I begin each project by facing a tenuous perception on ecocultural systems, relationships, and histories and progress as I unfold my knowledge about how these components interact with place. My deconstruction of knowledge results in materialization of artwork. I bring process to the forefront: knowledge as process, land as process, making as process. What materializes is the residue of a journey in search of reciprocity with the more-than-human world.
Bio
Hollis Moore is an artist, landscape designer, and naturalist living in Albuquerque, NM, within the historic floodplains of Middle Rio Grande. Her place-based practice explores the hidden stories that are woven into everyday lives of people, plants, animals, and microbes living within damaged and shifting landscape assemblages. She researches the impacts of political ecology on arid lands + waters with methods of counter-mapping and responds with art and design that work with the encounters of multiple species.
Moore completed a Master in Landscape Architecture in 2022 at the University of New Mexico, where she additionally earned her MFA in Art & Ecology and Printmaking. Moore is co-founder of Submergence Collective, alongside Kaitlin Bryson, Mariko Oyama Thomas, and Rachel Zollinger. She was awarded 1st Prize Student Award for the juried 2023 Jeff Harnar Design Awards and designated an LAF Olmsted Scholar in 2021. She has participated in residencies at Guapamacátaro Center for Art & Ecology, Women’s Studio Workshop, Land Arts of the American West, LEAP at the Rio Grande del Norte National Monument, and Signal Fire Arts. Her work has been exhibited at 516 Arts, Harwood Art Center, Open Space Visitor Center Gallery, University of New Mexico Art Museum, Small Engine Gallery, SITE Lab, and Santa Fe Art Institute.