Vanessa Holyoak
Pronouns She / Her / Hers
Email vholyoak@usc.edu
Biography
Vanessa Holyoak is an interdisciplinary writer and artist and a Ph.D. student in Comparative Media & Culture at USC, where she is also a participant in the Performance Studies Graduate Certificate. She holds a BA summa cum laude in French Literature & Translation (minor in Philosophy) from Barnard College and a dual MFA in Photography & Media and Creative Writing from CalArts. She writes fiction and art criticism and makes installations involving photography, video, performance, and language, often with her collaborator, Antoine Chesnais. Her work has been supported by...
Education
- M.F.A. California Institute of the Arts, 2019
- B.A. French, Barnard College of Columbia University, 2017