Anni's Friday session will include various art projects including her Immigration Project, Passport to the United States of America and Someone to Watch Over Me.

Anni Holm is a young conceptual artist who primarily works in the media of photography/digital imaging and performance art. She was born in Randers, Denmark in 1977. Holm holds a Studenter Eksamen in math from Randers Statsskole, Denmark of June 1997. Between 1997 and 1999 she attended Krabbesholm Art College in Skive, Denmark and worked as a counselor at Amtscenteret Oustuplund in Kjellerup, Denmark. In 1999 Holm accepted a one-year job as an Au Pair, which brought her to Chicago, IL.

In 2004 Holm graduated with a BFA in photography from Columbia College Chicago, IL. She has exhibited in several group and solo exhibitions both in Denmark and in the US, primarily in the Chicago land area. Holm has received the Academic Excellence Award in 2003 and the Albert P. Weisman Memorial Scholarship in 2003 and 2004, both from Columbia College Chicago, IL. She was in 2005 also awarded an artist residency at the Atlantic Center for the Arts, New Smyrna Beach, FL, with master artist Arnold Mesches. 

Holm and performance partner Nyok-Mei Wong co-founded in 2004 'Art Walks Chicago' - a public performance art series - which have been taking place in the streets of Chicago each year during the month of October. In 2006 they were both rewarded for their hard work, when they were chosen by the City of Chicago to be among 14 'Featured Artists' for the Chicago Artists' Month. Recently Holm has also performed at Ohio University Gallery, OH; Waterloo Center for the Arts, IA; the Cultural Center and the Museum of Contemporary Art both in Chicago.