Holly Veselka is a new media artist and her work has been presented at numerous venues such as Torrance Art Museum, Fotofest, Currents New Media, Artpace, Wave Hill, NARS Foundation, AURORA, and Lage Egal. Recent projects include Lost Thicket, a site-specific installation at the San Antonio Botanical Garden, and commissions for Aurora in Dallas and Frisco. Her films have screened at film festivals such as the Video Art and Experimental Film Festival in New York, and she has received numerous residencies and fellowships, including the British Council-supported X-Change program in Shetland, ACRE, Lawndale Art Center, and the Polish Academy of Sciences in Białowieża. Her work has been supported by the Puffin Foundation and the Ruth and Harold Chenven Foundation and has been featured in publications including Hyperallergic, Gulf Coast Journal, and Glasstire.

This portfolio features a selection of works created since 2021.

Lost Thicket (detail), 2025, birch panel with 3D-printed bioplastic relief, 162 × 192 in.

Installed inside a preserved nineteenth-century log cabin, Lost Thicket reflects on the incompleteness of ecological archives. In the southern pine forests, industrial logging erased millennia of biodiversity in mere decades. In this installation, I reference sacred architecture, meditative practices, ecological loss, and digital artifice to create a subtly unsettling environment that asks how digital technologies echo extractive industries and reshape ecological memory.

Inside the cabin, I use projectors to cast video onto suspended panel walls with 3D-printed relief. A meditative surround-sound composition, built from field recordings and solfeggio frequencies, enhances the immersive environment. The relief imagery and animation originate from a photographic archive I created at the Big Thicket National Preserve and developed through an experimental workflow involving AI and 3D modeling.