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Anni Holm is a conceptual artist working with photography, installation, performance, and collaborative art. Born in Randers, Denmark, Anni holds a Studenter Eksamen in math from Randers Statsskole, Denmark. She graduated with a BFA in photography from Columbia College Chicago 2004, where she received the Albert P. Weisman Memorial Scholarship twice. In 2005, she received an artist residency at the Atlantic Center for the Arts in Florida, was a Featured Artist during the Chicago Artists Month in 2006, and was named a Break Out Artist in Newcity Chicago magazine in 2007. Anni has performed and exhibited her work at various locations nationally including Ohio University Gallery, Ohio; Waterloo Center for the Arts, Iowa; Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minnesota; Williamsburg Art and Historical Center, New York; Space 301, Alabama; along with the Glass Curtain Gallery, the National Museum of Mexican Arts, the Chicago Cultural Center, and the Museum of Contemporary Art, all in Chicago.
Since 2006 Anni has also toured the country with the ever-expanding NetWorking knitting project. International exhibitions include the group exhibitions at Museum of National History at Frederiksborg Castle, Denmark, Hafnarborg Institute of Culture and Fine Art, Iceland, Amos Andersons Konstmuseum, Finland, Ljungbergmuseet, Sweden and Norsk Folkemuseum, Norway. Anni co-founded Art Walks Chicago, an annual public performance art series on the streets of Chicago, with former performance partner Nyok-Mei Wong in 2004. She is the founder and curator of the three-day multimedia art exhibition artXposium and artINcorporators umbrella arts organization, both based in West Chicago, Illinois, where she also resides. She served as the Gallery Director and Curator at the Orleans Street Gallery in St. Charles, Illinois from 2004-2009. Currently she works as a freelance Curatorial Assistant at the Bank of America LaSalle Photography Collection in Chicago.
http://anniholm.com
http://anniholm.blogspot.com
http://knittingnetworking.blogspot.com
http://artxposium.org
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Anne Cofer
Anne Cofer earned an undergraduate degree in Fine Art from University of the West of England, Bristol, England in 1995 and an M.F.A. in Fiber/Material Studies from Syracuse University in 2005. By successfully using unfired clay in new and exciting ways, Cofer has transcended the boundaries of what has been acceptable in traditional ceramic practice within the academic world—she took first prize at the 2005 National Council for Education in the Ceramic Arts (NCECA) student exhibition for a work entitled Daily Toil, a series of 40 unfired clay slabs draped in muslin and suspended over wire similar to the current installation. Anne Cofer currently lives and works in Syracuse.
Read article from The Post-Standard, Sunday, February 15, 2009 written by Melinda Johnson (Arts editor)
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