Holli McEntegart 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 Honours) 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.