About me
Jill Marie Holslin
As a visual artist, I cross back and forth between digital and analog, using the digital camera, scanner and printer along with fine art papers, X-Acto knife, cutting mat, and India ink as my creative tools. I make photographs outdoors in the landscape, then return to the studio to print, cut, restage and rephotograph my materials to create collages, constructed images and video works. Engaging with themes of place, belonging and memory, I make my hand and body visible, active agents in the compositions, holding and arranging archival materials, documents, and maps in gestures that imagine the archive as a site of invention and creativity.
By layering materials, my photographs index multiple temporalities and places, destabilizing the perception of a fixed, stable past readily available in the archive. I invite my audience to experience the recoding of meaning, to think about how land and belonging are subject to those who make meaning, how and with what materials our stories are told. My most recent project takes up Minnesota rural landscapes and my family archive to explore the relationship between my family history and Indigenous history, land, displacement. My life on the international border between Mexico and the United States—an existence that is always in between—has sparked an interest in the ways photography, video, and archives can help me negotiate official narratives about place, nation, and the sense of belonging. I have lived in Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico, since 2011.
I earned my MFA in Art & Design at San Diego State University in 2025. I studied Literature and Cultural Studies at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) and completed specialized studies in contemporary art and photography in the independent Program of Contemporary Photography (PFC) in Baja California, Mexico, under the direction of the late Javier Ramírez Limón. I have exhibited my photographs and videos in Mexico and Latin America, the United States and Europe.
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