh My God Maggie! ArtSpace at Staten Island Arts, New York.
2016 Oh My God Maggie! Screening at Human Resources, Los Angeles, United States.  
2016 The Institute For New Feeling – FELT Book Exhibition, Werkärtz, Los Angeles.  
2016 Great White, Staten Island Arts, Culture Lounge Gallery, Staten Island, New York.
2015 Skowhegan PERFORMS, Lighting Cauldrons of Speculation, Socrates Sculpture Park, Long Island City, New York. 
2015 Missed Connections II, Artweek, Auckland, New Zealand           
2015 Skowhegan PERFORMS. Temenos, Socrates Sculpture Park, Long Island City, New York.
2015 Re-Turning The Magic, Gallery One. Suite 108, Ironbank, Auckland, New Zealand
2015 Beside the mind: Tracing the magic of paranoia. Oral presentation/performance, in collaboration with Rachel Liebert, 2nd Critical
2015 Social Psychology Conference: Affect, Embodiment, and Politic. Barcelona, Spain.
2014 The Small Show, The Vivian Gallery, Matakana, Aotearoa, NZ            
2014 SkowheganPERFORMS, Temenos, Socrates Sculpture Park, Long Island City, New York.
2014 In Loving Memory, L.C. Bates Museum, Skowhegan, Maine, United States.
2013 Beyond the ultraviolet, beyond the infrared, St Pauls Street Gallery, Tāmaki Makaurau, Aotearoa, NZ
2013 1848-1957, Talk Week, Auckland University of Technology, Tāmaki Makaurau, Aotearoa, NZ            
2013 Scouting Heretical Alignments, 5th Auckland Triennial, Auckland City Art Gallery, The Lab, Transforming Typographies.
2012 A Ventriloquist Cowboy Walks Into Town, AD12, Auckland University of Technology, Art & Design festival, Tāmaki Makaurau, Aotearoa, NZ
2012 Zinia Elegans Red Sun, RM 103, Karangahape Road, Tāmaki Makaurau, Aotearoa, NZ               
2012 Extra Fancy, Bakery Square, Pittsburgh, United States.
2011 Zinia Elegans Red Sun, AD11, Auckland University of Technology, Art & Design festival, Tāmaki Makaurau, Aotearoa, NZ
2010 Three’s A Crowd, Te Karanga Gallery, Karangahape Road, Tāmaki Makaurau, Aotearoa, NZ  
2010 ME And My MUM, Snowwhite Gallery, Tāmaki Makaurau, Aotearoa, NZ    
2010 Overdrawn, Curated Group Exhibition, Art Station, Tāmaki Makaurau, Aotearoa, NZ                  
2010 There’s a Pew In The Church Of My Heart For The Obsessed, Curated Group Exhibition, Universidad del Pacifico Gallery, Chile.
2006 Ad Hoc: An Unlikely Gathering of Contemporary Artists, The Chapel, Tāmaki Makaurau, Aotearoa, NZ  
2006 Novel: An Exhibition of New Artists, Warwick Henderson Gallery, Tāmaki Makaurau, Aotearoa, NZ

EDUCATION & RESIDENCIES
2014   Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, Maine, USA.
2013    Masters of Art & Design, First Class Honors, Auckland University of Technology, Auckland, NZ
2012    Masters of Fine Arts Post Graduate Exchange, Carnegie Mellon University School of Fine Art, Pittsburgh, USA.
2006  Bachelor of Visual Arts, Photography Major, UNITEC, Auckland, New Zealand

PUBLICATIONS
2025 Transformative Motherscholarship and Art; Public Pedagogies of Childhood
Georgina Badoni (Anthology Editor) , Shana Cinquemani (Anthology Editor) , Elizabeth Garber (Anthology Editor) , Marissa McClure Sweeny (Anthology Editor)
https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/transformative-motherscholarship-and-art-9781350435728/
2024 Urgent Moments Art and social change: The Letting Space projects 2010–2020. Edited by Mark Amery, Amber Clausner and Sophie Jerram.
2015 Podium Showcase — Threaded International Art & Design Magazine, Ed. 18, 8 page feature. // ISSN 1176-5941 2014         
2015 WĀHINE — WOMAN, The Vernacularist SPECIAL EDITION, in press, 2015 // Published May 11th by Depot Artspace, Devonport, Auckland, New Zealand.
2014 Space/Launch (the publication) Edited by artists Ester Partegás, Sreshta Rit Premnath (founder, Shifter Magazine), Birgit Rathsmann, Adam Shecter, and Roger White (co-founder, Paper Monument).
2013 The LAB book — The LAB: At The 5th Auckland Triennial 2013 // Edited by Kathy Waghorn. Designed by Index ISBN 978-0-473-28701- 6. Project 4: Transforming Topographies for The Lab Book, 01.07—21.07 2007          
2013 Artist Profile, Threaded International Art & Design Magazine, Ed. 4, 2007. The Hope & Glory Issue. p.33 Photography, cover, gatefold and five page spread.
2004 Bright Young Things, Works by Emerging New Zealand Artists // Published by Chrysalis ISBN: 0-473-10117-3

AWARDS, FELLOWSHIPS & GRANTS
2023     Arts Out East & Te Tuhi Public Arts Grant
2023     Auckland Creative Communities Scheme Arts Grant
2022     Placemaking Aotearoa, The Kumara Awards, Highly Commended Project (Inhabit)
2022     Auckland Creative Communities Scheme Arts Grant 
2022     Arts Whau Public Art Commission 
2021      Letting Space Public Art Commission
2014      Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture Artist In Residence, Full Fellowship
2007     Prix de la Photographie Paris. Honorable mention