About
Avery Holshouser, a Seattle-based artist living in Hawai‘i, utilizes oil painting as her primary medium. Inspired by the vibrant colors of Maui, she continues to explore themes of connection, identity, and fluidity with bold and bright strokes. Having graduated with a BA in Fine Arts in the spring of June 2025, she plans on continuing her education in the pursuit of a Masters in Fine Arts.
Through oil painting, I challenge the patriarchal gaze embedded in art history by centering the female and queer body as complex, autonomous, and worthy of safety. Traditionally a tool of dominance, oil becomes a medium of reclamation in my hands.
I explore the tension between interior experience and external perception, using vibrant color and gestural mark-making to express the emotional weight of embodiment. Symbols like the uterus are reclaimed as acts of resistance, especially amid threats to reproductive justice.
My work creates space for new ways of seeing—tender, defiant, and grounded in feminist agency.
Contact
Instagram: @maurosevilla
Instagram: @savery.studios
Instagram: @maurosevilla
CV
EDUCATION
2025 BA in Fine Art at the University of Hawaii at Manoa
EXHIBITION
2023 Seattle Art Festival, Seattle Convention Center, WA
In Praise of Pigment, Box Jelly Gallery, Honolulu, HI
2024 Art Market & Symposium, Planotem, Honolulu, HI
2025 HERstory IV, Art at Mark’s, Honolulu, HI
Makai Showcase, University of Hawaii
Ea Mai Ke Kai Mai, Bachelor of Fine Arts Exhibition, University of Hawaii
Of Mind & Matter, Manifest Gallery, Honolulu, HI
Alumni Spotlight, On Paint, Process and Experimentation, University of Hawaii
ART TALKS
2025 Ea Mai Ke Kai Mai, Bachelor of Fine Arts Exhibition, University of Hawaii
Of Mind & Matter, Manifest Gallery, Honolulu, HI
AWARDS
2024 Michael Byron Rush Memorial Award for excellence in 2D
Summer Succession Scholarship by the University of Hawaii at Manoa’s Art Department.
2025 Yoko Radke Award for excellence in Figurative Painting
Rainbow ʻOhana Honors from the University of Hawaii at Manoa
RELATED EXPERIENCE
2019 Buena Vista, CO. Link Mural Commission
2023 Bellevue Arts Museum, WA. Visitor Engagement Associate
University of Hawaii at Manoa Art Model
2024 The Manoa Experience Portrait Sketcher, HI
2025 Honolulu Museum of Art, HI. Collections Volunteer
Sunshine Arts Gallery, HI. Gallery Representative
PUBLICATION
2023 Ānuenue review, Vol III, Honolulu, HI