Rhonda Holberton
She //Her // Hers
They // Them // Theirs
New Media Artist
San Jose, California
Rhonda Holberton utilizes technology as a medium to reconcile the biological body with geologic time, revealing their material and environmental impacts both on individual entities and on a planetary scale. Holberton's subtle animations, digital interventions, sculptures, and installation pieces move between the material and the immaterial, the authentic and synthetic, and pay special attention to the phenomenology of climate change in order to imagine ways we might collectively write more inclusive rules for digital platforms. She has exhibited widely, including at CULT Aimee Friberg (San Francisco), RMIT Gallery (Melbourne), La Becque | Résidences d’artistes (La Tour-de-Peilz, Switzerland), FIFI Projects (Mexico City), Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (San Francisco), The Contemporary Jewish Museum (San Francisco), San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, and the San Francisco Arts Commission. She has been awarded a Simons Foundation Triangle Program Grant, the Fondation Ténot Fellowship in Paris, NEA Grant for Arts Projects, among others. Holberton’s work is included in the permanent collections of the Whitney, SFMOMA, and the McEvoy Family Collection, as well as various private collections. Holberton holds a MFA from Stanford University and is currently Associate Professor of Digital Media at San José State University.
This artist page was last updated on: 04.08.2026
Other Known Tomorrows by Rhonda Holberton, 2025. Single-channel digital video animation, resin and bronze sculpture, fragrance. 9 minutes.
Video stills courtesy of the artist.
The Italian Navigator Has Landed In The New World by Rhonda Holberton, 2014. Single-channel digital video. 12:11 minutes.
Video still courtesy of the artist.
Again for the First Time by Rhonda Holberton, 2018. VR headsets, locally hosted website and router, sculptural Installation with silicon, yoga mats, and flatscreen TV.
Images courtesy of the artist.