Ann Holsberry grew up on the waterways of the Gulf Coast of Florida, where she was strongly influenced by the culture of nearby New Orleans. She attended Randolph-Macon Woman’s College in Lynchburg, Virginia, where she majored in Fine Arts. She taught art in public schools for several years, and went on to earn a Master’s Degree (MRP) in urbanization and regional ecosystem planning at Cornell University and a law degree (JD) studying at Cornell and UC Berkeley. She continued to paint as she practiced law for twelve years in the San Francisco Bay Area, raising her son as a single mother during part of that time.

She eventually left the practice of law to devote time to painting and to exploring the body-mind connection through meditation and using painting as a guide to the unconscious. From a desire to explore the transformative power of art, she began painting for process rather than the result, studying with the Painting Experience in San Francisco. She also worked as a practitioner of Rosen Method Bodywork and Movement and taught workshops in Painting Process and Movement. For the past two decades she has spent part of each year living and working in France, where she finds inspiration in the country’s rich cultural history. Accordingly, much of her more recent work is an examination of the migratory patterns of both people and animals across the globe.

Her work has been shown in exhibitions nationally and internationally, with solo exhibitions at venues including the Morris Graves Museum of Art (Eureka, CA) and the de Saisset Museum of Art (Santa Clara, CA). She has held numerous residencies, and her work is in public and private collections throughout the United States and Europe. Her work has twice been selected for the City of Emeryville Art In Public Places Program, and she is a recipient of two Berkeley Civic Arts Grants.