“Bioluminescence”, cyanotype and encaustic on panel, 2024, 12˝x12˝
“Sea and Stars”, cyanotype, ink on paper on panel, 2024, 18˝x24˝
Biography
Ann Holsberry is an artist based in the San Francisco Bay Area and Paris. Her work celebrates the inherent beauty of the natural order of things—from the microscopic to the cosmic. As an artist with a background inenvironmental law and the healing arts, her recent work navigates between sea and stars and the bioluminescent depths of the ocean. She uses mixed media to collaborate with the forces of nature and the experimental photographic process of cyanotype.
Holsberry’s work has been shown nationally and internationally, with solo exhibitions at the Morris Graves Museum of Art (Eureka, CA), the de Saisset Museum of Art (Santa Clara, CA), and an upcoming show in 2025 at the Maier Museum of Art (Lynchburg, VA) among other venues. She has held residencies at Kala Art Institute, Los Medanos College, and Le Cent Charenton and Domaine des Grands Devers (France). Her art has twice been selected for the City of Emeryville Art In Public Places Program, and is in collections throughout the United States and Europe, including the UCSF Cancer Treatment Center in San Francisco. Holsberry is a recipient of two Berkeley Civic Arts Grants: 2018-2019, and 2021-2022. Raised on the Gulf Coast of Florida, Holsberry received her BFA from Randolph-Macon Woman’s College in Virginia, and MRP and JD degrees from Cornell University. She practiced environmental law for 13 years before incorporating her experience into her full-time art practice.