Magdalena Holtz is a multi-media printmaker and painter from Minneapolis, Minnesota. Their work explores memory, place, and belonging by using landscapes both figural and dreamed to think about how the undercurrents of our surroundings imprint upon our internal worlds. Holtz is pursuing a BFA from the University of Minnesota Twin Cities and is expected to graduate in Spring of 2026. Holtz is passionate about engaging with local community based art, and has volunteered and interned with Barebones Puppet Theater during their Halloween puppet extravaganza for several years. Holtz is a musician and is in musical collective Family Friendly Freakshow, a group of friends making improvisational noise-based performance art. They also write music independently and have recorded an acoustic psychedelic folk album, The Star and The Stare. They have taken classes through the Minnesota School of Botanical Art, and have had work shown in the Bakken Museum, Dow Gallery, Regis West Gallery, and The Wangensteen Library.

Holtz’s current work is an exploration of a lifelong fascination with the Hiawatha industrial corridor in Minneapolis. Using the mills, grain elevators and rail line as animate contributors, Holtz is creating experiential, place-based prints through methods of intaglio, chine colle, and photopolymer gravure. When they are not making art or music, Holtz can be found reading, biking, or spending time by the river.