Biography and expertise
Holly Veselka is a research-based new media artist working with AI, photogrammetry, game engines, experimental video, and immersive installation. Her work examines how emerging technologies shape, distort, and limit human understanding of ecological systems and the more-than-human world. Recent exhibitions and screenings include CURRENTS New Media, Santa Fe; Video Art Miden, Kalamata, Greece; Torrance Art Museum; FotoFest, Houston; Shetland Arts, Lerwick, UK; AURORA Video Art Night; Experimental Response Cinema, Austin; and the Video Art & Experimental Film Festival, New York. Her current research includes participation in the international environmental humanities seminar Beyond Governance: Terraformings and Other Arts of Cohabiting and Care.
Education
MFA, Studio Art, Boston University
BFA, Studio Art, University of Texas at Austin
BA, Art History, University of Texas at Austin
Education
MFA, Studio Art, Boston University
BFA, Studio Art, University of Texas at Austin
BA, Art History, University of Texas at Austin
Education
Master's Degree
MFA in Painting
Boston University, 2009
Bachelor's Degree
BFA in Studio Art
University of Texas at Austin, 2004
Bachelor's Degree
BA in Art History
University of Texas at Austin, 2003
Featured grants
- Veselka, Holly E. Research Enhancement Grant, Texas State University, $7876. (Submitted: October 10, 2018, Funded: January 25, 2019 - May 31, 2020). Grant.
- Veselka, Holly E. n+1 Foundation, Paper Monument, Visual Arts Grant, New York Council on the Arts. New York, NY. (Funded: 2015). Grant.
- Veselka, Holly E. Puffin Foundation Artist Grant, Teaneck, NJ. (Funded: 2015). Grant.
- Veselka, Holly E. Mayer Foundation Grant, New York, NY. (Funded: 2015). Grant.
- Veselka, Holly E. n+1 Foundation: Paper Monument, Cultural Organization Grant, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, New York, NY. (Funded: 2013). Grant.
Featured scholarly/creative works
- Lost Thicket. San Antonio Botanical Garden. Public. February 2024 - November 2025, Immersive New Media Installation.
- Affective Territories, Alternate Belongings.
Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA.
August 2025 - September 2025
Artists: Group
(International)
- (Juried) Reviewed by: Gioj De Marco.
- (Juried) Reviewed by: Elizabeth Withstandley.
- Apeirophobia by Omnigenesis.
Fotofest, Houston, TX.
October 2024 - November 2024
Artists: Group
(National)
- (Juried) Reviewed by: Leslie Moody Castro.
- (Juried) Reviewed by: Kevin Rubén Jacobs.
- (Juried) Reviewed by: Roberta Hassele.
- (Juried) Reviewed by: Steven Evans.
- X-Change: Shetland Arts, Remote and Shetland Islands, UK. Artist. May 2022 - July 2022.
- San Marcos Artist Finds Connections in an Ocean of Change.
Hays County Free Press.
Kyle, TX.
State.
October 14, 2026.
- Reviewed by: Lance Winter.
Featured awards
- Award / Honor Recipient: College Achievement Award in Teaching, Texas State University. September 2024 - 2024
- Award / Honor Recipient: Creative Capital's On Our Radar, Creative Capital. 2016
- Award / Honor Nominee: Kahn Career Entry Award finalist, Boston University. 2009
- Award / Honor Nominee: Joan Mitchell Foundation MFA Grant, Joan Mitchell Foundation. 2009
- Award / Honor Recipient: Constantin Alajalov Visual Arts Scholarship, Boston University. 2007 - 2009
Featured service activities
- Chair
Academic Program Review Coordinator, School of Art and Design
- Organizer
Art & Design Connects: New Student Orientation Event
- Other
Foundations Area Head
- Member
Student Success Committee
- Member
Personnel Committee
- Other
UTSA Arts