Hollis Moore is an artist and ecological designer 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 multiple species living within damaged and shifting landscape assemblages. She researches the impacts of political ecology on arid lands and waters with methods of counter-mapping and responds with art and design that work with future ecologies. She places emphasis on facilitating restoration of and appreciation for vernacular and agricultural landscapes and practices.
Moore is the Southwest Seed Partnership Coordinator at the Institute for Applied Ecology. She 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.