Vanessa Holyoak
- Interdisciplinary 2025
Vanessa Holyoak is a Los Angeles-based interdisciplinary writer and artist.
Working across nonfiction, art criticism, hybrid fiction, intermedial installation, and photo poetics, her practice engages questions of cultural and ecological disappearance. Through aesthetic explorations of memory, loss, and opacity, her work takes up the affective dimensions of hybrid and diasporic identity.
Holyoak’s writing has appeared in Artforum, BOMB, e-flux, East of Borneo, Contemporary Art Review Los Angeles, frieze, Hyperallergic, and the Los Angeles Review of Books, among other publications. Her debut novel, I See More Clearly in the Dark, explores the longing for forestial darkness in an era of hyper-illumination, and was published by Sming Sming Books in May 2023 (the second edition was released in March 2025).
Holyoak’s writing has appeared in Artforum, BOMB, e-flux, East of Borneo, Contemporary Art Review Los Angeles, frieze, Hyperallergic, and the Los Angeles Review of Books, among other publications. Her debut novel, I See More Clearly in the Dark, explores the longing for forestial darkness in an era of hyper-illumination, and was published by Sming Sming Books in May 2023 (the second edition was released in March 2025).
